Friday, June 6, 2008
Why did we switch the kids rooms?
So life is so GREAT with kids!! Can you catch the sarcasim in that one?! The past 2 mornings Claire and Grant have been up at 5:40!! Hi, that is like an HOUR before our alarm goes off. The first night was an amazing lightning/thunder storm that woke them up and they couldn't get back to sleep. It was kind of nice in a sick and twisted way though, becuase Claire was SOOOO tired most of the day she didn't have enough energy to be CRANKY! So last night we get our window units in-for those of you with Central Air it is a room A/C unit in your window. So we got ours in our room and had the door closed all night to keep the cool in. We had the monitor in Brigs room so we could listen for him(he never wakes up in the middle of the night anyway) So at 5:40 this morning Grant comes in our room because Claire has been screaming FOREVER!!! and we didn't get her. HELLO! We couldn't HEAR A THING! So they were up again bright and early with the birds. One of the most frustrating things is I was going to hang a blanket on their curtain rod to block out some of the light but they think it is sooooo fun to take their rod off and use it as a sword or whatever! So here is the SUN @ too early in the morning to wake them up. We switched kids rooms. Grant and Claire have a bunk bed (that used to be Cam's) and we couldn't fit a window unit it the window behind the bunk bed so we took the beds down, and put them in Brig's room and put Brig in their room so we could fit window units in both of their rooms. Does any of this make sense? Anyway not an hour after doing all this switching, my friend called and asked what we were up to and I told her we switched the kids rooms but could not remember why we did I KNEW we did it for a reason but just couldn't seem to figure that reason out at the time! It's just like trying to cut a sandwich in 3rds-it takes a minute!!Whatever:) I really do love my kids(especially when they are SLEEPING
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Grant and Claire
Grant and Claire at "Ice Box" Cave
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The sign next to Brig reads, "Smell This Plant"....maybe later.
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They look innocent...
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Brig was having a ball with the water spout
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Claire at the Botanical Garden
Yuck!
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A dress up she got for her birthday.
Mommy Claire
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Claire's mishap
Let's explain why Claire looks so freaky!! O.K. so we were having a fun family night together a few Sundays ago. We were tossing the kids up in the blanket and instead of Claire landing back in the blanket she landed on her head on the floor. We took her to the ER and a few hours later found out she had a hair-line fracture on her skull right above her eye and this is what she looked like the next day. We made sure to tell Grant not to say anything to her about her eye, as to not make her too upset. He said o.k. so a little while later he thought I was out of earshot and he said your eye is so gross, I can't stand to look at it anymore. Then he walked away!! She is our cute Claire now and has healed great!!!.
BeckList
True Love
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Dimple Doodle Dandy!
"Sun on Moss" By Audrey Beck circa 2008
Cool place in Cuyahoga Valley
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Cuyahoga Valley National Park
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Brig at the Case Farm
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Cam in Minnesota on the White Earth Reservation.
Fries with that?
Zorbaz Fiesta Platter in Detroit Lakes MN, need we say more?
New Zealand
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Grant
Grant takes after his dad in so many ways.....
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Bubble Girl
Claire and Brig at the park
camping in the backyard
Tyler, Grant and Claire are roasting marshmallows over thier fire
Claire and Mom
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The Chair
Here is a pic of the chairs that I have,sorry I can't figure out how to rotate it on the blog!
As if Brig wasn't big enough...
Brig decided to see how the bike pump tasted. Grant went over and gave him some air! Brig would laugh and laugh-he really had a good time.
Easter Dinner
This is Your Brain on Tube
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Hi!
Brig discovering the phone. He loves to say hi and play on the phone any chance he gets. In this picture he is saying hi to Nan and Grandpa.
Easter Morning
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St. Patrick's Day
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Food Man
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Dentists in training
This past wash day the kids and I were sorting out all the dirty clothes in Brig's room (man were there a lot of them) Anyway, I had gone downstaris to put a load of wash in and when I started to come back up I could hear Grant and Claire laughing. I stood on the steps to listen for a minute but couldn't figure out what they were doing. I went up and they were dressed up in Cam's scrubs! They were having a ball being dental students together so I had to get a pic!
5 comments:
Wow! That is early....yes, it was a bit tricky to follow the story. Did you write that at 5:40 in the morning?
Hey, you put music on!
I love it!
We are so getto, if I were to put anything on, I guess it would be some broadcast from NPR.
Yes!
Sorry about that.
Was it just today?
Oh dear!
I hope the stir fry turned out. Sounded yummie!
We have the same problem, but fortunately it's only Kason and he doesn't wake up quite that early. Although we are lucky if he makes it until 6:30 most mornings. And his room is completely blacked out. Seriously I have NO idea how he knows the sun is up, but he just knows! Good luck with the switch!
I have become a central air snob. I do not miss those loud window units, but at the time I loved them. Sorry to hear your kids wake up so early. I think you can buy some kind of black shades at Walmart for pretty cheap. My friend got some because she was having the same problem. Good luck!
Does it make me a bad mom to miss the sound of a window a/c blocking out middle-of-the-night noises? I always figured that if they REALLY needed me, I would hear them. I had to blast ours all winter long (no lie -- it's a blizzard outside and we have our a/c going) just to try and drown out Greg's snoring. That's what happens when he doesn't get enough sleep.
I've also hung extra curtains and put "tents" over the cribs to keep the sunlight out...anything for a few extra minutes of sleep!
Sounds like you have a bad case of momnesia - you can't remember why you moved all these rooms around. That is because you have so many things on your mind as a mom.
Kids up early is hard. As soon as our oldest could read numbers on a clock, we bought one and told him 6:30 was the earliest he could get out of bed. I think I will look into those black shades that jamie mentioned. Can't cost that much at WalMart. I could use them for blocking out the light when they go to bed, too. :)
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