Korbinology presents: Capliced

It's 2:48 am on Tuesday night. We're in Evansville, IN headed toward Ft Knox, KY. We have about another hour and a half left to go. We just stopped for fuel because paying $4.15/gallon was way better than what we paid last stop at $4.40/gallon. Well Cool Dude woke up at the stop but didn't want to get out to go to the bathroom. GRRR!

Here's the conversation in the car as we start driving again:

Korbin said "Dad can you please go slow"?
Dad: "Why?"
Korbin: "so we don't get catched up by the capliced"

(Capliced is Korbins word for Cops/Police) We live on an Army post so it's much simpler there. We simply have MP's. Easy enough.

We laugh quietly so we don't hurt his feelings or raise any suspicions that he might have made up this word.

Korbin: "102. Thats the speed limit."

Korbin: "when you go to sleep then it goes onto 2 then you go a little faster, right Mom."

Mom: "yes." (not that I have a clue what that statement meant but I wanted to hear more!)

Dad: "go back to sleep bud!"

Why on earth would Kirke want to end this fabulous conversation? MEN!!
Now I have no entertainment! Super! Thanks Kirke!


And since we're on the topic of Capliced, this weekend, as I mentioned a million times my nephew and nieces were here...well not here since I'm in the middle of nowhere Indiana, but they were at my house. Anyhow, Zach has lived many places but never on an Army post. So when a MP (military police)drove past our house he said "look a cop!" Nicholas, Brandy's son looked at Zach confused. I then jumped in and said "duh you know the civilian word for MP's". He got his macho face back on and said "I know that". It was funny.

Seriously?

Seriously? Did they really HAVE to go to all the trouble of doing this for me to take a picture of them? Really I took tons and tons of pictures while my nieces and nephew were hanging out with us. I did! I promise I did! Maybe they missed all of the "smile" and clicking and flashing that was going on around them? Did they really have to do this to get me to take some pictures? And what a great husband I have! He went into the dining room, found what you're about to see and says "grab the camera you're gonna want pictures of this"! He was right.

Here is Summer. Isn't she lovely? She really is adorable...without the frosting!



Olivia demonstrates the God given rights of the birthday girl. I must have missed where it said "birthday child may paint their face with icing as the see fit".


I'm pretty sure Zoe was getting ready for some ritualistic song and dance around a campfire with maraca's and drums. Or she was the ringleader...


Our dear sweet Cool Dude was not going to miss out on this artistic opportunity either. He has learned something in the past five years and knew that I was not going to love this creation.



And here we have a great picture that demonstrates the advances that Tayton has made over the past year with his SI (Sensory Integration) disorder. He generally can't stand to have any kind of messy, sticky, gooey or wet substance on his face/hands. Here you can see how uncomfortable it's making him but he really just wanted to join the fun. I was so proud of his achievement. Maybe next time he can try to show me his progress through finger painting?


Now being that Zachary is now nearly 11 he must have decided he didn't want to hang with the "little kids". This was him with the first cupcake before the others started their make overs....but it's pretty accurate of how he looked after the cupcake masquerade.

When we think they aren't listening...

When we think they aren't listening, later we find out they heard everything!

I know this because I hear my kids say thing that make my jaw drop.

Now this example is not something we said but appearantly something from the bee movie.

Zach was acting crazy yesterday and spinning around trying to get a laugh out of everyone. He said he wanted a tutu and high heels. To which Tayton, my sweet innocent loving Tayton said "then you would be a drag queen!".

How on Earth does a 6 year old know that phrase and then use it in the inappropriate appropriate situation? I thought I was gonna die right then and there from laughing shock, horror and disbelief!

And now he is chanting "drag queen, drag queen what do you see"? To the rhythm of Brown Bear! How do I not laugh and explain that it might be a little inappropriate for him to run around chanting that when it's so freakin funny?

Tayton and Korbin say some of the craziest off the wall things. Sometimes in pure sweet honest child like innocence. And other times it's in complete efforts to make me bust out laughing.

We had a great day!

My life with six kids was so much fun that last night I added one more cause I wondered what it would be like with seven. Then today I thought awww what the heck lets see how many kids we can handle. Fortunately we know people with lots of kids so that was easy.

Before I start to add pictures I need you to know that sometimes I'm a little unconventional. I do things that most people would probably think is crazy. For example when the boys were little for Korbins first birthday we bought an inflatable bouncer. In March in Alaska it is too cold to use it outside. My solution was to move my bedroom into a smaller room and use the master bedroom for a playroom complete with inflatable bouncer. Another example is that when we first got the boys bunk beds they could climb up no problem. The problem was getting down so we went out and got one of those slides you use when you build your own swingset and attached it to the beds so they could get down safely......and quickly!

So anyhow my latest crazy idea was that we should put our new pool inside. No not in the kitchen or anything although I did want to move the living room into the dining room cause I am running out of ideas for rearranging. Anyhow like I was saying, the pool needed to be inside because I wanted the kids to be able to use it more than just on sunny days and during the daylight......Ok ok ok......I wanted to be able to swim after the kids are done for the day without being eaten alive by gigantic Missouri bugs.

Here's some pictures from our day:
Here we are with a gazillion people in the pool.

















And another:




















And isn't this the sweetest picture?
Kirke and our neice and Amber's youngest.






















I love this picture because it is so real. Here we have two boys who's worlds have just been turned upside down. One whose daddy is off fighting a war and another whose just lost the second dad in his life and now, in his words, "I don't even have a dad at all now". But in the midst of all of this they can still be ten year old boys and laugh and have fun and be real without the worries of the darkness in their lives. I want to be able to do the same.























And now the last picture because Kirke is tired. As if it's 1am or something geesh! Oh right it is.... So anyhow here are our other two neices and of course Cool Dude. Aren't they so cute! I really love these kids!

















Oh but wait one more! Just one more because I'm so happy to have Kirke home for a few weeks and I really mean that and this picture proves it!



















Oh shoot I lied. One more cause I just saw it when I added that one and it's funny.

You Tube Comment

So appearantly my video's on You Tube are public which is fine, but I didn't think anyone would actually watch them! I just checked my email a little bit ago and this is what I found:

New Comment on Your Video

spazznout has commented on your video. To read this comment, go to the comments for "Crying at Night."

Comment from spazznout:

Korbin,dont be sad, be proud of your dad and your friend. Your dad and friend are the hero's of today. My dad too was in the army and left me alone with my mom and brother often. Always remember he is thinking of you and wants you to be happy and strong like a man for your mother. These times now in your life are going to build character and confidence in you. My dad always came home and I always knew he loved me and if he had to leave it must be really important
Korbin another pawn in the game

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Mother of Six...........I did what?

I love to help people. Without giving away too many details I have a family issue that came up a couple weeks ago. This problem left my ex-sister in law, but still good friend that I consider family without care for her four children this weekend. My step-brother is the biological father of her oldest son. She moved away and divorced him going on 8 years ago I believe. My nephew who was then 2 and hasn't seen my brother since then.

So anyway my SIL moved away divorced my step-brother and then had three little girls with her husband. Oh and let me add that my step-brother has since had three girls of his own. This poor boy has 6 sisters! The three that he lives with have a place in my heart as if they were my own neices, in fact they just are an that's just the way it is! They live in Oklahoma.

Well my SIL called and I offered to help out in her jam. So we drove 250 miles yesterday to pick up her four kids for the weekend. My two boys stayed here with friends (thank god, thank you friends!). We drove down grabbed them up even though we hadn't seen them in nearly a year and drove back as if we'd never missed a beat. They took right too us again!

Today I have found out what having six kids is like. We went from having a five and six year old to having a 3 yr old, two 5 yr olds, two 6 year olds, and a nearly 11 year old.

We ALL went to the commissary. WHAT WERE WE THINKING?? The shopping part wasn't bad except people looking at us like we were stupid for having so many kids so close together! But our commissary just remodeled and modernized our old check out lines that I'm pretty sure had to be wound up at the beginning of each shift. They might have still been typing in the prices of the items, it's hard to make up stories at midnight remember really.

Well they thought it would be wise to install those pain in the ass fabulous self check out lanes. I think they did it to replace the old express lane. My problem with this is that who thought it was faster and easier to replace the cashier on express who has probably been a cashier for 30 years and is pretty speedy at her job really with lanes that people who've never been cashiers get to walk up and scan and check out on their own? Bad idea!

We don't know what the hell we're doing and they added the stupid weighted bagging area. This means every item we scan has to be placed onto the bagging area with just the right amount of force for it to register that it was bagged. And that you're not sneaking other items in the bags. God forbid you drop the 20 pound bag of dog food and it registers as a 40 pound bag. Alarms will sound, a net drops out of the ceiling and your butt's heading to the MP station to be interogated about your intentions to steal 20 pounds of dog food that cost 10 bucks!

Well with six kids, all too old to be duct taped riding in the cart except one, they all want to help. "Let me scan my hot dogs" and then "mom I can scan the gigantic economy, as big as I am bag of toilet paper" and finally, "look at me I can stand on the bagger station and wiggle my butt". Suddenly the net drops, sirens blare and ten people come running over to see what we're stealing as the darn machine yells "REMOVE UNSCANNED MERCHANDISE FROM THE BAGGING AREA" repeatedly until we remove the child and attempt to scan three more items before the whole scene repeats itself. Which it did at least 10 times. The poor lady overseeing these lanes probably hated us as she had to come put in her code a gazillion times. The kids didn't understand that sitting on, leaning, touching ever so lightly and poking at the bagger station would cause more of a delay.

About three hours 20 minutes later( the lady who used to run express would have been done with us in less than three minutes) we got out of the store and headed home. We won't be shopping again as a family until we have less kids. To those of you who have six or more kids of your own, hats off to ya! For us two is good!

We'll enjoy our time with extra kids at home or the park or somewhere more kid friendly (like an antique store) than the commissary.

Oh yeah and by the way I decided my almost 11 year old nephew might enjoy some company from someone his own age instead of all these little kids so I invited Brandys 10 year old son to stay the night. Yep 7 kids in my three bedroom house.

I'm an idiot! (The kind that loves kids!)

Korbin's Pledge

My little guy is very proud to be an American. He is quick to snap to attention as soon as he hears Retreat at 5pm each day. He also can tell you what the music is played for and what is happening. It's awesome!

Here he is saying the pledge after a very long car ride that required us to recite the Pledge every time we saw a flag.

Raising Money: Fighting Back Against Cancer

Hey everyone!

I am participating in Relay For Life again this year and I have been given an awesome opportunity to do a fundraiser with Jen from Jens Ideas! I'm so excited and wanted to share the opportunity with everyone to buy these awesome shirts and help out the American Cancer Society fight back against cancer! My team is the All Nighters, hehe!



Our team will receive between $8-$13/per shirt depending on the style you choose. I will take paypal and you can even go to my Relay website to pay your portion of the shirt that goes to Relay directly. And then you can send a check or money order to me so that I can pay Jen. She sent me several boxes of shirts so they are all in stock right now.

To view the flyer bigger just leave your email address in the comments and I will email the flyer to you. Or you can just email me at kmtkbest@gmail.com

Korbin the ham....

Korbin is wild. We all know he is a handful and can be a little snot from time to time. Every now and then he makes me wish there was a cliff nearby for me to drive off of but mostly I just laugh at/with him. He is just so funny. He is very overdramatic about pretty much everything.

We were at Ambers yesterday and Korbin was eating noodle soup for lunch. He had a regular sized spoon and was about halfway done when he decided his spoon was too small.

Amber's friend told Korbin he either had to use that spoon or a gigantic serving/cooking spoon. I think that he expected Korbin to laugh and go back to eatig with the regular spoon. Instead this is what he got:




Here is Korbin on Mother's Day when we were on our way to STL.

One of those days...

Just when think one more thing can't possibly go wrong!

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I'm venting so if you're not in the mood to entertain my right to bitch in my blog you might need to stop reading now! And if you have any intentions of trying to convince me that it's all OK or that we signed up for this or to tell me how many other people have it so much worse (I am quite aware of that)please don't comment tonight because I just need to vent without feeling bad about it. If you'd like to rant and rave with me please by all means read on and comment till your little hearts content!

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Kirke text messaged me, because that's the best way to break bad news, that he was leaving Thursday to go to FT Knox KY for two days. Give me a freakin break! He hasn't even been home a week yet!

One of my best friends ever lives at Ft Knox. We're going there next week in fact....how ironic. I'm so frustrated!

So get this I bitched about him leaving on Thursday loudly so that whoever the jerk on the end of the phone who has no clue what he's doing to my kids by making dumb ass decisions, heard me. So later same dumb ass calls back to say they are going to make the trip tomorrow instead of Thursday so that it won't interfere in our weekend. How kind of them!

This place is so messed up! It's not supposed to be anything like this! We don't love it and if the idiots left on Rear Detachment live up to all of my expectations they will be completely useless to the families left behind.

Super! Just freakin super!

Cool Dude and a Little Disappointment

Korbin had his ultrasound for his kidneys today to check everything out from the surgery he had back in January. We went up to the desk to check in and they asked the usual: patients last name, last four of the sponsors social. Then the lady said "first name?" and I said "Korbin" to which he loudly followed up by saying, "you mean Cool Dude, Mom". Silly kid!

We have had a crazy busy weekend. We drove to St Louis on Saturday and stayed in a hotel with a pool because my MIL had to fly out at 6am on Sunday and I was not getting up to drive her two hours to the airport. In fact we didn't get up at the hotel either we just let her take the airport shuttle at 4:30am! The boys had a blast swimming in the pool.

***Update***

So the phone rang in the middle of me typing this this morning so it got left open and it was Korbins doctor. It's only been about an hour since his ultrasound this morning so I knew it couldn't be good.

We just got a call from Korbins doctor here at the Fort. His ultrasound wasn't so good. We have to go back to Columbia for more tests again. His kidney is still swollen and probably isn't draining properly despite the surgery in January. This sucks I was hoping to be done with the kidney stuff other than bi-annual ultrasounds until he was an adult. I hadn't even thought of the possibility of the surgery not fixing the problem so I'm caught a little off guard. :(

Here is a video I just took of Korbin and our friend Cadie, Amber's oldest girl!

I didn't run away too.....but it's a good idea!

We took a trip. Kirke graduated from BNCOC (E6 school for the Army) on Tuesday and was the honor graduate so we just had to go and see him. His mom flew here on Sunday and we stayed in a hotel in STL that night and flew out on Monday.



The airline somehow thought it was appropriate to seat my MIL and I together for the flight and one boy had a seat behind us and the other was assigned to a seat that was a few rows back and by the window on the other side. Don't get me wrong, I do love the idea of a plane ride without two wild boys bugging me and pretending I have no idea who that kid is that keeps kicking that poor ladies seat. However, it is against my better judgement.


Korbin was throwing a fit in the Detroit airport so I whisked his little butt screaming and all off to the family bathroom so we could have a little chat. As soon as we got there his nose started to gush blood. So picture this: mean mom drags small boy into bathroom and comes out with small boy no longer crying but holding a bloody towel to his nose. That did not earn me mom of the year. How convenient for him to get a bloody nose at a time like that! He was so worked up I'm surprise he wasn't puking too!


I'm pretty sure the airplane took two or three extra circles around the airport in Maryland before it landed. And then, the nerve of some people I tell you! It took FOREVER for the plane to taxi to the gate to let us off. AND people thought they had the right to get off the plane before us just because we were in rows 26 and 27.

The drive from Maryland to Missouri was just shy of 1000 miles. Crammed in Kirke's raggedy old Cadillac! The boys were good some of the time.





They were not so good another part of the time. No pictures of that though sorry!

But I did get pictures of this at a rest area in Illinois:




We felt so safe at this particular rest area that we ventured down a little trail to a playground strategically placed with woods on two sides of it for added security. The boys needed a break to play here are a few pictures of that. It was so sweet to see them with daddy again however, knowing our time is limited made it sad.








We got home and I was so lucky to get to write a paper before falling into bed after midnight. Kirke is off signing back in to the unit right now. That makes me sad. But it's okay we will make the best of each day we have together.

Have you ever?

***This post was started a few days ago but I didn't post it for some reason. If for some reason I repeated info or stories from another post I appologize! ***

Have you ever made decisions so quickly that after everything was finalized you knew it was a stupid decision but it was irreversible?

This is how I felt the moment I clicked confirm and booked plane tickets for my Mother in Law and my two boys and I to fly a gazillion miles to Maryland to watch my Kirke graduate from BNCOC (Basic Non-Commissioned Officer Course).

Let me digress. First of all I wanted to fly out to his graduation and then drive back with him when the thought struck me a couple weeks into his training. I figured
Brandy could keep my boys for a couple nights so they didn't miss school and then I'd ride back with Kirke after his graduation. Great plan right? Well MR. Negativity himself jumped into that boat with about as much enthusiasm as dog going to the vet to be put to sleep. I was angry to say the least.

Well sometime a couple weeks back he told me that he had earned the title of "Honor Graduate" for completing the course evaluations with a perfect score. All that remained was their FTX and he was good to go. I told him I'd love to be there for him and this time all of the sudden he was all for it. He called his mom to book a ticket to come hang with the boys so that I could fly out to be with him. She agreed.

Well that sounds super right? Not so much. You see when she called me to make the reservations we got her ticket to Missouri and then I told her he was honor grad and she wanted to come to Maryland too. Soooooo..........we booked four tickets to Maryland from St Louis instead of just one.

Kirke picked us up from the airport and delivered us to the ragedy old hotel. Actualy it wasn't horrible except for the fact that there was no theromostat and it was like walking into the Ice Hotel. Not my idea of comfy cozy. Did I mention this was at about 1:30am?

Kirke had to go back to the barracks for the night (or few hours till he had to be up at 0400). Anyhow we added extra blankets to beds and went to sleep till 0630 when we had to be up to get ready. After the whole day before being spent in airports I wasn't quite prepared for a day spent in the car. We made it about 450 miles yesterday. Then stopped for the night.

Whoever thought that spending this many days in this close proximity to my bratty little boys little angels was a good idea was very very wrong. Not to mention we are crammed into Kirke's old beater 1990 Cadillac. The boys are in the backseat now trying to entertain themselves by making up their own words and poking one another as much as possible. Right now they are playing an interesting game of "Tayton says" basically the rules are Korbin has to do whatever Tayton says the last few minutes of orders have started the same "bite yours (that's right he says it with an "s")....." Last time I looked back was because Tate said "bite yours ear" and I wanted to see Korbin try...he tried but setteled for his shoulder.

When they go back to school I'm sure they will call DFS to come investigate my five year old with bite marks all over himself. Do you suppose they will even believe my story? Probably not but most of the stories from my life are more far fetched than most would consider reality. Those of you who've spent a day with us however know that these are typical everyday happenings for our family.

The MIL is in the backseat trying to sleep. I could not believe when she took the boys into the last gas station that she sent my boys into the mens room alone while she went into the ladies room. I would never ever do this! Am I the only mom who still demands her boys come into the ladies room with me when the dad is gone? If they are the only ones who have to go then fine they can go into the mens room but I'm waiting outside the door. However if I have to go too then it's "sorry Charlie you're going in the ladies room". I am tactful about it, we go into the big stall. They do their business then have to stand and face the door while I do mine. Then we wash our hands (they feel the needs to keep their eyes closed most of the time) and go on our way. I know that no one is going to steal them, tie them up and hurt them or anything else this way right? This world sucks that our kids can't be guaranteed safety in public restrooms but until they are old enough (probably when they are 18 and move out) they are stuck with me! Ok fine how about 10? Is that reasonable.

You have to understand however that my kids have a tendency to flush odd items down the toilet and see how long it takes the sink to overflow. Or better yet to see if the pipes under the sinks are tightened securely or only 5 and 6 yr old hand tight. Trust me I do this in the best interest of everyone.

So back to my poor decision making, I should have insisted that the boys and MIL fly back to STL airport after the graduation and then Kirke and I could have driven back together. Problem here is that I have yet to leave my boys overnight. I know I know I should, I can and I will someday when they go to college or join the Army themselves. Instead I have to share my first few days after a two month separation with my MIL. The only good thing here is that she can see her son now and not be here the day he heads off the giant sandbox in a few weeks or less if I'm cursed with bad luck and might just be.

Okay I'm driving down I70 ready to stuff cheetos in my ears and rip my eyeballs out of my head because it's killing me. Probably from listening to country music the whole trip so far. That alone makes me wanna jump from the vehicle at top speed after 5 minutes an hour or two.

Ok I'm ready to scream so I'm going to end this rambling and go try to homework before my computer battery dies. If you made it this far through my rambling please leave me a comment. A simple "you really are an idiot" will suffice.

Another Sad Story: Korbin's Running Away

I was cleaning my kitchen today (yeah yeah shut up guys, you know I try to clean) and I found a brown paper bag. Upon inspection of the contents I realized that this is a serious situation. Korbin has packed up all of his important belongings and must intend to leave soon.

Here is what I found..........

First I reached in pulled this out:



Then I realized it wasn't empty.....




the infamous rock that keep appearing. (I found it in the middle of MT St. Laundry yesterday........that's the name of my clean clothes as they pile up on the couch. It often looks like my dryer spewed clean clothes like lava all over my couch!)




Here he adds his favorite shirt....it isn't even clean!



Two paper airplanes in case he needs to travel.


He added the straps from two Tupperware cups. The strange part there is that he put a price tag on them. I guess he might need to sell them for some extra cash.



He tries not to go far without his monster trucks so it makes sense that he added them to his bag.


A Tupperware Strawberry Huller is a must for all run aways!


No run aways bag is complete without half a super ball and a pair of scissors.


Might need to write a letter home from time to time.


And lets not forget the flashlight because it does get dark.


Last but not least he might need this new cookbook when he gets hungry right?


Here it is, the whole Run Away Pack and the Bag I found it in!


Another little bit:

In the spring my old dog Scrappy sheds like crazy! Normally I get him shaved but I just haven't gotten around to it this year. I always describe it as him laying down then walking off and there being an outline of Scrappy like a crime scene. I took a picture finally to prove my point.




The suspect has a tendency to stay close to the crime scene.... I hired a
Homicide Clean Up Crew to come in and take care of the problem. Unfortunately that particular crew...me... has to come in several times a day.

Korbin picked up a ball of Scrappy's fur and put it on his head and said "look Mom I'm Scrappy!"

And then today Tayton brought me a cup that had a ball of Scrappy fur that he had wet down and said "Mom how do you make fabric?" I asked why and he said "well let this dry and then we'll see if this is how you make fabric"! I told him absolutely not and took care of that mess in a hurry!

Let's lighten things up again!

Here are some of the sweetest pictures EVER!!

This is my sweet little Korbin at the playground:



This is our sweet little Megan (or magen as Korbin says it.........she calls him Kormin so it's okay)



They are such good friends (when the big kids are at school anyway)!


They really love each other! Get your lips of my kid little brown girl! Aren't they sweet?



Awww and look the little snot kissed her back he returns the kiss!


We have such great friends here and we need that to make it through whatever the Army throws our way so it's really nice when the kids can bond too. They have so much fun together when they aren't trying to kill each other. And they always play so nice and share everything yeah cause that happens never!

Here's a picture we had taken of the boys a while back, I can't really remember when but it was at a marriage retreat. We went to Tan-tar-a and they had free picture takin with one free 8x10. We were excited to get the pictures back 4 months later, good lord that was slow!

When the pictures arrived this is what I found:


Now don't get me wrong that picture is awesome. The only problem is that Tayton doesn't have blue crocs AND he is not physically able to sit Indian style criss cross. I love to be able to edit and doctor up my pictures, I do!

But I never went as far as to remove the legs of one child and put them on the other! They cut off Taytons legs and copied Korbins legs and put them on Tate! WHO DOES THAT??

I wasn't going to do it because it's terribly embarassing but here is our family picture. First let me explain that we had just got off an hour long ride through the resort on a very very fast golf cart. And I didnt bring enough nice clothes so I had to wear my Relay shirt....I'm okay with that. What I'm not okay with is:



Look closely. First you'll notice I look fat.......oh right that wasn't their fault! BUT they decided my hair should not be hanging forward so they gave me a haircut.

How can you just photo chop shop my hair off on one side? I look stupid! Second I said before we just got off of a rocket speed golf cart and I had some fly aways on top of my head, so what, it's okay I swear! BUT NOOOOOOO they felt the need to smooth them out with their photo chop program and that resulted in a BALD SPOT!

The boys, they all look fabulous in this picture don't they? They also must have photo chopped their heads off of different ones and sewed them on cause I know that all three of them didn't ever look that good in one picture!

Here's how I'd improve this picture:



And now I'm off to bed!

My Boys are Both Sad Tonight

Here is my conversation with Korbin tonight:



Nothing funny about that one, sorry.

And here is what Tayton spent the first 20 minutes doing when I put him to bed. His video is very funny, listen close.



Please leave a comment if you have time, I like to read them and then I can come visit your blog too!

Day Trip with Rocks In the Pocket

We had to take Tayton to Columbia today to see his developmental pediatrician. Columbia is a good 2 hour drive. Wait any time in the car with the kids that long should never be described as "good". It's at least a two hour drive.

Today has been really busy. I got up took the kids to school and worked the book fair until 10. The problem with that is that I was supposed to be at a Pampered Chef party at 10. Oops! I sped out of the school and ran to Brandy's to get her order then we took off to my friends house off post. Went in and did the party thing, ordered a couple things and sped back on post. I snagged Tayton from the cafeteria and then off we ran to our house to let our friends hubby get their stuff from my garage, then we went and met Roxy then grabbed her son from school and hit the road. Wooo.........makes me tired just typing it all!

So anyhow we made our way to Columbia. Once we got there we checked in at the desk and got called back. Poor Roxy had to hang in the waiting room on super comfy couches with movies and toys while Tate and I got to sit on the luxurious hard chair and look at blank walls inside a tiny room for an hour. I know I know I should have let her and the other two boys come too right?

So Tayton jumped up on the scale and I jokingly said "alright now get the rocks out of your pocket". He laughed and said "oh yeah I forgot" as he reached into his pocket pulled out a first aid kit and a rock! WHO DOES THAT??

I took a picture of him with his rock after I was done laughing!



Oh and check out what we saw on the way home. I made you a little video!