Aidan's turn....Grouch!!!

Well, the past few days Aidan has been pretty sick. He's been running a high fever mainly, but has also been throwing up, not being able to eat that much & hardly drinking.....which is weird cause we all know Aidan has to have a drink every 5 minutes. Anyway, he is on an antibiotic now and is kinda starting to feel better, but man is he GROUCHY!! He has never been this grouchy. Aidan is a happy go lucky kinda little boy but the last 2 days everything bothers him and he is constantly whining or even getting mad at us for no reason. Well, today was a very nice day so I put jackets on the boys and took them outside. I needed to come in for a minute and about 5 minutes later Aidan's "new" attitude followed me....

Here's a visual:
He comes inside and walks around the corner with his hands on his hips and looks at me and says with a stomp....What the "HELL" are you doing in here???

Okay, so I tried not to laugh, but who wouldn't laugh at that. What makes it even more funny is he doesn't pronounce his L's very well, it's more of a he-wl! He was really mad, though!! Knowing that I had just said that the other day to one of the kids, I didn't get too mad about it, cause they're gonna say what you say!!! I told him not to say that anymore and that mommy & daddy shouldn't say it either, but it's been a pretty rough & stressful week of sick kids & no sleep so I guess it slipped!!

Even funnier, Ten minutes later Aidan picks up a picture Jordan just drew off the table and looks at it and says...."What the "HELL" is that?? Ok, were gonna have to fix this little attitude of his!!

Hopefully this little grouchy spell goes away QUICK!!

MONSTER JAM WEEKEND

Well last weekend Febuary 20th & 21st was all about monster trucks for us!! Monster Jam was at Edward Jones Dome Saturday Feb. 21st so we HAD to take the boys!! Grandma & Grandpa bought all of us tickets to go, and oh my, did they have a BLAST!!

Friday we went to Frieze Harley Davidson to see the Donkey Kong Monster Truck & the driver of the truck......plus the little added bonus that it was at Harley Davidson we got to check out motorcycles too. We all know Jared has a new found love for motorcycles! We met Derrick, Donnaka, Lil' D & Dache' there too and got some pictures with them! And it was cold!! Going to see Donkey Kong got us all really excited to go to Monster Jam the next day!!

So the next day.....
Of course Monster Jam wasn't until 7 o'clock in the evening, so all day the boys were asking is it time yet.......We also had a baby shower to go to at 4 that day for our good friends Chris & Laura...hope they get to go next year!! Finally it was time...we picked everyone up and headed downtown. Thanks to Dawnjulene's phone call about the traffic on the MLK bridge we were able to avoid it and go a different route. We found a parking garage and briskly walked, cause it was FREEZING!!

We got there right as it started. Up to the top we went....and the excitement began cause don't you know first things first Jordan had to fall on the escalator and bang up his shins....OUCH!!! So he's all better now, on to our seats. They boys were in awe!! After seeing the expressions on their faces I knew they were going to have a blast!! I have to admit at first I didn't think I would enjoy myself, but man was I wrong. It was really fun & thrilling not knowing "WHEN" a truck was gonna wreck, because they all did....it was just a matter of when & how they were going to. The looks & reactions of the boys faces were priceless. They have always been into monster trucks!!! We just wanted to wait until the right time to take them, because it is LOUD!!! We all had our huge earmuffs though and they helped alot with the noise! After about 2 1/2 hours of non-stop monster trucks it was all over and time to go home!!

Now getting to the truck and leaving the parking garage was a whole other story......we'll just say we sat in the parking garage without moving for a good 45 minutes!! We still had so much fun & will remember going until we go again next year!

Thanks Grandma & Grandpa for the tickets......and thanks G.J. for watching Kaylee bug!!

Valetine's Day!

Valentine's Day was Saturday, and this year Jared & I spent our Valentine's Day with Justin & Tatum. We decided we were going to go skiing & stay the night at Westport plaza where we had dinner also!

We went to Hidden Valley Ski Resort in Wildwood, MO. It's about 10 minutes from Six Flags. They make their own snow there, because of course we never get that much snow here. It's amazing how they do that!! It was a great day for skiing. They had about 5 feet of snow and it was probably about 35 degrees, it was PERFECT!! Jared & Justin took snowboarding lessons while Me & Tatum took skiing lessons. Jared & Justin were pros on their snowboards by the end of the day. Tatum & I didn't do too bad either....except when we tried to attempt the big hill we tumbled down instead of skiing down....hahahaha! It was quite a sight!! We left around 4:30 for a total of about 6 hours of skiing, which was plenty of time.....my legs are still feeling it 3 days later!!!

We got to the hotel about 5:15. We stayed at the Sheraton Westport Chalet, the rooms were very nice! We all wanted to get a nap before dinner @ 7:30. We ate at Paul Mineo's.....oh my gosh....the food was awesome!!! Who can go wrong with Italian on Valentine's Day!! I think Justin, Tatum & I all had the chicken spedieni with salmon and Jared had the filet mignon and seabass. The meals were 3 courses and 2 glasses of wine a piece. The grand total for the 4 of us was $210.00 with tip!!! It was way worth it!! It was one of the best meals I have ever had & the most expensive!!!

We then went to the Trainwreck Saloon and listened to a band play. They were really fun to listen to. We sang, danced & drank til about 1 a.m., then headed back to the hotel. But not before we spotted a bar with karaoke, so of course we had to participate!! Too Fun!!!

The Weekend Was Great!!! Thanks mom & dad for watching the kiddos for us!!!

Kite Flying!

Tuesday was such a nice day!! Nice compared to all the snow we had and the cold weather. It was a little windy, but 70 degrees. BEAUTIFUL!!

Jared surprised us and took half a day off work so he could spend the day with us. It was a really nice surprise. We took the kids to feed the ducks, then came home and did some housework. I heard the boys laughing outside, so I looked to see what they were doing and they were trying to fly kites out in the back yard. Well our yard has trees in the back so they were in the way. Needless to say they were having trouble flying their kites. I told Jared we should take them to the park to fly the kites, so that's what we did. It was much easier to fly the kites there.

Of course once we got there they wanted to play on the playground instead of flying the kites, so they played while Jared & I flew the kites. It was a really fun day!!!

Visiting with Rylee

On Saturday, Carrie brought Rylee over to visit with us. The girls are getting so big!! It has probably been 3 or 4 months since we have been able to get together and let the girls "play" or I should say roll around on the floor. We saw each other at the boys birthday party, but Kaylee was asleep.

Well, when Carrie showed up with Rylee I saw that she had on her I Love Mommy shirt. I was like oh, Tatum bought Kaylee the same shirt so of course I had to put it on her so they could match. I got lots of pictures of them together!! They were way into each other and talking to each other. One of the pictures they are holding hands....it's my favorite. I hope one day the girls are as good of friends as me & Carrie.

Oh, Boy!

So here's todays funny!

Jordan walks up to me today and is like "GUESS WHAT MOM", (I am thinking he's gonna tattle on Aidan for something, that's what happens 90% of the time). But he is like really excited, I hear it in his voice. So I say I don't know, what Jordan? He goes "MOM I'M GONNA BE A TEENAGER SOON" So I am like oh really, holding back the laughter, once again, and he continues on with, "YEP, AFTER I AM AN ADULT I AM GONNA BE A TEENAGER, PRETTY COOL HUH MOM?" Too Cool, Jordan! Why not let him be excited??

And then 5 minutes later I hear him in his room, yelling at Aidan, "GET THIS MESS CLEANED UP, WHY DID YOU LET THIS ROOM GET SO MESSY?" Yep 5 going on 30!!

Growing So Fast

Kaylee is already doing something new!! The other day she was being really fussy, she just had a bottle and a jar of food. She wouldn't lay down and take a nap either, I didn't know what was wrong. So I decided to put her in her high chair and some juice in her sippy cup and see what happened. Kaylee has not even attempted to hold a sippy cup until now. I was very surprised to see how well she did drinking out of it for the first time!!

Kaylee also just got her first tooth at 6 months!!

Playing In The Snow!

Second Snow Day!!

This time I got all bundled up with the boys,

so I could go out and snap some pictures! It was alot of fun and COLD!!

The boys wanted daddy to throw a snowball. That's a pretty big snowball daddy!!

Snow Angels!!