I am still waiting on the delivery of my new camera which is supposed to be delivered sometime today. I am planning on giving you all an update with photos of our basement remodel project. It has really come a long way! In fact we are nearly done (I have to tell myself this to remain in stable condition)!
I should get the photos up later today. Hang in there and keep in mind that I do have 6 children in my house as we speak ranging from age 18 months to 4. Two of which are twin boys that someone just dropped on my door step and they are a handful (cute...but a handful)!!
*alright I admit the twins are mine but when I see them feeding the dog doughnuts from the breakfast table I tend to wonder if they really are mine.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
It's been brought to my attention......
that I haven't posted in a while! I think my friend Tracy was concerned that the monstrous pile of laundry actually swallowed me whole so she called today and told me to get on the ball!
In all honesty I have either been too busy (did I tell you I have a husband who lives in the basement on the weekends....he's finishing it) or I have been too lazy! Yep I will admit it there are times when I am just too lazy to do anything....hence the 15 loads of laundry in the previous post.
Not much has been going on around here. I had my birthday on Friday and I am calmly and collectively waiting for my present from my husband to get here (calmly..right Jon?). He has ordered me a new camera so I can hopefully get some better pics of the kids.
Cooper has learned a neat new trick this past week. He has decided that waking up at around 1:00 a.m. and staying awake sometimes until 6:00 a.m. is a really fun thing to do! For some reason he seems to think that mom really enjoys it too as he keeps me awake with him. This lack of sleeping has actually concerned me enough to call the doctor and see what he thinks. We know that Cooper has one tonsil that is enlarged and we have taken him to an ENT specialist to get it checked out. At the time the Dr. said we will just keep an eye on it and see if he will grow into it. However if it seems like he is having problems eating and/or sleeping to give him a call and we will re-think things.......I called him.......it's time to re-think things........I'M TIRED!! He goes in on May 13th to get checked out and will probably have a sleep study done to figure out why he is doing this.
This whole situation has only confirmed what I always thought about Cooper...if there is going to ever be a call from the dean of students at a college saying this:
"Yes ma'am sorry to have to wake you at 4:00 a.m. but we just caught your son running around campus naked with just a hat made of newspaper on his head and yelling I'm freeeeeee!!!"
.....I'm gonna know right away that it's Cooper!! This child doesn't seem to require a whole lot of sleep, he LOVES a good party and he can run really really fast and that down right concerns me!! Contact me in 18 years if you want to hear me say "Told you so!"
As far as the other 3 kids:
Jackson: Just had a friend sleep over last weekend and we watched the movie "I am Legend." I think he is a little concerned that there is a virus out there that will turn him into a zombie. We will be buying stock in Purell at this rate!! (I am not a bad mom....I didn't know that this movie was about zombies...and his friend had already seen it so I thought it would be okay).
Grant: Has learned some choice words and we have no idea where he learned them. For example:
While riding his bike in the basement watching his Daddy work this past weekend I caught him saying "boobies...boobies....want some boobies." Oh yeah...and that's just one of them!! I just love the age 3 stage!
Rossco (our furry kid): No changes there besides he desperately needs a haircut and bath!
So that's about it. I did get my toilets cleaned and I got somewhat caught up on my laundry even though I have come to realize with 5 people living here there will never be an end to the laundry!
Hope all is well with you and your families! Take care.
In all honesty I have either been too busy (did I tell you I have a husband who lives in the basement on the weekends....he's finishing it) or I have been too lazy! Yep I will admit it there are times when I am just too lazy to do anything....hence the 15 loads of laundry in the previous post.
Not much has been going on around here. I had my birthday on Friday and I am calmly and collectively waiting for my present from my husband to get here (calmly..right Jon?). He has ordered me a new camera so I can hopefully get some better pics of the kids.
Cooper has learned a neat new trick this past week. He has decided that waking up at around 1:00 a.m. and staying awake sometimes until 6:00 a.m. is a really fun thing to do! For some reason he seems to think that mom really enjoys it too as he keeps me awake with him. This lack of sleeping has actually concerned me enough to call the doctor and see what he thinks. We know that Cooper has one tonsil that is enlarged and we have taken him to an ENT specialist to get it checked out. At the time the Dr. said we will just keep an eye on it and see if he will grow into it. However if it seems like he is having problems eating and/or sleeping to give him a call and we will re-think things.......I called him.......it's time to re-think things........I'M TIRED!! He goes in on May 13th to get checked out and will probably have a sleep study done to figure out why he is doing this.
This whole situation has only confirmed what I always thought about Cooper...if there is going to ever be a call from the dean of students at a college saying this:
"Yes ma'am sorry to have to wake you at 4:00 a.m. but we just caught your son running around campus naked with just a hat made of newspaper on his head and yelling I'm freeeeeee!!!"
.....I'm gonna know right away that it's Cooper!! This child doesn't seem to require a whole lot of sleep, he LOVES a good party and he can run really really fast and that down right concerns me!! Contact me in 18 years if you want to hear me say "Told you so!"
As far as the other 3 kids:
Jackson: Just had a friend sleep over last weekend and we watched the movie "I am Legend." I think he is a little concerned that there is a virus out there that will turn him into a zombie. We will be buying stock in Purell at this rate!! (I am not a bad mom....I didn't know that this movie was about zombies...and his friend had already seen it so I thought it would be okay).
Grant: Has learned some choice words and we have no idea where he learned them. For example:
While riding his bike in the basement watching his Daddy work this past weekend I caught him saying "boobies...boobies....want some boobies." Oh yeah...and that's just one of them!! I just love the age 3 stage!
Rossco (our furry kid): No changes there besides he desperately needs a haircut and bath!
So that's about it. I did get my toilets cleaned and I got somewhat caught up on my laundry even though I have come to realize with 5 people living here there will never be an end to the laundry!
Hope all is well with you and your families! Take care.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Public Service Announcement.....
The daily escapades of The Zimmerman Boys will continue when their mom regains control of her 15 loads of laundry, 4 very messy bedrooms, kitchen with the never ending supply of dirty dishes, bathrooms with pee stained toilets because her boys have really bad aim, and a toy room that you can play Where's Waldo in (only you really can't find Waldo anywhere)!
Until then please have a great weekend. We are off to Iowa for a family wedding and shall return Sunday night. Well......at least I know I will return. I'm not so sure about the boys. They've been telling me how much they want to go live with Grandma out of fear of their mom's mental instability following yesterday's black cloud day (which actually turned out to be a nice afternoon and evening). I just need to find a closet in Grandma's house that has enough room to fit 3 boys, a dog, and about 4 suitcases long enough for me to get across the border!! I'll keep you posted!
Have a great weekend!!
P.S. I really wouldn't abandon my children like that......I would at least make sure one of the suitcases had enough food and water in them to last at least an hour (maybe two)! What kind of mom do you think I am!!
Until then please have a great weekend. We are off to Iowa for a family wedding and shall return Sunday night. Well......at least I know I will return. I'm not so sure about the boys. They've been telling me how much they want to go live with Grandma out of fear of their mom's mental instability following yesterday's black cloud day (which actually turned out to be a nice afternoon and evening). I just need to find a closet in Grandma's house that has enough room to fit 3 boys, a dog, and about 4 suitcases long enough for me to get across the border!! I'll keep you posted!
Have a great weekend!!
P.S. I really wouldn't abandon my children like that......I would at least make sure one of the suitcases had enough food and water in them to last at least an hour (maybe two)! What kind of mom do you think I am!!
Thursday, April 17, 2008
One of those days!!
Do you ever wake up and lie in bed looking at the black cloud that is over your head and telling yourself "This is not going to be my day"? Well I woke up with a black cloud on my side of the bed today. It didn't help that Jackson woke me up 3 times last night.
Time #1 "Mom....Mom....MOM....I can't sleep. I've been awake for 6 hours and just can't sleep. (keep in mind this was at 11:45 and he went to bed at 9:30)
Time #2 (30 minutes later) "Mom...Mom....MOM....I keep having bad dreams.
My response to this was "I thought you couldn't sleep, how can you have bad dreams if you can't sleep?" Followed by "Get your butt to bed and lie there until you fall asleep"
(keep in mind I am battling a head cold and I need my sleep)
Time #3 "Mom....Mom....MOM...I have to go potty." Oh dearest Lord, I was almost 1 son short at that moment. He must have fallen asleep after that or he realized I was on the verge of making him sleep on the front porch because he never bothered me again. Then again he may have come back in and failed at waking me up!
I got an e-mail later in the morning from my husband saying this "I have a feeling Jackson caught a few too many fumes of the spray I was using in the basement for the corner-bead - - the same stuff that kept me on a high until 2am." (poor kid really couldn't sleep and it wasn't his fault...yes I will apologize).
Fast forward to this morning. I got up (reluctantly) to my alarm clock and proceeded to get ready for the daycare kids to arrive. Grant was the only one awake at this point. In the midst of blow drying my hair I kept hearing a noise. It went something like this.....THUMP...THUMP....knock, knock.....THUMP. Finally after about the forth thump I realized I had better check it out.
To keep the twins from slamming doors, pinching their fingers in doors and locking us out of their rooms I have been throwing a towel over the tops of their doors so it stops the door from shutting all the way (works great by the way). So I checked on Grant who was in his room. The door was shut tight. In my mid-morning stupor I figure he just locked it, no big deal. Well I turn the knob and it turns which tells me it is not locked after all. So why can't I open it?? I figure out immediately what had happened. The THUMPS were Grant shutting the door so forcefully that he shut the towel in with it. THE DOOR WAS JAMMED!! I tried and tried with all my might to open the darn thing. I pushed with all I had in me. All the while Grant is on the other side...in his room...alone.....telling me "just get a key mama" and "go find a key". He was calm....I wasn't!!
I even tried what the police do on t.v. to get in a door, which is to throw your shoulder into it. Nope didn't work.
Panicked I wake Jackson up.....what good this will do it beyond me but at this point I didn't know what else to do. Upon me telling Jackson that Grant was trapped he jumped right out of bed (because regardless of what he says he really does love his brothers). He tried one time to push the door open and says "He's stuck"!!
At this point I realize I need help. But who?? My neighbor next door was at work as was Jon who was an hour away. Grant can't be locked in his room for an hour. Fire department...police?? Who do I call for something like this?? This is ridiculous!!
I didn't have to call anyone thank God!
Anger is a very strong emotion. And I was angry! I took a run for it from across the hallway and didn't stop. I didn't care if it did hurt me I was running through the darn door! "Grant get back" I said and barrelled towards the door. And it worked!! Hallelujah it worked! He was free...and what did he do...he looked up at me, smiled, and said "I want a doughnut!!"
It didn't end there though....oh no....my day had just begun! As I walk down the stairs I noticed Rossco was sitting by the front door with his ears hung low. This is not normal! I got to the bottom step and noticed a familiar aroma in the air. Yep....you guessed it. Rossco peed all over the floor just minutes before my daycare kids are due to arrive. In a normal dog this wouldn't be such a big deal but my dog is not normal! He is half skunk. Really he is. He is a black and white cocker spaniel whose urine smells like a skunk had just got ran over by a mac truck! It's bad. Thank goodness for carpet shampooers. Quickly we get the machine running and sucking all the remnants of Rossco's skunk spray out of the carpet just in time for daycare child #1 to show up. I apologize for my house smelling like the monkey cages at the zoo and I think to myself "bad day is done". Right?? WRONG!
I'm hungry by this point having not had breakfast (I was a little busy saving my toddler from certain death and killing my dog). Doughnuts were going through my head ever since rescuing Grant so I decide "Doughnuts it is". I get the kids dressed. Get them loaded into the van and off we go. As I start to back out of the driveway I hear "CRUNCH!" And I know exactly what it is because I saw it. I knew it was there before I even started the van but for some reason forgot to move it out of the way. What was it you ask??? Jackson's beloved scooter! He has become rather attached to this scooter ever since he realized he knew how to do tricks on it (one trick). I get out to check the damage. Yep....the back wheel got smashed but I tried it out and it still works good enough! Will it still do the ONE trick...I have no idea but at this point I didn't care!! All I care about is getting some doughnuts and my day ending! I had just woke up and I already want to make the sun go down and get back into my lovely bed before Cooper decides he needs to keep up with his brothers and torture me!! Problem with that is whenever Cooper decides to torture me he always ends up in the ER. Please say a prayer!
Hopefully your days are wonderful and mine ends up getting better (it certainly can't get much worse)!!! By the way....the doughnuts were wonderful!
Time #1 "Mom....Mom....MOM....I can't sleep. I've been awake for 6 hours and just can't sleep. (keep in mind this was at 11:45 and he went to bed at 9:30)
Time #2 (30 minutes later) "Mom...Mom....MOM....I keep having bad dreams.
My response to this was "I thought you couldn't sleep, how can you have bad dreams if you can't sleep?" Followed by "Get your butt to bed and lie there until you fall asleep"
(keep in mind I am battling a head cold and I need my sleep)
Time #3 "Mom....Mom....MOM...I have to go potty." Oh dearest Lord, I was almost 1 son short at that moment. He must have fallen asleep after that or he realized I was on the verge of making him sleep on the front porch because he never bothered me again. Then again he may have come back in and failed at waking me up!
I got an e-mail later in the morning from my husband saying this "I have a feeling Jackson caught a few too many fumes of the spray I was using in the basement for the corner-bead - - the same stuff that kept me on a high until 2am." (poor kid really couldn't sleep and it wasn't his fault...yes I will apologize).
Fast forward to this morning. I got up (reluctantly) to my alarm clock and proceeded to get ready for the daycare kids to arrive. Grant was the only one awake at this point. In the midst of blow drying my hair I kept hearing a noise. It went something like this.....THUMP...THUMP....knock, knock.....THUMP. Finally after about the forth thump I realized I had better check it out.
To keep the twins from slamming doors, pinching their fingers in doors and locking us out of their rooms I have been throwing a towel over the tops of their doors so it stops the door from shutting all the way (works great by the way). So I checked on Grant who was in his room. The door was shut tight. In my mid-morning stupor I figure he just locked it, no big deal. Well I turn the knob and it turns which tells me it is not locked after all. So why can't I open it?? I figure out immediately what had happened. The THUMPS were Grant shutting the door so forcefully that he shut the towel in with it. THE DOOR WAS JAMMED!! I tried and tried with all my might to open the darn thing. I pushed with all I had in me. All the while Grant is on the other side...in his room...alone.....telling me "just get a key mama" and "go find a key". He was calm....I wasn't!!
I even tried what the police do on t.v. to get in a door, which is to throw your shoulder into it. Nope didn't work.
Panicked I wake Jackson up.....what good this will do it beyond me but at this point I didn't know what else to do. Upon me telling Jackson that Grant was trapped he jumped right out of bed (because regardless of what he says he really does love his brothers). He tried one time to push the door open and says "He's stuck"!!
At this point I realize I need help. But who?? My neighbor next door was at work as was Jon who was an hour away. Grant can't be locked in his room for an hour. Fire department...police?? Who do I call for something like this?? This is ridiculous!!
I didn't have to call anyone thank God!
Anger is a very strong emotion. And I was angry! I took a run for it from across the hallway and didn't stop. I didn't care if it did hurt me I was running through the darn door! "Grant get back" I said and barrelled towards the door. And it worked!! Hallelujah it worked! He was free...and what did he do...he looked up at me, smiled, and said "I want a doughnut!!"
It didn't end there though....oh no....my day had just begun! As I walk down the stairs I noticed Rossco was sitting by the front door with his ears hung low. This is not normal! I got to the bottom step and noticed a familiar aroma in the air. Yep....you guessed it. Rossco peed all over the floor just minutes before my daycare kids are due to arrive. In a normal dog this wouldn't be such a big deal but my dog is not normal! He is half skunk. Really he is. He is a black and white cocker spaniel whose urine smells like a skunk had just got ran over by a mac truck! It's bad. Thank goodness for carpet shampooers. Quickly we get the machine running and sucking all the remnants of Rossco's skunk spray out of the carpet just in time for daycare child #1 to show up. I apologize for my house smelling like the monkey cages at the zoo and I think to myself "bad day is done". Right?? WRONG!
I'm hungry by this point having not had breakfast (I was a little busy saving my toddler from certain death and killing my dog). Doughnuts were going through my head ever since rescuing Grant so I decide "Doughnuts it is". I get the kids dressed. Get them loaded into the van and off we go. As I start to back out of the driveway I hear "CRUNCH!" And I know exactly what it is because I saw it. I knew it was there before I even started the van but for some reason forgot to move it out of the way. What was it you ask??? Jackson's beloved scooter! He has become rather attached to this scooter ever since he realized he knew how to do tricks on it (one trick). I get out to check the damage. Yep....the back wheel got smashed but I tried it out and it still works good enough! Will it still do the ONE trick...I have no idea but at this point I didn't care!! All I care about is getting some doughnuts and my day ending! I had just woke up and I already want to make the sun go down and get back into my lovely bed before Cooper decides he needs to keep up with his brothers and torture me!! Problem with that is whenever Cooper decides to torture me he always ends up in the ER. Please say a prayer!
Hopefully your days are wonderful and mine ends up getting better (it certainly can't get much worse)!!! By the way....the doughnuts were wonderful!
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Anyone need a ghost buster??
I was cleaning up the toy room yesterday when out of now where I was attacked by this.......
Apparently I am the Mama Ghost and they were sent to capture me?!?! And just in case you can't see Grant's outfit real well in the above picture here is a better one........
He get's his sense of style from his father!
(please don't turn us into to social services....we are potty training and he refuses to wear pants! I see management of a nudist colony in Grant's future!)
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Brothers!
We finally got an okay picture of all the boys together without someone goofing around, crying, or having boogers in their noses!
Have a great day!
When Conan O'Brian came to visit!
Jon gave the boys a bath last night when I went to the bank and when I got home they were wrestling around and we noticed Cooper's hair had special look about it. That's when Jon said "Cooper you look like Conan O'Brian"! And of course the camera had to come out.
Cute Conan!
Cute Conan!
Silly Conan!
Conan the thinker!
And Conan being attacked by his psychotic preacher stalker (yes..the real Conan really has one of these)!
I'm thinking about sending some of these into the Conan show to see if we can get Cooper some air time.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Lazy weekend!
So much for posting every night before bed huh?? It's just been a lazy week and weekend around here. We have been doing much of nothing for the past 5 days. Friday night the boys and I made a big bed of blanket's on the floor, popped some popcorn and watched "The Waterhorse". Cute movie! They seemed to really enjoy it.
Saturday the boys and I hung out while Jon worked on the basement....again! Jackson had baseball practice so I took him there while the twins slept and then we came home and chilled some more. After the twins went to bed Jon, Jackson and I stayed up and watched "There Will Be Blood". Very interesting movie but got a little weird toward the end. Hence the reason I was the only one awake for the ending!
I finally got to get out of the house alone today for a few hours to go dress shopping for Rachel's wedding. Went to the mall, Kohl's, Old Navy, Dress Barn and finally found something at Maurices. I realized how much I really don't like to shop for dresses! Hope your weekend was a great one!
Saturday the boys and I hung out while Jon worked on the basement....again! Jackson had baseball practice so I took him there while the twins slept and then we came home and chilled some more. After the twins went to bed Jon, Jackson and I stayed up and watched "There Will Be Blood". Very interesting movie but got a little weird toward the end. Hence the reason I was the only one awake for the ending!
I finally got to get out of the house alone today for a few hours to go dress shopping for Rachel's wedding. Went to the mall, Kohl's, Old Navy, Dress Barn and finally found something at Maurices. I realized how much I really don't like to shop for dresses! Hope your weekend was a great one!
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Trial by fire!
I am jumping on the blog bandwagon. I guess it's the in thing to do and I figured with our families living miles away this would be a good way to stay connected. I don't know how often I will post at this point but I would like this blog to be a way to share our daily life and current photos. My goal is to try and write something everynight before bed.....don't hold your breath!
With summer coming up fast, my life with 3 boys is bound to get more hectic and therefore more interesting!! Trust me you will hear about all of it....the good, the bad, the ugly!
Yep even this ugly............
ENJOY!!
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