Landon:
New rotation! The VA. There are good things about new rotations and hard ones. It feels like starting a new job a little bit every time a rotation changes. Thats stressful. And finding out you are on-call when you didn't know you were only AFTER you've missed multiple phone calls... thats REALLY stressful. It was not the smoothest of starts. Monday was a rough night. Landon sat on the counter for at least an hour, with his knees bent and his arms and head resting on his knees. It all worked out in the end, but thats why starting new rotations can be hard sometimes. They can also be great, I don't mind the change and little differences with each rotation. Though I do miss how his last rotation fed him lunch every day. WHANNN I hate packing lunches. That and cleaning the floors. Landon asked me during our PPQ night what one household chore would I give to a robot that could actually do the chore well. The floors. Clean the floors. And while your ate it, will you pack my husband a lunch :).
Becca:
I had a super duper duper off week. Like just not a good one. I doubted a lot. Got frustrated a lot. Said sorry a lot. I felt tired and overwhelmed and stuck and blah. I think sometimes I forget that I have a baby. Maybe thats why. I don't know. He is only 6 months and man babies are a lot of work. But before I talk about Indianmeal Moths.... I woke up at 5:40am this morning (day light savings). Because of our two bedroom situation there is lots of opportunities for the boys to wake each other up. So the second I heard Luke peep, I went and grabbed him, fed him and then laid him down in the bassinet in my room. Then I snuck out to the family room to be ready for any potential ruckus. It is mostly to stop the big boys from opening our door. Because our door makes a huge noise when it opens and wakes Luke up. BUUUT All four of my boys are still asleep and it is 6:59am. (7:59 yesterday) and I honestly consider that a GIANT HUGE blessing.
Okay, Indinameal Moths. Yeah, our pantry is infested with them. Well was. Well I hope was. Ive been seeing these tiny little moths for weeks. But honestly, i'm so use to having some sort of insect living with us as the seasons change, that I just thought "Well this is a new one." And truthfully we always have new ones, because we've lived in four different homes in 3 difference states and bugs are just different in different places. So i've just learned to deal with our current creature, mouse, spider, box elder bug, ferret, But yesterday after coming home from one of the most beautiful sealings in the SLC Temple, I opened our cupboard and saw 7 or 8 on the ceiling. I annoyingly decided I'd start killing them. And then I kept killing them. I counted every time I killed another one, 36, 37, 38.... Then I noticed one flying out of one of our bags of nuts. Yep. Yep. Yep. Dont keep reading if you don't like reading about infestation. Cocoons, LARVAE, moths, EVERYWHERE. Everywhere. In our nuts, our seeds, our rice. Everywhere. Everywhere. In corners, under cans, in little knocks and crannies. I started ew ew ew ewing. Then started cry cry crying. We just had those nuts in our smoothie this morning. I know. ew ew ew ew!
It reminded me of that one time the night we moved into our first 480 sq/ft apartment and I was cleaning the bathroom. The tiniest bathroom. Where the person that lived there previous was over 300 hundred pounds. We wore googles, and gloves and took turns saying "ew ew ew ew ew EW". Oh the places we've lived. I'm laughing so hard right now. Here is a picture of that little bathroom some 9+ years ago
That was the whole bathroom. You can see the door frame at the bottom left corner of the picture. 5 different wall papers. 4 different molds. 3 feet long. 2 small holes in the floor and 1 bathtub that made you wonder if you were really getting clean. But look at that cute face.
ANYWAY Indianameal moths. Yep. Yep. Yep. I personally killed over 70 moths, over 25 little crawling(yes crawling like a worm) larvae, and over 10 cocoons. And that DOESN'T count the bags and bags full of infestation. Why? Why? WHY? Why do we have Indianmeal Moths. Why? But don't google how Indianameal Moths end up in your pantry. Just don't. Just don't.
So after 4 hours of cleaning our little kitchen. Man I felt grateful I didn't have a giant pantry/kitchen in those moments. And throwing out AT LEAST $50 dollars worth of really good food out, Landon said, in his drenched in sweat workout clothes because he had just gotten back from a 7 mile run, "So just do you know, i'm not touching you til you take a shower." HAHAHAHAHA. Right back at ya babe.
Indianmeal moths. Been there. Done that. Check.
Oooookay.... (Note its 7:27am or 8:27am yesterday and all 4 boys are still asleep.... God threw me a bone this morning after my week and those moths. I love Him!)
Harry Potter:
He was devastated last night after the BYU loss. Poor kid. Devastated. He said his favorite thing about homeschool is that we play this Language Arts/Math game that I made up. His least favorite thing is he has to shower every day. He started Chess club this week. Played with Oskar. The fetzers. And had a soccer game. He love Halloween. I told each of the kids i'd give them $10 if they gave me all their candy. Ty was an automatic "Yeah right mom". But Jax said over and over, I can't wait to get my $10. That is, until he got his first piece of candy. The candy won this year. We went to a movie and got j dawgs for Halloween. Which was so fun because we were the only people in the theater. I'd like to say that is the advantage of Home School, but honestly, it was more the movie than it was the time of day. Small Foot. Still fun being with my 3 boys and being the only people in the theater with a giant tub of popcorn.
Batman:
Oh he had an off week too. Toddlers man. The ups and the downs. It ended with him throwing up on temple square while I was in the Sealing. Poor Ty ty. Poor Landon. But man, he just walked out of his room and his bright eyed adorable voice and face.... Oh he's a doll. He is a goof ball. He loves to be the clown and the one that makes every laugh. He has all these crazy funny expressions. He did not want to play in his soccer game. We need to find something he loves doing. Or just wait a little longer to put him in something. I love that every meal is breakfast to him. I love that he calls Luke "yukers". "Mommmmy, I need to make another batman yego. Get the yegos to me. I now know how to get the yegos out on the blanket. It make a big mess. You help me with it mommy." And heaven knows that if I did not respond to that plea right away, then i'd have 4 awake boys instead of just1. He loved being batman with a Harry Potter wand. He's been a little under the whether this week, but its mostly just a residual cough from his sickness last week. He is a cute ball of joy.
Jack Jack:
Only because of his hilarious hair. Luke hit many milestones this week. He is sleeping through the night. Like through it through it. 7-7 or 8-7 or like today 8-5:45 (or 6:45 daylight savings time) and then eat and then keep sleeping. Its currently 7:39. Love my little yukers. He also is sitting up a little by himself. He also is starting to eat food. And when I say starting I meal I have to basically force feed him. He doesn't like anything. He won't swallow anything. He hasn't really gained any weight since his 4 month appointment. Its a work and progress and if anyone has any suggestions, i'm all ears. He is grabbing everything and laughing so much and smiling all the time and rolling and turning everywhere. He's on the verge of more work. The eye of the storm right now. It was really hard for a while, then it gets a little easier, then they start moving and things get crazier until..... well maybe forever ;). This little apartment with 3 moving boys should be fun. But its an apartment void of ferrets, mice, box elder bugs and indianmeal moths. For now. And THAT I am grateful for.
7:44am. 3 of the 4 boys are asleep. Toddlers. They ruin everything!!! :)
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| Jaxson prepared FHE. And he wanted to sing the song about Ammon. I didn't know this verse existed. Also, we played hide and seek tag at Gilgal gardens. So fun! |
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| He is on Jacob 5! |
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| Luke slept through the night 4 times this week. And we had 3 horrible nights too. Kids these days :). I enjoyed this moment |
