a Hospital Vacation

The most helpless feeling for me is when one of our children are sick.

Mason and I are taking a vacation at the hospital for a couple days. He's picked up a bug and at just 6 weeks old he's not fighting it well on his own. The doctor told me to think of it as a vacation. So I'm going to make the most of it and I'm going to utilize this one on one time with Mason and snuggle on my little man while he's getting great care from the doctors and nurses-- and I will catch up on mail, bills, blogs, emails, facebook, pinterest and maybe a little sleep?!? I did say little :) Basically, all the things I haven't had time for lately. 

John is playing super awesome dad/mom and sending me pics and videos of the boys...

being bad. being silly. being sleepy. being ornery. 

good to know they are brushing their teeth in my absence :)

and playing

and taking their naps :)

and Adrian lost his first tooth last week (above)

and I just missed him losing his 2nd tooth tonight, check out that gap! Hello Tooth Fairy!

Kids say the darndest things.

It was Idol week at school and Adrian told his teachers and class that his dad was a "rockstar".

After Adrian's comment, John received a request from the teachers to come play some guitar for the preschool classes. So he brushed up on his ABC's, Twinkle, Twinkle and 5 Little Monkeys. Being in a couple bands back in the day is really paying off for dad.

He just might have a future in the Wiggles :)

Where are you?

I think it's gone. All gone. Totally gone. My "new baby" adrenaline has left my body and now I'm a little a lot tired and a little stressed. And as much as I hate to say it, the thought that we might end up on an episode of Nanny 911 has crossed my mind more than once in the last week or so.

The bright side is that they all look really sweet an innocent in pictures :)

 Mason's blanky blends right in with the bed. See his little bean arm flailing in the air.

Of course Mason IS still sweet and innocent, for now.

First Date Night of 2012

John and I had our first date night in 2012-- a quick night out with our 2 1/2 hour window (nursing baby boy puts a time limit on everything right now).

What we ended up with on our night out: some sweet blurry cell phone before pics, some good wine, shrimp bruschetta, ahi tuna with guacamole and I ended up sick with a sore throat that night... just the beginning of my on going illness. I sounded like a dude for 2 days then my voice turned into a 12 year old boy hitting puberty, now I can barely speak and it hurts so bad! How in the world will I yell at the kids when they are bad today?!? I'm one of those people that waits to the last minute, until I can't take it anymore and then I go to the doctor for meds. I'm pretty sure the lack of sleep has something to do with my inability to recover from this. I'm sitting here in bed right now at 5:15 in the morning with 3 little boys and a sleeping baby watching Bob Ross (happy little tree's ring a bell :) paint mountains and I'm totally shocked the kids are so into him!
Now-- time to get serious and research a family doctor that can fix me... fast!

It's really been a swell couple of days. "Sick" has awful timing!!

blurrier and blurry... better than nothing

Q-Tip Painting

Love, love a good Pinterest find!

Q-Tip Painting turned out to be lot's of fun for the kids (and me too :)

Big bonus-- it was less mess than using brushes and finger painting AND great for sharpening those fine motor skills!