i can't keep up!

ugh, i've just had one of those weeks where i cannot keep up with everything. we've been so busy this last week and we're only going to be even MORE busy this week so blogging has been shoved to the back burner which really kinda stinks because blogging help keeps me sane! blogging is my unwinding at the end of the day, it's how i vent and how i reminisce all at the same time and oh how i've missed it! the month of may could not be more cram packed full of activities for our family. between birthdays (papas, auntie s, mine & pooks'), mother's day, B's drill, uncle matts graduation and wedding--then you add in playdates, doctor appointments and all the errand running to for the previously mentioned activities--in a word: WHEW!

let's see, if you don't count the not me! posts and the wordless post....where did we leave off? mother's day? i never shared any pictures did i...well here is a picture of my beautiful flowers:
gorgeous and my whole house smells wonderful!

and rather than post every story and/or mishap that occurred this week i'm going to make a little installment that shall called THINGS THAT I LEARNED THIS WEEK:

-my kids have been rewired to wake at 6:30am regardless of what time they go to bed. all three kids.

- apparently peanut will not drink from a bottle. the few wonderful, glorious and well appreciated "dates" that i've had away from my kids necessary times that i've needed to be away from peanut i have always pumped milk and he had no problem accepting his meals from a plastic knockoff. well not anymore as i learned friday night. it was my ''girls'' night with nanaw; we were getting pedicures then going shoe shopping and finally enjoying a peaceful dinner. the pedicures were first and they were amazing! while waiting for nanaw to finish up, i decided to phone home and see how bedtime was going without me. ''well everything is okay i guess. peanut didn't really eat. i gave him like 6 ounces but he wouldn't really take it....i don't think he even ate an ounce. he's not very happy but maybe he's just tired." right, that's it. or he could be starving! so i did the motherly thing and had nanaw drive clear across town so that i could nurse him. he ate. and ate. and switched sides. and ate some more. i cannot remember the last time that a feeding lasted that long. but he nursed and was happy as a clam afterwards.

-pooks can say starbucks, help me, peanut's name, flip-flop, no way, whoa...cool and a ton of other random words and phrases that suddenly are exploding out of his mouth.

-bubba and pooks are fans of the black eyed peas. (the group not the food!) a few days a week, after the boys' nap we occasionally watch Ellen. the black eyed peas were on this week (no clue what day) and they preformed their new song "boom boom pow". it was mildly entertaining; it's a song that definitely will get stuck in your head. not just your head either, but the little noggins of two and three year olds as well. so much so that once they are buckled in their carseats they request ''da boom boom song''. okay so i switch to "the hits" station and lucky me, it was on.

well with the main lyric being ''gotta get dat boom boom boom...gotta get dat boom boom boom" it's an easy song for toddlers to sing. so much so that i hear it all.the.time. bubba can't recite his alphabet yet but he can sing ''i like 'dat boom boom pow....gotta get dat boom boom pow''. i know what you're thinking: Wow Shannon! What amazing and responsible parently skills you have! (eh, i can pretend). heck i'll even do one better and try to get a short video clip of them singing.

-the TV gods are out to get me. the 4 shows that i regularly DVR and wait to watch until the boys are asleep and B is at poker (you know, so i can actually hear and see the show) all had/are having their season finales this week. house, grey's, survivor and desperate housewives are all ending for the summer. what the heck am i suppose to do now...laundry? dishes? riiight, like that will happen! ha!

well it's getting late so i'm gonna wrap this up...this week we have uncle matts/rachels/michelles graduation, mine and pooks birthday and then the wedding festivities so we will be busy! i'll try to take lots of pics though! here are some to hold you over though ;)

wordless wednesday

not me! monday

i have to admit that i am enjoying this ''not me!" monday confessional. much like mckmama said today, it's rather therapeutic! family, friends and random people at target tell me that "the boys are SO well behaved" or that i am "such a great mom" and while i will gladly accept all those compliments, and know deep down that they are true, it's nice to come clean about a few little things. for example

i most definitely did not set off the smoke detector while burning making breakfast this morning. and there is no way that i did so while making something as simple as toast. that would just be dingy. and you can bet that since i didn't burn the toast, i most certainly didn't set off the smoke detector a second time either! and if bubba happened to tell the cashier at target that we had a fire at our house at breakfast, i certainly would not feel the need to explain that there wasn't a fire, just some smoke while turning red from embarrassment.

(and i have no clue where those pictures came from either!)

i also am not so immature as to inhale helium while airing up party balloons and then sing (in that high pitched squeaky voice) ''happy birthday'' to sweet little pookie. three seperate times...while being video taped. nope, not me. i am a great role model to my children and would never do such a thing. but if i did, i know that i would stress that only grown up's are allowed to do it!

and there is no way that a stay at home mom like myself would allow my hubby to do all the dirty laundry by himself on a sunday. and i certainly wouldn't take a 3 hour long nap while he did the laundry. and i definitely wouldn't ask him come in from doing the laundry and ask him to change the baby's diaper. nope, not me! that would be so selfish.

finally i know that i would never stay up til almost 1am ecstatically excited that i am finally able to twitter via my cell phone. i would not then go so far as to add a twitter feed to my blog on the right side beneath peanut's bio. nope, not me! that would be so silly to get so excited about something like that...like people care what i'm doing throughout the day! gee sh!

hey mom!

happy mother's day mom! and to all the mommies out there reading this too, ''happy mother's day!"

i for one, had a wonderful day. the hubs and the little dudes let peanut and i sleep in while they were "quietly" getting ready to go out. (well they were as quiet as a 2 year old and a 3 year old can be) they surprised me by bringing home flowers, a caramel macchiato and donuts! it was so sweet and i was spoiled rotten! i also received a beautiful necklace engraved with the boys' names (with a keepsake box), a card and a gift card for starbucks....how sweet is that?! but the icing on the cake was a 3.5hr NAP that i took cuddled up with peanut this afternoon.

it. was. wonderful.

then my own mama got me a card with a note, apparently she and i are having a ''date'' night on friday but i know no details....hmmm! i can't wait to see what she's got up her sleeve.

speaking of, here is nanaw opening her gifts last night:
a few weeks ago our mom's group got together and made gifts for all the grandmas: canvas totes and/or aprons complete with the kids handprints and footprints. nanaw received one of each as well as another gift from moi but i can't blog about that just yet ;)

arrr! it's a pirate party matey!

today we celebrated pooks' 2nd birthday! i can't even believe that my little guy is almost two years old...i think i'm in denial. we had a very nice small party at the house; the weather was perfect and the kids burned off tons of energy running around outside. since originally rain was in the forecast, we decided (kind of at the last minute) to order pizzas instead of grilling hot dogs and hamburgers. let me tell you, mama was pleased ;) it's SO much easier and less stressful to just order pizza and the kids like it even more.

so we had pizza, opened presents and then had cake & ice cream. the theme was obviously pirates, hence people wearing bandannas and earrings.

the birthday boy!

showing his 'pirattitude' with his mommy
the whole scene (food and gift table were in the garage)
playing in their pirate ship mommy made them
(it's amazing how toddlers get SO excited over the littlest things!)
(btw, papa is in there too!)

papa was wearing a hoop earring and pooks thought it was so funny
bubba in his "pirate" shirt
(it's a halloween shirt from old navy but to a 3 years old, skelton=pirate)

peanut had a blast playing in the exersaucer

pooks with his nanaw
pookie waiting patiently for his pizza

baby yeah-yeah eating pizza and cheesing it up!

present time!

the golf set from nanaw and papa

a boat with 20 blocks that also floats in the bathtub from papa bob and gma mary

asking papa barry to open his puzzle

and the cake: a lil' pirate!

(made by nanaw of course)

singing ''Happy Birthday"
(fyi- everyone else was behind me...there were other people there too!)

daddy helping him blow out the candle

bubba FINALLY getting to "eats cakes"
(he had been talking about eating this cake before the cake was even made!)

(after he ditched the pirate outfit to eat cake)
he also played with nanaw

while bubba blew bubbles with auntie michelle

more bubbles. the great end to a great day :)

thanks everyone!