Logan's Day of Trial

The trial was not his, but mine alone. From the moment Logan woke up, he was into discovering the world and used every tool to do it! While I was upstairs getting ready for preschool without me knowing, Logan grabbed a new bottle of Alveno lotion and ventured outside. When I came down stairs I discovered he had taken the top off and was chasing the dogs around the back yard squirting it at them. There was lotion (about half of the bottle) all over the dogs and the grass as well.

During breakfast he decorated the dogs again but this time with granola and milk. Logan has discovered how to get into the refrigerator and take out his milk for his daily craving of a bottle filled HIGH, HIGH, HIGH, to the top or he won't take it. Five minutes before preschool he felt like he was going to pour his own bottle, thank goodness it was outside on the patio. He poured the bottle high, high, high and then some. When I looked outside he had poured the whole gallon into the small 9oz bottle. Right there is more in a gallon than 9oz! There was milk every where. Chloe, bless her heart, was trying her best to get it cleaned up before I found the mess. She was licking it up as fast as she could lap it up. Ahhhhh!!!! The second I yelled "Chloe stop!" and "Logan, what are you doing?" Logan looked up with an Innocent smile and replied "Boddo (bottle) high, high, high" and then Chloe puked all over the place. I count my blessings even in moments like these, it was outside! I quickly put the dogs in their house, Logan inside and pulled out the hose to spray off the patio. Just as I turned off the water I heard the door bell ring as my first student arrived. Saved by the bell for Logan (I did not have enough time to scold him).

Preschool went well enough no major disasters for those two hours, but the day was not over yet. Lunch always is a plea to eat your food, sit down, stop playing. Today, I did not have the energy. After eating my lunch, I got up and started to do my chores that had been seriously neglected. Busy in my own mind, I some how lost track of what Logan was doing. He had slipped out the back door with his bowl of apple sauce and climbed under the trampoline, the dogs joined him. When I realized that the table was vacant and the dogs had vanished, I began to search for my little instigator (as I know him to be). I soon spotted him sitting under the trampoline sharing his apple sauce with the dogs. "Dogs, get in side!" As they came running in I found he had not only fed them apple sauce but decorated their backs as well and were diligently trying to lick it off of each other. This one made me laugh. The dogs were already greasy from the lotion episode and crunchy from the granola and milk earlier in the day, what is a little apple sauce to added to it?

Every mother enjoys nap time, especially after a day like this has proved to be thus far. My exhausted body too needed a rest, and despite the constant interruptions of Peyton, when she did not want to watch a particular cartoon, or when she was hungry, or thirsty, or it was a commercial she felt I should know about, I slept very well.

I felt the day was going much better up until around 5 or 6. What I have recently come to call "The Witching Hour". Logan got ice from the refrigerator and dumped it all over the ground, I am not very flexible but I soon found what doing the splits felt like as I was sprawled on the kitchen floor.

Dinner... I did not have the energy nor the supplies to create a lavish dinner and Larry called and said he was going to be home late, so I rewarded myself for a day in crazy town and ordered pizza. While the kids were eating dinner I put a movie on for them and ventured to check my email. Larry's cousin is putting together a recipe book for their grandmother who is not doing so well, and I was to help input recipes. I called her for a bit of direction when I heard screaming from the other room. I told her I would call her back and I ran out to see what had happened. Logan had struck again!

Peyton came in to the computer room and said they were done eating and I asked her to put the left over pizza on the counter so the dogs would not get it, since the table has become one of their recent discoveries. In the short time I was in on the computer and the phone, Logan had taken liberties to fill a cup numerous times with water and was chasing the dogs yet again. He had to give them a bath after all they had been through today, right? He had not only bathed the dogs, but washed my tile as well. Oh, the screaming I had heard, yes, that was Logan. He was chasing them as he was bathing them and slipped on one of the puddles of water he had intended to wash the floor with. He was laying flat on his back drenched in water screaming at the top of his lungs because he had hit his head. Not only that, but Peyton had miss understood me and had put the box of pizza from the counter onto the table, not the leftover pizza from the table onto the counter. Coco was on the table eating not off the plates but straight from the box, that would have made a wonderful lunch the following day.

At this point I felt my temperature and voice rise to a point they do not typically attempt to go as I yelled at the dogs to go into their house. After calming Logan down and and the mess was cleaned, Larry walked in the door. "They are all yours!" I said, as I disappeared into the computer room for the remainder of the night. Thank goodness for a savior at the end of a day like today!

I love my children!

Some day's are more frustrating that words can describe, but there are moments like these that I live for. My two children are the most amazing details of my life (my husband too) they give me something to live for. I strive to be a better person and mom because of them. I am truly thankful I have been blessed with their sweet spirits in my life.

Every year our street has a Halloween block party, over the past two years it has grown. Not all of these children live on our street, but they live near by.


Peyton started off wanting to be Hannah Montana but when I took her to get her costume she changed her mind the second she saw those wings! She came up with combining the idea of a rock star (Hannah) and a fairy. Thus making her a rock star fairy! I made the skirt, and found some fake eye lashes that were purple and sparkly. We braided her hair and spray painted it pink and added a fake pink and purple hair clip. She Rocked!!!

Logan, too was going to be something completely different he was going to be a Army Man, but after seeing a Lightning McQueen costume at the Disney Store, he was determined to be a race car driver! And the best part the $70 costume was on sale $10, major score for me. He was so cute! At the last minute he decided to add his tricycle to the costume (making it his car). A button on the costume when pushed made lights flash and a race car zooming noise. He pushed the button and rode that bike with speed. He was more interested in the race than the candy. It was so much fun watching him.