This Week's Heart Attacks

If you've read this before...I added some...the week is not over...

1. I thought Ethan ran away again. We were on our way out the door and no Ethan. Dallen was even in the backyard with him and he vanished! I sent the boys around the block. I walked through the backyard and heard rocks moving...down low...Ethan was in the window well (which has a cover on it)!!! The little stinker moved the window well enough to fit through and JUMPED down the window well! Keep in mind this is not a shallow window well!!! He just thought it was cool I made him climb back up the ladder! John will be bolting the window well cover on!

2. The boys are playing upstairs. I am walking upstairs to change the laundry. The laundry room faces the top of the stairs. To my surprise as I am walking up the stairs the washing machine lid pops open and there is Ethan's smiling face!! "Mom, I'm just sitting in here." he says.

3. John and I are getting ready to run some errands. We told Ethan to find his shoes. He walks upstairs to get them. We here this enormous CRASH. John runs upstairs to find Ethan has pulled his dresser drawers out and climed up his dresser causing the whole thing to fall over! He says, "I was trying to get my socks..." Thank goodness he wasn't hurt! The dresser is now BOLTED to the wall!

4. I am waiting in line at the Sonic drive-thru (diet coke and mozarella sticks were calling out to me). Ethan took off his shoes, used his toes to roll down the window, and proceeded to throw his shoes out the window. Why? Because he saw a fly and wanted to squish it....

What a sweet innocent face...HA! Fooled you! This week has been a little nuts with these crazy boys! We've had 2 bloody noses, a fat lip, and bleeding front teeth all before Wednesday. Well, tonight was the topper. I think pre-term labor is in my future!

Just before 7:00 p.m. it begins to rain pretty steadily. I am cooking dinner and run upstairs briefly. Dallen comes upstairs to inform me that the front door is wide open and Ethan is not outside. I run downstairs and begin looking for Ethan. Jaxon, Dallen, and I search the entire house, garage and car...no Ethan. I go outside and walk around the house checking the window wells on the side...no Ethan. By now Jaxon is in hysterics because he thinks Ethan is in the storm water drain across the street! Dallen just grabs his shoes and says, "I'm goin' out to look for 'Efan'. He and I put on our coats and I told him to go one way around the block while I went the other. I'm not a big runner these days so I got half way down the block and decided to go back and get the car! I found Ethan fighting Dallen off on the other side of the block. He was SOAKING wet, had Jaxon's shoes on (the wrong feet), and just looked at me like, "What did I do?". I tossed them in the car and drove home. I swear I was going to go into labor...I never thought about the stupid water drain until Jaxon brought it up.

I guess now that it's over it's pretty funny. Just picture Me and Dallen out hunting for our almost 3-year-old while Jaxon stands on the porch wailing for all to hear! My neighbors must think I am a world class mother! HA! All is well now. The kids are in bed, the sliding glass door is pinned and the front door "hotel lock" is thrown. No, I am not intentionally trying to keep someone out...I'm trying to keep curious little boys IN!!!

First Day of School

Jaxon started school over a week ago but Dallen just started today. Jaxon was way too cool to take a 'first day of school' photo now that he is in 2nd grade! All we got was an awesome picture in the car with the morning sun glaring at us! I'm not sure I like him growing up so quickly!

Dallen was so excited to start school today. He is in a Pre-K class because does not meet the cut off for Kindergarten at his school. He has 2 rats in his classroom. Yes, RATS. Gross! He, of course, thinks they are the coolest thing.

Notice Dallen's smile...no his mouth is not wide open. His teeth are actually clenched. Yes, there is a huge gap there. He can actually stick his finger up there and when he eats a sandwich everything in the middle of the sandwich comes out. Needless to say he is still sucking his thumb. He will be sad to learn that at the first of the year he will be getting a grate cemented to his teeth to cover the roof of his mouth. This will prevent him from sucking...poor guy...we have ultrasound pictures of him sucking his thumb. He's been doing it his entire existence and it is a great source of comfort. I am half tempted to just let it go and fix the problem later but we've been told that it will be harder to fix if we don't stop it before his permanent teeth come in. I am really sad to take it away from him. It's part of Dallen's personality, his comfort. I really hate that they have to grow up.

Labor Day

Labor Day started off bright an early. We took the boys to the Balloon Classic at Memorial Park to watch the hot air balloons take off. They loved it! They were able to go right up to the balloons as they were inflating and touch them. They were all set to jump in and take a ride!

Later in the day, we went to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo with my parents, my brother and his family. The boys' favorite thing was feeding the birds. Dallen spent the whole time trying to get a bird to land on his stick while John and my brother, Jon, had no problem attracting birds!


The birds love Jon's head! Just hope they don't have to go to the bathroom!!


Ethan would have nothing to do with the birds. He reluctantly watched from a distance.




BEWARE OF MOUNTAIN LIONS!
The Zoo has a new Rocky Mountain exhibit including grizzly bears (who put on quite a show)and mountain lions. The mountain lions have given me nightmares the last two nights! Now, most of you know when you are pregnant your mind really runs away with you and pregnant dreams are the WORST!! Well, the mountain lions have not helped my situation AT ALL!! I have always heard that when you go hiking in the mountains make sure your kids are between you, not ahead and definately not lagging behind. I never realized the seriousness of this advice until we went saw the mountain lions at the zoo. The mountain lion exhibit allows you to be very close. They are behind a metal fence and then about two feet in front of the fence is a railing. My nephew just turned 1 in August and Ethan is almost 3. As soon as the mountain lions saw my nephew they could have cared less about all the adults around. The lions zeroed in on him. They paced and followed my nephew everywhere he went. They lunged and swiped at the fence when he would stop...LUNCH!! Those lions wanted him bad! Then they saw Ethan and they did the same thing. Of course watching this gave me all sorts of bad images and so I vowed to never go hiking with my kids until they are bigger than me! HA! I just never realized how much mountain lions focused in on smaller prey...they really, really wanted to get them...freaky!