Ace announces: I’m going to Ninevah!

Zoe informs me of this announcement and Ace comes walking up.

Ace: I’m going to Ninevah because God told me to.

Me: Oh yeah?! Why are you going to Ninevah?

Ace (in a matter of fact tone): To play soccer.

The following was overheard at lunch today.

Ace: I like playing outside but it’s too hot to go outside right now.

Zoe: I don’t like going outside because of the bugs.

Ace: There are not any bugs. They’re all with Jesus.

Zoe: No they’re not.

Ace: Where are they?

Zoe: I don’t know.

Ace: Well, the bug in my bathroom is with Jesus.

I admit with the heat, we are having an over run of bugs. Yuck! But the one in Ace’s bathroom is no longer among the running! We have not discussed death in that great detail with the kids…not sure where they got the death-Jesus association but to apply it to bugs is pretty ingenious in my opinion.

Liam got up from his nap a little while ago and assumed the position for using the bathroom in his diaper. I asked him if he was doing what I thought he was doing and he said yes and then took off for the bathroom.

“Potty!” he told me. Of course, he had already gone so I cleaned him up and let him sit on the potty for a little bit. I showed him how to try hard and he thought that was really funny. He was very proud of himself for flushing his business down the toilet. All in all…for a mom of four…it was very cute.

Zoe has all the words to Seussical the Musical memorized! HELP!!!! I need a new, clean, musical that she can listen to. And I’m not kidding….ALL the words to all 20 plus songs!

I’m not sure 100% what this means, but for me it means I need to drop back and reset how we do things. Having a new little one means adjustments…and those adjustments mainly apply to Liam.

Today while attempting to get Josiah down for a nap, Liam decided to climb in the kitchen sink (Zoe and Ace had just finished washing dishes and left Liam and the chairs by the sink). He then proceeded to turn the water on while pointing the faucet to the countertop which then proceeded to flood the kitchen!

Before this, as I was attempting to get ready for the day, Liam decided he should climb in our co-sleeper and into Josiah’s Snugglenest sleeper while Josiah was in it. So, what should have been about 5 minutes of getting ready resulted in 20 minutes as I would do one thing and then go get Liam and then another and go get Liam.

After cleaning up the kitchen, I once again attempted to get Josiah down for a nap. At which point, Liam decided he should get in the utility room and open the laundry detergent. I’m still not sure if he ingested any but I do know that it was all over his arm and he kept making gagging noises after I cleaned him up. I gave him some milk and it seemed to help. I also called Mark and he thought the milk should do the trick. We left it at I would just watch to see if he truly had any poisioning from it. Not to worry, no residual effects from it!

So, after the above incident, I’ve changed my strategy with the above “wild child.” I’m going to start keeping him in the same room with me at all times. Trying, yes, but a great need since he can’t be trusted to not clobber himself while I step out to tend to Josiah. I tried this shortly afterwards, as I was nursing Josiah and it seemed to work well. Hopefully, I can get him to obey long enough to sit with me while I nurse Josiah each time. That’s the main time consuming out of pocket time. At other times, I believe I’ll just have to “wear” Josiah until his little body gets ready to regulate into nap times and Liam can be left to play in the playroom, etc.

“Somebody poured water on my pants.” A sweet little guest who had an “accident” during Ace’s party…I still get cracked up at that.
“Oh wow! I’m just saying Wow!” Ace opening up gifts on his actual birthday last Thursday.
“Ohhhh, I can hardly stand it.” Zoe as Ace is opening the card she made him. She drew a picture of him in his prince costume.

I decided since I’m up to having to put sheets on four beds, it was time for Zoe to learn how to make her bed. My every intention was to hoard over her while she tried to make the bed. However, her attitude as I tried to instruct her how to put a pillowcase one (while Josiah fussed and I fussed over making the boys’ bed), required her to have time to herself in her room. As I finished with the boys bed and nursed Josiah, I looked in Zoe’s room…she had it almost all made. Definitely can’t micromanage my little independent. She did a good job too. The sheets are a little crumpled but they’re on the bed and they’ll be plenty of time for instruction in my obsessive compulsive bed making.

I think I’ve caught up with all my posts now.

Now to catch up on everything else. I have card orders and then school is coming up in two weeks. I’ve got that pretty well ready (did that back in May) but I need Mark to do some reconfiguring in the playroom so that we can put up posters and have toys put up and out of the way when school starts.

Zoe’s ready to go now but I told her mama wasn’t and that we need to wait a few weeks. I also want our school to stay close with the county calendar so that she’ll be out when her friends are . After school starts, we have a week until ballet starts!

Ace & Zoe are “promoting” in church stuff as well. Ace will be in 3 year old cubbies and Zoe will be in 4 year old cubbies. Zoe will also be moving “upstairs” for all her other activities and this will be Ace’s first year in choir. My babies are growing up!!!