Laura has cashed in on a trip to Chicago this weekend which leaves the boys at home to rule the household. I'm already making progress by having both boys in bed by 7:30 tonight vs. 8:30 last night. More time to continue to crank through my Fringe marathon viewing.
It has allowed me to hear some things I normally don't hear. I was trying to peer into Miles eye to make sure his contact was still in and he looks at me and says "It's in there" as he points to his good eye. Totally reading what I am trying to do without me saying anything. :) Hopefully he will be at the point soon to tell us when it is not in his eye. I also had the idea to start bribing him since getting the contact in and out has been a little difficult. Judge us if you want, but if M&M's at 7 AM make the process easier, we are doing it.
Sometimes I swear they just like to punish us. Miles has not been up before 6 in weeks. This morning 5:40 he's up and ready to go and then the nap is only an hour and a half. I'm hoping that means he will crash tonight. Laura started something where he wants his neck and back scratched before he will go to sleep. He would like you do to this for an hour. He gets about 90 seconds with me. He has a train book where one of the trains makes a grumpy face. He stopped me there and told me to make a grumpy face which he preceded to, pretty comical.
I made the big mistake of promising mini putt and driving there without checking to make sure it was open first. That got me the big lip of Chase as he tried to fight back the tears. That and him asking to go Bowling and me being so cheap that I'm waiting for $1 games on Sunday instead of $2 dollar games on Friday.
Rule Changes for Dad vs. Mom
- Electronic time probably doubles (although I did get out the race track Laura hates to distract Miles from the Ipad)
- Meals are an adventure - mostly yogurt and applesauce or Mcdonald's
- Trips somewhere are mandatory - sitting in the house the whole time drives us all crazy. This can be as simple as walking around Target although this leads to stupid purchases like a Halloween gingerbread house
- Projects happen while Miles naps with Laura, absolutely nothing happens from my perspective
- 3 hours on Saturday and Sunday are devoted to football, which basically means they need to entertain themselves and hopefully Miles naps during 2 of them
Two days to go
Friday, October 11, 2013
We are raising football players
I came home from work the other day to Chase and Miles just running at each other and tackling one another over and over again. This went on for 30 minutes after I got home. It is only a matter of time before we have to get them stitches because there are too many things to run into. Chase basically grabs Miles by the head and pulls him down and then Miles jumps right back on top of him. If Miles can't get his brother to play with him, he uses one of his parents. This involves getting into a three point stance before you can start, saying "hut", and then he runs and tackles you. He would do this for hours if you let him.
Miles is also on a hunger strike. He refuses to eat anything but crackers, yogurt, and cheerios. I haven't seen him eat supper for weeks. He gets in his chair and then tells you he wants to get out. If you don't do it immediately he then screams at you to "get out". This kid has anger problems, when his trains fall of the track he lets out a high pitched scream and starts chucking things across the room. This may get fun later in life. He takes after his dad after Iowa State gets ripped off in sports.
Miles also is refusing to wear anything unless it is a Minnesota Twins shirt. This makes me very proud, I wore the same sweatshirt to school about every third day. I also never wore jeans until I was 22 years old, I don't think the boys will get away with that.
Chase is back in school, three times a week now from 9 until 2. We get these glowing reports from school about how nice and kind and polite he is. My only question is, where is this kid at home? Just kidding, 90% of the time he is pretty good, but he must avoid that 10% at school. We always get these pictures of him with his eyes squeezed shut and this cheesy grin on his face.
Miles is also on a hunger strike. He refuses to eat anything but crackers, yogurt, and cheerios. I haven't seen him eat supper for weeks. He gets in his chair and then tells you he wants to get out. If you don't do it immediately he then screams at you to "get out". This kid has anger problems, when his trains fall of the track he lets out a high pitched scream and starts chucking things across the room. This may get fun later in life. He takes after his dad after Iowa State gets ripped off in sports.
Miles also is refusing to wear anything unless it is a Minnesota Twins shirt. This makes me very proud, I wore the same sweatshirt to school about every third day. I also never wore jeans until I was 22 years old, I don't think the boys will get away with that.
Chase is back in school, three times a week now from 9 until 2. We get these glowing reports from school about how nice and kind and polite he is. My only question is, where is this kid at home? Just kidding, 90% of the time he is pretty good, but he must avoid that 10% at school. We always get these pictures of him with his eyes squeezed shut and this cheesy grin on his face.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Miles 2nd Birthday
Miles tuned 2 a few weeks back and we found that Miles was a little less excited than his brother, or maybe it was because Chase just took over the birthday. We continued our theme of Cars cakes although Miles was a Guido fan instead of Doc Hudson. Laura continued her mastery of cakes, if you want to hire her she will do it for $100 bucks, just let me know and then I will run the idea by her.
Since we couldn't think of anything that Miles actually needed for his birthday, we tried to run to Target to find toys and came away with nothing. Laura didn't trust me to go by myself for some reason since she thought I couldn't pick out toys for a 2 year old. Since we couldn't find anything I just decided to take Miles to Toys R us with me and have him pick out his own presents. I figured that was the last year I could get away with that since he would forget from the time he picked it out to when I actually wrapped it.
Miles did not quite understand the whole unwrapping present concept either. Or that he was supposed to eat his birthday cake, which he never actually touched. His brother helped take care of everything though, so we got through the birthday party pretty well. The highlight presents were the race car tracks, a new bat and ball, and honestly I've already forgotten everything else. Miles probably would have really just liked his own Ipad, but he needs to get his own modeling job if he wants that.
His favorite part of the day was playing with his balloons in just his diaper. I never would have gotten the balloons so he has his mom to thank for that. Overall a good second birthday, and probably the last one for a few years that he won't know what is going on.
Since we couldn't think of anything that Miles actually needed for his birthday, we tried to run to Target to find toys and came away with nothing. Laura didn't trust me to go by myself for some reason since she thought I couldn't pick out toys for a 2 year old. Since we couldn't find anything I just decided to take Miles to Toys R us with me and have him pick out his own presents. I figured that was the last year I could get away with that since he would forget from the time he picked it out to when I actually wrapped it.
Miles did not quite understand the whole unwrapping present concept either. Or that he was supposed to eat his birthday cake, which he never actually touched. His brother helped take care of everything though, so we got through the birthday party pretty well. The highlight presents were the race car tracks, a new bat and ball, and honestly I've already forgotten everything else. Miles probably would have really just liked his own Ipad, but he needs to get his own modeling job if he wants that.
His favorite part of the day was playing with his balloons in just his diaper. I never would have gotten the balloons so he has his mom to thank for that. Overall a good second birthday, and probably the last one for a few years that he won't know what is going on.
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