Who's the Boss?

I thought I could teach my boys at a young age "Who's the Boss".

Until recently I used to ask Bryant "Who's the Boss?"

His response was always "Mommy's the Boss".

However,  when Bryant turned 2 1/2 his response turned into "Bryant's the Boss".

Tonight, for the 1st time I asked Myles "Who's the Boss?"

His response "I'm the boss".

Myles is 15 months old & he has already decided that he is the boss. 

And Myles really is a bossy one. He is learning too quickly. 

Tonight I also asked him if it's bedtime.

His response "No".

It's now 1013PM & he's still going strong.

Here are my 2 little boys who rule the house. 

"I Don't know How she Does It" - Story of My Life

Tonight Dave & I got to go out to see the Movie "I Don't know How She Does it".

I love Sarah Jessica Parker & I knew this was a movie for me.

This movie was probably more so funny b/c I relate in so many ways.

In the movie Sarah was a mom of 2 who never slept b/c she was constantly juggling home & work. She was always moving & thinking 20 steps ahead with "lists" & "schedules" of things that always had to be done for work & home. The chaos she called schedules was a reminder of my own daily life. 

Daily I wonder how our family ever gets through another work week.

I know I am lucky to be able to juggle both work & home at home.

However, A year ago a good working day schedule was as follows:

6:30AM-9:00AM ~ Work 

9:00AM-1:00PM ~ Boys wake up, eat, play, clean, make dinner & boys to babysitters. 

1:00PM-6:00PM ~Work some more

6:00PM - 11:00PM ~ Dinner, workout, family time, errands, clean, boys to bed & bedtime.

Many, many, many times a good working day would be thrown out the window.

One of the biggest threats to our day was always when the boys would deviate from the schedule & wake up before 9AM.  As soon as the schedule was thrown out the window I knew it would be a long day. 

~ On these days I hoped that the Kids tv would buy me an extra 20+ minutes of work.

~ On these day I hoped that Myles would not shutdown the computer power cord. 

~ On these days I hoped that my house would not be destroyed while I gave the boys anything they wanted so that they would stay quiet during an important phone call. 

~ On these days I hoped that work would be quiet & receive no calls during a toy fight.

~ On these days lunch usually was a drive-through run for a Large Pepsi & minutes of peace in the car before the babysitter's & starting my second round of work.

~ On these days cleaning, working out & dinners were always negotiable.  

At the end of these days we hoped for tomorrow to be a good day or the weekend.

This year we are so lucky to have Dave's brother temporarily move in to help be our "nanny". Our family LOVES having his help & the peace he has brought to our home. 

Here's a picture of Uncle Stephen with Baby Bryant.

(pre-mission & pre-hair cut days).

I will post a newer pictures of Uncle Stephen & the boys soon.

Did you know that Caillou is on at 130AM?

Bedtime at our house has always been the later the better. We train our boys to stay up late so they sleep in & I get to work in the early mornings. It worked for Bryant & now Myles has finally learned that we stay up late & sleep in. Unfortunately, the only way to train them to sleep in is by keeping them up until 12am, 1am or later.  Lately, Myles has decided that it's party time until 130am, 2am or later. 

It's 1:30AM on Friday Night & we are watching Caillou. A Canadian Classic. 

It's the episode when Caillou gets a Rock Collection. 

Once Myles gives up naps he will start to go to bed with his brother around 9PM but until then we get to enjoy watching our favourite kiddie shows all day & night. Below is a picture of our other late Friday night activity before bedtime. This was taken at 10PM. We love playing basketball & cars before bedtime. 

Good Night World! Hopefully soon....

Who goes to Chuck E Cheese @ 9PM? We do!

This past Tuesday Night @ 9PM we ventured out to Chuck E Cheese. 

Why would we do something so crazy?

To full-fill a toilet training promise to our little 2 year old. Tuesday I had promised Bryant that if he did #2 in the toilet we would go to Chuck E Cheese. All afternoon, early evening we promised & hoped he would go soon. The hours kept ticking by & still no progress but Bryant knew what he had to do.

9PM. It happened & luckily Chuck E Cheese was open until 10pm.So, we packed up the car & drove to Chuck E Cheese for pizza, pop & games.We happily informed the employees we were celebrating our little man going Poop in the toilet.

The joys of toilet training!!!!

Our Expert Potty Trainee

Pink Toes & Toilet Training

We are finally trying to toilet train Bryant. With our limited schedule we are hoping to make it quick & painless. This morning Dave has been singing, dancing, bribing & throwing cheerios down the toilet in hopes that Bryant will just sit on the toilet. It is working. However, when it became my turn to get Bryant to sit on the toilet I knew the perfect trick that would make him sit still. "Pink toes". Yes, Bryant loves to have pink toes. Only our little B would sit while getting a pink toe manicure.

                                                          

And of Course Myles Joined the Fun

Life with 2 boys can still involve pink pedicures.
As long as Dave is not looking.

Joined the World Of Blogging

For the longest time I have wanted to blog but have had no time.

Last night thanks to our wonderful family we got to go to Columbus for the day.

Dave & I spent the day at the temple, the Cheesecake Factory & then blogging.

We forgot our camera so I decided to add a picture from 4 summers ago.

The 1st time we went to the Columbus Ohio temple.

Hopefully lots of more blogging & pictures to come.....