No more "big boy" jammies for you!

This is what we woke up to this morning.  At first glance I thought it was a mouse.  Then realized that Thing 2 was naked as the day he was born. 

Yes that is what you think it is in his bed.  Good thing we paid the $50 for the good mattress protectors!



The Confession - He looks so sad, he makes you feel bad for being mad - then you remember he just POOPED in his bed!

We have normally been putting them in foot jammies on backwards for this exact reason.  Recently we had decided to try the regular "big boy" jammies.  Thing 1 took his off the first night, so we ended up putting him back in the footie jammies.  Thing 2 was being really good about it and leaving them on.  He gave us a false sense of security.  Needless to say he will be back in the footie's jammies tonight.  No more "big boy" jammies for him!





Before picture - this is how we left them when they went to bed.

After picture - this is how Thing 1 looked when we got up in the morning.

Another one bites the dust

The Girlchick lost another tooth.  They are dropping like flies!  They just keep popping out.  I think we are going to go broke soon.  I was really proud of her.  I had tried to pull it two days ago, but it wasn't ready.  She has been obsessed with it coming out so she has been really working on getting it looser.  On Saturday morning while the rest of us were sleeping she got up and pulled her tooth.  I have had to pull all of her other ones, it makes her a little nervous since it can bleed or hurt a little bit.  But she did this one all on her own!  So proud!  She keeps this up and she really will be toothless.  We keep calling her that.  I think we got the name from one of the disney movie "how to train your dragon".

FINALLY - the bed tents have arrived!

The boys have been climbing out of their cribs since November of last year.  We slowed them down a bit with sleep sacks until February then they figured those out then we lowered their matresses all the way to the floor see little climbers and the update. It got to the point where I would sit in their room at night until they fell asleep and if they woke up early or in the middle of the night (which they did a lot!) Nathan would go up there and lay on the floor until they went back to sleep (usually falling alseep himself).  It was not very conducieve of good sleep for any of us.

Well the tents I found FINALLY came in! 

At first they only shipped us one.  We decided to go ahead and use it on the one that was being the most trouble, Thing 2.  We didn't have the bed frame for it yet so we just put it on the floor.  Yeah....... bad idea!  He tore right through the seam!  Needless to say we were very discouraged.  These things were supposed to be reinforced and strong enough to hold bigger children.  The fact that it didn't last one night had us wondering if it would work at all.

Big hole in the bottom seam where he tore through it. You can see part of the mess on the floor from where they were out.

We decided to wait until we got the other one and put them on the bed frames and use them both at the same time.  At first we would still stay with them at night and go up there in the morning since we didn't trust them.  We are slowly easing back on that.  We at least now leave them in the morning since they are pretty mellow until they are actually up.  At bedtime I still worry since they are really wound up and fight going to sleep so they are all over the place and will do almost anything to fight it.  I am really hoping that these hold up and will work where we can just put them to bed like we did before.

They were really excited for their new beds at first - before they realized that they can't get out.  They look so tiny in the big beds though, but so cute.

Everyone poops

But do they make this face when they tell you that they have gone poop?

I just couldn't pass it up.  We were outside playing and Thing 2 just all of a sudden stops and comes over and tells me "poo poo" while making this face.  He's not in the act of going, but has already gone.  I'm really not one for potty humor, but this was just too cute.  I know he'll kill me later when I show his girlfriends.  

Three is the magic number..... or not

There have been studies that have show that having three kids is the most stressful number to have.  I recently found this article that states it very clearly and pretty much says it all for me.  I couldn't agree more.  I think with having twins as well as the second and third child adds a bit more stress as well.  You still have one young child that demands attention and isn't quite old enough to understand that they can't have all of you attention most of the time.  The Girlchick is pretty good about it the majority of the time, but she is still only 6 and it is hard for her to not have all attention focused on her.  Or if she is being silly on the same level as the boys - it's hard for her to break out of it and tell her that she knows better and they are still only 2.  But it's always divide and conquer and one of us will always be in zone defense mode.  Just trying to go to the store with all the kids by myself.  I really try hard not to do that.  I usually go Friday nights after everyone goes to bed (yes I'm old - woohoo exciting Friday night).  I don't have enough hands for everyone.  The Girlchick has to hold a pocket while I hold the boys hands.  Then there is the issue that most grocery carts only have one seat up front, so one boy goes in there and one goes in the basket.  They can't be trusted outside of the basket.  Then The Girlchick gets upset that she can't ride too.  If you get the nice "car" shopping cart then they fight over who sits in the car part and who sits in the front of the basket.  So I really try to avoid it if I can.  Needless to say I can agree with everything they say about the stress level of 3 kids.