Whose Child is This?!?

The other day I experienced something I hope no other parent experiences...for your children's sake or should I say safety.

Here's the scene: I am in my bathroom peacefully yet rapidly applying my makeup as to hurry so I don't leave Landon "babysitting" Binnie for too long, when I hear Binnie suddenly start squealing from in the family room. Now mind you this is not by any means an unusual event in our home, however, her squealing sounded a little more strained and muffled than usual. So, I frantically go tearing out of my room with one eyebrow painted on to find Binnie sitting on the floor and my angel child Landon, his feet firmly planted on either side of her with his little hands white knuckled, gripping the sides of her head. As I watched him YANK upward on her head repeatedly, yes, repeatedly,(I froze in absolute shock). I screamed, "LANDON! What are you doing?!?!" He looked at me so innocently and matter a factly stated, "I'm just trying to pull her head off mom."

WHAT?!?! What child attempts to PULL, rather YANK his siblings head off? I have no idea where this comes from! The poor kid isn't even allowed to watch Sponge-Bob cause it's mean, and here my child is, trying to YANK his little sister's head off!?! I don't get it, I just don't understand where he comes up with these rotten ideas. Poor Binnie. Her defense mechanism of grunting psychotically while rapidly flailing her extremities when she senses danger is no longer a deterent to him!

This picture just goes to show you Landon gets a kick out of Binnie flipping out over the simplest things...a hug for cryin out loud! (It is pretty entertaining!)

A "MATURE" VACA!!!

Thanks to my wonderful hubby, who works his little toosh off (well, not really but he likes to think so), we were able to spend a week in Cancun on his company! I used to dream of going to Cancun on Spring Break in highschool/college and of course I never had the parental units permission, so my dream of a Cancun Spring Break never came to pass. Until now! Ironically enough, the week we were in Cancun was Spring Break with the whole MTV set up, night life and all! I now understand why my parents forbade Cancun during Spring Break! Luckily enough our hotel didn't allow spring breakers so we were sheltered from the chaos and crazy scene of spring break. Ok, Ok, I'm lying. I was dying to see it all, and "fulfill" my long awaited dream, but with Jay as my traveling companion that was never going to happen. After he had convinced me how incredibly immature I was for entertaining the thought of an "MTV Spring Break" as a mother, I grew up, put on my MATURE face and had an incredibly relaxing, adult, MATURE vacation filled with laying out, walks on the beach(cute eh?)at least he fulfilled that dream, non stop eating, snorkeling, hot tubbing, sea shell collecting, boating and shopping! I couldn't have asked for a better vacation with a better companion!
You rock baby! I love you! And I'll love you even more if you take me again next year :)!!!
Here are a few of the pics from our "MATURE, adult vacation"...

Here we are outside our hotel on the beach...the water in Cancun is by far the most beautiful water I have ever seen!



We took a boat ride to this little island to snorkel and as usual I was terrified. Without fail, every time I get in the water to snorkel I hyperventilate. Literally I can't breathe, if only you could hear the colorful words coming out of my mouth as I emerse myself into the depths of hell, but luckily you can't make out the words with the snorkel shoved in my mouth. I never let go of Jay. He always tries to swim away but my grip is more powerful than his swim. It was incredible snorkeling with sting rays, star fish, baracudas, blow fish, and hundreds of fish to the point you couldn't kick with out touching one of the little freeks! It scared the pee out of me, for real...I'm a firm believer that fish are attracted to urine...so I was constantly checking my back in fear they would start nibbling!



For those of you who have been to Cancun, you know this is one place that really looks like it's post cards! I've always associated Cancun with MTV and Spring Break, but it's so much more than what MTV makes it out to be, the water is unreal! (By the way, I was never allowed to watch MTV growing up so maybe that's why I have such a fascination with it!) Here's the view from our hotel...it was awesome so we rarely left the hotel grounds!



Here's Jay, being the manly man he is, he caught this little shark (or at least he like to think so). He was pretty stoked and I was one proud wife!



This is when I wished Landon had been with us...he would have been in heaven with little SQUIRT! (Thanks Mom, Dad and Em for taking such good care of our munchkins!)



Here are our travel buddies...they were a blast!(The owner of Jay's company whose name is also Jay and his super cute wife Kristine, Jay and I, Kelly (another gal from his company) and her husband Daren all traveled together.) We all had such a good time together!



Thank you honey for being the hard worker and incredible man you are! XOXOXOXO!

Sun and Fun...or shoud I say Trouble!!!

Yea! Today was such perfect weather! Landon had his very first T-ball practice today and he absolutely loved it! He is playing with a few other boys from his Sunbeam class and he is just thrilled! He wore his new "T-ball pants", no they aren't the real thing, I haven't been able to bring myself to buy him tight little white pants, so he wore his new wind pants and yellow "T-ball shirt", nope...not the real thing, much cuter!

Landon, Binnie and I spent the day together outside...pulling weeds, stirring the dirt and bark for our flower patches and eating popsicles! It was so much fun, Landon was in heaven after 3 popsicles, no shoes, and digging in the dirt. It was Binnie's first taste of summer literally...she loves the bark, to eat that is. She's terrified of the grass so she spent her time in the bark. She was so content chewing on bark that she sat there for 3 hours totally content...without sunscreen.

Yes, I am the failure of a mother who totally spaced putting sunscreen on my children...they are absolutely fried! (I really hope my mom isn't reading this, she'd kill me) Binnie has no hair to protect her little head and so her noggin is totally rosey. Landon keeps telling her how burnt she is and how bad it must hurt. I just hope he doesn't look in the mirror! He'd freek if he saw how red he is! I am trying to talk Jay into staying home from church with Binnie, so we'll see how that goes, but I don't think he's going for it.

Anyhow, as we're out in the yard, Landon hears a motorcycle and his little burnt ears begin to perk..."here comes the yellow power ranger mom!" I look up to see a man decked out in a yellow jacket, yellow pants and yellow helmet on a yellow crotch rocket. Landon was speechless! He stood there in awe grinning from ear to ear as he came face to face with his hero...the yellow power ranger! (It was our next door neighbor Kayla's man coming to pick her up for a date, but I with held that info. as not to spoil his excitement) the moment was priceless!

Last laugh...Landon is such a good helper and is so protective of Binnie, so when he turned around to see her with a mouth full of bark, he hustled over to her, picked her up (underneath the arms as we have practiced), and CHUCKED her onto the grass and I mean CHUCKED! She flew through the air and face planted into her hell...the grass!
She wigged out and Landon stood there like the little hero he was. He stood there, proud of his strength and quickness, not even questioning his actions. And, well, I was laughing too hard to even begin to speak let alone explain out how wrong and not ok it is to chuck your little sister. Sometimes it's best to just bury your head and act like you didn't see a thing!

Of course all of this happened on my watch while Jay was on his bike ride. So, I am all to blame, but what an eventful, fun day it was for the kids and I.

These are the days we stick to our motto: WHAT DADDY DOESN'T KNOW...CAN'T GET MOMMY IN TROUBLE!!!

Tag... I'm it!

I was tagged by Chels and Whitney, so here it goes girls!
Here are the rules:
A: Each player lists 6 facts/habits about themselves
B: At the end of the post, the player then tags 6 people and posts their names; then goes to their blogs, leaves them a comment letting them know that they have been tagged and invites them to read your blog.

I'm not sure how crazy I might sound if I list my 6 but for most of you they may not be total shockers!

1. I have a couple issues with fear. However, they only come out at night...before I go to bed each night it takes me at least 10 minutes or so to lock up. I go to each door,(after I have poked my head out to make sure the neighborhood looks alright...free of anything unusual) unlock them (because they're always locked)and relock them, sometimes up to 2 or 3 times just to make sure they're locked. I check behind shower curtains, doors and in the kids closets as well as my own. I check to make sure the main windows are locked and my children are still breathing. If I have any question I smother them with kisses until they stir or wake up. I hate anything scary that causes me to fear more. (Maybe it's a little OCD cause I have some other weird, hidden quirks similar to this.)

2. I absolutely love coke slurpees!!! We usually have a slurpee run 3-5 times a week. Landon and I have been known to drive around the valley hopping from 7-11 to
7-11 to find the flavors we crave(coke for me and either banana or pina coloda for Landon)and slurpees that are just the right consistency. ICEE's just don't do it for us, it has to be a slurpee. I could live on coke slurpees and 7-11 nachos. (Yes, the ghetto ones, I LOVE THEM!!!) For those of you wondering if it wears on your teeth to have that much sugar that often, no, it doesn't. I have never had a cavity!

3. I read this on a friends blog so I'm not the only one who likes this, so don't think I'm disgusting. I love cleaning out ear wax, suctioning snot, cleaning the nasty gunk out of Binnie's belly button and picking their noses. Nasty? Yeah probably, but I absolutely love immediate results and every single one of those will give you an immediate result! I am helping them hear better, breathe better and smell better. Don't worry, Jay does all of his own bodily cleaning, I just pick at the kids.

4. I know a lot of people are in to odd numbers, even numbers etc. Well, I am a 5 minute interval kind of girl. I will stop something I'm doing, such as blogging on a five minute interval. For example, if I need to get off the computer to go to bed and it's 11:34 I will wait until it's 11:35 to log off. If I get caught up in something and I miss 11:35 so it's 11:37, I will wait until 11:40 to log off. Jay hates it, cause the 5 minute interval quirk gets in the way of daily life sometimes, appts., mtgs., etc.

5. I have never had any kind of facial routine. I don't use expensive cleansers, moisturizers, exfoliants, creams or whatever else their is to use. I use the $2.99 clean and clear cleanser from Target and whatever lotion is closest for my facial routine at night. I have heard so many friend who use so many different facial products at night and I've never been one to do so. I'd rather spend my money on makeup I guess.

6. Unless we're really, really close and we have gone on overnighters together or Jay has pulled it out in attempt to embarass me, you probably haven't met my blankie. It is my free therapy. I absolutely adore and love my blankie! A couple minutes of sniffing my blankie and I can get through the roughest day. If I have ever felt lonely or upset growing up, I would just lay down and smell my blankie and life just seemed so much better! It is the most comfortable, calming, incredibly smelling blankie in the world! I want to sniff it just thinking about it. I've had it since I was 18 months old, so you can imagine what it looks like and I don't wash it very often for fear it will fall apart. I know it sounds like I've lost it, but I couldn't sleep without it. It really is so relaxing and comforting to have it next to me at night.


As you can see I have passed my love for blankies down to my little munchkins! They cuddle with, smell and can't sleep without their blankies too! Jay thinks we've all lost it, he's just jealous he doesn't have a blankie and our blankies get more lovin than he does!

Well, now that I have made myself out to be a freek, now it's your turn. I tag...anyone else who's reading this and hasn't yet done it themselves!!!