2 1/2 hours!!!

2 1/2 hours! That's how long it took me to get Drew to sleep last night!

Because Drew is just like his father and thinks he's the next Evil Keneivel (sp) he not only was climbing in and out of his crib.... he was flinging himself clear across the room from the top of his crib! And being that I really don't need anymore trips to the hospital for cracked skulls, broken bones etc. we decided it would be best to take down the crib.

We were supposed to pick up his bed at Julie's house this past weekend... but being that we had yet another snowstowm we couldn't get it. And now Matt has a really severe case of strep and is doing everything he can to stay out of the hospital ( yea he's that sick again!!) I decided to wait until next weekend to get the bed.

Matt feels that this will be the end all to Drew's lack of sleeping. I knew damn well that this would just give this kid even more opportunity to get into shit. =P

So we did the redneck thing last night.... we threw a mattress on the floor and called it done for now. lol He was so excited to sleep in his "big boy" bed (aka the mattress on the floor) that he went up by himself and said he wanted to go to bed. So I tucked him in and shut the door.... and then waited for the fun that lay ahead. A mere 5 seconds after I tucked him in I see the door knob turning and out he comes. Okay... I see that I will probably need to lay in here with him. So I lay down next to him ( even though I have a million things that still need to be done before I can go to bed) and he proceeds to tell me that I can sleep in his bed and he's going to go sleep in mine. This goes on for another 2 hours. We go back and forth between our room and his. He even goes into the girls' rooms and says he's going to sleep with them. Um no. I have threatened him by telling him Santa's not coming ( he could care less), told him he'll get a spanking( just laughed at that one) and even told him there were snakes on the floor so he can't get off the bed. He promptly tells me he likes snakes. =P By this point I have dealt with this little monster for 15 hours.... the last 2 1/2 trying to get him to go to sleep! I have no patience left and I've come to the conclusion that he's NEVER going to sleep again! When finally he starts to doze off. In his bed, with me laying beside him rubbing his back. =P

I crawl back into my bed after I'm sure that the demon spawn is fast asleep. He actually slept a whole 4 hours before waking up and realizing he couldn't get out of his room... thanks to those nifty little doorknob holders... hehe! I didn't have the energy to start that whole fiasco over again so I gave up and brought him into bed with me.

I don't know what tonight has in store for me.....maybe he'll go to sleep a little quicker or maybe I'll just give up again and he'll sleep with me. For now it works for him just to crawl inbetween us and sleep. But I imagine the beds going to get a little crowded when he's 18. =P

First Snow!

Yesterday we had our first snow of the year.... and I can't wait for it all to melt. lol I was all warm in bed when kids started pouncing on me saying they had a 2 hour delay. Great... now go back to bed! Then 20 minutes later they're running through the house saying NO SCHOOL! Just lovely...there goes my day! ( grumble grumble). They've awoken Drew by this point and he's now standing at the front door saying "WOOHOO it's nowing out". Now he probably doesn't even remember snow but the girls hve got him all riled up anyways. I tell them I'll make them all a nice hot breakfast and they quickly announce to me that they all want to go play in the snow.... NOW! WHAT???? It's 8am! They're running around finding snow pants, boots, etc. They have dumped 2 boxes of crap all over the kitchen looking for stuff. Thank... guess who gets to clean that up later!! =P Drew can't even move by the time I get him all bundled so I realize I'm going to have to go out too.... groan! I am a Cali girl by heart ( even though I've never lived there lol) and I can't stand the cold... let alone the cold with blowing freezing snow! I dust off my boots and throw on a coat, hat and gloves and out I go with all of them. I pull out the sleds and the girls quickly wake up the rest of the neighborhood for them to come out and play too. I haul Drew up and down the street and up and down a few hills until he announces to me it's cold. No shit kiddo but you're the one that begged to come out here. By this time I've lost my gloves to Brooke because her's are now wet... duh the snow is wet! And I can see that I'm going to lose my hat to Drew because his keeps falling off. Hannah's starting to complain that her boots are too small and is hinting that maybe she should wear mine. Hell no.... It's not my fault you grew!

We stay outside for a few more minutes and Drew is done... thank god! I bring him back in and begin the 1/2 hour process of taking off all the layers and thawing out.

The girls continue to play with all the neighbor kids for the next hour or so and then I hear the door open.... and not only do my 2 girls come in.... they've invited half the neighborhood in for hot chocolate. Just lovely! So I lay out even more towels by the front door to lay all their sopping wet stuff on. They all start throwing boots. gloves, hats etc. in a million different directions and run downstairs to go play. I finally get that mess all cleaned up only to turn around and hear Hannah say that everyone would like to stay for lunch. Alright then. I now have 9 or 10 kids running through here ( it doesn't really matter once you get past 5 if you count or not because you're beyond mass chaos by that point!) I tell them that they can all stay for lunch but afterwards they have to go home because I have to get a few things done( ie: drink a bottle of vodka!).

Some people love to hear the words Snow Day.... they think of relaxing by the fire, sipping hot cocoa and reading a good book. I think I would much rather hear the word Tornado.... atleast then I could blame the huge mess on something else. =P