Our Extra Ordinary Day!

Thursday's Jeff has night class.  So he is gone ALL day.  Like 15 hours all day.  So I try to never work Thursdays & make those my... do nothing around the house just have a mommy & kids fun day, days.  Today was one of those Thursdays!  After our fun day, this evening as the kids ate supper, I texted GG to say what a big day we had because Livi learned 4 new words & the boys each 1 or 2.  Yay! 

Well, I need to message her again & retract my statement.  We had one hell of an evening & more words just kept flying out of their mouths.  I'd say they all average about a new word a day, give or take.  Livi a little more, boys a little less.  But I have to brag on today because it was simply extra ordinary.  By my count, Hayden spouted out 3 new words today.  Logan two.  And Miss Livi rattled off not 4, not 5, but 9 new words today!!  Meaning she rattled off 5 new words tonight between 6-8:30!! 

Hayden's list:  Wee (slide), ride & teeth (while pointing to my teeth)
Logan's list:  Wee (slide) & spoon
Olivia's list:  run, book, seat ("heat" when putting a baby in the stroller seat), wash (in the tub & also about the laundry when I threw her lovie in there after she dunked it in the dog's water bowl), chin (while pointing to her chin), pee & potty (though it sounded more like puppy it occured while peeing in the potty!!!), on (as in "Melmo on" when the DVD was playing), and Ryan (said ry-ryn during our playdate with our friends Nicole & Ryan this afternoon).

When they were taking their bath tonight we were talking about daddy being at school.  So I asked them if they liked their school (I'm trying to call daycare school.  Like, "Daddy went to his school.  Hayden, Livi & Logan are going to their school & daddy will pick you up later when he is all done with his school."  Which it really kinda is as they are learning good things there... like how to clean up!)  Livi's response to if she likes her school.... "Jack?!"  Yep, Jack.  How does she put that all together in that little brain of hers!!  They are learning so much they just have to be exhausted!

I am having SO much fun with this talking phase!  I love that they blow my mind with things they learn & the rate at which they can pick it up.  It just makes me so proud!  However, sometimes at the end of the day I feel a little insane.  Because I felt like I played a game of repeat or translator all day long.  They want you to repeat back to them what they said so they know that you understood.  Sometimes they get upset if you don't understand.  Would you get what was meant if you heard Livi say "Ya-ya moe wee!" ??  Plus I like to repeat things back saying them correctly. 

They are also all about singing songs & dancing.  Ok, Hayden & Livi are about the singing.  Logan is about the dancing!!  He sometimes dances til he drops a sweaty mess!  They start a song & want me to finish.  Today we sang "appy" (If you're happy & you know it), "ba ba ba ba" (Ba Ba black sheep), "row, row, row" (Row, Row, Row your boat).  Livi sometimes sings the "tra-la-la-la..." part of John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, and tonight she was singing "itsy bl sp di lo do di te ma eao sout" along with doing the Itsy Bitsy Spider fingers!!  We also like to rock out to Jock Jams!  Logan's quick feet while dancing (think football training camp) is hillarious!

But the toddler trio is not all roses & rainbows.  Tantrums, fighting & "NO!" are at an all time high.  I swear there are more tears shed on the average day than there were with 3 newborns.  Time outs are loosing their effectiveness as they just say "NO!" and refuse to sit.  So when we aren't gleaming with pride of their intelligence, we are at our wits end & pulling out our hair!  God was pretty smart when he made kids so stinkin' cute... because sometimes their attitudes can be down right ugly. 

What else did we do on our Extra Ordinary Day?  Gave Livi her first bang trim.  On days that I don't "do" her hair those bangs of hers look so long & scraggly.  Even though between her mullet, curls & cowlick, she doesn't usually have bangs per-say, we needed to do something.  So today during lunch, on a whim, I grabbed the scissors & gave them a few snips.

Before

 Check these eyes out!  Every now & again one eye turns, usually the left.  But very infrequently & it doesn't turn as far as in the past.

 After!  "Cheese!"  I wish they would stay laying down nice like this!

Today we enjoyed giving things rides & going for walks with anything in our strollers/carts.

I have no idea where she got this idea, but she wanted it on!

 The only problem... we fight over certain strollers/carts.  Everyone wants this little one for some reason!  The shopping cart is 2nd fiddle.  And the one Livi has above always is the looser, though I think its pretty cool!

On a more cheerful note:  Playing & snacking outside.

 See Liv's cowlick'd bangs now!  That right side will never stay down her whole life.  Poor girl!

The school behind our house is building an addition.  So there are always tractors outside.  They love to watch them from inside.  They think "papa" is driving every tractor or truck.  And this week the boys learned to say Grandma "mama" so apparently sometimes she is riding along with "papa" in those "tatoe"s (as Livi would say)  However, sometimes they get a little scared of their loud noises when we play outside. 

We sure had a fun little Thursday (& I even managed to do the dishes & a load of laundry!)