Panic.

As we all know, Gavin will be four next month. At this point in his life, I don't feel like I need to be watching over him 24 hours a day. If he wants to eat candy (Reece's pieces to be exact) and watch a movie in his room, he is old enough to do so without me being right there next to him the entire time. This is how it all started yesterday. All of a sudden I hear a shrieking Gavin running down the hallway. I quickly rush to the next room to find Gavin, still frantically crying, with his whole pointer finger up his nose. While Kris stands there asking Gavin "what is wrong" and "why he is freaking out." (This is how a man handles the situation.) I am looking at the obvious signs and realize he has a Reece's pieces stuck up his nose. The chocolate is melting in his nose, and at this point, his nose is bleeding. Probably from Gavin sticking his finger up there trying to get it out, but only pushing it up further. He is freaking out. I am freaking out. I am just trying to stay away while Kris uses the tweezers to pull out the chocolate pieces, because in situations like this... I am completely worthless. When my children are in frantic pain, I do not handle it very well. I tend to just panic, which freaks the child out more. Kris gets the last chocolate piece out and we wipe Gavin's face clean. Now we want to know how the chocolate got up his nose, so we ask him.

"Gavin, how did that get up your nose? Did you stick it up there?"

"No. I didn't do it."

"Well then how did it happen?"

"Somebody must have twone it at me, and it went up my nose."

That is the answer we got.

Never a dull moment in this house, I swear.

Stayed in the house today

It's rare that I wake up before both kids, and get to have some peace and quiet before the munchkins are downstairs reeking havoc together. But this morning, I got lucky (or so I thought). I come downstairs and start flipping through the channels, trying to find something good to watch while I make breakfast. Three of my favorite movies happen to be on. Dirty Dancing, Serendipity, and The Family Man. I've seen all of them about a hundred times but I decide on Serendipity, then go into the kitchen to start breakfast. Right as I get the last piece of bacon on the griddle, I hear Gavin's voice. He comes running downstairs, insisting I put Spongebob on. About five seconds later, the baby monitor is blaring with Kenna's high pitched coos. There goes my peace and quiet. Let the chaos begin.

The weather yesterday was awesome. Sunny and warm. Today was the exact opposite. Cold and rainy. I did not want to take the kids out in the freezing cold, wet weather. So it was a perfect day to stay in and get some spring cleaning done, and that's what we did. It was a lazy day for the kids, and they got to spend the whole day in their pj's. Gavin likes helping me vacuum. He takes the hose to the vacuum cleaner and sucks up all the dust and dirt he can find. It keeps him busy for a while and is one less thing for me to clean. So he enjoyed that.

Kenna is crawling all over the place. She has recently discovered the dogs water bowls. Every time I sit her on the floor, she takes off straight to the water bowl, throws her hands in the bowl, then rubs them all over the hardwood floor. It is such a mess. Anytime she is being mysteriously quiet, I know exactly where she is. Oh! She took her first steps!! My Mom had the kids the other night. When we went to pick them up, I walked in and saw Kenna holding onto the coffee table with one hand. I shouted her name and threw my hands in the air and she looked over and saw me, threw her hands into the air and took two steps toward me. I swooped her up and started yelling... "She took two steps to me!!!" Haha I was so excited! Since then, she's been cruising all over the place. I'm just waiting for the day when she lets go of the couch and takes off on her own. Hopefully I'll have the camera near by!

Poop.

The kids where in the bathtub the other night. Gavin says.... "Mommy, I have to poop!" I quickly get him out of the tub, dried off, and on the toilet. He is trying to be a big boy and use the potty, and I look over at Kenna and her face is beat red. I stand up and look down into the tub to find that she is also pooping. I quickly get her out of the tub, dried off, and changed, while Kris drains the water and cleans the tub. Oh what a fun time that was. Gavin never ended up going on the potty that night. After him sitting on the potty for a good 45 minutes, we just put a pull up on him. Needless to say... 20 minutes later, he's pooped. Of course.

Fun with Thomas

Thomas the tank engine was in Grapevine yesterday. It comes here once a year and I have been wanting to take Gavin for a while now so we went yesterday. Kris had to work, so Claire left work early and went with us. It was so nice outside, except for it being the "windiest day of the year, so far," according to the news. Gav got his picture taken with Thomas and Sir Topham hat, and we went on the train ride. Then they had a lot of fun activities for the kids so we were there for almost four hours. He picked out some stuff from the gift shop... a conductor's hat, a Thomas watch, and a Thomas whistle. It was great, and I'm sure when Kenna is old enough to know who Thomas is, we will be going again. There is a new frozen yogurt place out there that opened two weeks ago so we stopped and had some before leaving. The red velvet was the best! Then they have all these toppings to throw on, it was good and Kenna loved the yogurt.

When we got home from Grapevine we relaxed for a while until Kris came home from work. He said as he was passing the Tom Thumb, he saw that police had the whole store, and surrounding stores blocked off. That was around 6:30. We went to dinner, came back and they still had it all blocked off but there were no news crews out there and this time we saw a bomb-defusing robot in the parking lot. We came home and Kris called one of the news channels to ask if they knew about it and they told him yes, there was a bank robbery and the robber left a suspicious package saying it was a bomb. The police had Tom Thumb closed until around 11pm. We watched the news but they didn't mention much about it so I don't know if they got the robber or what. It is pretty scary though, to think that that is the grocery store the kids and I go to almost everyday. Thank God we weren't in there when all this took place.

As for today, I have to run up to wally world for a few things. Then we are taking Gavin to a birthday party at a roller skating rink in Dallas. This should be very interesting considering Gavin has never roller skated before and I have no idea how to roller skate. He is very excited about going though, and I'm sure we'll have a blast. Hopefully they'll have his size roller skate. I will try to get some pictures while we're there!

Have a happy Saturday :)