This Kid's a Screamer.

See this kid?

Don't let his sleeping innocents fool you. He's a screamer. "Oh it can't be that bad." You think to yourself. Ha! Think again. This kid'll out scream any kid you got and has been this way since the day he was born.

He has screamed in the car all the way from Burley, Idaho to Idaho Falls. Crashed for 20 minutes only to wake up and start whaling again. If you put him in his room and shut the door for some "time out" he'll scream for more than an hour if you let him. AND he'll bang things on the door. Anything he can find.

Today went like this: grouchy pants needs a nap. We come home and prepare for nap time. Step one, take shoes off. Crying ensues. Step 2, try to read him a book. All hell breaks loose. I put him in his room because there is no reasoning with this kid like this. He cries & tries to run out of his room. He gets put back in his room with the door shut this time. *He weeps, he wails, he whacks stuff against the door. If the whacking gets too heavy I go in and take out whatever it is.* Repeat.** After taking out: 1 basket of stuffed animals, 1 box of Mr. Potato heads, 1 box of marble mania, 1 Melissa & Doug shape sorter toy, 1 pop up 123 toy, 1 fisher price drum, 1 hammer/ball toy, and 1 DVD player (yes the DVD player was found by the door not on the dresser where it normally goes for breathing treatments) I finally decided to go in and stop him. As I was opening the door he was going for the little people train set to whack against the door no doubt. This went on for at least 45 minutes.

We could have never done cry it out with this kid he'd have cried til he threw up every time. I have no idea what I'm going to do with this 2 year old.

Needing to Vent be Warned

Do NOT read this if you are going to have a problem with me later for it. I just need to vent and there's no one here to talk to but my 16 month old and he won't empathize with me.

I HATE OUR NEIGHBORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You know the ones that live below us. Her parents own their unit and APPARENTLY one of the other buildings in the complex.  They think that it is their RIGHT to park where the HELL EVER THEY WANT in the parking lot. EVEN if that includes parking RIGHT BEHIND MY CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is out my front door and see that white corner in the bottom of the picture, That's where my car is parked. I will admit that yesterday she was parked farther back and yesterday I wrote in the dirt that was on the side of her car. I'm not proud of it but I was mad and they don't seem to be getting the message. See the NO PARKING sign. Yeah, they can't read either. I've left notes on their cars asking them not to park there.  I've talked to them in person and they don't care. They think that they are ABOVE the rules. They may own the building but they don't own the parking lot! If they do get their way and become chairman of the home owners association there won't be a thing I can do about it except maybe TOWANDA their car.

If only I were older and had more insurance....If only.

The Handyman

Have you met my hubby? No. You really should. He's an awesome guy. He can do almost anything: my car, my toilet, my walls, he paints, he nail guns, he hammers, he screws things (oh wait, now don't get dirty on me) His most recent manliness was demonstrated by his fixing my dryer.

Ya see, on of those paddle-thingys on the inside (you know the ones that help toss the clothes around) it tried to eat one of my wash cloths because it was loose. So my totally awesome hubby did what he does best...He took the dryer apart.

See how the top is no longer on my dryer?

It's all good now though he got the paddle in position, screwed her up and saved my day!

SEE! He's Soooooo HANDY!!!

please forgive my pictures, my laundry room is small and I could only get the door open half way with the dryer pulled out to even get a picture and it's only a $50 camera so forgive it's crappy white balance ok?

Weekend FUN

We decided to take Kylan to the zoo last friday. Corey and Kylan got to pet some goats.

 tryin' to make a break for it.

On Saturday we spent the WHOLE day in Rigby at Stampede Days.

 We watched the parade.

 Hung out with friends.

 and went to the world's lamest rodeo (we left early because "somebody" was tired and didn't want to sit still and by 8:30 they STILL hadn't started with the "rodeo" part). This is what Kylan thought of it.

Hippies

That's right... we are officially cloth diapering hippies!