Are you kidding me?

We have been really working on getting nicholas to go poop in the toilet. he goes pee pee just fine, but we struggle with poop. Today I knew he needed to go, so I stuck him on the toilet and then told him he could't get off until he was done. he cried that he didn't need to go, but i knew that he did so I let him run around without his undies on because I know he won't poop an the floor, he always runs to the toilet. Well I put him on it 4 times in a matter of 20 minutes, and each time he said he didn't have to go and then would run and play. finally he came running past me faster than I'll get out yelling " I need to make a poop!" I followed him into the bathroom and lifted up the lid on the tiolet and helped him sit down. Then I stepped back, into something warm and gooey. He haddn't quite made it.
I went to Sam's Club today...As we were shopping we heard a loud noise. I sounded like someone pushing something heavy across the floor. Nicholas looked up at me in alarm and shouted "Stop the elephant noise!" It definently sounded like an elephant. Then he started yelling "Everyone get out there's an ELEPHANT!!!" He told everyone he saw that there was an elephant and they needed to get out, except for one lady who when he saw her he stuck his finger in his nose and said "I'm getting my boogers out!". I had to go around the whole store until I found what was making the elephant noise, so I could prove to him that there wasn't an elephant. It ended up being a floor cleaner. Then when we were checking out Nicholas tried to strangle Christian every time I turned my head to talk to the cashier, and Christian sat and screamed. Sometimes I wonder why I even go out.
I caught nicholas playing with my digital camera today. He likes to take out the memory card and play with it. Later when I was going to download pictures the camera said that the memory card needed to be reformated. I took it out to check if maybe he put it back in wrong, and as I pulled it out I realized that it was slimey and no, it does not work anymore.
I tried for 2 hours today to put nicholas down for a nap. When I went in his room to put him back in bed for the 5th time I realized he had dumped an entire bottle of lotion all over his bed. He had also pooped in his undies, and wiped the poop all over the bed and the carpet. The nap didn't happen.
I know what you are all thinking. No one's life is really that exciting and glamorous all in one day, but It's true, mine really is!

Get Out Of Debt

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The 3 stooges

This is just a small sample of a typical game for our team, as you can see, nicholas isn't the only roudy kid!

Peewee Scoccer

So we put nicholas in scoccer this fall thinking it would help to constructivly get some of his energy out. He absolutly loves it! he gets to run as fast as he can, kick balls, and even take then from other kids without getting yelled at, what could be better? His only problem is his tackling. when the other kids take the ball from him, he chases them and tackles them to the ground. In his second game he succeded in tackling every kid on the other team, finally we had to make him sit out the rest of the gaame. I think the sitting out really got to him because in his game yesterday he didn't tackle a single kid! He also made his first 2 goals of the season, unfortunatly I had to miss it because I was at a stake womens day activity, but I was so proud of him! Anyway it has been a lot of fun!

I hate ticks!

North Carolina is tick country, so if you live here you just get used to them and they are an everyday pest. well I am not from North Carolina and so I 'm not used to them yet. Infact my great great grandfather died from a tick bit. So naturally I am scared to death of them, which is a bad thing because this place is crawling with them. This morning while I was changing christian's clothes I found one stuck in the fat roll of his armpit. I freaked out! I was so mad at the thing for climbing on my baby. I didn't know what to do because I didn't want to pull it off wrong and have it's head come off or something. sam said to put vasiline on it to make it come out, but since christian still crawls he uses his arm too much and he wipes it all away. I couldn't light a match to it's bum to make it crawl out either, I mean can you imagine trying to hold a 10 month old still enough to hold a lit match to the fat roll in his armpit? yeah right. luckily I had a visiting teaching appointment this morning with a lady who is a native North Carolinian. She has 5 boys and she said that she pulls at least one tick off of her kids everyday! she effortlessly pulled it off and put it in her tick burner-a jar candle, they put the tick in and then light it and the melting wax kills and traps it. The tick burner was filled with ticks! Yuck! I hate them!

Eczema

For those of you whoe don't know Nicholas has eczema. Those of you who know him a little better know that he has a patch of it on his bum that he scratches all the time. I am always putting cortizone cream on it to help with the itching, and sometimes when it is really bad he comes to me crying to put some cream on. The other day he came up to me with a bare bum and a tube in his hand and said " I'm putting cream on my bum!" I looked at the tube and it was toothpaste, and yes, he had it all over his bum!

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