Mothers Day....

Not sure if I'm suppose to focus on how much I LOVE to be a mom OR stay in hiding so I don't get nominated for the "Mother of the Year Award" for how things have been going lately??
Right now Koston looks as though he got into a fight with a neighbor kid. He popped the handle up on the umbrella and it popped him in the lip. It looks horrible! He can't even close his mouth!
A couple weeks ago he fell on his head on the concrete and had a black and blue egg on his forehead.
He gave himself a hair cut with the electric clippers.... took them out, plugged them in, turned them on, and trimmed his freshly cut hair a little more!
Colored his tummy, palms of his hands, cheek, and ear blue with a marker.
Colored my Carpet Green, his chair orange.... I think we're done with markers!!
He can pull himself up on the counter in the bathroom, without a stool. Therefore he uses my makeup. He put on mascara... some actually got on his eyelashes, lipgloss, blush (also used the blush brush on my walls) and bright pink nail polish!

Sometimes I feel like Koston counts for two children! Nope... just one with a bundle of ambition and energy! Aislee was so easy for so long, however since we've been in Illinois she has been very clingy and whiny! I'm sure it's because she only sees me all day.

Ventured to Target yesterday... wearing day old mascara, workout pants from that morning(backwards... figured it out when I got home to jump in the shower), Aislee's bottle/spit up all over my shirt and about 3 day old hair!! The first 5 minutes are fine and then I started getting the looks. Koston attempts to climb out of the back of the cart, hanging over the side with one leg and half of his body out. An employee scolds me and tells me he needs to sit down.... REALLY? Needs to and actually doing so are two different things. I wanted to say "YOU TRY!" We usually get popcorn at the snack bar if we are going to be there awhile. That lasts about 2 minutes until he finds out that if he pours it out into the cart, it falls through the holes and onto the floor....slowly.... leaving a trail. So I'm cleaning up popcorn and look up to find my soda being sucked down as fast as possible because he knows it's off limits. She's crying because she was playing with the straw until he ripped it out of her hand for a refreshing drink of diet coke.
Mind you... this girl has a head turning screech! So if I thought I was being sneaky about the popcorn mess, not anymore! So as people start to slow down, trying not to look Koston starts throwing everything out of the cart (luckily nothing glass-I know better... that goes on the bottom rack!) Now all my soon-to-be belongings are all over the floor joining the popcorn! What do I do, pop him on the butt and scold him and have CPS called on me for beating my child in public because it's caught on tape with a security camera at Target OR, do I try to reason with a 2 yr old? Neither.... I give him fruit snacks! Gold in this case... the mess is quickly cleaned up. Now I only have one crying kid who just wanted the straw to chew on and now wants the package of fruit snacks as well. I Give her an unopened package so she can chew on the wrapper. "MINE" Koston screams and takes them from her. She screams louder!
So then I ask myself, Do I finish or go home? I finish, letting them scream it out. I don't want to come back tomorrow... I don't want to come back ever!
As we head to the front, Koston still trying to escape, the same lady that asked Koston to sit down passes us. She just shakes her head. We proceed to the check out and the girl at the register was the one that was at the snack bar when we got the popcorn. She smiles and asks Koston, "Did you finish all your popcorn sweetie?" I say, "YEP" and smile back!
I absolutely love being a mom and I love my children. Even when we have long days and I want to hide out, not taking Koston to the store...Ever!

Week 4 in Illinois

So sorry it has been so long. We have been busy with all the little things of moving to a new place. We are exploring all the places around us and finding all the fun parks and bike/walking trails. There are several areas to take the kids in the bike trailer, which they love. We usually go on at least one ride a day, sometimes two. Lately it has been really cold and windy so we haven't been outside much. Finally today we went on a walk.... just layered a lot to keep warm. There are lots of parks close, most are also the playground for the school... which means there are always hundreds of school age kids playing on them also. Usually they don't pay attention to Koston, so he gets ran over a lot!
We have several ponds in our neighborhood and apartment complex. There are as many ducks and swans as there are people, maybe more? We feed them almost daily.... some of them are as big as Koston which is kinda scary.... almost been attacked once but he still loves to feed them. We also have a "fit trail" around our apartment complex which is around a pond and has a couple little fishing docks. We go feed the fish from the dock often. Koston absolutely thinks it's so great. The fish are only about 5 inches long. Our neighbor was actually fishing with a real pole. He let Koston hold it and reel the fish in. He loved to hold them. It was so cute!!
Jordan has been doing good with sales this year. It is more challenging than Nebraska was but he is working hard and enjoying being back at work. The days are long while he is gone so we do our best at staying busy! Koston misses him like crazy while he is gone and is always in bed when Jordan gets home from work, but we are surviving. It is beautiful here so we are outside A LOT! We live for Sundays so we can hang out with Jordan ALL day!
Koston is finally going to nursery without us. We are finally biting the bullet and making him cry it out! It has been 4 times and he still absolutely hates it! He starts screaming as soon as we say Amen at the end of the closing prayer in sacrament meeting! He screams and clings onto us... I hate it! I get teary eyed every time! I made Jordan drop him off by himself this week! The nursery leader is wonderful and he went to her crying this week... but at least he walked to her by himself!! That is an improvement!
Aislee is starting to scoot. She has been scooting across the floor and trying to steal all of Koston's toys! He hates it and may have to learn how to share.... or dare I say forced to share his stuff sooner than he would like.
So many fun pictures to share of my crazy and I may I say adorable kiddos... but the google uploader is not working... hopefully soon!