Oh Crap! #52-60

These go way back, as you can see by the long hair! Cozy up it's a long one... : )

Oh Crap! moment #52

I hate when they climb on to tables and for the most part I keep it under control. On a mental lapse I let it slide since it looked harmless and they were having so much fun jumping into the bounce thing. As soon as this happened I had to shut it down!

No one was hurt but really annoyed and lots of crying ensued until his brother got off of him!

Oh Crap! moment #53

This corner met Caleb's face

And that's after we warned him to stop driving his car so closely to the corner!

Oh Crap! moment #54

More random crap I've found in their mouths! It's a piece of a porcelain type lamp they broke and I guess I missed a piece when cleaning up the mess. Look at those sharp corners!

Oh Crap! moment #55

The dangerous stance we found T in. We quickly removed him from there but while we were doing that Caleb was on the other side doing something similar and fell. 

And there is Caleb post fall

Oh Crap! moment #56

Caleb would like to demonstrate why you should never trust a 2 year old with a bungy cord. 

I smelled a freak accident coming so I quickly took it away!

Oh Crap! moment #57

Here is evidence that Eli knows his lowercase alphabet, I mean how else could he bite such a perfectly marked 'e'!

Oh Crap! moment #58

We had just arrived in California on our last trip and the boys were busy playing in my mom's backyard. At one point Eli approaches me to tell me he had an accident of the poopy kind. Ok so I take him to the bathroom to clean him up, and it's a bad one. The kind that takes about 10 baby wipes and you still don't feel good about the clean up job. So I get the water going to give him a quick bath when I hear some commotion outside. As I finish up the job I walk out to find out the "little mess" the other two made as they were unattended a few minutes. Caleb and Thomas had gotten into the laundry room and poured out an entire bottle of bleach onto the floor. Their shoes and the lower part of their pants got covered in bleach and some sprinkled onto their shirts. They were caught just seconds after they had dumped it out and it was assessed that, THANK GOD no one had drank any! I didn't bother taking a picture or trying to salvage their pants, they were toast. But the shoes I quickly threw in the wash to try and stop the bleach from doing further damage. The other two also got impromptu baths. Naturally I was very upset that they had ruined perfectly good shoes that I really liked! After my cousin suggested it, I went out an bought a fabric marker and colored the bleach spots. I did a pretty good job because you can't hardly tell what happened to them : )

the before picture (sorry no after picture, just trust me, they look good)

Oh Crap! moment #59

So the park around the corner from Phil's parents house has a really big concrete slide. When I lived in Davis and was dating Phil he'd once or twice suggested we go down it. I always thought ok maybe but then when I'd get to the top I quickly would chicken out because I hate thrill rides. My whole childhood I was tormented by the fact that I hated any type roller coaster or ride that drops. Ugh I hate that feeling! Field trips to Great America or Knotts Berry Farms were always a downer as my friends happily rode on them and I'd be at the bottom waiting for them and not having a very fun time. Years later as an adult I've come to terms with my fear or maybe you can say I've embraced it. "So what if I don't like those stupid things and I'm not going to torture myself over it anymore!" Meaning I'm not going to try and muster up the courage and go on one every 5 years and scare the crap out of myself so badly that it takes another 5 years get myself to try it again. 

Ok so back to the park, Phil gets a piece of cardboard and down he goes as the boys watch him from below. Of course they all want to go on it. I'm naturally very apprehensive about it but eventually I give in because it doesn't seem too dangerous and after all I'm the scaredy cat so I figure most people would think it's safe. Phil starts giving everyone turns and they are loving it but he can't keep up with the demands so he urges me to try it so I too can give the boys rides on it. Curses! I'm pressured yet again and since I do everything I can to please my children I say, "ok let me try it first so I'm comfortable and then I'll take a kid with me." I get up there and quickly I say, "no never mind I don't want to do it!" But Phil is down there egging me on and I'm thinking it looks too scary. Then Phil's aunt, who was with us, tells me the words of comfort I needed to hear "it looks steep but when you are on it it really doesn't feel like you are going that fast." Since it's concrete I figure yeah there's probably lots of friction so you must not be able to go that fast. So I let go and down I go. It's fine the first 1.5 seconds and then it picks up a notch and I'm going down faster than ever. I start screaming at the top of my lungs and want to bail sooooo bad but I know it will be much much worse if I do. I'm wearing short sleeves, shorts and flipflops so I think of all the scabbed up flesh and possible broken bones if I bail so I just hold on tighter than ever and keep screaming till I get to the bottom. Which took approximately 10 minutes!

NEVER AGAIN!!! Oh crap!!! I can't believe my little boys were on such a frightful thing. NEVER AGAIN will they ride that thing until they are like 12 years old!!!

The view from the bottom, not so menacing right?

The view from the top, scary right!? And Phil used to ride his bike down it as a kid!!!

My precious boys, they look terrified but believe me, they couldn't get enough!

Oh Crap! moment #60

Thomas has had a death wish lately. The boy has had so many falls and injury's lately that I wonder if he isn't going through a growth spurt that's making him more clumsy or something (which I've heard could happen?). 

here he got his first scraped chin

his first bloody nose when he fell off the couch face first

Then there's the time he fell off of a bench at the indoor park, bam right on his head! 

Just two nights ago, I realized he had crawled into bed with us when we heard a crash proceeded by crying because he had fallen off the bed!

And this one takes the cake. So you know the boys love cutting paper with scissors, possibly one of their favorite activities. On this particular day we failed to put the scissors away after they were done cutting paper. Later that day we were all outside preparing a plot of dirt while Phil went to Lowe's to pick up some sod to lay on that plot. The back door was wide open and Thomas snuck off back into the house, after about a minute I hear him crying and I look into the house. Thomas is holding his hand and has blood running down his hand and onto the floor. I run over and apply pressure to his finger while I ask him what happened. He tell's me the scissors did it. I hadn't gotten a good look at the cut because of the blood so after a solid 2 minutes I take the tissue off of it to see if the bleeding had stopped. It looked like someone had scooped a chunk of skin out of the tip of his finger. And no, the bleeding had not stopped so I continue to apply pressure. I wait another 2 minutes and check again. Nope still bleeding, where the heck is Phil, he should be back already! I'm getting nervous because I can't let go of Thomas' finger and the other two are still outside unattended. As best I could I pick up Thomas and we walk outside so I can get my phone and tell the other two to get inside. As I'm calling Phil I see him pull up. I tell him to call the pediatrician and ask them what we should do. They tell us to take a picture of it and email it to them so they can better know what's going on. I can't get a good picture of it because the bleeding distorts the view of the wound. But whatever, I proceed to try and email it when Phil announces that the bleeding has stopped. Huge sigh of relief! I rinse off the cut and put some Neosporin on it and a band aid. The nurse calls us back and we tell her the bleeding has stopped and she tells us they start to worry if the bleeding doesn't stop after 10 minutes and I'm pretty sure we were very close to 10 minutes!

I later found the scissors along with his skin, how do you cut off such a big chunk!
The boy must have a delayed sense of pain!

close up, you can see the fingerprints!

The picture I took to send to the nurse

One day later, the hole has filled out. 

Post four days and it's just a tiny little scab, kids sure do heal fast! Thomas has been really careful with his wounded finger. The first day he didn't use that hand at all and the next he used it very gingerly. By day three he was totally fine but still had a band aid on it. Yesterday I noticed his band aid was missing and he was playing with some gravel just fine. I grabbed his hand to look at it and thought maybe he could go on now with out a band aid but then that's when he noticed it was gone and could do nothing else until he had one on again. My poor baby, I hope this accident prone streak is over!

Train museum

These are the last pics from our Cali Trip, we are at Phil's parents house in Davis...

Piano pictures never get old!

Eli makin muzak!

CET, pretty guys!

Story time with cousin Korina : )

Is that Thomas under there?!

Train museum with papa Ed and mama Sue

I can get them to hold hands again!

Can you tell he likes trains?

The boys promised to be good at meetings if we got them each a brief case like this.
I don't believe it for a second!

In heaven!

Thomas and papa Ed

Of course Caleb found the firetruck train : )

It's tradition to get candy when in Old Sac (especially bc we can validate parking with it).
Eli here picked some random chocolate candy that I've never heard of.

Thomas picked a watermelon slice.
Can't remember what Caleb got but I think he was disappointed.

So tired after ogling all those trains!

snuggles

Mr. T looking as handsome as ever next to dad's old new bike
that we hauled all the way back to PDX on the roof of our car, yikes!

We didn't have a lot of time in Davis on this trip but I made sure to take the boys to the train museum in Sacramento. It is really impressive and the boys really loved it! I'm sure if we lived in town we'd have a membership there : )

We are settling back into our old routines and I'm especially glad we are back to our old potty routines. Not gonna lie, it probably wasn't a good idea to take such a big trip with THREE freshly potty trained boys (they are about two months out). Initially there were lots of pee accidents but those quickly went away to almost less than back at home. Disgustingly enough we had way too many poop accidents on this trip from Eli and Thomas. Caleb surprisingly had maybe one if any at all and in fact he surprised us on the way home when he started complaining and saying 'caca caca' so we pulled over at the nearest exist and sat him on his potty. Sure enough, he made a big ol' poop! Impressive, especially if you remember that he was the last one to potty train and that they aren't that great at telling me when they need to go (at home they just go on their own when the need to). Anyways looking forward to the weekend with service and lots and lots of much needed yard work! It's been beautiful here and it already feels like summer, hope it's nice were you are. Have a fun weekend everyone! : )

Home Again!

Last day in the south bay, we tried to do a little photo shoot but it was just too sunny...

with mama Elda

With my sister, B-I-L, and mom

gotta love Caleb's (blue) expression, "are we done yet?"

Eli walking with uncle "Mikey!" and "tia yeya"

Doesn't Eli look like such a big kid here? Like he could be 10 years old!

Please, can I watch dis?

Next we moved on to the east bay to visit Phil's brother and family...

At the water fountains.
If I had known the temps in Cali were going to be 15-20 degrees above normal I would have packed swim trunks!

Thomas got cold, how sweet!

Caleb

When Caleb went missing it was no surprise that we found him with the chickens trying to hug and kiss them!

 If all you saw was this sweet smile you'd never know what whippersnapper Eli is!

So handsome : )

Getting in some more bike riding

6 out of 7 Pitts grand-kids!

Even though I easily could have stayed another two weeks, it's good to be home! Every time we roll back into town after a long trip I get this warm fuzzy feeling at the sight of a beautiful city nestled in the green hills with lots and lots of green trees (and not to mention a snow caped Mt Hood in the not too far distance). It always reminds me that I LOVE living in Portland : )

We got back home Saturday evening after 12 hours on the road (9 driving hours + 3hrs of stopping). The boys did exceptionally well on the drive to Cali but not so great on the way home. Two weeks prior to our trip I had been getting them all excited and filling their heads with what was going to happen soon and all the fun we would have in Cali. So naturally they were bursting at the seams with excitement when I woke them up at 3:30 am in the morning and found my mom and sister sleeping on the couch. We ended up leaving at 4:30am and arrived at about 5:30pm (11 driving hours + 2 stopping hrs). I was nervous enough that I splurged for a portable DVD player just in case they were terrors in the car but honestly they didn't really need it. We turned it on just to try it out and let them watch bob the builder. On the way home it was a different story, even though the drive up is 2hrs closer the DVD player was essential! They watched a movie, then charged it up again and played another full length movie. Getting it was a good call : )

As I mentioned the temps in Cali were well above normal, which was fine by me since I enjoy 80-90 degree weather (I draw the line at 95 though) but I just wish I had known it was coming so I could pack accordingly! I packed half light sweater weather clothes and half summer clothes, so of course, we pretty much only used our summer clothes. The last 5 days or so were super windy, boo!, which I blame for the terrible allergies I had, at least I didn't have them the whole time.

We miss everyone a lot and had so much fun. I've made up my mind that next year I can do this trip alone with the boys and will stay longer!

I still have a bunch more pictures from the rest of our trip to look through, so more coming up!

Happy Hallow 2013

Caleb and T (bellow) were not scared to ride the carousel like last year, yay!

T and my mom, E chose a bench seat with my sister tightly hugging him, what a scaredy cat!

T

C

C is such an animal lover, it's so obvious too!

E brushing a goat

After playing in the crooked house for more than an hour, and by play I mean going up the stairs and down the slide like a million times!

Lady bug ride!

Can you tell who is who? Look for the clue : )

woohoo!

This place is called Happy Hallow Park & Zoo but admittedly we skipped all the animals, except the goats of course. We took advantage of the free kiddie rides since we go the the zoo quite regularly in Portland. Now that the boys are a little older they enjoyed the park so much more, I can imagine next year will be even funner!