Creatures of Habit

These four are definitely creatures of habit. They know their routine and get very aggitated when you divert from it, unless they are the ones who want to change it up.

We have 2 sets of sippy cups that we use regularly and they each know which cup belongs to whom and if you mistakenly put juice in their milk cup they refuse to drink out of it. You must then switch cups immediately because there is no way you can drink juice out of a milk cup!

Bowls and plates also belong to certain people. Brady gets blue, Aubrey gets pink, Matthew gets red in one set yellow in the other, and Cameron gets green. They are a little more flexible with their forks and spoons except for Brady who NEEDS to use the blue one.

At bedtime Cameron has to lay on his big brown pillow, be covered with his little blue and brown stripped blanket then his elephant pillow pet and him need to be covered with his fleece blanket. He needs to have his blue dog, his fox and his Bella dog all around him. Aubrey needs to lay on her kitty pillow pet with her snuggy in hand and you need to cover her with both her fleece blanket and her "big snuggy" nothing but those things are allowed to be anywhere near her in her crib. Matthew needs to lay on his big brown pillow with his lion pillow pet laying right beside him then covered up with his blue blankie that his buddy Matt passed down to him when he was born and depending on the mood he sometimes wants his fleece blanket as well. The entire foot of his crib is covered in stuffed animals and trust me he knows what he has in there and if anything is missing. Brady lays the width of his crib instead of lengthwise with his bear pillow pet turned upside down and backwards. He needs his Daisy dog, his Brittney dog and his blue Doggie-O all around him and under his fleece blanket with him.

We have to sing 4 songs then I have to cover them all up because they don't think that daddy can do it. After I tuck them in I always tell them that I love them to the moon and back one night I only said I love you to Aubrey and she went into hysterics until I figured out what she was saying and I told her that I loved her to the moon and back then she settled down and went to sleep.

I guess that is my payback for being so scheduled!

Brady the monster

I think Brady is determined to give me a heart attack! When he was just over a year old he was the first one to ever pass out on me...after falling off the couch and I rushed him to the ER thinking that he was seriously hurt. Turns out he was fine, thankfully! This morning I was cleaning up a cut with some peroxide then I put it down to finish cleaning it up. I looked down and there was Brady taking a big swig off the bottle!

I immediately freaked out! Grabbed the bottle and him and ran into the kitchen to call Poison Control. I was home with the four of them alone and hysterical. The woman on the other end must have thought she was dealing with a complete psycho! Anyway...I guess peroxide is something they give to induce vomiting and just one drink of it won't hurt him.

Lesson learned...don't underestimate the things they will do right under your nose!

Jumpers!

Now that we have moved around the toyroom and put the ball pit in the corner they have discovered that they can climb on top of the block box and jump into the ball pit. Cameron truly cracks me up with his crouch, arms stretched behind his back and then kind of walks into the ball pit. Aubrey gets so excited that she is going to jump then holds on and gently falls into the pit. Matthew and Brady are just wild men! They jump in full force every single time!

Cameron




Brady




Matthew and the bubbles from Marlene he carried around all day long!




Aubrey

The simplest things that amuse 2 year olds...

and their 33 year old father! Ben takes out a flashlight and shines it on the floor and all four of them dive after it yelling "I catch it! I catch it!" I think Ben and I laugh harder than they do.

Where's the light?


I catch it!

It's almost time!

We are planning to do the 3 day potty training boot camp with the quaddlers next weekend. I am so nervous to attempt this with 4 at one time but am anxious to start having an additional $150+ in our pockets every month! I think we are physically ready...

6 potties, 2 for upstairs and 4 for downstairs (no one was settling for the plain potties we had once 2 new frogg ones came in so I ordered 2 more potties including the purple and pink one the princess demanded)\


70 pair of underwear for the boys


28 pair of underwear for Aubrey


4 pee charts labeled with their initial so they each know which one belongs to them


3 bags of candy corn for treats after success


900 stickers for their sticker pee chart


2 containers of Dreft Spray
15 rolls of paper towels
2 containers of Clorox wipes
1 bottle of rug cleaner

Here goes nothing!

Bouncy, bouncy

For their birthday each of the kids got a card from Geoffrey at Toys R Us with a $3 gift card in it. $3 at Toys R Us??? Nothing like a scam to get people in and spend some money and we were the suckers who went for it! After walking, yes we let them walk...crazier by the minute, through the store and playing with everything in sight they ended up getting hop balls. All four of them love sitting on them yelling "bouncy, bouncy" then making themselves fall off and laugh. It is hilarious!

Helping hands

The fabulous foursome are definitely at the age where they LOVE to help. They help unload the dishwasher, even when it is full of dirty dishes. They help get cups out of the fridge, as well as everything else which sometimes ends up with salad dressing all over the floor. They help open doors, which is especially nice when you are trying to use the bathroom. They help put stuff in the sink, even when your cup is still half full which usually results in them helping clean up the floor.

Ben has been working on building a shed so of course they had to help with that too!