Awakenings....

 Yesterday the boys were doing some maintenance on the rat cage. While they were doing the updating they put Tiny (the rat) on my couch to play and hang out. Then we all went to bed.....you know where this is going, don't you? Around 5 in the morning our motion sensor light went off in our bathroom....which was a little weird, I rolled over in bed and the sheets kept pulling on me weird. So I readjusted the sheets and it still felt really weird around my arms. So I turned on my phone light and lo and behold a nasty little rat was staring right at me! I picked it up to put it back in the cage, cursing the boys the whole stumbly way back to Buddy's room. The rat started squiggling and fighting me....our rat does not squiggle and fight, which had my 5 am comatose brain praying that this was truly our rat and not an impostor that had snuck it's way to my bed! Finally, I reached the caged and it was empty....huzzah, it was our rat and not a rabies infested sewer rat that was fighting me! The boys got a stern talking to when I returned to bed...they just laughed!!!!! BOYS!!!!! In other news, Buddy went to the doctor's yesterday for the umpteenth time this week because of a stupid cough that they keep kicking him out of school for, and today I became an MD because I'm diagnosing my kid and giving my second opinion that includes drinking a smoothie

and riding it out!!!! I'm pretty certain he won't get kicked out of school anymore! In other, other news, a few months ago I forced Buddy into joining rugby because his tweenage rollercoaster was making me crazy...so I thought tackling others would help him get that emotion out. He hated it!!! He cried and cried after the first practice saying the kids were mean (which I don't doubt, don't be messing with the Polynesians and their rugby now) and that he didn't want to go back.  He pleaded for me to talk to the kids and his coaches so they would be nicer. I forced him to go, told him to just tell the kids that he didn't know the rules and ask them for guidance and boom! Today, 2 1/2 months later, I ask him if he wants to skip rugby because we have some family friends in town and "no, I really like rugby, I'd rather go" was the answer....and then I fainted! So all in all a super fantastic, recovering from my fainting episode, day! 

Tit for tat.....

Sheesh!!! What is it with kids these days? You force them into an undersized chair so you can laugh relentlessly at them...in public of course....

 And then they revolt and force their nasty feet on your head in the morning!

That's okay, I showed those boys, they may have dirty feet, but my hair hadn't been washed in 4 days so I'm not sure who really won that game of grossness! So all in all a super fantastic,  

maybe you had to be there, day!

Breaking our break....

Buddy totally lucked out this winter break...not only did he get horribly sick on Christmas, but he also got to spend his last week of winter break hanging with his best friend. Errrrr, that didn't come out right.....that makes hanging with his best friend sound horrible, or maybe being sick on Christmas was super awesome? The boys made this awesomeness (video included)....

Of course the boys broke it about 5 seconds later, but thank goodness for the awesome people that make tinker crates, because another one is in the mail! Seriously...I love tinker crates and I'll be honest, this one is my favoritest ( I assure you that's a word) so far! Unfortunately, we didn't get around to doing too much on our break.....

That would be a game of night time Ski Ball the boys came up with....thank goodness for our multi-faceted skate park! I think the teenagers that snuck into the skate park while we were there were totally jealous of our awesomeness....or slightly peeved at being interrupted, I'm totally going for jealous though! After a while the lingering stench of two tweenage boys just hanging around the house all day got to be a little overpowering though....thank goodness they make water for that...

There was even a spin cycle to really get the smell out! Unfortunately, that water was just a little too salty and sandy to really get them clean so we had to go in search of some fresh water (because a shower would just be too boring). Fresh water found!!!!!

Fresh water dunking completed....

Although I'm not too sure how clean you can really get with a wet suit on...

But I'm not one to argue with awesomeness! So all in all a super fantastic, glad he's back at school today so I can continue to be lazy, day!

Tween sitting....

Buddy's best friend's mom went on a vacation to Disneyland....without taking Buddy's best friend.....Sucks for him, but total score for us! I just had to gear up for the job....

Who knew a trash can would be so handy with tweenage boys....well, in retrospect, that one's kind of a no brainer!!! Yesterday, I took them to a PG-13 movie. Yesterday, I walked them out of a PG-13 movie. To make amends for my poor decisions (not for walking out of the movie, it was horrible, but for thinking the movie would be okay in the first place.....oh Will Ferrell, why do you have to have such a dirty, dirty mouth?) I tortured them with a submarine ride....

Ahhh, these boys! They're just to easy to please! Let's get back to the torturing....

Yep, that's better! So all in all a super fantastic, is it tweeny sitting or tween sitting, day.

The Road to Recovery....

Buddy and I have been hard at work on the long road to recovery from our little Christmas Day present of the crud.....

What a horrible child!!!! No worries, he hung his head in shame after that action towards me....

Or they were really hot after lugging that thing up from the beach. I'm definitely going with the feeling shame! Along our road of recovery we ended up finding this little treasure trove...

At least a treasure trove to these  boys. (If you can't tell, that's a nest full of abandoned chicken eggs). The boys took a treasure each to see if they could get it to hatch... I told them they'd have better luck taking care of a baby chicken if they started thinking/acting/being a mama chicken....

 And that, ladies and gentleman is what we call hook, line and sinker! It may almost be worth all the work I put into making them an incubator when we got home to continue to ruse...although I couldn't quite convince any of them to cluck a lullaby at bedtime. In today's recovery news, Buddy decided that the best way to get over this bug was to shoot it head on....

Or at least shoot something in the head....

Goal met....his recovery is well under way! So all in all a super fantastic, continuing this long hall of recovery, day!

Anxiously awaiting....

So the day after Christmas we ended up doing this...

If you're confused by the pictures above, you're not the only one!!!!! Just kidding, we were at the doctor's office and he decided he should spy on what the doctor was doing while he was waiting.....He stood there for a good 10 minutes before he confessed that he couldn't actually see anything through the windows. Gotta hand it to the boy, he's got commitment to the role down! So all in all a super fantastic, on the road to recovery, day!

Waiting for Christmas....

With all the pranking we've been doing for Christmas, I think Buddy had been feeling a little left out. Well, I wouldn't have thought it, but then he told me, so I had to make amends....

I even gift wrapped him into the room, the room that Shane and I also happened to be sleeping in as well....because I'm that dedicated to the job!

I mean, look at that face! Definitely worth dedicating to messing up your own house for I'd say....

Shane didn't get home until really late last night, and then we had company over for dinner so Buddy didn't get to open his presents until almost 8:30 last night and he didn't even make a peep about it!

Not  sure if it's because he's that awesome of a kid, or the fact that he's really sick and I've been pumping him full of drugs that make him not care about much of anything....I'll go with the BUDDY IS TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!

Now he's playing with his gizmos and gadgets(seriously, that's the name) while watching his go to sick movies... which I'm not allowed to reveal the titles of out of tweenage embarrassement....but I will say who knew fairies that wear green and go by the name "Tink" could be so fun? So all in all a super fantastic, ready to get over being sick already, day!!!