Shopping for Halloween costumes

Times have seriously changed since I was a kid!! I don't remember ever really shopping for a costume, But then again my mother was very creative and an exellent seamstress!!! If only I had half her tallent I wouldn't have had to go through this whole debackle nor would I have had to pay $20 for a piece of cheap foam and some other very cheap material. As my husband so sweetly informed me that to James it was worth the $20 dollars.

We, on Sat, were invited to go with Grandma Andrews, Aunty Kathleen, Uncle Charlie and Cousins Mackenzie, Trenton, and baby Logan to go shopping for costumes for James and Isaac. I had been to Target and Wal Mart and had a general idea of what I was intending to dress them up as. Little did I know that my 18 mos old child would have a very STRONG opinion about what he wanted to be. I should have figured!! Because he has an opinion on everything else in his world why not the halloween costume!
For those of you who have never taken a small child shopping for a halloween costume, well actually shopping for anything, doing so on a 20 min nap is not a good idea and then you add to that 5 other people who are sooo excited to be shopping for your first costume ever, and it truly is too much for one small person to handle. We had a total melt down in the middle of the store REFUSED to let anyone touch us let alone look at us. lol Ohhh and for those of you who think I am refering to Isaac you would be wrong he slept through most of this ordeal and the rest of the time sat in his car seat happily listening to his big brother freak out!!
I finally convinced James that he, mommy, and Isaac would all go over to Target and we would buy James and Isaac monkey costumes. I am thinking this is great I will have two very cute adoreable cuddly monkeys. The pictures will be so cute. We get to Target and my child see's a train costume, We now no longer like the idea of beeing a Monkey, Heaven forbid I even mention the word monkey to my child He WANTS to be a "T" By this point in the shopping trip I didn't care. We bought the costumes and came home. When we got home I realized the train costume that we purchased was not Thomas the Tank engine like I thought but "James" from the Thomas the Tank engine series. So James will be "James" and Isaac will be one darling little monkey!
When I showed Brian the boys costumes Brian looked at James's and said you PAID $20 for this!!! I informed him that I had told him I wasn't happy with paying that much. LOL

Up Mama UP!!!

I was cleaning house till late at night. I had just snuggled down for a long nap. I think I had been in bed a total of 5 min, and I do mean 5 min, at 130am when I heard over the monitor a sweet little voice Moma!.!.!.! MoMa!.!.!.! Up Mama UP!!! James very rarely wakes and calls out usually when he wakes up he is screaming but not this time. Screaming is eaiser to ignore than the sweet little voice calling for Mama. After calling for me a couple more times that sweet little voice started to cry a sad lonely cry and Mama had to come to the rescue. Being that he had fallen asleep in the car he was still fully dressed, So in the dark I changed him out of his clothes into his Jammies with a fresh diaper. We curled up in my rocking chair with his blankie and I sang, I hummed and sang some more and we rocked and hummed. James laid their quietly rolling this way and that trying to find a comfy situation and I continued to rock and sing. At one point I looked at him to see if he was asleep and he was looking at me so sweet and innocent I had to smile. James smiled the sweetest smile back. At about 3 I moved into his bedroom trying to lay him down but he quickly woke back up for 30 min I sat in the chair in his room watching him hoping he would go back to sleep only to see those little eyes opened wide. At 330 I left telling him I was going to the bathroom and I would be back, I took a shower well partly because I needed one and partly in hopes the water would lull him to sleep which it did until.......... I had snuggled myself down but this time I sent in the reinforcements =-)

I have arrived!!!

I or should I say we have arrived because as every mother knows once you become a mother you are no longer a lone individual you always have someone or something hanging on you!!!
But back to us arriving...... We have now come up in the techno world as you all can clearly see we have a BLOG!!!!! I figure that I can send this addy to my family and friends who live miles upon miles away and they can read about the many adventures of ?!?!?!? Is it me? or maybe the adventures of James and Isaac??? I don't know we shall see so if you are ready Buckle up and get ready for a crazy wild ride known as my life!!