what’s up with those barneses

I’m sad to say that I’m really looking forward to the boys going up to my mom and dad’s house this weekend but I just cannot take another minute of their fighting. Most of it happens when Korben is awake as the older two have gotten along pretty well in the afternoons with Korben not in the picture. That three hour nap is the good time. I can handle that. I can totally handle the older two.

Korben just turned 16 months old and he’s doing a lot of things that James was doing when he was 10 months old, but with more power; he is a bigger dude with those 6 months added to him. He just started walking and just started climbing (with intelligence – he will push a toy into position and then use it as a stepstool) onto everything. He wants to play like the big boys and he knows how to get into the middle of their stuff. The older boys do not like this and start swinging. (as in, hitting, not as in going to a swingset and climbing up and actually swinging.)

Lowell, on the other hand, poor Lowell. His feet are growing like weeds and he’s tripping over himself left and right. The boy cannot make it 20 feet without falling down. You’d think he was the one who just learned how to walk. It’s insane!

James needs to be in school. He’s devouring written word like nobody’s business and already adding and subtracting on his own. I have a sight words app on the iPhone and he can read about 95% of them, and they’re tough words, too… like chicken and always and picture. The crazy part is that he is teaching himself.

David. Well.. David needs prayer. We just discovered the school district wasn’t paying him on the right pay scale for the entire time he’s been working there. We’re short thousands. So… yeah. Not a happy man. All this time, we’ve been raising a family on one income and it hasn’t even been as much as he was supposed to have been paid. I can’t even think about it without getting mad. Oh, and he’s going to be away on Saturday at a district meeting solo & ensemble competition all morning, so … that’s like another work day for us without him around. He is working nearly every weekend from here until the end of June so it all blends together…

I am needing to work, hence the boys going up to Camp Grandma for the weekend. I was in the middle of a thought and Lowell started slamming the door so I lost my train of thought. Sorry. My mind just isn’t what it used to be and I can’t concentrate for 5 seconds with these little men in the same house as me. I wish I had an on-off switch to the mommyness in me. seriously. I could use a break from being their mom. Oh, right, I’m getting one. a 2/3rds break. Yipee!

Oh, and since no post is really complete without a photograph, here is one of my new favorite spot in Texas in the spring. I will be driving the 4.5 hours there with the boys the next good bluebonnet season we get state-wide (hopefully next year!!) and maybe… maybe after I get my keeper of the boys I will share the location.