The Foley Files: Random thoughts from a Married Mother of Three: March 2014

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Check ups and Kid-isms

There are days where I'd REALLY like to find that pause button. Time just goes by so quickly. I wish I could make it stop for just a year or two. I miss the rocking to sleep. I miss the kids falling asleep in the crook of my arm. I miss naptime, but not for the quiet time, I just miss how little they used to be. It's gone - all gone. They are so big now. Independent. They know what they want. They are go,go,go all the time now. We just signed Ryan up for football and Erynn up for Softball (teeball) this past week. We'll be rushing around from practices and one sport to another - that's only going to add to how quickly time goes by. I can't stand it.

Last Friday I had to take the boys in for their check ups.

Aidan is 9 years old. He is now 4 ft, 7 in tall. I'm sorry, what?! He's almost 5 ft tall!!! He's in the 85th percentile for his age. The doctor says he'll be well over 6 ft tall. I don't put much stock into all of that - he'll be what he is but with a Dad at 6'2" and a Mom at 5'8" the chances are pretty high that he's going to be tall. He is weighing in at 67.2lbs. That's 75th percentile for weight. No concerns, he looks great and all is well.

Ryan is 7 yrs old, 8 yrs in May. He is 4 ft, 3 in tall. He's in the 75th percentile for his height. I think he'll catch up to Aidan in no time lol. He weighs 56.6lbs but he looks like he is all skin and bones. You can see his ribs when he takes his shirt off. But the kicker is he eats like a pig. He is just always going! I don't know the percentile for his weight, the Dr never even said it. Again, he's doing great. He has an indentation right near his heart where his breastbone never formed correctly when he was born/forming - that was Ryan's biggest concern. He just wanted to make sure he'd be able to play football. The Dr gave him the green light and that was all Ryan needed to hear.

Erynn has her check up in April so we'll see where she falls. I just wish it wasn't going by so quickly.

Now for the fabulous things that have yet again come out of my kids mouths.

Ryan is cuddling / hugging me.
John: Hey! No hugging my wife!
Ryan: Back off!! That's my Mom!! She bornded me! (wth is bornded?!?! LOL) She's MY MOM! Back off Dad!!!

Erynn-isms
Daddy!! Shut that door!! You're letting all of those MOPS in the house!!!! (Mops = moths)

Mom. It's a good thing I was here to remember you because you forgot that we needed to go to the store.

Aidan: Mom, how did you not know about Beetlejuice? (Betelgeuse)
Me: Um - how do YOU know about Beetlejuice?? (I'm thinking he is talking about the movie with Michael Keaton that I know I for damn sure haven't let him watch!)
Aidan: We learned about it in school Mom!
Me: What?! What are you doing learning about Beetlejuice?!
Aidan: MOM! It's the head to Orion - you know, the constellation?? How do I know MORE than you and Daddy do??
Me: Oh. Well then. Well, Mommy and Daddy went to school a long time ago and scientists are still discovering new things every single day so there are things that they hadn't found yet. You will learn about things that we didn't learn.
Schooled by my 9 year old.

Then again - I'm still getting over the fact that they have just up and CHANGED MATH!!!! Don't even get me started on that one.

Winter Games

Three years overdue (for me) but we finally got up to Maine to visit Jared, Rebekah, Keegan, Camden, Chase and Kaleb. Now I fully admit *I* am the big baby when it comes to long car rides. I just can't do it. I never went on long road trips growing up so that might have something to do with it. My kids have grown up going on long car rides so they are phenomenal when it comes to taking long trips. They've driven to Florida TWICE. Me? Hell to the no - NEVER. Yes, Mommy flew. See you there guys, have a nice ride!! *evil* This ride though...........yes, I admit........wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. We left at 5:45a on Friday morning and we made it up there at 1p. We stopped at a Denny's around 8a for breakfast. We actually would have made it up sooner if the weather wasn't so bad. Like bad enough to see a truck go off the side of the road bad. Right in front of us. It spun out of control, across the whole road, in circles and ended up in the embankment. My heart was in my throat, the kids were scared. It was awful. I can't post the picture I took (of COURSE I took a picture, have we met?!) because it keeps coming out sideways. (Does ANYONE know how to fix that? I've uploaded it, I've corrected it on my computer.....why the hell won't it load correctly on this website? Happens all the time with pictures I take on my phone and it drives me batshitcrazy. I don't end up posting some really good ones because they won't post correctly!! If you know how to fix it, hook a sistah up!)

Anyway, once we got up there the trip was great fun. We went snowmobiling for 4 hours almost as soon as we got there. Now, up in Maine, snowmobiling is like going out for a drive. Except out in the woods. We were out on the trails and then all of a sudden we were out on the road pulling up to a gas station. Then we were riding again and then pulling up to the restaurant for dinner. Crazy. But it was so much fun. We went riding again on Saturday and went ice fishing too. Saturday Ryan and I were riding together and we got into a slight accident. I've officially been coined Superwoman. I was terrified. I haven't been scared so badly before in my life. I protected him, he wasn't hurt at all. I had some really nasty bruises and I cracked my head / neck on the ice really well but he was okay and that was all that mattered to me. I made the both of us get back on the snowmobile only to prove (to the both of us) that we shouldn't be terrified of them for the rest of our lives. Neither one of us wanted to get back on it ever again but we did. It was the scariest thing I've been through in a long time but, at the end of the day, we're both okay so that is all that matters. Saturday night the adults were able to go out on DATE NIGHT! *gasp* So much fun. But only in Maine is date night at the bowling alley/arcade/pool hall/stage where bands play. And the band is called Motor Booty. With groupies. Who dress up. Oh yes, that happened.

All in all, a great trip. I can't wait until April when they come down to visit. Although I don't know what the hell we're going to do to beat all of that fun. LOL!!!