2. Friday Zane and I made salt dough snakes, which was tons of fun to do. With the added bonus that now we have about ten snakes we can paint. Maggie and Zane painted some Friday evening during their play date, but we still have a few left for when we need a funtivity to do. They do seem to break much easier than I thought, which I guess is fine since we really didn't need to keep forever. I also made one, super cute penguin, that I am very proud of.
3. It's that time of month again when our big Amazon box arrives. This month it instantly became a rocket ship. Zane decorated it, drew some windows on it, and spent most of Friday morning either playing in it, flying it around the house or trying to get his brother to stay in it. Hours of entertainment, followed by Rowan setting up shop it in while Zane was napping. There is literally no better toy than a cardboard box.
4. Big news from the Korenak house is that we are getting fish again! Zane desperately wants a pet, really a dog, after visiting the adopt a dog place outside the pet store. But we are in no place to have a dog, so we are busting out our huge, awesome fish tank and giving the fish another go. Zach and Zane are currently in the process of building it a new stand, since the last one broke in transit. Once the stand is finished we will pick out some fish and hopefully they will survive for awhile. The boys loved the fish tank at the doctor's office last week and I think it should be fine as long as all the fish don't die immediately.
5. It has been crazy stupid hot here the past few days, which has reminded me, yet again, how much I miss our basement. The beauty of the basement is that not only is it a huge space for kids to run around in while inside, it is also a very cool (literally and figuratively) place to play in the summer. So far Rowan's room (smallest in the house) appears to be the coolest place is our current house. Yesterday, when the boys both got stir crazy in the afternoon, I busted out the sprinklers so Zane could run outside for a little bit. Rowan hated it, even after I dawned my bathing suit (horror show) and tried to run with him.
Zane, running full force, two pool noodles (aka swords) in hand, while Zane rocks it on the sidelines with his huge gut! Pretty much sums up their personalities.
6. Speaking of Rowan's personality, turns out he has a pretty strong mean streak and Zane is starting to get a huge dose of his own medicine. Sunday Rowan bit Zane, hard, on his beloved stripe. Zane pouted on the couch for a long time, completely appalled that Rowan would be mean to him. Because Zane has been nothing but loving to Ro his whole life, FALSE! Now Rowan tries to tackle him every chance he gets, he is hitting him, throwing stuff at him, and constantly trying to bite people. This led to me jokingly telling Rowan he was going to have to go to time out and he proceeded to toddle over to the wall and sit down. If that tells you how often big brother has to go to time out. Since then he has been back to timeout a few times for throwing things at Zane's face and hitting people continually. I'm not sure why he is so mean, but I'm guessing it might have something to do with his brother trying to kill him his whole life. Suffice it to say I need a referee shirt, as that is all I do now and I'm guessing all I will be doing for the next decade of so.
To look at him you would think he is sweetness and light.
But he really loves to hit people in the face and jump on them. The life of boy I guess.
7. I'm struggling to come up with mother's day present ideas. How do you say thank you to the person who gave you life? Also, I am uninspired (see illness above), but would love some good mother's day present ideas. Or if the mother's in our life have requests now would be the time to shout those out!
8. Zane has been doing particularly well this past week or so and I feel like I should brag on him, since I always talk about our struggles. He has been such a good brother, doing much better trying to play with Rowan and keeping him entertained while I do things like mop the floor. His screaming crying fits are few and far between and we have been working a lot on talking to mommy and daddy instead of running to his room crying. I see improvements and am hopeful we have turned a corner. He is working on his numbers and what sounds the letters make now and loves to play all sorts of games. Currently his favorite is he picks a number flashcard and then has to build a Lego tower with that many blocks. Here is my big boy, never a dull moment in this house.
This game involved picking a number card and a picture card and then finding that many things. i.e. three hats!
And this was the outfit Zane was wearing when I got home from work the other day. Going to daycare remains a huge stress in his life, though I know he has fun there. It breaks my heart, but such is life. He is doing better with not coming into our room three times a night, the night before I have to work. It only took a couple mornings of loosing cartoon privileges to figure out he needed to stay asleep. Poor baby!
10. I'm excited it's May, my birthday month. And really praying for a calm tornado season here in the Sooner state. I'm scared of what we would do, since we don't have shelter. On days when they know that it is going to be a bad storm day I will go to Abbey's, but if something just pops up I guess we will be in the bath tub with our helmets on and a mattress over our heads. That is not ok (no pun intended). We have to sell our stupid house so we can buy a new one and put a storm shelter in stat. No word on the STL house. We "staged it" so now there is all new furniture and stuff in it so it looks perfect, or so they say. We shall see how that goes. I have signed on for another three months of my contract at the hospital. So much for my dreams of not having to work full time.
And that's the Korenak update! Happy Early Mother's Day to all the mother's out there.
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