Miggity Mac Daddy

It's been all meat and potatoes at the Mark house.  I've taken on a lot with having 3 kids under the age of 4 (only until February) and if you pile on the Holidays, you have one big stress ball of a mom.  Don't worry.  The kids are clothed, fed, clean, we get to church, the dog is fed, got a bath, too, but the house looks like a war zone and every time I turn around dishes re-appear in the sink.  It's magical.

Adam says that as long as we take care of the big things (meat and potatoes) then all the side stuff will come around.  Thus, we are meat and potatoes.

Kyle in his jumper.  Sorry the picture is blurry.  He's so fast!!

Here is a hat I made for Emilie's friend Trace.  He didn't like wearing it as much as Emi did.



The weather has been mild and the girls were bored, so I gave them some beat up decorations to decorate their playhouse with.

But let's get to the awesome title of this post.  I don't know if you remember two little punk kids called Kris Kross (Chris "Daddy Mac" Smith and Chris "Mac Daddy" Kelly) who had a hit back in 1992 called Jump! Jump!  They were known for wearing their clothes backwards. 

Anyways, Chris Cross was at my house last week.  We woke up on Thursday morning and it was 59 degrees in the living room.  Luckily our upstairs unit was still working so the kids were fine, but we were sure cold downstairs.  When I say "in the morning", I mean 3 a.m. to feed Kyle.  We belong to a club for our heating and air company and we called their 24 hour line and locked in an early appointment.  I had my check book ready when Chris came and was prepared to choose between Christmas and repairing our unit.  So I took ol' Chris Cross upstairs and pulled down the attic door and I just couldn't help myself.  I said, "It's the unit on the left.  Jump on up there!"

Snicker, Snicker, Snort.

Kyle keeping me warm

It was a rough week.  Let's rewind two days.  Tuesday is trash day and Adam's job is to take the trash down to the curb.  It was raining and I was rushing to get the girls to finish their breakfast, and I still had to dry my hair.  I ran out to the garage to get the dog some dog food and looked out the side garage door to see that Adam had left the gate open.  I rushed back inside to get some shoes so I could run out and shut it because I had just let Petey out the back door and by the time I got shoes on and got back out there, Petey was on the loose.  Not only that, but the gate was open for no reason.  Adam never did put the trash out on the curb. 

Christmas Cards 2012!!!  Captain Christmas is all about it.  Just not all about shutting the gate.

So I carefully wheel the trash down to the curb since it's wet.  (Adam has fallen on his rear rolling the trash down our steep driveway when it was wet.)  I whistle for Petey and he won't come.  So I run back inside and check on the kids.  Kyle is laying and playing on his play mat.  Aubrie is washing up after breakfast, and Emilie's wrapping up her cereal and moving on to her banana.  So I grab the keys to the car and drive down the street and find Petey four houses down.  I get out and open the car door and promise him a treat and he bolts. 

I follow.
He bolts again.

I look at my watch.  The girls need to be to school by 9:15 and I've got a doctor's appointment downtown at 9:45 and it takes 30 minutes to get there.  It's five til 9.  Hair is still wet, girls bags are half packed.  I look at the house and decide to head back.  He'll follow me, right??

I return to find Emilie yelling that she wants down from the table and Kyle crying on his mat.  He's ready for his first nap.  I get the kids and bags in the car.  Unfortunately, Adam is in Memphis, so I can't call him to come home and help catch the dog.  And Petey didn't have his collar on because he's been itchy. (He's got a chip) So I tell the girls to look for Petey and we start driving around the neighborhood. 

We would spot him, I'd get out and walk after him through mud and he would bolt.  I'd get back in the car and follow.  Then get out and call him and walk after him and he would....bolt. 

I'm so angry at this dog.  I give it one more chance and I walk over to the door and open it and he comes running to the car.  Finally!  And he runs past me and jumps into the driver's seat.  Paws covered in mud.  Then he jumps into the second seat and gets mud all over the girls' bags and steps on their lunch bags. 

Petey and the girls with his new Christmas present.  A new bed.  We got this for him before his bad behavior.  Smart dog.

I made it to the appointment, but I sure wasn't happy with Adam.  He ended up getting me flowers two days later and posted a picture of them on facebook.  He was so proud. 

The Crescendo "I'm sorry" Bouquet from Kroger.  He was so proud that he brought me flowers that he told me how much they cost. 

We participate in the Elf on the Shelf madness.  Aubrie has proudly named our elf, Kibbler.  He's pretty silly but does a good job of keeping his eyes on the girls for Santa.  Adam and I have a lot of fun with it...trying to decide what to do next.  Luckily, there are a lot of great ideas out there shared by other families on Pinterest!  Please enjoy some of Kibbler's recent antics!

Bubble bath

He stayed up late and set the Christmas village up!!

Made his own sleigh

Friends stood in line to get their wishes written down for Santa

We went to a Belmont game and Kibbler is a fan, too!

Silly Kibbler!!

Love to all!!!

***Steve, please note that as I wrote this blog, Adam has played Kris Kross songs as well as MC Hammer, Spice Girls, and I'm a Barbie Girl and enjoyed it.***

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