Busy Day

Today has been a busy day for the Cole kids.  Every morning Caleb wakes me up.  Today, was no different and I knew he was in a feisty mood when he put my glasses on the bed, told me to get up, and then made sure I was paying attention by banging on the bed at me and throwing his blanket on my face. 

As I went to the doctor for my checkup (where I was cleared to now workout again-YEAH) Mammy came over to play with the kiddos.  I was actually able to go to two grocery stores by myself. Wow, that was two of the quickest trips ever. 

Then, it gets interesting.  
-The boys go outside and the next thing I see is Caleb and Mammie walking back up to the house-yep, poop in the pullups. Face and hands are covered in brown, I sure hope it was mud and not poop.
- Preschool was very eventful today with Ethan.     
- While cooking dinner I walk into the dining room to see Caleb trying to cut his hair. WHAT? You are a boy!!
- Ethan has to go poop where he invites his little brother to come and see.  I go to check on  them again and there they are with the plunger inside the toilet and some sort of deep discussion ensuing. 
- Baby and Big Brother, AKA Caleb, takes his pacifier and gives it to Linley to keep her from fussing in the swing. This is nothing short of a miracle on sharing that treasured pacifier.
-Ethan comes and tells me how he put his sister back to sleep by giving her his pacifier. He then tells me he loves me and appreciates me. Wow. My 4 year old appreciates me. I think I might cry.

It just keeps coming.

Well, you will soon learn that alot of my life revolves around poop with a  potty training 2 year old and a newborn.  Let's just say that this potty training 2 year old has a mind of his own and a strong will of his own who just doesn't see the need of putting his poop where it belongs...in the toilet.  As you can imagine, newborns do 3 things very well, eat, poop, and pee.  This day, Linley was really taking care of the pooping part.  I'm at the changing table trying to change her diaper when everytime I go to put the diaper on more and then more poop. Wipe, more poop. Seriously, I was beginning a mountain of dirty wipes waiting to put on the diaper.  So, for 5 minutes as I'm standing at the changing table surrounded in poop, I hear John's mom, Mrs. Jeanne (you'll be hearing alot about the grandmoms) suddenly exclaim, "Caleb, what are you doing? You don't throw poop in the floor.  Did you pee on your mom's shoes too?" 

As you can imagine, my first thought is, "Well poop again." At least he was on the hardwood.  So, Caleb has pulled his poop out of his pull-up (yes, with his hands), thrown it on the floor, but luckily chose not to pee on my shoes.  If you will remember, Caleb is the strong-willed second born boy who just had a baby sister born. So, regression is normal right??? Normal, not usually used to describe our fam.

Seriously, two out of three children pooping at the same time and neither of them in the toilet.  As I write this, I'm still sighing.  Well. this is the way it is in the Cole household.  I'm sure there will be more poop to come :)

Well, This is the way it is :)

So, This is our family, the John Cole and Tori Cole family blog.  This includes our two boys- Ethan and Caleb- along with our newest addition little Miss Linley Claire. We've  decided to keep this blog as a record of all the craziness in our lives to share with our kiddos down the road. 

God has blessed me with an amazing husband for 9 years and three wonderful children who at the moment are 4, 2, and new.  (Yes, I teach prek at home to the 4 year old so rhyming happens alot around here. Plus I'm a teacher by nature and previous employment until we had the kiddos).

We live on our "hobby farm" that John and I have dubbed Cole Family Farm. Yes, original I know. We have a couple cows and goats, chickens, turkeys, and what farm would be complete without cats? John is an agricultural/mechanical engineer and ambitious entrepreneur.  He grew up on a hobby farm in western KY similar to ours while I grew up in a small town in western KY.  I'm more of the City Mouse while John is the Country Mouse you would say. But, this City Mouse loves Country Mouse and the country along with all the adventures that come with it.  

So, this is the way it is. Our family and all our adventures.