Kids, Life & Chaos!

It’s tradition in our house to begin Christmas as fast as we possibly can without overshadowing Thanksgiving.  SO, the day after thanksgiving we wake up early, pull all the christmas boxes down from the attic and begin the full day of decorating and putting up our christmas tree.  YEP, I said putting up the tree. [...]

My oldest son went to bed the other night and after about an hour he suddenly snuck out and quietly but loudly called out to my wife and I while we were watching a movie.  We paused the movie and asked him to head over and see what’s up.  He slowly walks over to us [...]

Probably every man’s fear…  You get a text while your out mid-evening, your wife telling you the kids saw something looking through the kitchen window.  No more information than that and your not home to deal with it…. WHAT DO YOU DO!!? I get a text from my wife that says… Tyler and Kyle said [...]

The boys and I played Lego Rockband last night.  When they went to bed, I was walking by their room and overheard Kyle (7rs) singing one of the songs on Rockband.   Then I heard Tyler (3.5yrs)  repeating the chorus.  Turns out Kyle was trying to teach Tyler the song. The only problem is that Tyler was [...]

Last Thursday was a milestone in our family.  My oldest son Kyle (5yrs) started Kindergarten.  KINDERGARTEN!  First of all, Kyle doesn’t feel like your typical Kindergartner.  He talks, acts and plays alot older than a 5 year old and alot of times it’s hard to treat him like one.  You almost want to sit him [...]

This morning, Tyler woke up with a fever.  Usually, Suriana walks Kyle to school but considering it’s below 40 in the mornings, she decided it would be best to drive Kyle to school.  Usually Kyle would whine and cry because he loves to walk to school (across the street) but he understood Tyler was sick and [...]

Ty begged and begged to go outside with Kyle to play in the snow.  His begging consisted of lots of temper tantrums, pounding the backdoor and screaming….   SOOOooo…  We bundled him up and took him outside.  The video tells the rest of the story… Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share [...]

Tonight I was at the store and bought a new toothbrush that came in a pack of 6. When I got home, Kyle saw them and wanted one, so I let him pick a color and everything is good. Of course, then suddenly we hear small footsteps come flying into the bathroom and Tyler notices [...]

Okay, here’s the quick recap.. Kyle loves monster trucks. He wants to be a monster truck driver when he grows up. He has all the hot wheels monster trucks and the movie. How did he develop this deep affection for monster trucks??? I have no idea! He loves them though. So, saying all of that… [...]

Over the past few months our 2.5 year old (TYLER) has developed quite the personality.  He’s gone from being very quiet, hands in the pocket kind of boy, to a climbing, yelling, quite tempered, jokester.  Recently, Suriana has been trying to describe to me a certain type of attitude that Tyler gets when he doesn’t [...]

You guessed it.  We took Kyle to go see the movie, “Where The Wild Things Are”.  I’m not quite sure who enjoyed the movie more between Kyle, Suriana or I.  It’s a toss up between Kyle and I. It definitely had an adult theme to it.  Although, I remember when I was around that age [...]

The other night I allowed Kyle to stay up past his bedtime to watch a documentary on Sharks.  The deal we made was that instead of reading him a story at bedtime, Kyle could finish watching the Shark documentary. The show ends and it’s time for bed.  We get him dressed in his PJ’s, brush [...]

I’m 33 years old and would like to think I’m still 23.  I’m still fooling myself to think that I can stay up until 4am and then wake up at 6am and be just fine.   It was New Years Eve last night and we had family over.  We ended up staying up until 4am. [...]

Tyler’s 3 years old and still learning to pronounce his words clearly.  Tonight though he spoke perfect english…   Out of the blue he says: Dad’s my man! Mom’s my heart! Oh yeah! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments [...]

For the past couple years, Kyle would sneak off to his bedroom, the bathroom or our bedroom and put on a costume over his clothes.  These costumes that he puts on have foam implanted in the chest and arms to make it look like he has muscles and is larger than he really is.  Here’s [...]

I wanted to follow-up on my last post, “6 Year Old Living With A Burden“…. (read this first, if you haven’t already…) Yesterday I came home from work and was in the kitchen talking with Suriana and Kyle came running around the corner and I was shocked to see him dressed in his Captain America costume. [...]

Every night if the boys eat all of their dinner then we give them a treat before bedtime.  Sometimes it’s a small bowl of ice cream, sometimes it’s popcorn and sometimes we shoot ourselves in the foot and give them a piece of candy.   WELL, tonight before dinner Kyle noticed in our pantry a [...]

Tonight as I was installing a chandelier in our bedroom, Suriana was helping me while the boys were running around screaming, playing and laughing.  Suriana and I were really trying to concentrate on making sure we hooked it up the right way, as well as, making sure we didn’t drop it at the same time. [...]

This afternoon Suriana and Tyler (3.5 years old) are in the car and on their way to pick up Kyle from school.  As it’s raining outside, Tyler suddenly tells Suriana… Mom!  My dad…  my dad can stop the rain!! Suriana a little shocked said back to Tyler… Huh?  Did you say Dad can stop the [...]

The boys and I turned out family room into a movie set the other night.  Needless to say it was raining outside and we had watched to many episodes of Johnny Test and Spongebob….    What happens when you combine all of that into one night… THIS…. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook [...]