I have 151 pictures of our Disneyland trip ready.  I’ve written a too long post for you.  A novel of boring proportion.  All it needs is for Joel to edit and it will be up.  Thank you for your patience.

In the meantime, I wish to share how horrible the boys have been to me since we’ve been back.  Kid stuff really.  Lots of tantrums.  Lots of “HEY” being said.  Some light hitting and kicking when angry and as I am carrying them to the time out bench.  Stuff they never pulled on the au pairs.  But, we are working through it.

My favorite phrase said so far was said by Nicholas and I have no idea where he got it.  ”You are ruining my life.”  When he said this, Joel shouted from the other room “Did he just say what I think he just said?”  Yep – didn’t expect that one until middle school.  ;)  He’s also said on a few occasions ”I guess I’ll just go to sleep forever then” which is like a knife to my heart.  I do still get lots of hugs, kisses and hair stroking from him too so all is not lost.

Tonight we watched a movie we got last year – Spooky Buddies.  This movie was way too scary for them.  We got out our guns and shot the bad guy over and over again.  Poor, sensitive Nicholas – you really do have a heart of gold.  He was very upset through most of the movie but wouldn’t let us stop because he had to see that all the dogs turned to stone come back to life in the end, and just like mommy said, good triumphs over evil in Hollywood movies.