Never ending day

Today seemed to be a never ending day, which is very unusual for a mom, usually we dont have enough hours in the day. Today was different though. Jaxson started off the day by waking up at 7:15 which for most people is not early or unusual, but at the Martin home that is a little earlier than normal. The kids usually wake up at about 8:00, and NO I am not one of those moms who gets up before my kids and has the house all cleaned and breakfast on the table, as well as being showered and ready for the day by the time my kids wake up. I am NOT a morning person, and I dont wake up before I absolutely have to. So at 7:15 my handsome little alarm clock woke me up, which was fine because we got to snuggle in my bed for a while before Ella woke up. When Ella woke up we went downstairs and had breakfast, which went very smoothly. Then we got dressed and left to go to the bank and the grocery store, I pulled up to the bank and started filling out my deposit slip and quickly realized that I did not have the actual check with me. This is kind of an important item to have when making a deposit. I start dumping out the contents of my very un-organized purse, while the teller is looking at me like im crazy, and finally decide that I must have left the check at home. Unfortunately for my husband, he happened to call at that moment, so then the fact that I had left the check at home automatically became his fault. After I had said a few silent bad words, we went to the grocery store, let's just say that Jax has a hard time not touching EVERYTHING in the store. After Ella's nap Jaxson and I decided to make muffins and cookies, im not sure why I decided to make both muffins and cookies, but Jaxson loves to help me cook, or in this case bake. While we made our treats princess sat in her highchair and had a snack and repeated her favorite new word "NO NO" over and over again, until Jax and I were laughing our heads off. This got Jaxson all wound up and he kept getting in Ella's face making the most obnoxious sound you have ever heard. This did not make princess happy. She began screaming back at him and telling him "NO NO" which made Jax want to do it more. Then Jaxson got out his toy weed whacker and began chasing his sister who was innocently pushing her shopping cart, this both scared her and made her mad, NOT A GOOD COMBINATION!! After I took the toy away from him Ella decided the only safe place was in mommys arms while trying to unload the dishwasher. So Jax decided to pitch in and put the silverware away for me...

After Jax was done being my big helper and Ella had decided it was now safe to get down, Jax came out of his playroom holding some sort of weird looking squirt gun contraption and told me that he was going to go outside and call for birds...

He came back into the house grinning and told me that the birds had heard him and now he was going to go get his toomataka (aka harmonica) and play it for the birds and see if they would come to him...Meanwhile, Ella took munchie for a ride in her shopping cart, on his head. She kept herself quite entertained taking all of the toys out of her shopping cart,and then putting them all back into the shopping cart, all while her tongue was hanging out of her mouth. I think the tongue hanging out of the mouth is what she does when she is really trying to concentrate.

After Jaxson had been outside, he came in the house and said "Mama, the birds heard me again and one even came to me!" he thought this was so cool, however his attention was quickly diverted from his interest in the birds, to making his obnoxious sound in his sister's ear when she came crawling over to him. Which then resulted in her throwing a princess tantrum. I would be just fine if I never had to hear that sound again, but im sure that I will get to hear it plenty tomorrow. Now that my munchkins have been bathed and are sound asleep, I miss them, however it is nice to have a quiet house right now.