accidents and craziness and learning!

First, I will start with the accidents...Landry has been completely out of diapers or pull-ups since about April. There were a few accidents in the beginning, as expected, but she quickly learned to get up in the night or just hold (I guess). Over the last 2 months, we haven't had a single accident..until Saturday. She peed in the bed Saturday AND Sunday night! Ughhh. So I am washing bed sheets again today. I think it's because she has been drinking right before bed. I usually try to limit their fluid intake after 7 since they go to bed at 8:30, but we got off schedule this weekend and they stayed up late each night. She cried and cried because she was "SO TURSTY." (Yes, I know I spelled that wrong...but that's how she says it.) I am hoping we can get back on schedule and not have any more accidents...I am tired of washing the sheets. (I still can't get my blog to actually show any spacing...I hit ENTER, and it shows up while I am blogging, but doesn't actually show on the post...so until I figure it out, I will just do this to show I am starting a new paragraph!) Craziness...JR is nuts! We booked out Vegas trip for January 16. We are both really excited. We were hoping to go in November or December, but it's too close to Christmas and we decided to wait until AFTER the holidays to go...of course this may have been a bad idea too, since who knows if we will have any money AFTER Christmas, but oh well. The flight and hotel is already booked, so we will just have to work it out. We have been saving a little bit here and there, but now that we know we are REALLY going, we will have to step up the saving. Which brings me to the crazy that is my husband! About a month ago JR went to Houston for a guys get together. The played golf and did lots of gambling at his friends house (with Monopoly money, of course;) wink wink!) JR, apparently got on a roll and ended up winning some "monopoly money" His friend, Brendan owed him $300, and his friend Desmond owes him $100. Well, Desmond still has to send the money, and Brendan is supposed to send $100, but JR told Brendan to keep $200 and place a bet on the Houston Texans game, hypothetically; of course. Let's just say, he won the bet and placed a few more. On Sunday, he got OUT OF CONTROL and ended up betting $450 dollars...his excuse is that is was for 4 separate games, but I said it was INSANE and that he was out of control. He bet $200 on the Texans, and won $100 on the Steelers/Raiders game and lost, $100 on the Patriots/Ravens game and lost and $50 on some other game and lost...so in the end he lost $50, which he says "It's only $50" to which I replied, it had the potential to be $-450. I feel like I am pretty lenient, if he wants to "hypothetically" bet on football games, sure - go ahead...$100 a week, even on the games he bets $200...that kind of stresses me out, but I keep my mouth shut....but $450 dollars in one freaking day....not okay with that. He says I am being unreasonable, because he turned his initial $200 into $600 so he is still ahead of the game...to which I say that he turned his initial $200 into $1000, but it's now DOWN to $600 because he is getting out of hand. His response is, YOU WIN SOME YOU LOSE SOME. He says the whole reason he is doing this is so we will have more money to spend in Vegas...UGHHH It is soooooo frustrating. He makes me feel like I am the only wife in the world that would have a problem with this, that I am being a harpy, bitchy wife, that I am the crazy one for making a big deal about him spending so much. I feel like I am being more than reasonable, more than fair to say, sure go ahead and spend $100 - $200 a week on gambling (when really you could put the $200/week aside and have PLENTY of money to spend in Vegas) I mean, geez. $200/week for the next 13 weeks = $2600 pretty sure that would be plenty to spend in 3 days in Vegas, not to mention the $200 he won in his Fantasy baseball league! Ughhh So, am I being crazy and unreasonable? I don't think so, but maybe I am too close to the issue. Do me a favor, tell me what you think. The kids are surprising me daily! Logan is learning so much at school and I am constantly impressed with him. The do a little 25 minute reading work shop Monday -Thursday each week in school. They do it in groups of 5, so that each kid gets special one on one time. I feel like everything they do is in song, because he keeps singing things. All the numbers have a song, then last week they learned RED, which has a song that goes this the "Are you sleeping, Are you sleeping brother John..." except it goes "R-E-D red, R-E-D red, I can spell red. I can spell red. Fire trucks are red. Stop signs are red too. R-E-D. R-E-D." While I admit, this is cute, and spectacular that he is learning...I AM SO SICK OF THIS SONG!!! Apparently, they learned the song for Yellow and Orange as well, but he couldn't remember orange. I tried to teach him how to spell it, but he said I was WRONG..he was quite emphatic that orange does NOT start with an O...so I gave up. When he was doing the Yellow song, he kept spelling it Y-E-L-L-W...so I tried to correct him and remind about the "o"...he just got mad at me and argued. He said he learned it at school, and I was wrong. I tried explaining that I know how to spell, and maybe he just forgot...but he wasn't getting it, so I just quit trying. He was in tears and so frustrated with me, so it just wasn't worth it. He will learn it at school and his teacher can correct him. Anyway, he has started adding. He gets it a little confused...he will ask, "what plus 3 equals 4?" JR and I will answer, "1." Then he will look at us, count on his fingers, and say "No, it's 7." So we try to correct him...OHHHHH, you mean what is 3 plus 4. 3+4 = 7. He says it the right way about half the time...again, he will learn. Another thing they do, is each day they learn about a different kid. Every practices writing that kid's name, and the child tells the class about themselves. Favorite food, favorite color...etc. Landry is picking up things as well. Right now, she is totally infatuated with the Nintendo DS and Team Umi Zoomi. For those of you that don't know, Umi Zoomi is a kids math show. It's fun, but it's all about numbers and shapes, which is nice because at least she learns from it. We have the Umi Zoomi game for the DS, which is really the only one she plays, so for her birthday we are going to give her Logan's DS and maybe get her a Dora and Barbie game. Looking into some educational games that feature barbie and Dora. We are going to buy a Nintendo 3DS for Logan and one game...then for Christmas he can get the other 3 that he is wanting. JR isn't to thrilled with this plan because he doesn't think Logan should get a gift for Landry's birthday and he should wait until Christmas to get the 3DS...I agree to some extent, but Landry REALLY wants a DS and it wouldn't be fair for her to share...and trust me it doesn't work. They are constantly fighting over it! They do pretty well, I just have to tell them 5 more minutes and then switch and usually they do really well with that...hmmm, maybe I will make them share until Christmas. yeah, I will think about that, it will teach them the importance of sharing...I think I am liking this plan more and more, and really, we can still buy Landry the games, so it's not like she wont be getting a gift. Wow, I think I just convinced myself, I guess writing it out and saying it out loud makes me feel a little ridiculous for actually considering buying Logan the 3DS and a game now instead of waiting until Christmas! SILLY ME! I still can NOT convince Landry that she is 2. She continues to tell us she is 4 and when people ask her, she tells them she is four as well. We always correct her, but she gets so mad and insists she is 4. We try to tell her she will be 3 in less than a month, but she is NOT having it. She says she will be 5! Ughhhh, it's not really worth the argument, but it drives me nuts. She is becoming so independent. She will ask for a drink, but she wants to get her own cup, she wants to open the refridgerator herself and get the drink and close the fridge and bring me the drink. Which means I have to stand behind her and either lift her up so she can reach or just put the drink on the lower shelf and let her do it herself. When we load up in the truck, she want to do everthing herself, she wants to climb in and get in her seat, and put her arms through the car seat restraints AND she wants to shut the door herself...but she cant reach it once she's in the car seat, so this usually causes problems. When we get out of the car, she HAS to get out on her own...no helping her. Really, this is great...but the truck is high off the ground and sometimes it takes her forever which just annoys me when I am in hurry! I guess it's all part of growing up! It's a little bitter sweet. I am happy to see my kids thriving and learning and becoming independent, but it means they need me less and less which is a little sad!