That Payton! He is a funny one.

I have a couple of blogs to add. So here is the next one about Payton again. I went up stairs to check on kids about an hour after I had put them in bed. And I went into Spencer and Paytons room and again could not find Payton. I thought oh no not again. So I headed to Camerons room to see if he was under the bed and noticed the bathroom light on. I opened the door and Payton was sitting on the toilet. I said "Payton, Payton" He looked up at me and I started laughing. He had fallen asleep on the toilet! I said "What are you doing, are you taking a nap." He looked at me dazed and confused and said "I don't know what I'm doing." I said " Did you forget that you were going to the bathroom." His response "Yes." He got up and went and got into bed. I guess the toilet got uncomfortable!

I have a trick for getting kids out of bed!

Anthony and I went to Lowes a couple of nights ago to get odd and end things. One of them happened to be a duster so that I could reach high for cob webs and clean the curtains and all that other cleaning junk! So I brought it home and I was actually excited to try it out. I proceeded to clean some of the cob webs out of the corners and the dust off my curtains. It worked. It was great. So I turned around and was messing with the kids with it and Aaron screamed his head off. It scared the crud out of him. I figure my kids need a little teasing now and then so I proceeded to chase him with the duster. Not really chaseing because it had an extention on it. So he was on one side of the table and I was on the other and he had this look like Ha Ha Ha you can't get me. I thought Ha Ha Ha, oh yes I can. I extended the rod and he ran up the stairs screaming his head off. Well after all that it was time for bed and I told them you have 2 minutes to get in bed, no talking, no more drinks and no more potty breaks. So naturally my kids go up and think it's social hour! Aaron starts talking and laughing. So what do you think I did. YES I did, I walked up stairs with my duster and only had to show it to him and all of a sudden he got quiet. I didn't hear a peep out of him! It was wonderful. So the next morning my alarm went off at 6:00 I went in to wake up the kids and Aaron was already up and ready and down stairs. So when I asked why he was up he said "I didn't want the duster on my head!" NOw if you know Aaron I usually have to wake him up for about a 1/2 hour and it is obnoxcious!!!!! Victory. I found something that works!! I only wish I had this Last August at the start of the school year! I will have to show a picture later.

PAYTON!!!!!!

Alright all you parents. For those of you that have lost a child you will understand. So my back has been hurting since it went out last week and so I decided to take a Soma last night to relax me so I could sleep. I went to bed at around 9:30 and was woken up by Anthony. He came in and said "Holli... Holli....wake up. I can't find Payton!. I said "what, you can't find Payton?" I was out of it due to the Soma, I felt a little loopy, so I wasn't exactly clear on what he was saying. Anthony said "Get up and help me look for him." So I layed there until it registered that Payton was no where to be found. I get up (stumbled a couple of times) and started looking for Payton. I woke up a couple of kids asking if they knew where Payton was. Anthony had already looked for him for 5 or 10 minutes before I was awoken. So by now we have been looking for him for about 15 minutes! I am now getting panicked. Anthony says "Did we leave him somewhere?" I look at him like, What the heck, NO we didn't leave him anywhere! so Anthony is looking real worried now and is down stairs calling for him I go in to Cameron's room and say loudly PAYTON!!! PAYTON!!!! and I hear this faint "what mom" I say where the heck are you. so a foot comes out from under Cameron's bed and slowly Payton comes out from under the bed. So I call Athony, "LOVER I found him." He comes up and says what the heck are you doing and takes him into bed. SO even with Soma in my system it took me a good 1/2 hour to an hour to go back to bed. This morning when asked what he was doing Payton smiles and says, "I was trying to scare Cameron and I fell asleep!" I swear that kid is going to do me in!!!

SKATELAND FUN?

So we decided to take the kids to Skateland!! It was free...and ya can't beat FREE...and the kids were all excited to go! Anyway.....they all thought skating would be EASY because they are all very good on skateboards....and ripsticks. They thought it would be easy until they actually tied their skates on their feet!! After 3 hours of skating, we had SEVERAL bruised knees, blistered feet, sore bums and tired kids....but it really was fun. Anything we can do together is FUN!!

It's about TIME!!

We are PROUD to introduce the begining of the Jeffers Family BLOG!!! After LOTS of pressure from LOTS of people.....well - I gave in. Don't count on seeing this updated very often.....but I will do my best to keep you all posted on what is going on with us. This will be an INTERESTING ride!!!