A Family in Chaos

So we have Murphie home after exactly a one month stay in the NICU!! Jen would be 37 weeks today! Murph is tiny, at 5 Lbs 3 Oz, she is a peanut! She sleeps beside us in her bassinet, and because her premature body is still so underdeveloped, she pretty much just sleeps, eats, and craps!!! As she lay in her bassinet tonight she was fussing around and ripping unbelievably loud farts! I guess, being a man, I could not help but laugh….at every one!! Which leads us to the most current blog….

My kids make me laugh everyday…the little kids just say & do stuff without even knowing it….but my 14 year old just has that warped sense that Jen & I have….thank God, or he would really be embarrassed!!

They all have their cute little things they say that you wanna write down in that journal, you know, the one you always talk about starting but never do!!

Like Addison telling me that her “zucchini” still fits!!

Or Cooper trying to take a way my “Hellphone”, which Jen thinks is prophetic!

But my favorites are the ones that are really funny, but not quite as cute….

My kids are VERY competitive…about EVERYTHING!!! One of those endearing traits they get from their MOTHER!!! So they have to be first at everything, especially Addie Cake!! She is always letting everyone know that she beat you, and she has taught that lesson well to the innocent little 2 year old, who stood triumphantly at the top of the stairs, hands in the air, and proudly proclaims, “I beat you Addie, your a LOSER!!”

Or Addie trying to get Cooper to quit teasing her, “Cooper, daddy’s gonna beat your ASS!!” AGAIN, obviously this is the influence of their MOTHER…she is a serious potty mouth! I have voiced my concerns to her countless times… she has GOT to watch what she says in front of these children!!!

One of my favorites was when Riley was about 5 years old, Jen took him Christmas shopping in Nordstroms. During Christmastime, Nordstroms had a karoke machine set up for a demo. While Jen shopped, Riley picked up the mic, and with the volume maxed out, starting singing, “I did it all for the NOOKIE, yeah, the NOOKIE….” Yep, you got it…Mom loved Limp Bizket!!! And obviously, let my boy rock out in the car!!!

I just don’t know about what kind of influence she is on my children, Im thinking of calling Dr. Phil!!!