The chaos that is my home...

No one said that raising 3 boys was going to be easy but lately it has been down right difficult.

Mike has gone into full blown teenage mode. He gets grumpy if I ask him to get off the computer and do something. He is funny, he will fight me on something, huff and puff about it, then go do it and be fine about it. Case in point: the other day I asked him to get off the computer and take Sean outside to play with the kids next door. Mike did not want to go. He huffed, he shuffled, he even whined a little but he went. About an hour later I asked him to come inside and hold the baby for a minute while I unloaded the dishwasher, he came in and as soon as I was done he asked if he could go out again. He was having such a good time he did not want to stay in...I had to bite my tongue not to say "I told you so".

Sean...Oh Sean. Everything has come apart for my wonderful little 3 year old. Scott moved out, his big playmate and then Kyle from next door moved and then Chris went back to work. According to Sean nothing works right in his world right now. He told me today..."I only want Daddy, I don't want you..I will go to my naughty chair now" I am not sure why he put himself in the naughty chair, both Mike and I tried to get him out but he stayed seated there until Scott stopped by for a visit...then he was fine. I think that he is just having a hard time adjusting to all the change in his world. I think that it has to be rough to have all of these changes and have to process them through a 3 year old mind.

Liam. Liam will not sleep in his crib all night. Correction Liam will sleep for Chris in the crib but if I am there he will want to come into bed with me. I know that this is mostly my fault because I co-slept for the first year. Chris and I have slept in living room for almost 2 weeks. We thought we had him fixed and then he regressed again. It is so hard. He has also taken to yelling. I think that it is to be heard over Sean...or me.

You know and for all the craziness that it my home I would not change a thing. I am OK that Mike is doing the teenage thing because I think that is normal. He is still one of the nicest kids around. Sean is just having a hard time right now and I get that and I totally get why he wants to be around his Dad all the time (I am very partial to him myself). I do get frustrated that Liam will not sleep in his crib but I love those snuggles that I get when I finally give in and pull him into bed. He goes from crying to content in 1 second. There is nothing like it.

So no one said raising 3 boys would be easy but it sure is a lot of fun.