My Tire!!!!

What was a seemingly uneventful day turned into a comedy of errors at the Taylor household.

I was upstairs getting ready for an evening of Bunco Fun, while Riley was downstairs watching Tigger and Pooh when I heard a muffled cry followed by "My Tire!" Riley has a few cars that the wheels come off and you can change them so I figured he needed help attaching a new one. I went downstairs and asked Riley where the tire was he needed help with and was greeted with an unpleasant "it's in my nose!" No people I am not KIDDING my darling boy stuck a tire UP HIS NOSE!!!!!

I am the worst person ever in a crisis. I of course am freaking out, which in turn is freaking Riley out. I call Mat and tell him I need him to come home NOW because Riley has stuck a tire up his nose. I won't even type what came out of Mat's mouth but it was something like "Are you kidding me" add a few choice words in there...you get the idea. I follow with a "no I am not kidding and I don't know what to do." Luckily Mat is calm in these sorts of situations. He tells me where the flashlight is and where the tweezers are (that I was just using minutes before mind you) and tells me to try and see if I can actually see the tire and to try and get it out.

We hang up and I look up his nose and low and behold there is a tire up my kids nose. Now I am sorry but WTF???? (which does not stand for WHY THE FACE?) Who does this sort of thing??? Certainly not my child. I tried unsuccessfully to get the tire out with tweezers, a bent bobby pin, my finger (which did not fit in his nose) all while Riley is in hysterics. I finally call Mat back and tell him we are going to have to take him to the DR.

I call the Dr's Office and ask if they still do urgent care. The nurse asks me what the trouble is and I tell her I have a three year old with a toy car tire stuck up his nose. With a laugh she tells me to just bring him in and they will fit him in right away.

Mat makes it home about this time so he takes Riley to the Dr's office. They end up sticking some device in his nostril to open it up and then it takes a few times to extract the tire, but they did in fact get it out. They then got flu shots (hey he's already traumatized, why not get it all over with in one fail swoop) which Mat tells him they have to get because he stuck stuff up his nose. Perhaps not the best parenting tool but if it prevents him from sticking objects up his nose we will deal with the fallout.

Needless to say Riley is fine and you would never know of his tragic loss of one white match box truck, which Mat threw away, because to put it bluntly he was not washing his nose crap off of the tire to put it back on the truck.

What to do with him....he is showing me more and more each day that he will without a doubt give us a run for our money.

1 match box truck- $1.00
1 trip to the Dr's Office $30.00
2 buckets of balls at the golf course to calm daddy down $10.00
Having this story to tell all our family and friends- PRICELESS

Nobody puts Baby in a corner

I am so sad Patrick Swayze died.....sigh. My life would have been incomplete without Dirty Dancing. What is the world coming to?

Where in the world does he come up with stuff?

As of late the 3 year old who is the love of my life says the funniest things. I may be in trouble later for posting some of them

A while ago we were saying our prayers. Riley usually prays for a baby sister, but this particular night he decided to pray for a baby brother. I told him that mama wanted him to have a sister. Without missing a beat he looked at me and said, You get what you get and you don't throw a fit! Talk about throwing my own words right back at me. Mat had to leave the room he was laughing so hard.


We we in Midway last weekend and we have been asking Riley to work on his listening skills (which most days isn't working so good). He was hiding in the kitchen while the adults were playing cards. He used to hide when he needed to go the bathroom so Mat asked him what he was doing, to which he hollered I am working on my thinking skills. Needless to say the rest of us had to take a few moments to calm down from laughing so hard. If only he would work on thinking about using his listening skills

Also while on this trip me, Mat, Teri, Eric and Riley went to Wasatch golf course to hit some balls and putt on the greens a little. On the way home. Riley said I love you mommy, And then he said I love you daddy. We asked him what about Grandma Teri? He told her I love you grandma. Then we said well what about Eric? And he said Well he's just naughty sometimes.

A few days ago Riley was hiding behind the kitchen table at home and Mat asked him what he was dong back there. He said I am not pooping, just thinking, so don't freak out!

He has started preschool and he has been kind of secretive about what he does there. They have a mystery bag they bring home and then bring something from around the house that begins with the letter of the week they are working on. We were asking Riley what some of the other kids brought. He told us a few and then he told us that the PRETTY girl in his class brought animals. We are still not sure who the pretty girl is but if he is already having his first crush we are in real trouble.

My mom and Tim got a fountain in their front yard at their new house. She called to tell me about it and then asked to talk to talk to Riley. She told him about the fountain and as soon as he heard the news he told her he would be right over to check it out.

Mat and Riley were playing with his animals and he threw an animal that went flying across the room and almost knocked over one of my breakable candle holders. He quickly told us, that was just an accident, I didn't do it on purpose, so its OK mom.

We were driving home after work one night and this guy cut me off hard core. I am talking I slammed on the breaks my purse went flying off the front seat and onto the floor. With out thinking I called the guy a dumb ass. Riley then proceeded to lecture me for about 5 minutes about why I shouldn't call someone a dumb ass. He told me I should call him a ding dong instead, so I don't get in trouble and get my mouth slapped.

We were cleaning up after dinner the other night and Riley came upstairs and said I just got some bad news mom I have a skid mark in my underwear.

Riley hates the smell of morning breath. Sometimes he wakes up before Mat and he will go down and wake him up. He usually tells Mat he smells terrible and then proceeds to start dry heaving until Mat gets in the shower. Unfortunately he has told me the same thing. I wonder if he knows his breath stinks just as bad when he wakes up.

He asked Mat if he could body slam him this morning. Mat asked him to please not do that because his back hurts so Riley said How about if I just kick your butt instead,

I am sure there are many more funny things he did but you get the ides. He is so quick witted. Most of the time he doesn't even miss a beat. And he usually gets the last word. He s an awesome kid with a bight future in front of him and to his future teachers get ready because you may have a little Johnny on your hands.

Riley we think you are fabulous, and we love how much you make us laugh.

50 Concerts

Oh WOW- A post........I Know you are shocked

50 Concerts

I think I have been to 50 c0ncerts but not to 50 different people

1- Sawyer Brown- First concert ever. Saw them in St George with my awesome Step-Mom and family on a girls trip
2- George Straight/Faith Hill- First concert I ever went to with a friend (Eugenia) no parents. I have seen him 2 or 3 times
3- Neil Diamond- My mom came with me to this one. We danced our asses off
4-Tim McGraw, Black Hawk and Little Texas- My FIRST date with Mat
5- Robert Plant- Jimmy Page- Mat scored this tickets for us. One of the BEST Concerts ever
6- Rolling Stones
7- Garth Brooks
8-Jimmy Buffett- 4 times in Vegas Baby
9- Tim McGraw/Faith Hill- Won box seats frm Bank One
10-Chris Ledoux- 3 times
11- Fleetwood Mac- FRONT ROW BEST CONCERT EVER
12- Billy Joel- Lacy won tickets from work and took me
13- Journey
14-Tori Amos
15- Alan Jackson
16- Collin Ray
17- Elton John
18- Green Day- 6 or 7 months pregnant
19- Jim Brickman
20- Black Hawk
21- Deana Carter
22- Shania Twain
23- Alabama
24- Foo Fighters/ Pete Yorn
25- Don Williams
26- Eisley
27- Prince
28- Tracy Lawrence
29- Celine Dion
30- Kurt Bestor

This s seriously all I can think of.....my brain hurts. You should try and do this too. It brings back some fond memories for me. Maybe it will for you too