It just gets better and better.....not

Today was a busy day here in the Marques household. Lexi was up at 5:40 so I fed her and tried to get her back to sleep - which was useless. So I woke up Luis, handed her over and headed out to the Farmer's Market (no kids in tow this time). On my way home, I picked up munchkins as requested and after unloading the plants and munchkins took Jackson to meet up with Miss Jen to check his ears. He has been acting funny all week and I wanted to make sure that he was ok. Apparently, he is just busy being 2 1/2. Sigh.

Luis and Nicolas headed out to soccer while Jackson, Lexi and I played all morning. She is so close to crawling - she even gets almost into position, then decides to roll over onto her back instead. But somehow she still manages to move around quite a bit.

Jackson refused to nap, which is never a good sign. So I decided to bring all 3 kids (Lexi in the stroller and the boys walking) across the street to pick up a couple more plants for the deck planters. Jackson was adament that he wanted to push the stroller and I was just as adament that he could not push it along the street (no sidewalks, busy road) and that both boys needed to walk on the grass next to me. It turned into a showdown and I decided we wouldn't go. Jackson was mad and decided to run towards the street and give me a heart attack. TWICE. So then we had to all go inside because I was afraid he'd take off running the second I turned my back. The boys then proceded to fight ALL AFTERNOON. I almost lost my voice from yelling so loudly all day. It was like they were conspiring to push me over the edge. And of course Lexi didn't really have an afternoon nap because it was total chaos in the house all afternoon.

Fast forward a few hours and everyone is getting ready for bed. Jackson was upset about something (come to find out later that he wanted crackers from the kitchen) and kept trying to go downstairs. Luis was busy trying to get the boys in their PJs and teeth brushed amid all the crying and yelling. I was attempting to get a very tired Lexi to bed. I went in to help try to get the boys settled and started cuddling Jackson in my lap to settle him down. He proceded to puke multiple times all over me as well as himself.