This tastes better than....

Boogers!

I was working on putting B's tactile alphabet book together, it's super cute. They made a new letter each week during pre-school. I finally got around to assembling it. For some reason we were missing the /j/ page. I decided jelly beans would work perfectly. I found an old box of Harry Potter jelly beans and used those. Kent and Brayden were eating some:

Kent: "This one is supposed to taste like boogers.

Brayden: "This tastes way better than boogers!" Excellent.

The seven year itch??!!?

Not in the slightest! Kent and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary today. I am glad to say that we are as happy as ever. Not saying there hasn't been any hard times, our lives have changed a GREAT deal in the last seven years. Who would have thought I would be a (mostly)stay-at-home, mini-van driving mom of THREE!?! Not to mention Kent's travel schedule changing from week to week. Life is good and we feel very fortunate to have each other, our beautiful children and wonderful families.

Don't we look as happy and as young as ever? What you can't see are the three whining children pulling on our legs wanting to be held. We kept on smiling though, we knew we had three hours of freedom ahead, dinner and an uninterrupted adult conversation, ! :)

Wild Waters

It was a hot one, we headed to Wild Waters in Coeur d' Alene on Friday.

All of the kids loved the paddle boats, Brayden figured it out fairly quickly! Dani sat while Ellie did all of the paddling. It must have been like a luxury cruise for Dani.

Kent took this lovely pic. of Dani. I'm not quite sure why she is crying, my guess is that one of the big kids cut in front of her in line. Yes, life is tough.

Dani taking a break from all of the drama for a bite to eat.

Coming down the big slide!

The girls on the teeter totter.

Dani

Ellie! She decided she was done and got off on the way up!

Captain Brayden!

Tuckered out! Water parks sure do take a lot of energy! We were all ready for bed at 5:00, but we had THREE more hours until bedtime.

The saga cont'd

As I was finishing up my last post, I was getting ready to log onto the speech pathology website so I can do some of my continuing ed. courses. When I hear.....BANG, BANG, BANG! No voices, no crying, no screaming, just metal on metal. Great, the girls are out of their beds at nap time and they decided to do some cooking. They would never have gotten caught if they wouldn't have used their metal pans. I eventually went upstairs to find both of their new big girl beds COVERED in their play food and every pan/dish that was in the drawer. I don't think they have EVER taken ALL of that stuff out. (96 pieces of food and 25 pots, pans and spoons). When I busted in they were both standing on the sides of their beds "cooking" in the dark. I am proud to say, I did NOT laugh inappropriately, although it was pretty dang cute! They knew they were busted, and they instantly tried to "explain" what was going on.



Ellie: "cook, cook food baby" (cooking for the baby)



Dani: "kean, kean, baby" (cleaning the baby) She had ALL of the wipes on, under and around her bed that she had pulled out of the container and was using to wash her baby. (Somehow one of the babies got blue paint all over her, it has been very upsetting to everyone because it won't come off).



HHMMM



Me: "It's not time to cook or clean the baby (as I am trying to get ALL of the junk off of their beds so they can actually lay down) it is time to SLEEP!" The whole time I am picking up, Dani is saying over and over, "Kean baby, kean baby." Seriously, for the love, that baby is never going to be clean again, scrub all you want, but you have to sleep first!



We'll see what happens, I hear more banging around, do you think they will eventually get tired enough and collapse on the floor? Wishful thinking?



That reminds me, I had to work at 8 this morning, which isn't a big deal because we are ALWAYS up well before 7. Well today Kent made sure I was awake before he left for work at 6:45. I eventually got out of bed at 7 and got ready. I showered, dressed, put MAKE-UP on, and ate breakfast, all by myself! The kids didn't wake up until 7:40!! When I walked into the girls room, Ellie was lying in the middle of the floor just waking up. Apparently she fell out of bed, and just stayed there all night! We really need to figure something out!

Procrastinator or Inventor?

Before rest time today I asked Brayden to pick up the dining room. There were books, papers and markers everywhere. I managed to pick up the whole living room while he was still hanging out in the dining room. This is what I saw when I checked him out: He made this device to pull his stuff. "When the legs are down, that means you stop. When the legs are up, you can push/pull your stuff."

(This is his sister's princess table upside down). I tell ya, he's always thinking.

I had to capture Dani's new owie. She did this yesterday while I was working. She fell into her dresser where the drawer was out and whacked the side of her face. Either that, or Shelbi beat her. :) It is very sad and it looks very painful! Doesn't this look remind you of Bella (Kristen Stewart) from Twilight?

My quick project

I am a little embarrassed to post this because my friends have amazing talent. They have projects and crafts that are hard to even believe that they designed and/or made. This is mine:

Thanks to Kohl's and their great sales! I got the clock for $17.99 then printed out black and white wallet sized prints at Costco! All the kids noticed the next morning when they woke up and they loved it! It was pretty cute.

What has happened to my baby girls??

Oh my, oh my! A few weeks ago my darling monkey, Elizabeth, climbed out of her crib and into her sister's. Since then Kent has been rarin' to put up their "big girl beds." I haven't been too anxious, especially since they haven't been climbing out. Kent insisted it's time, so when we go on vacation they will be used to it, and they will be able to sleep where ever we are. All right, it makes sense, but it's going to be rough! He is in town this week so I finally agreed! Just getting the beds put together with three little helpers was challenging enough. We pretty much had to BOLT the door closed and scream through it. Brayden screamed in every few seconds to report about something that was happening. Finally through sweat and frustration Kent said, "Are you bleeding? Then I don't want to hear it, go away and we'll tell you when we're finished!" (This made me feel so good, Kent normally has an endless supply of patience, but this was enough to send him over the edge. I thought, 'this is why I can never complete a task/project there is always someone needing/reporting/fighting/hurting'.....) Back to the project:
Bed #1 being assembled.

Bed #2 being "converted" from a crib to a toddler bed.

The final products! (I know, it would be nice if they were at least the same color, but we got the toddler bed at a twins sale for a good price. Now they have their "own" styles of beds. Although, so far, they have switched back and forth twice).

Everyone was very excited and had to test them out! The first thing they did was jump on them! Kent put a ka-bosh on that right a way, we'll see how long that holds!

They were so proud to graduate to a "new big girl bed."

Brayden had to show everyone how he is almost too big for this one, and he needs his full bed because he is such a big boy!

The first hurdle was nap time yesterday. We were able to use Ally's party (see previous post) as a bribe to stay in bed and go to sleep. They did great!

Last night was a different story. Ellie fell out of her bed and was shrieking, I think it really scared her. Then it took her a long time to settle back down. Then today at nap time she did the same thing, except she woke Dani up and it was all over. No more nap. EERRR, not so happy about that. I think we will have to go out and buy another guard rail. By the time Brayden was big enough to get rid of his, it was trashed. The saga continues......