We Love Uncle Jerm!

Jeremy, Jade, Jayna, and baby Jack came over for dinner this weekend. It was great to see them! It's so pathetic that we live in the same city (granted on complete opposite sides) but we rarely see each other. Miss Jayna is as beautiful as a china doll. She gives great hugs! Jackson is so big...and wouldn't you know it...he's got his daddy's eyelashes! Lucky kid!

The four older kids had a great time chasing each other around and Jack really seemed to enjoy rolling into his mommy's plate of potatoes.

Uncle Jerm is definitely a favorite with my kids. Why wouldn't he be? He's a human helicopter and climbing wall!

I love you little brother!

Just Another Day In Paradise!

Today has been one for the books and it's not even half over! I went to bed with a migraine and thus woke up with a "headache hangover".
*4 AM - Ana screams that she's out of toilet paper
*4:30 AM - computer downstairs begins running loudly and making wacky noises (we expect the silly thing to go up in smoke any day now...literally)
*5 AM - Jared's alarm goes off to wake him up for his glamorous early morning seminary calling
*6 AM - Luke wakes up to puke his poor little insides out
*7 Am - Starving pregnant lady craves homemade applesauce muffins and all the eggs (pushed carelessly to the back of our high-quality refrigerator) are frozen solid and cracked from the frigid temperatures
-Between then and now...
*Slingshot (our hyper-active mutt) leaves dirty paw prints all over my freshly mopped floors
*Olivia is caught with a sheet of felt dots (the kind you put on the feet of your furniture) sticking them all over her naked body, dumps my purse, and begins throwing herself on the floor in a tantrum because I won't give her a peenubud and hunnnneee jojess (peanutbutter and honey sandwich)
*Strange smells begin to permeate the air around the kitchen and I find the disposal is leaking under the sink right into the dog food! Yuck!)
*Olivia wants to use the potty (no success this time, but it's a promising start!)
Not a bad morning all-in-all but man am I tired!

Tiny Dancer

Analee woke me up this morning with leotard and tights in hand determined to be a ballerina today. I've got to get this girl in dance classes!

Curse Words at Kindergarten

Jared is on vacation this week so he took Luke to school this morning. While there something occured to cause him to "swear". In a burst of frustration Jared shouted, "Dang it!" (the outlawed D-word). Luke looked at his dad in shock and horror and stated, "Dad, we don't say that!" Jared appologized and in reply Luke stated, "I'm always watching out for you, Dad" with that big goofy smile that we love so much.

Hair-raising Consequences

Livi was being a trouble maker yesterday! She was pulling cards and lipgloss out of my purse, grabbing shoes out of the closet and dragging them behind her by their laces, knocking over water bottles, turning the tv on and off (in the middle of Veggie Tales!!! the audacity!) and not sharing the dog toys. How do you stop such a destructo-beast? Easy! I threatened to do her hair! She shreiked in horror and the behavior stopped immediately. Funny girl!

A Day at the Spa

On my birthday, Luke and Ana ran into my bedroom at the crack of dawn with some exciting news that obviously couldn't wait until after 6 AM. I was to be the recipient of a most exquisitely relaxing pedicure given by none other than my two little sleep accosters. By the end of my spa session my tiny toenails held a rainbow of three colors of polish and two colors of sparkles.
With my growing belly becoming a hinderance to my polishing my own toes, Ana continues to paint my toes on a regular basis. She does a pretty good job. If nothing else, we get some good girl time in!

Hi Ho Cheerios!

While eating a handful of cereal this morning Ana decided to play her favorite game in a new way. “Look, Mom! I’m playing Hi Ho Cheerios!” (Hi Ho Cherrio is her favorite board game.)

February 21, 2008