My Living Room Wall

Now-a-days Katie pretty much hates it when I get my camera out. She will not look at me and in fact makes really grumpy looking faces if she does happen to glance my way. It makes for lovely candids, her staring off into the distance or paying no attention whatsoever to the camera, but forget about getting that posed shot I need for my living room. Sigh. Here are some pictures of what I'm dealing with. I did get a few good ones......click here and check them out, and would you please tell me which is your favorite for hanging on my wall?????

Something Cute x 3

From oldest to youngest:

I have been learning how to make homemade bread recently. Many of you are wondering why would I want to do that, it's so time consuming and it really is, but it's very yummy and kinda cool to know how to do it from scratch. Noah is always so proud of me & the things I can do, it's seriously cute. He has been very complimentary of my bread and was downright amazed at the good looking bread loaves I was pulling out of the oven. When we went over to my mom & dad's for dinner everyone was sitting around the table talking and Noah whispers over to me, "mom tell them what you can do....you know, how you can make bread." He is so sweet.

Addie is so funny lately. If he sees anything, and I mean anything, in a commercial he wants it. A commercial for allergy medicine will be on and he is telling me, "we should get that." I'm all why? He's all, "because it has been helping people breathe easier for 30 years." Hee. He has seen the infomercial for something called the Snuggli and really wanted it. Imagine his surprise at going over to visit his uncle Mike and seeing that Mikey has it. Addie was so excited he's all, "now you can keep warm while talking on the phone or reading your book." Heh.

Lastly, here is a picture of Katie as I found her yesterday. She is constantly foraging for food you would think we never feed her. She is also a huge stuffer, why eat things one at a time when you can shove them all in at once? I think she has two strawberry marshmellows in her mouth and two more ready to go.

Sunny Afternoons

We have been enjoying a wonderful February. The weather has been so great. It's fantastic!!! Just yesterday after school we went with some friends down to the beach to enjoy the afternoon sunshine. The kids loved playing in the rocks, Noah making a rock collection, Missy just throwing rocks into the ocean and Addie doing everything in between. Everytime the train would roll by all the kids would be up there on the bridge watching it go by, at the end even Addie went up there-- although he did plug his ears. For more pictures from the beach click here.

Playmates

This is Katie's first little girlfriend. Her name is Emma and she is my girlfriend's daughter. Katie loves her and is always so excited to see her. Emma is about a year older than Katie, but they are still a pretty good match. They are so cute to watch together, they love to dress-up, and as you can see from these pictures Emma loves pink sunglasses too!!

Rose Colored Glasses

Well Addie is feeling a little bit better, although he claims that all the food I bring him to eat is rotten. The jello is rotten, the oatmeal, everything. Poor little guy, his throat must still be pretty yucky. Katie is beside herself that all the attention is focused somewhere else, not to mention her biggest fan, Addie, is ignoring her or is downright stern with her. She has been putting on the tantrums to compensate and get some attention back her way. Here I document a favorite tantrum of hers- The pink glasses tantrum. Here it goes:

Well hey, here's my pink glasses. I love these.

On you go. Wait they just won't stay on.

Get on!!! Stay on my head!!! Arrghhhhhhh!!

This is the face of frustration & yelling. At this I put her glasses on for her.












There really has to be a better way. Sigh.........
**there is an identical tantrum titled The Pink Headband

For more Katie being Katie click here.

Laying Low

Addie had his tonsils & adenoids removed yesterday. Having surgery performed on your child is always scary, but everything went really well & very quickly thanks to our great doctor. Addie was super brave going into surgery. He just headed right in with the nurse without any hesitation. On the way to the surgery center that morning, Addie sensed my mood & asked "what's wrong Mom?" I told him I was just a little nervous for his "ice cream schedule" as we have been calling it. He said, "don't worry mom I'm gonna be fine." He is fine, but definitely not feeling great today. It breaks my heart, but I know he'll be back to his old self before too long. Jason has been superdad, thank goodness he is able to make Addie take his medicines. Addie cries about it every four hours & I just don't have the heart for it. Jason is always able to be cool & calm, but also strong & comforting. Addie has had many well-wishers who have brought lots of fun things for him to play with when he feels more up to it. We are so grateful everything went so well and we are thrilled that having this surgery done is going to help Addie with his sleep issues. For now we are just going to hang out here with the Popsicles & lay low for awhile.