Kids Watching Tinkerbell

I love it when they are agreeable and not bickering! :)

Misc Thoughts and Pictures from life.

I love the fact that I finally have a child that is a Daddies Boy. Once in a while he is at least :) Kinda nice to have a kid crying for someone other than me sometimes. Not to say I don't love my kidlets. But sometimes being needed constantly can be wearing.

I'm sorry but am I the only one that thinks that putting ETH on a pill is maybe not so good of an idea? First thing I thought of as those pills dropped into my hand was NOT Etcedrin Tension Headache.... (It was more along the lines of an illegal drug) Besides, Who else thinks the a red pill suggests relief? Not I. Red says "ouch" to me. Blue on the other hand, that is a color of RELIEF :) Though that stuff really does mean relief... and boy am I glad! Tension headaches suck.


EB is so funny around dinner time. He's a total grump usually and really hard to cook with (due to being hungry and wanting to be held as a consequence). But tonight he was really cute waiting at the dinner table and smushing his little face against the plate to make daddy laugh.

Oh, and last but not least. The best way to start a day? Not by breaking a favorite dish and in the process not only waking all the chillins up, but gashing your big toe so that no church shoe could possibly fit over that gauze and look pretty. Yay for gauze though, that stuff rocks!

THE END

Chop Chop

So the Energizer Bunny's hair was getting really long. Actually I liked it that way for a couple of reasons.... namely his hair is soft, so it actually MAY be conducive to some trendy styles. And on the other hand it is SOFT. :)

Anyhow, I found that I never really took the time to comb it like a should, so often after a nap the poor kid would get a rats nest type thing on the back of his head. Ew.

Well, so I bit the bullet.... I had Jer cut his hair. (and as a side bonus Goober saw and ACTUALLY wanted Jer to cut his hair - which is short already, but he NEVER lets us cut his hair, so next time we will try it instead of taking him to have it done! Yay for saved money!)

Here is the after shot.

*sniff*

Insert Witty Title Here.

In a my ideal perfect blogging world my children would pose very picturesquely for pictures of asinine things so that I could do very descriptive and picture filled blog posts.

Unfortunately this is NOT my ideal perfect blog world. You know this because if it were, I would have something entertaining and incredibly witty to say EVERY freakin day and I would have all sorts of entertaining (yet not permanently disfiguring) things happen all the TIME. But I don't. So meh!

Anyhow. Last night I pulled out all of Goobers old clothes, to go through and decide which the Energizer Bunny can actually fit in and can wear. I was totally mad cause I missed some WAY cute outfits for EB that he could have worn while we stayed at the In-Laws house.... grrrr. Oh well.

This morning I put EB in one of said outfits. If my kids were cooperative I would have a picture of him in the whole outfit. But I don't.

Anywho, Missy decided she wanted his jacket from said outfit and coxed him out of it. Then she proceeded to put on said jacket.....

Don't you love the semi drugged out tongue look? It's gets the point a crossed though. :)

Oh, and for those of you that were wondering, as far as valentines and Jer went.... I got him a toolbox. He's needed one for a WHILE, and it made me feel less guilty about the water softener :)

Happy to go to Church!

So yesterday I took my two older kids shopping for new church clothes... I should have taken EB too but he has had the Crud this week and I figured a nap would be good for him...

Anyhow, Goober was NOT very pleased with me for dragging him shopping, while Missy was all girl and was excited to go. :) Needless to say, they were happy to go to church today (they would have been happy to go anyways due to the "friend making" opportunities that church brings about).

So here is Goober in his new duds:

And Missy in one of her new dresses:

And here is EB (he didn't go to church today due to aforementioned Crudiness) just cause he's cute and I kinda feel bad not including his picture when I included one of both of his older siblings)
Notice the length of his hair, pretty long I know, but I just can't bring myself to cut it!!! I have before, but now it's more thick and I think of all of the trendy possibilities I have there. For any of you that have ever touched Goobers hair, you know that his hair is course and thick and that only short, shorty, short hair really works on him due to it being incredibly stubborn on top of it. Well, EB's hair is not as course and seems to have potential for actually laying down when I comb it with water... so I guess we shall see. I know, I know... I'm over thinking the whole 18 month old hairstyles thing. But where I've never had brothers, I've always been a girl (GASP!), and Goobers hair is so very uncooperative, I see potential for experimenting where I haven't been able to before.... MwhaHAHAHA!

Ok, so this post has now degenerated to the point that I feel the need to cease and desist. So TATA!

Random, Randomness.... and Some Pictures.

So after spending a few hours trying to find all the essentials for living at the new house I gave up for a while and headed back to Grandma S's house.... well, giving up was part of it, the other part was the fact that Goober was going to be home from school soon and I had no clue if anyone would be home to meet him outside of myself.

Today was my In-Laws 30Th anniversary so my father-in-law took the day off, slept in, and followed my mother-in-law around on errands all day. Oh, and they managed to stop by Leatherby's for ice cream too :) Yummm.

After lunch and homework time Goober and Missy decided to go see if friends could play and the Energizer Bunny went down for a recharge. And I, for a change, resisted the urge to do something "productive" and also got a chance for a small recharge :) Yippy... I woke up to EG fussing through the monitor and as soon as I brought him upstairs I noticed Missy walking past the window on her way home, Goober was right in front of her.

I must say the timing was perfect. So nice to get a little well needed sleep. Especially since I've been suffering with a retched cough. And by "retched" I mean RETCHED. I've been sleeping in a separate room from Jer cause I feel bad for the poor guy having to try to sleep through my HACKING. At least it seems to be on the way out though. Maybe it's the obscene amounts of vitamin C I've been ingesting....

The Energizer Bunny has taken a great interest in blankets lately. LOVES them. No, I take that back.... He loves walking around with them draped over his head blocking all vision and causing him to crash into random objects regularly. :)

Here is a picture of him bringing a blanket to me so that I can put it over his head.... though he can do this himself, I guess I'm much more proficient at it.

He has also taken to sucking on his fingers..... er, finger mostly, sometimes a couple. Usually it's just his index finger shoved in his mouth as though he is trying to poke a hole in something. The whole finger sucking thing was something that I'd hoped he would avoid. Goober sucks on his index and middle fingers when he is tired, upset, or bored, and Missy sucks on her thumb (while at the same time sticking her index finger up her nose.... fun fun.). Anyhow, hopefully EG won't get too stuck on it since he has only recently started sucking on his finger while his siblings both started when they were really young.

Tonight Missy was being hilarious. I think that she must take after he mother... boy does she know how to pester and tease. It seems to come second nature to her. Image THAT?!?! :) Goober was trying to play Lego Batman and Missy was intent that he not be able to focus on it! He insisted on laying on him, poking at him, and squishing his cheeks till the both ended up in peels of laughter therefore fulfilling her objective. She did it again and again until bedtime. I'm so glad that they can play that way and not end up in a fight (sometimes at least). My kids crack me up. So fun to watch. I'm so glad they are such good friends!

And that is all for the random randomness for today :)

All I want for Christmas is....

CARDBOARD BABY!!!! Boxes, tubes, whateva!

Keep this in mind Christmas morning: they will probably have more fun with the boxes then they do with the toys....

at least the littlest ones do!

Ummmm I Think You HEAR With Your Ears Bud....

This is The Energizer Bunny....

Guess what game he is playing...

I DARE you...


No, really, guess....








Peek-a-boo.

That's right... the game most children play by covering their eyes.

When he first started covering his ears pretty often I wondered if it was a sign of an ear infection or something.

Yup, it was the "or something" part of that.

The kid is just strange.

I'm pretty sure it runs in the family. (no offense intended family... no really NO OFFENSE!!! Awwww crap now I've done it haven't I? :D )

I adore him though. He is quirky and I love that about him. Stubborn as all get out, yes, but quirky enough to make me want to keep my sanity through it all. Which, honestly is saying A LOT.

Sugar Fiend

The Energizer Bunny is a MAJOR sugar fiend. And when I say sugar fiend I mean he freaks out if he so much as sees anything with sugar in it and you don't give it to him.

Heck the kid wouldn't even drink water without some kind of flavoring till recently.

I'm dead serious when I say I had to BRIBE to kid off of nursing. Honestly... do most kids require strawberry drink mix in their milk to drink it? What about Propell in their water?

Recently I was able to ween him off of the Propell, kind of....

He doesn't like water very much, but tuff schnookies kid! He's just going to have to deal.

I just wanted to make sure he didn't wither away from thirst!

Well today as I was busy trying to whittle away at the issues of whether or not to accept a certain offer on our house he got busy screaming bloody murder while clinging to my legs. Which, as most of you know, makes it nie unto impossible to move anywhere.

So I inched my way this way and that until I was able to maneuver and get him some milk in his sippy.

Which I then gave to him without further thought.

He gulped down the WHOLE THING like it was going out of style, as in, tomorrow!

About half way through I realized that I hadn't put any strawberry flavoring in it.

YIPPY! HORRAY! (and any other celebratory words you can think of! It's just doesn't look as good or exciting in writing does it? Shucks.)

Anyway, that is the story of how The Energizer Bunny got off the cat nip! errrr.... Nesquick

Ahhh. So, THAT's what it takes!

I finally figured out what it takes to get me to clean the whole house by myself in a reasonable amount of time. As in not 15 hours. And all while helping Goober get his homework done and making sure Missy is not UBER LOUD so that she doesn't wake up The Energizer Bunny.

It's a call from a realtor to show our house at 4pm.

Sometimes I wonder if it's possble for me to actually be really productive in a day. Well, I got my answer today! With The Energizer Bunny asleep I can accomplish ANYTHING.

Yay for naps!

Wednesdays

Ugh, Wednesdays are bad.

I honestly can't think of anything I particularly like about Wednesday besides the fact that it's NOT Monday!

Jer has scouts on Wednesdays (which makes my day with the kids all that much longer...)

And by Wednesday I'm usually just plain ol' tired.

last night I was really dumb.... really really dumb and stayed up till past midnight. WHAT WAS I THINKING???? Am I really begging for punishment that badly?!

Being a person who hates Wednesdays I should know that I HATE WEDNESDAYS... and therefore not make it worse by staying up till oh dark thirty! Derrrr.

So now I'm just plumb tuckered out.

And on top of that The Energizer Bunny keeps trying to turn off my computer via the power strip. Darn those bright little lights on it... they are like magnets. Except instead of metal... they attract ONE YEAR OLDS. I can't even tell you how many times he has turned off my computer mid task. And it's not for lack of trying to keep him out from under the desk either... the kid is like a reverse Houdini! Instead of getting out of places... he's a master of getting into them!

Little Li bloggy name change.

KK, so now that I have had time to get to know Little Li better :) aka as in more than just a couple of days (when I first posted about him) I've decided to change his blog name. No longer shall he be known as "Little Li" but as "Energizer Bunny". The kid is constantly going! CONSTANTLY. Till the battery runs out... then he crashes hard. So it seams to fit :)