A Day in the Life

Dress Up

2008-08-14T08:23:00.001-07:00

The girls are playing dress up and Samantha just walked into my room wearing tights yanked part way up and a tank top. She needed my help getting those tights up. Jack said to her "ahh Samanfa, you look so cute".

Glued to Your WHAT?

2008-05-18T21:47:00.000-07:00

Samantha and I took Nathan to his soccer game on Saturday. It was unbearably HOT! She told her Daddy that he was lucky he didn't go to the game. She told him "it was SO hot. It was so hot my underwear was glued to my butt!"

The Heelies

2008-05-12T09:54:00.000-07:00

Samantha has been wanting Heelies SO bad. Kristen got a pair for her birthday and it's so hard for Samantha to not have the same things. So i told her if she would pay for half I would pay the other half. She was all over that deal! Doug brought home the size I thought fit her. They did fit but not enough growing room. So we told her we would exchange them for the 3's. As I walked away I heard her telling Kristen "i wish i could have the 2 size, I really want the 2. (sigh)but...this is how my life has to be."

That girl kills me. How old is she?????

Chocolate

2008-05-12T09:51:00.000-07:00

Picked up Kristen from school the other day. She had brought home some chocolate and quickly pulled it out to eat. Jack of course doesn't miss anything and seeing her start to open that up he says in the most pathetic, and wanting voice "I luf chocolate" with this so concerned look on his face like am I going to get some of that. It was so cute, the way he said it. I just had to laugh, cause I feel his pain, I luf chocolate too!

The Name Game

2008-04-24T15:08:00.000-07:00

Last night at dinner Doug sang the Name song to one of the kids and they just thought it was the coolest thing ever! So they threw out names for quite some time for him to sing and he did every one. Then Jack said, sing "mommy song". So Doug did me. He beamed and laughed the whole time. Then he'd ask him to sing the "jack song" and so on and so on. Doug was so cute to oblige them the hundreds of versions they asked for. And that song, he's got it DOWN good. You know the one "Kristen, Kristen, bobisten, banana fanna fofanna...." I don't quite know how it goes!

People Die Quick!

2008-04-24T15:02:00.000-07:00

Having a little conversation with the kids yesterday while they were doing homework. Samantha for some reason mentioned that she has to wait till I die to get my cell phone (she had asked me this a while ago if she can have some of my stuff when I die :). Nathan, totally disgusted at her suggestion piped in and said we don't want mom to die till she's way old. Then he proceeded to tell me that when he is a professional BB player and he is rich that dad and I can live with him in his guest room and he'll hire a nurse to take care of us and check on us every hour, "cause you know mom, people die QUICK!"

Someday I'll have to remind him that he promised to take us in, when were old and annoying!

Kiss me like ya love me!

2008-04-18T22:44:00.000-07:00

The girls and I have this new thing we've been doing for a few weeks now. One night when I tucked them in I smothered kisses all over their faces really fast. They both laughed hard. Now they say "kiss me like ya love me" when they want to be smothered.

The bed time routine gets so tedious to me. It takes forever and each kid wants a book read to them in their bed by themselves. Plus the "I'm thirsty", I have a headache, I forgot something downstairs, can you get it for me?" Tuck me in again, blah blah, blah....with 4 kids it can go on forever! But I'm trying to not let it annoy me but to enjoy it for as long as they will let me. I think it's something they will always remember about childhood, being tucked in at night and loved on for a moment.

Nathan happened...that's what!

2008-04-18T22:38:00.000-07:00

This is what I found the other morning when Nathan confessed to having brownies for breakfast. I know the middle is the best part, but honestly! Could ya cut a piece out??? Well, he's 10, what more should I expect. It did make me laugh!

The Birthday

2008-04-11T09:39:00.000-07:00

Kristen has a love for her stuffed animals like a mama for her babies. Her newest webkinz had a birthday on Monday that she wanted to celebrate. I happened to be making brownies the other night and she asked if we could celebrate it. I said sure, we could put a candle in the brownies and sing to Barbra. She couldn't believe her ears, her eyes got all huge and she said "are you SERIOUS, your really going to do that???". Why not, we got the brownies. So we did. We sang to her stuffed animal and she blew out the candle. It took 2 minutes to make her day!

Cooking

2008-04-10T09:34:00.000-07:00

Usually, I don't much care for help in the kitchen. From the kids that is. There's much they can't do and I worry about them burning themselves. Plus, the stool, if Jack gets wind of it, he's all over the counters. Not that he needs a stool to get on the counters these days.

But Last night, Samantha walked in with her new apron on and asked to help make dinner. I was just getting started, and I said yes. She did almost everything on the stove. Poured lots of stuff in and stirred, being very careful with the stove. She had a blast and did a great job. I know it made her feel special and that made me happy.

Me and Jack

2008-04-08T12:55:00.000-07:00

Absorbed a few sweet moments with Jack last night. Trying to get him to go upstairs to bed I began crawling up the stairs as a tiger. He quickly followed suit behind me and as I stopped along the stairs to peek at him through my legs I caught him laughing and trying to growl at the same time. It was pure joy. Spending just a moment bonding and playing with him. Taking in his happy little face.

PROOF OF SUMMER

2007-09-18T17:50:00.000-07:00

We've had LOTS of ice cream. Even play doh ice cream.

2007-09-18T17:34:00.000-07:00

My 7 year olds legs in the sand

2007-09-18T17:29:00.000-07:00

Swimming is always proof of summer!

2007-09-18T17:26:00.000-07:00

We did celebrate the 4th of July

2007-09-18T17:23:00.000-07:00

A best friend makes everything better

2007-09-18T17:20:00.000-07:00

Baby did get to play at the park

2007-09-18T17:15:00.000-07:00

Yummy strawberries grew, and we got to pick them

2007-05-02T17:54:00.000-07:00

APRIL PHOTO A DAY

April 30

2007-05-01T13:17:00.000-07:00

Hip Hip Hooray! I'm done with photo a day!

Samantha ends it with a big splash!

April 29

2007-04-30T13:29:00.000-07:00

Apparently this is what big brothers are for

April 28

2007-04-30T13:25:00.000-07:00

The big swing from grandpa

April 27

2007-04-30T13:21:00.000-07:00

The first watermelon of the year... yummy

April 26

2007-04-30T13:17:00.000-07:00

The look of total distress!

April 24

2007-04-25T12:38:00.000-07:00

Jack is making himself comfortable in the play room these days. Love the chubby little hands.

April 23

2007-04-23T17:10:00.000-07:00

Ok, to document my life fully, here is my attempt at exercising today. I've pulled out my ancient Advanced Buns of Steel with Tamilee Webb (that's right). These white legs need some serious work. Apparently Jack doesn't think so.

April 22

2007-04-23T15:16:00.000-07:00

The bouncies. Big hit in our house. The kids enjoying a cookie before bed.

Not a great picture but definitely documents their life right now.

April 21

2007-04-21T17:01:00.000-07:00

A conversation between Nathan & Jack.

Nathan: Jack, have you been a bad boy today?

Jack: Nods head up and down for yes.

Nathan: Jack, have you been a good boy today?

Jack: (in picture) shakes fingers for No!

April 20

2007-04-21T16:58:00.000-07:00

Cleaned my room for what felt like all day. It needed a good deep clean. Feels good!

April 19

2007-04-19T13:38:00.000-07:00

Oooohhh baby, is it cold outside? Ok, I admit it, I took this picture last night. But I love it so much I had to post it as my picture for today.

April 18

2007-04-18T14:01:00.000-07:00

Yummy!

April 17

2007-04-17T17:37:00.000-07:00

Lighting was not so great but I think it's cool. I want to do this again in the sunshine.

April 16

2007-04-17T13:41:00.000-07:00

This is Samantha preparing for her book report. We were playing school and she decided she wanted to be in high school so I gave her this book to "read" and give me a report. She is seriously loving it.

April 15

2007-04-17T13:39:00.000-07:00

My girls look like they jumped out of the 70's. They love their dresses and so do I.

April 14

2007-04-17T13:36:00.000-07:00

Took this picture from the floor. Looks like the jolly green giant.

April 13

2007-04-17T13:31:00.000-07:00

Kristen came home from school telling me she did a very nice thing today. A friend of hers had hot lunch at school and didn't like any of the food. Kristen had a Hostess cupcake (her favorite, and we rarely have them) and she let her friend have it. She was very proud of herself for not being selfish, and so was I. Of course she got another one immediately!

April 12

2007-04-13T09:35:00.000-07:00

Little Miss Goldilocks wanted me to take a picture of her curls today. She slept in sponge rollers. So girly, she loves the curls.

April 11

2007-04-13T09:32:00.000-07:00

Triple decker peanut butter and jelly sandwich with the crust cut off...that is what I make for Nathan for school lunch everyday.

April 10

2007-04-11T15:47:00.000-07:00

It's the end of the line....time to restock

April 9

2007-04-11T15:41:00.000-07:00

My first flower on my new hibiscus plant. Yay!

April 8

2007-04-11T15:34:00.000-07:00

Jack found a quiet moment on Easter to enjoy some goldfish in front of the window. Yummeee!

April 7

2007-04-11T15:29:00.000-07:00

It's easy to get a great shot with this little girl.

April 6

2007-04-11T15:01:00.000-07:00

Love this peek-a-boo shot of little baby Jack Jack. He cooperated for about 2 seconds for this impromptu photo shoot.

April 5

2007-04-11T14:55:00.001-07:00

Samantha found a unique place to get comfy and play some game boy.

April 4

2007-04-11T14:52:00.000-07:00

Time to catch up on my photo a day.... Here is Nathan nearing the end of track break, apparently bored out of his mind!

Missing in Action

2007-04-05T14:22:00.000-07:00

I was going to start my picture a day blog, but alas, my cable is no where to be found. Surely some sticky little fingers have lifted it and taken it to who knows where. Not happy about it at the moment. So, I will have to catch up later. But I do have my pictures, they are just trapped right now.