8am...

And this kid wants peanut butter



I just want to finish my hair for the day! Lol


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Sibling love

They all piled in Lilly's bed and proceeded to try to convince me to let them all sleep there like that for the night. They love each other, and I LOVE to see this and these types of things happening all the time.





Ill catch Ryan in the middle of playing saying things like 'okay lilly, now you chase me!' Or 'Ethan, do you want to play that game again? Ok legs go!' And run off. Lilly is always saying 'come onEthan let's go play!'. I pray they continue with their good relationships with each other.



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Sweet moments

I live for sweet moments like this. I had been sick as a dog all day last Sunday, and before I went to bed everyone jumped in w me and snuggled for a bit. I love moments like these.


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Big boy

Well, it happened. My baby boy asked to eat cereal in a bowl, with milk and a spoon finally. He wanted to sit at the table like his sister and eat like her. Look at this monster baby! He is such a stinker!



















He's just getting so big so fast. I love how sweet he is. He will wake up in the morning and I walk in his room and he says to me in a soft sweet voice 'hiiii mommy. Good morning!' With the big big smile on his face. I pick him up and he buries his face into my shoulder and squeezes me tight. He loves to cuddle my boy. Loves his mommy. I'm so blessed to have such a sweet hearted little man.

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Lilly's art

Lilly brought this home from school the other day. She was SO excited to show me! She named all the leaf colors and told me about the owl... She LOVES school so much. She loves her teacher, Miss Lisa, and she is more than eager to go when it's time. I'm so glad she loves school!


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Hostage

My niece, Melanie, has a toy dog named 'Gaou'. She named him herself. She is quite attached to this little dog, so when I found him hanging out in our room after they had left the day prior, I decided to get a little creative.



We took this picture and sent it to both Ben and Erika with a message saying 'if you ever want to see your precious Gaou again, bring a large tub of name brand ice cream'


Guess who was at our door less than 30 min later with tubs of ice cream?? Erika! Lol. I love our family.

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The 'Bounce house'

My children left me alone for about 30 minutes to blow dry my hair the other day. It was wonderful!!! No crying or screaming or asking for snacks... Just me and my blow dryer!

Then I walked into the hall and saw two very guilty faces looking up at me. The linen closet was open so I went to close it... And wouldn't you know? The whole thing was EMPTY!!! They EMPTIED the hall closet of every towel, blanket, sheet, and wash cloth!! I looked around and didn't see any of it, so I asked 'Lilly, where is all the stuff that goes in here?'. She smiled up at me, eyes bright, and replied, 'Mommy! We have a BOUNCE HOUSE! Come look!' And grabbed my hand and started towards the stairs. Ethan is saying 'mommy, I show you!'. Came downstairs to this. Every towel, blanket, sheet and washcloth in the house was in this pile.


I did what any other parent in that position would have done. I made a castle fort for my kids.




Never a dull moment w these kids. Never. We did have a good afternoon playing in it, and I folded all our sheets, blankets and towels with a happy grin knowing that at least they had fun.

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Babies

This is Lilly pushing Ethan around in the doll stroller today. I laughed so hard. He was even strapped in and buckled. These kids are too funny.








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Unsupervised

I had the great pleasure this morning of doing my hair and make up in peace and quiet! I was shocked the kids went that long without screaming at each other or arguing about SOMETHING. Well, turns out there was a reason.

I walked into the hall and notice they are in the linen closet. I open it wider to see them and see that it is EMPTY!!! I asked what happened and Lilly says 'mommy we made a BOUNCIE HOUSE!!', Ethan echoed 'bounce house' and said 'mon mommy show you!'. I get downstairs and see this.



Ya. That's literally a pile of ALL the blankets, towels, and sheets from the linen closet!!!


We decided to make a fort out of some of what was already out.

That's what I get for thinking I can get ready in peace and not have any consequences. ;-)


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Bugs, basketball and bowels ... All in one afternoon!

Went to Nana's to say hi. Uncle Tony tortured, I mean played with his babies a bit. ;-). Played some basketball... Tried to put Ethan through the hoop. He wasn't having that. Lol






Ethan is infatuated with bugs lately. Just crazy over watching them. He freaks out if he gets cornered by one though!








Ryan couldn't poop for a few days. He was in tears it hurt him so bad. Nana had an enema... Soooo.... That happened. These are his faces as it was 'going in'. Gross... He was sloshing around on the floor in the juices leaking out of his booty!! He is such a BOY!!! Lol. So gross!!! Then nana had to nick name it the 'enema juice'!! I could have gone the rest of my life just FINE not ever heating those words!!! UUGGHHH gross!!! Lol!


He finally popped. Ill spare you the picture. Boys!!! Lol

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