lullabye

i'm not sure how this Pet Shop mommy does it.

Three kids is a lot of work, let a lone a few dozen!!

super mommy.

Saturday will not come soon enough.

5 more sleeps

until we leave to see 'My Highness' (aka: Aunt Corin)

Colorado Reunion or Bust!!!

In other news:

David has had Bell's Palsy the past couple weeks.  Slowly is getting control back.  It's been an interesting ride for him.  Hoping to get back to normal for the upcoming Vacation.

(this is just the most interesting ailment of the past month...David had also thrown out his back as well as yours truly and I also was fortunate enough to enjoy a bit of vertigo for a couple days while David was laid up with his back.)  I tell ya, it was awesome.

still here

6:20 and i'm still here.

no rapture to report on.

guess we'll start getting ready for bed.

dang....and I forgot all of laundry needed to be done/saved for post 'rapture' Monday.

ok V. this is for you!

been so busy, haven't gotten a chance to look at the photos Veronica took during our 'photography class/week' together!  It was a blast and we both came away with more than we expected!

love this shot she got of Kaylee and Cade....they're posers for sure!  love how they're holding each others hands.  they can be darling, can't they!

kaylee is always sweet to pose for me!

so, while taking photos, Conner gets too curious and gets STUCK in the mud.  I go and pull out his tiny feet from the mud.  his nice new shoes are now muddy covered gooey messes.  that was quite a gross mess.

some pics of your's truly, taken by budding, manual mode using Veronica!!!!

me and the giant.

i'm usually not a fan of 'camera action shots' but these have a nice flare.....

love the green reflection going on in the lens.

i like the 'wind in my hair' although I don't have much to blow around, it's cool.....a little wisp.

changing

A few things have changed in the house.....just wanted to show a couple things that I recently finished.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE huge photos with no frames.  I thought this would be a great way to try a new 'faux canvas' wall arrangement.

I like how it turned out, and how cheap it was!  Can't wait to easily and cheaply update and change the photos when I want, without dreading the price!

the photo down the hall, next to our front door is their 'three head' tub shot....shown on the top of this blog (minus Conner's hand).

a couple for ya.

from last night.

we was havin' fun.

tos

this is kinda a re-occurring theme, but Conner loves toast, aka 'tos'

he eats it many different ways.

reminds me of those commercials asking 'How do you eat a Reeces?"

and what goes best with a bunch of yummy 'tos'?

can you guess what he is signing?

starts with an m....and ends with ilk.

His speech is coming along really well.  I was trying to help him find a toy a few days ago, and out of nowhere, I hear a little voice say 'I found it!'  Conner!?  yup, he spoke three words together and coherently.  His speech therapist has also noticed a big change in him when she visited us today.

not sure WHY we've been blessed with children who don't speak well...or normally, but it's nice to know that one day, they will put three words together and make sense.

dad

I love my dad.

I love my mom.

sweetness

after a rough Friday, it was nice to SLEEP IN today.  thanks honey.

I had a wedding to shoot last night.  Really excited about the photos.  Can't wait to share some on my photography blog.

We played at a couple parks today to give the kids some fresh air, and give daddy a break...at least that is what we planned.

conner pooed his pants after 1/2 an hour at the park, so he and Daddy spent the rest of the time in the van while I took care of some baseball photography and Kaylee and Cade watched alongside me.

After the game, we went to play in the park until it was time to go.  Daddy and Conner were 'enjoying' a movie in the van...

got this sweet shot of kaylee.  love her eyes without those dang glasses.  such pretty eyes.  pretty princess eyes.

scruff

while I was getting ready this morning, Conner decided to make himself some toast.  He helped himself to more than his share of the cinnamon and sugar.  He had a bit of a sugar high.

are all kids like this, or just mine?  little mischief makers...to the max.

conner saw me blow off my lens after a few of his 'whiskers' fell onto my camera.  he decided to help me keep them off and blew them off as I shot.

looking like a man with real scruff.  how does it feel?

it reminds me of when my dad would have a scratchy face and would take me and rub his whiskers all over my face.  good times.

duck.....duck........

GOOSE!

oh!  Mom!  Look!  A goose!  It's so cute!!!  It's eating our bread!  Look! 

here....want some more!?

WWWWWOOONNNNNNKKKKK!

aaaahhhh!

What's wrong Kaylee?  'Chikin?'

 Conner wasn't too concerned .  

he made a few good pals.

for mom

one of my mom's favorite photos of me when I was little.

My brother Reed was, I think, teaching me how to flex?  Maybe he can enlighten me on the circumstances of this shot.

love you mom.  you help me stay happy.

1 down....19 to go.

Kaylee lost her first tooth today.

the adult tooth is pretty crooked...it's been poking it's way up for a month or two now....it's crooked by about 45%.  braces are in her future I'm thinking.

She showed me how much more lose it was after school.  I asked her if I could try pulling it....she didn't want to at first....but then wanted to try.

After about 30 seconds....and some screaming and crying some alligator tears...the tooth came out.  She's very happy now.  

Losing the first tooth is somewhat traumatic....especially if your mom wants to pull it!  Now she'll be a bit more relaxed when her next tooth is ready to be pulled, but not very relaxed.  

I remember when my dad would pull my teeth.  I'd always get really nervous.  He would take my tooth, bend it forward, then twist it like a screw.  It was always quick, and pretty painless...but still...crazy stressful for a little kid.

here's a picture of when my dad pulled one of my teeth.  he got one of his dandy tools to take the photo with me...but he really didn't use it to pull the little sucker.

when I got married my dad gave me all my baby teeth in a bag.  they kept them all.  taped them up in tape with a date of when I lost that particular tooth.  crazy.

dry

conner woke up dry this morning...a great sign!  let's see if he keeps it up.

not a single accident yet either...another good sign....

it's starting to click!

biz bucket

two weeks of potty training, and still more hurdles to jump over.

i'm so scatter brained i forget to ask conner if he needs to go.  i've used a timer, but i'm too scatter brained to remember to use it...especially today.

either he'll be potty trained eventually, or his wife can do it.

everyone over here at our house is running around in their natures.  we had haircuts and somehow no one seemed to care to get dressed after their bath.

oh well.

a couple cute stories from yesterday:

Kaylee said she had to go to the bathroom during dinner.   She's in there and yells out to us..."I think I have diarrhea!"   A few moments pass and we're still eating dinner.   "Yup, I have diarrhea!"   David says some type of remark...like 'thanks for the update'. She then asks for me to come and wipe her.   I'm still eating dinner, so I told her she had to wait a few minutes until I finish.   David finishes first and goes to help her.   A bit later David comes out and said she didn't have diarrhea.   Kaylee then bursts out the hallway and says...."I tricked you!"   "I don't have diarrhea." ....now that's a potty mouth.... Kaylee is practicing her spelling with David.   She has to spell the word "seven".   She spells it with an 'f' instead of 'v'.   David enunciates the 'v' sound by saying 'vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv' to her.   She looks a bit confused.   Cade interrupts and tells Kaylee.... "V!   It goes like this..." and he fingers the letter 'v' in the air"