Some hair. Finally.

So Ava FINALLY has enough hair to curl. Yeah! I love it. It makes her look so much older.

Painting

A little bit of some finger painting. Which not surprisingly ended up on Ava's face. Like every other thing does. Drake wanted a picture of his messy face too like Ava, so he purposefully rubbed some on his chin and said, "cheese."

Where to Start?

Cleaning up this mess. A little surprised by the cold at first, but she warmed right up and started playing with the mess she created. If you're wondering if I got the strawberry & blueberry smoothie out of a cream shirt? Dang right I did. Every last drop thanks to Spray n' Wash. What would I do without you!




Oh and don't let this sweet innocent face fool you. He was right their laughin' it up with Miss Ava.

Who's with me?

How can this show be so captivating?? I wish I could pop into the television and become a part of it. Is that insane? Okay, so maybe I'm a little obsessed and crazy, but rightfully so. It is that good. I'm in love.

Update

Ouch!

Brandon and I play on a coed soccer team every Friday night. Guess I won't be playing for awhile after this last game. Crappy. I hate being out of commission. I sprained it pretty bad. I seriously thought it was broken. I was surprised when they told me it wasn't. They said it could possibly be a hairline fracture they can't see right now. I might need a re-xray in a week if that's what my doctor wants. It keeps getting more colorful by the day!

1st Night



Day 2

Sweet or...

conniving, but still cute. Here's how it went down last night:

Me tucking Drake in bed.

Drake: "Mom, if I pee the bed I have to take a shower, huh? I'll come ask you and say I wet the bed and I have to take a shower."

Me: "Drake we don't pee in our bed. If you need to go potty we use the toilet." Don't pee your pants, okay."

Drake: "Okay mama."

So, I say goodnight, and close the door. Not a minute later Drake opens the door crying. "Mom I think somethings wrong. I have pee all over me. I think I need to take a shower."

Me: Ahhh! (Wanting to scream, considering I just put new sheets on his bed literally right before I tucked him in.)

Oh Drake you are a tricky little one. No shower, I just wiped him off with a wet rag, put new jammies on, ripped the sheets off, and tucked him in once again. He wasn't very happy about it, but I don't think he'll be wetting the bed on purpose anymore. His plan obviously didn't work.

Goofy

I think my children take after me in this area. Easily entertained.

Our Portland Adventure.

I took a couple of weeks and headed up to Portland with the kids to visit my mom and sister. Mom had back surgery a few weeks ago and I wanted to help out a bit since Ciara has a hectic schedule. We had a blast and I think we made more chaos around the house then help!

There was lots of dress up and dancing going on. We all got in on the action of course. We even had a spotlight dancing one of the nights with the lights off and flash lights on.



Our mischief makers.


The library and feeding ducks.




The Portland Zoo. Beautiful day. Sage is hiding in the stroller. Why is it the older kids want to ride in the stroller and the younger ones want to walk? If you enlarge this picture you can see my rotten stinker of a daughter trying to bite her brother. I'm excited for this new phase in her life :) Ciara needed a picture of Herbie for one of the frames in her house. Man that little bugger is hard to catch. He doesn't sit still. I think this bottom one is the best I caught??



Oregon is gorgeous and soooo green. It only rained a couple of days while we were up there. Surprisingly. Here's little Herbie sportin' his cute little umbrella. Oh, I love him.


Drake fussing because he was cold and wanted his blanket.




I had one request while visiting Ciara. I wanted to go to the Oregon Coast. We were at the beach for maybe 10 minutes. The tide came up and swept Sage off her feet. As you can see she wasn't very happy. It was cold and she was soaked from head to toe. Everything except her beanie was wet. How is that possible? I couldn't help but laugh. Ciara and I both just kept looking at each other and bustin' up. Chaos..I guess that's the way we roll. We stripped her down and wrapped a big blanket around her.