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Waitin on the Bus

Caught up!

YES! Finally, after two straight days of blogging, I am caught up. I hope I never get that far behind again! Whew.

Few things:

I went to Brock's parent teacher conference last week and she was again singing his praises: "...so well behaved.... plays so nice with his friends... so polite.. works so hard... always obedient...." I was of course shocked (super proud, but shocked). Then she goes to say that she asked him if he's so well behaved at home and he whispers (with a smirk), "no.. I am crrrrraaaa-zy at home." I laughed so hard! At least he's honest.

Took Brock to the dentist and overheard this:
Dentist: "What is your name??"
Brock: "Brock-y"
Dentist: "humm.. Brock-y, do you have any brothers and sisters?"
Brock: "Yep, Brodey, Beans and Sushi"

Brock is still REALLY traumatized over frosting. He runs screaming when I put Lyla in cupcake pajamas, has asked me several times if I'm going to put frosting on Lucy's birthday cake next week.. and today when I told him it was Uncle Myles' birthday he got a horrified look on his face and asked if Myles was going to eat frosting. I bought him a "frosty" from Wendy's and he wouldn't eat it because he thought I said "frosting" and he couldn't stop thinking about it. Poor buddy. I wonder if he'll ever get over his queasy-ness to frosting!

Lucy's new favorite things: emptying the dishwasher onto the floor, and playing in the toilet. When we bust her and she hears us coming she really starts splashing.. it's almost like she's trying to jump in there. So gross. Even grosser... Jeff doesn't think it's gross! Last time she did it he wasn't even going to change her wet shirt! Gross.

Beans sometimes says words with all her letters mixed up. And it's so cute that I never correct her! (I know, terrible.. I can't help it) My favorite right now is: Pa-chack, would you ever know what she was saying??? Chapstick! I love it.
She also loves to have her fingernails and toenails painted. Also loves playing in mud and jumping on the bed.

Last night Brodey sat down and read a whole book to me. HE read to ME. Amazing. The book was: How do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon. (Thank you Clint and Kristin.. it's still a favorite!) I'm so proud of him and can't believe he is reading! And loosing teeth left and right, and according to our giant ruler.. he seems to have grown 3 inches since school started. 3 inches!

Anyhow.. can't end without a picture! Jeff found Lyla like this last night... asleep with her feet on the floor and her head on her bed!??? Sweet girl.

Baseball Weather!

This first photo I took with my phone.. how cute is our little catcher!??

Look at those half naked redneck kids playing in a bucket of mud in the front yard!

And my Brodey.... minus one front tooth! (Pulled it out himself! He was laying in bed on night and yelled... "mom! I pulled out my tooth!" ha!)

Behind

I'm a little behind on blogging. I have a good reason... I can't find my USB cord.. and blogging without pictures just seems weird. I'll push through anyway. :)

Brodey, being the oldest AND a kindergartner, I probably expect too much from him. For example, he has to get himself completely ready for school in the mornings without any direction from me at all. It's hard for me to get everyone up, fed, dressed and in the car to get everyone to school on time. One particularly "special" morning we were running very late and when we were almost to school he announced, "I wore this yesterday!" (and he was excited about that)... even if we had been lucky enough for no one at school to notice.. I'm sure he announced it to them too. I have a nurse friend who said one of the ways they are trained to notice child abuse/neglect is if a child wears the same dirty clothes to school everyday. Well... teachers and nurses, please consider us mothers of several little ones before you call DFCS... I haven't even washed my own hair in 2 (alright, 4) days.. if anyone is neglected over here.. it's DEFINITELY me. ;)

Lyla, our sweet sweet 2 year old girl has been poisoned by living with 2 older brothers. I know this because she says all kinds of things no 2 year old should say... especially not a sweet little girl! Last week she glared at me with both hands on her hips and demanded, "WHY I no say butt crack, mommy???"

And speaking of butt crack, I sit her on the counter in the bathroom to blow dry her hair after baths... recently she grabbed Jeff's deodorant and I let her play with it thinking the worst she would do is rub it under her arms. No. She very carefully rubbed it in the very place I don't want her talking about! I don't know what gave her that idea... and I would ask Jeff, but I think it's better if he doesn't know everything that goes on here. ;)

Trampoline Fun

"I do it"

Lyla kept asking to play play dough and I kept asking her to wait until I could get everything out for her... next thing I know she's got her tablecloth pulled out on the floor and rolling out some dough! She's getting so independent.

Date with Daddy

Chick-fil-a had a fun Daddy-Daughter Date night that I signed Jeff and Lyla up for. They took reservations and had a section of their dining room set up with table cloths and flowers on the tables. Lyla was sooooo excited to go on a date with Daddy! He had to work that day, so we got her all ready to go and she waited outside for him. She had me curl her hair and paint her fingernails. Sooo sweet.

Daddy was taking longer than she expected him to take, so she came in and had a snack while she waited. :)

Jeff said they had a really fun time together.. I'm sure this will be a tradition!

Oh brothers

Jeff went a little stir crazy during all the snow days so he painted Lyla's room. Again. And started it at like 5pm.. so of course she couldn't sleep in there that night. I told the boys Lyla was going to sleep in their room with them and they were SOOOO EXCITED. They even made her a little bed. They laid her pink blanket over their toy box, grabbed a pillow off the couch, put a coat on her (???), covered her with Brock's "camo" (that's what he calls it) and even boxed her in with the US map off the wall and Lucy Rae's push toy. They take such good care of her!! Truly unbelievable how long she stayed there like that. Of course I had to move her to her sleeping bag on the floor... but I'm proud of our boys for being so creative and loving her so much.

2011.. off to an interesting start.

* Lyla is 2 years old and really wants to potty like a big girl... several times a day she'll say to me "I haf-ta go potty, I haf-ta go potty!" To which I always reply "Great! Go in your diaper!".. Jeff says I've already lost the Mother of the Year award (one week in) for that one. Honestly though.. picture me in the back of the grocery store with 4 kids and a 2 year old bladder. No chance I'll make it to the front of the store in time to cram everyone into a nasty public bathroom, help her with her pants while balancing the baby on my hip and preventing the boys from touching any nasty thing they can find. Is potty training really that big of a deal??

*We have been very fortunate with kids who sleep REALLY WELL. In bed by 8 and normally we don't hear a peep out of them until at least 7am. So I know I shouldn't complain when we hit a bad night.. but man.. it's like they plan it or something! Last night Brock had a bad dream and I had to go hide the Curious George stuffed monkey that was "making him" have bad dreams at 4:30am. Then at 5am he called me in there because he was "all sweaty".. Lucy woke up after that squealing and wanting to play. After finally getting her back asleep, I accidentally overslept and woke up to Brodey covered in puke.
Me: "Brodey, when did you throw up??"
Brodey: "Last night"
Me: "You woke up, threw up and then went back to sleep??!"
Brodey: "Nope, I threw up before I went to sleep."
Me: "Was I sleeping???"
Brodey: "Nope, I could hear you guys talking"
Me: "????? Why didn't you yell for me??"
Brodey: "I did once but you didn't hear me so I went to sleep"
Me: "In your puke??!?!?!"
Brodey: "Nah.. I put my pillow pet over it."

Wow. And this was no small amount of vomit. I was all over him and on every pillow/stuffed animal/blanket and piece of bedding on that bed. Jeff checked on him before bed but I guess he couldn't smell it because Brodey was laying on top of it. Boys.

* Lyla was sitting across from Jeff the other night asking for some "ass cream". Over and over and over. Poor Jeff looked so upset and kept asking me why she was saying that. "Ass cream" to Lyla is "ICE cream" to the rest of us.

2011 should be a pretty exciting year for us! I can't wait!

Random things that still need to be documented :)

Every year we take the kids on a "tour of trees" to see every family members Christmas tree. I only had my camera for our stop.. but I'll get more pics from my sister from the other stops.

While making cookies one night Lyla was upset that I was too busy to paint her fingernails. I turned away from the oven for a second and found Jeff painting them! Daddy of the year.

This is our Elf. Brock affectionately named him "Mr. Hunkel" ?????? Brodey is a little freaked out by him and hides from him. Brock will sit in front of Mr. Hunkel all afternoon carrying on the funniest conversations. In particular I overheard him say, "Mr. Hunkel, will you please tell santa to put some candy in my "sock-ing", my mom ate all mine." :/

Again.. daddy of the year. All four in his lap is not an uncommon occurrence.

Lyla and I were baking cookies AND popping popcorn one morning.. she was so excited she found this little spot to sit and watch both! (I know.. very odd outfit)

Middle Children

I asked Lyla the other day who her best buddy was, without pause, she said, "Bwocky".

Shoppin'

Sweet Sisters

Just some fun pictures

"See my silly bands mama??"

"You see 'em??"

Lucy Rae snuggling with Brocky on the couch

Fun Friday

I'd been promising the boys we would play on their school playground one day after school. The weather was perfect on Friday, so the girls and I got out to pick them up and we had fun playing and I got a few cute pictures.

Brocky get's those little stickers for sharing or being nice to his friends.

Then we went home and had a few races while waiting on daddy to get home!

SOOOO busy

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