jump!

suddenly our backyard has gotten a little bit smaller.
but the kids are loving every minute of it!

who am i kidding...we all love it :)

naughty stuff

last week our photographer gave me a magazine that is basically a listing of all sorts of companies & websites for cool kid stuff. i had to stop by and pick up some pictures today, so i brought the magazine along to give back to her.

olivia saw it in the car and asked to look at it. she was way in back plus i knew she'd crumple a few pages so i told her NO and that it was just an adult magazine.

olivia: "oh, so it has naughty stuff in it? like what kind of naughty stuff?"

nice. real nice. i can just see her telling her teacher at school about her mom's naughty magazines. ha ha! it's amazing & scary at what a 4 yr old will say!!!

a little explanation: once i told olivia she couldn't watch csi with me cuz it was an adult show. so i'm guessing the murder scene on csi = naughty. ha ha.

ryan's true loves

at 13 months you'd think ryan would be obsessed with his blanket, his mom and even food on the floor. nope.

ryan is obsessed with our tivo remotes and fans.

he knows where the fans are in every room. when he's up they are always unplugged since he knows how to turn them on. and he knows exactly where the tivo remotes are. keep in mind we've tried to offer him old remotes with no success. he knows a tivo remote when he sees it. (i can't blame him...i love tivo too!!) as soon as we set the remote down he races over to it and points it towards the tv.

so now we've gotten quite good at hiding the remote behind couch cushions or on the mantle. and when we use it, we have to do it discretely or else he'll have a nervous breakdown.

silly ryan!

super hero naptime

i'm always on the lookout for boy toys. garrett has a girly girl sister and he loves to play dolls with her. so lately i've been trying to find more boy toys that he'll like. we were at target the other day and i found some super hero dive sticks on clearance. the kids were super excited since they were just like the ones the barnetts have.

the cast of characters included: superwoman, superman, flash gordon & batman

obviously olivia grabs superwoman and gives garrett the rest. so i'm ready for some good boy fun and figured garrett would start imagining all sorts of boy superhero scenarios.

nope, next thing i know superwoman is the mother and the other guys are her sons. the conversation went something like this...

olivia (superwoman): boys, it's time for a nap
garrett (superman): oh mom! we are not being naughty.
olivia: i said it's nap time!
garrett: ok, mom.

later little later...

olivia (superwoman): boys, i'm caught in a net. come help me.
garrett (superman): i'm coming sweetheart!!!!!

so i guess i'll just have to wait till ryan gets a little older to play super heroes with garrett. maybe then i'll hear them fighting crime and saving bad guys.

at the time of this picture, superman was missing (and still is). maybe he's taking that nap.

(sarah, when we took the guys out of the box olivia says "oh mom! they don't have a B on the back!" ha ha!)

take a look...

just wanted to do a quick post about my new website :) see what you think!

sleeping beauties

this is how i found olivia last night.

the funny thing is that she always insists that her lights are left on when she goes to sleep.

the other night garrett woke up screaming...he wanted his hat.
go gophers!

i didn't want to leave the 3rd child out :)

our brave boy :)

here are a few highlights of garrett's day...from the tiger pjs to a yummy lunch at home afterwards...

just wanted to report that garrett had his surgery this morning. it went great! it took maybe all of 20 minutes. it wasn't a cyst as they had thought, but rather a tumor of blood vessels (or cells?). there is some fancy name for that kind of tumor, but i have no idea how to spell it. anyhow, the dr said his kind of tumor is most always benign but they'll send it out for tests.

we are home now and garrett has resumed his usually afternoon activity...watching diego. hopefully we'll all get a nap in this afternoon.

i'll post pictures soon :)

thanks for your thoughts & prayers :)

cooking tip

it's not a good idea to bake chocolate chip cookies at the same you are cooking a ham.
i'll give you a hint...ham turned out fine.

ideas

here's a conversation i had with a woman at the craft show this past weekend...
i'll censor it a bit in case any little eyes are reading...

her: oh, i think i've seen your stuff before. do you have a onesie that says "little sh*t"?
me: umm, no
her: oh, how about "my baby can kick your baby's a*s"?
me: umm, no
her: well you should carry those, they would be so cute!

mmm...baby clothes & profanity. perhaps a new niche i'll have to explore. ha ha!