Just playing around with the camera

Second Casting

It was back to the Doctor today to get Timothy second set of casts. This time without the braces, good thing since I forgot to bring them with me. I am actually kind of glad that he got his casts off because I never would have fit him in the pumpkin if he had them on. It's the important things in life y'all.Bear taking a picture of me taking a picture of him

Waiting so patiently

All done. He didn't sleep this time but it wasn't so bad. I don't have any pictures of him getting them on because I hold him with the casts are being put on. Maybe next time I can get the nurse to take a picture for me.

Happy Halloween

I know that everyone doesn't do the Halloween thing but we do. I just love getting the kids all dressed up and taking tons of pictures. This year I went with a Peter Pan theme.Here is my beautiful Tinker Bell

My handsome Peter Pan

And one of the indians

(I think this picture needs a caption like "Hey Baby")

If you are in need of a mediocre laugh

Okay, so it's about 15 minutes before we are about to walk out the door for a child's birthday party when I notice the house is kind of smokey and my eyes are burning. The Ham! Oh man. It was bad y'all. This is my sink full of....... a mess (I'm so good with words).You apparently can't cook a nearly twenty pound ham in a pyrex dish that is 13 x 9. It was the grace of God and not smarts that had me put cookie sheets on the rack below. If I hadn't I think it might have caught fire and I'm not kidding. I guess seven years of cooking on your own does not make you a chef or even qualify you to heat up pizza rolls for that matter.

I had no choice but save what I could for the church pot luck the next day, sorry everyone. Here is a picture of some of the really over cooked stuff. You know it's over cooked when some says "Is this beef or pork?".

Just in case you don't believe it was really all that bad.......
I know, I know it looks like molten lava.
I really am a good cook, well unless you count that time I served my then boyfriend spagheti with rare meat sauce, or the time I tried to fry chicken without oil (more smoke), or how about last week when I nearly burnt the kitchen down making pancakes. Ya know, now that I think about it maybe I should just order in from now on. Maybe this explains why my older children are underweight.

Head over here for some news that will make you smile. And Brandy, we had the same shirt problem too.

It's a tradition

I have taken pictures of all my kids in a pumpkin on there first Halloween. Hope you enjoy the few that I chose.

Bear is getting out the "guts". I tried but he just wouldn't use his hands. No pictures of Kati this time. She chose to stay in because she is afraid of the neighbors dog.

I love my kids. Can you see they are taking pictures of the baby just like I was.

You just won't believe it

No need to rub your eyes, yes that is his cast in his hands. Grandpa said we need to call him Houdini. No, I'm not sure how he did this exactly. He was also working on getting the other foot out.

The long and the short of it is I had to take him to get the other cast sawed off, I forgot to add that picture and am to lazy to redo everything so I will add it to another post. Boy did he hate that. There was screaming, crying, hollering and Timbo wasn't doing much better either. We will go back on Halloween and get new casts. Any color ideas?

I should mention that Grandpa was so wonderful to help try and get the cast off but we were both just to scared so he watched the kids while I took Timothy to the Doctor. Was that a run on?

Flashback Friday

My babies first HalloweenKatibug six weeks

Katibug six weeks

Brendonbear six months

Brendonbear six months

Check back later to today for posts. I'm very busy this morning but there will be an adorable flashback friday (sorry I forgot last week) and a post about Timbo that you just won't believe.

I forgot

... ... to mention two things. He has what is called a static casts. Not really sure what that means, I'll have to look it up.Just last night I made Timothy's pants for Halloween. They are not going to fit over his casts so now I will need start over.

So I took Timothy to McGoodDaddy today. First thing he had me do was put the braces on in front of him. I get a gold star because I was doing it right. Since I was doing it right and he still won't keep his feet in the next step was to go with casts.

First McGoodDaddy wrapped them with some cotton stuff.

I got to pick the color for the casts and went with orange to be festive. Kati got to be his assistant and get him some soap he needed for the casts. I got to help a little too. Timbo's knee had to be bent a little to keep from irritating his leg later, so it was my job to keep it bent. He slept threw the whole thing so thankfully I didn't have to deal with any fighting or crying from him. I am so glad he slept because otherwise the Dr would have seen me blubbering like an idiot.

He is giving a little wave.

He can pick up his right leg; he is trying to pick up his left but is not able to do it yet. We will go back next week to get the casts changed.

I forgot to take a picture of his feet before they put the casts on so I can see the progress.

Oops, sorry

I never posted about Timothy's lasts visit with the foot doctor. We went back to Dr McBoogerBrains and he was polite but not happy. And let me tell you this man did not apologize one time. All he wanted to know was if I was in the room when Dr McGoodDaddy called him. Then he proceeded to tell me that he "loved being blasted" by doctors. What I wanted to say was it's not my problem if he can't do his job properly and got told about it.

Anyway, Timothy's new braces aren't working either. They fit better than the others but he still pulls his foot up in the brace. I have tried different ways of wrapping but no luck. So I am off to Dr McGoodDaddy late this afternoon. We will see what happens.

Four month check up

Timbo enjoy a little snack of pants while we wait for Dr McWonderful

He got four shots and one vaccine by the mouth. The nurse said he was a little flirt and that he had gorgeous eyes. His stats

Weight: 15 pounds 1.5 ounces 55-60%
Length: 25 inches 50%
Head size: 16 3/4 inches 50%

What a looker

It may be the ugliest baby doll in history but she loves it.

She bought it with her AWANA bucks. Even though it is sooooooo ugly I am happy for her. She saw this exact baby at the store a few months ago and asked me to buy it. Besides the fact that she has millions of babies and that we don't have extra cash lying around for toy purchases that thing is just not cute.

When I walked into the AWANA store and saw it I just rolled my eyes and knew what was coming. But to tell you the truth the thing is growing on me. And it probably has nothing to do with the fact that Kati named it Stacy.

I glad she got something she really loves.

Chilly weather is here

.....hey maybe I can save some money on heating/cooling because I just refuse to turn the heat on yet.

Not a fan

I have started cereal. Not a fan, never have been, never will be. All though I enjoy making baby food I do not like to spoon feed babies. With Bear I was lucky enough that he wanted "table food" right away (table food, sounds like I am talking about a dog). And with Kati, she was in daycare so someone else was doing half the feeding.

Timothy was too funny last night; I don't know if it's the taste or the texture but he would do this funny little shaking thing with nearly every bite.

Hello out there

I was reading this blog that I found from a blog that took me to a news article that took me to another blog, seriously y'all you can get lost in the blog world. Anyway, I was reading this blog and the woman gets 4,000 dollars a month from advertisers on her blog. Man, the things I could do with an extra 4,000 dollars a month. But before you get advertisers you have to get lots of traffic. Lots of traffic is not something I have, I get excited if someone other than just grandpa passes by. No, I'm just being dramatic. I know I have a few readers. I've got the grandparents, my mom's old boss reads sometimes, friends, friends from church, some family, people who come from Lan's blog. I even have someone reading from Georgia. Don't know how they found me but I am super excited to know they find our craziness interesting. Some people have even found us by searches, slip-n-slide, Chuck E Cheese, and loft bed.

So if you read our blog and we have never met before I would love to get to know you, leave me a comment. I mean it's only fair right, you already know my goal weight and you really only share that with your best girlfriend

While stopped at a red light today......

I glanced over at the SUV next to me then looked back at the light and thought to myself, "Hmm, that guy was cute" and then I realized "Hey, that's my husband!"

Don't laugh because I'm so blond just be happy that I still think my husband is hot.

Oh my Bear

This is what I did during church service. After the baptism Brandy went with me to take the older kids to the nursery and children's church. They both cried but seemed okay so we left. We returned and I thought I might actually get to hear a whole sermon! I was wrong. Timothy was hungry but wouldn't eat. I put him up to my shoulder to pat him and try to keep him quiet. I don't know if the people behind me were making faces or he just like them that much but Timbo started talking. If you know him then you know it was about to get loud. I tried as best I could to quietly exit the sanctuary, which is not very quietly when you are carrying a baby in one hand and an open diaper bag in a car seat. Timothy and I sat in the hall way but after a while I got bored and took a walk. As soon as I opened the nursery doors I could hear my Bear crying. I looked in his window and he was having the ugly cry. You know what I am talking about, the one where there is snot pouring and drool coming from the mouth. I went and got him and tried to maneuver in heels over toys with the baby on one hip and Brendon on the other. I do have to say that Bear wasn't crying alone there was a very nice young lady there trying to console him. Anyway once in the hall I got the tears to stop. He asked for a drink and this was how we spent the rest of our time waiting. Gotta love those water fountains.

Oh, this was too funny. As Cameron was walking across the platform Bear turns to me and says, "Mom, that boy walking looks just like Cameron!". Bless his heart we have been talking about going to the baptism for days.

What a blessed day

Sunday the kids and I (Jeff was working ) went to our friends church to see their oldest boy baptized. What a blessed day and we are so thankful to have had the chance to share it with them. I think Jeff said it wonderfully when he said, your child's rebirth is even better than the first one. Amen. Cameron, I am so very proud and happy for you buddy.

Okay y'all since Timbo is our last baby I guess I should get serious about the whole weight loss thing. I mean really for the last five years I have either been pregnant, nursing, or trying to get pregnant so weight loss didn't really matter. I am under the way of thinking that you should eat just about whatever you want and as much as you want while pregnant. My large weight gain this time around was due to cake, cookies, or ice cream everyday and I am not kidding. So I now have a goal weight of 135. Who knows, once I get there I might go a little crazy and try for my weight at graduation but I doubt that will ever happen. So you can just ignore the numbers that will be posted from time to time, those are for me because if I wrote it on a piece of paper it would get lost. I'm a concrete kind of person so I need to see the number continuously go down or I will just quit.

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What's wrong with my kids?

This morning I caught Kati licking the TV, that's right licking the television. No, there were no yummy commercials about delicious breakfast foods; the show was about the solar system.

Artichoke

Our new thing to try this time was artichoke. Kati said it looked like a dead flower.

It's really kind of pretty, huh?

Here goes the first taste......

and Kati hates it!

I don't care.........

how sleep deprived you are

or how late you are for work
this will still make you smile

Spending time with Paigers

I have to start my post about these shoes. They are so adorable! There is something about taking something for a girl and shrinking it down to an itty bitty size that makes it soooooo cute. On a side note Brendon thought these were Panda Express shoes. Does that say something about me as a mom?

Check out Bears face, he was so proud of himself for sharing.

To cute!

Bear said, "Can you take a picture of me in there?"

Get two girls together and they will definitely do the Barbie thing

Such sweet kisses

I just love this picture