Cash

Today I drove through the ATM to get a little cash for Bunco tonight. I was explaining to Kristen what I was doing and for some reason she thought I was mailing mail. Once I got the cash i showed it to her and said, "See I just took a twenty dollar bill out of my bank account and this is called cash. This twenty dollar bill means that I have twenty dollars". To that she replied, "Oh yeah, I see, can you put that in my wallet?"

Time flies...

Well hello and a huge I am sorry for slacking on my blog. I feel like a whole lot hasn't gone on around here, but then again I feel really busy! What's with that? I guess it's all in raising two little ones and being pregnant at the same time! This baby inside me is sucking the life out of me..I hope he/she is growing real strong because I have been so, so tired! I literally could sleep all day! I am now about 18 weeks which blows my mind. The second trimester is going by quickly. We find out on May 7th what the sex of the baby will be! Super excited about that!

Well let's see Paul and my brother Joe, put in the flooring for the baby's room and it looks awesome! I am super excited about it. We did a bamboo wood flooring and I love it. I even asked Paul if we could do the whole house in bamboo...the answer was no. Sad.

Austin has been potty trained, which is exciting. It's nice to have a break from diapers for a few months. And PTL that I won't have two in diapers...been there! Austin is also a talking machine. I had a friend recently tell me that she feels like she could have a serious conversation and debate with him, which cracked me up. I love that he is so verbal because it sure makes life a bit easier not having to try and figure so many things out. He is very into Buzz Lightyear right now. He wants everything in Buzz, even a pillowcase. I am on the hunt for Buzz stuff, not the easiest to come by. His eating is getting a little bit better but not where I would like him to be. Working on that. One thing that has been awesome is that he and Kristen have been playing together so well. The love being together and making up games to play with each other. I love it when the play work. Austin puts on his work hat and goes to work while Kristen takes care of her babies, that's her work. Gotta love it!

Kristen is doing fabulous. I love that girl. She is so full of life. School is going super well for her and she is enjoying it a ton. I actually can't believe the school year is almost over. Oh summer I have to get ready for that and have some stuff planned so my poor girl isn't bored out of her mind! If you have any ideas let me know in the comments! She is very into her babies right now. It excites me to think about when I have the third baby how she will be. Both kids are super excited about the baby coming. Kristen is very eager to put the baby's bed together but what she doesn't understand is Austin still sleeps in it. It took a few conversations for her to understand why we weren't putting the baby's bed in when the flooring was done in the room..it was super cute. She is nesting a bit too, she just wants to get everything ready in the room. I pray she will be a super mommy one day! She also is into all kinds of bugs, worms, and creepy crawlers...I LOVE this about her! She makes me proud. The other day she came in with a slug on her hand and told me we needed to get a house for him. So we did, and then she covered him with rocks and learned that slugs don't do well covered by rocks. Sad. Knowing her she's on the hunt for another one.

Thanks for reading this long update. Writing is a nice outlet and let's you reflect on the great things going on in life. Thanks blogger.

Drag Queens

So last weekend Kristen and I went flower girl shopping with Brianna. We were at Alfred Angelo's checking in and Kristen loudly says, "Mommy look at that BIG lady and her BIG, BIG BOOBIES!" Oh my....I turned around and there she was or he was a DRAG QUEEN with a bra stuffed to possibly a size F or bigger shaped like torpedos. It was unbelievably embarassing...but hilarious! I bent down to Kristen and told her, "Honey we don't talk about other people's boobies in public" because I had no idea what else to say! The best part was that the lady at the counter said, "Oh it's okay she's little and that 's just precious." What's precious my daughter pointing out boobies or pointing out a DRAG QUEENS boobies?

Prayer

Tonight after I put Kristen to bed, she continued to talk to herself. Finally I said to her, "Kristen no more talking!". She responded, "I'm praying to God". To that I said, "Oh, you can do that".

She broke Santa

So today we went to JoAnns and Kristen was just in one of those "touch it all" moods. I tried to calm the mood, but sometimes it's easier to have her touch stuff than to fight it the entire time I am trying to shop. Well today she was carrying some bags for me and was pretending to cover up Santa's eyes.

(Let me break there and tell you a little about Santa. He is large, decorative, gold with a long white beard, about 4 feet tall, made out of clay, most people think he's beautiful (not so much me). Hopefully you are getting somewhat of a good mental picture.)

Well as Kristen was playing peek-a-boo with Santa, I had had enough and said, "Come on Kristen I am leaving now." As Kristen turned around she kicked Santa (this I didn't see), on accident, and he came falling down to his breaking point. As I watched Santa fall, I also watched the lady that worked their wince and let out a mild screech of, "OH NO!". To that I replied, "Oh did she break him? (Handed her Santa's broken off hand) Sorry about that!" And then walked off as quickly as I could. Embarassed yes, but mostly I didn't want to pay for the $200.00 Santa!

Baseballs

In our house we call our bicep muscles "baseballs". (Thanks to you Dad!)

Tonight Kristen asked her Daddy to see his baseballs. Paul said, "Oh I am not that strong." Kristen said, "You didn't eat all your food?"

To get big baseballs you have to eat your food!

"Good job MOM!"

Yesterday we went to Disneyland and on our way there someone cut me off (pretty severely) on the freeway. Well I totally honked, like laid on the horn for a minute or two (JK only 30 seconds) because I felt that the person needed to understand that they almost killed my entire family. After I was done honking Kristen said, "Good job, MOM!!!!" Not so sure what to think about that....

Serious Bed Head

All you need is Band-Aids

Tonight we were driving home from Life Group and Kristen kept asking me to turn around and look at her. I explained to her that if I turned around and looked at her that I would probably crash our car into the car in front of us and we would all be hurt very badly. She replied, "It's okay Mommy, we'd just use lots and lots of band-aids!"

Finally an Update....

Sorry to all of you faithful blog readers (Stacy!) for not being more up to date on blogging. I just get so overwhelmed some days with all that has gone on that I just decide not to blog...that's not a good attitude to have now is it? So here it is a bit of an update....

Kristen has now started preschool 3 days a week. She absolutely loves it and has a blast everyday. She has some friends in the class that she is very fond of, and she loves her teacher Ms. Kelly and TA Ms. Jeanine! The past month we have been trying to get into a schedule that includes school and I think we are finally there...wow school gives so much to think about in terms of figuring out your tasks and time within the day to do the tasks! We are excited for Kristen and her new endeavor!

Austin has been talking up a storm. Here are some of his words:

Mmmmm Gickey-Mickey
Tool- Stool
Nilk-Milk
TiTi-Kristen
Aplane-Airplane
Cracker-Crackers or Cookies
Noonie-Smoothie
Hole Me-Hold Me
Mamu-Marmee
Eyes-Glasses (eye glasses)
A Bou- A Book (or Read me a Book)
Wuv Uuuuuu- I love you
So Soar- Dinosaur

So there you have it, an update! I promise to get better with the blog in October!

Kristen's Knees

About a month ago I took Kristen to an orthopedic specialist for her knees. She has been having chronic pain in her knees that we just can't figure out the reason why. So all that to say that the last time we were at the Dr.'s office Kristen had X-rays taken of both knees. This time when we went into the Dr.'s office she said, "Mommy today they are going to take pictures of my knees and my knees are going to say 'CHEESE'!!!".

Ladybug Party Pictures

These pictures are out of order..but you get the idea. Silly Blogger couldn't get them the way I wanted them. Dad, if you are reading this the picture of Kristen opening a present is the camera! She loves it!

Kristen's Ladybug Party

Saturday, July 19th we had Kristen's Ladybug Party. She had been excited about this party for about three months. We talked about it almost everyday, thinking and planning what she wanted to do with her friends. So this was it. We had friends and family over and we celebrated ladybug style. We ate a little Rubio's Baja Fresh lunch, played "Find the bugs" game and each child potted a flower to take home. After we potted flowers we came inside and Kristen opened her presents, and boy was she thrilled! After presents we sang Happy Birthday (thanks to Amanda!) and ate Ladybug cupcakes. It was a fun party and most importantly Kristen had an blast. Each child took home a mason jar filled with live ladybugs to take home to their gardens!

Some sweet pictures

One of my favorite pictures....

One of Paul's favorite pictures...

The new table where we have food available to ALL animals and babies...

Kristen's "mad girl" face...

Kristen's "happy girl" face...

Falling

Today Austin fell off of our Radio Flyer horse and was stuck between the wall and the horse with his head down and feet straight up. He also fell off one of our kitchen chairs. He fell off of my back while we were playing "horsey". He fell off of a kiddie stool that he was sitting on. It was a falling kind of day I guess. He is fine, no serious injuries. Actually no injuries at all, just spooked a couple times and a few tears. He's so tough.

Inspired...

One thing I forgot to mention in my post below was a very special moment at Chuck E. Cheese. Kristen was riding a ride while clutching her three, very dear, tokens in her hand. The ride stopped and she turned around to see a little girl sitting on the "Barney" ride. Kristen said, "I wanna give her a token, Mommy". She proceeded to put the token in the ride for the little girl and said, "There you go!". The ride started and the little girl had a smile on her face. Kristen was so happy for her, gave her a smile back and went on with her, now two, tokens.

She inspires me...I love her love for others.

Pictures from Kristen's Birthday

Kristen's 3rd Birthday

Today was Kristen's 3rd birthday..and I still can't believe my baby girl is 3! Where does the time go? I know I am going to blink and she will be 18...well let's not think about that. Anyway today was a very fun and relaxing day enjoying her.

It started off with Kristen waking up and yelling MOMMY at the top of her lungs! I went running into her room to see her with her hands on her face saying, "look at all this, balloons, hats," and I said, " HAPPY BIRTHDAY!". She was so excited..it was so sweet.

Later in the day, Daddy came home early from work and Uncle Joe (Paul's brother) came over. Kristen and her Daddy decorated her cake and then we headed to Chuck E. Cheese. After winning 400+ tickets we ate a little pizza played some more and then headed home for cake and presents!

Before we left, Paul put out the presents so that when we got home Kristen would see them right away...and she did while jumping up and down. It was so cute! She got some presents and a doll that she has been wanting for quite awhile...her name is Carrie. Kristen is the best little mommy. I love watching her interact with the doll....I pray she will be a great mommy one day. After playing with all the toys, we ate some cake, played outside, and went night night!

I kind of wanted the day to be longer..I think birthday's should be stretched out over a 3 day period...one day just doesn't have enough hours to reminisce about the good years that have passed. Ya know what I mean?

Still can't believe she's three...but so excited about this next year of life.

Fun things about:

AUSTIN right now....
1. He says "animal" all the time, he is obsessed with animals right now
2. He loves to try and count and sing his ABC's
3. He climbs on EVERYTHING and thinks it is funny when he gets to the highest point. These places include the kitchen island, window sills, backs of chairs, tops of tables, counter tops, etc. (The other day he had climbed on top of the counter in the kitchen and was standing over the stove top...uh oh!)
4. He is a cuddler
5. He talks, a lot, and repeats almost everything you say
6. He loves Mickey Mouse
7. He likes to drink whatever Mommy or Daddy is drinking (coffee, tea, soda, water, milk, etc.)
8. He likes to walk on his tiptoes and pull at the front of his shorts in a crouched position
9. He climbs on Mommy's back anytime I get down on the floor
10. He doesn't really like to eat

Wave of Milk

Sometimes I think that I am having a bad day and then I realize that someone else is probably having a day much worse than mine. So if you have had a bad day today mine might not be as bad or it might be worse, but hopefully it will make you laugh!

Well we had gotten home from Trader Joe's and I went to put a bag on the counter, the handle broke off (silly bags) and POP went the GALLON of whole MILK! All over my floor and underneath my fridge...right before dinner...so needless to say dinner was a bit later tonight.