Rewards!!!

Sometimes the reward for cleaning something out is worth the hard work.

PaPa is Here

What a fun weekend we have had so far. We knew that PaPa was coming but we just thought it was for the weekend. What a fun surprise to know that he will be here until Thursday morning. The kids were so exited to see him when they woke up this morning.

We were given some tickets to the "Oklahoma Yarddogz" football game. The kids had a good time which of course included drinks, snow cones, cotton candy and a milk shake. They enjoyed the food more than the game.

We are looking forward to spending some fun time with PaPa.

Cooper Sleeps

For a couple of weeks now we have been trying to get Cooper "potty trained" through the night. We set our alarm throughout the night get him up and take him.

He is a such sound sleeper that it is almost impossible to wake him up no matter what we do. One time Chris picked him up by his feet and held him upside down. We thought that surely that would wake him up but no. He continued to sleep. As you can see from this picture, he did not want to wake up to go to the bathroom last night. He just leaned over on the dirty clothes basket and continued sleeping.

I guess he did not want to be disturbed.





We will keep trying.

Did He Really Just Say That?

Well, VBS started this week. Needless to say I am already tired.

This morning the roofers came and started on our roof. For those of you who don't know...while we were on vacation in May there was a hail storm and it messed up our roof. We are getting a new one put on today. I am so excited. I have never been very fond of our "white" shingles roof. More on this later.

The noise was quite loud. We spent the afternoon at my parents house and after a quick bite at our noisy home we decided to run some errands. We went to Target (my all time favorite) and then to the mall. Well, as we are walking into the mall, Christopher was holding the doors. I'm not sure exactly what I was doing but I think I was pretending that the door had hit me.

OK...Are you ready for this...

My sweet 6 year old little boy looked at me and said, (I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS) "You are embarrassing me." Can you believe he told me that. He was smiling & Chris thought it was funny. I think that Christopher was amused by my reaction because he said it a couple more times.

He is so funny...getting SO tall...and eating us out of house and home.

I'm Inspired...maybe.

Well, I got my sewing machine fixed and even though I have a couple projects going already I decided to put the machine to good use.

My friend over at "Outside the Camp" made her girls these darling dresses for easter. They are called pillow case dresses. So I decided to try to make one for my girls. Well, they are not as cute as my friends but for my first try I think they turned out OK. It's hard to tell from the picture but it is a "Mary Engelbreit" print on an ice blue background with cherries.

Kaityn Mae's will be next. We'll see. Maybe they can wear them Sunday. Maybe.

Thankful Thursday

I am thankful for the flowers my kids brought me this morning. They were so excited and were proud of them. I am proud of them too.

Kaityn Mae

Kaityn Mae turned 16 months old today. She is such a little cutie. She thinks she is big. This is just some of the things she is doing these days.

TALKING...

"bubba" - Christopher
"Poopa" - Cooper
"MaMa"
"DaDa"
"Tatoo" - Thank You
"BaPa" - Backpack - I guess we watch "Dora the Explorer" too much
"Uh Uh" - Blanket
"Mah" - Maddy (My parents dog...or any dog)
"Boo" - Peek-a-Boo
"Bah" - Bath (anytime she hears this word, she stops what she is doing and heads to
the bathroom
"NighNigh" - Good night. If she is real tired she will bring us her blanket, we'll
pick her up and take her to bed...no fussing.

She can make the sound of a dog, cow and can imitate the sound when you say "I love you", and she can make some of the meanest faces. If she does not like what is going on you definately know.

She is developing her own personality. She DOES NOT LIKE IT if I am reading a book to any of the others and SHE is not in my lap. She does not like to share. There has been alot of screaming and grunting noises lately when it comes to toys.

Kaityn is very sweet though. She loves her "bubba" (probably more than any of the others). If he is laying on the floor, she likes to be right by him or on him. Last night he got hurt and was crying she walked over to him and put her arm on him and just leaned over on him. It was the CUTEST thing ever.


She is a little girl. She loves purses and shoes (any shoes). She usually has a purse or some sort of bag on her arm. When I get her dressed in the morning if I don't put shoes on her she will bring me a pair or take me by the finger to her closet and point up to her shoes and grunt.

What a blessing she is.