Snow, Snow and More Snow

So we had some actual real snow today.  A lot for Arkansas.  The pine tree in the back is not faring  well at all.  I’ve got 4 big branches down already, and we’re suppose to get more snow tonight.

Last night around 1 am my friend Erin told me it was snow, I just thought we were suppose to get rain, and actually I didn’t even really know that.  I really should pay more attention.  The snow last night was beautiful, the flakes were huge.  This afternoon it go real wet, this morning I think we could have made a great snowman, but we didn’t get out until this afternoon.  So ours it pretty small.  I should have taken a picture…tomorrow!

My day started off bad, but has gotten better.  I have a headache that just won’t go away.  It’s better now, I had to make an emergency run for some Dr. Pepper.

Oh major oops I forgot to post that Ethan rolled over, he can go from his tummy to his back now.  Have to be extra careful about laying him on the couch now.  Today he was trying to go from his back to his tummy, but he was buckled in the bouncy seat so he wasn’t having much luck.  Just made him mad.

They have already canceled school for Morgan and Lizzie for tomorrow.  I’ll keep checking for Wyatt.  And before you ask, yes they are in different school districts.

Pity Party…

Anyone wanna join?I have had a rough last 15 hours or so.  Last night Lizzie got into some of my scrapbooking paint and tried to finger paint my desk.  Now my desk isn’t really a desk at all, it’ a table that has been in my family for years.  My great great grandfather made it, it is suppose to be a dinning room table, but the chairs have been gone awhile.  When my grandparents passed away, my dad brought it to me.  it is very dear to me as you can imagine.  So when I came in and it was covered in white paint, you can imagine I wasn’t happy with Lizzie.  But first I got the paint off of her then moved on to the table, chair and floor.  The big globs were still wet so they came up easy it was Lizzie’s project that was hard.  So I called Joe (He had already called to talk with the boys so I knew he was done) but he didn’t answer, I might have left a not so nice message.  (remember I was upset), he did call back and was useless on telling me how I should get it off.  He then got made at me, because I thought 20 years of construction should qualify him to know how to get paint off a wood table.  Needless to say our conversation ended quickly!  So I ‘bucked up’ and started trying things.  I didn’t have any mineral spirits and I didn’t want to take all four kids to the store at 10 pm.  Besides Wyatt and Morgan were already asleep.  So I figured even if i stripped the clear coat off the table it was better than pearly white paint.  I used my trusty windex and wouldn’t you know, it worked.  Got almost all the paint off.  There is some in the cracks that I couldn’t get off, it did take some of the clear finish off, but I’m sure that can be fixed.  The table needs so TLC anyway.  1st problem solved.  So I went back out and brought Lizzie with me into the living room to try and get her to sleep.  Oh, she was in the bedroom (with the scrapbooking stuff) because she was suppose to be laying down to go to sleep.  I was reading a book and I thought for sure with no TV she would fall asleep while I read.  NOPE….2am and she was still wide awake.    Finally though she fell asleep and I went to bed too.  My alarm went off this morning way to early.

Then problem number 2, I was so tired I didn’t want to get up.  Then I was too late to go to church, and that just added more guilt to my life.  Church was the place I really needed to go.   All last night Ethan was coughing a ton, he would gag on the snot draining from somewhere in his head and start coughing.  Poor kid as been at this for weeks.  It doesn’t come out of his nose much at all, of course as he doesn’t have a fever, the doctor won’t see him.  After he got up I stayed in bed (this is where the pity party starts) and feed him.  The boys and Lizzie had already had breakfast so I was just being lazy.  Next thing I see/smell was that darn paint again.  I had left it in the bathroom last night after I cleaned the tube off, and guess who had it again.  This time however she was putting it in the sink in the bathroom.  She went right in the tub and it was actually really easy to clean it up this time as it was on the tiles.  If anyone came over it would smell like I was painting my bathroom.  But now I can’t find the container to throw it away….Lizzie not saying where she put it?  I’m sure it will make an apperance again and ruin that day!  So it is now 2:30 and I’m back in bed getting ready for a nap….can you say lazy.  Lizzie just fell asleep and Ethan layed down a half an hour ago, Morgan is in his room for a time out/quite time as he keeps pinching his sister!  And Wyatt my one good child (which is odd if you think about it) is watching TMNT…..thank you Matt!!!

So, do I continue my Pity Party or do I get up now that Lizzie is asleep and get something done!  A bath sounds good!  Should decide what’s for dinner….soup for a late lunch gives me an extra hour to figure it out!  And I hope that my husband can forgive my craziness and call me today!  I believe they have most of today off as the Saints are playing in the Superbowl today!  See there is one good thing about having your unit be in Louisiana.

Oh and I’m out of Dr. Pepper!!!

Boys will be boys..

Wyatt came into my bedroom a few minutes ago asking if it was okay for him to get a snack for him and Morgan.  I of course not wanting to leave my ‘facebooking’ and searching for awesome things on ‘Esty’ say go ahead.  Then I decided I would take a few minutes to write on my blog, and I remembered I was suppose to be taking more pictures of the boys.  So camera in hand I went out to get some pictures to put on here.  This is what I come out to.  Wyatt is having a lunchable for snack and Morgan is eating, with a spoon,  Brummel & Brown’s Fruit Spread.  Now if you don’t know what this is, it’s like creamy butter with fruit.  It has the consistence of margarine.  So I like the good mom I am asked if he liked it, he said yes I say, go for it.  But I did get him some crackers to put it on.

Earlier today after giving Lizzie a bath, dressing her and actually fixing her hair with gel and stuff.  She decided it would be fun to dunk her head it the tub (I hadn’t let the water out yet) fully dressed.  Yep, she my girl!  Why do I even try!

So here are a few pictures of the boys and another one of Morgans masterpieces!

Morgan and his B&B

Wyatt

Morgan & Wyatt

Morgan’s Masterpieces

I call it ‘Breakfast‘.

As promised

Here are a few more pictures.  I realized that I need to take more of my boys, the big ones.  I’m going to have to work on that….although I find myself saying that all the time, somehow it never happens.

Ethan Feb 2010

I’m sure he wonders why I’m always holding that bright thing in front of his face.

Bright light again

Lizzie

As you can see I’ve given up on taking away the binky.  I’m going with the advice my pediatrician gave me in Ames, she won’t go to kindergarten with it.  Although I’m beginning to doubt it.  As least she is in bed and has her PJ’s on.  (we were trying to just have her use it then)

Ethan playing with is tongue

He has learned to stick out his tongue, and he likes to do it.  He really likes it if you stick your out at him, he’ll do it too.

Mommy and Ethan

It’s hard to try and get him to laugh/smile and look at the camera at the same time, all while actually taking the picture.

Lizzie has another Ear Infection…

the doctors were a little more accommodating today, I got her in at the other clinic the doctor at the base works at.  Lucky I didn’t have to take all the kids as Lizzie was a handful.  I have such nice friends.  The doctor said she still has the infection, not sure if it is a new one or if the same one that just didn’t get better.  We’ll see how the next round of antibiotics goes.  We have moved on to stronger one.  This is reminding me a lot of what Morgan went through, and he ended up with tubes.  Ethan still has a little mucus running down his throat that makes him cough sometimes, but he is doing good otherwise.

Trying to get kids in the tub and ready for bed!  I’ll add pictures later or tomorrow!  Don’t want any naked babies running around!

My first day….

without all my kids.  Well, without Ethan.  Usually Mondays and Wednesday are just Ethan and I as Lizzie goes to MDO.  But today I took Ethan, so I had 5 whole hours all by myself.  Guess what I did….everything.  I had a doctors appt scheduled, that is the reason for Ethan going to MDO in the first place.  SO I dropped the kids off and first went to the post office….with no fear of Morgan coming in and informing all of the post office that Ethan was hungry, then I went to JoAnns to look for a few things.  Then I went to Target, they had ‘good’ nursing pads on sale for $6.00!  Couldn’t pass that up.  And really who doesn’t like a little time alone in Target.  I would have stayed longer, but I had to get to the Drs office.  Which by the way I didn’t even get to see the doctor.  For some reason the clinic scheduled my GYN appt for the wrong month.  So now I have another appt. in 2 weeks.  They however didn’t figure this out until I had sat in the waiting room for 45 minutes…oh well!  Then I went to Hobby Lobby, didn’t find what I was looking for there.  Then I went to my friends house for a little girl time.  And she feed me PB&J…what a pal!!   Then I had to get back to reality and pick my kids up.  We moved the Wii into one of the bedrooms today to see how that worked, it was good.  I think it is easier to play on the smaller screen.

Lizzie started complaining again about her ear hurting so I called the drs office to try and get her in to recheck it to see if her infection is still there….can I just remind you how much I dislike going to the AF Base for care.  Regular appts are fine but if you need to be seen for a problem, it’s like pulling teeth to get a appt.  So I called at about 3:30 and they didn’t have anything today, so I asked if I could come in the morning tomorrow.  No, I can’t schedule anything until at least 24 hours out she tells me.  So it’s at 3:30 tomorrow (if you have kids you know this is the worst time for an appt)  I say anything earlier, she says I don’t know you will have to call back tomorrow morning to see if they can get you in earlier…….argh!!!  Last time it took me 2 hours to get through to the clinic and I still couldn’t get in before 2:30, now I know why people to go to the ER.

I’ll let you know how it goes, wish me luck!

Love you Daddy!

Ethan and the Peas…

What can you say to this...

Please note that Ethan was not crying in this picture, so laughing at it will not make you a bad person.  I have no idea what was going on tonight with the peas.  This is not the first time he has had peas, he liked them before.  But not tonight.

More picture tomorrow…I got some cute ones of Lizzie too!

Well I can…

say I did absolutly nothing today.  Well not quite, but close!  I did pay our rent, and in a fit I stopped at the gas station and got a Dr. Pepper…SHH don’t tell on me!!  It warmed up some today and sounded like it was raining outside.  Still got some ice though!  I just got the dishes done and will have to work on the floors tomorrow…they got a little messy with the snow.

For some reason the garbage truck still hasn’t come.  I hope that they don’t just wait until this friday, I’ll run out of space in the recycle.  I already have two bins.

Yesterday I thought Ethan was asleep in his crib and I happen to look over at it and I could see the top of his head.  I snuck up and got this picture.

Ethan, not sleeping

 

And he spotted me!

CRAZY MOMMY

As in me is going crazy.  Now I really sound like I’m from Arkansas.  It Snowed/Iced yesterday so we have been inside unable to leave most of yesterday and all of today.  As I write I’m getting my boys ready to send outside to the backyard just so I don’t have to deal with them anymore.  I now that they will need the excercise to wear them out so they can go to bed. 

We have Stake Conference tomorrow, so I’m really looking forward to two hours of church with the four of them……NOT.  At least there probably won’t be many people there as no Arkansans can drive in this weather!  Tomorrow I’m thinking about inviting my wonderful neighbor over for pancakes.  She probably hasn’t left her house either. 

As I stand here and watch my daughter stand on the rocking chair next to the computer desk and balance without holding  on to anything, I’m struck with the thoughts that she may very well be a good dancer someday!  She is way more coordinated than any of my other children or myself.  Morgan falls down just walking in a straight line (he takes after his mom)  I only mention this as she is really into dancing lately and wants to go to school. 

Lizzie on her chair

 

Morgan, wanting to know if this puppy can go outside

 

Wyatt trying to make 'ice angels'

Morgan with Puppy

 

playing with the ice

 The kids love playing outside, it is so cold to me, but doesn’t see to bother them at all.  Oh the joys of being young.  I did the ultimate bad mom thing and zipped Lizzie’s lip up in her coat.  It bled, but didn’t stop her from wanting to go outside….what a trooper!  Wyatt and Lizzie ended up in the front yard and that was the end of the playing.  Even though there is no traffic, we still don’t go in front!  Lizzie doesn’t get the ‘don’t go in the road’ lesson.

Snow Day!

Well sort of, it is more like ice balls. Weird for this Iowa girl who is use to snow or ice, or sleet. These little hail balls are just weird. It looks and feels like the inside of a bean bag. Here are some pictures, the boys are way excited. In fact I had to make them come in so they didn’t get all wet.

Morgan enjoying the 'snow'

 

Morgan eating the snow

Wyatt

Wyatt

Of course will this ‘Winter Storm’ we are having there was no school.  Mommy and kids got to sleep in this morning.  We spent sometime with our friends the Lane’s.  The kids love Matt, in fact I think they love him a little too much.  They probably wore him out, he’s not going to want us to come over anymore.  Plus I’m so adult conversation deprived that I talk way too much.  We look forward to visiting again, hopefully they will have us.