I am at a loss!

Anyone that may know how to handle this, please tell me! I am SOOOOOOOOO sick of it. And I do ignore it. Yet he can carry on for a good 15 - 20 minutes sometimes. And be careful if you walk in his path when he is doing this. Argh. Why can he be so sweet and then this.....

Wordless Wednesday...... :(

"I need some time away from you Dad."

Winter swimming

I made brownies the other day....I know, I shouldn't but YUM! So I had had one and my husband had had two. Yet.......there are 4 missing. Guess what? It was that same boy that snuck into the cake......frustrating.My kids went to go outside dressed like this today. They have been BEGGING to set up a swimming pool so they can go swimming. And they refuse to believe me when I say it is too cold. So neighbors........please do not be alarmed when someday you see them out there trying to swim. I may just have to let them so that they will finally believe me that it is TOO COLD.My sweet little Butterball......he came up to talk to me about the whole swimming thing and stopped mid-sentence, grabbed Appleseed's hand (who was on my lap) and said, "Hi baby. I love you. How are you?" and then kissed his hand. So cute. I love that boy!

Butterballisms again!

I could not get him to stay in his bed for nothing! Turns out this is where he fell asleep. Poor guy.Batman sleeping in our bed. I sure do love this boy.Butterball was tooting away while getting dressed. He said, "I toot all the time Appleseed. It is good." Then Butterbean said, "Who keeps tooting." Butterball - "Me. I toot two times." Butterbean said in an excited voice, "Good job! Good job counting your toots!"

My son was just on the toilet. He said, "Who stinks in here?" I said, "You do." He said, "It looks like a worm. Come see it." So I look like a good Mommy does and said, "Did you eat a worm?" He said, "I might have." He is so funny.

Butterball got a shirt to wear and said that it matched the shirt he was wearing when he punched Jesus........um.....ok? So he got me the picture showing when he "punched" Jesus. I asked him why he punched Jesus and he said, "Because me want to. Hey! We can take out the picture and Jesus can be the spy kid Dad when we play Spy Kids!" So there you go...Jesus gives piggy back rides, plays hide and go seek, and plays Spy Kids. How cool is that!Daddy was watching some military show and Butterball said, "I know what this is. It a bad show Daddy." Dad tried to tell him that it wasn't a bad show. Butterball said, "It is too! It has shooting. You not get any presents cuz Santa knows when you watch bad shows! So no presents." I love it. He will frequently make Dad change the channel if it is "inappobiate". What a good boy.

Snowmobile Trip

My husband spends part of his winter doing stuff like this. This is a gorgeous area that he takes customers up to that is up on the mountains. They have some cabins up there that they stay in. It is so beautiful and peaceful up there. But the thought of taking 3 kids up there does not appeal to me. :) Maybe in the summer.And unfortunately he also spends a lot of time dealing with this.....

Appleseed Birthday Party

I decided to try and have a mandatory Sunday nap after church. After I woke up from my "nap" this is what I found. I had made an individual cake for Appleseed for his birthday. I know, I know....the white spots are un-stirred in bits of flour. Oops. We will try better next time. Sorry family.So I pretty much knew who it was but NOBODY was admitting it. So I took pictures of the criminals and took their statements.

This picture is a picture of a "lion who him snuck in the house and him ate the cake and then him hiding in those baskets right there." The "lying lion" did not have anything to say......This suspect opened her mouth to show proof that it was not her. Later she admitted to eating two crumbs off the plate but that the plate had already been uncovered.This one...................arghhhh................said it was the lion. Then he said that it was Daddy. And the previous suspect chimed in with that too. Now that I can believe....if it was the family cake. But I think Daddy would be smart enough to not dive into the individual cake as he would have died.This one came out eating something....but it was a toy bullet. Not a cake. I finally got it out.....well somewhat. "Maybe I was getting a drink of water and accidentally took a bite." Hmmmmm...it was from the same person that said it was the lion. We can all guess who that was! Sad to say it must run in the family. I licked the icing off my birthday cake when I was 8. :)He did not seem to be a fan of the cake but he had started to act like he may not feel well. Eating......I mean opening presents.We finally got a pretty good picture of him walking. So cute.I like to get pictures of the kids with each set of grandparents on their birthdays. So here are the grandparent pictures.

Wordless Wednesday - Cave Sleeping

Appleseed seems to have replaced his pacifier with something else.....a dish rag. And if it is not wet enough he will let you know. It is so funny. He usually only wants it right after he eats or when he really wants comfort. It is the cutest thing. Today he had one that was a little damp and I was holding him while rinsing out a dish rag. He kept whimpering till I realized that he wanted his wetter so I wet it more and handed it back to him and he happily chewed on it. So funny. Kind of gross, but his favorite thing is to dip it into the bath water over and over when one of the kids is bathing and chew on it. Much to his dismay I try not to let him do it. The other day he grabbed Butterball's shirt while Butterball was in the tub and dipped it in and gave it a good chew.Appleseed took several steps over and over and over tonight. It was so precious and I wanted to cry. He kept walking back and forth to his Daddy and I. We knew he was getting tired but he still kept wanting to do it. He even walked to Dad and then turned and walked back to me once. Only 3 steps each time but it was so wonderful!!! I am sorry that the video is not better but he wouldn't walk to one of his siblings, only us.

Wordless Wednesday: Robot Boy?

Random Craziness....

Here is what my poor Butterball looked like on day 2. Now it is all white back there. I barely get to see it. They told me to look every day...HA....they don't know my son. The last time he said, "OK but I won't lift my head, or open wider, or say Ah." Then how in the world am I supposed to see? Silly. He has had a hard time. I actually posted this on facebook but had made a mistake in the wording. I know he had the words killed and killing in there but in odd places and couldn't remember when I had posted it on fb. Remember later. He said, "I must be getting killing. Cuz when you hurt this bad you killed. So I must be getting killing." Poor thing. Today he yelled at me, "Stop saying you don't understand me." But it is so true. I can hardly understand him sometimes and I feel so bad. I hope it gets better as it heals. His voice is different and am wondering if it will stay that way as it is day 8 now. It is cute. It has been very very very hard. He screams and cries a TON. He told me today that he hates his mouth cuz it hurts him all the time. He hates taking his Lortab as he says it burns his mouth when he takes it. So that has been hard too. I feel so bad for him and boy I sure can't wait till he gets better.Poor Appleseed was following the other two sillies who were playing and got stuck. And of course his mean Mommy grabs the camera first before saving him.So this is how you play the Wii when you are tired....lazy....tired...who knows.And this is how you play when you had surgery and are miserable.Appleseed loves to play peek-a-boo now. I love it too as he usually covers his ears or something. He is so cute. Today in the bath he was playing with a bottle of shampoo and lost it when I had laid him down to wash his hair. When he sat up he seriously looked in front of him where it had last been and then stood up a little to look under his bum. It cracked me up that he thought he was sitting on it or something. Then I gave it to him and he gives me this huge smile. Then he went to go play peek-a-boo and quickly decided not too when the bottle started to float away again. It was hilarious.This was Butterbean's New Year's Resolutions. Soo cute. Translated it says: Learn to pop a wheelie. Blow balloons and learn to do a hand stand and blow.
Butterbean came home from school and I had been watching some kids. I had let one of them go in her room and get a toy. Oops. Won't make that mistake again. She quickly made this sign but it was funny that at the bottom she added the girl's name that I had let in there. She mostly didn't want her brother in but told me to not let kids in her room when she is no there again. Which of course I won't. This translated says: Do not come in less you are my friend like..... And then Butterball made a sign for his room too. His translated says, No girls allowed. They are so cute.

Happy Birthday Appleseed!

My baby turned 1 on December 31, 2009. I can not believe my angel is 1. What a sweetheart he has been. He just lights up the room with his smile. And he already seems to have a sensitive nature when the kids are upset. He is such a blessing in our lives.Sorry this picture is so bad. It is from when my camera deleted over 200 pictures. It still breaks my heart to know I lost so much of his life on film.With his umbilical hernia before it was taken care of in April. It was growing to fast and causing pain.We love you so much Appleseed and are so happy you are in our lives.