Randomness

I feel like I don't have time or feel up to blogging much lately. So while the kids are being quiet and good I thought I would do a random photo post for you.

I recently broke a cupboard door off and my baby loves to get in there. His brother decided to join in the fun this time.Lounging in the tub with the swim ring and eating a slice of pizza. Seriously what weirdo lets their kids do this?Helping Mom make cookies. I love that smile. And him trying to hold his pants up is a common scene in this house. Poor kid can't keep them up for anything.Playing peek-a-boo. So cute.Grandma came over and started building a snowman. So Butterbean went out to join her.

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!

Santie Clausing and sickos

My daughter wanted to make her own hair bows for a friend. I folded the one on the right and she did the one on the left. Hers turned out better than mine. And she did it entirely on her own without me sitting there.Modeling her new bows. She did tape the bobby pins on and no amount of convincing would work to get her to glue them.
We have a Santie Clause friend that brought us a new/used TV! They got a new one so we got their old one. And this one works with the DVD player. Yeah! I am so excited! We were borrowing one from Chris's work that was going to have to go back soon.My poor sick baby in my arms. He likes to be held a lot. Sure wish the antibiotic would kick in and work already.

Crazy Randomness

I have these photos that I mean to do post on and never find enough time. So here are some of them.

The Village People?Girling up the boots for her.Butterbean has a "twinner" dress like Grandma and has begged for pictures of them together in them. So we finally did it.Here they are making the same silly face. Butterbean does this one a lot....drives me bonkers. he heIn her Thanksgiving get-up from school. She did not believe me when I told her she was related to Pocahontas. She kept saying, "Uh un....really?" Over and over. Silly thing. Then she thought she was cool when she finally believed me.Playing dress up. What a riot. She looked all Ninja-y or Charlies Angel-y to me.My daughter is the biggest slob at eating for some reason. She rarely uses a utensil unless I tell her to. And it is always all over the floor. I had to snap this when she was eating spaghetti. I asked her to use a fork and this is what happened.Poor Appleseed being tortured by Mommy yet again. He looks so cute with that thing on.Lately Butterball has been throwing fits. If I tell him to take a nap and shut his door he usually throws all his stuff around. This day he accidentally fell asleep on it all.Appleseed with his pacifier. I love the grin behind it. What cracked me up is that not 5 minutes before I had found one under there and threw it away. Then he comes out with that. Then one sad sad night he was in need of comfort and I was exhausted and just could not stay awake any longer feeding him and I pulled the one that I wanted to put in his keepsake box and shoved it in. I now have started using it for naps and bed time. And yes, occasionally he finds it during the day and pops it in. Silly kid.

More messes and homework?

Appleseed again!!!! That kid!Butterbean's family picture that she did for school.When Butterbean sat down for school then Butterball wanted his own homework. I got him out a preschool workbook and he got this instead. He colored it and then put glue on the entire page. Even had me come check his work like Butterbean does. So funny.

What a mess!

Ugh! Here is just some of the reasons I have so much trouble getting and keeping this house clean. What is sad is this is just in the last few days.Butterbean put chapstick on her wall.Chewing on a toothbrush from the garbage can.Enjoying more garbage.

Pumpkin Patch

Butterball had a field trip to a pumpkin patch for his school. He has been so excited about this and enjoyed telling Butterbean how he was going without her. Course once we got there you wouldn't know he had been excited. He cried almost the whole time we were there. Then we had to leave early as I had gotten a call from Butterbean's school. She had had an accident at school. I was worried that she might be sick as that NEVER happens. Turns out she had to go really bad and had to clean the toilet seat off from the prior child that she ended up wetting her pants while doing so. Poor thing.

Butterball would not look at the camera at all. The pill. And I know Appleseed is in a Santa hat. It fits and it is warm so we wear it.Our neighbor friend came with us. Butterball was super excited to have him come also. Course you wouldn't know it by the picture. Turns out he was upset because he wanted to be up there by himself.After we took Butterbean a change of clothes we waited in the car as she was getting out of school soon. Appleseed was furious that I would not let him chew on the keys. But Butterball found a way to entertain himself.So I thought this place was so neat that we decided to go back with Butterbean this time. And of course I got some better pictures. That Butterball is so exasperating sometimes. His mood swings drive me bonkers! But alas it was not meant to be. My poor Butterbean thought she had to "toot" and apparently it was something else so we had to leave early again. So funny. That poor girl.Later that night we went to the school movie night. My kids loved it and ate a ridiculous amount of junk. And of course Butterbean BEGGED for more through the whole movie. Appleseed had a hard time as he was tired until I let him chew on a straw. Then he was fine. It was such an awesome and fun day.

When can I breathe?

Let me just say....I AM SOOOOO TIRED! And yes I am posting this at a ridiculous hour when I should be asleep but if I don't do it now it may be weeks before I have time. Now that my turn to teach Preschool is over for the next 6 weeks I have been canning, canning, canning. I am exhausted! I barely squeak out a page of scriptures each night before I crash. I haven't had the energy to read a regular book for fun at all. I never just sit and do nothing while watching TV. I love canning and the end product is awesome but boy am I tired right now. For those of you that text me...I am sorry as I barely get back to them and when I do I feel so distracted. It is nuts. I have some posts I want to do like zoo trips and Awesome Aunts coming to visit but I may never get to them. We will see. So here is just some happenings this past week.

This is an award the cute neighbor boy made for me to give to the best Preschooler. It says "Best Babe" (Baby) on it. It is the cutest thing. He is such a fun kid. I will have to see but I am betting I will be able to find someone.....maybe someone that lives in my own home.....he he. It is adorable!My neighbor's daughter made this for me. Isn't that gorgeous? I love it!!!Butterbean created her own hairstyle again. I started it thinking I could convince her to change a bit of it. No such luck. Then when I told her it looked dorky and that we needed to switch stuff it didn't help. And yes out of frustration I said something dumb like....I wasn't going to take a picture of it as I was not going to make it again. (I have been taking pictures of them to put in a book so she can go through and pick her hairstyle for the day.) After that she started crying and ran off to her room. What a meanie I am. So of course when I calmed her down I took a picture of it and told her I would blog about it and kept it just the way she wanted it. Her "boyfriend" was recently moved up to 1st grade because he is so smart. That has been a trial for us this week. She cried when she found out as they used to play together at recess and he was her partner during extended day. She does not see the 1st graders during the day also so that made it worse. The few times she has seen him in line before school have been cute. There she is all shy but trying so hard to get his attention so she can just say "Hi" to him. It is adorable. This is my boy wearing his "cowboy hat". I know it is not the best picture but it took some major trickery to get this. That boy and is distaste for having his picture taken drives me nuts sometimes.And this is what I have been doing. Am I close to being done? NO!!!!! But I will be.....oh in say a week or so. I am so excited though as a neighbor lady gave these to me for FREE!!!!! I seriously have the best neighbors. And that's it. Nothing but craziness and canning. I live for those things. he he.

What a day!

Ugh...are you kidding me? I have decided that HE was the one secretly hiding them all over the house so that he could find them when he needed. I love the thumb in it. He used to do that all the time. So cute. Later he found another one and it cracked me up because he wasn't sucking on it but just laying there kicking the door, singing, and chewing on it like crazy. He was drooling all over with that one. This is what I spent part of my day doing. Yeah! I am glad I got some done. I am not done by a long shot but it is all worth the work in the end. And my house has been suffering so I stayed up late to get caught up on the cleaning. Ahhhhhhhh....again all worth it. Course I may be dragging tomorrow.