Last Week In Pictures

It looks like we put Grant in a skirt, but actually he just unbuttoned his pants. He thought it was pretty funny!




When Hannah comes to visit, Grant insists that Hannah sits right next to him while they eat lunch.




He's come a LONG way from a couple of years ago when he would scream and kick and fight when we would have to do this. Now he sits and holds it himself. Big boy!




Watching Sissy and Grant play outside.










Chase sleeping on his bear. He loves this bear! Thank you Mom and Dad!



In other news...

Chase can clap his hands! He's been fighting a cold and so I took him to the doctor a few days ago. He has an ear infection AGAIN! Agh! So frustrating! So he's back on antibiotics for that and the sinus junk too. I just don't understand why he gets sick all the time. Poor guy. I know he must be miserable because he's teething on top of all of it.

Grant got a hold of Camryn's fingernail polish and painted his eye and his arm (I think he thought it was makeup). He came to me and said "my eye Mommy, me eye!" I was freaking out because it was all pink and smelt really potent. I thought he had sprayed some kind of cleaner in his eye and it was turning into a rash! I kept saying "what is on your eye, show me, show me where it is!" He just walked around the house pointing at things and then I saw it sitting on the little end table opened up. I scrubbed him for a while and got it all off! Luckily I had just taken his clothes off of him and also somehow he didn't get a drop on the table or floor.

Camryn came home telling me that a boy named Joey wants her to be his girlfriend. Even though we've told her that she doesn't need to do the whole boyfriend/girlfriend thing, she insisted that she wanted him as her boyfriend. We've always told her that Daddy can be her boyfriend, but she decided that was no longer good enough. Then she proceeds to say "Well, I really love him, he's hot." WHAT?!?! What did you just say?? She then says, "oh yes, he's hot...what does that mean?" Haha! Well, here is what it means Camryn and don't EVER say that again! Thank you school friends! She told us a few days later, "Joey is handsome, I will just say that. I won't say he's hot or smooth." Haha! Where did smooth come from? That girl is sooo boy crazy! Lord, please help us when she is a teenager!

Infomercials

I've never seen a kid get so sucked into infomercials before. Camryn was watching her Saturday morning cartoons when she ran into the kitchen where I was doing the dishes and explained to me that we could get a shoe organizer to slide under her bed because her shoes are always a mess in the closet. You can actually get 2 for $10 she said. She thought it was a must buy! Then about 10 minutes later it was a snake to unclog sinks. Mind you, we don't have clogging issues, but she thought it was a must have just in case we have clogging issues in the future. I think those were 4 for $20. What a deal! The best one of all though was yesterday evening. A commercial came on selling "booty pop panties". I'm not kidding. They said we could have "the booty of our dreams". Just wear these panties and we will have an amazing tush. I heard this commercial come on while I was in the other room and the next thing I hear is Camryn laughing hysterically. She said "Mommy they said booty on TV!" I told her I would get her some for her birthday, but she wasn't too keen on the idea. I think this was one she was willing to pass up! Ha Ha!

And So It Begins...

Mobility.

Chase army crawled from the living room to the play room (which included a little step down) yesterday while we were eating dinner. Just give him a few weeks and he will be crawling all over the house getting into everything. I'm not sure if I'm quite ready for chasing after another little one! HAHA!

Grant and Food

While Grant was eating breakfast this morning I overheard him singing a Wiggles song that is to the tune of "Are You Sleeping". He was singing "I love eating, i love eating, all day long, all day long...". It was so cute to hear him sing, but then it made me think about his eating habits. When he wakes in the morning the first thing he wants is his chocolate milk and breakfast which is either pancakes (without syrup) or cereal. Then he wants to snack ALL morning. Then by 11:00 he is begging for a peanut butter sandwich. Now let me tell you this little boy LOVES his peanut butter sandwiches! If he is served something other than a peanut butter sandwich for lunch he will be very upset. He would eat a peanut butter sandwich for breakfast, lunch, and dinner if we let him. Then after nap he wants to snack more, but I usually don't allow him to have much because we know dinner will be served soon and I want him to be good and hungry for dinner. You see, he refuses to eat ANY kind of meat or vegetable...absolutely refuses! We offer them to him every night, but after more than a year of doing this he still refuses. So my thought is if he is REALLY hungry at dinner then maybe he will want to eat his meat and veggies. But as of yet, this strategy has not yet worked. He definitely does not take after his Daddy when it come to eating meat and potatoes. We joke that he will be a fruititarian (is that even a word?) for the rest of his life. I hope that one day he will put a piece of meat or a veggie in his mouth and think "oh this is actually really good". I mean I really cannot imagine him being sixteen years old and refusing to eat a hamburger or a hot dog!

I'm Back!

I'm back! I haven't been able to find the time or energy to blog the past few months. So to catch you all up I will start with Chase. He is now 7 months! He just got his first couple of teeth...bring on the steak! He was not a happy camper a few days before he got them, but now he's much better! He also had tubes put in his ears in mid December. He had pretty much been sick since he was 2 months old, constant ear aches, snot, and cough. He's been much better since he got the tubes and I'm hoping it stays that way. Since he has not been feeling well it has really affected his sleep. He would wake up at 4:30 am and not go back to sleep. Then he changed his wake time to 5:30 am which is better than 4:30 am, but not great. This past week he's been sleeping until 6:00-6:30 am...finally! I hope he keeps this up. We might be able to move him into Grant's room if he can consistently sleep until 6:30 in the morning. I would love to have our room back!

This past Tuesday we spent the day in Orlando and had a blast together. Luke has been off of work since the 23rd. I have LOVED having him home. It has been so nice to just stay around here and not have plans to go and do. So anyways, while we were in Orlando we took the kids to Chucke Cheese. They had so much fun. We also made a stop at IKEA. I think we were there for 3 hours. That place is huge! I could seriously get lost in there. Our last stop was down town disney, or pretend disney as Camryn refers to it. We told the kids we were going to eat ice cream for dinner there and Camryn was so giddy! She couldn't even believe that we were going to allow this. We told her not to tell her grandmothers, but she did anyways! So we got our ice cream from Ghiradeli's and had to eat it outside in the freezing cold weather because there were no seats inside. Ha ha! We also got some hot chocolate to warm ourselves up. And oh, that was some good hot chocolate too! After we ate our "dinner" we walked around and there were these guys playing music and we let the kids dance around to the music. I think it was the most fun they had all day! Here's a couple of videos of their fun.




Grant got a little girl to dance with him...so cute!