The vent...

Here are a few shots from yesterday, she is so funny...

17 months & The pink stool...

Oh, my little Willow... I love that smile, I adore those little cheeks, and I almost always nuzzle that perfect little neck! I can't get enough! She is 17 months old today & in love with the pink bathroom stool!

Another baby...

(No I'm not pregnant!)

I love that Grace is becoming a little more predictable these days! I am pretty sure I will find her on the heating vent 100 times a day, she will ask to take a bath at least 3 times a day and she will almost always bring me a "baby" at night to take care of while she sleeps (AKA: a 2 liter bottle of pop named Sarah.)
For some reason, I find this so sweet & adorable, probably because she always gives it a pillow and a blanket & then sets it on my night stand where she can clearly fall off at any given moment!)

A good man...

Honestly, I can only think of about 3 things that drives me nuts about my husband- other than those silly things, he's as good as they get. Honestly, he's pretty amazing. He makes dinner, folds laundry, changes poopy diapers, takes out the garbage, helps carry grocerys in, takes the kids out on Dad dates,plays with them at the Y, reads them bedtime stories, plays endless games of Monopoly, sings them songs & rocks them to sleep. Should I continue???
He & the kids already cleaned the church once this month and of course Trav signed up to do it again this morning (Granted, we were 30 minutes late and only cleaned for 20 minutes, but hey, we made it, right?)
What makes it even more sweet is that Saturday morning is his ONLY day to sleep in and he sacraficed 2 of those precious mornings to help out this month. What a guy! I just had to post how lucky I am to have one pretty awesome husband!

A slumber party in the living room...

The kids were thrilled to have a slumber party last night on the couch... I was thrilled they were asleep in 20 minutes!

Smart little girl...

When Willow cannot reach something, she will go and get 1 of 2 things: either my white garbage can, or the pink stool- she then uses it to stand on and then reach what ever she was too short for in the first place.
I've been noticing that Willow is really obedient too- honestly! I'll ask her to grab her boots- and she will. I'll ask her to get her toothbrush- she will. Her Elmo book- she does that too. I'll ask her if she needs to go potty and she will run down the hall, into the bathroom and put her potty seat on the toilet- kinda great for a 16 month old, I think!
So my ultimate favorite was a few days ago: I was mopping the kitchen floor really quickly and I bent over to pick up a spoon that had fallen. Willow was right there so I handed it to her and said,"Go put it in the sink." She ran off in the other direction, so I just shook my head & kept mopping. She came back a few seconds later, holding the pink stool, put it in front of the kitchen sink, climbed up and dropped the spoon in the sink! My heart literally melted right there. I scooped her up and praised her a 100 times, "Good girl!!!." It was so cute! What did I tell you...

So the picture of her with the stool by the back door is because the big kids were outside playing and she REALLY wanted to be out there with them- so she was standing on it trying to open the door. By the time i grabbed my camera, she had already given up hope)
The other picture is a random really morning shot!

The living room vent...

The other day Willow was having fun on the air vent. I thought her hair looked pretty cute! Grace had to join in the fun too!

Jayna, this is for you!!!

I have no idea what Grace does while she sleeps, but here is what her hair looked like this morning! Can anyone explain this???
( Jayna, I laughed when I watched the video of your girls, because it's the same thing over here! CRAZY HAIR!!!)

Cat poop at 7:45 AM

***Beware, serious rant post***

If you know me at all, you know there are a few things I CANNOT handle in life. The one I'm speaking of today is cats! I'm sorry if you are a fan, but I am DEFINATLY not- one reason is for the past 3 1/2 years the nieghborhood cats have used my front yard, side yard, 2 spots near my front door, my 2 garden boxes, the back yard, gravel in the front yard and gravel in the back yard TO POOP EVERYWHERE!!!!!! They are terrible! And I am beyond angry & frustrated!!!! They have ruined my garden and/or parts of it almost every year and it makes me SO sad. Their poop is endless & everywhere and it smells terrible and there is nothing worse than your kids stepping in cat poop while playing in the back yard! I don't have animals for a reason, yet I have scooped up, raked up, dug up & cleaned up more cat poop than I wish to comment on. Seriously, I'm getting an ulser over it! I am not a swearer. Honestly, I don't even think bad words in my head, but when I see fresh cat poop or have to deal with mounds of frozen poop- I want to scream bad words for the entire neighborhood to hear- so you know it's bad. With the slightly warmer weather lately, I have almost vomited every time I walked up to the front door because of the smell! Finally this morning I couldn't take it anymore, so at 7:45 AM, in my super hot red Bingo sweater and hotpink PJ bottoms, I went out and raked up a garbage bag full of dirt & poop. I think God will forgive me for thinking up 100 ways to kill the cats, don't you???
I didn't stop there, so I raked up another 4 bags of leaves too. Yes, I am the crazy neighborhood lady doing yard work at 8:00 in the morning!

Crazy weather...

What is going on with our weather lately? One minute it's snowing and the next the kids are riding their bikes outside! Hurry up Spring!!!