Birthday Pictures!

Here is my big 1-year-old on his birthday eating his cake. He was so cute, he looked at us like he was asking if it was ok before he started. Then at the end he gave me a big blue hug!

We went to the Dr. yesterday. After thinning down some from walking and not eating and being sick (thanks to alergies) he weighs 29 pounds and 14 ounces. He is a healthy little boy aside from his alregies. The Dr. and the resident both commented on how strong he is! They checked him for signs of Autisum, and he passed with flying colors! He is walking everywhere and is getting so much more personality.

OH, last night he fell asleep singing about daddy. It was so very sweet!

I posted more pictures if you look at my last blog entry.

Lot's more pictures

An Adventure

We spent our morning running all over getting stuff done. We took Donna and Alex to school, then went to the Dr. for Ethan's one year check.(He is doing great) Then we went to WalMart to pick up some meds for his alergies so we can all sleep better at night. Next we went to Fareway for food to make tonight at the cross-walk. (Hot dog burritos and mac & Cheese) Then off to the school to add money to the kids lunch accounts, and we dropped the food off at the cross-walk. We pull in to the driveway 3 1/2 hours after we left thismorning. Chloe gets out of her seat and comes up to the front and looks me in the eye and says "That was a berry long aventure, wasn't it mommy!" Why can't I see things that way. I am exhausted and thinking of everything I need to get done still and stressed that it took so long, but she reminds me that it was a lang adventure.

I have been telling Adam that I need so badly to get a vacation in, even if it is just for a weekend. However if I changed my way of thinking, everyday could be an adventure, then who would even want a vacation!?!?

I am blessed to have Chloe remind me of the important things in life!

P.S. I will put the pictures up later, they were fun and came out cute!

Big Day!!!!!

So, today Ethan turned one! I have never been one to be sad for the baby days to go. I have always been excited to see what the new stage had in store. I am a bit like that with Ethan...however he is my last little one. It is a bit sad to know I will never have another baby again. So for the first and last time I will say, "My baby turned one today!"

I have been singing to him all day. It's so cute to watch him bop to "Happy Birthday". He started singing it with me now. He will say "happy day" and make up "words" for the rest as he claps along. He picked out fish sticks (as much as a 1 year old can pick out food) for lunch. He is very very tired and getting ready for his big boy nap.

I just don't know how the past year has gone by so fast, but I'm sure the next year will go even faster! I'll put pictures up later. We are planning to do a "photo shoot" later with a blue frosted cupcake. (Thanks Asa for the awsome idea!)

In other big news today, Adam's sister, Alicia, called last night to tell us she is engaged!!! Yeah!!! I am so happy for her! Kory is an amazing guy, and they are so sweet together.

I'm sorry I haven't been blogging well lately. So much cute stuff has been happening, but I just never have time to get on-line anymore. Here I thought life was going to slow down once the kids were back in school.

Well, my little blessings are yelling from the diningroom for more food. SO I will have to try to get back on later with pictures.

Word of the day

Ethan learns words so fast. Most days he learns 1-5 new words.

So, the new word for yesterday was "disgusting" LOL It was soooo funny. He had just eaten and was covered in food. Adam asked who was next for a bath, and I said "Ethan has to be next, he is just disgusting!" to which he looks at daddy and says "disgusting" and giggles. It is so funny to hear him at such a young age talking, but to hear him say something like disgusting is just to funny.

Chloe has been into make-up and nail polish all day. I need a week of being home alone just to find it all and clean it up. Everytime I turn around she has found some different make-up. I caught her putting lipstick on Reed's leg earlier... no idea why lipstick on his leg. She has about 10 different colors of eye shadow on herself.

I haven't been typing in my blessings because I have been in a hurry. I know it's bad, so I am back to my blessings today!!

Today I feel very blessed because my husband has vacation next week!!! Also, when he put in for his vacation, I asked him to put in for the weekend before and after as well. That means he doesn't have to go in to work for 9 full days!!! He told me yesterday that he told them he was not going to answer his phone this weekend either. Yeah!!! I get a full saturday with him!

quiet day...

Today was the first time I have had time alone with just Ethan during the day. Donna and Alex have school from 8-3 and Chloe has school from 8:30-11. I didn't have Reed, so it was just me and Ethan. I made some phone calls and got a few little things done while playing with E. Then after I put him down for his nap, I looked around that house at all the work I needed to be doing... and I did nothing! It was amazing!!!! I just sat on the couch and watched a few things on the DVR (it was 98% full and had about 6 hours of stuff to record today)while I checked out a few things on-line. That was it. For a full hour, that is all I did... My house is still a pit, however I feel so much less stress!

Now I need to get to work and try to get the house pulled together. Adam has vacation next week so we can try to get the den cleaned out and the wallpapper stripped off. Then the next week is Ethan's birthday party. I think I'm going to go wash some laundry and hang it out on the clothes line. It is a beautiful day!

My little artest strikes again.

The pink chair is now green... It seems that when I told Chloe that she couldn't use the paint ever without mom or dad, she took it as the pink paint, not all paint. So she used 2 different green paints and the fabric stay. This time she didn't get as much on her clothes, and she didn't paint the door, or handprint wall paper. However she did find the baby powder and pour it all over the floor. I'm not even going to go into details about the children's Tylonal and Children's Motrin.

Today Ethan and I were playing Peek-a-Boo, and he started saying "I see you". I have a feeling that a year from now Adam and I aren't going to be able to get a word in at all.

Chloe was in the bathroom, which I should have taken as a sign.... but I didn't. When she came out the whole house had a "stench" with it. It seems that she found my perfum, all of my perfume and used it, ALL.

We will see if I can get the house picked-up a bit so that I can fold laundry this afternoon.

pink chair...

So, I was trying to get everything done. I have more work to do in the next 24 hours than I really want to think about. I have an appintment at Alex's school in an hour and I have to pick kids up at 2 different school between 3 and 3:15. Needless to say, my head wasn't in the game. Chloe has been very good the last couple days, so I had let my guard down. BIG mistake. I got Ethan up from his nap so he could eat before we go get the kids (He fell asleep right before lunch) and as I walk into the dinningroom I smell paint. Yep, she got to one of our dinningoom chairs, the seat is now pink. I had to make a judgment call. It was try to save the chair, or save everything else... so we will be sitting on a pink chair for meals now. I did get the table and the finger prints off the other chair. I got the bathroom cleaned up and the clothes in the wash (why was she not wearing pink today of all days?) and I got her in the bath. Now to finish feeding Ethan and get eveyone out the door...


Adam, I posted this as a warning for you... I'm sorry. I hope you like pink. It honestly isn't that bad.... or maybe I am just telling myself that. Maybe I will let each of the kids pick some paint and they can each paint a chair. They would "match" that way!

Ethan - big man!

This weekend, my brother and his family came down. Our kids had so much fun playing and it was wonderful to get to spend time with them. While they were down here, my parents took our 3 oldest kids twice. Ethan LOVED it! He needed that alone time more than we knew. He is still a different boy! He started to walk more after Saturday evening. Adam and I played with him for a good hour straight. We had him walk back and forth between us, and just did what he wanted. Sunday night we had our big waterfight(Adam got out our spotlight so they could keep playing after dark). Ethan was inside entertaining the grown-ups. They taught him to say chip. He says it with a spit for the "ch". After we ate, all of the kids except Ethan went to sleep at Garnny's house. Ethan again got time alone with mom and dad. He was all over, showing such confidence, and kept coming to me to lean his head against me. (He NEVER gives me hugs!)

On Monday evening. We were setting the table, and Ethan followed Adam into the bathroom. Adam came out, but Ethan didn't. I went to the door and called "Ethan, where are you?" He said "I'm comming". I said "You're comming?" he said "yeah" as he walked out the door(holding onto the wall). It was sooo sweet. He has grown up so much this weekend. He talks some from time to time, but normaly doesn't. It was fun to hear how much he can talk when he wants to and has the chance to.