Rough Day

Her day started with what was apparently too many ounces of milk, as she lost them all over both of us a few minutes after breakfast.
Then she fell down when we were picking Shea up from preschool and got two majorly skinned knees, and then she got two shots to top it off.
Poor baby!! :-(
She was pretty proud of her 4 band-aids though and showed them off to everyone we saw today. I adore this little muffin, even on her roughest days.

The Peanuts Gang!!

Love, love, love this year's costumes. Thanks to daddy, as always, for the idea. Most adults could figure us out, but the kids kept asking me who I was. Apparently 'It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown' hasn't aired yet this year. :-)
The cutest Snoopy and Woodstock you ever did see, no?
I'll try to get some better photos of the kids' costumes this weekend. I love how they turned out, from the sides especially, you can really tell who they are. I liked how big and cartoonish my Lucy dress turned out and I love Chris' because I didn't have to do anything except draw on his forehead!! (Clare was kind of bothered by it though and Shea couldn't wait to wipey it off at the end of the night.) Overall, they were worth all the work and stress and we can't wait to wear them again this weekend. :-)
Happy Halloween!!!

Getting ready for Halloween

One of my favorite holidays. I love it!!! It's so fun to come up with costumes, make them and dress up and then of course, eat candy (lots of it.) What's not to love???!!!
So far we've made all our costumes (photos to come tomorrow!!) made fondant covered bat and jack-0-lantern cream cheese cupcakes, had a neighborhood party, painted pumpkins, had a ward party and dressed in our cute Halloween outfits numerous times. And we still have a whole week to go!!!
Yippee.

How many times????

Today Chris was messing around with Shea, you know that torturous daddy mix of wrestling, squishing, ticklingness?! Shea had fun for a while and then said, "Let me go dad! I want to go play." To which Chris replied, "What, the sky's gray?"
Shea: No, I want to go play.
Chris: You had a bad day?
Shea: No, I want to go play.
Chris: Your birthday's in May?
Shea: No, I want to go play.
Chris: Mom's in the way?
Shea: No, I want to go play.
Chris: I don't know if Kim has a sleigh.
Shea: No, I want to go play.
Chris: You like fish filets?
Shea: No, I want to go play.
And on and on and on....
I really think Chris did about 30 rhymes. Every single time, Shea said, No, I want to go play.
Finally Chris (totally out of rhymes) let him up and Shea gave him this completely exasperated look and said, "Geez, DAD! I want to go play. How many times do I have to say it??!!"
We tried to explain that he was being messed with, but he totally didn't get it and just really thinks his dad is hard of hearing. :-)

So delicious...

There's nothing more delicious than lying in your bed on a Sunday afternoon just burrowing in for a good long nap after a really, really hard week!!! And then to hear the daddy reading stories to the kiddies in the next room. Ah!! Heaven!!

Team Puck??

Puck was so nasty in the first few episodes - but I totally forgot that I hated him when he sang "Sweet Caroline" last night. Oh my gosh. He's really quite the little hotty and he (if it was really him singing???) sounded awesome. LOVED IT!!!!!!!!

College begins...

They sent this home from Back to School night at Shea's preschool.

Seriously? I was dying!! Okay, I guess there will be no skipping homework for us!! :-)

Bangs!!!

I love them. She looks so much older. And I'm having so much fun doing cute things with her hair and swooping little bangs to the side. Now if only they were straight. :-)

One down!!

I'm making 3 Halloween costumes this year. I love, love, love doing big, fancy birthday cakes and homemade Halloween costumes for my kids every year. Last year I didn't make our costumes, it was too busy and I had to give it up and buy them - but I was soo bummed about it. So this year I was determined to do them. And I'm sooooo soooo excited. Shea's came out PERFECTLY! I can't wait for him to see it in the morning. I was so close to waking him up just now at 11:15 to see it. I resisted, barely.
This year's project is bigger than I've ever done before. I've never done three from scratch for one year. Luckily Chris' costume is just shorts and a tee-shirt. I don't think I could do 4, or at least not while starting one week before the first Halloween party!
Here's the mess after Shea's was done tonight. So I have a ton left to do this week, but at least there's one down!!! Check back for pics of the final projects soon!! :-)

Very serious!!

I can't remember what I was telling Shea the other day, but I was very, very serious. (Maybe it was about, looking both ways before crossing the street, not talking to strangers, or eating all mom's tootsie rolls. I can't remember. Anyway...) So I vaguely recall saying, "... and mister, I am dead serious about that!!!" To which he replied, "What does that mean?" I said that it means that I am very, very serious about this. End of story.
Until later that day when he wanted to go outside right that minute and he looked at me with a very serious face and said "Mom, I want to go out right now, and I am TED SERIOUS!"
I wanted to scold for talking like that to his mom, but I couldn't stop laughing. So now, he's Ted serious about everything!!

My favorite time of day.

I really hate the hours of 5-7 pm. I'm trying to make dinner, keep Clare happy (who is at her worst at this time), get Shea to do his homework (ugh!), eat dinner, read scriptures, do baths, pick up the house, do dishes, get ready to start work etc. etc. etc. It makes me CRAZY. (To be fair, Chris is usually home and always helps with some of it, but it still is so stressful!) I try to not loose it, to be patient and kind but I'm not those things very often between 5 and 7.
So I get through those 2 hours, and finally my kids are in bed and I'm happily (read quietly!) ensconced in front of my TV working away. After a few hours of TV and work time, I'm so happy to go in and check on my babies before I go to bed. They are so sweet and so cute and smell so good and are so warm and cuddly. I love those moments where all the stress and hurry and frustration of the day have melted away and all I can think about are how wonderful they are and how very, very much I love them. So on that note, off I go to kiss and snuggle my babes.

Glee

Makes me happy.
Other Glee lovers out there???
I was worried after episode 2, but since then it just gets better and better!!!
Can't wait for Wednesday!

Self portraits

Shea asked to play some games on my iPhone the other day. When I finally got my phone back there were 54! pictures of this:






I didn't include the 13 photos of assorted living room furniture or the 22 photos of his lovies or the extremely unflattering shots of me at the grocery store?? (How did he take those without me noticing?) I think he has a new favorite hobby!!

Phones in Heaven???

I put Shea down for a nap at noon today. At 1:30 he still wasn't asleep so I went in to see why he was still awake. This is what I discovered:

Mom: Why are you awake buddy?

Shea: Look mom, I have a bug bite, and it was hurting and so I said a prayer and it stopped hurting! But then I couldn't sleep, so I said another prayer. It didn't work, so I said another one. That one didn't work either, but then Heavenly Father sent you in here to help me fall asleep. .... So Heavenly Father did hear my prayer! (very excited!)

Mom: Heavenly Father always hears your prayers Shea, and he will always answer your prayers! I'm so glad you said a prayer today buddy, that makes me so happy. (etc. etc. etc.) :-)

Shea: (almost asleep) Mom, can Heavenly Father hear my prayers even when he's talking on the phone??

:-)
(Come on, I'm not on the phone that much!!)