Fun Things I want to BUY for my kids :)

Instead we settled for borrowing a firefighter costume from a neighbor....maybe next time :)

Jeans for Robby.
He seriously has like two pairs of pants that fit right now. Yikes!
The weather change has me scrambling to find something for him to wear to get through the cold front.

Too bad Maddie is too big for this little number. Maybe at some point I will get another girl. Until then....

I am LOVING this dress above with the sweater below. Maybe for Christmas for my little lady.

this past week....

was literally heaven.
*I was off work for almost a week straight :)
*I finally got my hair done again professionally~ it has been almost a year
*I went to a fun "Super Saturday" craft day with Miss M.
*We painted the day away and she was actually quite the little helper there.
*We took family pictures with my family at Freestone park
(which was actually a miserable experience: my kids were very naughty, would not sit still, Miss M decided to be pouty and Robby and Miss M kept running away; BUT Eli was an angel, there were cute individual pictures of all three kids, and we are now done with family pictures for awhile!)
*On Tuesday we got some WONDERFUL news that made us VERY happy!
*We went to the park mulitple times during the week and played, played, played in the sand
*Miss M informed me that "Taj" held her hand in primary, and told her she was pretty (she keeps telling us that he is her "favorite friend"). She asked me all week when she was going to play with him (we were semi-freaking out at this point~ she's only four); but then when she saw him at park day she smiled, said hi, and kept playing with all her GIRL friends. Whewww... I am NOT ready for the interest in boys.
*I attended yet another craft night with some friends and in the process found my new favorite babysitter in my neighborhood. Yeah!!
*And then I came across these little jewels tucked inside my camera of my kidlets sleeping at night

I love how Eli is cuddle up next to his brown bear sleeping
Once again another picture of my two-year old with a pacifier...yikes. I figure we will get rid of it before he hits kindergarten :)

and of course Miss M asleep on her bed with her princess tent propped up on the bed.

Miss M has taken this habit directly from yours truly: hanging up clothes to wear the next day on the dresser with matching shoes placed on the floor :)

relief

Oh what a beautiful day it has been!
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And I did not work a single bit today

~at least with my job :)
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And I actually got sleep last night (did not work last night)~ 9 hours straight sleeping!!
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And I have three of the cutest kids ever
~duh

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And I went to the mall with all three kids in tow and was able to buy a new pair of jeans that I love!

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And I took the kids to the park this afternoon, thus able to further enjoy the beautiful fall weather

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And I felt like a normal stay at home mommy cooking dinner in my apron

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And we all ate dinner together as a family

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And I got a nice kiss from my sweetheart when he got home from work

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And I can hear him and the young men out in the garage working on their go-kart cars right now

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Luv It :)

Shots and Tears

We had a day today that included some master bedroom painting, preschooling for Miss M, cleaning, "potty-ing" by Mr R (we are NOT potty training yet however :), train playing and purchasing (for the previous), napping, cooking, visiting, and lastly doctor visiting. Oh joy....

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Maddie and Eli had their respective scheduled appointments on the same day. So where does that leave Robby? At my wonderful mom's house of course. He was able to have some well-deserved "alone time" with the grandparents and loved every minute of it! Maddie and Eli did NOT love getting shots however. Eli's stats at 9 months:

Height- 30in (90th percentile)

Weight- 21lb 10oz (75th percentile)

Head Circumference- 18.5 in

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Eli had two pokes this time around: a toe stick to check his iron level and a flu shot. He was a champ and barely cried on the flu shot and not at all on the iron test. hurray! He did get upset however when the lady stepped on his toe while trying to vaccinate Maddie (it was the very same toe she did the capillary stick on might I mention). Needless to say, he has been one unhappy baby this evening.

My LITTLE ladies stats at 4yrs old:

Height- 38.5in (20th percentile)

Weight- 30lb (5th percentile)

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Miss M had to have FIVE shots today at the doctor's. We are planning on sending her early to kindergarten next year and so we had to do all the dreaded school shots. She was so not having that. She did fantastic on the first two shots, saying "owie owie owie" when they stuck her. After doing one arm they announced they had to now do three on her other arm. At that point she totally broke down crying and started to say "please no...no I don't want another owie...no..no..no..please don't do it." poor thing. it about broke my heart to have to make her sit still and prep for another go round. the good news is that she is now DONE with shots until she is 11 yrs old~ other than H1N1 and annual flu shots however :)

a day in the life of maddie

Maddie typically starts the day dressed to the "T" at 6:30am with sunglasses, bracelet, multiple necklaces, and shoes all on as well as drawing all her alphabets she has learned thus far on the notebook, while she waits for mom to wake up

after Robby and Eli go down for their mid-day naps, maddie typically has some sort of surprise waiting for me. some days it is a fun puzzle to do, other times she has a bag of popcorn ready to be popped and a movie picked out. on this particular day she prepared our own special tea party complete with rootbeer, crackers and cheese. Yummy!

(obviously I work at a hospital with these goblets right?)

throughout the day she ALWAYS reminds me that she wants to play with friends. She love love loves to play dress up with friends.

then once the afternoon/evening time approaches, we have been trying to walk to the park at the end of our street and enjoy the beautiful weather.

(note: she STILL has her sunglasses on)

*love you little lady....please stay my best friend FOREVER okay?!