March's Mayhem

Here's the quick recap of the other events that took place in March...

{...SWEET LITTLE BABY FACE...}

Why do we feel the need to take so many pictures of babies when they are young? I don't know, but I'm extremely guilty of it.

{...ARTSY FARTSY...}

Shaylyn is a great artist and shows such great promise. Here's a look at one of her first art assignments for a class in school. They worked on drawing pictures using a grid on the original. She hadn't quite finished the assignment when I took the picture, but it still looks good.

{...SO SLEEPY...}

I love watching babies sleep...no matter how old the baby is. Plus, sometimes you get some awesome pictures.

{...ZOOTOPIA...}

On a bit of a whim, we decided to take the kids to see the new movie, Zootopia. The kids all enjoyed it and Zach made it super easy on us and slept through the whole thing.

{...BIG SISTER SNUGGLES...}

If there's one good thing I can say about the age of selfies, it's that Shaylyn is good at taking some with her siblings. I wouldn't get some of these moments without her.

{...HE MAKES IT LOOK COOL...}

Shaylyn got a pair of costume glasses for a decades dance she went to at school. Since then the little kids have found it fun to put them on. Gotta say, Jace looks pretty cool with them on.

{...BROTHERLY LOVE...}

Sometimes Jace enjoys being with his brother...

{...DOWNSIDE OF THE DIGITAL AGE...}

And here's the downside of kids in a digital age. You find all sorts of fun things on your camera when you let the kids borrow your phone...

 

What Happens Next...

February's Fun

And this is all the random things that happened in February...

{...BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION...}

Grandma Shirley made sure we celebrated Shaylyn's birthday. She had a cake for the girl and made sure she got the photos she wanted. Ignore the bandaid on the girls head, she has a habit of injuring herself in the most random of places.

{...LITTLE HELPER...}

While I was in the hospital having a baby, Grandma Shirley had a few of the kids. Jacen was one of them. Grandma does a lot of things wearing gloves and it appears that Jace wanted to be like Grandma.

{...CREATIVE=MESSY...}

While Jace and Grandma were cleaning, Nate and Ailey were being creative and making a bigger mess to be cleaned...Gotta love Play-Doh...At least they weren't fighting????

{...JUST TOO GOOD...}

Then there are times in life when you just can't decide between taking a nap and snacking...I know, it's happened to me a lot. I've just never decided to go with both...Maybe I should try it sometime.

{...BYE, BYE BABY TOOTH, BYE, BYE...}

Ailey lost her first tooth and was super, super excited about it. 

{...SLEEP TIGHT, LITTLE ONE...}

I'm a sucker for sleeping babies...I want to snuggle up with him right now...

{...CAMERA'S & KIDS...}

What do you get when the 5 year old uses your phone on the way to church? This, people...this:

{...BIG BROTHER...}

Tanis really is a great big brother and a huge helper to me. So glad I caught this moment.

Onto March we go...

What Happens Next...

March Mayhem

March was one of those months that had a lot of just random things happen, but they were all in need of being photographed. Or that might just be my opinion...

We'll start off with teenage girls getting ahold of my phone and thinking they're funny. (And I thought I needed to keep my phone away from the little ones)

Our trip then takes us to pictures the 5 year old likes to take. Most of the time they are of her little toys, but she actually got one that was worth keeping. Domino is such a snuggler and likes to snuggle up with whatever. It's usually one of us humans, but sometimes a blanket works just as well.

Wanna know what happens when kids get into the container full of random plugs and things Dad still thinks he needs and then leaves them out? The power source to one such things gets left somewhat out of the box and then when Mommy's in a hurry she'll step on it just right so that it causes this:

And after two days of trying her best to stay off the foot as much as possible, but it's not so easy because life doesn't slow down - it looks like this:

Because I'm a cool mom, I let Shaylyn get her hair dyed purple. No, I'm not kidding. I seriously let this kid do it. I figure it's just hair it'll grow out eventually and it did. It didn't last as long as I hoped, but it made this kid happier than happy.

As soon as a mutual friend of mine and Eric's introduced something to the FB world, Eric's words were something like, "Oh dear." Because he knew exactly what would happen. I sent him the following picture with the caption, "Oh, yes we did!" Sadly, it was a bit of a letdown for me, but Shaylyn really loved them.

Then allergies attacked! They attacked the kid I was least expecting them too. This poor kid could barely open his eye. And it was one of those times just looking at him hurt me as his mom (it still does). He got a free pass to stay home from school this day.

When you're little, you can find the BEST hiding spaces. Jace found one in one of Grandma's entertainment center cupboards. Sadly I wasn't quick enough to get him hiding out in there, but I got him as he was escaping. 

When you're tired, you're tired and sometimes you sleep in funny ways and sometimes Mommy actually gets a picture of it. Maybe he knew it was good for his heart???

You know it's rarely good news when you get a phone call from the school. You know it's worse news when the message says, "We have our little Nate friend here and he hit his head on the cement...." My heart skipped about 20 beats. His teacher then calls my cell phone and says he fell while playing at recess, he did hit it on concrete, they stopped the bleeding, it wasn't that bad and he currently has ice on it - but he wanted to talk to me. So I talk to him and he wants to come home. I don't blame the kid so I go get him from school and poor kid had a nasty goose egg. You could definitely tell it hurt - he was also a bit more solemn that day.

Totally don't blame the kid. Guess March was the month of unexpectedness...or something.

What Happens Next...

Going, Going, Gone...

This post has nothing to do with baseball. I'm sure we'll have plenty of those come summer. This was just a good title for these pictures that end our February.

Nate had a loose tooth for longer than I liked. Every time I'd look at him when he spoke, the tooth was always creating a bigger gap between the teeth next to it. I bugged him every day for probably a week, trying to convince him to just let me pull it out. He kept declining. It got to the point he would say, "I can't eat that because it hurts my tooth." We'd just reply with, "Then let us take it out."

One day he'd had enough and decided he'd let us take it out. After I tried and failed, quite miserably...he let Daddy take a shot and Daddy got that slimy tooth with very little effort. Nate was actually quite surprised with how quickly it came out and how little it hurt.

He still wasn't quite sure of the whole process of losing a tooth, however. As evidenced by the picture.

That same night we had Jace just playing and jumping in his little jumperoo thing. Before too long he was out!

What Happens Next...

A Bed Fit For A Queen

Awhile ago we bought this container to put away Shaylyn's clothes that no longer fit. It's been sitting in the girls room waiting for me to get to it. Well, one night Ailey decided it made the perfect bed...

What Happens Next...