Heaven help me

Oh Spencer. 

I send him outside to play, (fully clothed) and he comes inside like this.

I look over, and he has a bloody nose. 

I turn around, and we're back in the emergency room.

I find chocolate all over the couch, look over, and see this face.

I ask, "What in the heck happend in here?" and I get this look. 

With all the trouble and mishaps that surround this little man,  I still can't think of anyone sweeter.  

I sure love this little maniac. 

School time!

The time finally came! School has started and my boys are BOTH in it!! And as Spencer would say, "I'm in it, to win it!" 

Oh man, I can't believe how fast time flies. I swear it was just yesterday we were sending Noah out on his first day of preschool! Now he is all grown up and in Kindergarten, so we kicked Spencie out of the nest and into preschool too! Well, he actually flew as fast as he could without even glancing behind him! :) He was so ready for preschool. He needed to have his own friends and his own thing outside of his family and his brother.  

When Noah would come home from school last year and we'd ask him how his day went. Spencer would cut him off and start telling us some pretty crazy things he did with his imaginary friend Hushroom.  So... we are very glad he has some new friends. 

I do miss these two while they are gone. I read this blog post from a couple years back the other day. I must say, I don't really have those same feelings anymore. Definitely still very sad, but so happy they are progressing and becoming healthy human beings!   

Spencer told me I could leave the second we walked into preschool. With Noah I was sad because he didn't NEED his Mommy anymore. With Spencie, I'm sad because he doesn't WANT his Mommy anymore! I'm so happy for him! Look at that smile, so ready for this new adventure!

Spencer and Miss Lily

Noah was star of the week this past weekend. He was able to bring something into class to share, so of course, he wanted to bring his Daddy and his drums. 

The next day, Noah came home with 7 pictures from little girls in his class.  

He is a ladies man!

Chloe D

                                  Look at those chubby wittle cheeks! 


Oh my oh my... This little girl is such a sassafras! She's the boss. No questions asked. Her brothers are at her every whim, and that Daddy of hers - well he just looks at her and melts. Seriously, who can blame him?! 


So now, on to the brag fest.


This little miss at 10 months old, has decided to walk, talk and become a bossy little Mommy. She LOVES, and I mean LOVES her babies. She calls them "Deedee!" with such a high pitched, cute little voice! She'll hug them, and pat them on the back and soothe them saying "AAAWWWW" it's super cute.

Her Mimi taught her how to point to her dolls' eyes and say, "EYE!" 
Every time she does it, it makes me want to squeeze those wittle cheeks and eat them for breakfast!! 


If you're sick of all the baby babble from me, then you might want to stop reading. It'll just get worse. I CAN'T HELP MYSELF! 

I love this picture. This is usually how she is for the majority of the day. Scooting around in a diaper, dragging a baby around, with her brothers chasing after her.

What more can a girl ask for? A tea party with her brothers. Makes a Mommy smile. :) 

                                                  Wittle smooshy wooshy bum!

Look what we did!! My mom and my sister took Chloe and Maci (my sisters baby girl) to get their ears pierced! Her Daddy was not so happy about it... Oops!

                                                                 Chloe and Maci

A long time coming!

I have some MAJOR catching up to do! The month of August just near killed this Momma! I'll blog about it soon, I promise!

Summer activities!

The kiddos have been doing all sorts of new activities this summer. Noah and Spence are trying out some gymnastics classes and Noah is taking Karate. 

Poor Spencer is too little to start, but the teacher let him warm up with them and he was so into it. It was hysterical! I wish I got a shot of his face, he was rearing and ready to beat someone up! He actually listened really well too. Unlike in his gym class. Of course he was the only child to sneek off and start jumping on the trampoline with another class. His teacher had to tell him if he didn't listen he'd get a time out. It was nice to have someone else dealing with it for a change. :) 
Once he gets old enough it will be a good way to channel some of that manly energy he seems to have.  

All three of the kids are swimming. Noah started the US team and will be swimming year round, and Spencer is still taking lessons with Coach Lyn and starting Otter Pups in a couple weeks!
Chloe Started lessons also. She LOVES the water! Coach Lyn? Not so much. She is definitely a Momma's girl.

And here's Noah jumping off the diving board. If this child gets a broken arm or leg, that board right there will most likely be the culprit. 
Noah has been obsessed with it. He watches all the big kids doing flips and dives from it. So of course he wants to do the same. He practices over and over trying to do a flip. Running from the end, giving me a heart attack! I take my eyes off him for a second and he's hanging from the sides screaming, "MOM! Look! I look like a proboscis monkey!" And that leads to another obsession.  pbskids.org. My kids LOVE the wild kratt brothers. Which is where they've learned all about proboscis monkey's and falcons and all kinds of other awesome animals. 

The boys write in a journal everyday, and this is what Noah has been writing about. He seriously has about 50 pages full of info on animals. 

Looks like spelling is not this kids forte. :)

A little catching up

Hidy Ho All!! Oh my goodness! Where to begin! Well, we have been so very busy around this house. Three kids is certainly keeping Nick and I on our toes. 

Our 4th of July was awesome. We had our annual breakfast and parade at the park in the morning, then just hung out with family and had fireworks. The boys were so cute. Spencer and his destructive personality was just loving the loud bangs and all the "fires!" it was a perfect day. 

That tiny little pumpkin up there in blue had scrapes and burns on her poor knees. She can't help but crawl around and explore, even though her poor legs protested! Pain for curiosity! That's her motto! 

Those sexy young lads there heading the front of the parade are staying with my parents while they  train with our swim team at the club. My boys have been ALL over new bodies walking around, jumping on them, making them play, it's been great.

Muahahaa... I have fire! 

Noah graduated from his Montessori school and is so excited and ready to start new adventures at a brand new school. His schedule has been pretty full since he left school. Play dates and phone calls and letters and notes in the mail from his friends. He sure is a popular kid. His teacher told me at his last PT conference that she's never seen anything like it. The kids just loved being with Noah! Now if only he could be so agreeable at home... 

The kids have been having such a great summer. I just love these lazy summer days, making lemonade, laying out by the pool...  Oh geez who am I trying to kid. Laying by the pool, Yes. Making lemonade? Not so much. I actually made some this morning and it was pretty good! Most of the time it tastes like crap and no one drinks it. My need to cut sugar in recipes makes pretty much all things bake-able or in this case drink-able pretty much disgusting.  But one of my girlfriends has a loaded lemon tree and I decided to follow the recipe and make some. It was the bomb.

The boys sleeping in their tent = ADORABLE!  That is until we woke up in the morning and they BOTH peed in the middle of the night. See all those stuffed animals in there?? Soaked my friends. It was pretty sick. 

Oh Chloe!! She is so smushy and cute. She is crawling EVERYWHERE and cruising from the furniture now. She is growing so fast! I've been taking her into the Dr. every month so they can do a weight check. She is super tiny. She was in the 3rd percentile but I'm proud to announce she has moved all the way up the the 25th for her weight! YAY Chloe!! She LOVES the Bubble Guppies and claps and dances every time she hears music or anything close to a beat. She's got the groove!

And here it is. The cat. Ugh... I don't really like cats. But I guess when you have kids you do things for them that you normally wouldn't. Noah is such an animal lover. He wanted one so bad. So we caved and there it is. I'm not sure what his name is exactly. Yesterday it was Nico. Today it's Teddy, and the other day it was Jinxy. Nick just calls him cat. I used to call him sweetie till he scratched the crap out of me. But he's here now and the boys love him. He's pretty good with them, and he lets Chloe pull on his ears and tail. 

So that's enough for now. Time for some Lemonade! :)