Thankful for these Baby Blues

These blue eyes can melt me like butter. You can only imagine how irresistable he is when he produces a few big crocodile tears with them. He is hard to tell no to! I am thankful for my little boy. He will always be special to me be because he made me a mom. He introduced me to all the terrors that go along with it too. He is a challenge most days but he provides some great comic relief in our house and keeps us on our toes. Just this morning he fed Wally our fish some nerds and then bawled for me to get them back out because he wanted to eat them!


Out of the blue this morning Jack looked at me and said "Ella has thunder thighs." Why yes son she does! I hurried and grabbed the camera because it was just too cute! Oh boy, I love this little guy!

Thankful it's Naptime

I think I very well might lose my sanity if it wasn't for naptime! On a good day I can get them both sleeping at the same time and I wouldn't trade it for the world. I try to squeeze in some homework, some cleaning, some surfing (web style), and on a very rare occasion a nap for myself. I am going to cry the day Jack gives up his nap because I NEED these precious two hours to keep my SANITY!


( I need to take some more pictures... but this one will have to do for now...)

Thankful for Weekends and Good Health

Seriously my two favorite days of the week. I love having Ryan home to spend the weekend with us. It feels like a vacation for me because I am no longer on "call" 24/7 from the kids. Ryan always takes a HUGE load off of me on the weekends and I am so appreciative of that!

(one of my favorite pictures.... they have so much fun together!)

Yesterday I had probably one of the scariest experiences of my life. I was at Target and Ryan was home with the kids. I was leisurely driving home and turned the corner to come down our street when parked in front of my house was 2 fire trucks, 2 ambulances, and several police cars. My heart literally dropped out of my chest with worry. Luckily for me, the problem wasn't at our house but at our poor neighbors. I was so scared that something had happened to my babies! We have been blessed with good health in our family and we hope that it continues. We also hope all is well with the little neighbor girl who was hurt! What a scary experience!

Thankful for Cousins

I am so thankful that Jack and Ella have such fun cousins that love them! I have so many great memories of doing fun things with all of my cousins when I was little and i'm glad Jack and Ella will too!









Ainslee and Taylor are just like second moms to my kids and I love it. Their help is always appreciated and I think they will always be good examples to my kids. Hunter, Colty, Kaden, and Okie are the best boy cousins Jack could ask for. Colty definately teaches him all sorts of naughty things and Okie is always up for a good fist fight with Jack! Hunter is such a loving guy and will always jump at the chance to hold Ella and will pack her around all day if given the opportunity! Hannah and Emmy are also so good with them. They drive Emma a little crazy and she has a hard time having any patience but Hannah is always ready to help out in any way she can.
I am also thankful that I have had the opporutnity to be an Aunt to all of them. I was young when I became an Aunt and I think it was a great experience for me. I learned to have a lot of patience because they were ALWAYS around and I am very thankful that I was able to experience them growing up.

Now.... we just need to get some cousins on the Paxman side..... Someday!

Just some more Cuteness

Some more of the wonderful pictures my neighbor Aubrey did of Ella! She did a fabulous job and I love love love them!

Oh, and FYI.... I wasn't being partial to Ella but for some reason when I tried to load more it wouldn't work so I will have to load some of Jack tomorrow!

Thankful....??!!??

We have had a rough couple of days around here and I am starting to question my skills as a mother. Tuesday Ella licked the toilet bowl cleaning wand that her brother so lovingly supplied for her. Wednesday Jack fell down our entire flight of STEEP stairs. I was right behind him and watched the whole thing but there was nothing I could do to stop it. It was terrible but luckily I think he was more scared than hurt at all. Today to top it all off Ella takes a bit slice out of her hand. I don't even know what she cut herself on I just suddenly found myself covered in blood and went searching for the culprit and found her hand gushing blood. It wasn't a bad cut and she wasn't even crying about it but it was really a bleeder. She was playing with toys in a wicker basket while I was taking Jack to the bathroom so the only thing I can suspect is that she sliced it on the basket. Who knows..... but I will give it a thorough investigation before she plays with it again!

Needless to say.... I am having a hard time thinking of what to be thankful for today. I guess I can be thankful that the toilet bowl wand was fresh and hadn't been used yet. I can be thankful that Jack didn't break an arm on his journey sideways down the stairs. I am sure these won't be the last times my munchkins get hurt but seriously can I not have a day to recoup between them?

And I can sure tell you what I am not thankful for...

Ella LOVES them and would eat them all day if I would let her. But that little line on the front of the package that says "NOT MESSY" is a fib. I did her white load of laundry yesterday and 3 of her nice shirts are ruined with a nice little orange stain around the neck! I have scrubbed, laundered, soaked, sprayed and begged for these to come clean but to no avail.

Thankful for Potty Training

Yes, I know this one might be stretching it but since this is my blog I can be thankful for whatever I want! Today, I am thankful that Jack is learning how to use the potty. I think we can almost consider him Poop Trained. He almost always makes it to the potty to do this deed and this I am thankful for!

Thankful for being Frugal

So the last few weeks I have been trying to teach Jack about wasting things.... such as unrolling the whole roll of TP or pulling out an entire box of wipes or insisting I put milk in his sippy immediately following putting juice in it and wanting to just pour the juice out. I have began telling him.... " Jack, we are not going to waste this.... These cost Mommy money!" Well, yesterday at Costco I realized all my lessons have sunk in. We had gotten a sample of ice cream and Jack was enjoying his in the cart and I gave Ella a little taste of mine. She wasn't a fan and spit it right back out and down the front of her shirt. I didn't notice right away so Jack yelled. "Ella spit it out!" then proceeded to growl and huff at her and say " Ella, THAT COSTS MONEY!"

Guess it's time for the little princess to start getting her lessons too!


(don't mind the huge scab under his nose.... never fails he usually has one somewhere on his face!)

He's sure becoming quite the little smarty pants. Just so I can remember..... everything he says right now is followed with or preceeded with Actually. Actually, I want more candy.... Sit right here Actually! He is full of it!

THANKFUL

In the days leading up to Thanksgiving I am going to try and post something everyday that I am thankful for. Today since I missed the first day in November I am going to post 2 things!

I'm very thankful that Jack filled up our candy drawer for the next year for FREE! Ah... who am I kidding.... that will probably last us a couple of weeks!

Seriously though..... I am most thankful for these three.... What would I do all day without them?

Happy Halloween!

We enjoyed a day full of festivities yesterday including trick or treating at Dad's work and a neighborhood block party! It was so much fun to watch the kids enjoying the holiday! We are gearing up for the big evening of trick or treating tonight! We are keeping our fingers crossed that we don't freeze and will eat lots of candy to keep that sugar high to keep us warm!






Ya, I attempted orange pumpkin pancakes for breakfast. They didn't turn out that great but they were edible and Jack thought it was pretty neat!