Happy Halloween!

Goblin cupcakes I made for Drew's Kindergarten Halloween Party!

Sleeping Beauty...as a Caterpillar

My handsome little Stunt Driver

Papa! You owe me five dollars!

Drew had a soccer game yesterday, not the nicest of days, but not the worst either. As we were getting ready, Grace exclaimed, "EWWW! I don't want to watch her game in the rain!", to which Drew retorted..."Why not? I'll play in the rain!" and giggled. We got there a little late, I have too many people to get ready! I finally got a camcorder battery and was going to record this game, then Daddy could see her play too since he was at work. It wasn't raining yet, as the game started. Before I could get the camcorder out, the game began, and Drew scored a goal right off! This set the tone for the rest of the game. She coming, faster and faster, right on target, and she ended up scoring a total of 5 goals! Even though by the games end, it was just pouring down rain on all those girls. These 5 goals were the only goals scored by either team the entire game! She was so thrilled by the 4th, that she started jumping up and down! I had her give me a high 5! She was beaming, glowing, thoroughly excited! As was I! My little soccer girl!
After the game, they slap hands, and say "good game " to the other team. Little Beau had to join in the fun, he ran out there holding his little hand up to have them slap his hand too, and he followed in line. HA!

On the way home, I asked Drew, "Did you like playing in the rain?"...she replied, "YEAH! I loved it, it was so much fun!"

I am so proud of her!

Mommy's Little Helper

I sat Beau down this morning with a bowl of dry cheerios to watch Bob the Builder. Shortly after I walked away and started feeding Leah her cereal, he came running in with an empty bowl saying "OH NO, OH NO", and put the bowl on the counter top. Then, the next thing I knew, he was getting into the garbage under the sink, I hadn't connected the 2 just yet, then I realized, beside him was his CAT dump truck full of the cheerios he had spilled, and he was taking them by handfuls and placing them in the garbage can! Too cute! I laughed, he laughed, what a wonderful boy!

Hot Mama???

At work last night, a male coworker said to me, as I was walking down the hall away from him..."Victoria...sooo pretty, but sooo married!" I laughed, "NO! I'm just fat!" I must assume he just being fecetious. I will admit, it does feel good to hear that from someone after having 4 kids!

Breakfast & Bathtime Buddies

2nd to Mommy

Leah has taken to Grace very well the past week. She will lift her arms out for Grace to take her, then she cuddles up against Grace's neck and quite quickly falls asleep! It is amazing. I now have a reprieve, and does Daddy when I am at work.

I see skies of blue, clouds of white...

and I think to myself, what a wonderful world!

Shadow! Let go!

My loves...

Beau Michael Joseph Dye, you are the twinkle in my eye.
Leah Dee, you are the gleam.
Drew Marie, you are not quite what you may seem,
but you are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen.
Gracie Mae, you amaze me,
with your kind, and deeply caring ways.
I love you all with all my heart ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Booby Biter

Leah is back to her own little self again! No fever, no puke, no "ragdoll". She is now wild and crazy, and seems to find it quite funny to bite me as she nurses. She will look right up at me, and smile, then bite me, not nurse, just bite! I am glad she's back to normal, but I am ready to strictly bottle feed!!!

Ducklings vs. Fawns

Drew had one of her last few soccer games last saturday, and once again, unfortunately, her team lost. I felt so bad for her, even though she probably has no comprehension of the win/lose ratios. This game was against the team that one of her friends, and also our neighbors daughter, is on. She wanted so badly to beat them. Not out of mean-ness, but to show "Nichole" that she can be better I guess. Drew comes out of nowhere and heads straight for that ball, dribbles amazingly well toward the goal, but either the other team intercepts it before she kicks it in, or she misses slightly. With time, she will improve, she's only 5, and I am pretty sure these girls are all 1st year players. I just know she can do it! I know she can be a winner! She already is to me! ♥

Just a Virus

Leah continued with a fever through today, and was acting, as my husband said, "like a rag-doll". So, I took her to urgent care, and they did an RSV test, CBC, checked her O2 saturation, listened to her lungs, and checked her ears and throat. Ends up, she just has a virus that should get going on it's own pretty soon. I dream of a full nights sleep! She is not sleeping well, clinging like a monkey to Mama, and Beau is waking every night as well. I am sleep deprived!!!

Poor Baby

Little Leah was quite the fuss-butt last night. I had a real hard time getting her to settle down for the night. She had felt warm to me, but Jack said, "NO, she's fine!" So, I gave her tylenol anyway since she's been teething. As soon as we laid down at about 11pm, Beau woke up screaming due to the dogs barking outside his window. Then no sooner did I lay down after getting Beau back to bed, did Leah wake up. I fed her, then laid her back down, she started coughing, so I picked her up, and just as I sat down into the bed with her on my left hip, she puked all down my shirt, and pajama pants. She was crying, and also covered in her own vomit, so I tried to rustle through my dark closet, trying not to wake Jack, (he had to work dayshift today.) I found some more PJ's, but every time I set her down, she screamed bloody murder, so I had to walk, covered in vomit to the other end of the house and change as she screamed laying on the bathroom floor. She never did sleep well all night. She woke multiple times, ate a little, remained warm, so I dosed her again with tylenol. This morning when she woke, I was amazed to see that her diaper was completely dry, the last time I had changed it was after she vomited. So, I watched for her to fill her diaper, and she finally did by 10am. But, she has remained ill all day. No more vomiting, but continues with a fever, very solemn, and quiet, cuddly, and sleepy. Poor thing! I sure hope it passes quickly.

Jack came home the other day with a canine costume for Evie. It is a "shark eating man" costume. This morning he decided to try it on the babies before it was used for the puppy. You gotta laugh!

♥Oh, how that boy loves his sissy! ♥

Runway Volleyball

Grace had her 4th volleyball game this evening. At about 5pm I told her to start getting ready, and a few minutes later, Drew came running out saying, "She's not getting ready Mom! She's putting on make-up!" So, I once again, reminded Miss Grace that "it's not a fashion show!" She just rolled her eyes at me. On the way to the Boys and Girls club in the van, I told her she needed to get out there, play good, and sweat some! She just looked at me with disgust, "THAT'S GROSS! No, I don't want to sweat!" OMG...drama queen.
Last week she had professed her expertise at the sport, stating how they could never possibly lose a game. I told her that was exactly the attitude that would lose them a game. She just laughed, but tonight she found out that I was right! As I always am. Hey, I'm MOM! Her team lost both games by quite a bit. The other team had some very strong players. Grace was not happy. She did volley the ball over real good at one point, but for the most part, her team scared away from the ball. Girls!
After the game, she did reveal that she thought the ball was gonna hit her...well, I reminded her it's volleyball, the ball is meant to be above your waist! Ofcourse, I'm wrong at that, she emmediately retorted, "NO" One thing is for sure, she's gonna have to practice, practice, practice to get back on her 'we always win' track.

The Pumpkin Patch

Today was Drew's kindergarten field trip to the Davis Family Farms Pumpkin Patch. She was sooo excited! They had a hay ride for the class, cinnamon covered donuts, and warm apple cider. It was alot of fun. She picked out a pumpkin with a crooked stem, looks kinda spooky we thought. And, I picked out a small one for my Beau, he was at the sitters with little Leah. When we got home, Drew decided to draw scary faces on the pumpkins with just a plain old black sharpy pen, then she brought them to me to show. I was surprised, since I had told her already that we were going to paint the pumpkins with pretty paint...to this she replied, "But, pumpkins aren't supposed to be pretty Mom, they're supposed to be scary!" I guess she's right!

Boy crazy already?

Yesterday as I drove Drew to a birthday party for her friend, she revealed to me something that happened at school last week. She said, "When I was line leader, this boy, I don't know his name, he said "your beautiful", I don't know why he said that!" She was blushing, smiling so big. I asked her what she said back to him, she replied, "I just said 'thanks', what am I s'pposed to say?" Then she said, "He says, next time, when he is line leader he will give me a piece of paper." Then she giggled. It was too cute.

Watch the boy!

My ill-fated attempt at capturing what I thought would be an adorable photograph of all my 4 children in footy pajama's...Beau kept being silly, he just would NOT sit still...so here are the results. Enjoy!

Kids say the darndest things!

The other day, Drew said to me, "You should only get married one time." I was shocked by her statement, and asked her what she meant. She said, again, "You should only marry one person, you got married 4 times, you should only be married one time." I finally denounced that she interpreted my having 4 kids to being married 4 times since she has been told by us that you have to get married to have a baby. So, I asked her, "Do you think I got married 4 times because I have 4 kids?" She answered, as I expected, "Yeah!" LOL!