♥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!

Mom, don't pop it!

This morning Drew was sitting with her legs in the air trying to show me a "huge zip" on her leg. What she meant was a zit, and she would not let me see it close enough. She kept saying, "NO, don't pop it!" Upon closer inspection, all the while Drew trying to protect the giant "zip", I noticed that it was only a teeny tiny bubble heart sticker! She was so surprised to find this out that she almost didn't believe me. I could have died laughing!!!

Millsberry Madness

My 10 yr. old recently gave me a peek at her world of Millsberry. It is this adorable website where you choose a person, personalizing eye, hair, and skin color, then sex. You get to choose where to live, out of about 6 different sections of Millsberry, then you build a house to your liking. To earn money you play games, then you buy anything you want to add to your house. You must feed your person healthy food to keep up thier fitness, and health. If you get a pet, you have to keep it fed or they take it back from you. You can change his/her clothes, etc. IT IS ADDICTING! I am obsessed. It is sooo cool! Check it out: www.millsberry.com

Baby Bottle Battle

This morning as I took Beau's milk bottle to him, Leah's eyes followed my hand, and she got so exicted. So I made her a bottle, and laid her down next to the boy, and they both drank thier bottles in-sync! It was so cute.

A new DOO

Yesterday I gave in and finally got a haircut. My hair was almost to my butt! She cut off 3 inches and it still sits below my shoulder blades. I had her taper it from my jaw bone, down. No bangs...yuck! And, then she put some short layers in the bottom. I just love it! Now, I just have to get over to my Mom's and have her help me dye it "chocolate velvet" brown!

She speaks!

Leah said DA-DA today! It was so adorable to see those little lips form to say a word. And her 2 little tiny stubs of teeth on the bottom! She is just growing, growing, growing...

She kicks, she scores!

Drew made her first goal today in her 3rd soccer game! She was all over that ball! She was even trying to take it from her own teammates. I told her she didn't need to take the ball from the girls on her team, only the other team, then she looked at me and said, "I thought I was just so good I was gonna take the ball from my team!" Way to be confident, but...not the way to be! So, after we got home, Daddy and I explained to Drew that if she were further down the field instead of right up against her teammate, then the other girls could pass her the ball and she would be closer to the goal to be able to score! "Oh! I get it!" She liked that idea. I've got a ball hog on my hands!

Demanding Drew

Yesterday we went to town and had lunch with my friend at Red Robin, then went to Goodwill to look around for halloween goodies. Drew was instantly begging for a toy. She would not let up, and so I had to cut my browsing short. I made sure she knew she was going to take a nap once we got home because of this. Well, that stirred up all kinds of emotion in that girl! She was Dr. Jeckyl & Mr. Hyde. She went from shock, to balling her head off, to aggressive anger in seconds! The girl screamed at me, "I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!...I hate this famly! You shouldn't make me take a nap!"...all the way home! I was so astounded by her behavior that I could do nothing but break into laughter, which made her even more angry. I knew she was just so overly tired, and desperately needed this nap! We got home, and she tried pretty hard to persuade me not to make her nap, but I persevered, and finally, after 3x getting up, and trashing her bed, she fell asleep! Little Monster!

Lela...as the boy calls her!

Leah now has 2 teeth! And... she is trying like mad to get up on all fours to get where to wants to go! And...she is trying to say Dada! She is just growing way too fast for me. My very last baby is growing up, and no more will ever take her place! *sob*

My Gift from God

♥ As I was holding that boy this evening, rocking him back and forth, I whispered to him..."I love you so much! I wanted you so bad! God gave you to me, and you are just so wonderful!" And he just looked up at me as if he fully understood what I had said to him, and smiled a big binky smile and gave me a big hug! I melted. What an amazing boy! ♥

Volleyball Queen

Grace had her first volleyball game tonight. They played 2 games, and WON! I was so impressed with her ability! She served very well, and got right in there. I half expected her to hide from the ball, but she did great! These girls hit the ball a few times into the rafters, once it bounced around awhile in the rafters before falling back to the floor. And one ball actually hit my sweet little Leah right in the face! I was in shock! Just before that happened I was watching for Beau to get out of the way of another ball, poor baby! She had red marks on her forhead, and left cheek for half the game time. Then Beau ran into a metal bleacher seat with his forehead and has a red bump! (Thank goodness my Mom was there to help me out!) Anyway...I really look forward to seeing Grace play the rest of her games. I hope this is something that she sticks with for a few years.

Boy meets Crayon

As I was washing a sink full of baby bottles this morning, Beau got into the girls' craft cupboard and colored my white kitchen floor with orange and purple crayons! He had scribbles all over 1/2 the kitchen! My magic eraser sponge took it all away though. Funny, my husband put them in my stocking last christmas! And even better, my christmas presents were an ironing board, and a new broom! Ha!

OH NO!

My husband has stopped drinking, I bugged him long enough I guess. It's actually been atleast a few weeks. He is still chewing though, the nasty stuff. Last night, the boy was real into playing with Daddy, and watching him closely. Daddy put a wad of chew in his lip, and as he did, the boy took out his binky, then pretended to do the same! I was in shock. Not funny, gross! I do not want my boy thinking it is okay, cool, normal. It's not! I will now work on bugging Jack to stop chewing tobacco!

My Halloween Flower Barrel!

Orange & Black Pansies

Merely a coincedence?

Recently there was something on the news about a fake police car pulling over a young girl in Eugene, or Gresham and the man driving it raped her. Well, it just so happens to be that a fake police car has been parking down the road from us at a house with young men living in it. Also, it is registered to someone in Eugene. Hmmm...the same house that the yellow jeep that "faked" running over my girls on thier bikes, parks at times. Gives me the shivers!