Things that go bump in the night.

The other night at about 2:30 in the freakin morning I heard a cry and it sounded like Lane. I go in there and Cole is on the floor and I go to help him up and there's this big dark puddle. I call for Clint to come help because now Lane was up too. We turn the light on and there was blood all over the floor and Cole. He had a huge nasty deep gash in his chin. I took him to the E.R. and they didn't believe me that he had just fallen out of bed and hit one of his drawers that he had left open. They didn't do inside stitches which I thought they should have. When we went to get them out the scar was trying to open again so they put a butterfly on it and said to just let it fall off. So moral of the story, close your drawers before you go to bed!

Only in Arizona....

Only in Arizona do the kids still ask to jump on the trampoline in their swimsuits...

Birthday bash/picture overload!

Since Cole and Chloe's birthdays are only 2 weeks apart we usually try to do them together...we made the small mistake of letting Cole open a present before the festivities and it was this dragon/bakugon red ball thing and he didn't want to play any of the games. You live and you learn! We had the balloon relay, water balloons, squirt guns, and pin the tail on the donkey. Crazy two hours but it was fun! My little Cole is now 5 and Chloe is 3...sad day.

Blackmail

Chloe girl, Chloe girl...what can I say...so this was right before we had her and Cole's birthday party, my mom and brother had come to help with water balloons and such and we were sitting waiting to go get the pizzas and in walk Chloe "Look mom!" Huh, what do you say? Pricless, total blackmail!

Me and the tubs

Just a pix of me and the tubs that I love!

Summer fun

Just some funness of the summer so far....

Ready to go!

My mom came over the other day for something(don't remember)and we were sitting talking and Chloe came in, semi dressed, got my mom's purse and said 'Ready to go Bama." I love her more everyday!

Bad mama

This is how I found my poor Lane man the other day...but alas he can now crawl and comes to find me when he's tired...this was pre-crawl.

School

When I registered Cole for kindergarten he did GREAT! Except he can't skip...go figure. That would be one of the test on their motor skills. Anywho Clint went to work this morning and who knew that the school I'm trying to get Cole into had a preschool that is short 3 year olds? (Chloe will be 3 in june) Anywho it's 2 days a week for 2 hrs and only $45 a month! So I call of course and the lady asks if I'm putting her in just to get her used to the school feel or if she has speech problems...Say what? Now any of you that know Chloe knows how she talks, she definately knows what she saying but to me it's mostly giberish. So I tell her actually she does kind of have a speech problem and she tells me that they can screen her and if she passes then she can go for free and see a speech therapist! Holy good news! I'm soooo excited because I was actually just talking to my sister in law about waiting an extra year for Chloe to start school because of her speech but boo-ya free speech therapy!

CRAZY day!

So I was supposed to get up and go register Cole for kindergarten yesterday then go to my consult with Dr. Carter for my gal bladder and my mom was going to watch the kiddos. Well at 7:30ish Brock calls and says that my mom got in a bike wreck and is at the hospital...good gravy...so I call Clint at the hospital and he doesn't answer because at the moment he is actually doing the ct on my mom. He calls back and I tell him he needs to come home so I can go there...Well, I go and she looked pretty beat up(sorry mom)She broke her clavical but she couldn't remember who the president was(don't we all try and forget)Anyways, Brock was telling me how he had a million things that he was supposed to do that day so I tell my dad I'm taking Brock and I hurried home and took Cole to register him(didn't really sink in because I had a bazillion other things going on in my noggin)It took a little longer than I thought and Carter's office called twice wondering where I was, so I hurry and just take Cole with me and fill out like 10 papers...hate paper work. Then they take me and Cole over to the hospital to have the consult inbetween Carter's surgerys. Well all over the hospital are signs about how 12 and under are not allowed, whatever, anyways I guess he was having difficulties on the surgery he was doing(not a good thing to hear when I'm getting mine on monday)and that he would be another hour. I asked the lady helping us what the hospital would think if I took cole to see my mom. She didn't know and I told Cole he wasn't big enough and he said "but mom, I just got registered for kindergarten." Right, I forgot, well go get a job too while you're feeling so adultish. ;) So we went to see my mom for a minute then ran home to fix lunch for everyone. While I was making lunch Cole was talking to Chloe and told her that Grandma is dead....oh boy howdy...So Chloe goes over to Brock and said "Grandma dead?" Brock laughs, which he shouldn't have, and tells her no she's not dead...Then after we eat lunch we start the brock errands(teenagers are a lot of work...who da thunk?) We went to go get his prom flowers and guess what? They asked me what color my dress was! Ya they thought I was his date! No I'm a mother of 3 but thank you very much! Then we ran and got his graduation announcements and went and traded out avatar for a ps3 game for the boys to play and went to get flowers for my mom to take to her. Ran home and Jodi calls telling me there is a lady that needs some white hair flowers that she is out of and so am I so I have to hurry to make some and don't make it on time and so I just decide to hurry and make dinner then go restock the flowers after dinner. So at 730ish Clint tells me he's out of hair stuff and the walmart hair place closed at 8...run to walmart to get his stuff then go to Jodi's store to restock my hair flowers...Yikes by the time I get home I tell Clint let's hurry and read scriptures and get these kids to bed. Then we go watch the suns game in our bed and I take my glasses off and roll over and Clint says 'Are you tired already' huh yes sherlock do the math....

Here come peter cottontail

I love finding easter outfits and I was sooo lucky to find Cole and Lane's at ross for 12 bucks apiece! oh ya! And I got Chloe's for 5 on ebay! Love me some deals.

Love me some food!

There is nothing this kid enjoys more than food! It's funny really though because it took him a while to eat food. He liked his mammas milk and it took a while to convince him that there were bigger and better things out there and now there is no turning back! If you are eating something you better be sharing and he knows when you are just giving him baby stars and not the good stuff! Don't be stingy!

whistle while you work

So I have a small confession to make, I only had kids because I knew I could make them work when they got older ;) Ha! No but they LOVE to help(well sometimes)Cole love to pull weeds and Chloe likes to watch us pull weeds. And our dishwasher wasn't washing too great and it would kinda make me sick to see our dishes not so clean so, now it's family fun! Yea!

sock it to 'em

Yesterday we went out to the Layton's for Tracy's birthday. It was pretty interesting...Sasha(friend of the family) brought her boyfriend and his son out to see the baby horse. Well I guess the son was picking on Ashley(Cole's cousin) and Chloe because Rusty said he was watching them and Cole put both of his fists up like a boxer and walked up to this kid and nailed him in the face. Then the kid turned to go to his dad and Cole started to throw rocks at him. Rusty called him over and asked Cole what he did that for and he said "Well, that's what my dad told me to do and he was bein' mean to Ashley and Chloe." Way to be Cole! You stand up for your sister! And yes Clint has told him to never start fights but if someone is being mean to his sister, brother or cousins he can sock it to 'em...that kid soaks it up like a sponge ;)

Taking out the garbage...

So this morning I was doing the dishes and look over at Cole standing by the garbage can. His shorts are down around his ankles and he tells me "Oh I forgot we're not supposed to pee in the garbage." Huh? Ya, first time he's done it so he didn't forget he just knew he wasn't supposed to...lovely.

Dontcha just want to....

Don't you just want to nibble on some of this? I can't get enough of squishing and squeezing and kissing and smooshing...At the in-laws rusty always tells me to quit mauling my kid...sorry bout the overload of Lane but I have to document this cuz I don't ever remember the others like this...mmmm