BONKERS

Tim and I were able to got to the Mormon Tabernacle Christmas concert last night. It was fabulous by the way. Well just before we left Abbey was twirling around and fell down on the edge of a table and smacked her forehead, I thought for sure it had split open and that we would need the babysitter for a different reason, well luckily it didn't, but it was close. We iced it up good and gave her some medis (medicine). This picture was taken this morning and I just couldn't get a picture that showed it very well, the camera hides it nicely it looks worse in real life! She took a little more medicine again this morning because it hurt still, and it is still slightly swollen, so she did a good job on it. At least she is smiling! and what a pretty smile she has, she used to scowl all the time and these days she is always putting a smile on her face, and when I get grouchy she says mom look and points to her pretty smile, who could grouch at that?

Happy UN-Birthday Party Tucker (Dec. 7th)

Okay So I'm behind in blogging this event!! We decide to let Tucker celebrate his 7th birthday early this year. Who wants their birthday 6 days before Christmas? What kind of parents do that to a child? well let's see umm us, my parents, Tim's parents. Oh well that's life right, and after trying for 7 months....Anyway this gave him time to enjoy his gifts before the Christmas day festivities. We invited our new neighbors and friends the Huber's over to celebrate with us, they were told NO GIFTS. But they didn't listen to these instructions and were kind enough to bring this awesome hot wheels motorcycle racer thing, it's pretty cool even I like to help Porter with it, and I do it a lot!!!

Not only that but Emily was nice enough to bring over a relish tray and ice cream (which she said she had but they went and bought that too the stinkers) it was fun for Tucker to have more people over for his UN-birthday Even is 8 and Eli is well 6 today actually, so they are just around him. For his b-day from us he got a K'nex roller coaster set he was soooo excited!!!
Tim found a great deal as usual on this, I think he was just as excited as Tucker! All the boys went to build it and Emily and I chatted it was really fun, I didn't get a picture of all those boys gathered around all those parts and instructions. (yes they used the instructions)

Here's the final project!!! He took this picture to school for show and tell yesterday!!!

We almost forgot to have cake and ice cream!!! We were reminded by the kids of course.

Abbeyism and other isms

Okay I remembered what Abbey said the other day. I was reminded this morning as she was
snuggling with us in our bed and she had her pretty smile on her face and Tim and I both commented on it at the same time. The other day she was grouchy and I asked where her smile was (we play a game of finding it sometimes) and she informed me that she had left it as school, she wasn't smiling as she said it either!!! I told her that was too bad since she didn't go back to school for 5 days. It's a good thing she found a spare one because it sure is pretty.

During church today she asked "Is today fast Sunday or slow Sunday?" I started to laugh and then she said "because I'm hungry" Lets just say it was hard to keep my composure during Sacrament meeting after she asked that question.

If you've recently read other posts you know that we celebrated Tuck's birthday last Friday (post coming) anyway Friday morning Tucker was getting ready for school and had presents on his mind when he said "I'm a Todd" I was thinking what is he talking about? "I'm a Todd so you need to buy toys for me." He was thinking of "Toys for Tots" I was laughing inside soooo hard, "I'm a Todd" So I explained what it meant and he pipes up "well are we going to?" I loved that he understood what it was for and immediatly wanted to help other kids, I think it's hard for them to even imagine that other kids don't have what they do.

Well Porter didn't have anything to quote but he did try to excape from nursery more than once I'm told, they refered to him as an escape artist, I didn't think he was tall enough to open the doors but they reassured me he did it quite well, and that every man he saw was his daddy, I can assure you that HE is wrong in that respect!!!!

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We are still here!!! Somewhere

Well it's been busy, but I've got to write down the funny things that kids say. So last night I'm getting ready to go to Enrichment Night and I didn't have any pockets so Tim put my cell phone down my shirt as a joke (well we all know I couldn't hide it there if I wanted too!!) Anywho Tucker asks "did he just put it down your boob thing" We were laughing soooo hard I think Tim almost started to cry! The fun part is when I got home they had been doing paper crafts Tim had printed out pictures of their favorite Disney characters and then the kids had cut them out (which i have to say they did a fabulous job of) and they made them into standing characters. They were so proud!! Porter's new thing to say is "oh crap" he says it when someone drops something, it's really quite cute. I just had him evaluated today for speech therapy and they got him to qualify by using his 30 months old that he will be in 2 weeks. He's a great talker don't get me wrong he copies everything, BUT he just isn't making his own sentences so I hope this will help give him a boost, better now than later!!! Abbey is still our little princess and she said the cutest thing the other day too and now I've forgotten, bad, bad, mommy! If I remember I'll post it. I know it was post worthy cuz I put it in my post file in my brain I guess that file has since been deleted or put in another directory. Can you tell I'm married to a computer geek. We are going to celebrate Tucker's Birthday tomorrow since it's so close to Christmas that way he has some space between gifts. He's pretty excited!!!

Stitches

Well Porter's stitches were a success until the next morning when I noticed it gaping back open. i couldn't believe my eyes! So I called the Dr's office and they said bring him back! Well come to find out it opened up because there was infection in it and that's why it popped open. So he gave him a prescription to clear up that and also for his cold and ears so it was a good thing I took him in before we went out of town. It definitely wasn't what I had planned for the day before going out of town but since when do "mom's" plans count? LOL

stitch stitch here stitch stitch there

CHEESE

Adventures in the life of Porter continue. He decided to be the first of our children to require stitches today! He only needed 3 of them, He was a true little fighter while they did it, it's a good thing they strapped him down. The nurse said "we have to strap him down" and I said "GOOD!!!"

The kids were running and playing and getting out all their energy and we thought let them run for a minute and get it out of their system, right? Well Porter's little legs couldn't keep up with his body and he bonked on the bottom edge of a book shelf at Aunt Janene's house. We had gone over so Nene and I could swap coloring hair. All I can say is it's a good thing that we hadn't started yet, I don't know what I would look like right now if we had. We just kept saying "we need to start" but I think it was one of those tender mercies that we didn't.

Isn't it supposed to be Christmas soon?

So tonight while Porter slept forever I decided to have Tucker help me bring up the Christmas tree. Next week will go by too fast and then we'll be out of town and before you know it Christmas will be here and gone!!! The kids had soo much fun, they even had Tim help them get most of the lights working, I was too tired to even mess with that part since the tree was so mangled after the move. Tucker even made home made snow flakes for it, I guess I'll have to make sure they find a home on it, even though I'm picky about my tree!!! It's about the kids, right?

It really seemed extra weird this year getting it out and I couldn't put my finger on why.... then Tim got home and said it's too warm to be almost Christmas and that's when it hit me, too warm!!! Then I talked to Jo (my sister) later tonight and her kids have been wondering why she hasn't been in the spirit yet (she's a Christmas nut) and she told them "it's kinda hard when it's 60 outside!" I agree, but oh well there's not much we can do about that now is there?

So how do people get in the mood in warm climates? I don't know about it, it just doesn't seem right!

So Merry Christmas everyone and happy sunbathing!

Trouble, Trouble, Trouble

Well where do I start?..... This little man sure lives up to his new T-shirt which reads "Trouble is my middle name." Well if you read previous posts you know what he did to the computer monitor, his latest escapades include breaking the door off of the entertainment center and putting nice scratches in the kitchen table. He even hid the evidence, I have no clue what he used to scratch the table, one of them he did one day and the other the next, I still don't know what he used, I hope I don't find out by finding more scratches!!!! I sure love this little guys cute personality, when I was telling him no no about the entertainment center I almost busted up laughing at the faces he was making!!! How could I not love the little huggable guy. I had such conflicting emotions of being so furious to loving him to death talk about confusing!!! He definitely keeps me hopping. Let's just say that today when I showered I kept him in the room with me and brought in lots of toys to keep him occupied. My sister asked if he gets in as much trouble as Tucker did and I said worse because he's learning from the older two, I hope I'm still standing at the end.

Where there's SMOKE there's FIRE

The kids woke up early on Sunday as I'm sure most everyone's did. Well I was laying in bed listening to them when the smell of something burning came wafting through the heat vents (it was very strong since our bedroom has 4 vents in it). My first thought was okay so they burned a piece of toast....well the smell kept getting stronger. So of course I dragged myself out of bed to investigate. When I got downstairs all three of them were in front of the TV as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. So I asked Tucker what happened (I won't say the exact phrase I used :-) ) He said we tried to cook a piece a bread in the microwave, so I opened it up and whoa if I thought the smell was bad before!!! Inside was the plastic plate cover with a fist size black melted hole. They had put the burnt bread in the garbage. Come to find out if you cook bread for 3 minutes on high it starts on fire. Tucker said I think it might have been on fire when I opened it. GREAT I thought. So I spent the rest of the morning trying to get the smell out of the house and the microwave, I'm sure it will take days to completely clear.

A Saturday Out

We called Grandma and grandpa and asked if they wanted to go shopping when they were done with the conference center. Grandpa called us back and said yes
before even asking Grandma hehehe good thing she likes us! So we met them and took them to a park where we made sandwiches and watched the kids run around. It was really fun
The kids had a great time exploring, and it was quite entertaining and nerve racking to watch Porter get really close to the fish pond there. We had a budding photographer, I took the first pic of Tucker and Porter and then I never saw the camera again!!! Tucker did a pretty good job! I guess that's why there is actually a picture of me!

After shopping Porter was tired and fell asleep. We had promised the kids we would ride trax around downtown. But first we got ice cream and Grandma and I stayed in the car

with sleepy head. Then we dropped everyone else off at the trax we were near and picked them up by the conference center where we then left Grandma and Grandpa to get their car. Porter didn't get to ride the train which is a shame I think he would have love it! Plus he woke up soon after we drove to get everyone and screamed the entire time!! The train ride would have much more fun. Overall though it was a GREAT day.

"TORNADO"

Well we had a "Tornado" hit our house yesterday evening, TWICE! The said "Tornado" took a pencil and scribbled all over our nice LCD computer monitor!!! So a "time out" was had and then later .... well I saw new scribbling on the monitor. The first set of scribbles came off with water and vinegar and left a few marks that you wouldn't notice if you didn't know about it. However the second "Tornado" left a bit more damage, there's a few spots of grey still left and definitely some scratches. I know there are worse things he could do but AHHHHH. It sure is a good thing he is CUTE and that we LOVE him!!!! I will try my best to make sure none of you experience the damages of said "Tornado" only the cuteness of the "little man with his own langauge"!