An amazing thing

I am amazed that THIS child can turn into....

THIS child! :)

I cherish the times when she sleeps, but honestly she is a hoot and Tom and I do laugh a LOT at her antics. But seriously, if anyone wants a blond-haired, blue-eyed, adorable, strong-willed little girl PLEASE contact us...we are willing to rent her out! :)

Kristin

B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

Hehe...sorry I love that song! :) Anyway, Colin is an eating machine and I honestly am not sure how we are going to afford our grocery bill when he is a teenager! Here he is eating a banana...he LOVES fruit. Bananas and blueberries are his favorites right now. Maybe we should call him our "little monkey"! :)

Kristin

Shaving Cream

Who knew that shaving cream could be so much fun! It actually cleaned the window and all I had to do was spray things down (including Erynn) with the hose. Thanks to Mrs Burns for the idea! :)


Kristin

Colin's room

This is for Marie who wanted to see Colin's room, but I couldn't leave the girls out either. Lydia's room is first with the aqua walls and polka dots, then Erynn's room with the pink and green, and finally Colin's orange room. I actually love them all! Thanks to my parent's who helped (and actually did) most of the work!



Kristin

Mexico #2

The Beach
Erynn playing in the sand
The monkey in the tree right outside our room's balcony
Another view of the beach.

It was fun and hot and gorgeous! Thanks mom and dad!

Kristin

Mexico

So we went to Mexico in early June, despite the threat of the H1N1 flu. It was a celebration for my parent's 50th wedding anniversary, so we were quite a crew! There were 24 of us in all and I think we ALL had a good time!We had a picture of everyone taken by the resort photographers, but we obviously don't have one on our cameras! This is most of the grandkids...I think just 2 of the older kids are missing.
Colin absolutely LOVED the water! He splashed and kicked and swam around until he couldn't keep his eyes open!
Lydia LOVED all the kids activities that they had...this night they had face painting in the main plaza area. Of course this was the night before we were to leave...she had a flower, a dolphin and a sun on various places on her face. I am sure that the airport people found it amusing...I just wasn't going to fight her on it!
Erynn spent a lot of time swimming too, although she would have hung out on the beach with the sand if we would have let her. She fell asleep all but one night at dinner...literally in her plate sometimes! My cousin Andrew needs to teach her how to do that whole "sleeping through dinner" thing...he used to fall asleep everytime we went out to dinner, but he would curl up in a corner!
This was Colin checking out the beach. I will post some more pictures in another post because it really was gorgeous there!

Kristin

Not me Monday...

This is my first attempt at Not Me Mondays...but here goes...

I most certainly did NOT let my baby eat Cheerios off the floor this morning because it kept him occupied and happy.

I did NOT let my 3 year old sleep in bed with me last night and then get grumpy that she was there, but instead of carrying her to her bed, just stayed grumpy.

I did NOT contemplate a 30 minute drive to get some Baby Oxiclean spray so I could try to get some old stains out of clothes that I am going to sell to a kids resale shop.

I did NOT sell some clothes to said kids resale shop last week and make $80...and that most certainly was NOT less than 1/4 of the clothes that I will be taking there.

I also did NOT think last week that having just ONE more baby might be a good idea...

I did NOT vacuum the floor this morning only to realize that it looked better before because it just looked like the kids were messy (and thus easier to blame the mess on).

I also am NOT currently letting my 3 year old eat a cold piece of leftover pizza from last night.

Kristin