Help...

Kev has been gone for the past 2wks and we've had some visitors come to help:

Auntie Lauren rocking Norah 

cashed out, job well done!

Auntie Courtney reading to Odog who has a very short attention span

Taking care of all these kids on a daily basis is a daunting task to say the least and every time we have visitors I'm sure they are very happy to go back home.  Not in a mean way but these kids wear you out big time, like you need a vacation when you go back home type of wear you out.  We really appreciate you guys coming to visit!

We miss you

Two months

Sweat Pea is two months old, hard to believe.  She's always smiling and loves to talk. She is not the best at sleeping in her crib but does great in her carseat (go figure).  She's letting me sleep about 4hrs at a stretch a few times a week but boy does she like to eat.  She weighs 10.14lbs and is 22.5" she's my biggest baby at two months and she's only in the 50%, we have small babies!  The kids are still totally smitten by her, especially her big brother who runs over any time she cries.  She loves taking her bath but does not like getting dressed afterward, when she's not happy she'll really let you know.  Everyone says she looks just like O-dog as a baby, what do you think?

Happy St Patty's Day

I tried to get my Irish eyes to smile but we all know how that goes:

my 4 leprachauns

even sweet pea is rockin' her green shirt

we're loosing interest and the baby

We're all wearing our green today, we are Irish after all and have to represent here in San Antonio since there isn't really much of an Irish presence.

Hands full

There's no shortage of helping hands here.  Sweet Pea gets plenty of love and attention, good thing she's easy going!

see the fear in her eyes

Princesses

I have two princesses in my house...

they do yardwork

and dance

and hug

Grammy and Papa were here for a visit and Grammy has a great imagination which is right up the kids alley.  I was a little more lenient with the princess dresses while she was here, I usually do not allow them out of the house.  Keira would wear hers everyday if I let here, Fin is not as interested but decided to play along on this afternoon.  They had a great time with their grandparents and now it's back to reality, Keira is not going to be happy with me. She is sitting next to me as I write this and asking for her princess dress, oh boy.  I am not against princesses in any way but I'm not really into dressing up, especially out in public.  Not to mention I myself have not worn a dress in years or maybe since my wedding.  The funny part is that Keira looks at my wedding picture in my room and admires the "princess" in it, I tell her that it's mommy and I don't think she believes me.  I guess every family has to have a princess and clearly she is ours.

Where does he get it?

O-dog is so funny sometimes, here are a few of our recent conversations:

"Pretend I'm a daddy and I deliver mail.  Ok.  I only go home 3 days a year cause I work so much.  Oh really don't you kids miss you?  No cause they stay home with their mommy.  She's a lot prettier than you cause she wears gold shirts with jewels all over them.  Oh really, you don't think I'm pretty?  Ya I do but she wears really nice clothes so she's prettier.  She's also really nice cause she stays home with her kids and plays with them all day, she hasn't worked in years.  Oh that's good. "

"Momma when you get old are you going to die?  Yes, everyone dies at some point.  Noni hasn't died yet. Well she's not that old.  Oh good cause I don't want her to die."

"O-dog it's time to cut your hair, it's getting crazy looking.  No I want to look like my friend Mateo in my class and his hair goes over his ears.  Well yours is getting too puffy.  What do you mean mom do I look like a mushroom head?  Yes exactly.  Well I'll cut it when I'm older, right now I want to look like Mateo, he's my best friend at school."

"When I get older I'm going to be a daddy.  I hope so.  But I'm going to live with you so you'll have 2 Daddy's (husbands).  You don't want to live with me you want to have your own wife.  No I want to be a Daddy with you.  Ok we'll see but I'm sure you'll change your mind.  No I'm going to live with you forever and be in the Air Force with Daddy but I'm not going to fly the Eagle jet I'm going to fly the Skeleton 180.  Really what kind of plane is that?  It's like Daddy's but it's much cooler.  Oh that'll be great."

Summer in Feb

It was 92 here on sunday and we're not ready for that kind of heat yet.  We've been enjoying a lot of time outside and the kids think they are so lucky to be able to wear short sleeves, little do they know they'll be sick of them by the summer.  I think this was the day that Kev actually put the a/c on, yes in feb...

Fin on her ATV

can you say attitude