The Rad Moves

Oh my, it's been so long again. Here is just one quick funny video to share. I am amazed how different each one of our goofy kids are. Eli has no lack of confidence, and even though he can get on a person's nerves A LOT, he also cracks me up every day. The boys got video cameras from Grandma Everett at Thanksgiving. I found them upstairs making movies of each other dancing, burping, jumping, etc (just about anything you can imagine that 6 & 7 year old boys would think is funny...yes, as you can imagine, there were a lot of deleted videos once mom downloaded). Anyway, I helped them make this video of Eli because he was just cracking me up...Enjoy Eli's "Rad Moves"

It's about time...

I wanted a baby girl so long, but now that I have one, I barely even treat her like a girl. She's such a roughneck with her brothers, and at this point prefers to play with trucks over baby dolls. So this morning I decided it was time to do something girlie and paint her toenails for the first time. To my surprise she sat very still and even helped to blow them dry!

Caden was home so of course his big head is in most the pictures, and I spent the majority of the time explaining reasons why he couldn't paint his toes. I finally told him that Max, Cole & Eli would make fun of him for having pink toes. His response, well I can beat up Max & Cole, so I don't care about them, and Eli's my brother so he doesn't matter either. So I gave in and painted one pinky toe, which he thought was hilarious, UNTIL...he wanted it off, and I told him I didn't have any remover. Then it was tears & sceaming that I was so mean because now he was going to have to wear socks and tennis shoes his entire life. Seriously??

1st day of school

I think when you go from "welcome summer" to "1st day of school" on your blog posts, that may mean I am slacking! Well anyway, I can't believe but my boys started school today. Eli is starting kindergarten and Caden is going into 1st grade. Oh my. They were VERY excited this morning and I am praying it will last. As we waited for the big bus to roll up, Eli whispered to me "I'm even more excited than I thought I would be". So cute! I held back all the tears, but will be watching the clock all day...can't believe they are away from me until 3:50pm! Not sure what the princess and I are going to be ALL DAY by ourselves. She already has asked me several times "KK at? YiYi at" which is how she says there names.

Getting on the bus...and still smiling! Please God let this last!

Caden and our neighbor Elle, both big 1st graders now!




Eli has to try to look "cool" for every picture

Just one of little Millie :)

Cheers...it's summer!!

We are really enjoying summer and we are trying hard to SLOW DOWN our days (which is hard when you are married to busy body Jerome)! At least once a week now, we start our day toasting each other with fruit smoothies on the deck. So hope you are are having a great summer and Cheers!

Little Sister

This is what happens to sweet little girls when they have 2 older brothers to teach them things...

Hair!

I am starting to realize that I am going to have YEARS of screaming, crying and fighting while dealing with Millie's hair. It's getting a lot longer, and wow when it is not "contained" somehow, it gets quite fluffy. I tried to put it into 2 little pigtails today, and boy was it a challenge. I strapped her down into the highchair and applied 2 different detangler hair products and pulled and stretched every little curl until they made it into the hairband. She screamed and wiggled the ENTIRE time. I honestly do not know how the moms of the little girls have have like 10 ponytails and barrettes all over their heads do it! I do think she looks darn cute though with them! They are not even, but I think it's pretty good for the first attempt!

School Pictures!

It's that time of the year again...time for the awkwardly posed school pictures! Actually, Eli's preschool always does a really good job, but poor Caden. He showed me "the pose" they had him do when he got home that day, and I was afraid to see the final pictures! Also, I included Eli's soccer picture, this year he was Team Japan. :)