Geez Spring Break was long

So now that that is over with here are some more recent pictures...Like an hour or two ago.
Rub-a-dub-dub two chub-a-lubs in the tub (I know my kids aren't chubby, I just like to pretend). They would give each other kisses too, but I couldn't catch it on camera. I love watching William and Gracie together. I can't even describe how happy it makes me.


Gracie started pulling herself up on stuff and she thinks she is such hot stuff...until she falls. This picture was of the beginnings and now she is standing next to anything she can reach.


Cheerio bum and soft, squishy thighs


This is how Gracie was sitting on me after her nap. She would just smile... and then eat her toes.


and I don't know if I can put Gracie in tights much longer because she does this. And could care less about William telling her "no".


Being a mom is STRESSFUL and HARD but oh, so worth it. I love these little guys, even the very defiant three year old.


Oh yeah, here is a picture of my kiddos on actual Easter Sunday. We had a lovely chirch meeting but it was bright outside when we got home and everyone was tierd and hungry. So basically the worst time to take pictures. I love Williams outfit because is features his favorite color: orange. And I made Gracie's dress (well, my mom hemmed it for me when I ran out of time and she made my matching dress that is not pictured, but lovely).

I HATE apartments!

I know hate is a strong word, but I do I hate them. When I think of the many reasons I don't like them I try and put it out of my head and not think about it and be positive, but then something like tonight happens. I am sitting here minding my own bees wax and I hear a beeping noise. I ask Russ if it is coming from the tv and he says no. It is not to loud so I ignore it and soon it goes away. A few minutes later I smell smoke. Yep, they burned something in their kitchen and my eyes are still burning and hour later. Plus it stinks. These same people I can here going up their stairs and sometimes it sounds like someone is coming up my stairs and that really scares me. Here are some other reasons I hate living in apartments.

• People don't like to pick up their dog poop. Even though there is a sign and bags for them to do so they don't. I don't have a dog because I don't want to deal with dog poop but I guess because I live in an apartment I have to. We have a neigh boor 2 doors down that always leaves dog outside (tied up) and after it poops brings it in and does nothing with the poop that is going all the way across the sidewalk. I witnessed this one day and later that night when I was going somewhere wrote "pick up your dog poop" with sidewalk chalk on their doorstep. It worked!
• I love natural light so I want to have my windows open, but right in front of those windows is the sidewalk everyone walks down so it makes me feel weird. Huge lack of privacy and it drives me nuts.
• they have crappy everything. Appliances, counters, you name it, it sucks.
• Unless the carpet is new when you move in, it is gross.
• Having your car so far away from your dwelling sucks, because when you have to carry and baby and groceries and lock the car and unlock the apartment door and go back for another load, it gets old real fast. Especially if there is snow.

I want my own house so bad! I dream about it ALL the time.

Spring Break day 8 - Huston Easter Picnic

For the past couple of years my family has met a Freestone park for an Easter Picnic. It is always so fun (and warm! are you kidding me? it's March!). The kids ride the rides and have an Easter Egg hunt. I always have a ton of pictures, here they are.
The Merry-Go-Round



Ferris Wheel


William's favorite - The Train


Flying Kites




Egg Hunt






Feeding the ducks


And just having a good ole' time



and here is Connie and I in our matching Easter shirts

It was such a great day.

Spring Break day 8 - Twilight Moms

Not a ton happened this day except that I bought Enchanted and this is me taking a break from getting ready to watch the musical number in Central Park. I love it.

After I got ready I went to a Twilight Moms dinner with Connie, Mimi, and Isela. It was a lot of fun. Twilight Moms is a web group where people get together that love the Twilight books and are married, 25, or have a kid. Sorry the pics are so small.

Sick Day

I know that no one likes to be sick, I know it is not enjoyable for everyone. But the other day, Tuesday to be exact I became quite convinced that Mothers should not be able to get sick. I became very envious of my husband that day and actually thought about switching him rolls. I have always wanted to stay home with my children but the idea of calling in a sick day and then coming home to sleep sounded very appealing. Even going to work and doing a lazy, crappy job sounded better than having children fussing and demanding my full attention all day. Because the day I am sick William woke up from his nap and cried for an hour and would not come down stairs (I have no idea why either) , went pee in his pants, dropped a full cup of yogurt on the carpet and himself, and Gracie wanted me to hold her every second.
Russ got out of class around noon and called me to tell me he needed to study and then go donate plasma. I seriously started crying and decided that (because I felt the same way I do when I am pregnant) that he could- okay, must was actually what I was thinking- get a vasectomy the next day. I also wanted to yell into the phone, "FINE, NEXT TIME YOU ARE SICK I AM GOING TO "NEED" TO DO SOMETHING AND LEAVE THE KIDS WITH YOU ALL DAY." But I didn't because I knew he would have come home if he could have and when he did get home we were all still alive.
I just think that with all the other changes that happen to your body during pregnancy and child birth, there should be something to trigger the never-get-sick-again gene. I know this wouldn't work for adoptive mothers, but we could all just help them out because none of us would ever get sick again! I know I am living in a dream world, but I really like my dream world.

Spring Break day 7 - Go Fly a Kite

One of William presents for going on the potty was a $1.00 kite. Even though it wasn't really windy as long as they ran it stayed up. It was a lot of fun. One of the best $1.00 toys I have seen.


Looks like the little guys did better than Russ.

Spring Break day 6 - Potty Party

Because William did so good going to the bathroom on the potty he got to have a potty party. And his cousin Bryant came over for a sleepover. William and Bryant's very first one ever. It was a lot of fun.
Grandma made him a yummy cake.

We sang Happy-Potty-Party

And then watched the movie Enchanted (a new favorite of mine, Williams, and Russ')

The after the movie William had to get his sword (to fight the dragon at the end of the movie) Here is William with "the power" as he kept calling it and Bryant as the "Batman Hyena" the name he cleverly came up with by himself.


That night was kinda hard for William because he kept thinking the black ceiling fan in the room he was sleeping in was the dragon. I laid down with him and explained that it was the fan and that dragons are not real. I thought that he had gotten over it, but when I said I was going to leave he said, "I want to sleep on the other bed." The other bed was a small futon that was on the floor. When I asked him why he said, "so the Dragon will stop looking at me." I felt so bad. He is over it now.