Tuesday, January 26, 2010

my obsession...



is these BROWN EYED beauties, they just melt my heart!



MaX is just growing up so fast. He has such a sweet heart and tries to always please us.


*He is so into anything electronic. That is an understatement! He loves the Wii, the Ds and the computer. He has been saving money (and has $60) to buy the Wii. We told him if he came up with $100, we would pay the rest. He is excited!


*He is the ring leader and the other boys follow him around. Sometimes he gets mad that they have to do everything he does.


*He loves his brothers and has been asking me when he can have a baby sister. He came in our room the other night, climbed in bed with us and wanted to talk about what we would name our sister. The name he really likes is Susan. We started talking about what we would name our next boy. I told him a name and he didn't approve! He said if we picked that name he would get made fun of at school! HAha!! I guess we need to pick another one...... We thought of all kinds of silly names for boys. After a few minutes he said, "can we just talk about girl names again!" He is so sweet!


*He just lost his 4th tooth, right in front on the top!


*Every night before we go to bed we go around the room and everyone has to tell something nice they did for someone that day. He always has something to tell us about! Last night he said he sat quiet for his teacher and read his book like she asked because no one else would.


*I leave him little love notes in his lunch and he always says - thanks mom! I hope there never comes a day when that embarrasses him!


*He says the sweetest prayers and he won't start until everyone, including Bos is sitting still and folding their arms.



*Moms have eyes in the back of their heads right? Well Max always asks me, "how do you know that?" I say, "I know everything!." He has always believed me until one day he said in a sad, sad voice, "Well, you don't know where my Ds is...."






JaXsoN My quiet hilarious cuddle boy.


*He will be 5 soon but wishes he will be 6. He is always asking if he is bigger than this friend, or that friend, or Max. He loves preschool but cannot wait to be in kindergarten! I will be sad the day he goes.


*Jaxson loves to do anything with me. We are buds. He likes to read books, watch movies (Nacho and Madagascar are our favorites) build things with legos, color and do anything outside.


*He is a pro at riding his bike, he has had his training wheels off since October! He just upgraded to a bigger bike and is trying to get the hang of it. {just a quick side note} He was forced to upgrade because I ran over his favorite little bike. oops. At least it wasn't the fire hydrant this time. hehehehe. He looked pretty silly riding that 10"er anyways! It kinda looked like a circus bike when he was on it!


*He is just like his daddy. He is super laid back and very calm most of the time.


*He pulled his first two teeth out about a month ago and he is only four!


*He can memorize almost every line from any movie the first time he watches it. We quote movies all day long!


*He has a very tender heart and loves his brothers. He teaches Boston a lot of good things.


*He is very picky about what he wears everyday. He doesn't like shirts with sleebs (sleeves) or ones with collars.


*He is the biggest goofball and has us laughing all day at the things he says!

BoStoN my cute little stinker!


I am not sure where to even start with this little man. He has me on my toes all day and puts me through a million emotions everyday. I can have a crappy day and all he has to do is say momma, and give me a hug and everything gets better. He gives the best hugs and kisses. Or...I can wake up in the morning and think ~ today is going to be a great day! Then he wakes up and before I can get him out of his bed he is covered from head to toe in poo. I completely scrub him down, sanitize him and his entire bed. Take him downstairs to feed him breakfast, try to get Max ready for school, realize I need to practically give Bos a bath again after he eats, then take Max to school. Come home, Michael gets dropped off for me to watch, start to clean up the mess Boston has made on the floor, table and chair. Meanwhile I hear Bos and Mikey splashing in the toilet with a roll of toilet paper or playing in my makeup or dumping out toy basket after toy basket or pushing a chair over to get into drawers he is not supposed to or playing with my knife set. Serious. he is a maniac. Oh but I love him! The second I see his cute little face I can't help but squeeze him and kiss him all over. I am obsessed. he does each of these things at least once a day. That is all before lunch time. That is when it starts all over again. With the poo and everything, after his nap.

Even still, I can't get enough of him!




*He follows me around saying~ mom mom. I say what!? He says~mom mom even louder etc etc etc. Goes on all day.



*He loves to scare me with fake insects or rodents. He brings one up to me or throws it and says eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!



*He is talking really good. This week he finally started saying uh huh for yes instead of no, meaning yes. When I ask him any question; who wants to go bye-bye? Who loves mommy? Who wants lunch? Who wants to go outside? He throws both of his arms in the air and says mmmeeeeeeeeeee!



*I love watching him learn new things and figure things out for himself. He has so much enthusiasm for life.



*He climbs. On everything. He is a master at the stairs and can practically run down them. He stands on the couch and jumps flat out onto his stomach. It knocks the wind out of him but he does it again.



*HE IS A MAMMA'S BOY! The biggest one I have ever had. I love it.



*He has been sleeping in our bed the past few weeks. Before he goes to sleep he rolls all over Johns head and face and gives about a million kisses to both of us before he snuggles up next to me and is out. He has to sleep on his side, laying on my arm up against me all night. If I try to move my arm in the middle of the night he says NO, and makes me put it back. So we sleep like that all night.



*When he does something wrong he says sorry (with a little whistle on the s)


I am one lucky girl










Thursday, January 21, 2010

John is 33!

Dec 31st is a great day to have a birthday! We started the day off by sleeping in which is something john never gets to do. He goes to work early every day and then gets up with the kids and lets me sleep in on Saturdays. We had 8am Church on Sundays but John had to be at 6:30 Bishopric meeting. Needless to say he was excited to sleep in. The boys and I planned on getting up early and making him breakfast in bed. That didn't happen. I don't think he cared to much since breakfast isn't his favorite meal anyway. We got up, got ready and headed to the San Tan Mall. We grabbed some lunch at Johnny Rockets and took the boys to see Alvin and the Chipmunks the Squeakquel! After the movie we did some B-day shopping for John. We had plans later to go to some friends house to celebrate New Years but decided to stay at home with the kids. We did some festive fire crackers with the neighbor kids a little early. We had the kids tucked in bed and sleeping by 10pm! We put a movie in and snuggled on the couch until midnight. It was a good day!

There are soooo many things I love about him, here are just a few:

John is an amazing man
He is a wonderful father, our boys really look up to him
He is the best listener
He is so calm, it takes a lot for him to get mad
He would do anything for our family
He works so hard and is good at anything he does
He teaches our children so much
He loves me

We are lucky he is ours!

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

I {heart} Motrin

Last Monday night was the worst night I have ever had with Bos. He woke up with a fever and really bad stomach pain. He would finally fall asleep and then twenty minutes later wake up screaming in pain again. The only thing that made him happy was to take a bath with me. Almost two hours in the bath he was all wrinkled up! He wouldn't let me put him down for 3 days straight. He had the worst sore throat ever. He would chew up his cereal or whatever he was eating and just spit it out. I ended up taking him in to Urgent care and it was just a virus but he was dehydrated. They decided they needed to hook him up to an IV for some fluids. They tried twice, once in his hand and the other in the bend of his arm. Nothing worked, they couldn't find any other veins that would work. We ended up making him eat five Popsicles and they said that was good enough. Poor baby. Max and Jaxson also had fevers and bad sore throats. I have never had 3 sick kids at one time and hope to never again! In our bedroom under our bed we have a "sick boy bed." There have been MANY nights when one of the boys throw up or have a fever and want to sleep in our room. We pull out the sick bed and they can sleep right next to me, and I can take care of them throughout the night. But this time we had three sick boys and one bed! We drug in another mattress for John's side and Bos slept with us. They all sleep much better in our room :) We went through one entire bottle of Motrin and one of Tylenol, but everyone is healthy and happy now!

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Christmas 2009

Christmas this year was so fun! Having kids makes it even better. I love all of the parties and hanging out with family. I love that as my kids get older they get more excited about it and remind us of our family traditions. I am obsessed with traditions! Growing up we had some that we looked forward to every year. The one I remember the most was Rudolf would always come in our room while we were sleeping and rub noses with us leaving our noses red! When I finally realized it was my mom putting lipstick on our nose I knew that someday when I had kids I would do the same.

Every year we make cookies for Santa and leave a snack for his reindeer. This year I totally spaced it, so before we put the kids to bed they were sad we didn't have anything. Luckily all of my awesome friends and neighbors brought by goodies all MONTH so we used some cookies from that stash. We had to improvise for the reindeer! We had some leftover cheesy corn yuminess from our Christmas Eve bash that night so we plopped some on the plate and called it good! Oh and we couldn't forget the hot cocoa. Santa and his reindeer (DAD) loved it. My favorite part is staying up late on Christmas Eve wrapping presents with John and filling stockings with the usual: an orange, candy, a toothbrush and a few small toys.

As a kid, we all use to sleep in the same room and freak out for hours waiting for Santa to come. We would wake up super early and run out and play with all of our presents before my parents would wake up. They would get mad because they wanted us to wait until 6am for them to be there. My dad devised a plan. He started setting up noise making booby traps in the hall so he could hear when we got up. Every year since then he has gotten bigger and better with his traps. He still did it this year for my little sis. My kids haven't gotten to the point where they sneak out early. But when they do, we will be ready!!



Christmas morning







Christmas Eve at my parents



His favorite uncle, Teebs

The grandkids act out the Nativity.



Bos was a shepherd


after we put up the Christmas tree