Bluebonnets

So my mother-in-law LOVES bluebonnet flowers. So a while ago we took some pictures. They aren't the greatest because the sun was to bright and the kids could hardly open their eyes, also the wind was blowing and Kyla's hair wouldn't stay put in the cute hairdo I did on her. Oh well, they still turned out cute I think.

What kind of Mother am I?

Have you ever had one of those days? You know where you go to the grocery store and it's like torture?

Well my day had started out kinda ok. I got my bills paid, Andrew got off to work, Kyla went to school. Got a few things done around the house, ate lunch and we were down for naps and quiet time. Not to bad. Until I decided to go grocery shopping. Kyla and Breven were a nightmare. Kyla almost got hit about 8 times by someones shopping cart because she wouldn't stop dancing with her eyes closed around the store. Not cute when you are always in somebody's way. Breven kept knocking things off the shelves. It took us about an hour to finish. All in all by the end I just wanted to get home and be done.

From that I think I could have recovered, but as I was fixing dinner later, I had that sudden thought pop into my mind, Ummm I haven't heard from Breven for a while. And as all moms know that is never good. He is either hiding with candy or making a big mess with something he knows he shouldn't have. I had let him out into the back yard to play so i peeked out the window to see if he was there, nope. So I went outside to check the sides of the yard that I couldn't see and make sure the gate was closed. I saw a closed gate but no Breven. I checked inside to see if he had some how gotten inside without me knowing it. Nope. NO BREVEN ANYWHERE! By then I knew he was out in the front, somewhere. I ran outside and walked down the side walk and didn't see him, so I went around the corner, and fortunately there he was. Crying walking home. He now knows how to open our back yard gate. ( and now it has a lock on it).

Now I don't know if anyone has ever lost their kid for even a few moments, but by this time I was shaking. From relief and anger. So it was a fun surprise to walk in and find out that Kyla had cut her hair FOR THE 4TH TIME!!! And now you know my sanity is gone, bye bye, out the window. Kyla's bangs (bangs only thank goodness) are pretty much gone. oh there is a nice short row of bangs, across her forehead, but not much. I sent myself to time out to get a hold of myself, called my mom and dad to become a little more sane before I went back in.

TIME FOR BED!

I got the kids in bed very quickly that night and decided I had had enough and was going to bed also.

The next morning ( oh yes it keeps going ) I was getting things ready for the little girl I baby sit on Thursdays. I think I was doing dishes at the time I heard this noise behind me, like someone is getting into something they shouldn't.......Like TUMS. I turn around and sure enough, there is my sweet little Breven putting back an almost empty bottle of tums. Not an almost empty small bottle of tums, but a big bottle. And he was chewing. He had eaten about 40 tums to my closest estimation. Great my son just OD'd on tums. I call poison control to ask just how many tums a 2 year old that weights 20 lbs can eat with out having to go to the hospital. Then before the lady on the phone even tell me if he will be OK or not she asks me, And can I have your name? And where were you, how can your son be alone long enough to eat that many tums without you knowing. Thanks I thought, even though I was asking myself the same question it always hurts to hear someone say the obvious sometimes. Well I say, I was doing dishes and he was watching a movie, and apparently eating tums at the same time. News to me, he can eat quite quickly if he wants to. So while i am on the phone with poison control, Guess who shows up. Gracie ( the little girl I watch) and her Dad. Yea now he feels safe to leave his daughter with me.

So now I ask myself
What kind of mother am I
How can my daughter find scissors 4 different times to cut her hair
How can I let my son get into my medicine
How can I not know my son is not in the back yard let alone anywhere around the house
Why is it my children screaming and running around and knocking things off the shelves at the store.

AM I READY FOR THREE

Why not have Easter twice?

Just this last weekend we went to Houston for one of Andrew's meets. ( in which he had two out of his three girls make it to regionals) So the kids and I stayed at Andrew's parents house. On Saturday Andrew, Mom, Dad, me and the kids went to a park and had an Easter egg hunt with the kids. We had a hot dogs and went for a short walk. It was a perfect day. We won't see them for Easter so why not have Easter twice.

32 weeks pregnant

I am 32 weeks pregnant and unfortunately I am already getting ready. Someone needs to tell me, Hey you still have two months left. Don't get so anxious.

32 weeks along and counting....

Projects

We have been doing projects around our house for a while. Here are some of our results

We are not so good at landscaping but we are learning.

Our yard before

and After (we still plan to put in more flowers and stuff so we aren't done yet)

While andrew is gone on his meets, the kids and I pick projects to keep us busy

The shelves we built for Kyla's and Brev's closet

The curtains for Their bedroom. So these curtains aren't the prettiest curtains. They are gray looking and such. But i love them because Kyla painted them almost all by herself. I helped with the paint of corse, and with a few of the stems on the flowers and a couple hand prints with brev. But other than that kyla did the painting herself.

We took an old filing cabinet from our office that was gathering clutter, took it apart, put it back together....



and made it into a clothes holder for Becca lynn.

We spiffed up our back door

Added a lamp to our table and made a table cloth for it

And managed a to snatch a cute picture of Brev.

All while Andrew was playing :)

Just Kidding. This is him doing his challenge. To cross the pit without touching the pit itself.

Hey what are sleepovers for?

Potty training

Potty training,
Need I say more? While Kyla seamed interested, Brev dosen't. However he is almost three and I would LOVE not to have 2 children in diapers. We tried a while ago, and it really didn't work. So we waited a few months and we are out to try it again. But who knew that a little boy could go to the bathroom so much!

He is very different from Kyla, and I don't know if it is a boy thing or what. Any ideas on potty training a boy? I could use all the help i can get.

Signed
Frustrated mom

LOTS of videos

Lots of videos this time. For some reason we are taking more videos than pictures. But hey we like videos.

Kyla Likes to show off her Arms. And if you look closely she does have muscles

Andrew is teaching Kyla and Brev how to dance "the cool way".

It can be really entertaining, even if Brev doesn't stay in the picture

I thought I would put a couple videos of Kyla doing gym. Here is her vault.

Here is Kyla doing bars.

Now a few words on Brev.

Breven loves to clean my house. Well try to clean. I just wish I was brave enough to keep encouraging him. Yet as he sweeps the floor, he tends to knock things off shelves with the end of the broom. It is amazing really how much havoc he can reek by just sweeping the floor.

He is growing up on me. Lately He has grown and to me has started to look more and more like a little boy rather than a baby. We have finally gotten him some new clothes, you see he has been able to fit into clothes that were 6&9 months and some shorts were even 3 month sizes, while a few shirts would be 12 months because of the length. Because his waist is so small and he is short, he has been wearing the same clothes for almost 2 1/2 years. But he is finally growing and now we put him in 2 T ( and some of those are huge )even though he will be 3 in June.

I kept trying to get a good picture of him that portrays how big he seems to me, but I guess his personality makes him seem older to. These don't do him justice Still I think they are cute pictures. And he does look a little older here.

Not to be outdone, Brev likes to do gym also. But we are glad that his class doesn't require the listening skills Kyla's class does. I guess you will see why.