Peek A Boo!

Where's Will????

There He IS!!!!!

And a few more, just for fun...




Ok...I'd rather be playing in my bucket anyway...

To Be or Not To Be....Clean That Is

Not only are my kids the cleanest kids around for the day, so is my house...and that just lasted until the end of the day....to go back to being like pretty much every other household with two young children. Well, here's how the story goes. Piper didn't want to eat dinner Monday night and I pretty much made her eat her dinner. She is in this stage where she says she's not hungry but really just wants to be doing something else, so I wasn't going to let her get away with it that night...and she ate with much grumbling about it but she ate. We had bath time and did our normal bedtime routine and the kiddos went to sleep. About 11:30 I hear Piper in her room coughing...sounds normal so I don't go check...about thirty seconds later I hear the panic. I go in and she is laying face down in her puke but still half asleep. I think she woke up long enough to let me know that she wasn't OK and then decided that she didn't need to stay awake for the cleanup. I got her in a towel and got her in the bathtub...thankfully it wasn't in the hair so we did a quick bath. She got out and immediately said she didn't feel good and hung over the toilet for another go round. I put her sheets in the wash...and by the way this is just two days after we cleaned house and all the beds had new clean sheets. Then we got her in new jammies and she got in our bed. I got a towel...just in case...we've been through this before. She went right back to sleep. I layed down with her b/c at this point it was late and now time for me to go to sleep...but alas...what do you think happened? It happened in the blink of an eye before I could get the towel ready for the catch...now this time it was everywhere, including her hair so we headed to our bathroom and once again had another bath including a hair washing. Our sheets were now headed to the washer, just in time to go in after Piper's were finished. Needless to say, I didn't put her back in our bed...we went to the couch. She wanted to watch a movie and I was just too exhausted to argue so we half watch the movie and snoozed some until dad came home. He brought home some Gatorade and sprite for later and helped get the sheets back on the bed. Piper went to her pallet on the floor (not taking the chance of having to change yet another set of sheets) and we went to bed.

Thankfully we had no more episodes during the night. I guess I should have listened to her that night...will think twice next time I make her finish her dinner.


I stayed home with Piper Tuesday and she still felt pretty yucky as she would recall ("Are you going to tell Daddy I was yucky tonight?"). We both got to sleep it off and I just was thankful it didn't go through the whole family...yet...

Sleeping it off...with a towel...Of Course!

Avery enjoyed the company that day...she was sleeping with her head on the pillow in front of the couch but I wasn't moving fast enough to get that shot.

Then & Now

Just a quick post to remind us that no matter how far the distance between us we will always keep our friends close in our hearts! Hattie and Piper were born three months apart and have been best friends from birth. The daddy's have been long time friends from college and Amanda and I actually met after she started dating Charlie but then happen to work together at the bookstore and became super close friends. The rest is history. We can only hope that our children will be so close. We love you guys!

Hattie and Piper at Cayla's Birthday Party - October 2004

Hattie and Piper at Piper's Birthday Party - July 2008

Well Check

Piper had her four year well check this morning and all is good. She has always been a little skeptical about the doctor...why the fear? No real reason but I think it is mainly the proposition of possibly getting shots. It really freaks her out...why? No real reason...no, not because they might hurt, no bad experiences, nothing. Last year at her well visit she was hysterically crying the whole time...couldn't tell me why...just that she didn't like having to go to the doctor. We had many conversations about the doctor since then so I hoped that this visit would be better. So anyway, we go in and she is actually pretty chipper but we did have to have 'B' (aka the blanket that she has had since she was born). We sit down and read a book or two and when they call her back she is happy to go. This visit was a little different from the start. They checked her vision and hearing, which we have never done before, and I could tell she was getting anxious. She did pretty well on the vision test and was being a little silly and shy because she wasn't expecting it and wasn't prepared. Next on the the hearing test...which reminded me of this post from my friend Tracy about Cayla's hearing test. Definitely can hear but had a hard time picking the correct ear. They said that was normal so we were good. The rest of the visit was great...up to the point where Dr. T said that she was needing four SHOTS...at that point we kind of had a melt down but tried to hold it together. Piper did pretty well but definitely wasn't excited about it. Needless to say, the nurse that came it to give her the shots was super wonderful and did a super job at making Piper feel comfortable. She only cried while she got her shots and was better after she got her sticker and sucker. They also gave her a certificate for tokens to Chuck E Cheese. I guess we'll be making a trip there before the end of the weekend. Fabulous!

Thanks Tropical Storm Edouard!!!

Yesterday we got a little rain from tropical storm Edouard that made land fall early Tuesday morning. Thankfully it wasn't too severe and mom didn't get too much rain. We were hoping to have more rain from it but are definitely thankful for what we got. We had light rain Tuesday evening and the kids played outside before dinner. Piper looks for any chance she can get to put her bathing suit on! It made the slide super slippery as you can see in the last picture...it threw Piper onto her face. All is well!!

Bows

I had to leave scrapbook night early but still got to make some bows!

Parachutes

Last night we were watching a documentary type show about how parachutes are made and the uses through the years. Jim Bob felt it very important that Piper understand the whole concept and was trying to get her to relate. He even tried to make it more real by discussing how Uncle Bo can parachute out of planes and she thought that was pretty cool...but still had an unresolved issue. So the end of the conversation went:

JB: People use them to jump out of planes and get to the ground safely....kind of like how Mary Poppins uses her umbrella to float through the air.

P: How do they get back up?

JB: They don't use them to get back in the plane, only out.

P: Why not? Mary Poppins can go back up.

JB: Well, that's just not how it works.

Needless to say Piper wasn't as impressed with the parachutes because they just couldn't compete with Mary Poppins' umbrella and is convinced that Uncle Bo would be better off with the umbrella. :)