3 brothers

I'm sorry for the lack of post. we are out of batteries so i haven't been able to upload pictures. up until now ( actually yesterday, i'm just lazy) i haven't had much to say. i don't know why, but i thought this picture of three brothers was silly. look at the poor brother with the girl hair... and what about the baby boy with the dress on. some historical things are odd eh? well to get to the point we found out that we are having another boy! james and i are both really excited and very relieved. we thought for sure that it was a girl this time. not that we have anything against girls or anything( we are actually hoping that the baby of the family will be a girl)but we thought 3 boys would be so fun.

win this!

do you want to win this beautiful quilt from old red barn company.? i surely do... want to learn more about her contest? look here for details.

while i'm at it...

i should mention that eli is walking all over the place now. i keep trying to film it but every time that i do he follows me around because he wants to see the camera and cries when i don't give it up. here is one more funny story... the other day ezra was in going potty and james and i were lying in bed, this is what we heard. " oh doh, ( yes i am aware that my child imitates homer Simpson, give me a break james is his dad, what did you expect) anyways back to the tale at hand. " oh doh, go away poo poo. you see ezra was really good about going poop in the toilet at first, then he had a 5 day break from going poop, do you see the problem here? now he is a bit nervous to go in the toilet ( tips would be greatly appreciated here, who am i kidding i am desperate tell me what to do... please). the conversation continued..." yeah pee pee, yeah! " while clapping, and then one more " you go away poo poo" followed by more clapping for his pee. it was definitely one of the most interesting one sided conversations i have heard.

the cat food catastrophe

yesterday the kids and i were getting ready to leave the house. all of a sudden ezra started screaming " mommy help". i ran into the kitchen thinking something was terribly wrong, nope it was just that eli was sitting on the rug eating fist fulls of cat food and grinning his naughty little grin. i really wanted to take a picture of the whole scene but i knew that eli would just keep eating the cat food... in the meantime ezra was yelling " ugh yuck beebye ( eli) yuck, don't eat kitty food" with a totally disgusted face. the best part was that he started gagging, like full on heaving while he was screaming his protest to eli. it was total and utter chaos and to top it off when i fished out the cat food from eli's mouth he started crying and screaming and acting like i was taking away his most prized treat. up until that point we were all having a pretty rough day...oh boy , it was so funny and it totally lightened the mood and made me realize that sometimes we all need to just lighten up and enjoy each other, to further lighten the mood we went and got shakes and visited granny sue. it was the best day this week! i sure do love my naughty little boys.

Quilt for eli

Here is the birthday quilt i made for eli. read and see more here.

California dreamin'

we had so much fun on our trip to cali last week. we stayed at my sister jessica's home in " beautiful wine country temecula". we just hung out at jessica and kyles the first few days, while the kids had a blast playing with each other. margo and ezra would run around screaming their heads off and laughing, eli thought it was fun to join in too. addie was just as quiet and sweet as can be, she really is such a good baby!

then we went to the san diego zoo. it was so pretty and green, the kids loved it. another night we hung out with krista and ryan and enjoyed some bbq and guitar hero. if those guys were excited about their little one coming i think we may have scared them off, well maybe not... at least 2 of the 4 kids behaved themselves.

then it was off to disneyland! it is fun every time we go but i think that this was one of the best trips. ezra was old enough to get excited about things and wouldn't ( and still hasn't ) stopped talking about our trip. ezra and margo were both tall enough for matterhorn and apparently they had a lot of fun on it ( not that i got to go... damn pregnancy) eli was really fun too because he would point at things and say " oh" , if he really like something he would point with both hands.

we also enjoyed seeing our cousins and aunt and uncle who also live in temecula. we went to in and out, trader joes and pinkberry many times. the kids even got to see their great great grandmother. anyways we had a really fun trip and are already excited to go back.

wierd... wonder why that photo of our house came up? does anyone know how to remove a picture after its been posted? anyhoo- off to cali and disney we go. so long... and i forgot my favorite pictue of " bebye" as ezra refers to him.