my little speller

so ella kate is our little fruit bug! she loves practically EVERY fruit there is, (josiah..not so much) but right now she is on an orange kick. my dad had given her one at school on thursday, and for the rest of her night she was begging and pleading for an orange. so last night we went to walmart and got some groceries and oranges! the babies and i were waiting in the car while bill was out in the frigid cold loading in the groceries from the buggy(such a sweet man!!), and i hollered out to bill, "hey babe, when you get in, will you bring with you an O-R-A-N-G-E?" ella kate is so stinkin' smart and can already read lips.. so bill and i have reverted to spelling:) ella kate (being as serious as she could be) then hollered back at bill, "hey babe, i wanna H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P too!" of course, bill and i busted out laughing! she had no clue that i was getting her an orange to eat in the car, but she just wanted to fit in and spell something to daddy too:) i love her..

miss thang and her headbands

everyday, and i mean everyday.. ella kate insists on wearing one of those strappy headband things. and don't get me wrong, i don't mind her wearing them, but i do however, mind her putting them on after i have already fixed her hair and we are walking out the door. but she only likes wearing them in the sweatband style, not the headband style , so it looks ridiculous!and now keep in mind people, that ella kate has some crazy hair that takes a while to fix, so you can imagine my irratation when she busts out of her room looking like hot mess. this morning, i already had her dressed and ready to go and she comes upstairs to find me with her bow yanked out and that silly little thing around her head.... geez!

boys are different..

josiah is an interesting little guy! it may be that i am so used to girls and girly things, that i don't know what i am doing with this boy:) he is just different. for example, we will take the babies to the park in the stroller and when we get there, we unbuckle them and set them free to play, but no... josiah doesn't want to play. he would rather stand by the stroller for 2 hours buckling and unbuckling the seat belt thingy. we have tried physically picking him up and placing him on the jungle gym, but he just comes back down and goes right back to the stroller to concentrate on how that buckle works. it drives me nuts! or even at home, he will spend hours and i mean HOURS opening and shutting doors. i was so nervous that he would smash his fingers, so we put a washcloth or towel over the top of the door so it wont close all the way. but there he is, opening the door and then closing the door, then opening the door... and so on. you can come over to our house on any given day and find random towels or other articles of clothing thrown over the tops of every bedroom door, because no matter where he is in the house, josiah wants to play with the doors. but anyways.. back to the boy stuff. so when ella kate was little we bought her a big bag of mega blocks. (you know.. the ones that look like JUMBO legos?) well, she loved them and she loved to build something and then giggle and squeal as she knocked it down! not josiah.... he does not laugh. i mean, he loves the blocks but he only plays with the single blocks.. not the ones that are rectangular or square with 4 or 8 notches, just the single ones. and he likes to stack those up one at a time on top of each other. but here is the thing. a skinny little tower will only get so high before it topples over, and when it does fall over, josiah FREAKS out! i'm talking, falling to the floor and crying! he refuses to think that it is funny! it is like he is saying, "i'm a failure.. why wont these stay up!!" it's hilarious and saddening to watch at the same time. he is so determined to do it and make a single tower as tall as him, but everytime, it falls and his little heart is crushed! poor thing... one of these days, he will learn. or hopefully laugh as it falls.. but here is a pick of him today with his single blocks in progress..

oh, what a night...

why is it that when bill works late, that the kids are acting all crazy?!? i guess they just like to save all the drama for their momma:) ella kate is REALLY trying hard to master this whole potty training thing. some days she does awesome! no accidents, no meltdowns... and other days, she just doesn't care. like tonight, josiah was already in the bath tub and DID NOT POOP!! that was a first:) anyways, he was in the bath tub playing and ella kate was going potty. i was trying to hurry and get them both bathed and dressed in their jammies before miley woke up to be fed. but there is no, i mean NO, hurrying up ella kate. (especially when she is on the potty!) so their she is... stripped down to just her hairbow, sitting on the potty, reading a magazine (i think it was a pottery barn magazine) and just taking her own sweet time! she LOVES magazines, and apparently she loved this one tonight. she kept ooohing and ahhhing over all the toys and telling me that 'so and so' (a random kid in the magazine) was her friend and that she wanted to go to 'so and so's house to play with their toys. sometimes, she even talks to the people in the magazines. like tonight. she carried on this conversation with this little boy who was 'modeling' with one of their toy kitchens. and ella kate was steady talking.. telling him all about her day and what she did, and what she had for lunch. it was getting pretty indepth:) i was begging ella kate to come in the tub, but by that time, miley had woken up and i was trying to hold off on feeding her just yet, so i put her in the bath tub with josiah. ella kate finally decides that she is done and comes to get in the tub, only to see that miley has pooped. EVERYWHERE! why? why does this always happen when i am by myself? so being the excellent mom that i am, i put ella kate on the 'clean' side, get miley out and lay her on the floor, try and scoop out the poop (with our rinse cup) before josiah starts grabbing at the floaties, all to hear that the water is too hot and it hurts her eyes. really? her eyes? she is just standing in this water, but yet it already hurts her eyes? so i tell ella kate to basically suck it up and let us hurry and bathe so we can get out. so one by one they all get out and get lathered up with lotion. i forgot to have their jammies and diapers etc. upstairs with me, so i get miley dressed first while the other 2 run around like wild, naked indians. then, i take josiah downstairs to his room to get him dressed and send ella kate to her room and wait for me to come and get her dressed. well, jos is ready for bed and when i make my way to ella kates room, i see this huge wet spot on her bed! this huge wet spot on her clean sheets that i JUST changed! (i really hate changing bed sheets! maybe i wouldn't dislike it so much if it weren't so stinkin' hard to change cribs sheets. and we have 2 cribs!! the other 2 beds are easy, but i am on a roll so, let me complain:) ) but seriously, what was that wet spot?

i asked ella kate, and she said, "ohh.. i just went pp in my bed!"

"why did you go pp in your bed... that is so yucky!"

"well" she said, while trying to think of a good answer.. "i might fro up!"

"why are you gonna throw up, ella kate?"

"because..."

"because why?"

"because why..." yes, my child thinks that 'because why' is an actual answer. geez! so needless to say.. that conversation got me far! i have no idea why she did this? she has a potty in her room that she always uses, but not tonight! it took more work for her to climb her naked self up onto her bed and pee, rather than just peeing on the floor!!! but she might 'fro up', so apparently peeing on her bed made sense. which is just so ridiculous to me...so i took off the nasty, wet sheet, loved on her and tried to explain that we only pp in the potty and tucked her in. thankfully, they are already in bed and so am i and it is only 7:20! but hey.. you gotta love'em! the craziness and all:)

we have a thumb sucker..

our sweet baby miley has found a new way to self-soothe... she has turned into a hardcore thumb sucker!! i mean, HARDCORE!! it is like she is sucking her skin off!! you can her her sucking and smacking all the way in the next room!! :) she's not hungry, she just has a mean, powerful suck:) but, i am not really sure how i feel about the thumb sucking... don't get me wrong, i think that it looks absolutely adorable and she also wont have to worry about her brother or sister snatching her passy or us forgetting to bring her passy when we leave the house....but i hear that it is next to impossible to break and i can't help but to think of all the germs that will be on her hands and fingers as she puts them in her mouth! yuck!! so GREAT... more germs and sickies...but hey, you can't keep your kids in a bubble!! and who knows.. this could just be a phase... but here she is in all her cuteness!! i love this baby girl...

cookie cutter fun times

since the babies have been sick, we have had a lot of sandwiches. i mean a LOT of sandwiches. so tonight for supper, we had yet another.. and i tried to be creative:) bill's mom had given me a box of cookie cutters when we were just dating. she told me that i would have kids one day and i would need them. so i brought them home and tucked them away in my hope chest and never even opened them until tonight. it was a box of 100, so the babies had a lot to choose from. i dumped them on the floor and let them ooh and ahh until they found the perfect one. ella kate picked an icecream cone which she called the "eyes green shop"(icecream shop) and luckily, josiah chose a boy one! he picked out a baseball and bat:) so off to the kitchen we went, to make our yummy shaped sandwiches! and who would've though that they gobbled them up and even asked for more! but since i ran out of bread, i let them make their initials out of cheese slices and they had sooo much fun! when ella kate would cut out a shape, she would say, "oh momma... it's perstick!! (perfect) she also found a tennis racket cutter and said, "hey.. this is your hair ryer!!" it looked nothing like a hair dryer to me, but i just went along with it... here are a few pics :)

sick week

so this week was difficult to say the least. all 3 babies were sick and on antibiotics, the weather was cold and miserable, and i kept feeling like i had bronchitis (although i refused to go to the dr and find out).. anyways, we are all on the mend now and feeling much better! miley had rsv and everytime she would cough, ella kate would run over and pat her saying, "goodness baby mi-ey, goodness!" and josiah was irritable at times when he was not feeling well, and she would say to him, "now 'siah, stop that whining! if you be a sweet boy, my's gonna give you a biscuit." now i dont know where she got that from.. i am sure she has heard someone say something like that before... but i promise i don't bribe my kids with biscuits!