oh, this boy!

just now the babies are supposed to be napping.. but i hear josiah scream. not just a cry, but a scream.... as if his arm got cut off or his leg broke in two! it startled me, so i ran real fast down to his room to see him standing there, still screaming and looking at his bare feet. i pick him up and wipe his tears and ask him what was wrong. he stops screaming, but has a horrible case of the 'suck backs' and through his gasping for breath i hear him say "lay-bug". i look down and see a helpless little lady bug crawling on his floor. apparently, the lady bug crawled across josiah's little foot and scared him to death. aren't boys supposed to like bugs?? especially cute little lady bugs?! i told him that lady bugs were sweet and they weren't going to hurt him. his reply with his pouty lip out, "i no wike lay-bug. it's wucky!"

also... while in the car this morning, taking ella kate and josiah to mother's day out, ella kate couldn't see her lunch box from under her jacket on the floor. she hollers out, "hey! where did my lunch box go?" josiah turns to her and very sweetly says, "i'n know baby, we find uh skoo!" (i don't know baby, we will find it when we get to school) then turns back around with a smile as if he just solved the hardest case! what was even funnier was the look on ella kate's face after josiah answered her. she looked as if, 'who was he talking to? and why did he call me baby?' :)

hot item of the day..

eve and miley have been so cute today! although, they have had a bit of a hard time sharing this super cool flounder hat:) miley would be wearing it and eve would snatch it off her head and say, "share!" she would put it on her own head and smile until miley tackled her to floor to get it back:) she is a rough one... that miley!

you know you have taken a good nap, when you wake up with hair like this!

talk about a tear jerker...

we had a semi family reunion today with some of our extended family members out of town. my family took 2 different vehicles to travel. in our van was erin, eve, miley, ella kate, bill and me. and then my parents took my dad's truck with my other sister lauren and josiah. on the way back to augusta ella kate and josiah switched places and my parents decided to go to my grandma's house to pick up a few things. going to my sweet nonny's house is still really hard for me, seeing as though she just passed away 4 months ago, so we opted out and decided to just head back to augusta. when ella kate got home tonight from my parents she told me, "hey momma! i went to nonny's house today, but she was not there.... her was at heaven. but when is she coming home, because it is really dark outside and i really, REALLY miss her!" :(

messes and memories

while josiah, miley and eve napped yesterday, i decided to spend some special time with ella kate and make a pound cake. i had been wanting something sweet, and she LOVES to help in the kitchen... so this was the perfect thing for us to do. or so i thought:)

let me tell you... baking with a little one is NOT for the neat freaks! there was flour EVERYWHERE, egg shells in the batter, pieces of wrapper still on the blended sticks of butter and i am sure that we added more than the required amount of vanilla! she spilled the first teaspoon of vanilla halfway in the bowl and halfway on the counter, so i tried to guesstimate how much else we still needed.

if you were a fly on the wall, you would see a half dressed ella kate standing on an upside down hamper trying to reach the mixer on the counter, covered in mess and you would here me say over and over, "oh! no no... be careful! steady..., slow down a bit! watch what you're doing! there you go.. good job! ok, add that next. stop licking the beaters! ok, now you can pour this.... get your mouth off of the bowl! oh, that is too much! good girl, this looks yummy! oh, wait! we already added that.. oh no! we're spilling it! stop licking the beaters, we're not done yet... it's ok, just let me do it!" ((sigh)) i was trying to be calm and relax but i think my nerves are still shot! all that matters is that ella kate had a blast and we made some memories and a ginormous mess... isn't that what it is all about:)

another attempt of a decent pic..

why is so difficult for 3 little ones (ages 1, 2, and 3) to look in the same direction, at the same time and SMILE?!?!? ((sigh)) this is all i got..

love

i love these kids! it frightens me how fast time is going by, and how they are not going to be babies much longer! ella kate is still funny and as dramatic as ever. josiah is starting to come out of his little shell some, and has the tendency to be a little ham like his big sister. miley is still just as sweet and compliant, but as fiery as ever! how can she both, you ask? well, she can be content, smiley and go with the flow all day, but if one little bump in the road hits her the wrong way, you better watch out:) she and josiah have become quite the pair! they play SO well together and it is so much fun to watch them chase each other around the house and cackle in hysteria when they get "tagged". ella kate is entirely too old to play such childish games with them anymore:) lately, she has been spending her time coloring, coloring and coloring some more. she got a lot of fun art stuff for christmas, and has been quite content sitting at the kitchen table trying to "stay in the lines". and i must add, that she is quite the artist:) my niece, baby eve came back to play with us today! we have missed not having her during the 2 weeks of christmas break. eve and miley are cute little buddies. today in the back seat, they kept stealing each others blankets screaming, "NOOO!! MINE!!" then they would laugh and cough and copy each other until someone snatched the other's blanket and the drama started over again.

josiah really loves eve too, but she will have none of it. i dont know what it is about him, that rubs her the wrong way. maybe it is that he likes to get nose to nose with her and say, "hey, dare big gur!" (hey there big girl!) now, granted eve IS a chunky little thing, and although he means well... boys should never call a girl big! :) so normally when he comes near her to play, she screams and runs off to ella kate or miley. the ones that she DOES like:)