Messes

I wish I could say this is the first time I walked in on this...

or even the last...

but somehow even I cannot delude myself into thinking that. Hopefully, it will be one of the last times.

Pictures

I finally up loaded the pictures my photographer and friend Randi gave me.

As you can see this is why she is such a great friend.

Just wait these are from the beginning before they started acting up.

Trust me it did not get better

Matthew saying, "I'm done."

Then this is Seth saying, "I'm done. Let's go."

But as you can see from all the updated pictures on the kids somehow in all of this she managed to get some great shots. You go girl!!

Acting like a Fool!

Can you guess what Seth is doing here?

He is blowing dust (or some sort of small particles) on the ground. This is right after he turned around in circles until he fell down!

And to make this even better he is very proud of himself!! Needless to say this was after bedtime and Brad and I were laughing hysterically as we watched. We grabbed our phones, and the cameras to take many pictures as we tried not to fall down laughing. I love my babies and how they can lighten the entire day at any given moment!

Do Not Leave Your Laptop Unattended

The previous blog was posted by Seth. I had to leave it so sometime in the future I can show Seth his first successful even if unintentional blog post. I went upstairs to quickly (or so I thought) talk to Brad and then checked on dinner. I guess during this time I left my laptop in the reach of Seth. While stirring dinner, I heard Erik say "Seth! Seth! Mom!"

My response is typical mother response of "Hold on, and unless it is an emergency please do not yell."

"Mom, Seth has you laptop."

"Be right there, hey wait I didn't post anything!"

So the moral of this long winded story DO NOT LEAVE YOUR LAPTOP IN REACH OF A 1-YEAR-OLD!!! (My husband tells me this constantly. I must be a slow learner.)

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Mommy Boy

In my house, we do not have any other females. I am the only one. Even our pets are males. (We have Betas and the males are the pretty ones, my terminology not theirs.) We do have Goldfish but if you ask any of our boys they will tell you the Goldfish are males too. So it should come to no surprise to me that my three-year-old does not naturally use female pronouns .(He would have no problems if we spoke Chinese though!) Now come to find out that not only do I have to correct grammar usage but I also have to explain that we are not a gender neutral society. My older two boys went through the stage of defining everyone they knew as a boy or girl but Matthew did not really go through that stage so I am a Mommy boy, aka Mommy to boys (in my head at least). I wear this name with pride since we do have all boys. I love my sons and feel blessed that God has given us so many boys to raise into men. There are times when I need some "girl" time though not just adult time but time around other females. The grossness factor alone can be quite overwhelming. There are just so many ways boys are different than girls and sometimes I wonder, especially since I do not have another female on my side, if I am up to the challenge! Only time will tell...

Baby Dinosaur

Did you know we have a baby dinosaur in our house? Now we have a daddy dinosaur and sometimes a mommy dinosaur depending on his mood. If you have not guessed by now, Matthew is always calling Seth his baby dinosaur. When I tease Matthew and tell him Seth is my baby boy he says, "You call him baby boy, I call him my baby dinosaur." He is the daddy dinosaur and sometimes amazingly enough he is the mommy dinosaur. He has "Bubba" or brother dinosaurs too. Every once in awhile he trips me up when he asks where his baby dinosaur or Bubba dinosaurs are but for the most part I remember. I love watching his imagination work but it does makes me wonder what we are going to have in our home next?