The Escapees

Ford is making progress! He is actually trying to escape us and venture to different rooms! 

It only took about 10 minutes for that little booty to scoot around the corner.:)

This is Olivia when she used all fours to venture as an escapee. 

Both of their little scootin' hineys are the cutest I've ever seen...

Cheap Entertainment

Need some entertainment for your one year old so you can get some yard work done? Get a BIG tupperware bowl filled with water and ice cubes and you can get LOTS of things done in the yard.

Are Hays and I guilty of this??? Maybe, but he had the time of his life.

My Treasures

Okay, so they're not really MY treasures but God is loaning them to me for a little while. How undeserving I am to be loaned such beautiful treasures. I will cherish every moment I have with them and watch what beautiful children they grow into being. They are only a little of God's beautiful handiwork.

Thank you, Lord for loaning me these children that are even more precious than gold.

Long Weekend with the Nano

Our Nano came to spend a long weekend with us and spoiled us all rotten! We kept busy going to the park and having a picnic, visiting the zoo and having a picnic, grocery shopping, grilling out, going on lots of walks and tricycle rides, having a mommy/nano spa day, mommy/daddy date night, a picnic in the living room on Sunday while it poured outside and list goes on and on. 

If you don't have a Nano like ours, you should really snatch ya up one....but you can't have ours, she's taken!

Nano and her babies, she's only missing two others.

Nano is one of two of Olivia's favorite people. She was tickled pink (or blue, as she would want me to say) to have her Nano to herself for a few days.

You can't tell, can you???

Train ride at the zoo. Doesn't Ford look thrilled to be hanging with 3 women all day....poor thing was out numbered as always.

m-o-m-m-a-s BOY!

This momma ain't complaining.

Do you see what Nano's will do for their baby girls....play in the pretend rain...all weekend.

The umbrella kept making an appearance all weekend except for the one time it actually came a down pour on the way out of church and it was no where to be found.....hmmmmmmm.

Grocery shopping scene from now on....

Nano, we miss you already! Come back when you can!

Progress

Drum roll please.....yes, indeed we have a crawler. At 14 months old with two sessions of physical therapy, praying, worrying, worrying, and more worrying, praying some more, lots and lots of floor time, motivation from absolutely everybody and enticing with toys, food and whatever else we thought would encourage, we finally have a crawler!!!

I wouldn't say that he is moving ninety to nothing from room to room but if he sees a toy he wants bad enough he will muscle up the energy and motivation to crawl and get it with a sorta half crawl with one leg folded under him type dragging motion.

Nonetheless, it is moving and we are so proud!!

He even looks proud of himself!

We go back to physical therapy in the morning so we hope Miss Jessica gives him a big pat on the back.

iPhone Dump

Today, we are having an iphone dump. Sometimes to keep up, a dumping process just has to happen.

What better way to start off a spring afternoon than with a good ole popsicle?

We have a little girl that loves her bomb pops.

 And this little guy is following in her footsteps. 

First bomb pop was a big hit.

Sometimes there is just too much coolness going on in my backseat for me to handle. 

This is one of those days.

Have I mentioned that we are going to Disney in our pop up?

Well, we made the mistake of telling this excited 3 year old the big news. So now I hear about the camper, Cinderella and Mickey Mouse on a daily basis. #bigmistake

The camper is apparently a "he" that gets checked on quite often....heartbeat and all......

I'm assuming this is preparation for the camping trip. 

We have found her multiple times on the floor sleeping....nap and night time.

Oh, brother....we're in for a LONG month.

Some days (well, a lot of days) I feel like that too, sissy. 

Some days call for hiding behind a hat and staying in jammies for as long as possible.

Do you see the smiling guilty one on the left of your screen???

I escaped for a quick shower one morning only to come back and find Ford belly flopped on the couch attacking Olivia for a chocolate donut....never a dull moment.

Sissy proceeded to get to the opposite end of the couch and cover herself with pillows.

We are learning the boy will do anything for food, especially chocolate.

We have been busy preparing for our carefree summer! 

Ahhhhh what a great feeling.

We have a "bucket list" of activities/crafts for this summer that I cannot wait to start.

Fridays are our treat days around here. Last Friday we visited the library and got treats at Great American Cookie. I had two excited little ducklings with me.

Care Bear has been venturing outside of the house with us lately. She went to the park today and momma Bear gave her a little swingin'.

She'll be a good momma one day (many, many, many, many moons from now).

Hays and I got away Saturday with some friends for some sloppin' in the mud at the Warrior Dash. And sloppin' is exactly what we did. We had mud from head to toe. Although, we are all a little sunburned and sore we had a great time running through puddles, climbing walls, leaping over fire, swimming in a lake and army crawling through mud under a barbed wire fence. A great time was had by all!!!

So that's my iPhone dump for now....until next time.

My Cup Truly Runneth Over

Some days I can barely keep my head above water. I'm sure ALL mothers know what I mean when you feel like you're not sure that hitting the sack will ever come. Some days can feel like an eternity that is overcome with mountains of laundry, screaming babies, toddlers that won't poop in the potty, both kids napping at different times, a house that looks like a tornado came thru, intended healthy suppers that never happen that are replaced with whatever we can find at the spur of the moment not to mention ever getting exercising in or a split moment to yourself.  BUT those obstacles are overcome and filled with so much joy from being a mother. I would not trade my tornado looking house or the countless poop mishaps for anything. Yeah, some days are really rough BUT most days are filled with smiling babies, toddlers saying "I love you, mommy" or "I'm YOUR guurrlll", hugs and kisses from both, an understanding and helping husband , play time that could go on for hours and the sweet sweet sounds of children's laughs and giggles. 

My cup runneth over.

It has been beautiful weather so we had the new big brother over to play.

Love these two. 

You see this grin and you can't help but know you are blessed.

Spring has sprung and so has spring cleaning around our house. This is what was going on as her closet was being gutted.

Then we had an outfit change. This girl lights up our days and keeps us chuckling.

This little guy had his first physical therapy visit. We didn't get great news but it's not anything that can't be fixed with a little (or a lot) of tummy time. So that is exactly what we have been doing. Lots and lots of tummy time. He's saying "really, mom, come on! Give me a little break."

Lots of tummy time calls for some much needed rest. This is after he slept from 7pm-9am. That never happens!

Tricycle rides are a must every afternoon and some mornings.

(notice the Care Bear that got to tag along)

I was informed that Care Bear had to go to the park with us because she wanted to slide and sliding is exactly what she did.:)

Thank you, Lord for filling my cup each and every day.