Christmas Day

I guess all the kids were really good because Santa came big time at our house! Judd woke up first, so he and I hung out and steared clear of the gifts until the other 2 got up. They finally woke up and were excited to see their piles of goodies! Harper and Juddson dumped their stockings first and Noah picked the smallest gift from his pile, probably because it looked like a Wii game, and he was right, he marveled at that Mario Baseball forever-- just what he'd hoped for! Harper's main hope was Ponyville and she couldn't wait for us to get it all un-packaged. She also got a big crib and the Baby Alive doll with the 4 in 1 backpack thing. Judd loved his Gabba stuff and also he got some really cool Little people sets and a stand and learn activity table, that was one of my favorite toys that Santa brought-- Fun and Educational!! I sound like a commercial now... We finally coaxed Noah into opening more gifts and he got Shake and Go Dragsters and the Matchbox Alien set to name a few.
After all the gifts were opened and out of the boxes (which took forever because you know how toys are packaged) our house looked like a bomb went off in a toys r us. Boxes and wrapping paper and cardboard and toys covered our entire living and dining room floor. Poor Josh had to clean it all, and I started cooking for my side to eat Christmas dinner over here.

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve at Nanna and Pappa's house with Cory and Jessica and Lexi and Luke. Usually Lisa and Jack are there as well, but of course this year they were in the hospital with their new babies! We missed them, and can't wait to see them. We had a wonderful dinner with ham, turkey, dressing, Nanna's famous tators and gravy and deviled eggs and a whole bunch of desserts. We hardly made it through dinner-- the kids were so hyper and excited to dive into the gifts. I think Juddson was the only one who actually ate anything. As soon as we finished eating, they started tearing into presents. The first one Juddson opened was a Gabba gabba tent, which he put up on the couch and sat in front of it so no one would steal it from him. His next one was the Gabba gabba guitar, which got him off the couch. He played with that for the next 2 hours, singing and dancing and clapping to all the songs... and if no one was watching him, he'd yell at them "NANNA" and once he had her attention, he'd go back to his singing. Harper was opening one of hers from Jessi and Cory and it was a baby doll, but it was wrapped in a a big crockpot box and she saw the crock pot picture and said, "No" and I don't remember if she said, I don't want it or that's not mine, but it was something like that, and she dropped it and walked away... we had to explain to her that it was something different inside, so Josh opened it part of the way so she could see pinkness inside and then she got excited again, and loves the baby doll and all the clothes and things that were with it. Noah opened his game and wanted to play his "truck game" so bad it distracted him from opening all of the other things. He couldn't wait to get home and play it. He did love his Thomas the train tent and played in it with Piglet. We all had a great Christmas together and thank everyone for the gifts.

Judd

Judd had a bath, I got him out, dried and dressed him. Something stopped up the tub and the water didn't drain. Fifteen minutes later, Harper comes in telling me, Judd is in the bath.... and he was.

December pics

More old pics

Noah's 4th birthday party!

October pics

Merry Christmas???? I don't know...

Yikes, 2 weeks since my last post

Crazy weeks, sick kids, and the approaching holiday are my excuse for not having posted in so long. The kids are at a wonderful age, I wish they would all stay toddlers forever. They are talking and growing each day and I am busy enough jotting little notes in my notepad and taking pictures... Who has time to blog? But, I hope to one day look back at all the fun little stories and relive my young mommy days... and since I have such a TERRIBLE memory, going back and reading this will be like reading a wonderful story...

Grandmom fell a few weeks ago and broke her hip. One day I ventured to the hospital with all three kids to visit her and mom. They did awesome, obeyed me, walked by me, and were quiet. I was so proud. Once in the room, they were a little surprised to see Grandmom laying in bed. Noah went up and kissed her and said "boo boo?" Harper told her she had broken bones, and Juddson was looking at Charles trying to place him. Grandmom and mom were so happy to see us. Noah saw the potty and had to try it. He walked in and looked up over the potty and said "hot shower?" Wow! He could potty and shower all at the same time, pretty cool. Harper decided to entertain Grandmom with a leg kick/ booty shaker combo, and after she was finished, she said "that's my talent!" See... they are learning things from their t.v. shows. Thank you Yo Gabba Gabba! When Charles left, Juddson said "Bye 'Chars,' see you later!" and everyone though that was cute that he could say that.

Other interesting outings included the trip to the dentist, Dr. Murphy. I was SO proud of the kids, especially Harper. They called them back at the same time and the girls started cleaning their teeth. Since Noah was a little more difficult, I sat on his chair and helped hold his hands down and tried to control his screaming. In the chair next too us, was precious little Harper laying perfectly still and quiet, with her sunglasses on so the bright light wouldn't hurt her eyes. Her hands were folded on her tummy and her mouth was wide open. Wow!! I was so impressed. She is terrified of cavities (again, props to Yo Gabba Gabba) and I told her the girls were going to make sure she didn't have any tiny, yucky cavities. With good reports, we left-- outta there in 30 minutes!! Yeah!! With toys from the treasure chest and stickers, and a baggy of new toothbrushes and paste, they were excited!

Now for the random stories of funnies I have jotted down:
Juddson wasn't wearing a shirt and wanted a drink. I gave him Noah's that was on the table, a non-sippy cup. Harper, being concerned said "No, not that cup, he spill it on his boobs."

The kids and I eating lunch at the table, Noah was watching Harper and looked up and said "Hoppa so cute." Ahhh, how sweet of a brother is that?

Josh was teasing Harper, she came back with "Josh, don't be mean."

Josh gave Harper a drink of his drink, fresh, sweet tea.... after a long drink Harper looked up and said "that's some delicious juice!"

We are having some electrical difficulties and have had a few companies come out and give us quotes. The first ones were a little scary, wreaked of old smoke, not many teeth, you know the type.... Anyways, Harper, being the man lover she is had to talk to them... they told her 'bye' when they left and as soon as the door closed, she whipped around and said "those guys just lub me."

Harper-- about cheese omelet: "I don't wike that cheese, it make me throw-up."

One of my peeves is when we are going somewhere and they take their shoes off in the car between home and where we are headed... First of all, because I am usually running late and putting shoes back on takes more time... and second of all, it's just a hassle to do... Harper knows how I feel about keeping shoes on. We arrived at Walmart, I grabbed a cart, put Judd in, turned to get Harper, and she is waving her hand in my face saying "Don't get mad, don't yell....don't be mad, it's alright... just be happy" because one of her shoes was untied... poor thing... guess I need to chill out with the shoes a little bit.

This story made me cry, one of the sweetest things I have ever experienced. I was editing pics and Noah came up and sat in my lap and gave me sweet kisses and a big hug. He said "I wub you" and I told him I loved him too and kissed him back and gave him a big squeeze. He sat back and looked up at me and said "Here, you have my heart, here you go" and made the motion of pulling his shirt (his heart) and held it out to me.... How sweet is that???? I am amazed he could relate that to love.... after he saw my misty-eyed reaction, he said "here you have my 3 hearts" and pulled more out....sweet baby boy.

We were all at the table eating dinner... the kids had KFC chicken strip meals and Josh and I had Chinese. Well, they didn't give josh very much meat, it was mainly celery strips he picked around... The kids had gotten up and were running around playing while we were finishing our meals. Harper had left some chicken and Josh, still being hungry, ate it... thinking she was done. A few minutes passed and she hopped up in her chair, looked into her "laptop" box and said, "Hey! Where's my chicken?" Josh felt really bad and told her he thought she was finished and he ate it and he was really sorry." She had a distraught look and then smiled and leaned over and kissed him on the shoulder and said "it's ok, daddy." Ah,sweet girl. What a great quality to have, forgiveness.

We were driving and were close to home, and I was kidding with kids and said "oh no, I am lost, where are we?" Harper, rolling her eyes, said "you are not lost, Kim." I laughed real big because she sounded like such a teenager... she said "no, no, don't tell that..."

Judd loves little people, he has one that is Mexican, with a lot of black hair and a mustache. He calls that one daddy-- which is funny. The one with brown hair, that carries a bottle is mommy. He plays with them in the bathtub and covers them up with cups and says "where's Josh?" "where's Kim?"


I am sick, I coughed real big and Noah said "bless you."
Cute kids....

Juddson is really into throw and catch right now... and he has an arm, I wish we had a video camera to capture his first "fire balls." He loves to look at pictures, especially of "Hoooooover" and says "Hooooover, cute!" He's talking so well!! He's always got a boo boo or something hurts... He'll call the other kids to the table or bath "Eat, Hoppa, eat..." or "bath...Wowa, Bath." One of his favorites is "what happened" and he turns his hands out? I tell him and he'll say "oh." and run off...

Harper is into playing doctor. She is the mommy and she'll bring the baby dolls to me or Josh (Dr. Fred) and we have to poke their finger... I guess I should mention, last Friday, she had to have her finger poked for an Iron test-- which came back normal this time!! Praise!!

Noah loves "Jennifer/Michelle school" Which is his speech/occupational therapy, but not Tilles school. I don't know why he doesn't like that one right now. After I pick him up from any school, his first words are "play mariokart for 10 minutes?" Last night he started saying "not 10 more minutes, how bout 11?" I said "how bout 5?" he cried, "not 5, 11."

That's all I got... I gotta get some stuff done before they wake up.

December Already

My precious angels are growing too fast. I love this age; it's all chaos and hectic, and nothing stays clean for more than 2 minutes, but they are all so funny right now. Last night while they were in the bath, Juddson was holding up letters, and I said "B" and he said "CDE" Wow! I was amazed he knew that. He thinks he is a big kid. Harper apparently knows her letters too. She thinks she spells her name "KKR, KKR" instead of "H A R P E R" and yesterday she said "Write my name" So, I did, without saying anything.... I had written "Harper" and she said "No, write my Kkrkkr." and so, again, without saying anything, I wrote "Kkrkkr" and she said "Thank you..." and took it and put it on the front of the fridge with 6 magnets around it and showed it to Judd, telling him to look at her "kkrkkr." Which he did, and promptly ripped off and she screamed, and I got it back from him and gave it to her and she put it on the side of the stove, with the same 6 magnets, to hide it from Judd.... it worked.

When the kids get in trouble, we give them their lecture and say, "Do you understand?" Until they look us in the eye and respond that yes they do understand... And Judd kicked me while I was changing his diaper today and I said "Juddson, no no... You don't kick mommy, that hurts mommy. If you kick again, you will get a spanking, do you understand?" I thought he would give his usual response of "UH HUH!" but to my surprise his sweet little voice said "I un stand." AHHH Makes me cry-- he is the sweetest kid. Well, I can't say that, Harper and Noah are precious too.

Noah is really into making Mii's on the Wii.... and he's pretty good at it too. He made Scott and Granny tonight, and they are cute-- pretty funny. I think he likes creating Miis almost as much as he likes playing games. He's off of MarioKart for now and likes "Tewis" which is Tennis...and he has to have both controls and play two person, so he's playing against himself.

Yesterday morning, when I went to get Juddson out of bed, I realized he'd gotten sick through the night sometime and had slept in throw up... Yuck I know... but he must have slept through it because I didn't hear anything on the monitor... anyways, I had just gotten the other two ready to take Noah to school and came back in and told them Judd was sick and we were going to stay home today. I was holding Judd and said "Oh, you poor boy" and Noah ran up and put his nose on mine, like he likes to do when he has something very important to ask or say and said "I a poor boy too." He thinks that if he's a poor boy or sick, he'll get to skip school. Every morning when we are getting ready he says something hurts or he's hot or sick or something. He does love to go to Jennifer Michelle school, as it's now called. They are doing a great job with him and I am so thankful he likes to go. Today I watched the end of his OT session with Jennifer and they were swinging on this big thing together, well, not really swinging, just swaying back and forth really slowly and he was holding scissors the right way and cutting paper all by himself... that's a big deal because he's never been able to hold scissors the right way. I have also caught him holding a pencil the right way too-- which is awesome. And a couple of days ago, I was on the computer and he got in my lap and grabbed a pen and made a circle, and a cross, just in 2 seconds and was so proud!!! YEAH Noah--we are so proud of him for improving so much with his fine motor skills!

Harper Jane is still not pooping in the potty, it drives me nuts, because she knows when she needs to go and she goes and hides and then comes out of hiding with this little smile behind thumb and "pink elephant cat" and I know before I smell it what she's done. She will wear panties and pee in the potty, but cries for a diaper when she needs to poop, I don't get it.... Today I tried to bribe her... I told her if she pooped in the potty 5 times, she could get a toy... I said "How about Hungry hungry hippo" because she sees the commercial and talks about it all the time. And she lit up and said "Yeah!!! Hungry hungry hippo" So, I told her I would make her a chart and when she got 5 stars, she'd get the game.... She was so pumped... and not even 2 hours later, she pooped again-- IN HER DIAPER... ugh.. I don't know what it's going to take for that girl. She is so funny though, if she sees something like that game that she wants she'll say "I want that for my Christmas list, or I want that for my birthday present." Want want want... these kids know that word... sometimes it's need... I need that toy mommy...

Anyways, I am going to go make a star chart... It's not letting me spellcheck for some reason... so sorry for all the misspellings in your previous reading... :)