She's out-done herself!

This may be cuter than her saying "mama".
Love the fishy/kissy face!

and apparently I MUST end every video by telling her she's cute, sorry.

I love how you can see that her eyes are most definitely blue in this picture!
Jeff says it's her "Blue Steel" look.

"You don't talk a lot. I like you."

I love my life. I'm not one to downplay its um, difficulties? but I know that as long as I'm able to laugh with/at my children at least once a day I'll be fine. Tonight my little tidbit of joy came at the dinner table. Leah and Jeff were repeating a line from the movie Up (I don't know lines from this movie because I can't seem to actually sit down and watch it! oh well). They kept saying, "Cross it! Cross it!" and then Jeff said, "You don't talk a lot. I like you." So then the kids started making variations of this. Leah said something like, "You don't eat a lot. I like you." And then Davis said, "You stink a lot. I like you." and then Jeff said, "You smell like stinky bacon. I like you." Davis got a little upset about that one and when Leah said, "You stink a lot. I like you." Davis got really mad. He furiously pointed at Jeff and said "I DO NOT smell like bacon." and then he turned his finger toward Leah and said, "Don't say MY jokes!". I don't know why this is so funny to me but I think it shows his personality perfectly! The boy does not really like to get teased but LOVES to tease. Its a combination only a mother could love :)

More of the books I've been reading because I know you're dying to know :)

What's not to love?

Whitney saying mama is the CUTEST thing!


Last night Whitney had pulled herself up to standing on a stool and then proceeded to slip and smack her face on it. Feb 28, 2010= her first bloody nose. Yikes!

Last night I was laying by Davis in his bed and he was rubbing his foot. That's where his eczema has been the worst his whole life and even though it is mostly gone now he said, "I'd invent a machine that could rub it. And if you wanted it to scratch it hard you'd push the button that said HARD. And if you wanted it to scratch it so hard you'd push the button that said SO HARD. And if you wanted it to scratch it so so so hard until it bleeds you'd push the button that said BLEED." Of course I laughed and said, "I don't like that BLEED button :( "

I love that Whitney can crawl now. She still does it so funny but she is definitely able to get to anything left on the floor. The kid who has the most difficulty keeping their tiny toys and things off the floor is LEAH! She's such a messy girl! When she was tiny I'd encourage Leah to clean up her toys and she'd say "but I like them just like that right there on the floor". Haha, I think she still feels this way :) And money! She's forever leaving coins on the floor! What am I going to do with her!? She's supposed to me my responsible one...OK, I guess she is only seven :)

Grayson is in love with books and puzzles. When he was at my mom's house she bought him about 10 puzzles from the dollar store because he loves to do them everyday! And we checked out about 20 books from the library and he has me read the same 5 or 6 over and over. It's so funny to see how excited he gets about Dora and a book called Easy Peasy. And I get so much enjoyment hearing him say "easy peasy" with his lisp :) It's just too cute!

Life is good right now.

Last night I was laughing with Jeff that I've been reading too many books lately, it makes my mind thing like an author, we're so relaxed and comfortable right now that something bad needs to happen. Jeff said, "Ah, the plot twist." Then he came up with a good plot twist that involved him quitting his job a la Dave Chappelle. I laughed until my side hurt, that boy is funny.

I think one of the reasons I'm so relaxed is because my mother had my big kids in Blythe for a whole week! It was just me and Whitney enjoying some quality time together. And Jeff had Monday off of work so it was super weird. He RARELY has holidays and with the kids gone it was super quiet! Eerily quiet. It was nice to have some space but it was my everyday life I wouldn't prefer it. The house did stay clean since there wasn't anyone to go behind me and instantly mess it up though! That was amazing haha.

A whole week with just Whitney solidified her adorable status. And she has two matching bottom teeth that are super sharp!

Here's a video of her "crawling":

"I just need a compass and a willing accomplice"

"Sometimes you think everything is wrapped inside a diamond ring
Love just needs a witness and a little forgiveness
And a halo of patience and a less sporadic pace
And I'm learning to be brave in my beautiful mistakes

Oh, I've felt that fire and I, I've been burned
But I wouldn't trade the pain for what I've learned
I wouldn't trade the pain for what I've learned"

-"Crystal Ball" by Pink

"But you, you're uninvited"

-"Uninvited" by Alanis Morissette

I took all the kids shopping with on Saturday morning and it was a disaster. Grayson is so difficult. He does NOT like to be told where to go, won't sit in the cart, wants an obscene amount of stuff at the store, etc. etc. Anyways, if I had to break my experience into numbers here they are:
Number of times Grayson got ran over by the shopping cart in Whole Foods: 2
Number of Elmo books Grayson LOUDLY begged for in B&N: 2
Number of bookshelves Grayson tried to CLIMB: 1, in front of a very unimpressed employee
Number of times I had to hold Whitney's carseat on one arm and a screaming Grayson in the other: 3