Wednesday, October 10

I got plenty more where this came from

Miss thang smiling so hard it was hurting. One cute thing to remember about her is that she loves eye contact. If you hold her, lift her up to your face... The girl will smile so huge and then start cooing at you. Repeat back to her what she's saying and her smile will almost break her face



Telling me "no mom! I no like picture!" augh, the sass mouth is in all of them.... It's almost as bad as head lice



Before the sod..... This landscape came with a huge drama tag... Good grief who knew throwing down some blades of grass could be so unbelievably complicated, but come tomorrow am I will be watching grass magically appear all around our house....thanks Iu new BFF, Mr. Cruz. It's been a long month and a half without it.... Heck long 21 months, since wee had real grass for the kids to play on. FYI: I will be having a love affair with our grass this next year... Just so you know ;-)


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Thursday, October 4

Happy birthday to you!

J turned 5 today and I'm noticing how I manage every year to be able to get pics of him up right near or on his bday, but it takes me 3 mos to get them up of C for his bday. Clearly you won't see pics of K's 1st bday till she graduates from high school... Your turning purple, stop holding your breath.

Did his bday cupcakes and presents from us and grand parents the night before because I like abuse and feel the need to drag their bdays out into a week long celebration. Of course I'm regretting this usually by the 2nd day, when I've suddenly I've become their bday b!*#%.



C's favorite part about bdays... Cupcakes!



Laughing at his daddy.... He personally doesn't find me as hilarious as you nice people do, but in his defense my sense of humor is "off and slightly sarcastic", as a neighbor recently commented. I concur



Suddenly noticing the pile of presents. The boy has more self control than his mama, cause he waited another 30 mins before he opened them. Self-control or just the ability to drag it out as long as possible?



This one is more like his mama... A little off, a little random and super spontaneous... Case in point, the pant-less guitar serenade. Now while this is something I would not do personally, I can however appreciate his sudden urge to express his creativeness by re-singing the bday song in a memorable way. That, in it's self, is gift enough if you ask me



Surprise and excitement from one of the gifts he got. We live very close to a Tractor Supply and it was super convienent and completely normal for our family that most of the things he wanted could be purchased there.... Someone Que. the dueling banjos.




See this is how I create chaos-play close attention, because it adds a hint of "zeal" to your schedule- i make it necessary that they expect balloons in the house when they wake up on their bday morn. But Guess who's truckin it to HEB at 9:30 pm the night before to get said surprise? Oh you know T-rav got more sense than me.... He just smiles, kisses my forehead as I'm walking out the door and says "I'm going to bed, goodnight Birthday, b!*#%".

This morning with all 5 of his bday balloons. He's worth it.






And by 4 he had spiked a high fever and spent the rest of his bday Laying on the sofa and napping.... Sadly it Made for a nice quiet afternoon


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Sunday, September 30

Wanna see some pics?

This is old.... Like from May old. We got bored one afternoon and came up with this fun game. Course I got the butt chewing when T-rav got home cause apparently blue painters tape is a little too pricey to be blowing on my "shenanigans". My bad :-/. I guess regular ol masking tape is my new standard



Look at this! Does this look like "shenanigans"? Fun-hatin-dream-crusher! Its Not too bad if I do say so myself.



1st day of science camp back in June. This also happened to be exactly one week before Miss K joined us.



Soccer medal day. The game face is hilarious. Yes at the YMCA "everybody gets a trophy". T-rav wasn't impressed with this.. Lol!



C after his hair cut... He looks so much bigger with short hair



Eh, whatever.



Boys being destructive.... It's a dual effort most days.



At the Library, C thought he was big time with these. Love that look



The real McCoy... What our house looked like most days those 1st couple of months after K was born. I only remember crying over it once.... That was a long summer!



This deliciousness that is being so beautifully displayed for you is from one of the food trailers on So Congress. OMGoodness, that was the BEST cream cheese i'd ever eaten in my life! This trailer served doughnuts in ways I would've never dreamed! We did a food crawl for a friends bday back in August, and I finally discovered all the great food creations ATX has to offer :-)




On one of the trash cans by the food trailers...



The Popsicle man



Came out into the living room and K had been moved. J drug her over next to him to watch Wild Kratts. "I'm spending some time with her mom so she won't be fussy" he tells me. Hmmm apparently it is a boy thing to think that watching tv together is "spending time" ummm, no. Note to self.... Teach J about "eye contact", future DIL will thank me :-)



And then I come back out to this. He's so super gentle with her. "she wanted me to hold her now" ahhh. I'm so grateful that God softened J's heart towards her because although he said he loved her, there were a few times in July he told me "mom I love K but I don't like her because she slows us down". A friend reminded me that "J knows the long term effects of a baby, so it might take awhile for him to warm up to her" thank goodness it was only 2 months and not when he's in high school



Blows my mind there's a 3rd baby in this house. Who am I to deserve all 3 of them?



The lake in our backyard before the grading and landscaping went in



J's playing fall ball and honestly as much as I hate having to be at a practice once a week for a 4 yr old I have to admit that I like going to watch him play. He loves it and the coach is great with teaching them skills. J is the in the orange shirt,,,, he just wipped a ball out there for his coach.



We recently took the whole fam up to the cowboy state to see our family. When we were standing in line going thru security I asked T-rav "why does everyone keep staring at us?" "because we're a freak show Crissy, NOBODY is this crazy!" whateves! They all 3 are fantastic flyers and were perfect... Even going thru security. I'm going to brag a little cause I don't usually get these kind of comments (what can I say, my kids act like me) but people were telling us "ALL your kids are great travelers"
K on her 1st airplane ride and the flight attendants were in awe with her and carried her around for part of flight.



Our flight was early that morning and C never ended up getting a nap, although he did try laying down in the wagon but couldn't quite fit



All T-rav's fam from all over the cowboy state came to see us. T-rav's sister and BIL out side playing with all the kids. It was fun to watch the boys play with their girl cousins



The girls playing with their baby girl cousin



My big brother wrestling with the boys. He was trying so hard to be gentle with them, but then he figured out what savages they are and started getting rowdy with them, kill or be killed he discovered. They loved every second



Back home, j reading his book to K. He really is so helpful



Don't ask...it was a rough morning at church today. I stuck K's bow in his hair just finish the look. :-) precious. Let's just say that this little incident prompted us to start potty training the moment we got home. I had planned on starting right after we got home from WY anyway. :-)



He's a monkey...


C is definetly our wild child!


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Saturday, September 8

Daydreaming

Smiling while dreaming... Wonder if she's California dreaming 😉


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My babies

C - 8 weeks



K - 8 weeks



J - 7 weeks


K - 8 weeks


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My thumb sucker

I spent the 1st 10 weeks of K's life sticking my pinkie in her mouth. The girl HATES paci's but from day one has had a strong sucking reflex. Well praise God, girlfriend found her thumb! Now being a former thumb sucker myself, that had to have prongs put in by the orthodontist to stop my thumb-sucking habit, I was AGAINST this. But nothing else was working and mama was exhausted so after we moved we went from this.....


To this...


And now she sleeps 12 hours straight through the night at 11 weeks. I say Praise God for her right thumb!!! 😄

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First day of school

It was their 1st day of school, this time at a new preschool in Drippin'. So far they love it. J goes 3 days :-( and C goes 2 days. I miss them but who am I kidding, it's nice to have a few hours to do some things around the house and be able to think clearly too. Baby K is a good napper when she gets to opportunity but so far I've just used my down town to catch up on scheduling sub-contractors to come back to finish their "punch" work. We moved 2 weeks ago and while it's nice to have a place we plan on hanging for a bit I'm still too gun shy to unpack too much right now... 5 houses in 3 years, it tends to make a girl iffy.



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