A Little Announcement...

Vegas, Baby!

My kids were reminiscing about our trip to Las Vegas last Thanksgiving...

Meleah - "I throwed up in Las Begas!"

Lydia -  "Yeah, and I throwed up on the sidewalk!"

Carter - "I threw up in Lost Vegas too.  It splashed ALL OVER the bathroom floor!"  

Good Times

Human Digestion

On the way home from my sister's house at 10:30 pm...

Carter:  I'm sooo hungry Mom.  Can I please have something to eat?

Mom:  I don't have anything for you to eat.

Carter:  But I'm so hungry and if I don't eat something I could DIE!

Mom:  You're not going to die Carter, you've been eating all night.

Carter:  Yes huh, I'll digest myself!

Mom:  You can't digest yourself.

Carter:  Uh huh!  One time my stomache growled really loud and it hurt and I digested myself!

Mom:  Well, you've had plenty to eat today and it's bedtime when we get home.

Carter:  You don't take care of me, Mom!  You don't even care about your oldest son!

Cam

Cameron

 - likes to whack people to get their attention.  Pretty funny when he does it to Carter or Bob...not so funny when he does it to kids his own age. 

 - lays down on the ground with his face in his hands and his bum in the air if he's sad/in trouble.

 - has a very expressive face.  I can usually tell exactly what he's thinking with just a glance at his beautiful blue eyes.

 - loves to be chased.  Especially around the parked cars in our driveway where all of our neighbors can see me "run" after him.  

 - picks around the meat on his plate, no matter how much I try to mix it in.  This is probably why he was anemic for about 6 months.

 - brings me the remote, then plops down in front of the TV to watch Super Why or Backyardigans.  

-  loves music.  He dances around when there's music on TV, but when I put music on my computer he knows it's time to clean up and starts piling toys into any box/bin he can find. 

 - has an excited giggle when I get his bottle/sippy.  He did the same thing when I was about to nurse him, and I'm so glad that I still get to hear the giggle.  It's so cute!  Yes, I know he's too old for bottles.  He takes a sippy, I'm just slowly weening myself from the hour of "me-time" that I get when he's laying around slurping his bottle. 

- has always been kind of a noisy breather.  I could usually hear his little intake/outtake of air before he even entered the room.  Turns out he had a chronic sinus infection that caused it, but it was cute until we discovered that!

- always grabs a piece of food really quick before I take him out of his chair, no matter how long he's been sitting there staring at it. 

Cameron's Dictionary -
uh-oh - I just dropped something on purpose so that I can watch you struggle to bend over and pick it up.   And yes, I am going to drop it again if you're stupid enough to give it back to me. 

ahm/Ma-Ma - me!

Daddy - Randall (duh)

no, no, no - this should have been his first word along with uh-uh-uh because that's what he hears the most.

bah-bah - bottle, sippy...anything that he wants at the moment, but usually edible items.  For some reason he always says this in his most angelic, high-pitched voice. 

hee hee hee - said with crinkle nose and squinty eyes either when he's being mischievous or when he thinks someone is messing around with him. 

go-go - Let's go! 

ow - unfortunately he says this quite frequently.  My last two kids can be a little clumsy at times (pretty much whenever they're awake, and even sometimes when they're not.)

uh go? -  Where did it go?  (said with upturned hand and lifted shoulders)

Random

I've decided to write another post full of pointless random facts about me for all you poor fools that follow my blog to read.  Here they are -

I hate the words flesh, foggy, and moist.  I'm sure there are others, but those are the ones that come to mind right now. 

I never do yard work.  My dislike of dirt, coupled with my fear of bugs keeps me away from it entirely.  I do love me some fresh veggies however, so I have been known to throw a few plants in the ground in the spring time (with heavy duty gloves on).  I don't weed it however, so only the strongest plants survive. 

I love the number 7.  I often find myself twisting the girls hair ties 7 times,  taking 7 swallows of water, brushing my teeth for 77 seconds, etc.  Weird, I know.  When I was in 1st grade my math teacher had a bunch of cartoon numbers posted on her wall.  The 7 was a princess, the 8 was the prince, and the 5 was the villain with a long curly mustache.   I've loved 7 ever since.  It doesn't hurt that there are 7 letters in all three of my names, my shoe and ring size is 7, I was born in the 7th month, and my mom was 27 when she had me.  I'm also going to have 7 kids.  Just kidding! 

I love variety puzzles.  I haven't had time to do them much lately, but I think the reason I love them is because they remind me a little bit of school.  I occasionally feel like my brain isn't fully being utilized by chasing kids, cleaning, and cooking all day.  I somehow feel more intellectually exercised when I'm doing pointless word games and crosswords. 

The outer rim of one of my ears is fat and the other is skinny.  It's almost like when I was made, too much cartilage went to one ear, leaving the other a little short.  Mine aren't quite as freakish as Tara's, but still worth mentioning.

I always want what I can't have.  Currently it's a house to decorate.  During the 6 years we lived in our house I didn't do a darn thing decoratively aside from painting and hanging up the latest pictures of my kids.  Now that we live with my in-laws I'm suddenly addicted to HGTV and can't wait to get back into our house so that I can put wainscoting, chair rails, and wood trim everywhere! 

I'm easily bored/distracted.  I blame my kids for not hearing sacrament meeting, but really I just don't focus well in the first place.

I hate when you're watching a TV show and they show you a five minute clip of what's coming up after the commercial.  Say...maybe I'll just watch that exact segment in 3 minutes, eh?  An even more grievous offense is when someone else has the remote and they don't fast-forward past that crap. 

As you can probably tell from that last statement, patience is not my strong suit.  I don't have any.  You'd think that having 4 kids (1 that takes 4 1/2 minutes to walk from the car to the house) would have helped me with this issue, but alas I'm just as grumpy as ever when someone has the audacity to make me wait. 

I hate when people touch my ears.  Aside from harming my family, a wet willie is pretty much the most heinous thing a person can do to me. Fortunately, now that I'm out of high-school and have my husband pretty well-trained, it's not something I've had to endure in recent years.  (Although I may be in trouble if said husband actually decides to read the family blog and sees that I called him "well-trained."  The chances of this are not great, however.)

I love laying in my husband's armpit.  It sounds disgusting, I know...but it's really comfortable!  It totally makes my hair smell like Old Spice,  but it's definitely worth it.

Schoooools out for summer!

I'm a little late posting (been a little busy taking care of a post-surgery child), but we had a very eventful end of the school year that I need to blog about. Carter had some fun dress-up days like -

Crazy Hair Day  He got teased a little for having "girl hair" (obviously the kids are a little to young to remember the mullet days), but what's a mom supposed to do for crazy hair day when their kid's hair is 1/4" long and they're not allowed to use color sprays? 

Wacky Outfit Day

Lydia GRADUATED from preschool! 

They all looked so adorable in their green gowns and home-made caps! 

Lydia hugging her AMAZING teacher Mrs. Cheryl

Ellie, Karley, and Lydia 

Ellie has cerebral palsey, and Karley has spina bifida like Lydia.  Aren't they SO adorable?  Lydia made lots of friends in her class, and I'm hoping that some of them will be in her Kindergarten class next year. 

The kids had tons of fun at school this year, but I'm SO happy to have them home with me (and not have to go to the school 3 times a day to drop them off/pick them up!)

Carter's Surgery

Carter had his tonsils and adenoids removed and ear tubes placed today.  He's had tubes before, but this was obviously a bit more involved.  Everything went well aside from him puking twice at the center and once in the car (oh, and me blacking out and almost puking myself...but we won't go into that.)  We're finally home and he's happy in his little home-made bed in front of the TV watching Hook.  He's decided that all he wants to eat is whipped cream, but didn't complain when I mixed some yogurt and mashed up bananas into it.  I keep trying to get him to drink his tiger's blood slushee, but he's not interested.  Hopefully he'll start drinking more as the night goes on, but for now I guess I'll just keep his cool whip bowl filled.

 This was taken 2 minutes after he puked all over the waiting room floor.  It was pretty nice of him to attempt a smile (even though it's a small one!)  I wish I would have remembered to take a picture of him in his little Looney Tunes hospital nightgown. 

Apparently he thought losing his tonsils and adenoids wasn't enough for one day, because about 2 hours after we got home...he pulled out a tooth!  What a day!