Gallbladder Surgery

Mom:  Be quiet please. I'm on the phone with the doctor.
Carter:  Why do you need to talk to the doctor?
Mom:  Because I might need to have surgery.
Carter (matter-of-factly):  Well, I guess I need to look for a stepmom then.
Mom:  Why?
Carter:  In case you might die in the surgery.
Nice.

I'm not fat, I'm just big boned!

A little while after one of my children made some rude and embarrassing comments to someone...
Mom:  We don't ever call anyone big, fat, or say that they have a big tummy.
Lydia:  Why can't we call someone big or fat?
Mom:  It's not nice, and it can hurt people's feelings.
Carter:  We can only call people chubby.
Mom:  No, not chubby either.
Carter:  But you call babies chubby.
Mom:  You can call babies chubby, but not adults.
Carter:  Yeah, Mom's tired of everyone saying that she's fat.  That's why she's losing weight.
(Alright...who's been calling me FAT?!)
Lydia:  When I'm grown up I won't feel sad if someone calls me big or fat. 
Somehow I doubt that.

Pinewood Derby!

So, Randall and I are not scouts experts (to say the least).  Therefore, it was with a bit of trepidation that we approached our first pinewood derby.  However, it turned out to be tons of fun.

Carter chose a star wars theme (shocking, I know), and decorated his derby car ship with crossed light sabers all over.  We learned during our mighty muggs easter craft that metallic sharpies are awe-some, so that's what he used. 

 Carter won 4th place with his derby ship.  He was thrilled! 

Lydia's New Look

Lydia's been really excited to show everyone her "new look," so for those of you that aren't close enough to see her in person, here she is...

Even more than STAR WARS?!

Happy Mothers Day Mom!!!  I mis you when you leave.  I love you eny time of the day.  I hate it when you cry.  I love you more than Star Wars.  And you ar the one. 

This is a drawing of a flower he made for me using a dum dum sucker and some tissue paper.

I just had to share this to show how sweet my little Carter is.  He still hates kisses and saying "I love you," but he gives me hugs and says "I'll miss you" every single day.  Well Carter, I know you don't like to say that you love me, but as the great Han Solo once said..."I know."

Ew

This is what happens when you try to soften butter on the counter at my house.

I do occasionally feed my children...I swear!

Savanna's Blessing

We blessed our beautiful Savanna Rae on April 10th and I'm finally blogging about it!  We blessed her a little earlier than normal because my parents were already here for my cousin's wedding.  Unfortunately, the weather wasn't as cooperative as it was for Carter's baptism so we all had to squeeze into our little house.  It was still a really fun day, but I have to admit I'm a little relieved to be done with the baptism and blessing.  Now I have 2 years until I have to plan another event like this!  As usual I didn't take enough pictures, but here are a few that I did manage to take -