Cutest Moment of the Day

Watching Jack and Jesse stomp around in the puddles in the back yard.
We got a few hours without rain today- finally- so we let the boys play out in the back yard for a while. Jack was dressed, but Jesse was still in his footie pajamas. Before you knew it they were both kicking around in a big puddle of water on the cement patio. They were getting soaked, but I just let them play on. That's what being a boy is all about. They had a great time!

Miss Me??

It's been a while since my last entry. I've been a digital scrapbooking maniac. Obsessed for sure. I just finished a 4 week Digital Elite Team contest- of which I lost- boo hoo. Actually, truth be told, I'm a little glad that I didn't win. Since the contest, I've been designing better than ever with kits and elements from all over the place. If I had won the contest I would have been limited to certain page kits and that would be just too restricting for me right now.

I also can't wait to paper scrap again. I think the digital stuff is really going to improve my paper craft as well.
Here's a digi page I did tonight called a rare moment of quiet.

Cutest Moment of the Day

Today Jack was asking for a video called, "If you're Happy in your nose." I couldn't figure out what the heck he was talking about. He just kept saying, "if you're happy in your nose." Then I finally figured out that he was trying to say, "if you're happy and you know it." You know the song. So now that song will always be "if you're happy in your nose."

It's been a while

It's been a while I've been able to post here. I've had carpel tunnel (sp?) problems because I like to sit in bed with my laptop. It's been getting better, but I'm probably reinjuring it right now.

We're off to Disneyland tomorrow. I'm so excited. Disneyland is my "happy" place. Jack has already been there 6 times, but I'm very excited to see him there this time because he really "gets" it. He remembers the rides and he's been studying his Disneyland map. I can't tell him that we are actually going tomorrow though, or he won't sleep tonight. We'll tell him in the morning.

We got our new digital camera just in time too. I love it. At 7 megapixels, it takes incredibly clear pics. I'll load one up that I took of Jack today at La Tapatia restaurant. His eyes are just incredible to me.

I'll write again when we return from the Happiest Place on Earth!

Quote of the Day

I was at Target today with Jack and Jesse. We were returning to the van and I was loading them in. Jack pointed at a nearby tree and asked, "what are those momma?" He was pointing at the spikey seed balls fell from the tree. There were bunches of them on the ground from today's storm.

I said, "those are the seeds that fell off the tree."

He immediately replied, "You have to put the "beads" back on the tree and fix it momma. You have to fix it."

He was genuinely concerned for the tree. In Jack's world nothing should ever be broken. It really upsets him.

Cutest Moment of the Day

Todays cutest moment came first thing this morning. Jesse woke at 6:30 this morning so I brought him into bed with us. Jack came in shortly afterwards and climbed up on the bed and jumped up and on top of me with a thud. This single action gave Jesse a fit of the belly laughs. He laughed about as hard as I've ever heard him. So Jack decided to do it again, and again, and again, and again. Each time making Jesse laugh just as hard. I had to just sustain the pain of him jumping on top of me because it was just too darn cute to hear them laugh together like that.

How did I do it?

Somehow today, between all the bottles, laundry, poopy diapers, 20 little fingers trying to type on my keyboard and playing thomas trains, I was able to complete this digital layout.

It was a good day!

Cutest Moment of Yesterday

Jack didn't want to take a bath, so we let him slide rather than put up the fight. He climbed up on the bed and laid down next to me. I asked him why he didn't want to take a bath and he replied, "I can't sweetie. It's just too hard for me."

Funny, funny little boy.

Sunny Days Ahead

The fog has lifted. Yeah! We are out of our flu infested funk. Dare I say that we are all healthy once again. I hope we stay this way for a while. Life has returned to normal- laundry, picking up stuff off the floor, breakfast, lunch, dinner and doing the corresponding dishes, diapers, diapers, diapers, etc. etc. Ah everyday life...

Dark Stormy Days Ahead

It's been one of the rougher weeks. I was going to skip writing until the fog around here lifted, but since I did intend to write about the good, bad and ugly, I should stick to it. So here goes...

It's 6:30 am on Sat. morning. I've been officially awake with Jesse since 5am after being up with Jack 5 times last night. I don't know what was wrong. He seemed to have a lot of bad dreams or something. Tom is sick now too, which means there's a lot of moaning an groaning coming from our bedroom. Maybe that's it. Jack's little world gets shaken very easily. If anything goes off course we are doomed for an awful night. I'm barely over the flu myself. Someone told me that this flu lasts a week. If only I had the luxury of being able to be sick for a week. As the mom I don't get that option. 24 hours is all I get at best. You know it's pretty bad when you are wishing you had more time to be SICK.

I'm having one of those times when I wonder just how much more I can take. I'm feeling very down about the whole parenting thing. I remember an Oprah show about 2 years ago when she had a female author on who wrote a book about post partum depression and tried to tell the truth about parenting. I remember her statement was that "it sucks 90% of the time." I remember thinking then that she was crazy and how could she feel that way. The audience had the same reaction. Well I can say now that she probably wrote her book after a week like I've had this past week. That's exactly what I feel right now. In fact maybe it's more like 95% of the time.

Not that I would ever drive my car over a bridge or anything, but I could definitely have some empathy for those mothers who chose to do that. They were depressed and didn't know how to talk about it and no one took the time to notice how depressed they were or took the time to offer any help.

I'm not depressed. I've been depressed and I know the difference. And don't worry, I won't be driving my van into any trees or anything. It's just been an incredibly hard week with all this sickness and lack of sleep. It feels like we won't come out of the fog, but I know it will lift. It always does.

Cold and Flu Season- again.

We're in germsville once again. Jack and Jesse both have colds and on again, off again fevers. It just breaks my heart when they have a fever. I don't even have to get the thermometer out to know. You can just see it in their little eyes. Jack's are the worst. Maybe because his eyes are so light blue. They get all red and watery and his eyelids hang at half-mast. His face gets all red and blotchy too. On the plus side, it's the only time he really stops moving and just lays on the couch. He also asks to go to bed. That's when I KNOW he doesn't feel good. He would never ask to go to bed under normal circumstances. Jesse just wanders around in circles blurting out little crabby cries. His eyes get watery too.

I want my happy little mischievious mess-maker boys back.