Here are the pics!

Here are the pictures I was wanting to show you all! Also Happy Birthday to my man he turns 35 today! Crazy! Hope you have a great one babe! Love you!

Enjoying my time with the kids

I am on day 5 of hanging out with the kids on my vacation while my in-laws are in Germany. At first it started off rocky with Hunter cause he was a bear and I had to put him in time out 2-3 times a day but the last two days I haven't at all. I think he and I are getting used to seeing each other all day every day with no breaks and we both have just come to an agreement that we will survive. I am not used to the stay at home mom thing. Don't get me wrong I would love to do it but I am the type that just has to get out and see people and help them. My house we are all sick and everyday it is different with us all. Some part of the day I feel normal than all of a sudden my nose is flowing or my ears are hurting or I am coughing. Grace is getting worse each day but she is a tropper. She is all nasally and coughs but no fever so I am hoping she gets better if not her 4 month check is this Friday so I am not to concerned yet but if she gets a fever than I am calling. She is like Hunter was/is they both feel warm all the time and feel like they have temps but they don't. Hunter has had snot in his nose as he would say for about 2 weeks with a nice hackey cough but today after his nap he woke up with a hoarse voice! It is so sad cause he is talking up a storm and repeating everything you say. Than he got a low grade temp this eve and I just hooked him up with Tylenol cause I wasn't going to wait when he gets a temp it just spikes right up to the 102's and I didn't want to deal with that so when I checked his I checked mine and I had the same so we both took our meds. Lar is sick with the same stuff but he has had sinus drainage for about a week and his throat is sore today. I tell you we are falling apart! Thank goodness I took the week of for this sickness. But bummer I can't just stay at home and sleep my cold away. I took some really cute pics of the kids today but I will post them tomorrow if I have a chance. I was sitting with Hunter at the dinner table this am and I was just watching him and thinking to my self he is so stinking cute! I was watching his eyes and his facial expression and thinking to myself that even if I think he is the most stubbornist thing ever he is mine and that is the coolest thing. He is so smart it kills me. He looked at me and just smiled and flashed his big blues at me and I thought to myself why do I make it hard on myself and him by being stressed about work, housework, and raising kids when I am messing it up and missing out on the good things and he gets the vibes from me and maybe that is why we both get grumpy at each other. So I am going to try to be better with him and understand my two year old! I took pics of him coloring with his marks (markers) today he colored for agood 45 minutes all by himself and he was singing with a kids cd that I was playing on the tv. (he doesn't like it when I sing so this is how I get him to learn his kids songs). The thing I thought was cute is that he sits so straight while he is coloring and he is totally concentrating on his work and studies the picture he doesn't stay in the lines but he keeps close to what he is coloring I took a pic to show you all. Today Grace did a few new things. She can grab toys now when you put them in front of her she reaches out and takes a hold of them (not all the time but most of the time) and puts them right in her mouth. Of course I took a pic of that to. She loves to look at Lar and will follow him wherever he goes. This evening while Hunter was taking his bath I was holding her and Lar came at her saying something, I can't remember what it was, and she started laughing! He kept doing it and she would laugh each time he did it. Of course it was making her blink than she would laugh. We got it on camera but not the beginning of it. She sounded so cute! She has a belly laugh. So I think that is all. Sorry it is so long I just needed to write it down so I wouldn't forget anything so when I read this years from now I can say I remember when! I have a few more days with my kiddos and than back to work but will see how our sickness goes and I hope everyone gets better soon!

It is 12:45pm and...

everyone is sleeping! Yeah! The kids have colds and my ears are hurting again! I took pictures of everyone Misha and the cats where they were sleeping right now. Guess what I am going to do!? Yep, join them even when it is nice and sunny outside!
Not sure why but I couldn't download all the pics so here are the kids. I have a tinkle cough so I had to get up from my nap. Going to take Sudafed and try to sleep again. After nap I tried again to download pics and it is so slow but here is Misha.



After this nap I woke up with a fever go figure. Grace is hacking more and Hunter didn't sleep his usual long nap oh well maybe he will go down early tonight. We can only hope. Hunter and I just made sugar cookies with sprinkles (put on by Hunter) for Lar's bday, which is thursday! We always celebrate a birthday week Lar just hasn't said when his started yet! Also, out of the blue Hunter knows how to sing happy birthday he says happy birday to you and that is it but he knows he has to sing it more than once. Crazy! He must have learned it at daycare. Also, the cats are still asleep, lazy animals!

Random stuff

Info about Mr. Hunter...

~he can talk your ear off! he can say full sentences and tells you what to do. he says..mama i go ma's house i go in car. he doesn't have all the right words but he is getting there.

~his new favorite seasame street character is cookie monster and he says his name so cute and anything that has to do with a cookie he calls it cookie monster. of course lar and i had to break down and get him a cookie monster stuffed animal. now he has 3 elmo's, one big bird, and a cookie monster. all we need next is oscar,count, and zoe.

~he knows some of his numbers and can point out stuff in a book and he is great with matching books. you just have to show him once and he remembers the next day.

~he notices things in two things now. If two lights are on he says "two lights"! same with his elmo's and doors.

~He loves stickers and playing on his fort in the couch.

~he still loves to go outside and his hair is turning blonde from all the sun he has gotten when the sun finally comes out.

~he doesn't like to wear socks still and he is a night owl he stays up until 9:30pm! i think it is because he can take over a 3 hour nap! but he has been fighting a cold for weeks so he is a grump when he doesn't get his nap during the day.

~he says the word no now. that is a fun stage~!

~he gives the animals treats every night and helps lar feed the fish.

~he loves to color and colors on the actual picture he does pretty good.

~he knows were the mall is and today we drove by the stop light where costco is and he said mamma go costco! i had to tell him no we go to target. then he saw the mall and said mamma go mall. i tell you i don't shop alot i was just taking him to the mall cause of the kids structure inside.

~he takes shower/baths now. lar found a kids fish shower head that suctions to the shower stall and hunter stands in his shower and when the bath is full we turn it off and he takes his bath. he even knows how to clean himself thanks to lar he taught him that.

~he is wearing 2T-3T clothes!

Info about Miss Grace...

~she is growing up to fast!

~she will stare at you until you look at her and when she sees your eyes she smiles really big and squeals!

~she smiles when you say hi to her.

~she can't keep socks on at all. she loves to kick and move her big ole feet.

~she loves to coo and squeal.

~she loves to put her fingers in her mouth but hasn't found one she really likes yet.

~she hates hats still and hates going in her carseat but once she is buckled and has a pacifer in she is good. she can fall alseep so fast when the car is moving and does not like to stop at stoplights!

~she loves her little pink blanket with small feathers on it my mother had to get another one that is blue for a back up.

~she can power nap like no other! 1/2 hour here and 45 min there or 2 hours here. but she loves to sleep takes 2 naps in the am and 2 in the afternoon and wakes up once or twice depends on her bowels at night and is up at 6:15am doesn't matter what time she woke up earlier in the am.

~her head is huge now just like hunter's was. she has big blue eyes just like hunter you can tell they are siblings for sure!

~she can lift her big ole head

~she is starting to roll to her left but just can't get her right leg to move with her.

~She is wearing 3-6 month clothes but for pajamas she is in 6 months.

~when you hold her she doesn"t look at you but around you. but she is getting better at looking at you she will do it for a few seconds but there is more important things to see!

A lot to catch up on!

Wow I can't believe how long it has been since I blogged last! I can't blog much right now cause I gotta jet to bed with everyone else since it is only me and the animals up! But I thought I would download this sweet pic of Grace she was laying on her strawberry shortcake blanket and I was just taking pics of her and I thought this one was cute. I can blog so much this week cause I have the whole week of since my in-laws went to Germany I am staying home one of the weeks they are gone. So I can catch you all up on what has gone on here! Happy belated May day to you all!

Posting at work!

At my new job I can take the computer that I work with since they have EMR I can take the computer downstairs and check the internet at anytime and Facebook! I just realized that I can update my blog to! So maybe I will post more and attach pics at home and when I get to work I can blog about them! Very happy about this! Gotta jet my lunch is done ;-)

Comparison pics of the kids at 3 months

Hunter (May 2007)Grace (April 2009) Isn't it just crazy that they do the same thing? They have to have their hands up and bend their knees. How do they know this? Must be genetics.

All the rest of the Easter pics!

I forgot to post these pics. This is our Guitar Hero boy! He loves the guitar and can say the word.

This is Easter at our house. Before Hunter woke up I randomly put eggs all over the living room so he could see them. I put stickers in them. He had a fun time looking for eggs. He looked for them one at a time. When he found one he opened it studied the sticker said what seasame street character it was and then we told him to look for another egg he looked at us than set the current egg he had down and looked for more. He did that with everyone!


Here is a rare photo of me with the kids before we got ready. I look like death it could be cause I woke up twice with Grace and once with Hunter after the hours of midnight. Gotta love kids!

After getting the kids in their outfits we were off to my mother's house for brunch. The kids got Easter baskets filled with lots of goodies!


Then we went home for nap time and after that off to the Robinson's.

And that was our Easter. We took alot of pictures but this is just a sampling too many to put up sorry!

Easter pictures!

Alot of pictures were taken this Easter and her is just a couple. Miss Grace took a power nap instead of a long one today so I working around her being awake and trying to put her down. She is fighting going back to sleep meanwhile Hunter is snoring away and has been for the last 2 hours! Right this second Grace is trying to put her thumb in her mouth. I was a BAD thumb sucker but if it will help elimnate the pacifer from Hunter and her I am all for it for the moment. She hasn't got it down yet but she is sure trying hard. On to the pics...

Coloring eggs with papa!

Okay so Grace is done gotta jet and try to put her to sleep she is such a tired girl! More pics later hopefully...

The day before Easter

Here is my attempt at taking pictures of the kids before Easter. We did it the night before. Didn't work out to well. Grace ended up wearing a different dress for Easter but she still looked cute in both outfits. Hunter wore the same outfit and just looked like such a big boy!

Big boy at Daycare!

I have so many pics to put on here but just not enough time! Hopefully during naptime here I can post some. Here is what Hunter did at Daycare this Tuesday! This is a big thing! He slept on the floor with the other kids! He has been sleeping in his grandparents room in a pack-n-play since he started going there for Daycare. He is so big and such a cutie on his pad!

3 months old!

Miss Grace, my little precious baby girl, is 3 months old yesterday! I can't believe how time has flown! She has grown alot especially her head! Just this week she sprouted in her cranium! I think she didn't want to have a small head next to her big headed brother! She is so like him in certain areas it is scary! But she is still alot calmer! Yeah hopefully she turns out like me! She loves to smile and talks up a storm. She has a loud squeal that is cute. She is constantly moving and has to look at everything and turns her head instead of looking at you cause she might be missing something if she looks at you if you are holding her. Today I went and got the kids their Easter outfits. I was trying to match but for some reason the outfits I wanted weren't in their sizes it was driving me crazy so I just gave up and they will be close at matching. I also tried to attempt my first professional pics of them. I never did go take Hunter to get professional pics done they are just so expensive so I am going to try to take them myself and see how that goes. One of the girls at my work her sister in law bought some fabric that is suppposed to take away the glare of the flash at JoAnne's and then sends the proofs to Costco and gets a steal out of developing and makes her own pictures! So I bought the fabric and gave it a try. I still need to figure out how to work my camera and where to sit the kids but here are some of the pictures I took today. Can't wait to get them in their outfits and show you all!

Info on his bday toys

Hunter loves everything he has gotten and I have been VERY bad at taking pics lately! So I will explain what he has done so far with his presents. He sleeps with his little Elmo that Lindsey and Corey got him. He is just amazed he has two Elmo's! He even says in a high pitch voice when he wakes up "two Elmo's!". He loves the oval on one of his puzzles and says it over and over again...oval, oval, oval. My mother and Wayne got him a Big Bird and one night this week he randomly took Big Bird from his room and placed him on the coffee table cause that is were it hung out the day they brought it to him. Than all of a sudden he said that Big Bird had snot! I am bad I taught him that when he was having a runny nose I would ask him if he needed to clean his snot. So back to the story he ran to the kitchen and got some wipes we keep in a drawer and ran back and cleaned Big Birds beak. Than he said Big Bird had a poopy and needed a pull up! He than ran to the bathroom and climbed up on the toilet to get a pull up and ran back to the living room and tried to put a pull up on Big Bird! Where does he get this?! He loves the cars that my Grandma Ardis gave him he has alot now! He got money from Granparents and we bought him a V-Smile with that money and he is slowly learning how that works. We just have to actually sit down with just him to play with it so we try to when Grace is alseep or someone else has her. Thank you to all the family who got awesome stuff for our little dude! He loves it all!

Miss Grace was given an excesaucer from our neighbor who we have never met! Lar has talked with them but I never have had a chance. Anywho, a few months ago when the kids and I were napping the neighbor knocked on our door and asked if she could give us girl stuff that her granddaughter didn't need anymore since they were going to be moving in a few weeks. I was leary at first but than I was game! Thank goodness! We got alot of pink stuff that we would have never bought since we had all the stuff with Hunter. Here is Miss G in her very girly exesaucer! It is still too big for her but she loves to look around so I thought why not. It pretty much takes up the whole living room~!

Birthday pictures, finally!

I thought I would get a nap when the kids were asleep but Grace woke up so she chilled with me while I downloaded Hunter's bday pics to Photobucket finally! Here they are~!