Just Nothing!

What have we been up to lately you ask - JUST NOTHING! Not nothing in that we are sitting around doing nothing, nothing in the sense of NOTHING out of the ORDINARY. Right now time just seems to be rolling on by, school, sports and life rolling along with it. I can't complain we are happy and just busy enough. Let's see if I can give a run down of the ordinary.

After dealing with a loud and semi functioning washing machine for the past month, I finally called someone to come and take a look at it. My washer is only about 4 1/2 years old and has been great until it decided to only spin when it feels like it. So most of my wash has been opening the lid, seeing that it chose not to spin, trying to spin it again and crossing my fingers that it worked. I was getting really tired of the process and the problem was getting worse. So the repair guy came, examined, ran a load and wonder of wonders the stupid dumb bleepity bleep thing is busted and needs a whole new transmission. I was shocked angry and feeling very betrayed by my washing machine. After getting a quote on the repairs, I decided that getting a new one was a much better option. It will arrive sometime today - which is good because I am almost going to be naked. *Just a note for anyone in the market, the lady from the repair shop gave me some great advice on washers. She says to buy Whirlpool unless it is a Whirlpool Calypso or the Sport Duet front loaders, she also said the LG front loaders are not good.

As for my 3 year old all I can say is AAAAARRRRRGGGGGG! He is so very 3 and somedays I am absolutely at my end. He is devious and very underdisciplined (of course that is my fault), but he is just so different than the other two. As he is now standing with his nose in the corner because he hit his sister, I just pray I can keep my cool with him. With all that being said, he is so adorable and so much fun that I just can't help but completely adore him (thus he is underdisciplined).

Brooklynn started taking a little gymnastics class and is enjoying that. We decided she needed her own little thing because she seems to get lost in the shuffle. I love her and her spunky personality, she is non-stop all day long. She loves school and is becoming a good little reader. She is also very excited right now because she has her first loose tooth. We haven't convinced her to let us pull it out yet, but I think she is getting close. It is already so hard for her to bite things with the top two gone, so with one more missing up front we may have some good family laughs watching her try to eat. I can't believe how grown up she is, I love her so much!!!!

Tyler just finished Basketball and as of yesterday started Baseball. He is excited about it and is on a team with a great group of kids. I think it will be fun and although Baseball season is long it is nice when he is busy doing something. He is getting so tall and so grown up and is my right hand man when daddy is travelling. The other morning I woke up a little late and he had fed Brooks and Josh and was getting ready for school! I am thankful everyday that he is mine because he is amazing!

I guess that is about all, JUST NOTHING out of the ordinary that is!

Oh boy!

I was just gathering my little brood for our nightly routine of Family Prayer. As I called for them to hurry up as loveingly as possible in my exhausted mommy state, Brooklynn came running in with one of her toy mirrors in her hand. This is what she was saying at that moment with so much excitement and thrilled at her discovery.






"I can see my nose hairs. NO REALLY, I can see them!"



All I can say is, "OH BOY" What a discovery. The best part was watching her look in the mirror trying to look up her nose.

Funny enough it is just what I needed to remind me of why I am a mom and why I love my kiddos! They never stop surprising me.

FREEZE FRAME

You know how sometimes you wish you could FREEZE FRAME your kids. Just stop time so that those certain moments wouldn't go by so fast or so you could soak in just a little bit more and not have them grown up so darn fast!!!! I have had quite a few moments like that lately. Mostly from Josh becuase he is at that age, but here are a few, so that at least I can remember them.

Josh climbs into bed with us every morning MUCH too EARLY. Usually the first thing out of his mouth is, "Mommy, you get me some CHOCO!" As he loves him some chocolate milk. On this particular morning he woke up coughing and was trying to get it under control. He climbed in bed and said, "Mommy you get me some medicine so me top (stop) coughing?" It was funny and then next thing out of his mouth was, "Mommy you say YES a me watch TV?" How can you say no really, he was very convincing.

Joshy loves to give Butterfly kisses, which I also love because it is so cute and he totally giggles. So the other day he climbed up into my lap to 'talk' as only Josh does and has forever. Daily we have these Mommy Josh 'discussions.' After a few moments of talking he leaned in and said, "I give you eye-DASH kisses" Who can resist an Eye-DASH kiss people. I know I certainly can't especially when he calls them eye-DASHES.

Those are the moments I want to remember forever. The MOMENTS where my 3 year old and I can sit and giggle and just love being together and BOY OH BOY do I love him.