Lazy Saturdays...

Saturdays are normally pajama days around here. The kids love not having to get dressed and I love having one day's worth less of laundry. Doing clothes is not our thing around here. Some how two people who don't mind doing laundry and folding laundry both hate putting away laundry. I picked up this really great tip from Jon and Kate plus eight. We wash each kid's clothes separately. That way once they are washed and folded you only have to go to one room to put them away. It works out great and and makes for a whole lot less unmatched socks! Today is actually a very special day, there is no  more laundry today. I know, crazy right! I cant believe that I can look in that laundry room and see empty baskets!!! So I am going to sit back and enjoy it, because three little bodies and two big bodies we will have started all over again tomorrow. 

Even when she's throwing a fit she cant help but being cute. This was this morning after Ben told her they couldn't play in the bathroom anymore. The new favorite game around here is pulling all the clean towels out of the cabinets for superhero capes. Which means we usually end up with towels all over the upstairs, then I don't know which are clean and which aren't so the all go in the laundry. Doesn't she just look so pitiful...

As you can see the tears almost always work, especially on Dad. What can I say, she is the one that comes running yelling "Dad Dad!!" every time he walks in the door. 

New pics on the way!

I just wanted to let everyone know that I have new pics and plan to post a new blog by tomorrow evening. I learned some pretty tough news yesterday and I am just a bit to worn out to stay up doing it tonight. Stay tuned I promise there will be more soon! 

Mandi

Carolina's St Pat's outfit!

As soon as I was done posting the last post Carolina looked over my shoulder and was very upset that y'all didn't get to see her WHOLE St Patrick's Day outfit. So here it is! Don't y'all just love it? She is sooo the fashion icon. (she should be with as many times as she changes her clothes everyday!)

Happy St Patrick's Day!

Ben is out of town is out of town so we wont be having any super Irish inspired meals around here tonight. Not that we ever really have Irish inspired dishes on St Pat's Day in our house... I guess if I was a "fun and creative" mom I might make the kids milk green. But knowing my luck they would freak out and refuse to drink the "gross green milk". HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY to y'all!!! Its not really something we get into around here even though I'm pretty sure Ben and I are Irish descendants. But it was never really a big deal growing up in TX and so its never really been a big deal around here. So when Carolina got up this morning telling everyone that if they didn't wear green today she was going to pinch them, I was a bit surprised. Not that I wasn't prepared with green outfits for all of them, but a bit taken aback that she knew what day it was. It looked like it was a pretty nice day out so I thought we would go down to the park and feed some duck before lunch. Unfortunately, when we got there the beach part of the park was closed and the playground was covered in water. Not to mention that it was like 10 degrees colder there then it was at our house. We ended up at McDonald's again. I wasn't going to go there, but of course as soon as I said that we couldn't stay and play George had a "potty emergency"! Sneaky little stinkers!

Random Husband Picture Day!!!

I've decided today is random picture of your husband day! I thought y'all might get a kick out of the time Ben decided to grow a mustache when he was on a six month deployment on the USS Hampton. Thankfully he can only do that kinda stuff when he's out to sea, so he never has one at home. Its kinda like kissing a toothbrush!

Oh... what will the neighbors think?

Laney is a creature of habit. She knows that everynight after you put on your jammies you get a vitamin and dont you try to forget about said vitamin. She knows where they are, how to get them and I 'm sure with a little alone time she could most likely figure out how to open the jar. She never asks for more then one a night, but she never ever lets you get away with skipping that part. So after we get her in nice clean jammies with a nice clean face, in goes the vitamin and out comes the drool. I know what your thinking. Just give it to your before you change her. Well that would probably be possible if the only card that we hold to get her to actually change into jammies without a huge scene in that vitamin. Besides, she is the third child... whats a little drool on her jammies? So we have been having a lot of naked nights around here. As soon as the kids are down from the dinner table its off with their clothes. Then they just proceed to run crazy thru the house until we tell them its time to get ready for bed. Well George has decided that he likes sleeping au naturale these days ( he is a little hot box when he sleeps) and is refusing to wear any jammies. Oh, well I guess there are more important things to argue over. So off to bed he has gone for the last two nights in his pink pull-up. Yes thats right, I am making George wear all of Carolina's left over pull-ups. I had hoped at first that the thought of having to wear pink pull-ups would be enough to make him want to wear underwear to bed, thus leaving us with a completely potty trained child. But no, he has no qualms about wearing Dora pull-ups and truth be told the only one it really does bug is Ben. Carolina and Laney join in on the naked time everynight too, but tonight Carolina was in trouble for hitting her brother (who has gotten very good at letting us know when she hits him) and so had to go to bed right after dinner. Thankfully by the time I took this picture I had been able to wrestle (seriously I mean wrestle) little Laney down to get a clean diaper and some jammies on her. She doesn't really mind putting on clothes, but for some reason she HATES HATES HATES to have to lay down to put a diaper on. You would think that would mean that she was ready to potty train, but no actually it just means that she would rather run around in a super full diaper then have to take 3 minutes out of her day to get it changed. I have no idea where she gets this "I have to do things my way" attitude. It really bugs me and gets in the way of the I want to do things!!! Stinkin kid!

Its a pink tutu world around here!!!

Laney is loving this thing. I bought her and Carolina matching tutus and had no idea how much Laney was going to love hers. She sleeps in it, eats in it and even tried to get in the bathtub with it on the other night! Carolina has always been a lover of anything foofy, but Laney is a bit less concerned with anything girly. Well that was until the pink tutu showed up, okay so its only the pink tutu that she is into. She couldn't care less about dresses or dress shoes. Actually she did get her first pair of rainboots the other day (its a big deal around here to get your first pair) and she loves them. She wears them almost as much as the tutu and thats only because we wont let her wear them in bed. The first thing she says in the morning is "shoes shoes shoes" and continues that rant until the closet door is open and she has them securely on her feet. You can actually see them in a couple of the pictures and in the video!