Natey Boogers is almost one...

How the heck did this happen? How is my baby who was just born yesterday, days away from being 1?!? He was supposed to remain cuddly and sleepy and newborn sized so I could enjoy him forever. With your first baby you can't wait until they talk, walk, etc. With your third(last), you want to slow down time. Savor every second of the baby stage.

Noodle doodle is standing on his own now. He thinks its awesome to stand right next to the glass coffee table, let go, start laughing hysterically and wobble and then fall down on his bum. Gives mommy and daddy a heart attack but he thinks its great fun. And we repeat this about 7,000 times a day.

I have so not planned a party for Nate like I usually do. We ordered cupcakes and have a bounce house. But there is rain in the forecast so who knows if that will go through. Its just cousins, but still, our house is so tiny it would be nice to have space for the kiddos to play outside.


I'm loving this little guy. I wish I could keep him this size forever.

Happy St Patrick's Day!

What a Day

Please tell me other people have days like this.

I dropped Kailey off at school and the boys and I decided to hit up TJ Max and see what they had. Nathan immediately turns into a wet noodle trying his best to fall completely out of the cart. He is pulling things off the rack as we walk by. Cameron is begging for a toy. I finally agree to the toy if he will have a good shopping trip. Then he starts whining every five seconds about when we are going to leave. I was so ready to go myself and the rain starts. COmpletely pouring rain. One of the workers at the store stood with my kids while I went to get the van close to the door. I am soaked. Get the boys in the car and drive through Starbucks. COffee. Maybe it will change my shitty day. I sit in the parking lot drinking my coffee, reading my phone because its POURING and both kids have fallen asleep. No way I wanted to drag them back out of the car in the rain.

Cameron wakes up and asks if we can go to McDonalds to play. I agree since I need Cameron to burn off some energy. We run into two of Cameron's classmates. Fun right? Wrong. Cameron and one of his classmates get in a shoving match over who gets to play with the other classmate Ava. Awesome. So we are out of McDonalds.

We go by to check the work on the new house. Cameron runs around like a bat out of hell in the house. Throwing rocks in the garage. AHHHHHHHHHH!

Load his butt back up and we go to sit in the car pool line to get Kailey. Both boys strapped in watching a DVD. Finally peace and quiet.

Pick up Kailey and realize tomorrow is our day to bring snack. Fabulous. We'll go by the store on the way home. We get one of the carts with the two seater car on the front. K and C are too big to both sit in the car. Nate is in the cart seat. Cameron gets out and decides he is going to sit on TOP of the car part. I am like WHATEVER keeps you quiet at this point. We walk down the baby food idea and Nate goes into hysterics when I put a bottle of formula in the cart. I end up having to open a baby bottle and make him a bottle in the store so he would calm down. Ghetto. I know. By this point I am praying for patience and not to kill anyone. Kailey and Cameron are doing their bickering back and forth.

We get home. Halleluiah! Right? I start putting the groceries away. I was attempting to put a spaghetti jar in the trash can and Cameron comes running into the kitchen and slams the trash can lid just as I was tossing the jar. Crash, glass every where. I am wearing flip flops OF COURSE. So now I have a bloody foot and glass and spaghetti sauce all over the floor.

Wow I really need to update more often. I haven't done this in forever.

Really I have lots of times, my kids are doing cute things...I feel like I am only ever blogging the crazy stuff. Need to work on that.

I think I'm cursing myself... but this is the first time since we've been in the new house that all three kids are napping at the same time! Yahoo!

Catching up...

Well a lot has been going on in our lives. Rich was laid off in May. I went back into the hospital a week after that. We put our house on the market, not knowing how long it could take for him to find a job, we tried to play it safe. We worked out booties off getting the house ready to sell. Rich found a job new job, that was actually a raise and a promotion. We decided to go ahead and list our house anyway, since the last time we listed it was on the market for 9 months and didn't sell. And to our surprise, our house sold in 6 days! They wanted us out in 2 weeks. Full priced offer. We had told our neighbors who had been coming by worried about us leaving, that we wouldn't go without a full priced offer. Well we got one, so we had to pack up. No place to go, we hadn't even considered where to move yet. We are finally settling down in our rental. We are totally living all Sanford and Son like, our garage is PACKED with cardboard boxes. But we aren't about to haul all the holiday stuff up two stories to the attic. We aren't going to be here that long, *crossing fingers*.

We have a contract to build a house fairly close to our rental. We are going back and forth with the architect with changes. The first bump was that the changes we wanted wouldn't allow the house on the lot we picked. So we're working through those changes trying to get something to work out.

Its funny how things work out. Usually I pray for something tangible or visbile to happen. When all this chaos started happening, I just prayed for peace. As in I put it all in God's hands and knew he had a plan, then I just prayed for peace that I could have faith and not be up tossing and turning all night. God really was watching out for us. I am so thankful, I cannot even express it enough in words.

Anyhoo.. we're camping out in what the kids call our "little while" house while we wait for another one to be built. It was supposed to be finished in January. But we've been going back and forth on the floor plan for almost 6 weeks now. I'm ready to get that show on the road!

I had to pull the kids out of their preschool they loved. It made me sad but it was just too far to drive everyday for a few hours. I was able to get Cameron in one preschool, but Kailey was waitlisted. I'm praying something opens up where they can both go together. Kailey is the one that really loves school, but Cameron is the one that really needs to go. So I'm just hoping something opens up soon.

Once again our phone and address has changed if you need it, just email me. :)

Nathan's Birth Photo Montage

I need to get the pictures off our camera and add to this, but here is a first draft of Nathan's Montage.

For all my yankee relatives out there

I was just going through my photobucket and realized all you guys in yankee-land didn't get to see the enormous belly I got with Nate. I think I was shockingly small when Cindy and Gary were down.

So here is the big belly a couple of weeks before his arrival. Scary, no? :)





Nothing like self portraits in the guest bath mirror! ;)