House Full of Boys!

This morning Eli was running around with my water bottle. The lid was on and he kept trying to drink from it. Everytime I tried to get a picture of him he would take the bottle out of his mouth and smile really big at the camera. Here are a few shots! Finally I got a picture of him trying to shove the whole bottle in his mouth!

Last Friday Aidan had preschool graduation!!! We were a little worried at first that Aidan wouldn't participate. It all depends on his mood for the day, for example the preschool christmas program that he decided he didn't want to be in, so he sat with us instead. Anyway, the morning started out awful - Aidan crying for at least an hour saying he didn't want go. We finally calmed him down and with the help of a little bribe (Lego set) he agreed to be in the program. He did such a great job - here are a couple of pictures. Walking down the aisle Aidan with his grandma and Uncle Ehren The Graduate Miss Linda, Aidan and Miss Wilma (his teachers) Singing 'Happy Trails' for their final song Here is a video of the kids singing and dancing, sorry it gets shaky in the middle, I had to pass the camera off to Jared. Aidan is right in the middle. I can't believe he starts kindergarten in a couple of months!!!!

Sometimes, well a lot of the time I wonder what is going on in my childrens heads, especially when I leave the kitchen for 3 minutes during dinner and come back to find this . . . I guess maybe they thought the dinosaurs were hungry. Two mischievous little boys!!! On a side note, Eli had his 12 month check up today. He is actually almost 15mos but since the flu was so bad in Feb we decided to wait for it to die down. Eli now weighs in at 24lbs 8oz, he is 30.5 inches tall (2 feet, 6.5 in), and his head is 19 1/8 in. He got 3 shots today and had to be poked in his finger to check his hemoglobin. He did not like it one bit and sure let the nurse know. Since then he has cheered up, here he is after dinner, still with his Clifford sticker on from the doctor.

So as many of you know my hair used to be totally straight - it wouldn't even hold a curl from a curling iron for more than an hour or two. I would wake up in the morning shower and head off to school - my hair was VERY straight. Since having children and all of the hormones that go along with it my hair has gone curly. These days if I don't do anything to my hair it is a frizzy mess. So some days I use a product called 'Curls Rock' by Tigi to help enhance the curls and some days I just want it straight. I have been in search for the best flat iron for a long time. I didn't want to have to spend $120 to get a salon quality flat iron. I finally found the best flat iron - my hair is as straight as if I have just left the hair salon. It is the Wet 2 Straight flat iron by Remington. It sells for about $23 at Walmart or Target. Such a great deal. It comes in either a 1 in or a 2 in. I prefer the 2 inch. Now I never use this iron when my hair is completely wet ...

This afternoon I took the boys with me Visiting Teaching, when we were done we came home ate left overs, I gave the boys a bath (Jared was at a Real Estate class in Asheville) and while I was brushing Aidan's teeth I noticed this big spot on his forehead near his hair line. It was a TICK!!!!! Yuck, yuck, yuck!!! Having grown up in Arizona I never really came across very many ticks but here I guess they are around more. So just to let everyone know I hate all little buggy creatures - spiders, ants, bees, and especially ticks. I had heard a little about ticks and that there is a certain way that you are supposed to take them off, etc. I calmly (not really) tell Aidan not to move and that he has a tick on his head. I grab the phone and call Jared, no answer, I call Jared again, still no answer. I am thinking to myself - doesn't he have his phone on vibrate - what if there was a real emergency (although I actually was thinking this was an emergency b/c otherwise I wouldn...

Today I was scheduled to go and see my dentist for my regular cleaning. Usually Jared and I coordinate our appointments on the same day one right after the other. This way one of us can stay in the car with the kids and it is only one trip to Brevard (this is where our dentist is and it is about a 25min drive). Anyway today it was different - for some reason our appts ended up being separated by a couple of days. So I had Jared take Aidan to school and I was going to attempt taking the little boys with me to the dentist. So we get there - just a little bit late - and before we go back to the room I ask Adley if he needs to go potty - of course he tells me no - and I ask him again - are you sure - he says he is fine. We get situated in the room. Eli is in his stroller in the corner and Adley is sitting on the floor next to him. I ask Adley if he will feed Eli his cereal puffs for fear that if I gave them to Eli he would spill them everywhere. Adley agrees. So I am about to sit...