Don't read this if you have a weak stomach

So the big surprise was..................Cristin came to visit. It is so fun to see her. The girls have crawled all over her all day long. They adore her. It's hard not to, she is such a sweetie. Dean and I and the girls took Cristin to BJ's Brewery tonight. They have the best most yummiest food. Dinner was awesome! When we got home Dean was like Zoe barfed. No way! Are you serious? Yup. On the way home she started jubberjabbering to Dean and he looked over at her and she was covered in mac and cheese and chewed up fries. The really funny part of this whole scenario is when I put Zoe into the tub and I took off all her barfy clothes, a little chunk of barf fell into the tub and she just started screaming. She doesn't like stuff to be out of order, I seriously think the chunk of barf sent her over the edge. It was so sad but all I could do is laugh. Horrible huh? I would rather laugh when things are going that crazy. All the girls are in bed now and I am going to sign off so that I can visit with my sister. Take care.

Grumpy children

All my girls woke up with runny noses two mornings ago. Sloan is convinced she is allergic to something. I have told her she probably has just a Little bit of a cold. She is now obsessed with what everyone is allergic to. Aris is out of this world grumpy today, and Zoe threw her second scream fest temper tantrum today. Yesterday was the first tantrum. I think all my kids feel just a wee bit grumpy. Ohh my! Aris just blew the most unbelievable snot bubble with her nose. Amazing. Well I have a ton of stuff I would love to tell all of you about, like art and a bunch of other exciting things like a special visitor who is coming to visit this weekend.......but a giant drip of snot is calling my name. I'll get back to you later.

Stroller update

$25 down..............$375 to go

Two babies?

Two, not one but two babies today. It was my first official day watching little Haley. She is so cute. I thought things wouldn't run as well as they did. Everything was calm and I only had two different times when both babies were crying at the same time. Zoe was very helpful and even tried to feed Haley her bottle once. Zoe is so helpful sometimes and other times she just tells me NO! It's what I call selective helpfulness and every child suffers from it. I am sure I did too. (Mom you aren't allowed to leave examples.) We are starting with one day a week with the possibility of a few times a week as the babies get a little older.
Sloan had a craft day at school today. She did such a great job on all of them. I look at her these days and shes growing up so fast. I am having a hard time adjusting to this new little person. It is strange to have the dynamics of the mother daughter relationship shift so drastically in just a few months time. She just doesn't need me in the same ways she has for so many years. It is also strange for me to hear her talking about how "cool" Hannah Montana is and her favorite High School Musical star is Zach (he is a cutie). She also wants to feel like shes in charge of things, not in a bossy way but the ability to make her own decisions. This is a hard one for me. You don't like to see your child fail. Cindy, my sweet mother in law and I talked about this little issue during the holidays. I am working very hard on allowing Sloan to make more decisions on her own. I still guide her on things but I am asking for her to decide the outcome. After all isn't that what we are trying to teach our children? How to make informed decisions? If Sloan is unable to make decisions on the small things, how can I ever expect her to make good decisions on the really hard issues that will come her way in the future? Being a parent is the hardest thing I have done this far in my life, but I wouldn't trade it for anything in this world. Sometimes my heart just twinges when I think about how much I love my girls. It's that strange aching sensation like your heart is so full it could burst. Well things are getting a little too mushy right now so I will sign off for now. Tomorrow I will post some pictures of the girls from today's babysitting adventure.

My little Zoe

Zoe had taken off her sweater, and it was freezing outside. When I asked Sloan to put Zoe' sweater back on of coarse there was screaming and running and a whole lot of "No sissy, sissy nooooo!". I finally had little biscuits come up on the porch and this is the look I got when I told her not to take her sweater off again. It was very hard not to laugh.





As you can see she recovered rather quickly from the pain of having to put a sweater on.