and then there were five... and a lil lilsteinstyles

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

nappy head = ROLLER girl?!

Today when we woke up from our nap we had nappy sweat head

and our baby legs had become leg warmers...

I think she is trying to tell me something???

Monday, January 10, 2011

I picked a winner mom... LOOK!

Dear Miya,
Today marked the day that your itty bitty finger

found your itty bitty nose and you thought you

were so cute to PICK it! BUT as I gagged

I grabbed my camera and thought I would take

some photos to keep for you as a token of my love.

Miya you are going to LOVE these when you are 18.

I love you my little DIVA, now please stop picking your nose.
Love, Mommy

Saturday, January 8, 2011

11 Step Program for those thinking of having kids
by Amy Lawrence

Lesson 1

1. Go to the grocery store.
2. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office.
3. Go home.
4. Pick up the paper.
5. Read it for the last time.

Lesson 2

Before you finally go ahead and have children, find a couple who already are parents and berate them about their...
1. Methods of discipline.
2. Lack of patience.
3. Appallingly low tolerance levels.
4. Allowing their children to run wild.
5. Suggest ways in which they might improve their child's breastfeeding, sleep habits, toilet training, table manners, and overall behavior.
Enjoy it because it will be the last time in your life you will have all the answers.

Lesson 3

A really good way to discover how the nights might feel...
1. Get home from work and immediately begin walking around the living room from 5PM to 10PM carrying a wet bag weighing approximately 8-12 pounds, with a radio turned to static (or some other obnoxious sound) playing loudly. (Eat cold food with one hand for dinner)
2. At 10PM, put the bag gently down, set the alarm for midnight, and go to sleep.
3. Get up at 12 and walk around the living room again, with the bag, until 1AM.
4. Set the alarm for 3AM.
5. As you can't get back to sleep, get up at 2AM and make a drink and watch an infomercial.
6. Go to bed at 2:45AM.
7. Get up at 3AM when the alarm goes off.
8. Sing songs quietly in the dark until 4AM.
9. Get up. Make breakfast. Get ready for work and go to work (work hard and be productive)

Repeat steps 1-9 each night. Keep this up for 3-5 years. Look cheerful and together.

Lesson 4

Can you stand the mess children make? T o find out...
1. Smear peanut butter onto the sofa and jam onto the curtains.
2. Hide a piece of raw chicken behind the stereo and leave it there all summer.
3. Stick your fingers in the flower bed.
4. Then rub them on the clean walls.
5. Take your favorite book, photo album, etc. Wreck it.
6. Spill milk on your new pillows. Cover the stains with crayons. How does that look?

Lesson 5

Dressing small children is not as easy as it seems.
1. Buy an octopus and a small bag made out of loose mesh.
2. Attempt to put the octopus into the bag so that none of the arms hang out.

Time allowed for this - all morning.

Lesson 6

Forget the BMW and buy a mini-van. And don't think that you can leave it out in the driveway spotless and shining. Family cars don't look like that.
1. Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment.
Leave it there.
2. Get a dime. Stick it in the CD player.
3. Take a family size package of chocolate cookies. Mash them into the back seat. Sprinkle cheerios all over the floor, then smash them with your foot.
4. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car.

Lesson 7

Go to the local grocery store. Take with you the closest thing you can find to a pre-school child. (A full-grown goat is an excellent choice). If you intend to have more than one child, then definitely take more than one goat. Buy your week's groceries without letting the goats out of your sight. Pay for everything the goat eats or destroys. Until you can easily accomplish this, do not even contemplate having children.

Lesson 8

1. Hollow out a melon.
2. Make a small hole in the side.
3. Suspend it from the ceiling and swing it from side to side.
4. Now get a bowl of soggy Cheerios and attempt to spoon them into the swaying melon by pretending to be an airplane.
5. Continue until half the Cheerios are gone.
6. Tip half into your lap. The other half, just throw up in the air.

You are now ready to feed a nine- month-old baby.

Lesson 9

Learn the names of every character from Sesame Street , Barney, Disney, the Teletubbies, and Pokemon. Watch nothing else on TV but PBS, the Disney channel or Noggin for at least five years. (I know, you're thinking What's 'Noggin'?) Exactly the point.

Lesson 10

Make a recording of Fran Drescher saying 'mommy' repeatedly. (Important: no more than a four second delay between each 'mommy'; occasional crescendo to the level of a supersonic jet is required). Play this tape in your car everywhere you go for the next four years. You are now ready to take a long trip with a toddler.

Lesson 11

Start talking to an adult of your choice. Have someone else continually tug on your skirt hem, shirt- sleeve, or elbow while playing the 'mommy' tape made from Lesson 10 above. You are now ready to have a conversation with an adult while there is a child in the room.

This is all very tongue in cheek; anyone who is parent will say 'it's all worth it!' Share it with your friends, both those who do and don't have kids. I guarantee they'll get a chuckle out of it. Remember, a sense of humor is one of the most important things you'll need when you become a parent!

duct tape diapers

This morning Miya was having a little trouble listening to mommy.

She really wanted to take off her diaper and run around without one on.

This is not the first time she has done this.

I would tell her NO, and then put the diaper back on and we played the “streaking game”

while she laughed and laughed. So, on went the pants…

and then those would soon be flying across the room followed by her diaper again.

Bode watched very carefully on how Miya was doing

what he thought was such a “cool” thing and he felt as if he needed to join the fun.

Well mommy got sick of playing the “NO NO keep your pants on game” and thought

she would duct tape the diapers on backwards!

Well after getting out the tape and taping the first piece the babies

also thought this was “FUN” so we then made duct tape diapers

(and Miya a ruffle duct tape top as well to match her ruffle bottoms).

BUT THEN… they found out they couldn’t get them off and the FUN turned into MAD…

So being the nice good mommy I am I took photos before taking

them off and dressing them head to toe in one piece clothing…

Always a good time at our house…

family date night

Tonight we went on a “family date night”. We started at Yard House for Happy Hour

The kids love the loud music as you can see with Miya's cool moves below...

Miya loves to share with Bode when he runs out of food as you can see...

then we walked on over to Dave and Busters for some games & loot…

headed out to the car... a fun time was had by all…

Friday, January 7, 2011

afternoon nap = again whats with the shelf?

Hmmm… I am starting to see a pattern here.

She crawled up to the 2nd shelf for her nap again.

This time Bode was just too tired so instead of

sleeping in his bed he took his pillow and slept on the floor under the bookshelf Miya was on.

morning nap on a shelf

Miya decided today to clear her toys off her bookshelf and crawl up to the highest one (only 2 shelves high) and take her nap.

She slept this way for almost 2 hours.

Until Bode just couldn’t take it anymore and was messing with her waking her up on the shelf. He didn’t want to take his nap today, so he played while she slept.

I swear our kids have beds but this little DIVA likes her own shelf…

I took these photos from or TV monitors so they are

a little hard to see clearly, BUT, you get the picture...

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Bode ate all of his

This morning Bode ate all of his yogurt & granola, banana and oranges faster than everyone else in the family (shocking I know) so I gave him a few cinnamon fiber oat O’s to keep him happy while everyone else finished breakfast. While he was content and not whiney or crying he sat staring at his sister as if he was deprived and not given enough food. He wasn’t complaining but they already have this thing where they just “look” at each other and they connect on some level no one else knows. So after a few minutes of Bode batting his little fat eyelashes at his sister she caved… She decided to share her yogurt with him and was actually feeding him by herself. He was so happy and grateful to her, you could see it on his little smiling face. The LOVE they have for each other is so special and we can’t wait to watch the 3 of our children grow up to be the special kind hearted,

grateful little monsters they are… wishing everyone a great day…