Overheard and Flashing Back

The Best “Overheard” of the Summer

Hudson:  Me a man.  ME A MAN, MOMMY!  Me a man, cuz I have a “pee-pee.”

(I’ll let you figure out what “pee-pee” means on your own.  Let’s just say this conversation was bookended by talking about both Daddy and Anna.  Oh, how the pride and obsession begins at an early age!)

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People always ask me who Anna looks like.  While I do think she is a good blend of our boys, she reminds me so much of little William.  (Aunt Katie, by the way, is on a kick thinking that Anna looks just like her . . . and while that would not be a bad thing, I’m still not sure I totally agree!)

Look at this precious face!  And, let’s just pause and say THANK YOU, JESUS FOR HEALING WILLIAM’S EYE!

Due to the crazy summer heat and humidity, our four legged friend has spent some time indoors lately.  He and Sister are definitely bonding—despite the fact that one of his sneezes this week sent her into a crying fit!

You can barley see it because of her chubby finger, but Sis has two sharp little toothies popping up!

And, she is LOVING scooting around on her tummy—she mainly goes backwards and in a circle, but she is moving.  Someone please help me!  I cannot imagine three children who can all get away from me in a flash!  Does this picture remind you of anyone?

Hudsey mastered the backwards slither first, too!

And, he was not happy about it!  I love that you can see his two little teeth here, too.  Oh, these babies!

So, whether you are a man or a woman, we hope you have a lovely day and that you do not find yourself wedged under any pieces of furniture!

TGIF

Our morning started EARLY when sister work up before the birds at 3:30am  (dear sister, PLEASE do not do that again.)  This was what greeted me during our second take at the morning:

Little Miss refused to take a nappy nap, but she loved giving her big girl cup a try!

This next picture is proof that Jesus hears my prayers of protection for my children.  I grabbed my camera to take a picture of Anna, who has mastered swiveling on her tummy 360 degrees and she can also scoot/slide backward.  As I went to take the picture, Hudson picked up a rug that was rolled up against the wall and accidentally dropped it right as I was clicking the button.  Anna was totally fine—I may have panicked, but we all recovered and moved along with our day full of not napping and other such fun!  Suffice it to say that I am glad Daddy will be home tomorrow to help wrangle the monkeys!

tonight!

tonight we went to a cup eating party at our neighbor's house.  isn’t it lovely to have neighbors who fill up their pool and invite us and our babes over in the heat of the summer?  we loved it!

{these three rascals were born within 3 weeks of each other!  both of the boys are ON THE MOVE!  Annabug showed them her clapping skills, instead.  ha ha!}

Anna and “Da Bookah” (or Mr. Books, or Booky, or Book-Books, depending on which of my children you ask and their mood at the moment)

Oh, Booker!  We love you, little rascal!  Now, sit back down and do not teach Anna your wild-man tricks!  I love that you can see him grinning even with his paci in his mouth!  Mr. Book Books was slurping up the water, so we used the paci to try to distract him.  He is so precious and one of Anna’s first and fastest friends!  These two may give us a run for our money in a few years!

Here’s to cooling yourself off in a tiny pool with a bunch of red solo cups . . . nothing else says summer quite like it!

Tuesday

Today is Tuesday.  I know what that means.  Hudson even knows what that means:  for some reason in the car today, he talked about how he got locked in the car and got scared “one day”—A Tuesday, you know.

Today I am choosing to not dwell on the fact that my children pulled every single wooden letter (spelling their names above their beds) off of the wall and pulled every single piece of clothing out of their nicely organized drawers after popping out of bed an hour early.  Or the fact that whenever we go anywhere they urgently insist on using the bathroom at the most inconvenient time.  Or that my children think it is a funny game when I tell them to “Freeze” or “NOT MOVE” in a parking lot, etc.  Or that it is approximately 700 degrees and humid, humid, humid and I had the absence of mind to meet a friend OUTDOORS for the late morning-afternoon.

Instead, I will show cute pictures of my adorable children, who I love.  And, who make me tired.  And even hotter than I normally am. 

Please excuse my finger in the picture, but this is how we roll these days now that Anna can sit up well and is no longer in her baby carseat!  Thank you, GiGi!  You have NO IDEA HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS STROLLER!  (I never thought I would say something like that about a stroller.  A purse?  A new pair of shoes?  Cute earrings?  Yes.  A stroller?  Never thought I’d say it, but it’s true.)

After my boys pretended to eat lunch, we played at “the fountain frog” . . . I wasn’t planning to get sister wet, but it was too hot not to!

These boys love the water!

Victory!

They loved to pour water on “my baby’s toes”

Yummers. 

Oh, my sweetness.  Love this girl!

Two are fast asleep and one is clunking loudly in his room.  I will give you one second to guess who it is.  Yes, it’s red.  I’m off to do some convincing . . . And, here’s to hoping there is a glass of wine in my future this evening!

Happy Tuesday to you!

Birthday Cookout

So, I have this problem where I cannot remember anything anymore.  I forget everything.  For example, I forgot that I had any of these pictures on my camera when I did my birthday post last week.  So, here we go . . . round two . . . mostly of the cute tiny ones, too . . .

I adore this picture of my boy.  This may be the picture of the summer of him!

Round-faced, blue-eyed, strawberry sweetness in one milk-mustached, dirty-faced rascal!

Oh, the cheeks!

Chatterbox hardly pauses to take a breath, so I have very few pictures of him not practicing his skills.  People ask me daily what we did to get him to talk like this.  I think we just talked to him.  There is a lot of talking in our house.  ALL of the time.  CONSTANTLY.

This reminds me:  Doesn’t his little eye look great?  The medication did not make it go all-of-the-way away, but it surely better, praise the Lord!  We will keep his meds at the current level and then start to wean him off of it at the end of the summer.  Our prayer is that Jesus will fully and completely heal William’s hemangioma without our doing any surgery.  Please join us in prayer for this!

ChEEEEEEEEEEEESE!

Summer 2011:  Posterchild.

I feel certain I could wallpaper my house in pictures of these babes and their wild expressions (and hair)!

Sister had a great time playing on the blankie on the deck her Daddy built!

Shortly thereafter “the j-birds” arrived at the party . . . red buckets and all!

Despite the fact that they’d eaten, the j-birds were interested in round 2 . . .

Please check out his eyelashes in this picture.  Incredible!

Scoping out the options . . .

Then, the party hats came out!  And, who doesn’t love a party hat?

This j-bird party-goer insisted on some pre-cake rearranging of furniture. (Thank you for the chairs, A’ Monny!)

I’m pretty sure that this picture beats my wildest dreams of what my 30th birthday would be like . . . sitting on my deck with my parents, my wonderful hubby, and my three adorable children, who are running wild and free.  It was absolutely perfect!

There was a little swimming bathing after dinner, too.

Some phone-playing time with Bumpy Fwogs

And snuggles with Daddy

What a night!  It was so sweet, such fun, and a wonderful way to ring in the big 3-0!