The Little Things

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Thank Yous!!

Okay so I have been way behind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you number UNO!

I just wanted to say thanks to Grandpa Swenson for coming out and spending a whole week with us in September! It was AWESOME, not only did he keep me company while Swifty was being held hostage at the hospital, (okay it just seems like he is being held hostage), play games with me every night, babysit so we could have a date, take us target shooting, play with the kids, take the kids to McDonald's, and do little projects for me around the house. Like re-hang my bathroom mirror that has been waiting to be put back on the wall for much too long,, and fix my car. He also turned 60lbs of apples into applesauce for me. Thanks Grandpa, we had a blast!!!!

The boys canning our applesauce, no wonder I enjoy canning.

(Sorry Grandpa, but most of my pictures surprisingly didn't turn out :)!)

Thank you number DOS:
Grandma Jo and Baca Steve came out over Halloween!!! It was so fun to spend a holiday with a grandma and grandpa! We went to the pumpkin patch, trick or treating, for the first time in a couple of my parents trips out it was warm while they were here and we were able play outside. It is so fun to have family in town to keep me company all day and play with my kids all day. It is so great to see my kids build memories with their grandparents.

check out the pumpkin next to KB. She drew that face on a piece of paper and then asked her dad to carve it. Buster was so proud of his pumpkin and ticked that I was ruining his moment of putting it on the front porch with a picture. Those silly kids! Thank you number tres:

Aunt Lennie also came over Halloween. We only got her for a day, but hey we will take family for however long they want to come. We are grateful that she was able to stop in on her way to a Halloween wedding!

Thank you all soooooooooooo much for coming. We loved having every one of you

Thursday, October 22, 2009

HMM!

What do you do at 1:30 a.m when you find 2 boys that were sleeping up and playing in a crib? The 3 year olds response to me was that the moon isn't out the sun is!

STOP, GO U TUrN. . .

When I was a kid My mom and Grandma took me, my brother, sister and aunt (who is my sisters age) on a trip to San Francisco. In the course of the trip, we got lost A LOT! Naturally, being kids we kept asking are we there yet.. their response sit back and look at the scenery. We came up with song. . .

STOP - GO - U Turn - Look at the Scenery!

Well now, I am happy to say my kids have enjoyed a similar trip, luckily they are not old enough to hound me with a song for the rest of my life! Sorry MOM:)

A friend and I decided to head down to Cincinnati, with all six of our children, ages 5yrs - 9 months. We hit a few bumps, and detours along the way. When your engrossed in good conversation, laughter, DVD players dying like flies, and 6 kids it is easy to do. The question for this Tangent is. . .

HAS ANYONE SEEN SOMETHING LIKE THIS?

We were about 3 minutes from our Exit (it was the next one), We were in the fast lane and just about to get over, but the silly car behind us just wouldn't slow down. When Suddenly the Fast Lane turns into this little "Express Lane"! I can't tell you how many miles we went but it was a good 10 minutes before the "Express Lane" merged back in with all the other lanes on the freeway. Luckily when we got to IKEA the lady in the play area let Buster in even if he was a smidgen short, so we had 1 hour to shop with just two little Babes! After an hour of shopping and a few more detours we made it home! We had a BLAST!

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABE.....a little late
Swifty is now the BIG 31 poor guys been working so much his birthday was pretty low key and shoved in between illness, friends parties, and a trip to COSI (our AMAZING Science Museum)

I will keep this brief, can I do that, I guess we will see! Some things I love about Swifty...

* He not only allows the kids to explore things on their own but helps them to broaden their horizons and learn to do new things

*He is really funny

*His easygoingness (is that a word?) and even temperateness

*Did I say he makes me laugh

*He brings FUN home with him, the house is always more fun with Daddy home

*He loves to learn

*I love his hobbies

Love ya babe!

Monday, October 5, 2009

WHY!

Today I've been pondering why AAAALOT! Such as

Why is an animal ( I assume a squirrel) storing nuts in between my house and porch railing. Aren't they supposed to bury them

Why do I clean the enormous spider web off my front porch a couple times a day just for the spider to re-spin it. Shouldn't it get sick of making a new home every day and decide to find a new neighborhood to dwell in

Why do I LOVE making lists the outcome is always the same. I can make a million to do lists, be busy all day long with legitimate stuff, and finish the day with a gazillion lost lists and not one goal crossed off any of them

Why does food always taste better when somebody else makes it

Why do I despise going to bed, even when I know I will be tired the next day

Why is it soooooooooo easy to forget everything that needs to be done and spend the afternoon outside with my kids (maybe there is a clue here for my previous list making question)

Goodnight

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Perfect

What a perfect day...

Prophets
fAmily
FrIends
FoOd
CaNDy
CraYons
PEACE

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Incredibly 3

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUSTER!! Since Christmas is all we have heard is "it my birthday? I'm having a Diego Birthday". I can not believe our guy is 3 it seems like he was just the same age Hieselt is. Some things I Love about Buster...

He has the most contagious smile I've ever seen

He is an enormous Tease, and although it can cause some serious problems, it is usually pretty funny.

He is always saying crazy things

He has nicknamed Heiselt "BUTLER"

He nicknames everyone

He LOVES to snuggle

He LOVES to Snuggle and Read Books

He LOVES his Rar Rar

He is sensitive to others needs

He is a Fabulous big brother

He adores his big sister and will do anything for her

He can be a fantastic peace maker

He is Smart

He locks the door for me (Grandpa I'm wondering if you gave him a talking to)

He is Funny
He can get so excited over the littlest things I love his zest for life

He has an amazing imagination

He is sneaky

He is a monkey

He Loves to give me hugs and kisses and always tells me he loves me

He Loves to through rocks into the river

I love that he okays everything with me or his sister

He thinks his dad knows everything

He walks in crazy ways when he gets really excited

Once again I could go on all night but I will post a few pictures and be done.

Philosophical phrases from the Bee's

After our power came back on KB very excitedly yelled "we have lightricity"

KB's favorite new phrases are... "are you thinking what I'm thinking", and "I don't have an idea about that". She is also really into people coming over on her designated time. All the way home from church she cried because she wanted a friend to come over (problem I didn't have enough dinner to share). I said well maybe we can call and see if they can come over tomorrow. KB's response "but I wont want them to play theeeeeeeen!" Oh what do ya do?

Out of the blue KB says "mom, say I one the arm" I hate to admit it took me longer than it should have to realize we were playing the "I 8 the arm" game. Anyway as we were playing, I told KB "I 2 the alligator", she cracked up and said I didn't achoo the alligator I coughed the alligator.

Yesterday I was sitting down, and unprompted, KB walked up to me and, pointing to my left eye said, "Daddy, that is your good eye." I replied, "Oh really?" She continued, indicating my right eye, "and that is your bad eye." She then spit in my "bad" eye and said, "Now I am getting your bad eye wet." I told her that if she spit on me again, I would have to look at her with my bad eye, and needless to say, a few seconds later, I was looking at her with the bad eye.

About a week ago, KB went to the bathroom and was talking to Swifty while she was going. This is what she said, "Dropping a load makes your tummy feel better, that is why I still have the coughs". I wasn't quite able to follow the logic behind her statement.

Keeping in mind KB was just told she could not watch a movie because it was Sunday, she said to me, "Mom sometimes it's not Sunday!"

Buster's New Tricks

Talks like Crazy, his favorite phrase is "No MAMA", he likes it so much he tries it out in different voices.

More new tricks... Buster can now bark like a dog (although it sounds more like Tim Allen's grunting on Home Improvement), bop his lips like a fish, growl like a tiger, say dayers, in reference to his big sis., he runs, and loves to tease us. He also says dace for me to dance with him. He must have things a certain way and until he talks better we are not quite sure what that way is. Hopefully we will know soon.