Chaos Is A Friend of Mine

Lucky Grandma

My mom's birthday is Thursday so I asked the boys what we should get Grandma for her birthday.

Cash: I think we should get her a sword!

Me: What would Grandma do with a sword?

West: Fight bad guys?

Me: I don't think Grandma fights bad guys.

Cash: How about a soccer set?

Me: Does Grandma play soccer?

Cash: Well, she would if she had a soccer set!

Grandma sure is lucky to have such thoughtful grandsons.

Slip Slidin' Away

One of West's birthday presents from MaMaw and Granddad was a slip-n-slide. It was perfect for the 100 degree weather on Saturday afternoon.

You've Come A Long Way Baby

In honor of my baby's third birthday, a photo retrospective:

In Mommy's tummy

Coming home from the hospital

Three Months - fat and happy

One Year Old - still a little chunker

Two Years Old - skinny with crazy hair

Three Years Old - where'd my baby go?? Happy birthday sweet boy.

Party Hardy

West had his 3rd birthday party today. It's hard to believe my baby is going to be three tomorrow. Check out West's new summer haircut - his own grandma didn't recognize him when she first arrived at the party!

Here are the close-ups of his cakes. The Goofy cake is a discontinued Wilton pan from the 70s. The Mickey cake is my own design.

Snaggletooth

Cash lost his first tooth the natural way this morning. It's been loose for several days and he finally had enough and yanked it out. You may recall he lost a tooth last fall, but I'm counting this as his first since the other time involved blunt force trauma.

Baby Narcoleptic

I was worried that the boys would wear me out this summer so I planned A LOT of fun activities. So far we've gone to at least one, sometimes two or three places a day. I think I'm wearing THEM out.

West woke up from a 2 1/2 hour afternoon nap, went in Cash's room and crouched on the floor to get a toy from under the train table. Two minutes later he had fallen asleep!

Silly Mommy

I took the boys with me to the chiropractor this morning. They were curious why I needed to go and I told them I slept on my neck wrong and it hurt. They said that when we got there, they would show me the proper way to lay down so I wouldn't hurt myself again. They spent the rest of the car ride demonstrating and discussing various sleeping positions. Thanks boys.

Happy Mother's Day

Mother's Day got off to a fabulous start with breakfast and presents in bed. The boys each painted a picture for me and Travis gave me a gift certificate to get my Xterra detailed.

Then we continued with our annual Mother's Day photo shoot tradition. The boys held up their end of the tradition by acting like maniacs.

West refused to put down his juice box for even five seconds to get his picture taken.

Cash was pretending to a lizard the entire time. Apparently, a lizard's facial expression looks like he's smelling something bad.

This is the best one of the bunch:

Then West took over the photography and snapped this photo of Mommy:

After the photo shoot, Travis cooked a delicious steak dinner for me, his mom and my mom. His sister Jenny made a yummy salad and dessert and my brother Nicholas brought some great wine. It was a wonderful Mother's Day from start to finish!

Spring Portraits

Cash wanted to get a picture taken with his "kids". His kids are his lizard Slurpy, his lion Bidey and his dragon Speedy.

Bad To The Bone

The boys got their pictures taken today and were really good for the photographer. She could actually work with them on things like where to place their hands because they were sitting still instead of running after them with the camera while they bounced off the walls like maniacs. I made sure to praise them heartily for how good they were. When we got out to the car, Cash started to act up and I said, "Cash don't ruin the goodness now by acting like that." to which he replied, "Mommy, the GOODNESS ruins the BADNESS." Don't I know it.