Lost tooth

Chandler lost his very first tooth yesterday. A few days ago I was reading to him and noticed that one of his teeth looked a little off, so I felt around. Sure enough it was a little bit loose. We were just heading out the door yesterday morning and he came running down holding it in his hands. He knew exactly what to do with it. He put it in a baggy and we put it up on the fridge..out of the reach of two little trouble makers. Well somehow they got up on the counter and got the tooth down and threw it on the ground. Not realizing it was on the ground I vacuumed it up. Chandler came home from school wanting to see it and low and behold it was not anywhere to be found. Realizing that I vacuumed earlier we started to go through the vacuum bag. Luckily I had just changed the bag, so there was not too much stuff in there. By some miracle I was able to find it and we put it under his pillow. He was so excited for the tooth fairy, that he did not go to sleep until almost 11. So the tooth fairy had to of course wait until he was in bed and actually asleep. He must have been thinking about it when he was sleeping, because he woke up at 6 this morning and let out a big; "whoppee the tooth fairy came" and usually I have to pry him out of bed at 7:30 to eat and get ready to go. So we made it through the first lost tooth with not too many tears, now how many more to go?

6 months old

Last Sunday Welsey turned 6 months old. It is sad to think that my little guy is already 6 months. He is the best little baby, couldn't have asked for a more mellow baby. He is starting to babble a lot and laughs like crazy. His favorite thing is to play pook-a-boo with anyone who will play with him. He has gotten two teeth in the last month, he was a little fussy during this time. So now everything he can get his hands on goes straight to his mouth. He rolls over and kind of scoots along the ground. Chandler is his absolute favorite person in the world. He can make Wesley smile and giggle all the time. Chandler loves to put him on our bed and surround him with pillows and sit next to him playing and reading to him. It makes it really nice when he is around, I can get things done and not feel guilty about not playing with Wesley. I took him to the doctor a few days ago and his stats are: Weight: 19 IBS. 9 OZ; Height: 28 IN. So he is in the 85% for weight and 90% for his height. I feel bad after they give him the immunizations, he always seems to not want to eat as well as before. At four months we started him on rice cereal, he doesn't really like it. I tried carrots for the first time a few days ago, and as you can see it came right back up. We will have to work on him liking solid foods.

Valentine's Parties

Spencer's party..
Because of the lovely snow that we got Spence's party was pushed until the 17th. His was basically just a special snack, preschool does not do quite the production as does the elementary school. He of course loved the chocolate and getting lots of valentines.



Chandlers party..
Chandler's class had quite the shin dig. They decorated mailboxes and then handed out valentine's to each other. Then they played a game where they guessed how many candy hearts were in a jar. The other game they played was trying to unwrap a chocolate with a sock on their hand. Chandler's table and another table tied for first. He really got into playing the game, I think our area was the loudest cheering section in the classroom. Then they of course had cupcakes and lots of candy. Luckily Chandler does not really like a lot of candy, so needless to say his is still in his bag after a week. It was a fun filled week full of sugar. They also celebrated their hundredth day of kindergarten, so it was fun to combine both events.

The big one

This huge snowstorm was a lot bigger than I had originally thought it would be. I am really glad that I went to the store, I just wish I would have bought more milk. The kids loved going out about five times on Saturday to play out there. They would last only a few minutes and then want to come back in. There is so much snow, that it overwhelmed them. We ended up with about 24 inches of new snow. Lexie was the only one willing to stand for pictures, as you can see. The storm started mid-morning Friday and went until mid-afternoon Saturday. Nate went out about four times on Saturday to shovel and help others unbury themselves. Then on Sunday we had church cancelled, so he spent the morning getting people unburied. The snowplow that went through once on Saturday morning basically snowed a lot of people in the corners in. We saw some crazy people trying to drive around and of course high center it. These pictures do not really show what a whopper of a storm it was. They have of course cancelled school today and tommorrow. We are suppose to get another 6-8 inches tommorrow night, so I am assuming the kids will only have school on Thursday and Friday this week.









The kids really wanted something to do when it was a blizzard outside on Saturday. Chandler really wanted to make his own table, so they made one in our living room. Then they pretended to have school, it was really cute.

Prelude to the big storm...

Last week we had a small snowstorm that was enough to cancel schools. So we decided to make use of the hill that we have next to our house. Chan and Spence really enjoyed it, Lex not so much. She went down twice and then decided that she would rather sit at the top and watch her brothers go. This was the storm before the storm, Friday into Saturday we got a huge snowstorm.

What a week...

A word of caution this post may be on the lengthy side, so sorry in advance :). This week has been one of those weeks where you step back and hope next week is better. Last Saturday seemed to be the day it all started and it has yet to be done. Nate thanks to tax season has started to work 6 days a week. I was downstairs cleaning up the kitchen, while the kids were watching cartoons upstairs in my room. Next thing I know Chandler is running down the stairs telling me that Lex and Spence have gotten into my scrapbook box. I run up there and all the loose pics were all over my room, some bent up pretty good. They had also found some permanent markers and colored all over my sheets and a wall in our room and closet. While I was cleaning that mess up while in their room they proceed to tear apart their room. Needless to say I made them go outside to run around for a little while. Sunday was the same struggling with the kids during church. Monday and Tuesday we had a few minor incidents of chaos. On Wednesday they had no school because of a few inches of snow, very lame. So we went outside to go sledding, got some of their wiggles out. For some reason that day Spencer decided to pee on the floor in front of the sliding glass door about three times. This seems to be an almost everyday occurrence lately. I have tried everything to get him to stop, has not helped yet. We are going to have to replace carpet probably in the next year or so, because of it. Then Lexie and Spencer were coloring on the dry erase board that we have and I turn around and they have colored all over the wall behind them and each other. On Thursday we had the builders in to fix all the nail pops, so for four hours I had to try to keep two very active kids out of the way. Plus Wesley did not have anywhere to take a nap, so he was a little fussy. The HVAC people were suppose to come fix some problems and never showed up. I have had issues with them since last summer. After dinner we did the normal bathtime routine, and Lexie refused to have a towel on and clothes on, she just stood in our room screaming at the top of her lungs. We have a lovely snowstorm coming, so Nate thought it would be a good idea to go grocery shopping really late last night. We thought oh the grocery stores are open 24 hours, wrong. I got to the store about 11:45 and the store closed at 12, so much for a relaxing shopping experience. I think that the store ran out of everything. The one set of bananas looked as though they had been through a fight. They did not have any hamburger, chicken, bread, or yeast to make bread. Of course we are all out of hamburger and chicken, just my luck. So here I am literally running up and down the aisles grabbing things, which some I didn't even need. There were three loaves of bread...but they were the really expensive kind which my kids don't like. I got out of there spending way too much, since there was no time to really think about what I was putting in my cart. So shopping late at night does not always pay off. I think I would have been better to go right after dropping Chan off at the bus this morning, like I normally do. Today before it even reached 7:30 Chan informed me that one of my statues got broken. My neighbor brought back a really neat statue from Uganda (spelling?). Super glue does not fix this type of ceramic, so I think it is lost. I thought oh it will be safe in my china closet, very wrong. Then I was downstairs trying to clean the kitchen and I went to check on Spence and Lex and she had pulled off her diaper and smeared the contents on my floor. If that was not bad enough she had gotten all my tampons and used some of them to clean it up (sorry kind of gross). Spencer had spread a packet of hot cocoa all over the floor, I didn't even see him get one out. I've decided that I no longer can take a shower, go to the bathroom, eat, or do any cleaning...since that is when all these lovely things seem to happen. Since they predict a big snowfall Chan got out early today, so maybe he can help keep an eye on his crazy brother and sister. I am hoping that the rest of the day goes better. There are days when I wonder why? My kids will probably keep doing these things, it is hard because for the next few months I get to deal with it on my own for 6 out of 7 days a week. Hopefully I haven't lost all my sanity by April.