What a day

Well today started out pretty nice. Taylor slept through the night, Kaylee did too and stayed dry in underwear. I was feeling pretty refreshed. The kids ate breakfast pretty well and were happy...until 8:30 am when Kaylee started having a meltdown. Mainly over a binky. (i am so ready to cut hers and throw it away but i was told i have to wait until her birthday.) I wouldnt let her have it. She is supposed to only have it at naps and bed. We fight about it ALL the time it seems and she will cry and scream for a very long time. So today was no different with the binky thing. I tried to convince her to do everything i could think of to take her mind off the binky. We sat and rocked for a little bit and all 3 kids were fighting in my lap. I decided i need 3 legs. (this number could go up if i so happen to have more children) Taylor decided to join in on the crying and screaming and wanting me to hold her too. They both followed me around crying. Nothing seemed to help them be happy. The 2 girls are great competitors. I gave in and sent Kaylee to bed at 9:45. I laid Tay down at 10. Around then Ethan went to Mary's house to play. I was able to get laundry started and unload the dishwasher, and sign Ethan up for baseball when Kaylee came out and walks right in to Taylors room and wakes her up looking for me (i was down stairs) only to tell me she has to poop. so it is now 10:45 and i have a screaming baby again. I think Taylor is teething and that is the main reason she was grumpy today. I gave the kids a snack and then Mason (a neighbor kid) came over to play. Besides the fact they seem to need to come over the gate every 5 minutes this was a welcome visit because it made Kaylee happy and no more crying. Ethan and Kaylee were happily playing downstairs while I fed Tay and began to clean the kitchen. I went down to check on the kids. We have had bad weather today, rain, snow, hail, wind. There was enough snow and hail accumulated that the kids decided to open the back door and have a snowball fight in the house. I walked down to see snow everywhere and the door open. It was on the walls, stairs, couches, floor, and in their hands. Well Mason went home after that and the kids were on clean up duty. This wasnt real successful. We were left with wet walls, couches and floors. Kaylee went to bed shortly after this for real this time. And after Ethan ate lunch i let him watch cartoons for a little bit. Tay was already in bed with medicine so i had some quiet time. I cleaned a little...learned how to do the self clean on the oven and then did some more laundry. Then Ethan calls me down to tell me the portable heater is not working. He was standing near it with a robe on covering the heater to get warm. This must have over heated the heater or something. It works now though.

Kaylee woke up from her nap at 1:30 pretty happy and again told me she had to poop. At least she didnt wake Taylor this time. So i got her some lunch and made Taylor some too because she was due to wake up. They were happy for a while. Mason came back over and he and Ethan went out to play even though it was cold. Things went pretty well the rest of the day. We went to Marys for dinner. It was a sort of birthday dinner for Rob (who is out of town). We enjoyed Cafe Rio. Kaylee was a little bit tired and fought with Nate and then decided she was done and wanted to go home. She put on her shoes and coat and left. I ran out to get her to convince her to stay a little longer. She was hard to bargain with. But i won. So we stayed for dessert. When i told the kids it was time to leave Kaylee came running. Ethan began to cry. We finally got everyone home and called Rob and set up the web cam. This was fun for a few minutes but it is very hard while you have 3 kids competing for attention in my lap and doing weird things in the camera while in my lap. Then Tay began to scream and we called it quits shortly there after. By this time Ethan had said his tummy hurts and i kind of brushed it off. We went upstairs to get ready for bed. I got all 3 in jammies (ethan because he wasnt feeling well needed help). We read our scriptures and by then Tay was screaming because she wanted to eat and was tired. So i sent Ethan and Kaylee to their rooms...they actually went and were being quiet...I fed Taylor. In the middle of feeding Kaylee starts to cry. I ignored her until i was done. I laid Tay down and went to the other room. Kaylee is crying and pointing at something. I look down and see dark spots on the floor and bed. I look up toward Ethan and see lots of Barf. I laughed. I probably should not have. The look on his face was so pathetic. He didnt say a word. Not even to call me after it happened. He was covered along with his bed, pillow the side of the bed which it ran down and dripped on Kaylee's bed, the floor, her leg, blanket, the ladder. It was every where and disgusting. So i got Ethan down bathed him cleaned the mess up started laundry, got the kids beds remade and in bed and Here i am writing this. What a crazy day. I am left with an oven to wipe out , a dirty house and more laundry.

What can I say: I am a mom. This is my wonderful life. I wouldnt trade it for anything. Days will always be tough but there is just something so sweet when your kids ask you to sing them one more song at the of a day like this or Wish their daddy a happy birthday via web cam and make funny faces in the camera. Kids are wonderful and i have the hardest but most awesome job of all. I am a Mom.

Time Flies

Well i am back again. And of course my baby just started to scream....

Taylor has taken her first steps!!! She did on March 4th. We are excited but at the same time that means she can get into more stuff. It keeps me on my toes that is for sure. She is doing well. We are working on weaning and sleeping through the night. Hopefully we can accom

plish both quickly. We are going to Hawaii in just over a month an she needs to have both done by the time we go. She is a good girl though.

here is a clip of her walking. Taylor gets so excited to do walk. it is great. Ethan is doing well. with the warmer temperatures lately he has been outside a ton. It is only March and the boy is tanning up nicely. Just like his dad. He is constantly playing with his friends.

We were able to go to St. George last weekend. It was a nice little get away.

Unfortunately the weather could have been nicer. It rained for a

while on Saturday But we were able to enjoy our time. We went hiking just above the city. The kids loved it. Tay loved to eat the red s

and. We

also went to the volcano cones around the area. It was cool. Unfortunately we didnt make it to the top of the c

one. Kaylee was a little to tired and it was kind of cold and windy so we called it quits. The trail also wrapped all the way around the volcano and was longer than expected. Maybe next time. We didnt get much sleep on the trip either. Taylor had a very hard time sleeping. The Kids loved the hot tub and jumping on the beds in the room. They could live there and be f

ine. Kaylee thinks that hotels are called "St. George." Its funny. this picture ethan took

my kids love to get the camera and take pictures. Too bad that ended in a broken camera once so now i am a little more protective. They did get a hold of it a few times and took about 50

pictures of Taylor. and some of eachother. here are a few:

These are of Mason (the neighbor) and Kaylee. I think they were playing a house like game. They are funny.

this picture is the kids in Dress-ups. I made Ethan an Emperor robe. I wonder if i

should be concerned that he likes the bad guys so much. Especially ones like the emperor. Kaylee is in her princess dress ups as alwlays.

this picture is just how happy tay gets with her daddy!! so cute.

Well we are good. I miss Rob who is in Puerto Rico. He will be there for his birthday. I look forward to seeing him on his return. Hopefully i will be sane. We are excited for spring. We have planted flowers and some of our garden already. We got Hibiscus, Daisy, Lilies, planted strawberries, lettuce and an onion and will hopefully get some more planted in the next few days. I have worked hard on the garden and hopefully will have a nice productive garden. Life is crazy. but i love it. The world is even scarier. I just pray that we will be fine.

take care for now...renee

So this morning Kaylee asked me to get her a drink in a sippy cup and I told her to wait until i was finished feeding Taylor. So i look over a minute later and see Ethan getting her a drink and said to kaylee "oh is Ethan helping you get a drink?" then Ethan replies "Thats cuz Im nicer than you"

my response "you're probably right"

Kids are so great and so funny