chocolate milk

I love being a mother. It is such a joy to watch your children learn and grow, and of course with Bethany around it can be quite amusing. One of my favorite treats in the world is chocolate milk, don't ask me why. The girls have now adopted my love for the drink and every day, pretty much every time we eat Bethany asks for chocolate milk. We made a rule that you can only have one glass a day. Bethany usually has it after dinner for dessert. The other day she was adamant about having it after lunch. I told her that she wouldn't be able to have any for dinner. She considered that, but still decided to have some "now". I poured her the milk and she poured in the chocolate. Jared reiterated that she wouldn't be able to have any later. As she was stirring her milk she looked up at the bottle of chocolate and all of the sudden her face lights up."oh", she says,"This says 2, so I can have 1 more. I can have 2 glasses of chocolate milk." Jared and I were both thinking "what is she talking about". It was all said so matter of factly, we couldn't help but smile. We picked up the bottle and there clear as day, in big letters "2 MORE Oz". How do you argue with that? Luckily she didn't ask for chocolate milk after dinner. My girls are such a joy to me. Claira is getting more and more vocal every day. I am having so much fun with them. Being a mommy is great. Happy Mother's Day!

Taking pictures is not my strong point. I'm constantly saying to myself,"oh the girls are so cute where's my camera" or "that is so funny I wish I had my camera". I don't know why its so difficult for me. But last night I started to feel a little better. I came to the conclusion that taking pictures is bad for my childrens health and well being.
You see I planned to take pictures Easter Sunday in their pretty Easter dresses but, Bethany and Claira both got sick on Easter. Claira was so feverish she didn't stay in her dress long enough for us to get any pictures. Luckily we managed to get pics a few weeks later. Last night Jared chaperoned prom. Before he left he asked if I could take a picture of the girls in their PJs (he had a PJ related blog post and wanted to have a picture). No big deal the girls' hair still looked cute from the day and I was putting them in their PJs anyway. Well he left and I found some cute coordinating PJs for the picture. Bethany got in hers just fine. After I got Claira undressed she wanted to go potty. She loves sitting on the toilet, but she doesn't have the hang of it. Anyway, I got her in her PJs and then left the bathroom to get the camera. It wasn't in my bag because Jared took it canooing. I looked in the container he used to keep it dry and it wasn't there either. I passed the bathroom looking in a different spot and the girls were still in the bathroom playing (a no-no in our house) and I yelled for them to get out. Still no camera I passed the bathroom looking in a different spot. My family knows I get a "little" frustrated when I can't find something. "Claira get out of the bathroom, do you need a time out!" I was searching the kitchen wondering what in the world Jared had done with the camera(had someone stolen it*), he just had it that afternoon! Suddenly, I heard a BIG crash and a startling scream. CLAIRA. She knocked the cupboards above the toilet down on herself. The cabinet can't actually fall on her but everything IN it can. The falling cabinet knocked her off her perch on the toilet. I found her on the ground shampoo, hairties and glass all around. I scooped her up and quickly assessed. There was blood, it could have been a lot worse. Just one slice right by her eye. She was crying of coarse and every time she wiped her eye she rubbed the cut. She wouldn't let me touch it. I needed to clean it so I'm holding her down. This is not the kind of comfort she wanted. Poor thing. Clean enough. She didn't want me consoling her now though, so she just wandered through the house crying. I was following along with a cloth wiping the blood. She was finally settling down, she had already made a few laps around the house. Then she suddenly sat down grabbed her foot and started screaming again. STUPID Mommy. I knew instantly what it was. I took her to the couch quickly and striped off her clothes. Sure enough her foot was bleeding, she must have had a little piece of glass in her PJs. Why didn't I take them off her in the first place!! Why didn't Jared put the stupid camera away?!! Why didn't I just physically take her out of the bathroom so none of this would've evn happened!!! GRRRRRRRR! On top of that I wasn't going to get the PJ picture!!!!! Well, I did eventually calm down AFTER the girls went to sleep, but it required a LARGE glass of chocolate milk.
Sooooo I'll try and get a picture of Claira's eye for you, but I'm a little gunshy, Bethany might end up cutting off her hair before the flash goes off.
P.S. Claira is doing just fine. Thank goodness.
*for my sisters' benefit

Easter Pictures

Daddy with his beautiful girls.



pretty Easter dresses

waiting

Auntie Sarah painted the girls' faces while they waited for Claira to wake up from her nap

Lets go find some eggs!

Bethany was a skilled egg hunter this year

Claira looked so cute carrying her Easter basket around.

Claira had a blast finding Easter eggs

There were bunnies all over the yard that had escaped from the neighbor's house. Uncle Tyler is holding one of the Easter bunnies in this picture after the hunt


There's CANDY in the eggs!?

names, names, names

I am so frustrated with trying to pick out a beautiful name for this wonderful addition to our family. I mean certainly it is fun at first, but I just don't have the personality for it.
I can barely decide what I want to eat off the menu when the waitress comes by (for the fourth time). There are just too many good things to choose from and I am just too horribly indecisive.
But when it comes to picking out the name of my own child that I will love the rest of my life, I might as well give up. You might be thinking, "don't stress you still have 100 days, thats plenty of time". But I've been thinking about names for months and the list hasn't gotten any shorter it hasn't even gotten any longer, it hasn't even stayed the same. It is conitinually morphing like it has a life of its own. And where is Jared in all this, well he's "fine" with any of the names we've picked out. Does that mean he's excited about any of the names, NO. He's completely unreadable.
Anyway new to the list
Enjoli (ahn jol E)
Emmilyn

Floors

Hurray!! I finally got my new floors. I am so excited! They are a light colored maple laminate floor and the house is going to look great. Now all we need to do is install it. 1,600 square feet of it. Yikes! Thankfully my Mom is coming to help with the installation. She did her floors when they moved from CA. Its going to be so much work, but I can't wait!

I certainly hope I will be able to post pictures soon, but we'll see.

Birthday Pictures

The Cake Yummy




Fun at Chuck E. Cheese

Sorry no pictures yet. I have to use the laptop and Jared has been taking it to work with him. But I thought I would share a story.
I was sitting in the living room trying to get Claira's PJs on when I felt something on my head. It was really no big deal almost like hair shifting or something like that but it was enough to make me brush off my head. So I did and then I screamed like a terrified little girl, for there on my lap had plopped a large spider I'm not talking daddy long leg here. I mean it was a gross thick dark spider. I'm not normally so, well, girly when it comes to spiders, I mean I don't play with them or anything but I will go get a tissue and "clean them up" I guess. In this case there was no tissue I smacked Charlotte so hard she crumpled up into a little ball right there on my lap. Bethany came running from behind the couch Mommy Mommy are you OK. Of course, I told her everything was fine Mommy was just very "surprised" by the friendly, not so little spider. Ewwww though, I mean seriously gross. The spider must have fallen from the ceiling or something. Not a pleasant thought. For the last couple of days now I have been constantly running my hands through my hair. Yuck