Avali

And Avali has decided that, “Mom you can call the baby sister Lydia if you want to, but I’M calling her Sophie!” I guess it’s better than Mariposa like she was talking before! 5/11/09

Ava’s first concert 5/12/09  fieldtrip 5/15/09

Ava’s first filling 5/26/09

Ella

At the grocery store I was mocking Ella about her pronunciation of wall-er-melon and she said to me, “Mom you’re such a character!”  5/7/09

At preschool screening today with Ella, the teacher asks, “What do skunks do?” (With an upturned nose) and Ella replies without a single hesitation, “Fart green farts” Of course!! Not surprised AT ALL!!  5/13/09

When Ella was told that the baby was going to be a baby boy, she refused to hear of it.  No, it’s a baby sister.  I want a baby sister! 5/22/09

When Ella finally realized that we were serious and it really is a baby boy, she broke down in tears.  I wanted to pick a sister! Daddy got to pick a boy and I wanted to pick a girl  She thinks that since Daddy told her what it is, Daddy was the one that got to pick.  We turned the blame around though, and just explained the God is the one that gets to pick and he wants Cooper to have a brother! 5/23/09

Cooper

Coopie  peed on the potty for the first time on April 21st!  Yay big boy! 4/21/09

Coop was trying to get Ella’s attention, and she was not listening.  So he yelled for her, “ELLA!!!” and then with a sassy stance and some big attitude, “ELLA BROOKE!!!!”  It was quite amusing to say the least!

First night in a big boy bed 5/25/09

There are just a couple of things that I have to pop on to share.  The kids are so full of funny stuff lately!  Last week at my ob appointment, Cooper took it upon himself to slap my ob on the butt!  (And then of course, stand there and giggle and do it again!)  Then today, Ava tells me, “Mom I want to go somewhere to look at a menu and order macaroni and cheese. You know who has the best macaroni and cheese?  You and Taco Bell! ”  I thought it was a pretty cute comment!  And from Ella today… Wow, she takes the cake with this one!

“Mom!  Look at that!”  She points to my belly button…  ”I see the baby’s wiener!  It’s comin’ out of your belly button!  It’s squishy when you poke it!”  OMG! I almost fell over laughing! WHAT a KID!!!

Yesterdays plan:

*bring Ava to orientation
*pick up her and a friends kid afterward
*wait for my new phone to come from ups
*go to get jays prescription filled
*stop at library so we can cross off one more thing on the end of summer list
*vacuum out the van
*go to the park if time
*pick up rissa’s boy to mow

Seems simple enough right?

What really happened
*bring ava to orientation
*teacher misunderstood and didn’t put either of the girls on the bus to come to the other school where I was waiting… but luckily we managed to get in contact with each other and the girls got put on the right bus enventually
*called in to get jays prescription refilled… no more refills… had to call the pharmacy twice and the clinic once to get a refill called in
*ups comes… no phone
*Round up the three and go to carwash, vacuum out the van… get back in and the battery is dead.
*wait for 10 minutes for someone to pull in to the driveway… still no one… had to call riss. Waited another 20 minutes for her to get there.
She hooks up the cables… but neither of us noticed that on my van they were connected to two positives.  Clearly this wasn’t a job for girls!

*cables melt

*cables also melt a hose in my van
*wait for the cables to cool of, peel off the melted plastic and after talking to a couple of dhs we figure out where to put the cables… not on two positives on my van!
*find out the hose the melted was a casing for some other wires. Luckily none of the wires were touched
*get battery tested at car place… it’s fine
*get to pharmacy… they only used one of our two insurances… wait longer
*get groceries… dumb ass cashier puts so much stuff in each bag that the bottoms are threatening to fall out of every bag… I rebag
*by now it’s 6:30… if I wait to get home for supper like planned it’ll be almost 7:30
*spend the extra money I didn’t want to on going out for supper
*kids are animals, they’ve been forced to sit and wait WAY to much already
*go to library
*coop says 3 times that he has to pee… we go each time… he refuses to go. “Can’t, poop poop broken, won’t work!”
*go back to play with toys *we had all of 10 minutes total to play at the library*
*comes back and tells me mommy poop potty
*go to bathroom
*poops himself
*clean up the boy
*go back to play
*comes back and tells me mommy poop potty
*go to bathroom
*poops himself again
*go to van and clean up again…
*8:30 get home
*BEDTIME for all the kids
*I send the girls upstairs to get ready for bed, tell them to crawl in to bed and wait.
*I get distracted… I know surprising right?
*Bring Coop upstairs and the girls are already sleeping
*”Mommy Guilt” sets in… didn’t even kiss the girls goodnight

*Go to bed, hoping for a better day tomorrow!

The end of the summer is QUICKLY approaching!  So one day last week, I asked the girls what they would like to do yet before summer ends.  I had nothing to do with what they suggested. It’s amazing, but THIS is the list them came up with!

* Go to the fair

* Swimming lessons (go swimming)

* Catch butterflies

* 4 wheeler ride

* go to lots of places

* Rest time- movies in mom’s room

* Look for animal foot prints

* Have a  movie night

* Pray to God

* Read books at the library

Can you believe this?  SO so cute!

so far we have checked off the fair, swimming, movie night…  I should really work on figuring out when we’re doing the rest of it! Ava starts school in about 10 days!  Four wheeler ride this weekend when Daddy’s home I think,  and animal foot prints… maybe at Grandma and Grandpa’s this weekend.

So it’s been since APRIL since I’ve made a post!  Wow!  Things have been crazy, as usual!  Pregnancy is going well… See baby blog… http://myfinalbabybump.wordpress.com/ Kids are doing well, and growing like mad!

Cooper: Coop-Man is now two years old!  Last week he learned how to use the potty.  Actually, the day he turned 25 months was his first totally dry day.  So so proud of the little stinker!  He’s still in LOVE with his blankies and thumb.  It’s more of an obsession really.  He’s also moved into a big boy bed in the last month or so.  That is not going quite as well as the potty training, but it’s not terrible.  Just a couple weeks ago, the boy decided to climb up to the top part of the Mc Donalds play land… and refuse to get down.  I had to crawl my roundish pregnant self up there and get him back down! Stinker!   And the other morning when I got up before him, he went into my room and found Ella in my spot and proceeded to SCREAM at Ella,

“Ella WHERE is MOMMY?   AH_LAAAA Where is MOOOOOMMMMYYYY?”

Ellison:  Ella is still our little “Dirty Birdie.”  She is such a little princess, but how that child gets SO dirty is beyond me!  She is always always hanging upside down or climbing on things and hanging in weird positions.  Yesterday she actually fell off the bench while we were SITTING down to eat dinner.  I laughed… A LOT!  (And actually got “the look” from Jay for it.  Apparently he was trying to scold her, and he can’t do that if I’m laughing.  Whatever, it was funny stuff!  She’s also pretty good and some funny lines lately!

“Ava, I get to go with Daddy because I’m more beautiful than you!”

“When I grow up, I want to be a mom just like you!”

“Fishing, fishing, we’re going fishing today…”

“If you tickle my butt, then your finger will smell like butt.”  NO I am NOT joking! This really was said when Grandpa pinched her butt yesterday!

Avali: And of course, Miss Ava Girl…  Miss Ava is going back and forth between an amazing big girl and helper and the other extreme… more like a tantruming, dramatic, cry at the drop of a hat toddler.  It’s been… um a learning experience? I think we’re starting to get it figured out and how to stop it before the total break down begins.  She is also growing like crazy, now has FOUR loose teeth!   My first baby is going to lose teeth soon! Won’t be long now and she’ll be heading into kindergarten! When, oh when, did this happen?

And a recent line from Ava:

“Mom, I just want to go see God and where he died, and give him flowers.”   So I told her, we couldn’t because it was SO far away… and she said, “And there are no roads?”  Umm yes exactly Ava, no roads.  ”Then how did God get there?”  Ummm he rode a camel Ava?  ”Then we could ride horses to get there, right Mom?”  Probably not Ava… sorry!

So a friend of mine, http://gotmusic69.livejournal.com/ , is doing a challenge to live out of the pantry for a week.  I am planning on joining her in the challenge for a week. (Well until Thursday and then hopefully more when we come home on sunday.)  In addition, I am not going to be spending a dime out of our checking account this week for any expenses.  I started with $25 in cash, with one big NEED… duck food.  So today I spend $11.00 on duck food and don’t plan on buying anything else until thursday.

Yesterday we had

Breakfast:

cereal, juice, milk

Lunch:

tortillas, cheese, bananas, milk

Dinner:

bbqs, tater tots, corn

and today

Breakfast:

waffles with syrup, peanut butter, milk

Lunch:

bbqs, pineapple, noodles, milk

Dinner:

tomato soup, grilled cheese or egg salad sandwiches, green beans, milk

I’m really not sure what the plan is looking like tomorrow.  I guess some digging is in order to plan for tomorrow!

Thanks Jules!

We suck!!!  I can’t wait wait wait for spring to get these back down! Wow!

That’s all I have to say on this matter!

It’s been a while since I’ve taken the time to put anything substantial on here.. so here it is.  

Avali–  Avali is doing very well in school and she is loving it!   She is writing her name like a pro now, along with Ella’s name, and anything else we will help her with!  We’re working on counting right now.  Ok so yeah, that sounds silly considereing she’s nearly five, but this girl just does not want to count! Ugh Girls!!! She’s been incredibly well behaved and so understanding with Cooper!  Don’t get me wrong, we still have the tantrums, just nothing like we used to!  She’s come a long way baby!  She is so excited about having a baby sister… and understands that is MAY be a brother despite what Ella says.  Although Ava would prefer a new big sister. It’s kind of hard to get that point across to her. No matter what Ava will always be the big sister, but just fits the role so well! Miss Ava will be turning FIVE this month and I just can never understand where that time went!  It sounds so cliche, but how is she five already? So here is a picture I took of Ava this afternoon, just a little doll!  The chart is from her check up yesterday, the details are that legible, but you can get the idea… the kid is off the charts for her height and weight and always has been!  
 

       *****today*****                                     ****nearly five years ago****

Ellison–  Oh my Ella, dear dear gross princess Ella.  God love the child, but wow!  Ella is such a princess.  The girl is constantly in a princess dress or something girly!  BUT she is always always dirty! Fresh out of the tub… dirty!  On saturday she was caught licking… yes I said licking… the front edge of the walmart service counter!  ACK!!!  So so incredibly gross… not long after that, eating jello off the floor of the chinese restaurant before I even knew what was happening!  BUT I have to say, the girl has an immune system like I’ve never seen!  But really, she is the sweetest thing! She loves her brother, she loves her sister, and she cannot wait for her “new baby sister” to come!  She rubs my belly every morning to talk to her baby sister and see if she can feel her.  Ella is a huge cuddle bug right now, and is known to be the one of our kids that will fall asleep pretty much anywhere! 

                        ******today******                                                           *****two years ago*****

Cooper–  Then there’s Coop-Man Stink… Cooper is FULL of it lately!  A wild wild boy!  He loves to dance, and play with cars and trucks… and occasionally his sister’s dress up stuff! (Much to Daddy’s dismay!)   Cooper likes to tell us when he has an icky diaper and is, from time to time, wanting us to put him on the potty!   Don’t assume though, because he is no where near ready to train!  Coopie man is a jabber box lately too!  He has probably 60 words or so… maybe more and is using up to 4 or 5 word phrases.  Oh but the temper!  He’s starting to remind us of those fabulous tantrum months from Avas 18 month to 2 year age span.  Not cool!  But he is a hugger and a lover, and that totally makes up for it!  I love that he is still a snuggler.  He loves his left thumb and his blue afghans, so that helps the snuggling a lot! ♥

                               ******now******                                                  ***** two years ago*****

So today my bff watched Ella and Cooper while I went to get a haircut and get a pregnancy, yes pregnancy, test done at the clinic.  While I was gone Ella had a couple of her Stellar Eller moments…

1) She walks out of the bathroom with a huge lump in her pants… upon further inspection it was a big ole lump of toilet paper wadded up.  Wonder what that was stashed for?

2) Later, Ella was watching tv and playing with the inchworm ride on toy when she zoned in on the tv and picked up the inchworm. (Still concentrating intently on the tv… Dora was on) Ella proceed to LICK the worm… all the way down the entire seat! ACK!!!  What was the girl thinking?

Then I came to pick her up and got the usual, “Mommy I missed-ed you!”  We stayed there for a while, and Ella got a treat…. a strawberry poptart.  Well, after hers was gone, she asked for, “Another beautiful granola bar”  Yes, that’s how she refers to a poptart… a beautiful granola bar.

For Christmas we got an air popper for our popcorn.  Avali was so excited when she got to watch the popcorn flying out of the machine.  As we were sitting there a bit later eating our popcorn… she had a suggestion.  ”Mom, we could put apple seeds in there and make little apples in it!”  How adorable! The age of innocence!!