Loooong Post

Well, it's been awhile since I last posted. We've been really busy and I've been bad about taking my B-12 vitamins so I've been extra tired/exhausted. Last weekend we had all the cousins down here to visit. The kids LOVED it, mostly N, he had a ball with all of them. M, she's at the age that she likes to play alone a lot so she didn't really play with them much, besides being the youngest. She still loved having her girl cousins around anytime she would see T or Z, she would get all excited and say HI!! it was cute! It was great to spend some time with them all. I miss being a more involved Aunt:(!

The the kids fishing

M playing in the grassM trying to get in the houseA really cute pic of M looking off in the distanceM hitting N cuz he's hugging herM giving him a hug bad to say sorryOk I'll be good of the picture now

Last week was also crazy, but more my own fault. I was so excited about everyone being down here and Easter, that my weekly shopping trip was not very productive. Normally I make a good list and do it all in one shot, maybe having to go out one more time that week to pick up something I missed or a changed meal. Well, that trip I didn't have a list and just got the things I know we needed and ended up having to go to the store pretty much everyday, cuz I keep forgetting things *sigh* it was a pain! Then add in that our Walmart(where I do my grocery shopping) is remodeling so every time I go things have moved so I end up having to walk every isle, and that didn't help in the whole forgetting things either!

This week is much calmer. I also feel great cuz it's almost time to go to Chicago and I feel ready to go, everything is in order!

Some little things that have been going on around here...

Noel had to go to the Vet Monday, she's been losing hair on her ears and getting this weird blood spots(it's like if you stuck her with a needle till she bleed a little). She's gotten them for at lest 2yrs, but we always chalked it up to her and Tigger playing(they sometimes got a little rough with each other). It was always just a little poke spot and was gone within a day and we wouldn't see another one for a few months so we never worried. Well, now that we don't have Tigger anymore, and it's happening, it's something else so we wanted to have it checked. It ends up she's got allergies, and it's worse this time, cuz we have a really bad allergy season down here right now. Go fig! We can find out what it is for $450, but we opted out since it's not hurting her(and the vet agreed, she was really funny about it~it's not hurting her I wouldn't worry).

M "got" her big girl bed. A few posts ago I wrote how we where getting her a twin bed, well that fell through. It was taking a long time to get it, and N kept "stepping" on M when he woke up waking her up, which is not good, the girl is cranky when she doesn't get her sleep(yes just like her mommy)! We ended up just converting her crib to a toddler bed, and she loves it! She even got some new bedding for her birthday, she's very happy. I still have to get a bed shirt for it so I can hide stuff under it, they where just out of it at Target the day we picked it up.

M showing off her new bedding and bed

And last my cute kids!!! With our tax return we got the kids this really nice dual portable dvd player for the car. And we LOVE them. Well, we where able to get cheap plane tickets and a cheap rental car, so we are flying now....but our dvd player doesn't have a built in battery. Yeah I know I was a little upset I didn't even think about looking at that, but we really didn't think the prices where going to go down so much. I had found this cheap dvd player a Walmart and I went to buy it yesterday, and right next to it they had a really nice 9" for only $10 more. So for $90 I got a almost $200 dvd player. I was so excited. I charged it up and put in a movie to make sure it worked(I didn't get the warranty, so I only have 15 days to return to the store with issues). N saw it and was like "the car tv is in the house?" (that's what he calls the other dvd players) So I got out their headphones and let them watch it for awhile...worked for me I didn't have to watch it and make sure it worked, I moved on to the laundry!

Kids watching the new player