a post a day in may

here we go....totally random iphone photos from last month.

good intentions

I always have them, but more often than not life gets in the way. But today I will not sleep before I blog!

1. How is it the last day of April? Tball and swimming pretty much sucked up our month.

2. Lily only has three weeks left in the first grade. What?

3. Jack will be two in seven week!

4. Only one blog post in April…this makes two :)

5. I will post one a day in May….

6. I finally made our summer vacation plans. One week, beach house, Legoland, Disney, fun!

7. Earlier this month, on our way home from school, Lily asked what it meant when you put your middle finger up. I explained in an age appropriate manner. She told me how a couple of boys in her math group were talking about it. I asked if she put her middle finger up at school. Of course I already knew the answer….then she asked what a cougar was….

8. Jack is sick today. Threw up all over himself and the car seat during the morning drop off…not sure if it’s from the clean up but now I’m not feeling so hot myself.

9. I swam in the lake for the first this week, training for another triathlon. Wetsuit and all! This one is in Tempe Town Lake. Hopefully I will stay well so I can compete. I’ve decided to go for 10 in 2010. I’m starting a little late so really my goal is 10 for Scott and me in 2010. I'll try to post more on this in May!

10. At the beginning of the month lily had a big gummy smile. Today she’s got a brand new smile :)

there's a new head of our table

he's 22 months old
loves oatmeal or waffles for breakfast
requests "dinosaurs marching" by laurie berkner all. day. long.
"mom, where ada go?" "mom, where yeyi go? "mom, where daddy go?"
calls milk moot
really wants his car seat forward facing
calls himself "blake" his bff
thinks he's really playing the wii
likes to watch vh1 jump start
sings lady antebellum "need you now"
gives a big, toothy, cheesy smile
need a second hair cut
loves to put his "shoes on"
would only wear one converse and one rain boot last friday

can't believe we are done with the highchair....

just ten

let’s see if I can get to ten

1. I took Ava to a spring training game yesterday. She was happy to have some one on one time with just mommy, “not Lily, not Jack, not daddy, not Sammy, just mommy!” We met up with some friends. She had a ball running around with her girl friends. I enjoyed soaking up some sun and chatting with friends. Karsen, her friend from about birth, in moving in two weeks. We are sad and will miss her family.

2. Tuesday was my half birthday…now I don’t usually celebrate it but maybe I’ll start….36 and a half sounds much younger that 37! Hahah! We had rescheduled our anniversary dinner since there was a barforama going on here last week. melting pot…yum!

3. Lily had her first t-ball game last weekend. Not as easy to watch with crazy boy running around. I love this time of year.

4. Jack is 21 months. He likes to swing like a big boy. Loves lady gaga and sings “la la la la la” so stinking cute! He has finally taken an interest in bedtime stories. His favorite is “goodnight moon” which was also a favorite of the girls at this age. He pretends to read it himself. Last night he noticed the moon and pointed to it. I said “that’s the moon jack” he pointed to it and said “reach it, boon”. The last couple weeks he’s started speaking in 3 to 4 word sentences like “mommy, where ada go?”

5. I can’t believe Scott’s dad has been gone for 10 years now. I’ve always had what ifs. lately, what if he was still here? What if the kids had their pop pop Allyn?

6. The leprechaun paid us a visit again this year! He’s a messy little guy. The girls can’t believe how he magically turns the milk and toilets green….

7. Spring break was almost a bust. Jack had a fever Friday-Tuesday, Ava started throwing up on Saturday morning, Jack and Lily started throwing up on Sunday night, Wednesday, all clear! Thank goodness we decided to stay in town!

8. Jack fell out of lily’s bunk bed, we called 911, he was taken to the hospital by ambulance, he had a cat scan, he is ok!

Yes, I will go into more detail later.

9. Lily took her daddy to her first dance. He gave her a corsage, she danced the night away!

10. I started swimming again to get ready for this. I can’t wait to race with my girlfriends again!

and then there were four

missing teeth on top! yep, she had her daddy pull tooth #8 friday night. it had to come out for the front ones to cut through. if you look closely at the bottom photo you can see how swollen those gums are. i'm gonna miss that gummy smile :) luckily we were able to keep it around for a while. funny how her mouth looks almost as it did at 7 months old!

4.5

yesterday. her half birthday. for her it was just as special as the real one. maybe because i've always made such a big deal about them. we went out for ice cream before dinner and she had a candle in her cookie before bed. she was still holding it this morning. i love that. lately she has been asking a lot of questions, like if people and characters are real or pretend. she can write her letters and asks how to spell. she will will copy what her sister has drawn and wants it to be just right. she loves to dress in layers, her outfits are quite eclectic. she wants to marry her daddy. bedtime is still a chore. she starts ballet and tap today. her feet are as big as her sisters but not as wide. yesterday i got this.

she wears this key for her jewelry box around her neck every day. she says it's the key to my heart.