My new favorite picture....

I took this picture today in our backyard (yes we have grass now!!) Doug had set up the sprinkler and he was running through it with the kids. I just love the facial expressions I caught on both of them!

Tiny Tim....

I introduced Tiny Tim to you earlier this month. My mother-in-law had rescued him from the animal shelter and thought he would make a good addition to our family and give our other new kitten "Tucker" (also from the animal shelter) someone to play with. Well today I made a discovery...Tiny Tim is really a girl! And not only is she a girl, but she is a girl in heat and I have two male cats that are not fixed! So I am going to have find a place where I can put her so that we don't end up having more little kittens running around soon! So I guess Tiny Tim is really Tiny Tina?

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First Day of School!

First day of school, first day of school! *picture me jumping up and down on the kids like Nemo does to his Dad in the movie Finding Nemo* Okay, it didn't really start out quite like that. They all got up resonable well for me though...think they were excited! I didn't have any complaining or fighting at all this morning, boy was that nice! They both looked pretty spiffy in their new clothes too. And believe it or not I had all the kids dressed and fed and could of walked out the door with all of them by 8:00 if I had too (school starts at 8:45). Grammy came over to watch the three youngest so that Doug and I could take Doogie and Jayde to school and make sure they got to where they were supposed to be. Doogie (I am so proud of him) couldn't find his name tag on his desk like all the other kids and instead of freaking out and getting upset about it he waited patiently until the teacher came into the room, raised his hand and very politely told her that he couldnt' find his name tag. And those of you who know Doogie, know how he can get if he gets upset or frustrated...so I was so proud of him for being so calm and starting off in the right way.

It's really quiet over here...amazing how much of a difference missing just two kids can make. It was weird dropping Jayde off and knowing she will be there for the whole day. It will be even stranger when Jaxon and Ryann start school and on some mornings I'll only have two or one child. I think I'll be running my errands on those days!

Wow! I can't believe school starts tommorrow. I just finally got done getting everything ready for the first day. We went back to school shopping this afternoon with Grammy and she let the kids each pick one outfit out for the first day of school. Jayde absolutely had to have something to do with Hannah Montana and it also had to be a dress...after much searching we finally found one (oh we found alot of Hannah Montana stuff, but just no dresses!) It's a wild and crazy funky dress...and it probably wouldn't of been my first choice (or second, or third, etc...) but she was happy with it and I guess that is all that matters and the colors will look great on her. Doogie was on the great hunt for dragons, but we didn't find any at the place we were shopping at. So Grammy suggested some PUMA stuff... at first Doogie wasn't super excited about it until I told him that pumas were really fast runners and his face perked up. So he got a pair of shorts, t-shirt and a sweatshirt with a puma on it. Ryann decided that the PUMA stuff looked pretty cool herself and we found her some really cute girly pink PUMA stuff (though she won't wear it tomorrow...her and Jaxon don't start school for a couple more weeks). Jaxon got a cute shirt, sweatshirt and pair of jeans and C.J. got a pair of plaid shorts, shirt and a matching hat (we'll see if he'll wear the hat for me!) Then we went shoe shopping since they were having a sale, but we only found shoes for Doogie and Jayde...but since Jaxon and Ryann don't have school for a couple more weeks I still have time to find them something they like. I also should find a pair for C.J. since he is walking like crazy now and with fall around the corner he is going to need a pair of shoes.

Well, I finally bit the bullet and let the girls go over to play next door with the neighbor girls. It's not that I don't want them to play together because I do, I just like to know what they are up to! I always feel bad dumping my kids on people because I know what stinkers and handfulls they can be at times! But the girls had so much fun. Yesterday was the first time I let them do it and when I went over to get them they ended up hauling away half of her toys! So I made them take them all back today and told them not to take anymore toys this time. I mean they walked out of that house yesterday with two movies, a barbie doll, a jewlery box, a play clock, a stuffed bunny, a headband and last but not least a great big pink horse that you can sit on and ride! The neighbors didn't seem to mind though, but it's not something I want the girls to get in a habit of doing!

Hmmm...what else has been happening? Well we are still battling our colds though it seems to be only Doug, me and the two little guys...though Ryann's nose was a bit snotty today. And I'm am sorta wondering if some of it might be allergies.

Balder had his playmate over again today. Our neighbors (a couple houses down) have a german shepard pup who likes to escape from their yard and wonder the neighborhood. She came right to our house and wanted to come in. I don't think she is used to cats though since she tormented mine (or maybe my cats just teased her) most of the day. I went over there a couple times in the morning to see if anyone was home but nobody answered, so I just let her hang out with us. Each time I took her over she really didn't want to go home and when I started to bring her back with me, she practically dragged me home and wanted to come back in. The kids like having her around too and I got a couple pictures of them with her.

Well I better head to bed because I am getting up bright and early tomorrow to get these guys ready for school. I was going to post some pictures but I'm just too tired and don't have time right now. But I will be taking a bunch tomorrow of the kids first day back to school so I will try to post some tomorrow.

Well I'll tell you one thing...

atleast this cold doesn't seem to hang on as long as that darn stomach bug did. I was feeling pretty crappy the last couple days (Jaxon and C.J. too) and then today I woke up and felt a whole heck of a lot better(getting a full nights sleep probably helped too...everyone slept through last night), though I still have a snotty nose and a cough. However, I don't feel like my head is going to pop off my body anymore...so that's a good thing! Doug has come down with it now, he started feeling yucky yesterday and today he has been hanging out in bed trying to get over it. If this cold goes the way it has been though he should be starting to feel better by tomorrow. Okay and everyone (yes, that means you too) take your hand and please, please knock on wood that it doesn't keep spreading through the house and continue to go around and around and around. I mean, come on...school is starting in just a few days and I can't have everyone sick for the first day!

What is up with this??

I was up all night (Doug was too) with Jaxon and C.J. again. C.J. has this horrible croupy sounding cough and was up coughing about every 1/2 hour it seemed and this morning he had a really snotty nose. I don't know what was wrong with Jaxon he just kept waking up crying. And I started getting a sore throat last night and now have a snotty/stuffed up nose to go with it. I don't know if it's allergies (the wind has really been blowing the past couple of days)or if we are getting sick again. I hope we aren't getting sick again...I just got everyone healthy!! And can you believe it...school starts up next week! So I really want to get everyone healthy by then.