Random Pictures.. a lot ( from the last 6 months)

Okay for my sister's that are out of state and anyone else that cares. Loads of pictures of my rambunctious little clan!

Chillin with our shades...

Theo is so cute in this picture i want to keep him this age forever!

Arthur is fearless. Theo wont touch this slide with a ten foot pole...

Saturday Morning Cartoons

Help I'm going crazy in here!

Locked up

Arthur with Theo in the background happy as can be!

Porter riding with style!

Arthur was unsure about the whole experience.

Theo being so grown up and brave! I thought he wouldnt even want to go on. That kid must be growing up!

Baby ducks at thanksgiving point. Theo was in love.

My dream house. I love the dark blue. and the floor plan.. and the mountains close by it. sigh... a girl can dream.

I just love sleeping babies!

Porter and his good friend Olivia had a blast coloring the bricks all in with sidewalk chalk! Olivia's mom and I had a blast chatting it up inside for a good hour with no interruptions!

Porters Name street! Our good friends live here. Porter wants to live on Porter.

Forgot Arthur's pj's.. he borrowed his cousins. Doesn't he make a cute girl though?

Porter drew this on his Auntie Amy's white board to entertain her son Oliver who loves trucks. Awesome job, huh?

We found out that Theo is a dog person.. He loved on Kody and Aida the whole time we stayed at Aunt Amy's!

I went back to blond while in Utah, I likey

A rare and very adorable shot of both my boys smiling at the same time for the camera! Sadly im a little cut off.

Yea that's right.. im too sexy... hahaha

There was a lot of sleeping going on while driving to Utah and back to Texas.

Theo and his shaggy hair before i chopped it all off. I kind of miss this look. Dont you just wanna kiss that face?

The boys love this marble toy. I do too when they aren't fighting over specific marble colors! Theo needs all the red ones and blue ones for his ice power and fire power. okay okay my kids play alot of super mario brothers on the wii... you should play it its really fun! You would be amazed how good a 3 and 5 year old can be! ( they can both beat levels that i tend to die on)

How many kids can you fin in the grocery cart? its like a clown car! The best part they all stayed there this whole trip and no crying!

Arthur was real sick having seizures in April. This was at Primary childrens hospital (utah) while he got a sleep study done on his brain. He was really mad about all the wires stuck to his head. I'm so mean to even take the picture but i wanted Cory to see what was going on ( he was back in Texas)

Finally perking up after 5 days of lethargy! We were so glad to see him sitting up again! ( he lost some weight was down to 19lbs at 20 months! skinny minny!)

I LOVE love love Theo's cute face in this picture! pardon the naked one...
At the Science museum in Lubbock. I just love that they all sat there on their own like that!
I want to get this in black and white, so cute!
Porter training his brothers up the way of the video game...
He was sound asleep. Hilarious! Poor younger kids never get to nap at home!

Kindergarten

( okay so its been a long time!! I took a trip to Utah for a month, then summer hit and i got really sick for a few months eventually leading to surgery end of July and now after a month recovering I'm finally feeling like myself again! due to demand mostly from my mother i am resurrecting this blog and hoping to keep up with it again.)



Hardly seems possible my baby is officially in school! I must be getting old i suppose. He is attending a private school which we decided on after much thought, discussion, and prayer. Basically when i toured the school i felt so calm and happy that i wanted to attend it myself! I took Cory and Porter back with me for a second tour and we all were more than ready to sign up! He attends Midland Classical Academy . Its a christian school so they incorporate God and the Bible into science and have a scripture each day. The reasons we fell in love with the school are:

1. There are only 9 kids in his class! Porter has a hard time with too many people so this is an optimal learning environment for him. Also because of the small class size the children get much more one on one time with the teacher.

2. Its a private school so there are no wasted hours doing endless testing on the little ones. They also use the Saxon method for math and reading which is excellent. Also they have great vacations... two weeks for thanksgiving, a month for Christmas, and school lets out may 5th! Its amazing how much faster kids can learn the material when the class size is small and the teachers can actually teach instead of follow all the regulations from the government!

3. Its half home school! In Texas kindergarten is 5 full days (8-3:30). That's a lot of school for a 5 year old. At Porters school he goes from 8:30-3:30 Monday and Wednesday and a half day on Friday where they get to pick enrichment classes ( Spanish, art, music, ballet, and even violin lessons as they get older) Porter is going to take music and art... we let him pick so he would be excited about it. On Tuesday and Thursday he is home schooled. The teachers give the outline for the work and we just have to oversee it and do embellishments where we would like. Its really the best of both worlds! We had wanted to home school but felt like he would benefit from the social interaction from school.

We are super excited for the year to play out, and hope that porter flourishes in the environment. His teacher, Mrs. Hall, is darling and so devoted to the students. She told us she prays for them every day, how sweet is that?

Whats new and funny with my kids.

Porter:
He got a haircut and he went and looked in the mirror " hey mom now my hair and my lips look just like Eric ( a friend from church)" I thought i was funny he thought the haircut made their lips look the same.

"i am invisible" ( meaning invincible.. we laugh every time!)

" if you were in space i think all of your dreams would come true because you would see a lot of wishing stars"

" I am eating all of my vegetables so I wont grow old" we asked why that would prevent growing old and he said " because i wont get cancer and that makes people old"

Porter asked me if everyone had to die, i told him that every one did. He got really upset and told me he never wanted to die. I told him it was okay because we would all see each other again and be resurrected. He was really distraught about all this. Finally he exclaimed to me " but mommy i dont want to be crucified!" poor kid thought that was how we were all going to die!

We just completed his kindergarten work books and started the first grade ones. He is so smart and picks up new concepts quickly! Mainly we are working on his handwriting now. He is such a perfectionist though and much too hard on himself! We go through a lot of erasers so he can get it just right!

Theo:
"I not three i Teo." "I NOT cute, i Teo." "I not tired i Teo!" Well at least he knows his name, right? He also knows the color purple which he says "orple" and i think its the cutest thing! He is getting speech at the local elementary school now so hopefully he starts talking, and understanding, more so there will be less melt downs.

any quantity more that one is three. If he has two cookies, or five he will say he has three. If he counts his toys he says "one.. three..one.. three.. one ..three" Its hard to not laugh.. and you must never laugh because then he will say " no laugh a me!!"

we told Theo if he went in the potty he could have a fruit snack. he never wants to go, but we keep trying. Lately if i ask him if he wants to go he simply replies " i no fruit snack, no potty!" I know he is ready though. He will hand me a diaper and say "change me". I have tried about 3 times as hard as i did with porter and no luck so far. I give up.. i think i will wait a few months and train him and Arthur the same time this summer! Maybe a little brotherly peer pressure will help!

His favorite things to do are watch scooby doo, and play with the wooden trains we have. Its fun to watch him play with them because Porter only lined them up and never did the whole talking to himself pretend play like Theo does.

Arthur:
all day long he brings me shoes, saying " i shoe..i shoe" if i put them on then he wants to go outside and runs to the neighbors house and knocks on the door. If they are home he will say " i play!" and wants to go inside. its like that book if you give a mouse a cookie... so i just try to not put his shoes on, ever. Its a slippery slope those shoes!

18 months tomorrow. He is barely 20 lbs, bald, and still nursing. So he seems younger to me. At least i dont feel baby hungry, he still is one to me!

He is such a little talker! Theo has been so delayed its weird having this little baby walking around with all these words. Some of his most used ones are shoe, play, fish, ball, football, milk, boobie ( yes i KNOW this is so bad!!) belly, eye, nose, cheese, papi, mama, more, cookie, yesh( for yes) no, bye, hi, drink, up, teeth, mess, mine and various animals and their sounds.

He also says " i show" which he picked up from Theo who says most of the day " i watch show mommy?" I am not sure if Arthur actually wants to watch a show though, or if he just says it because Theo does.

Afternoon funk?

Have a dance party! Kids love it, and its hard to fight and dance at the same time! Oh and bonus its exercise!

Looking for a fun high energy song that your kids will dance too till they fall into giggling heaps on the floor? try the hamster dance:

Hamster dance Video - kewego
The well known hamster song.... Let's dance
Keywords: dance hamster song hit

Video from footy

I will spare you all of the video porter took of me... here is theo who kept saying cheese becuase he thought i was taking pictures. Theo and Porter have watched it 10 times in a row laughing everytime becuase they think its hilarious that he is saying cheese.

Family Night activities

So for the family activity one night Porter wanted to play Uno. Its his favorite game ( well favorite NON video game) The problem is Theo and Arthur are too young to want to play, or know how to play properly.

We kept trying to get them off the table and away from the game but they seemed to think the point of the game was for them to mess up our cards...

So i got out the camera to capture all the fun..

Porter wanted to play with the camera ( he loves to take pictures and then look at them right after)
So we did a family shot and everyone stuck out their tongue.. porter laughed for a few minutes and thought this was the funniest thing ever!

Us all being happy!

Cory and the monkeys!


Theo, porter took this one!

I told everyone to make a silly face. After this all porter wanted to do was make silly faces!

Theo and Porter both collapsed in fits of giggles at this silly new game! They loved looking at the photos we created.

This one is my favorite one because it looks like Porter is scaring Cory.

Porter scaring Cory again.. he thought the other one was so hilarious he wanted to do it again.

We had so much fun taking silly pictures and laughing at ourselves! I suggest you all try this for a fun family activity! Its free, and its really fun! and if you are a child watching your parents its darn right hysterical!

Cory is mortified i am posting these so if you see him be sure to mention them! hehehe

Christmas photo overload ( just for you mom i know you will love it!)

Theo, the shy timid kid in the family. The ONLY one that was not scared to sit on Santa's lap. He even talked with him a bit. Porter and Arthur wouldn't even get near him!

Porter took this picture. He loves to use the camera.

Cory is the funnest dad ever! The boys all enjoy playing with him!

Porter was taking this picture that is why he is not in it, Love Theo's rosy chubby cheeks!

Building gingerbread houses for family night the week of Christmas. We all enjoyed the candy! Theo wanting to taste it!

Arthur enjoyed eating his house..

Porter and Neal's house

Camilla's house

Cory and Theo's house

our Christmas stash!

Little baby is so big! He was not sure what all the fuss was about.
But he loves to pose for pictures. He says "cheese!" if he sees the camera. Its adorable!

Theo was just a tad bit excited for Christmas morning, can you tell?

Porter was sick, this was before all the Tylenol and cold medicine kicked in and made him happy and hyper!
he has a fever here of 102.5

Theo got a marble runner toy. All three boys love playing with it!

My brother Neal was excited about his new snowboarding video game! We loved having him here for Christmas.

Cory was excited for his new super mario brothers game for the wii... its multiplayer so we all can join in the fun! Porter loves it.

and Porter was excited about his new video game super mario galaxy, also for the wii.
There was a lot of video gaming the week after Christmas!

Porter and Theo having a light saber duel. I love Theo's expression in this one!

Cute baby just wanted to sit in the box! love it!

Porter likes to play with Arthur's new blocks more than he does! This is porters new fake smile. I hate it! i don't know why but he says he doesn't want to smile with his teeth anymore.

Darth Vader potato head... the things they come up with! so fun.

My sister Thora sent the boys these awesome star wars mini action figures. They love em!

Theo absolutely loves scooby doo. we also got him some scooby doo underwear to hopefully get him fully potty trained.

This year we let the kids decorate the christmas tree. In years past i have at least done the top half in my pretty glass ornaments. Every thing on the tree this year was kid proof, and most of them porter made. It was for sure not the prettiest tree, but porter was so proud of it and his decorating.

Our new stocking holders, now that we have a fireplace i couldn't resist getting some!

The reason for the season.

Porter decided this wall should be used for all his christmas time coloring pictures. He was so excited to hang them up. Theo did some too.. I am sure you can tell which ones!

I really love garlands. I enjoyed decorating them, and it made up for my lack of tree decorating!