What do you do in your spare time?

I just whipped together this fabulous slip cover for my ottoman. Hard telling when I will get my leather sectional, so I had to make do with my incredibly worn denim sofa. Who would make a slip-cover sofa and sew the slip-cover onto the furniture? I have no way of cleaning the stinking furniture except to spot clean it, so I decided to make a slip-cover. I am not ambitious enough to tackle the sofa so hopefully we can make do until Santa brings me my leather sectional.

Easter Morning!

The Easter Bunny found our basement and hid the baskets there! The kids really did not question this seeing as though our backyard is muddy d/t no grass. The kids all ran to find their hidden treasures and this is what they found! The babies got a bubble blowing machine and some other random treats.

Evan got something educational,lots of sugar and a new toothbrush and tooth paste.

Carter got much of the same, something educational and sugary yada yada yada

Declan with the bubble machine. He chose the this over his basket of treats until he realized how much candy was involved.

Dawson with his treats.


We neglected to do our Easter tomb cookies this year, maybe tonight for FHE. At the last minute we decided to drive to Grandma Jeans early and go to church with her & Jerry. We then went to their home for a yummy Easter dinner. Grandma had a fun Easter Egg hunt in her basement for the kids. Warmer weather would have been nice, however we made good use of our basements!
As a family we watched The Ten Commandments movie, well part of it. Matt & I watched all of it. It is a 4 hour plus movie. I think the kids got the important parts!

Random Snapshots That Say it ALL!

Dawson & Declan taking a ride in the Lazy Susan. You may also notice all of the fingerprints on the stove! Ugh, neverending!

They actually spin themselves around inside the Lazy Susan.

Carter's new look!

He asked me to take his picture and this is how he chose to pose.

Declan has such a big heart! They still sleep in the same bed, always touching!

Evan & Carter are SOOO into Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.

They babes entertaining themselves in the car on our 11 hour road trip.

Dawson's new favorite place to sit while watching TV.

Disclaimer: Evan is content playing legos & reading or playing on the computer. We love him just as much as the other kiddos even though we do not snap pictures of him as often.

Farewell Friend!

Taken this morning, Declan & Dawson watching TV with Cosmo.

We are very saddened by the sudden loss of our dear Cosmo. He had been losing weight rapidly and vomiting every since we left him for the weekend(last weekend). Prior to that we noticed his appetite dwindling. We took him to the vet, spent too much money, only to be told that there was nothing obvious wrong with him. So we put him on the famous boiled chicken & rice & cottage cheese diet, as we have had all of our boxers on at some point. This morning after a solid week of vomiting when the vet called to check on him we decided to take him in again. Matt explained to the boys that Cosmo was very sick and may not come home. Everyone said their good-byes and that was it. After doing some x-rays it was evident that he had multiple intestinal blockages requiring surgery(quite possibly cancerous tumors, we had no way of knowing w/o surgery & biopsies). Poor Matt had to make a decision, reluctantly we had to put him to sleep. We knew when we adopted Cosmo that our time with him would be limited because he was soo old, we didn't think it would only be 6 months. Just enough time for everyone to get really attached. The babies keep asking "Where Momo?" And Carter said he was "really worried about Cosmo because he really loved him". We explained that he was in 'Doggy Heaven" with Santana & Bella our other beloved boxers. We will miss our "Old Man Cosmo" dearly!

ENCOPRESIS

Do you know what it means? I use this term generically b/c I don't know what else to call it. It is 3-6 times more likely to happen in boys, of which I have 4! How can I complain really, I have been blessed with boys who are excellent sleepers, great eaters, healthy & energetic, but at one point in their lives (I'm being generous, it has happened dozens of times it seems like) they have all done this. What you say? Well if you still haven't googled it, it means PLAYING IN POOP! What pray tell is the fascination? Not 1, but 3 times on Saturday I was cleaning up fecal messes caused by my children! Don't worry I didn't take pictures, it wouldn't have done the situation justice unless there was such a thing as scratch-n-sniff photos. It is terrible when one child does it, but even more terrible when two children are involved! Oh and Matt was skiing all the while I was sanitizing the kids and their toys and their bedding and their walls and the doors and their dresser and the floor vent and finally the kids and myself! Oh yah, Dawson & Declan have a thing with taking off the floor register covers and stashing things down them. Fortunately my search came up empty when I bravely checked. Until recently when people would make the comment DOUBLE TROUBLE when referring to my boys I would just smile or if I was having a particularly good day I would say "NO, DOUBLY BLESSED" back to them. I have to say the twins have been much harder the older they get. I know there will be a day, I'm hoping , when I will look back and laugh and wander where the years have gone. But for today I have to agree with the DOUBLE TROUBLE comments. Oh and yes if you are wandering I busted out the duck tape and have also started putting their diapers on backwards, just as I had to do with the older two!

Snowy Spring Day!

The babes just watched from the window while the big boys played in the snow, that seemed to be good enough for them. They did however enjoy the same yummy lunch of alphabet tater tots and chicken nuggets. Notice they feel that they are too big for their highchairs!

Evan & Carter thought it was great that we were eating Evan & Carter for lunch. We experimented spelling all kinds of fun words including poop & dork and some other fabulous words.

Evan & Carter were outside for hours playing. I asked them to build a snowman out of the 12+ inches of snow we had. This is what Evan came up with! He thought is was great because it was portable? I didn't ask why that was so important. As long as he had fun, who am I to squander his plans.

They worked all day on building this "snow fort". It got to be quite tall, they were pretty proud of it!

Again a picture of the portable snowman in a different locale.

I COULD HAVE KILLED HIM!

Declan not to sure of the camera in his face.

Dawson being a ham. Dawson was not as patient as Declan, so he ended up with more of a mohawk.

Dawson & Declan showing off their bathtub mohawks.

Another shot of their bathtub mohawks, Dawson in front Declan behind.

Okay, so I was barely over the last wack job Matt performed on the Babies hair! I worked a 12 hour shift, get home at 8pm in time to put the kids to bed only to find that Daddy had decided to play Barber Shop at my babies expense. I was thrilled the their hair had grown back curly and was excited to take them for their 2 year pictures, until THIS! I guess I need to get over it, hair will grow back, I can only hope they hold on to those baby curls for awhile longer. I am the Barber in this house how dare he. He needs counseling anyway for his post traumatic stress disorder his mother caused by not cutting his hair as a child! Leave me and my children out of it!