Random Stuff...

So, here I am with lots of things to tell you and not much time. First of all, my son the other day told me that I didn't laugh very much. Sad huh? I'm working on it. He of course is a comedian. The other morning at breakfast, EmmaLee yelled up the stairs to me that Daniel was plugging his ears and telling her that he was allergic to her voice! I laughed so hard!

Lucy the other day pushed a stool over to the ledge of the balcony and tried to get up on it. It was one of those heart wrenching moments that I had to capture on camera. Daniel was standing close by. I told her to get down and she said "NO", and I said, "if you don't get down right now, you're going to get a spanking!". She got down.


She got into my lipstick one afternoon and came in looking like this! In the next picture, she looks like the Joker from Batman!



One day when we were still at my moms, we had just been commenting on how well she had been doing at not getting into things. Well, not 30 minutes later, my mom stumbled upon this loving sight in the pantry. She thought it was a mouse! No, it was Lucy.



Daniel went ice skating last week. He did really well and by the end of the outing he could spin around a little.

Today, Lucy starts gymnastics. I'll post pictures of it tomorrow.

Mommy, Mommy, Mommy

When Lucy is upset and in her crib, she yells 'Mommy, Mommy, Mommy, Mommy' over and over and over, never giving me a chance to get to her. She's been sick this week with a cough that won't quit. EARLY Thursday morning, she was coughing and I went upstairs to check on her. She was cold so I covered her up and went back to bed. What seemed like a few minutes later (I don't know if I went back to sleep or not) she starts the screaming of my name over and over and over. I run upstairs thinking something is really wrong because it's screaming, not just calling my name. I fling open the door and she is standing in her crib. She says, "Mommy, I have a boogie." She had a booger on her finger and wanted it OFF. Needless to say, it took me a few minutes to go back to sleep after that.

Temper, Temper & a vacation

Well, I'm sorry it's been awhile. We've been really busy trying to get the house in order. It's been difficult because I really don't have a lot of time during the day between just picking up the daily mess, Lucy, and homeschooling Daniel.

Lucy has officially entered the 2 year old stage. She has a temper to go along with this stage. If she doesn't get what she wants, she SCREAMS! and can she scream! Wow, that girl has a set of lungs. We've been spanking her, putting her in a naughty chair but nothing really works. We're consistent too!!!!! She's just very stubborn. I must admit that the screaming has slowed down a bit, but now when she gets mad, she stomps upstairs and slams the door to her room! Is it not a bit early for this???

We just got home from a trip to Virginia to see my dad. We had a really good time. My dad has white hair and a white beard that he lets grow starting in July/August. He dresses up like Santa and volunteers at Andrew's Air Force Base, and goes to see newborn babies on Christmas Day at the local hospital. He also gets to ride around on a fire truck for a parade. With all that said, we've never had the kids picture taken with him. He was supposed to come down after Christmas, but we weren't back in our house yet, so they couldn't come. We went up this past week and I made sure that I got a picture.

When we got into the van from the airport, Lucy looked at Dad and said 'You look like Santa Claus'. It was so cute. She kept alternating between calling him Poppa and Santa all week. I have posted some pictures below. The picture of the kids with two older girls, are my cousins, Amy (on left) and Nicole (on right). The other group shot is of my dad (aka Poppa) and step-mom, Linda (aka Grandma).

Linda plays the piano and help teach EmmaLee a couple of songs. She says that EmmaLee is really pretty good and that we should get her lessons. So I guess EmmaLee will be starting piano lessons soon. Yea!

The kids didn't get to see snow, but it had snowed the week before so there was some icy snow still on the ground. The kids made an Ice Man with it. See picture below.



This is typical Lucy. We kept telling her that she could not have a 'chocolate sandwich' and she got tired of us telling her no, so she went and got one herself!


This is my Aunt Karrie, she's a scientist for the Navy and helps build bombs. Way cool job! Her lab is the one that built the Bunker Busters we used looking for Saddam.


Grandma (Linda) teaching EmmaLee how to play the piano.


The Ice Man.


Poppa's motorcycle


Grandparents and Grandkids.


My cousins, Nicole and Amy


Poppa stealing kisses.


Kids and Santa (a.k.a. Poppa)

Lucy giving Poppa a kiss.

Always check before going to bed....

Okay, so last night Lucy did not want to go to bed. We of course let her cry it out and she eventually fell asleep. At about 12:45 am, she woke up crying my name. I went upstairs to find her in her bed.... are you ready for this? NAKED! Apparently during her fit of anger over having to go to bed, she striped herself of her pj's and her diaper. She was crying because she had pee'd in the bed and she was wet and cold. LOVELY!

A few weeks ago, Danny was pushing her on the swings. He was pushing her pretty high for a 2 year old, but she loved it. Daniel asked Danny to give him a good shove and as he stepped to the side to push Daniel, Lucy dropped the key she was holding and reached down to get it. Of course, she turned herself upside down and wrapped her feet around the chain while still holding on with one hand. Her head even brushed the ground a couple of times before Danny could get to her. And in typical Lucy fashion, she got right back on the swing and she was never even scared!

A few weeks ago, Daniel got his 1st Degree Black Belt in Taekwon-Do. We are very proud of him. His uniform is a bit big, but he has to wear it for at least 2 years. He will test for 2nd Degree when he is 13, so this uniform needs to last at least that long.







And one final note... Cypress Taekwon-Do (where Daniel and EmmaLee train) has lost one of its family members. B.J. Farnsworth, age 25, passed away last Friday. He was loved and adored by all who knew him. He will be deeply missed. BJ was one of Daniel's first instructors and he and Daniel became fast friends. Daniel even got to help Mr. Farnsworth teach the preschool classes sometimes.

Please pray for all those who knew him, especially his family.

Back in our house

Well, we are back in our house now. Danny and I moved in on New Year's Day and the kids joined us that weekend. We've been slowly putting things back together because when we left, we just threw stuff in boxes and now we have to figure out where stuff is and where to put it. It will take awhile.

Meanwhile, Lucy has learned how to unlock the front door, so today we had all the locks changed. We needed too anyway with all the people coming in and out of the house. And we have a lock on the pantry door that she has figured out how to unlock. She pulls a stool over to the door, climbs up and unlocks it! Not sure what I'm going to do about that.

Most of her crazy antics have stopped and we have now fully entered the 2 year old stage. Although today I found her at the sink and she had soaped up the faucet.

Lip Gloss and a white couch...

Okay, I'm sorry it's been so long since I last blogged! My friend, Sarah, told me she's quit checking it because she knows I haven't written anything in a while so I figured that was probably true for others as well. Sorry!!!!!

Since we've been living at my mom's house, Lucy has continued her reign of destruction. She's colored on the (real) wood floors, poured lotion on the carpet, twice, but the most destructive thing she's done is get ahold of my long lasting mauve colored lip gloss. She thought it would be fun to paint with the lip gloss wand. She painted my suitcase, the coffee table, a mirror and my mom's white couch. We had to call a cleaning company to come try and get it out. And surprisingly, it did. Most of it anyway. It just has a pinkish hue to it now and is barely noticeable.

They should be able to start on our house next week and we will hopefully be back in our house by Christmas.

Hurricane Ike and other things...

I can't believe it's been so long since I posted anything, but I'm not surprised either. Ike trashed my house. We are now living with my mom in Katy, TX. I'll post a few pictures later.

Lucy has done a number on my mom's house. She's colored on the wood floors, glass table and rubbed toothpaste on my step-dad's leather recliner and all over the lid to the toilet. Nothing slows her down. When we first got to mom's, Lucy got a stomach virus and threw up in mom's closet and then she got diarhea (sp?). So, it's been eventful.

We'll be at mom's until Danny and I go to the Cayman Islands on October 11. When we get back, we'll probably move into a 2 bedroom hotel.

I'll try and post pictures later when I have more time. Driving back and forth from Cypress to Katy is taking up a lot of my time.