weekly update

this past week has been a little crazy.

some weeks we have nothing going on and other weeks 

we have something going on every single day.

this picture below was actually suppose to go on the last weekly update

but was on eddie's phone and i didn't get it until after the fact.

not sure what they were watching, i'm sure disney junior

i was working on the computer one afternoon and things got quite.

so i got up and walked around the corner.

and stumbled upon this cute scene.

makai is starting to look at books a little more.

i can't wait until emi can read to him.

oh my goodness! we are in birthday mode over here.

she made me sit down one afternoon so i could write down the 'plans'.

good thing she doesn't know what i really wrote.

she went all into detail, it was crazy.

thing is, eddie and i don't even want to throw a party.

luckily we still have a couple months to think of an excuse.

her special outfit she had laid out for 3 days for school.

and my cutie boy makai finally stopped and posed for a picture.

 

 

the day before i asked emi to take a nap cause she was crabby.

she always refuses, so i knew it was a long shot.

so i bribed her with going to buy buy baby...so she could ride the scooter.

she decided she just wanted to do quite time

which does not equal a nap.

well when i went and checked in on her, she was asleep!

what?! first thing she said when she woke up.

so when are we going to buy buy baby?

i brushed her off with: maybe after school tomorrow.

too bad she held me to it! she got in the car and before i could

ask how school was she said:

woohoo! we get to go to buy buy baby!!

we found elmo and makai showed off his new smile.

we thought emi woke up at the butt crack of dawn!

holy cannoli! luckily eddie goes and gets him.

since it takes me like 2 hours to fully wake up.

kidding!! but it feels like that when you only go to bed 6 hours earlier.

i seriously need to learn to go to bed before midnight.

it's not like i do anything productive like, work out or make something.

gma gave emi a "disco ball" ring as emi calls it.

she went to bed with it and when i checked on her hours later

the ring was still going strong!

i didn't know how to turn it off, i figured it would go off by itself.

well in the morning, it was still in 'disco mode'.

i asked emi if she knew how to turn it off....i guess you push it again.

i swear i tried that and it didn't work, that's why i assumed it turned itself off.

so she turned it off finally.

the good part about it, hopefully it used most of it's battery. kidding. sort of.

 

this boy! for some reason he has been waking up multiple times

at night between 9-11, it's driving me nuts.

and his cries are more like screams.

screaming as if his arm just got chopped off or something.

and usually he is just sitting up, rubbing his eyes.....with his binkie in!

tanner's birthday was last wednesday.

but he had school and a wrestling tournament.

so we moved his unofficial b-day to sunday.

emi insisted on wearing her crown and heels over.

and she performed her 'let it go' routine for tanner.

emi picked out a purple frosting for the cake.

which is good since tanner likes purple.

emi explained his favorite color is purple cause his backpack is purple.

it was delicious and i wish i would have taken home the left overs. ha!

 

i was able to observe emi and her class for an hour

they ask each parent to do that sometime during the school year.

the boy on her right is her best pal mason.

mason asked if she had a boyfriend...in which she said yes! 

she calls hayden her boy friend...her best boy friend.

all emi talks about is mason, and mason's mom only hears about emi.

her teacher even asked if we hear all about mason.

cause mason and emi play together...cause they have super powers.

mason is the reason emi started writing some letters backwards

and emi is the reason mason is trying to be left handed 

when he is right handed!

amazing how much influence goes on in preschool.

i love this picture of emi.

she connected all these to make a necklace.

shortly after this picture i was asked to put my cell phone away. boo!

seriously the only time he is still.

i gave him a hair cut and it turned out ok...but a little funny looking.

he has no curl to his hair...yet it's a little bushy.

this picture was before the hair cut.

emi wanted a mustache...so of course makai wanted on.

i wish i would have recorded when makai saw himself in the mirror

one he tried to eat himself....then he laughed so hard.

eventually emi grew a beard.

his haircut all styled.

his hair doesn't really want to go up...

nor does it want to go in a fo-hawk.

i used eddie's cement hair crap, so it stayed up

but if use anything else with less strength it goes flat.

 

my project of the week.

the "craft closet" or as eddie calls it the "coat closet"

i gave his one coat the boot! and put it on my side of the closet.

after so many random projects and rushing to clean up

it got a little out of hand. this is the sole reason i don't make time to craft.

i hate cleaning up and wish i had a door to close the mess in.

 i wish i could buy one of these bikes.

they are the perfect size for makai.

but no...they stay chained up and no one uses them.

we watch the 'let it go' music video, no less than 15 times day.

ok maybe 10...but still...too many times.

and each time she copies everything elsa does.

i wish i had some jeans that looked and fitted me like that.

emi rolls her own pants...she hats anything that touches past her ankle.

it was that time again for dentist check ups.

proud to say she is still cavity free!

and they want to see makai next time since he has a mouthful of teeth.

makai spent the entire appt trying to climb the two with signs

that say, no climbing. he rode the penguin like a horse.

 little stinker!

it's that time of year again.

we had weigh ins and the derby this week.

one of the kids had too much weight and after drilling holes in it

sanding his paint job off...and crying his eyes out.

we suggested he go home and fix it, repaint it...dry his tears

and just come early and re-weigh in the day of derby.

he ended up winning first place!!

eddie stays in with emi after our bedtime routine.

after an hour i was like what the heck is going on?

i went in to find this.

i am sure i would have had the bed to myself if i didn't wake him up.

just snacking on some apples.

i seriously go through 2 apples (one for emi) and 2 bananas a day for him.

i'm sure if we had more fruit he would eat that too.

i asked emi to help with dinner.

i knew this would happen. he wanted to help too.

instead he ate 3 raw string beans in the time it took her to cut all of them.

he cried like no other when i pulled him off the chair

when they were all done 'helping'.

emi asked for a spoonful of peanut butter for a snack.

that is one huge spoonful!

no wonder we run out of food so fast. they have hollow legs.

emi is all ready for share day at school.

she has been patiently waiting to share her new crown.

she asked me to put it in a baggie so it wouldn't catch germs. ha!

 

weekly update

i've been waiting for weeks to paint emi's (new to us) dresser and desk.

since she was born she has been using the 4 drawer one.

she has outgrown it since he clothes are much bigger.

the reason i was waiting, was the sample paints only go on sale so often

and i only needed a small amount of paint.

i saw an ombre' dresser on pinterest and that is where i got the idea.

i'm sure it is pinned under miss emi if you follow me.

the top of the dresser and desk is a light pink. it looks almost white.

but next to something white, it is obviously pink.

with the new dresser and desk we had to rearrange her room

and get a little more organized.

since she is a slob!!

she looked over the fact of how many princesses she has

and made a mental list of who she still needs.

after the room gets a fresh coat of paint.

the wall behind those dolls will have colored polka dots.

not sure if we will stick with the pink theme or incorporate her bed.

and of course she had to line up all her princess crap.

she had an empty space where the crowns are.

saying she needed more! ha! i suggested we put her crowns there.

mr. poop in the tub takes baths by himself now.

we are on like a week of no pooping.

watch...tonight he will poop just cause i said something.

i gave him to eddie while i cleaned up and this is how i found them.

this picture is hilarious.

if you follow me on instagram you know the story.

but for those that don't.

i was making these pom pom garland things for ashley's baby shower

emi wanted some so she could be a cheerleader.

i made her some pink ones so she can be like a cheerleader.

she said in all seriousness and with excitement in her voice:

 i am gonna jump up and land on my crotch!

me: ex-squeeze-me!! as i try not to die from laughing.

you mean, your gonna do the splits?!

emi: yep! the splits. watch me!

and then i watched her land on her crotch!!! ha!

miss curly emi. poor emi has my hair.

we can't take a shower or bath and not wash our hair.

or it looks like this.....super cute on a 4 year old.

not so much on a 31 year old.

this girl and her super powers.

she plays with all the boys at school.

for the last week we haven't heard anything but super power this

or super power that! kind of annoying.

this picture has nothing to do with this story but goes along with the next picture.

she was showing us her fast powers, where she runs really fast...obviously.

well she ran so fast and jumped onto the couch.

her super power speed was so fast she ran smack into the wall

getting this goose egg from hitting the wall so hard.

eddie and i trying to comfort her while she was crying

but we were laughing so hard cause she said:

i forgot to activate my super powers!

which usually means her arm is out straight.

this is where the super powers have gone to far.

her frozen powers! which she was hiding in the above picture.

i haven't seen frozen but she claims elsa has them.

i decided to watch the music video....what felt like 100 times

that's another story for another day...long story short.

i looked up the video while she was awake.

and we watched it 'one more time', about 20 times.

all while saying she wants to live in that ice castle, every single time.

mickey mouse feet. 

he takes socks off but keeps slippers on.

napping while we watched the seahawk vs. niner game.

eddie is a seahawk fan, my dad a niner fan.

makai took a short nap...thanks to the clapping and hooting and hollering.

ozzy my best pal when i go to my parents.

he knows i'll give him food. so he sits and waits.

sitting still for once. watching disney junior i am sure.

makai loves to be wrapped in his blanket.

crazy boy! excited to be standing on the chair.

which is usually a no, no!

not even kidding. she told me the time every 2 minutes.

which would be a generous time allotment. 

and of course she says it like: seventy oh one. when it is 7:01

the 07:01 throws her off i think.

but really is was like 1pm... so it probably was really 01:07pm. ha!

this picture makes it hard to see.

but makai makes a duck face when he is upset about something.

like if you ask him to get down, or to stop something or reprimand him in anyway.

in this case eddie tried to help him with the fork.

makai didn't want help. even though he was eating like a dog.

this is the: i'm about to poop face.

but you are watching me and will pull me right out when i do.

so i'll just settle for a fart and laugh about it.

while you remind me: no pooping in the tub!

i can't wait for this pooping in the tub phase to stop.

he has gone a week or so...but i am not holding my breath.

more underwear/belly button grabbing.

it seriously is so funny.

and a major reason i keep a onesie on him at all times.

otherwise he would probably dig his finger into his belly button.

ashley's baby shower

the last couple of weeks i have been keeping busy planning 

a baby shower for my sister who is having a boy in march.

she flew in from out of town for the weekend.

i had fun planning a construction theme shower.

i think she looks great!!

her favorite thing about being pregnant...her new huge boobs. ha!

don't worry ash, they'll turn into floppy pancakes sooner than you want.

emi came along, wearing her party dress of course.

she was so excited to be the present helper.

emi was in hog heaven. finally a pink donut with no sprinkles.

thank you whitney for bringing the yummy donuts.

we had a great turn out of almost 30 people. 

good thing we had it at our parents house and not mine.

ashley and gma after the shower.

 

8 weeks to go! can't wait to meet him.

 

 

i googled free construction invite to get this.

but i am pretty sure you could just save this one.

and in picmonkey i turned it into this. 

i printed them at costco, was the cheapest option.

only issue i had, was it cropped off the blue portion at the top. bummer.

i thought it was hilarious that at least 3 different people 

call and asked me what she was having.

pretty sure i couldn't have gotten anymore boy than this.