Time to go

My parents are going on a cruise tomorrow. In preparation for their cruise my Mom printed out a map and agenda of where they were going to be each day. As I was looking at it Liam asked to see it so I showed it to him and explained, "this is where they are going." He asked "Where we are going?" I responded, no, and then explained that Grandma and Grandpa were going on a trip for a couple of days. Liam thought for a moment then very concerned asked me, "Well, who's going to cook?" (I do help cook around here, I promise!! But he must not realize that) I said, "No, Liam, I'm going to cook. Don't you remember in our other house that I always cooked?" He then looked confused and answered, "Our Dad helped us."

It seems it's time to go and move into our own house/apartment once again, so that my son can realize that I do cook. :)

Valentines and a Rocking Presidents Day

This Valentines Day seemed like three days of Valentines. Liam celebrated Valentines at his school on Friday, so we all had to celebrate Valentines Day on Friday. Then on Sunday (the day Valentines was actually on) we made these sweet little babies.

Liam wrote the names on them (what a smart kid) and then we headed out to deliver.

Here's Emma ready to go. We got out a little bit late so, yes, Emma and Liam are both in their PJ's.

Getting ready to run.

Ringing the door bell.

We only made two stops. One to Brad and Ashley's house, and one to Grandma Clark's house (where we currently live :) ) But the kids loved it! At Brad's house Me and Liam and Emma dropped off the Valentines, rang the bell, and ran. But by the time I got Liam and Emma both back into the car, and headed around to let me in Brad had caught us. We tried to make a speedy get away so they wouldn't know who it was, but when I opened my door to get in and the car light came on, I looked in the back and there was Liam waving at Brad with his biggest smile. (We need to teach the kid a thing or two about Valentines.) Tony did make a grand exit though, by squealing the wheels as we raced away.

Liam didn't have school on Presidents day (the next day), so he decided to celebrate by dressing up as a rock star (he dressed himself) and playing his lightsaber guitar, which turns into a handy gun or bandage dispenser. He walked around the house taking requested for playing slow, fast, Christmas, or scary music. Pretty awesome.

Emma got in on the act by playing her fancy book guitar. (They are saying/playing, "bown, bitta, bown, bown, bown, bown)

Rock Stars!!

California

A couple of weeks ago we took a trip to California with all of my family (Mom and Dad, Brother's and Sisters). It was a blast!! Here are some pictures from that trip. The one above is of the fog that I got to drive in on the way to California in the dark. It was scary!

Here is Liam and Emma in the car. Yes it was a tight squeeze, but we made it happily as you can tell by their happy faces.
Here's Liam and Dad pretending to be asleep. They asked me to take a picture of them while they were "sleeping." ??? Your guess is as good as mine. (Yes, I know this picture is side ways. My camera/computer is being retarded, so just turn your head to look at it and half the other ones on here.)
Here's me and Emma with the Mexican jello. Not the best picture of me, but I had to get in the Mexican jello.
Liam and Emma playing in the sand at the beach.
I'm horrible at remembering to take pictures so although we went to Disneyland three times I only have a few pictures. Here's Mom and Dad and Liam and Emma at the front gates of Disneyland.
Here's Fox at the front gates. Looking happy to be there. :)
Sierra at Disneyland. I took a few pictures of her and all the pictures I took she had her eyes closed. I think she's related to Earl from My Name is Earl.
This is Liam a the aquarium we went to in Long Beach, extra cool. Notice the giant crabs behind him, and the fish with the creepy eyes. :)
Tony and Emma at the aquarium. This is the day that we picked up Tony. Me and the kids drove down on Saturday and then Tony flew in on Wednesday and drove home with us on Sunday. (Turn you head again :) )
Sierra and Mallory. (and again)

They had a real cool bird feeding place at the aquarium. Here's Magnum and Ashley with a bird on her shoulder. (and again)The cool birds.

Liam had water on his shirt from petting the sting rays and one bird would not stop sucking the water out of it. I had to finally push the bird off his arm.
Emma, Tony and the bird.
Tony making lovely faces at the bird. (once again)
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The bird still sucking on Liam's shirt.
Tony being a bird perch.

Dad
Grammy not looking to happy that a bird is on her, and Fox.
Fisher

A Few Random Thoughts

-I love the Disney channel show Phineas and Ferb so much that I may name my next child Phineas. The darn show makes me laugh so hard.

-I avoid driving in all instances, especially on the freeway. I have been like this through all of my driving career. This Saturday I am driving to California with three children, and then come March I will be driving to Iowa...YIKES!!

-Liam honestly thought Emma broke her leg today when she fell off a slide. He was full out crying and kept saying, "Emma can't stand up, she broke her leg!!" Who knew that kid had so much empathy?

-Emma is finally a potty pooper...yes you read correctly, not a party pooper, but a potty pooper. She would not go poop in the potty for a long time and finally she saw Liam going in the potty and decided that she could do that too. So for the last three days she has been a potty pooper.

-I think Fox is too chunky to be able to roll over. I don't think I could lift that type of weight if I were him. :D He still hasn't rolled over. I have a secret competition with Lisa's baby William. William has already rolled over...Come on Fox!! :) (and good job Little Will :) )

-I have never been to a chiropractor and my husband is going to school to be one...I think they are good. :)

-I miss trying to beat Tommy home from taking Liam to school everyday. For the record I won the most.

-I'm so excited to go to Disneyland this next week and see my kids faces. I don't care if I don't get to go on a single ride, I'm just excited to see them get the feeling that I always got when I went to Disneyland. It's the happiest place on earth you know ;) YAHOO!!

Davenport- a new Adventure

Here it is! Wonderful Davenport Iowa (I'm trying to be optimistic :) ) where we will be moving mid-March. And Yes, that is the Mississippi River. Davenport has a gigantic bridge going over it linking the city to the other "quad cities" (Bettendorf, Moline, West Moline, Davenport, and Rock Island...yes there are 5 cities in the "quad cities") I have had a difficult time preparing myself mentally for the move, but I think I'm getting closer to being prepared...I don't know that I will ever be fully prepared, but I'm getting closer.

It is about 1,260 miles between PG and Davenport, about 18-19 hours. But we are going to do it so Tony can go here

Palmer Chiropractic, and become and chiropractor. I'm so excited that Tony is going to school, not so excited that its half way across the country :) . The cool part is that the Nauvoo temple

will be the temple that we attend and we will be close to all the other historic church sites. Also we will be right by the John Deere tractor factory!! So Sierra will be excited.

It'll be a new adventure and we are excited, so if you are planning a trip back that way look us up and come visit!!

Giggling Fox

Fox -3 and a half months

A few weeks after Fox was born he would laugh or giggle when you played patty cake with him. Now he has progressed to this. Unfortunately I couldn't find Tony's phone fast enough to record it when Fox was really giggling hard (Tony had him really going) this is the tail end of it when Fox had just about had enough, but it's still so silly. :)


Sorry if the video isn't working!! If it doesn't just go to my facebook page. It works there. I can't seem to get it to work on here. :/

To Boot or not to Boot

I recieved a notice last week in Liam's "Wednesday folder" that said all of the children in his preschool class were being retested and that if they scored to high they would be "exited" out of the class to allow children who didn't score so high into the class. (Yes, they boot the smart ones to make way for the dumb ones.) I started having a little bit of a panic attack. I like my three hours everyday with only two kids. It's when I can go shopping and not feel like one of those crazy moms dragging around twenty kicking and screaming kids, and when I can give Emma extra attention. Plus, now that Liam goes to school he gets extra bored and crazy on his days off, like he's not quite sure what to do with himself. So for the past week I have dreaded today when I would get new if Liam was too smart to continue or too dumb and had to stay in. Either way I knew I wasn't going to like the news. I went and picked Liam up from school, grabbed his "Wednesday folder," and pulled out the green paper with the verdict on it. It said congratulations! Liam had learned all the curriculum that Pre-K requires. But that Liam could stay in the class, if it was my wish, because the class was not all the way full!! Yahoo!! Best of both worlds. I quickly X'd the "Yes, I would like my child to continue in this class" box, and shoved it back in his bag to take to school tomorrow. Liam is going to have enough change when we move to Iowa in a few months, thank goodness he got to stay in his class with all of his friends!! Yahoo!! :)