birthday interview with will

the last question was - what do you want to be when you grow up?  will said - an airplane driver.  he will be four in one week!

why i wear ear plugs at night

proof!  yes, lee, you do snore - big time.  but, i still love you. 
i also love how baby girl tries to imitate the sound.

lil sport soccer dynamo

this will be our fourth week at soccer camp.  will gets more and more used to it each time and seems to really enjoy it.   it doesn't hurt that his best friend is there too.
coach bill is awesome.  he is incredibly patient and does a lot of age appropriate drills and games like "hit the ground" and "bad pirate/good pirate".
 as you can see, little princess has been enjoying herself too.

inright outright upright downright happy all the time

Look to the LORD and his strength

Look to the LORD and his strength
seek his face always.
psalm 105:4

i need to paint this on my bedroom wall.

sometimes i do feel like just going around the house and painting scriptures that God has put in front of me so they'll always be in front of me.  so i won't forget!  but, then again i think hubby might not approve.

the other day i was at target with the kids and my three year old is hanging on the back of the buggy yelling, "you are the light of the world!"  awesome.

he's at the age where he has no fear of rejection and he likes to talk loud and often.  i need to teach him some more scripture - make an evangelist out of him and he wouldn't even know what was going on, but random people in target would be encouraged or convicted.  haha.

today i fed my kids mcdonalds hamburgers and frozen pizzas (with fruit on the side).  this is very out of the norm for me.  i don't think i gave will a mcdonalds hamburger until he was two.  but, anyway, i don't feel guilty because i had fun with my kids today and that's more important than stressing over all natural and no red dye 40 or high fructose corn syrup.  and hopefully we'll fit in a few more veggies and whole grains in tomorrow.

a year without cable tv

this month i celebrate 6 years of marriage with the hubs!

i'm also celebrating 1 year of no cable tv and not network tv (is that what you call it?)  our antennae picks up static and a spanish channel and that's it.  so i use vhs and dvds for the 3 year old's tv time.  the one year old has just started having a small interest in the tv.  the hubs and i use hulu on occasion and redbox.  and there's always youtube.

i do admit, i missed my cable tv after not having it for a few months.  when you're a stay at home mom, the tv can be your "friend", your adult conversation.  i missed my today show, oprah, bravo, and tlc shows.  and my three year old misses curious george and super why.  but honestly, my three year old was getting to the point where he could understand some of what they were talking about (on my shows) and that was not always good.  and the commercials were getting in sane.  if you can afford dvr, cable tv is a nice thing to have.  if you cannot afford dvr, you're going to watch 20 minutes of a show and 10 minutes of commercials.  no thank you.

time is precious when living with a 3 year old and a baby.  so this works for us.  i'm thankful my husband is okay with it.  he misses his college football in the fall, but i think that's about it.  he keeps up with the news through the internet.

i used to be a tv addict growing up and when i was in college.  one day, when i was in college, i heard someone say they didn't have a tv and they didn't know how they would even have time to watch it if they had one.  i remember thinking, what???

now, i can relate.  if i had a tv, i don't know how i would get anything else done.  and i would miss out on time with my kids too.  i already feel like i don't get to spend enough time with them, and i'm a stay at home mom.  crazy!

an update

will is in a very funny stage:

it's my favorite thing to do in the world. will
what is? me
pick my nose. will

i go to the bathroom and will follows me (of course)
do you need some privacy? will
yes. me
well, i'm just pretending to give you some privacy while i sit here with you.  will
i didn't get any privacy, but i did get a big laugh!

mommy, why did you kill that off of me? as i swat a bug off of his leg.

phoebe is a mess as well.  she loves to have fun - to dance and spin to music until she falls down. 
we have had such a time with her eating and sleeping the past two months but during the past few days we have reached some normalcy - i'm praying it continues.

victories for last week -
she ate a green bean!  and didn't spit out the skin.  and then she ate another one.
she ate a piece of watermelon
we've discovered she is not allergic to pb. thank you, Lord!
we still have a ways to go with fruit and veggies but we are a lot better than 2 months ago when she would only eat baby food, food that was pureed, and graham crackers (at 14 months old).

words she can say - sort of:

ball, eye, belly button, mouth, airplane, car, bubba, dada, mama, all done, thank you, cracker, bird, dog