Kid Quotes (# 15) "The Little Things"

Just went to lay Brodie and Chloe down for a nap...Brodie in his crib in our room and Chloe in our bed.  Set them up with a bottle and a sippy cup, and turned on Gnomeo and Juliet.  Went to walk out of the room, turned the light off, and was about to close the door when Cooper leans past me, peeks into the room, and says,

"Night Chloe.  Night Brodie.  Lub you guys.  Lub you Sissy.  Lub you Brode" and blows them a kiss.

To which Chloe replies, "Luv you Bubba", and blows him a kiss in return.

<3

They can be crazy, hyper, mess making, little rascals, but sometimes they're so sweet and adorable it just melts my heart!

"Fill It In Friday" # 2

This ought to be interesting...I'm really not a fan of summer... o_O

1.  My plans for the summer include     taking care of my kiddos, doing house work and chores, hopefully getting to the park on days it's not too hot, maybe taking the kids to Water World at some point, taking the kids to the fountains at Southlands (it's become a little tradition for the Postons now :) ), swimming, hanging out outside (although I don't necessarily like being outdoors, but my kids LOVE it so I have to suck it up HeHe), oh, and the many fun festivities associated with my friend Krysti's wedding!


2.  The best summer I ever had was    probably the summer after my junior year/before my senior year.  Spent the entire summer partying, hot tubbing, swimming, drinking, playing rummy (sp), and hanging out with my brother and Audrey.  We had a blast the entire summer.


3.  Summer is     HOT.  Which I love and hate.  I'm always cold.  Always.  So summer is great because when I'm freezing my ass off in the house I can just step outside into the hot sun for 5 minutes and warm right up. BUT I also hate it because it makes going to park or doing other outdoor activities a bit of a struggle with the kids.  They get too hot and cranky and it's no fun sometimes. :( 


4.  My favorite summer food is  either watermelon or baked beans.  Good baked beans though, like with bacon!  Yummy!


5.  The best way to quench a summer thirst is with    iced tea.  Love iced tea. No lemon though. Oh and unsweetened.  Can't stand sweet tea.  They gave me sweet tea in the McDonald's drive thru once and I was royaly ticked off. Grr.


6.  My summer uniform consists of    t-shirts and my husbands gym/workout shorts. I steal them all the time. <3 that man.


7.  The best thing about summer is     the ease of dressing my children.  It's so easy to just slap on a pair of shorts and a t-shirt, or a sun dress for Chlo, then add some sandals, and head off to the store, just like that.  Winter is such a pain, especially the SUPER cold days because the have to have multiple layers plus a jacket, hat, and gloves.  Oh and then I have to locate socks...matching socks at that.  Then you have to take their jacket on and off everytime you get in and out of the car because it's unsafe for them to wear a bulky jacket in the carseat which makes a day full of errands and multiple stops just complete chaos.

Quick Catch-Up

Well I guess it's time for a quick update.  Not too much is going on lately....

We didn't really do too much for the 4th of July. We got the kids dressed up and took them to watch the parade of course.  This was the first year that the kids have watched the parade and not been in it, since I didn't enter them in the Lil Miss and Lil Mister contest this year.

The Lil Miss and Lil Mister contest (as most of you know) is a contest held in our little town to raise money for something (I don't know what LOL Maybe the 4th of July "committee" I'm going to guess...) Anyway, the way it's worked in the past is that you enter your child(ren) by filling out a form with their name and age, then submitted a picture of them to be placed inside the General Store.  The pictures go up on giant jars and then people "vote" for your child by placing their change or any amount of money into that child's jar.  Come 4th of July, the child with the most money in their jar "wins". During the parade, all the kids entered get to ride on a float or in a train car (if they're old enough) and the winners are announced at the end of the parade.

Now obviously you can tell just by reading this whole thing is really a "popularity" contest so to speak, and obviously the family who puts the most money in their kids jar is going to be the winner, BUT from a parent's perspective, especially from the perspective of a parent who clearly loves to show off her children *cough cough*, it's totally fun to have your kids pictures up in the store for 2 weeks.  That's the best part :)  Hence, why we didn't enter this year.  They cut out the part where the kids' pictures go up in the store.  o_O  Yeah.  All you did this year was if you wanted to "nominate" a child (and of course people would nominate their own kids) you just put their name on a slip, attached money to it, and stuck it in one of the three jars around town, so of course who's ever mom/dad put in the most money, that kid won.  Boring right?  I mean, generally that's they way it worked anyway, but no pics in the store?  Bummer.  So this year the kids didn't get entered, which actually worked out great.  I didn't really miss it all and neither did they.
They got to watch the whole parade with me, Whit, Grandma and Papa, Grandma Sheri, and Grandpa Poston.  Daddy had to work as he usually does...which sucked, but hey holiday pay isn't all that bad, plus with his early shift he got off early enough to still BBQ and swim with us and enjoy the rest of the day.  During the parade the kids got to pick up candy, which they didn't really get the hang of at first, but everyone helped me help them and they got quite a bit, which they definitely wanted to eat right away.  It was super hot and Bro just pretty much sat in the stroller throughout the entire parade.  Somehow mommy got sunscreen in his eyes and they were just watering the whole time :( Stupid mommy. 

After the parade we met up with more friends and headed toward the park.  By this point the kids were anxious to run around so I took them out of their strollers at the park and spent the next 30-45 minutes chasing them around.  We again had another incident of mommy by herself and Cooper needed to pee, so Grandpa Poston watched Chloe and I recruited Whitney to keep an eye on Brodie.  Luckily the bathroom was right across the park, so we got that out of the way and the kids ran around and played the rest of the time.  It quickly became way too hot, not only for the kiddos, but for mommy, so we met up with Grandma and Papa and headed on to spend the rest of the day in the pool. Yippee!

Wasn't too long before Daddy was home and we swam some more, had some snacks and beers, and BBQed ribs and corn. The end.  (of 4th of July anyway...)

And the kids are doing great of course.  Cooper has had a rough few nights, starting on the 4th, but I'm not entirely sure what's up with him.  He's felt warm each night and had a slight fever.  The first night I thought it was just from being in the sun too much.  He seemed really uncomfortable, tossing and turning, and saying his tummy hurt and that he needed to throw up (but he didn't).  Same thing the second night, and a little last night.  He also started to say his "mouth" hurt or his "teeth" hurt, but he has no more teeth to come in so I think his throat may have been hurting, but he only knew to describe it has mouth or teeth.  I've recently had a little "sore throat" problem after the last 10 days or so that was really awful for the first three days, so I think he might have come down with that (whatever "that" was).

And Chloe's doing great.  Becoming more of a diva everyday.  Yesterday was Josh's Sunday, so him and I were having a "semi" serious conversation in the bedroom while the kids were watching Umi Zoomi, but Chloe wouldn't have it.  She kept walking in "crying" (her fake cry) asking Daddy for all sorts of things, which he would course get up and get her hoping that we could finish our talk....but she was never satisfied and really just didn't like the fact that we were talking and Daddy's attention was "off" her.  Of course we tried the "Mommy and Daddy are talking so please don't interupt unless it's an emergency" thing, but her response..."I talka Daddy.  Daddy I needa talka you."  Yeah Diva.  In the car when Josh and I are talking in the front seat, Chloe's in the back going, "Daddy. Daddy. Daddy!" until Josh answers, "Yes Chloe?"  Her response, "Hi Daddy."  Yep.  We've got problems... LOL

And Bro's doing marvolous as well.  Talking up a STORM.  It's ridiculous.  This morning when we woke up, he was standing in his crib, so when I got up to get him he looked up at me and said, "I get up".  I swear.  He said it THREE times.  Now of course it wasn't clear as day like a two year old would say it, but that's what he said and I could easily make it out.  I'm not even kidding.  My mom always told me that I was talking in complete sentences at 15 months old and I never believed her (still don't know if I do LOL), but I think I'm starting too.  Brodie tries to say new words ever day and really IS trying to make sentences.  In fact, he's in the room with me right now and just knocked something off the chair and said, "Uh oh.  What dat?"  and picked it up.  Yeah crazy.

Well I guess that's it for now.  Wasn't as "quick" of an update as I expected, but hey it never is huh?  Anyway, thanks for checking in with us!

Kid Quotes (# 14) Monkey See, Monkey Do...

Proof that Mommy "gossips" too much...

I'm standing in the kitchen talking to my mom and dad (about Chloe needing to go to bed) and Chloe turns around, with her drink in one hand and the other hand on her hip, and says, with a little attitude,

"Who you talkin' 'bout guys?"  Then proceeds to take a drink and wait for our response.

Yeah. Mommy needs to stop gossiping LOL  Hey, it's not always bad stuff or rumors etc. Just in my defense...

Kid Quotes (# 13)

Cooper was sitting in the recliner listening to Disney Channel music on Josh's phone with the headphones in, and I was sitting across from him in the other recliner.  I looked at him and asked, "Are you listening to music?" He says, "What?!" So I repeated, "Are you listening to music?" and he says, very matter-of-factly, "Yeah."

We both sit there for a minute.  He continues listening to music and I continue to watch him because he's just so cute, and finally he looks at me and goes,

"So.....Anyways....Think I needa mow with Papa tomorrow."

I start cracking up and ask, "Did you just say 'So....anyways'?" and he again, very matter-of-factly says, "Yeah.  I needa mow with Papa."

Cracks me up.

Hit or Miss

The kids had another t-ball game tonight and they took their team pictures.  We've learned that t-ball really is "hit or miss".  The first week they both did great.  They weren't quite sure what they were supposed to do, but since they were unsure they paid pretty close attention.  Week 2 was a little rough and they were kind of all over the place....running off, not paying attention, etc.  Week 3 was rained out and week 4 was a complete bust.  As some of you may have read, I totally goofed up.  Pictures were at 4:45pm and we were running late.  We showed up right at 4:45pm to an almost empty park.  Nobody was there.  Thank goodness for our smart phones because I was able to log in to my AOL account and read the email that I should have read hours ago, saying pictures were rescheduled to next week.  Then I went back to the initial email from the coach which said the 24th was our "bye" week.  *smacks forehead*  Oh well.  So we went to play at the park for a bit and then called it a night.  Their week 3 game was rescheduled for last Monday and poor Cooper fell asleep literally five minutes before we had to leave the house.  We loaded him into the car and he stayed asleep all the way to the park.  He had no interest in playing and Josh and I took turns holding him/playing with Chloe, while mom and dad chased Brodie (who really, really wanted to play t-ball too HeHe)

So tonight, week 5, went fairly well.  We were actually on time which was good, but I had lost my picture order form, so I had no idea how much pics would cost, plus I also lost my checkbook...I'm pretty sure it's somewhere in our car (under the seat etc.) but I can't find it for the life of me.  I got an extra form from the lady and upon reading it I realized they were taking ACTUAL sports pictures.  I thought they were just taking a little team photo and that was all, but they were doing individual pics as well and the lady was posing the kids with their gloves and all.  Well Cooper had JUST fallen asleep once again in the truck and wanted nothing to do with pics.  That kid is just like his daddy when it comes to being tired, sleeping, and getting woke up; he's a total crank pot for sure! Who can blame him?  I'd be mad too if I just dozed off for a nap and got woke up and then was forced into taking pics. LOL  We tried some of the two them together which was a no go, then we got some cute ones of Chloe by herself, and finally got Cooper to at least sit there with Josh, but he still wanted nothing to do with smiling or posing.  We promised him if he sat for the pic he could leave with Josh to go to the ATM to get cash for the order form.  Well me being in my frazzled mother state chasing Brodie and and trying to keep Chloe from standing in the way of other kids' pictures...I totally spaced the team pic, so Josh took of with Cooper and a few minutes later they were lining kids up for the team pic.  They took like 10-15 shots of the team and Cooper wasn't in them :(  Coop and Josh got back just as we were finishing up the team pic and the coach's wife (who was also one of the women who did both of Cooper's speech evals, so we know her) insisted that we do more with Cooper, which I was extremely grateful for because I didn't want to speak up and sound like a bother when it was MY fault my kid wasn't in it, so I was happy she said something for me.  Thankfully all the kids and parents were super cooperative and sat down again for more pics.  It actually turned out good because all the kids did better overall for the second set of pics, so I didn't fell AS bad as I did at first.

After the pics the kids did GREAT!  The best they've ever done at a game.  Chloe HATES running (she's like her momma LOL), but she was trying her hardest.  They both got to "catch" a ball and bring it to the tee, and Cooper smacked one way "out of the park".  He really got ahold of it for the first time!  Unfortunately I was trying to get Chloe back on to second base, so I missedit, but I heard the cheering and Josh told me he got it good, so I was excited for him.  Cooper did the best he's ever done as far as really PLAYING the game and running the bases and really he just started to get the hang of it.  They have two more games: one more regular game at the park and then the last game of the season will be at the baseball diamond and they'll get a trophy and a snow cone.

Here are pics from today:

Before the game.  Waitin' on the other team.

After game snack :)



Push Pop!



Brodie demands a Push Pop!

Everything else is going pretty well.  The kids are finally healthy.  They all finished their antibiotics, but we had a small scare with Chloe when she developed an awful rash.  It started as what looked like bite on her tummy, then they next day the "bite" looked like a welt and there were more "bites", then by that night it was all over her tummy, thighs, and in her armpits.  We gave her Benadryl and tried Benadryl cream on her rash, but it was still there the next morning and had gotten even worse by that afternoon.

Rash...Day 2

So of course I took her to the doctor.  The doctor said it could either be from her just having that cold virus or she MAY be allergic to amoxicillin, but seeing as she's taken it before without a problem, it was most likely from the illness.  The doc also said these types of rashes are worst during the second and third day and that it should begin to clear up, which it did the very next day.  I probably over reacted just a tiny bit by rushing her to the doc, but it just spread and got worse so quickly, I didn't know what to do.  Isn't that how it always works though?  The minute you rush 'em in is the minute they start to feel better. LOL  Who cares though right? As long as they get better that's all that matters.


Also, we just got our pool put up last night/today so Josh and the kiddos got to take their first dip of the summer :)

Daddy and Bambinos (Yes, the kids are naked.  I'm not lying when I say they're always naked. LOL)

Chillaxin' in the float

Laughing at Grandma :)

Having his "baba" in the pool :)



Well I guess that's it for now.  As always, thanks for checkin' in with us!

"Fill It In Friday"

Ok. I got this from a friend's blog and I'm joining the survey bandwagon.  The idea is that once a week (on Friday) a blog "survey" will be passed around....Fill It In Friday.  So here's my first survey blog!  And fellow bloggers: feel free to snag it and join in!

1.   The best news I ever received was.... Finding out I was pregnant (all three times!)

2.  Something I’m looking forward to is.... Watching my kids grow and seeing who they become.

3.  Something I would never do is.... comprimise my beliefs.  They may change a little over time, with life experience and maturity, but I'll always do what I feel is right.

4.  If I could choose someone to be my life coach (famous or not, living or dead), I’d choose....  my mom.  She really understands me, always has my best interests at heart, and knows what I value most in life.  She'll support me in whatever I do.

5.  If I had to put a label on my style it would be.... Lazy.  I often wear whatever is convenient even if it doesn't even match... O_o   I will try to step it up a bit if I'm going out, but my day-to-day life consists of comfy pants and t-shirts.

6.  One should always.... be true to themselves.

7.  I want to....  take a shower! :-P (Ok I already said Idress badly and now I'm claiming I need to take a shower....probably shouldn't admit to all this in one blog...LOL)