Happy Birthday Our little Clint!!

I can't believe my baby who started like this...(look at tiny leg...the bulb syringe is bigger!)has now turned to this...

Oh how I love this little man! He makes our family complete!! He just makes me laugh and smile when I look at him...weather it be while is peacefully asleep or dipping his hands in the toliet... I just love him!!

Things I love about Clint....

*makes the cutest motorboat sound... so cute!

*his cheesy grin that takes up 1/2 his face...gets me every time

*his pudgy hands when he claps...especially when he know he is not supposed to be doing something like climbing the stairs

*favorite things to do are: pull everything out of the cupboards under the sink in bathroom and kitchen

*puts everything around his neck or on his head. Not sure why and a bit scary...so funny does it every time!

*another favorite: unroll the entire toilet paper roll and shred it into bits...and snack on it of course!

*throw things down the stairs and watch them...scares me!

*laughs when he hears us laugh...wants be apart of it!

*when he gets excited to see you he crawls full speed putting his head down and running into you without looking...so cute!

*takes socks off immediately after they are put on...unless you put shoes on that he can't get off...but the cutest thing is when taking off shoes and socks every time he giggles...he loves bare feet.

*loves to be with kids...watches them from the window by the door...so cute!

*loves bath time

*loves food...like his mama

*sucks on his upper lip so cute

*loves to take things out of things...like clothes out of draws, toys out of basket and of course loves to climb in after...trying to learn to love putting back too!

*is almost walking...loves to just stand up. when tries to walk he walks on his tippy toes.

*gives the BEST kisses ever! When you say "give me kisses" he will lean into you with a wide mouth kiss...LOVE it! Now is starting to bit with his chompers! (2 teeth on bottom...and top on just broke skin!)

Oh I could go on... and it makes me teary eyed to think of my baby growing up. This is such a great age. I want to freeze him! I love every minute with him and everything about him!! What a great blessing he is to our family! Happy birthday our little motorboat! We love you!

Crazy Hair

It was red ribbon week at the kids school. I think it was a perfect way to get ready for Halloween. At least it got me excited. I secretly wanted to dress up with my kids and spray paint my hair. Being a kid is way too fun!! :) I forgot to take pictures of all the other fun crazy days...but this day was "crazy hair day" These were the colors and hair styles the kids chose! Lauren insisted on a pattern...has been doing patterns in school. So cute!

Pumpkin Carving...

I accidently cut the cat off lauren's pumpkin...but can you really tell?

I always get excited to carve pumpkins at Halloween...so do the kids. Which thinking about it they don't actually do the carving since I am way too paranoid to give my kids a sharp tool...but they still love to picking out their design and scooping out pumpkin guts! We always just carve 2 pumpkins for the kids...this year we had a 3rd...since we now have 3 kids :) ha! So I got to carve Lauren's and Clint's and Gerry carved Zach...much more detail carver I might add! We had a fun night...but I was sad I over baked my pumpkin seeds...those are my favorite...always next year I guess!

my little school girl

Lauren was so sad when I told her we were taking back all her cute school clothes that she picked out to trade for uniforms. That was the main thing that got her excited for Kindergarten was going clothes shopping! :) Well when I showed her that her uniforms were skirts and dresses...she was thrilled and loving it even if it wasn't pink and purple!! Posing her new uniform for me!! Love her!

school starts...

3 days before school was starting we decided to go to a charter school instead of the new school down the street...which meant taking back all of the cute school clothes for cute uniforms...right? No...I think uniforms can be cute! Anyhow I wasn't quite sure if going to the charter school was the best decision since it is 5 miles away as apposed to the .5 mile brand new public school is. but now I can say it is worth the drive. My kids love their school and friends. The charter school teaches 3 foreign languages so Zach is studying Arabic (his choice) and Lauren studying Spanish. I love hearing them speak in their new language. Zach was actually chosen as "student of the term" in his Arabic class. And his teacher has emailed telling me he is his favorite student. They all get Arabic names and the teacher chose Zach's as Jamile...which means handsome. Zach was embarrassed when he told me. So cute.
Lauren was into the photo shoot...Zach was ready to go! And I didn't get to take Zach to his class...he is a big kid now ya know. So no classroom shots! :)
Here is our big 4th grader...crazy!
Here is our little Kindergartner!!

"okay mom...ready to go already! "

When we got to school my little Kindergartner went right in...but looked a bit nervous! I was so excited for her...but sad for me to not have her around and to let her grow up!! Oh my sweet Kindergartner!!

I love this pic of Lauren the top of her little head...trying to find her spot!! So cute!!

Aveeno bath

This is what a bad diaper rash gets ya!! What a bad mom! I felt awful Clint was in tears with this doosie! But I think I made up for it with the soothing Aveeno bath!! He thoroughly enjoyed it!!

Happy 8th birthday Zach!!

Zach turns 8!! We moved from California to Henderson, NV the day before...so it was a crazy birthday! (You can see all the boxes in the background! :) We had the Lind family in town to help us move and celebrate Zach's big day!! Happy 8th Birthday Zach!! We love you!!

4 months pregnant! *June 2009*

I was going through old pictures...and found this one of me at 4 months pregnant with Clint...crazy how time flies!

My little cub scout!! (back in May 2009)

I just couldn't believe it that my little boy was old enough to be a cub scout! He was so excited and had the absolute best most involved fun enthusiastic cub scout leader in Henderson...Sister English!! Boy we miss her, she made scouts amazing!! Sure love my cub scout!!