Practice Makes Perfect

Love watching my little man practice for his recital.

One Less Orphan

There is an organization called One Less Orphan that is wonderful.  They help those that are trying to adopt and/or foster children who need financial help.  You can go to their Facebook page for now to get some info.  They are currently developing a website.  I was founded by someone we go to church with that has a heart for adoption and wants to help others.  Saturday we went to a wonderful fundraiser for them.  The kids got to decorate cookies and I got to shop with money going to One Less Orphan.  Also we got to knock out Santa and not have to wait in the mall lines.  We saw the same Santa last year and can I just say he is THE.BEST.SANTA.EVER!  He not only took time for a “family” photo but let each child go up individually and talk to them.  He asked them why we celebrate Christmas and although he did ask them what they wanted Santa to bring them he work in the importance of not just getting gifts but telling others about Christ.  Seriously - BEST Santa ever!  Thank you Mr. Wages for the time you take with each child.  While we do try to teach them at home it’s easy for them to get the “glittery eyes” when in front of Santa (well all except for Corley....can’t fool her she knows the true meaning).

Also a huge thank you to Kam Roberts who took some wonderful Santa pictures of my kiddos.  I can smell a family portrait session in the near future.

Cornbread Muffin

little nothings

some may say they are nothing but these are the things i want to remember.  i absolutely adore sitting in the living room, or anywhere in the house really, and hearing grayson practice the paino.  yes at times it is very tring but he is getting better and better each week.

i love driving in the car to the store with colbie and hearing "getting to know you" from "the king and i" and "these are a few of my favorite things" from "the sound of music" on a kids cd we have.  i love her resposnse........"mommy is this mary poppins singing?"  hmmmm tryexplaining yes to a child but then explaining not really mary poppins.  what comes next trying to explain the connections between scar from "the lion king" to "die hard" or "the man in the iron mask?"

another thing that is so super caute that jason and i have laughed over that seems too funny to forget is colbie telling anyone hat listen what she is thankful for this thanksgiving.  only she doesn't say thankful she says "i am thank you for......."  which currently she is "thank you" for family, rainbows, her babies, candy, and jesus. <3 p="p">

corley paige i don't want to leave you out.  you give everyone a hard time right now with the exception of 3 people.  mommy, daddy, and hope.  you are perfectly fine in mommy or daddy's arms and on sundays you are more than happy to get into hope's arms.  you are now so much for anyone else these days not that you realize that mean momma and dadda are leaving for a while.  you are almost always smiling. and you are so.very.close to taking your first steps all by yourself.  

and these are just a few of MY favorite things on this up coming thanksgiving!

UNO

as in corley paige turns one.  how can this be already!  i can’t believe it.  it seems like just yesterday that you were born, and yet it is so hard for anyone in the family to remember our little family without you here.  how is that?  you are sure a pure joy and such a funny little girl.  we are waiting until everyone is together on thanksgiving to do you real party but you did get to sample a cupcake (2 actually) on your birthday.

a big shout out to whimsical sweets they have the best cupcakes ever.  their red velvet is my favorite but i’m sure they are all just as good.

corley paige you are growing up so very fast.  you are in size 3 diapers still but 4’s are right around the corner.  you are taking less and less formula and demanding more food.  you current favs are bananas and spaghetti. (is it odd that even though i know how to spell it i can’t write/type bananas without singing gwen stefani?)  you are more mobile than either one of you bigs were at this age.  yes, they crawled around but you are into everything.  you have quickly gotten the nickname dora around the house because you explore more than ever now.  you are standing by yourself a lot but haven’t taken that first step without anyone or thing yet.  you love the push walker toy but insist on having someone right there by your side while doing it.  i love you more than you will ever know.  so do grayson and colbie via.  they want to be in your face all.the.time, and you hate it.  oh well, one of the privileges of being the youngest i suppose?  don’t get me wrong though you adore them both and want to be with them too - just at a small distance of course.  you are starting to say more and more.  after “mama” being your first word early on you stopped saying it right after you learned “dada”.  i am happy to report that you are back to using “mama” more than ever with “dada” a close second.  “bubu” or “baba” is the only other word you are saying right now.  we still aren’t sure if this is bubu for grayson or baba because the only song big sister want to hear is “i just wanna be a sheep.”   only time will tell.  i am so grateful for this past year and you making our family even better.  i can’t imagine us without you sweet corley bug.

Wordless Wednesday

Planning baby C's First B-day

We ( and by we I really mean just me) have decided to skip the big FIRST birthday party for Corley.  I'm just going to do it on Thanksgiving day while everyone is already together.  They just get so overwhelmed anyways there's not need in doing it twice, right?  So I am just going to do a smash cake or something small on Thanksgiving.  In keeping with my little turkey baby's  theme.........

baby Corley a few days old Thanksgiving 2011


Would be is appropriate to get this cake from Baskin Robbins this year?

A Case of the Mondays

I usually work on Mondays and have off the middle of the week only today I had no one to watch the baby so I switched some things around and was able to stay home today with her.  I thought this was great, drop the bigs off at school and lay down and sneak in a nap while baby C took her morning nap. Not so much.

Let me start off by saying we have an outside dog.  She loves outside too.  But she is older, 10 yrs, and I feel bad for her sooooo I've been letting her sleep inside since it's getting colder now.  Last night was her last night of that!

I woke up and walked down the dark hallway to the kitchen only to step in dog pee.  Got to the kitchen and went to put the kids breakfast on the table and saw dog poop near the front door.  Okay I can deal with this, no biggie.  I told the kids to go straight to the table and not to walk in the poop.  Guess who stepped right in it - Grayson.  Got him cleaned up and heard the baby crying.  I go get her out of bed and she is soaking wet.  So I start to change her in the girls room and realize there aren't any diapers in there.  Again - this is baby #3...I got this!  So we go into the living room and get a diaper and BOOM I step in an undiscovered pile of....you got it dog poop.  So I grab the towel to wipe it off really quick so I don't track it anywhere else, and I turn back around just in time to see the baby slip and fall in her own urine because I have yet to put a diaper on her.  I thought I had enough time to wipe the poo off me first - not so much!  All is cleaned up everyone is changed and we are off and out the door to school.  We can salvage this day.  About 5 seconds from Grayson getting out of the car he says, "Moommm!.  There's poop on my book bag!"  

Serious case of the Mondays I tell ya.  And trust me you should be glad there are no pictures to accompany this post!