Funny ongoings

Last night at dinner Shane refused to eat, so we put him to bed with no dinner. Mind you, it was the exact same dinner he loved the night before, but last night he wouldn't eat it because it was "all mixed up" and there were mushrooms in it. After a tantrum, Brian went up to talk to him and he said, "Tomorrow night can mommy make peas and carrots because mushrooms stink Dad."

Earlier in the week, Brian called Shane and Shane stormed over and said, "Your wasting my time Dad" and then he stormed off. This one was much funnier after the fact and not so funny at the time.

Every night I sing songs to Myann at bedtime, Twinkle Twinkle, Itsy Spider, and Jesus Loves Me. She now knows the songs so well that she sings them quite loudly along with me. Tonight I was singing softly so I could really listen to her, since she doesn't know all the words. During Jesus Loves Me, instead of "little ones to Him belong, they are weak but He is strong," Myann said "...but He is drunk." Now, I don't know how she knows the word drunk and am not 100% sure that is what she said, but it definitely sounded more like drunk than strong. I was cracking up, then of course she had to laugh too.

Last week, Brian brought Shane home from school and Shane said, "Why did you and Mommy have sister (Myann)? And why did you have brother (Anders)? Brian said well because we love them and Shane said, "Well we don't need anymore Dad, you can't bring home all the kids Dad. You'll break our house." I guess Shane wouldn't support an Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt family. However, just this morning Shane said that Myann and I needed a baby girl because he and Daddy had a baby boy. So we'll see.

Giganta Baby

Today was Anders' 4 month doctor appointment. Mind you, he is 4 1/2 months, but this was the only appt I could get. As we expected, he is huge, hence the title giganta baby.
Weight 19 lbs. 14 oz. 100% plus (off the charts)
Length 26 1/4 inches. (90%)

Anders continues to be such a joy, how did we have 3 wonderful babies!!! He is all smiles and a chatterbox - Lord help us! He is trying to roll over, but rolling 20lbs is proving to be a challenge. He can sit up for a few seconds and then topples over, so he should be on his own before too long. He is even getting better about sleeping. Last week he slept 7 hours two nights and this week he has done 7 hours and 5 1/2 hours. He has not been as kind to me as his siblings with sleeping, but I guess he didn't get to be 20 lbs without a midnight snack or 3.

Check out these thighs!!!

Where have I been?

So this is the question of the week from friends and family both in Spokane and from afar. Well the answer is boring, we have just been busy. It took me forever to recover from Christmas in Texas and then we had visitors back to back.. Mind you we LOVED our visitors and had a great time, but it took us out of our routine, so I fell behind on blogging. I plan to backtrack and blog retrospectively for the past two months. So if you are interested, feel free to scroll back for a few months. I will do Myann's birthday, Christmas, Sandy and Cheryl's visit, and the Cross family visit. It will take me all weekend to catch up.

Cross Family visit

One of my closest friends, Jenny, and her family came to stay with us for a week. It was supposed to be their vacation, though a house with 5 children 3 and under probably does not constitute a vacation for anybody. We had a great time though. I was disappointed for them that they did not see any snow fall during their visit, but there was a ton of snow on the ground and we had freezing fog for most of the week, so the white trees were gorgeous. I wish I had taken pictures.
We went to Mobius, the mall, sledding at Manito, night snowmobiling, and Silver Mountain for the water park and tubing.







Shane loved having his girl Chloe stay for a week and will talk about her for a while, no doubt.

Shane and friend

Just a cute picture of Shane and his buddy Jameson.




And yes, Shane is wearing a halloween shirt. He likes to pick out his own clothes most days, and he really loves this shirt, so it will likely get lots of wear this year.

Asparagus

I think this has been discussed elsewhere in the blog, but funny enough to justify repeating.  We are not above using any means necessary to instill a love of veggies. We encouraged Shane to eat asparagus by telling him that it would make his pee stink. Some where along the way he decided veggies made his peepee strong.  So Shane said, "Anders has a strong peepee."  I asked, "What is a strong peepee?"  Shane says, "Well he ate asparagus in your tummy so now he has a strong peepee." Okay sure. 

Aunt Sandy and Cheryl visit

This weekend Aunt Cheryl and Aunt Sandy came for a visit. We stayed busy.
Friday was a hang out at the house day. Saturday we went to River Front Park ice skating rink and then dinner out at Luna. Sunday, we went to breakfast at Maggie's South Hill Grill and then bowling (in the dark with fluorecent lights) and then ice cream at Cold Stone. The kids loved having them here, but the dogs loved them the most.



Myann too cute in ice skates, they are the tiniest skates.



Cheryl getting bombarded with kids