Happenings

I love love love springtime.  All the foliage is lush and blooming.  It is still cool enough to be out at mid-day.  And it is just nice to be outside again after months inside the house.  So here is how we have welcomed in spring.

I ran my first 5k in two years and knocked 4 full minutes off my last time.  I can now say that i run faster in my 30's than i did in my 20's.

Cordon is potty trained!!!  Lance started the process a week ago because I didn't have the motivation.  Now he has been dry for two days and counting.  This has gone much better than the year long process we went through with Darren. Maybe it has something to do with Cordon's cheer squad.  
I had to throw in this picture just because it is such a treasure when Cordon gives us such

great smile. What a cutie!
Bye Bye strollers.  This john deere can take the whole gang. Nothing runs like a deere!
Darren somehow managed to get up there all by himself.  And somehow got down too!

Nothing says fun like a tent in the backyard!  Throw in a couple of pots to use as hats and a flashlight and you have the perfect activity for three little boys.  Lance stayed out with the boys while I opted to stay in and enjoy some R&R
10 months old now and couldn't be sweeter, cuter, smarter or smellier!

Confessions of a mom

I try to be a good mom. I love my kids more than words, I have kept them alive and free from SERIOUS injury, I try to teach them right from wrong and to be nice to each other. however, I am human and I do things that the perfect mom would never do like:

1. My son brought home a cupcake from a birthday party and I ate

it while he was sleeping.

2. I love diapers.  I would rather change a diaper at my earliest convienance that frantically search for a bathroom at inopportune times. For example I stuck a diaper on Darren on our drive back from Or. and some where between Burns and Ontario he said he had to pee pee.  I told him to just go and I didn't slow down a bit.

3. Dora is an excellent baby sitter.

4. I like when they crawl in bed with me at 1am

5. I like adding rainbow sprinkles to everything just as much as they do.

6.  I take first pick out of the trick or treat bags

7. Benadryl at bedtime is a sanity saver

8. I haven't washed their sheets in almost a month (Yeah, I know)

9. I don't remember the last time I combed their hair.

But somehow we manage to survive, and even thrive. And a little part of me thinks that

everyone is happier because of it.