project 365, week 14

the weather was beautiful this week!! we had some crazy strong winds on thursday (it blew everything off our deck and ruined some of my plants), but despite the wind we still got to do some great outdoor stuff pretty much everyday i think. another few weeks and we'll be at the pool! here's the week in pictures.

SUNDAY, Mar 29th
when we got home from church, we were immediately outside playing and stayed there till bedtime. we even ate our dinner outside on the deck.



MONDAY, Mar 30th
molly wore this shirt on monday. my parents got it for her in seattle several months ago, but its been too big until just recently. i think its really cute. hopefully she will potty train soon and wont be able to wear it anymore!!!

TUESDAY, Mar 31st

i took several pictures on this day. we went to a new park, took a walk, spent a few hours playing at grammies house, and had dinner with some friends. this picture was by far the funniest.

colby had his shin guards on as we were leaving for dinner (i guess you cant be too careful, right?) and at some point in the car i looked back and saw this. the expression is priceless. he was so proud of himself.

WEDNESDAY, April 1st

they're back! we get beautiful patches of bluebonnets (our state flower) all over the place in late march and they stick around for about 2 or 3 weeks. hopefully i'll have our yearly 'bluebonnet pictures' posted on here soon. we havent found a patch big enough for picture taking yet.

THURSDAY, April 2nd

we met my grandparents for lunch at cracker barrell and they bought the kids these pinwheels. this was the day we had the 40mph winds, so it was a perfect day to stick these in the yard and watch 'em go! please excuse the dead grass and dirt; the yard hasnt recovered from winter yet.

FRIDAY, April 3rd

when we were outside thursday, colby said, "this is great kite flying weather," (which struck me as funny since he hasnt ever flown a kite) so that night we made a trip to wal-mart and let each of them pick a kite out. we stood out in our cul-de-sac and flew kites for about an hour or so friday morning. we also washed cars, and rode bikes and the 4-wheeler...and all four of us got our first sunburn of the year!!

SATURDAY, April 4th

colby has been wanting to see this movie since the first time we saw a preview for it several months ago. i took him today while molly was napping; shes not quite ready for movies yet. it was actually pretty funny, other than a bit of adult humor that i wasnt too thrilled about my 4 year old hearing. fortunately he didnt pick up on any of it.

hope everyone had a great week!!!

colbys latest quips and quirks

this will be another bulleted post, because thats how i roll. at least for today.
and its all about colby, which usually means it will be funny...usually.

colby: "girls need their pretty sleep so they'll be prettier. and so they'll be nice."
i'm not sure what this says about me, other than i do need a lot of sleep in order to be nice. :)

colby: "mommy, i like the way your feet smell."
me: "really? how do they smell?"
colby: (he takes a big whiff) "mmmm! like cherries!"
i really dont know where this came from. if anything they smelled like the inside of my tennis shoes, which i dont view as a good thing.

when i picked him up from school today, ms brandy told me they were doing an activity where they were coloring bunnies and he told her that black bunnies, gray bunnies, and brown bunnies are called dust bunnies. hahaha!! i love that.

when he stayed at mimis over spring break, there was a little boy across the street with a horn on his bicycle, and colby loved it. so mimi bought and mailed colby a horn to put on his tricycle. he honks it at anything and everything in front of him, whether it be me, a rock on the ground, or the mailbox. what cracks me up, is he will honk it at an immoveable object (like the mailbox), and when whatever that object is doesnt move (how could it?), he runs into it and just sits there honking at it. it makes for a very long afternoon for him; sitting in front of the mailbox. honking.

colby: "mommy, i want to be a diver when i grow up. actually, i want to be a music person, but if i get tired of doing music i'll just jump into the ocean. but i cant look for treasure because the pirates already got it."
me: "what are going to look for?"
colby: "fishies."
me: "what are you going to do with the fish when you find them?"
colby: "just feel of them."
what would that job title be? and how would i tell people? "my son feels up fish for a living."

project 365, week 13

this has been such a crazy weather week!

the kids played in the sprinkler on sunday afternoon. we had marble size hail at our house on wednesday (it was tennis ball size just west of us and broke out windshields!!), and then it got down into the low 30's friday night. thats texas weather for you though!

SUNDAY

the kids were outside playing and colby wanted a drink out of the water hose. i was feeling obnoxious so i cranked the water on full blast and it soaked him. this resulted in both of my kids being soaking wet and ultimately playing in the sprinkler in their clothes.

MONDAY

when we got home from the grocery store there was a big fat cardinal in our tree. such a beautiful bird! i tried to get closer, but i spooked him and he flew away.

TUESDAY

colby asked for peanuts at snacktime and molly wanted goldfish. then colby decided he wanted some goldfish mixed in with his peanuts. we were sitting at the table and he asked, "mommy, did jesus really feed 2,000 people with just 5 loaves of bread and 2 goldfish??" i looked over to find this arrangement, and then we talked about the story. i love that his snack made him think about a bible story!!



WEDNESDAY

the crazy hail storm! it freaked the kids out a little and church services were cancelled for the evening, which means daddy was home (always a bonus!).

the kids each had a cup of hail balls for dessert, with little pieces of grass mixed in for flavor. aw, i should have taken a picture of that! this picture doesnt do the hail storm justice, but you can kind of see how much is pushed up against the playhouse. our front yard looked like it had snowed! crazy stuff!!

THURSDAY

colby has a train track set thats supposed to be a 'train carnival'. its so big that we dont keep it set up, so each time he wants to play with it i 'get' to put it together. this thing is the bane of my existence in that as soon as i build it, it breaks somewhere, and it doesnt fit together quite like it should in the first place. grrrr. i get all sweaty and worked up just thinking about it.

FRIDAY

once a month we have midnight scrapping at the church. its open to anyone, and we bring some (or all) of our scrapbooking stuff and sit for hours and talk and eat, and we might get a little scrapbooking done. this is from one of the pages i did.

SATURDAY

we had a great night out! allen preached sunday in 'big church' and fabricated a story (to make a point) about us going to ruth's chris steak house and seeing a celebrity, etc, etc. he told the congregation, "you should have known i was lying when i said we were at ruth's chris steakhouse! i cant afford that on a youth pastors salary!!" later that night he was up at the church for a meeting and there was a gift card at his desk for cool river, a delicious upscale steakhouse here in town. we dont know who gave it to us, but the inside read, 'it's no ruths chris, but take amy and enjoy.' so tonight we did!! if whoever gave that to us reads this, thankyouthankyouthankyou!!! we sooo appreciate it!

after dinner we went to the round rock high school dragonettes spring show to support a few of our youth that were performing. it was fantastic! top that off with free babysitting from our sweet friend becky and you have a wonderful date night. :) the picture is sideways, but i just dont have the patience to go in and change it and reload my pictures. theres probably a very easy way to do that, but i'm technilogically challenged and tend to do things the hard way.

have a blessed week!!!!

mid-week catch up

once again, i have no big event or 'happening' to inform you of, but many little things.
so today you get bullet points, which saves me from having to come up with witty, creative transitions, because people, i'm not in a witty creative mindset. i'm blah. i'm blaming it on the zyrtec, which brings me to point numero uno!

1)i started taking zyrtec on monday. it has very effectively kicked my allergies to the curb. it has also made me a walking zombie. i haven't been this tired since i was pregnant (no, i'm not), so i must decide between the lesser of two evils. would i rather be horribly sleepy and itch-free, or completely alert and rested while wanting to saw my nose off of my face? i'm going to give it 2 more days and then i'll probably stop taking it. i'm not a nice person when i'm tired.

2)colby came back from mimis on sunday and i've been doing damage control since then. i love that he enjoys going to mimis house and i love that she so willingly takes him and does super fun things with him, but when he comes home i feel like my son has transformed into, well, not my son. he tells me when he's at mimis he gets to do whatever he wants (and she admits to this, which i haven't thought much about until he came home this time), but when he comes home i have to reprogram him to use his manners and not speak to me like his slave. it ends up being a 3 or 4 day battle of time outs and tears and it frusterates me to no end. it really makes me feel bad for him, because i feel like i'm on his case constantly and its something that could be avoided, but where is the balance between the stereotypical spoil fest at mimis while still respecting the expectations we have of him (saying yes ma'am and no ma'am and please, etc). you wouldn't think 3 days at mimis would have such a big effect, but this time it did. any thoughts??

3)i can't even think straight right now. it's the zyrtec. stupid allergies.

4)colby peed on the floor yesterday. he hollers at me when he's gone #2 to come wipe him. he's capable of wiping himself, but he doesnt do such a good job yet, so he prefers me to do it. tmi? sorry. anyway, i hear him yelling,
colby: mommy!! i poo pooed and i'm in your bathroom!!
so i went in to do my duty and stepped in wetness.
me: colby, why is the floor wet? (noticing a trail of wet from the toilet across the floor to the bathtub) whats all over the floor?
colby: i peed.
me: on the floor??
colby: i didnt tuck my penis in
me: why not? why didnt you tuck your penis in if you knew you had to pee?
colby: i just didnt make it fast enough and my pee is so strong! it just squirted right out all over the floor!
me: why is there a kitchen towel in here?
molly: (has been standing behind me the whole time) i cleaned!
colby: molly tried to clean it up.
very nice of her, but she really just smeared pee everywhere and got it on the bottoms of her feet which tracked it all over the bathroom. i'll give her an A for effort, though. why the kitchen towel, i do not know.

5) colby told me this morning that he loves me because my face is puffy. granted it probably was puffy at 730am after just waking up (and the allergies!), but he meant soft. he's never used the word 'puffy' before. he usually says 'squishy' or 'mushy'. at any rate, i need to work with him on his complimenting skills.

6) american idol is back on tonight and i am rejoicing. it got pushed back for obama last night. i know the presidents important, but more important than idol??? i bet more people watch idol than watched the president last night. vote on that, america!

sorry. it's the zyrtec talking.

project 365, week 12

spring break!! that really means nothing to me actually, except that colby went to the grocery store with me on monday, which he usually doesnt do because he's at mothers day out. oh, it also means that everything is ridiculously crowded because no one is in school, thereby resulting in me staying home, because really, who wants to fight a crowd with 2 preschoolers when i could just wait a few more days?? so i guess i'm one of the few that does not look forward to spring break.

colby left wednesday to spend the last half of the week in houston with mimi and papa. they took him to the houston rodeo thursday night, so i'm sure i'll get to hear all about that when he gets home tomorrow.

mom took molly friday evening and we had a date night and a great saturday at a marriage conference with dr. gary chapman (The Five Love Languages, just to name one of his many many books) sooo good!!! if you ever have the chance to attend one of his conferences, do it!

my pictures dont reflect any of that stuff, which is why i'm telling you now. :)

here's the rest of my week.

SUNDAY

the last lego project! last week i pulled out a ginormous box of legos and built a pirate thing and a parking garage. there was still one left to build, but i was legoed out and allen wanted to try his hand at it, so we saved the last one for daddy. sunday afternoon was spent on the castle hideout.

MONDAY

we were sitting out on the deck when allen got home from work and he said, "oh my gosh, the yard needs to be mowed!" so he got out before dinner and gave the front yard the first mow of the year. the kids thought he might need some help.

TUESDAY

i saw one of the moms at colbys school with black toenails and thought it was super cute,

so i picked up a bottle of black polish at the store on monday. when molly saw me painting my nails she of course wanted me to do hers. i have a precious, fluffly, pink little 2 year old with black toe nails.

WEDNESDAY

the worst parking job i've ever seen. i promise you, this car is legitimately parked in this space, or spaces as it were. you can see there is no one in the front seat, and the car was still there when i came out of the store. i couldnt help but take a picture. seriously???

THURSDAY

mo and i went to my parents house to play (they have the best little kid yard!) and i caught molly going in and out of the pet door. she does it often, but i'd never taken a picture of it.

FRIDAY

GREASE!! we went to opening night to see the show and support my buddies in the cast.

this is chris. he played the part of sonny and stole the show!!!

SATURDAY

my husband is a ridiculous DUKE basketball fan. seriously. ridiculous. he has march madness like no one should and he even had colby fill out a bracket. colby picked western kentucky to win the whole tournament because kentucky is a funny name. he also picked cornell to advance pretty far because he likes corn. for those of you who are uneducated in basketball, these are not good choices, although western kentucky is still in it, but thats beside the point.

tonight i am torn because the Texas Longhorns are playing DUKE. as i said allen is the biggest DUKE fan EVER but how can we not root for UT?? he forbade me from wearing anything UT today and even had an issue with my orange t-shirt i put on when we got home (not a concious decision i assure you).

so this is my picture for today.

just mo

colbys at his mimis house till sunday!! its weird having just molly. both of them being gone is not weird, just quiet, and a nice change from time to time, although rarely does that happen just for the sake of them being gone. they're usually both gone so we can go to youth camp or some other church/youth function, so we're not here to enjoy the quietness. is that a word?
anyway, so colby left yesterday evening and will come back on sunday morning. allen is preaching in 'big church' so his mom and stepdad are driving back in to hear him, and they'll drop colby off at that time as well. kind of a two-fer, if you will.
molly and i were sitting out back after colby left yesterday. it was a beautiful evening, about 65 degrees i would guess, and i was reading a book while she took her babies down the slide. then she got a book and came and sat next to 'read'. whats funny is she grabbed 'A Charlotte Mason Companion' by Karen Andreola off a side table just inside the door (its a homeschooling book), and 'read' to me about dinosaurs. i dont know where that came from but she was going on and on about what they like to eat and their tongues and all sorts of other randomness. and to think she got it all from that charlotte mason book! :) it amazes me how much she has to say when colbys not around. not that she doesnt talk much, because her mouth is always going non-stop. its just that when hes here, she follows his lead for the most part. his ideas are her ideas. i dont get much from molly, because its all stuff that shes heard him say or seen him do and shes re-doing it her way. i get time with her 2 mornings during the week while colbys at mothers day out, but i take advantage of that time with one less kid to do my grocery shopping and go to the gym and run other various errands. we hardly ever just stay home on those mornings.
all that said, i'm looking forward to 'just sitting' with mojo today, and tomorrow, and the next day.......
we were supposed to go to the zoo today, but we've been a couple of times already this month and i just didnt feel like driving an hour and a half, so i backed out at the last minute. i think maybe the Lord prompted my heart on that so i can just enjoy my baby girl with out any activities or other stuff going on.
this will be fun!

have a blessed weekend!!

project 365, week 11...i think.

an interesting week to say the least. this time of year in central texas we're typically averaging in the mid 80s. it got there about a week and a half ago--just long enough for everyone to put the winter stuff away and pull the shorts and tank tops out. then the unthinkable happened. we took a turn this week and headed back down to the 40s, and just for fun, threw in some rain. fortunately (for lack of a better word) for me, molly was sick, so we had a good excuse to stay in the house and wear our pjs for most of the week. :)

rain you may stay, but sun, please come back. this is ridiculous. and my skin agrees.

SUNDAY, Mar 8th

we got out sunday evening and played in the street. thats not as bad as it sounds. we live on a cul-de-sac. i loved this picture of molly riding the 4-wheeler in her laura ashley dress.

MONDAY, Mar 9th

monday is always grocery day unless an act of God prevents me from doing so. i'm very scheduled. here's the haul for this week.

TUESDAY, Mar 10th

mom and i took the kids to the san antonio zoo. we didnt think about spring break being an issue because spring break in round rock isnt until next week. not everyone follows our schedule though and when we got into s.a. the crowd was unbelievable. i'm so used to going places during the week and having them all to ourselves while everyone is in school. i tried to talk the kids into doing anything else, but they had their sights set. it was rough, but we had fun. this is the only picture i took though.

WEDNESDAY, Mar 11th

molly woke up at 3am throwing up (you may have already read this from my thursday post) and we were pretty much awake at that point. i was able to take a decent nap that afternoon while she caught up on her sleep as well.

THURSDAY, Mar 12th

an inside day. the cold front blew in wednesday, but molly being sick kept us indoors. thursday we stayed in by choice. i played pirates with colby for awhile. we didnt have a hook so colby put a drillbit from his tool set on my thumb. i guess that makes me captain drillbit. sexy, yes?

picture courtesy of colby t.

FRIDAY, Mar 13th

some friends of ours passed down their sons lego sets for colby. we got them about a month ago but i've been saving them for a 'rainy day'. friday was still cold and rainy, so out came the legos. i spent 5 hours in all building and was able to put together the pirate adventure set and the metro park and service station. my back hurts today from being hunched over the directions for so long! well worth it though. i doubt that will be the only time i put those together. :)

SATURDAY, Mar 14th

we went to a birthday party and i was feeling extra creative, so i made the 'to, from' card with my cuttlebug and other scrapbooking supplies. it was cute, but no one will appreciate it like i do. it was ripped up and thrown away about 2 hours later by 3 year old twins. so sad.