Olivia is 3!!

On September 3rd Olivia turned 3!!!  We started on her actual birthday with a mama-made breakfast of a chocolate chip mickey mouse pancake with whipped cream!! She loved it and it was the first morning I can think of that I didn't have to prod her along with eating.. hahahaha!  That night we headed to Chuck-E-Cheese to hang with her cousins.. she had a blast running around , playing Skee-ball, and eating lots of pizza!  The weekend after her birthday we headed to Huntington Beach and enjoyed a great day with family and friends.  She reminds me every day that she is a big "3" year old girl and it's really hard to believe that she is that old already... *sigh*.  Here are a bunch of pics from the various fun activities we did!!

OH, and my mom MADE that beautiful Cinderella cake and then like a saint hauled it all the way to the beach... THANKS GRAMMY !

xoxox

Did that just come out of my mouth?

Here are some things that you might hear if you open the door to my house..

1..don't eat that!

2..I don't care if your brother touched your knee you are not allowed to whack him with ANYTHING!

3..yes, mama uses tolit paper too; no, i do not need help using it!

4..don't eat that!

5..Agh! Get down from there...no climbing the bookcase!

6..books are for reading not for hitting your brother with!

7..love the doggie, don't use her as a jungle gym!

8..Pleaseeee...don't eat that!

9..no, I don't think your brother would like it if you stood on his arm.

10..water stays in the bathtub please!

11...get your head out of the trashcan!

12..Ugh... PLEASE DON"T EAT THAT!!!!!

xoxo

Proceed with caution..

So , we are here.. we didn't give up on the blogging world. Just a bit of a hiatus due to a number of things:

1. Mama's just plain tired. ( which translates into= doesn't want to spend any time on the computer at night, just wants to "veg" with hubby in front of tv. )

2. Kinda got bored with it. ( do you ever find yourself just burnt on the whole computer, internet, electronic age, stuff????)

3. And, last but not least...

4. SICK! SICK! SICK! Yup, we have all been very sick..well, I should say the kids were VERY sick. Chad and I are just suffering through very mild forms of what they had. And while I have been through illnesses with my kids before, for some reason this one just hit us out-of-the-blue and without warning. ( not that they every give warning, but usually you know of someone else's kids who have been sick, etc,). This illness caused the kids to not only be miserable but to also be MUCH more clingy, sad, lethargic, whinier, did I mention more CLINGY??? Needless to say, I am just plain exhausted... thank goodness I am not in this alone.. Chad has been a dream helper/partner.

And last night we actually got more than 4-5 hours of sleep in a row. *sigh*.

So, with all of that said.. I will return to the blogging world soon. Just need to recooperate and restore my body to all of it's mama glory.

xoxox

Pic of the week

Ok, mom, I'm ready for my close-up!

*sigh*

( I am sooooo in for it when she becomes an adolescent.)

xoxoxo

New Blog!

This is for all you mama's out there ( although please stop by even if you are not a mama!)...I have started a new blog that I would LOVE for you all to check out!!

www.wellbalancedmama.blogspot.com

Hurray!!

xoxox