She did it! The unthinkable!

My sweet Tess! I have told others that one of the things I love about Tess is that she is such a good eater, unlike her sister. Of course, this also keeps me on my toes because she really will eat ANYTHING! My floors have never been cleaner, but yet she still finds things to put in her mouth and try. After she eats dinner, I take her to the other room and run into the kitchen to clean the floor because here she comes. She is already at my side eating her leftovers from the floor. Child, didn't you just eat!

A couple of weeks ago now, Shane was out-of-town for a week. One day that week, I was vacuuming our rug and the floor. Tess was standing at the base of our stairs where a shoe basket was playing with them. I saw a big piece of fuzz by her. I put something down, walked over to get the fuzz before she ate it. Too late, so I went to scoop it out of her mouth. When my figure come out of her mouth, it was not the fuzz I was anticipating, it was......green! I took a sniff, looked at the shoe she had munched on and gaged!

My daughter ate poop! I smelled the bottom of my running shoe, and sure enough, it was the same! I picked her up, found the wipes, and wiped out her mouth. Then I had her drink a gallon of water. Then I wiped her mouth out again. Then I found an old toothbrush and bushed her mouth. Then had her drink a gallon of water. Brushed her mouth. Wiped her mouth. Called Shane. Called my mom. Wiped her mouth.

Well, what would you have done?

Snuggles

Any moment I can, I try to snuggle with my kids. Luckily for me, they are pretty snugly themselves. I savor it because I know one day they will give me that look, and I will then have to resort to sneaking it in when I can.

Let it go!

Sometimes you have just need to let it go and let them play at night in their clothes in the pool! I say this mostly to myself because I tend to be one to structure my (our) day.

Happy Father's Day Weekend!

It just did not seem like one day would do to celebrate how great of a dad Shane is....So it was a weekend long celebration. We started it off "Callie style" on Friday when he come home from work. We greeted him with baseball party hats on while singing "I am so Glad when Daddy Comes Home"! We had Shane's favorite Mac and Cheese with cookies for dessert.

Saturday was great, too. Both Shane and I were able to have a great run that morning. Everyone took a nap. Then we headed to watch Richmond's baseball minor league team. Our seats were great, but Shane and I had to take turns keeping our eye on the batter because we had the perfect seats for foul balls. When the foul balls hit empty seats, they can really go anywhere! It was extremely muggy, so we treated all of us to snow cones! They loved them.

Sunday, Shane went to Louisa Branch while we attended our ward, which is normally what happens. However, that morning in our breakfast prayer, she asked, "Mommy, Callie and Tess to go to church, and Daddy go to his other church." One day we will need to explain to her that it is the same church. It was just a relaxing day.

Shane is such a wonderful dad. The girls light-up every time Shane walks through the door. He gets down and immediately starts to play with them until bed time. It is no wonder why hours before Shane is supposed to be home Callie is at the window looking for him saying, "I need my Daddy." We love you so much.

Weekend with Jeff, Heather and Baby Derrick

Jeff and Heather, thank you for making the trip down to see us. It was such a joy to have you. We love you guys and quickly got used to having your company. We can not wait to see the whole family in August!

WOW!

Has it really been 2 months since the last post! I think about posting, but by the time the girls are down, my list of things to do have trumped blogging. Even if sometimes the thing on the list was to do nothing. Sometimes that is very much needed. In the past 2 months, a lot has happened. One of the things that happened was we (well, we did not do it) install hardwood and ceramic tiles on the first floor. I have yet to take pictures, but I promise I will and the other changes we have done for my friends and family that have been asking me. That will be the next blog!

We learned to play baseball.

Fed a giraffe.

My sister graduated from BYU, so her and her husband came to visit us afterwards!

Of course, Callie loves parties, so we had to have one for my sister. The theme was princess graduation. Callie came up with the theme. She is also the one that made us all wear hats. Even though it was Aubrey's party, we had to sing "happy birthday" to Callie and have her blow out candle. Crazy girl!

Took my sister to fed a giraffe and went to the Virginia Beach aquarium. We both love animals so much!

A little trip to Virginia Beach.

The girls are doing great! Callie still loves her trains, airplanes, and rockets, but she now loves Cinderella and Prince. She loves wearing her " so beautiful dress". In our dinner prayer the other night, she said she was thankful for Prince, Cinderella and Lucifer...the cat from Cinderella! Her favorite song right now is "Praise to the Man". I love hearing her sing the big words in it. Tess is all over the place. A couple of weeks ago, Shane was watching the girls while I was working out, and he had only turned his back on her for a second, when she had crawled up the stairs half way! She has such a sweet personality and does not want to be left out of anything. Even if she has no idea what we are doing. Today, she was holding on a chair and scooting it across the floor while she walked! The child needs to stop growing so quickly!

These are only a few of the things that have been going on around here. I will spare you of all the little details, but hopefully, I am back! I am excited because this weekend Shane's brother and his wife will be here with their little one that we have not meet yet. plus, we have a lot going on this summer!

Here's to no more extremely long catch-up blogs!

It's a Sign!

We love the start of baseball season...well, Shane does, but we've both grown to relish the Red Sox / Yankees rivalry. Based on the following story, it appears the rivalry is getting off to a vigorous start this season!

"A certain New York Yankee slugger should beware: A student taking a tour of Fenway Park today was attacked by a red-tailed hawk that swooped off its nest, drawing blood from the girl’s scalp.

"Her name: Alexa Rodriguez. Her age: 13, the same jersey number the Yankee third baseman wears...."

Of all the kids at Fenway that day, how did the hawk know to go after little A-Rod? For the full article and photo:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/04/hawk_nest_remov.html