St. Patrick's Day with Me and my boys

Here are my 3 little Leprechaun's from this morning. It's not the greatest picture, I tell you it's nearly impossible for me to get a great shot of all three looking in the same direction with a nice natural looking smile at the same time. The boys are on Spring break this week, so I took them to Color Me Mine after breakfast to paint on pottery. Brayden picked a Powerman. This was his first experience at the pottery studio. I tell you I was a little nervous at first with all the breakable items (you know if you break it, you buy it) but they boys behaved very well. It took about 5 minutes of changing their minds about 20 times before the decided on the perfect piece of pottery :o).Brayden concentrating very hard on his Powerman. He chose lots of beautiful colors and sort of just mixed them all together. He was very pleased with the way his man turned out. He thought we would be able to take them with us today and did not understand the whole process of firing the piece and picking it up on Friday. That part he was not so pleased with. Brayden with his finished Masterpiece!

This was Bennett's second time painting on pottery. He did it once before in NC just before we moved about 2 yrs. ago. He picked a cute little 101 Dalmatian. They also had a great deal today. If you wore green you could paint for only $2!!! Gotta love a deal :o). I had originally thought this would take up a good hour or so, but nope the boys were very efficient and were done in about 30 minutes. Ugh now I have the rest of the day to entertain!!!

*A little story from while we were in there. Bennett saw a pottery piece of Elvis and said oh look mommy it's Jesus. You know Elvis has the long side burns and he thought it looked like Jesus with a beard. This lady heard what he said and was just chuckling under her breath. Some times kids say the cutest things. She seemed intrigued that Bennett would know about Jesus and what he looks like. She said you must go to church because most kids this age don't know who Jesus is. A very sad statment to me, but I'm so happy my boys know their father in heaven and feel very comfortable taking about him and singing his praises all day! Another reminder that we must be doing a few things right. His t-shirt that he was wearing today said. I'm not lucky, I'm saved!!! I told her well we do and he is in a Christian Preschool. We are there no less than 4-5 days a week. Bennett with his finished Masterpiece.

Right next door to Color Me Mine, is a Jamba Juice. It was around 11:15am when we finished so the boys and I thought this would make for a delicious mid morning snack. Bennett and Brayden choose Strawberry Whirl and I choose Peanut Butter Moo'd. While I was taking the boys picture, the owner said if I would bring a picture back of the boys drinking their smoothie then she would put it on her board.

After we left there, we went to the bank, then to Babies R' Us to get more formula for Baylor, and lastly to Trader Joes. After our morning outing, we returned home for lunch and I successfully got all the boys and myself to nap at the same time!!! It's now around 5pm and and time for dinner, baths, and bed time.

Daddy is in California today for Oma's memorial service and will not return until tomorrow. We miss you daddy and will see you in the morning after swimming lessons and Bennett's Karate lesson. Wow we have been busy, but for me and my boys it's the best way to be :o).

Will miss you Oma

We are very sad to say, that on Tuesday March 11th our Oma went home to be with the Lord. She would have been 92 on April 28th. This is a picture of her and the boys taken at Thanksgiving this past year. We will miss her and her sparkly personality. She always had so much energy and would literally run laps around me. :o) Mommy and Baylor at Mommy and Me on Monday at our Easter Party.

Brayden and the Easter Bunny at our party. Brayden and his little Easter bag that he made for his Easter egg hunt. He found 4 eggs and had so much fun this year.

Baylor jumped so much that he fell asleep. I looked over at him one minute and he was awake and jumping and the next he was asleep. I promise I took him out and put him in his crib just after I snapped this picture. I also took Baylor for his 6 month check up on Tuesday March 11th and he weighed 18 lbs. 3 oz. 75%, height 28 1/2 inches 100%, and Head Circumference 17 3/4 inch 75%. He is getting so big! She also said when I ran out of my supply of Alimentum, then we could try switching to regular formual. Yeah!!!

Here is Bennett this morning just after we got home from having his 4 bottom teeth pulled. He was given some Versed to drink which was to make him sleepy. I took him back out front and read to him for about 10-15 minutes and when the assistant came back for him, she asked if he was sleepy. He said no and then slammed his head back into the wall and fell asleep :o). I guess he was sleepy after all. After about 15 minutes they came back and got me and said he is ready to go. We only live like 2 minutes max from the Pediatric Dentist so we were back home and he was resting on the couch by like 9:30am. He is holding his newest Build-A-Bear friend that we got him to make the experience better and so he would not feel scared since he had to go back without mommy and daddy. His daddy is feeding him a smoothie right now. Yummy!!! They gave us his little baby teeth so the tooth fairy can come tonight. How much money does 4 pulled teeth get? I was thinking $5 per pulled tooth. Does anybody have a suggestion?

Here is a cute little video of Bennett making the baby laugh, so cute.

Oh Boy Oh Boy Oh Boy !!!

I was in the kitchen and noticed the big boys were quite and when I went to check on them I found them snuggled together playing nicely. Bennett was playing with his Pixter and Brayden was playing with a calculator.

As I've mentioned the boys love to play dress up and this is Bennett as The Thing in a costume I found at our local Kid consignment store the other day.

Brayden as The Thing, Bennett as Venom, and friend Quinn as Red Power Ranger

Bennett as The Thing and Brayden as The Incredible Hulk

Brayden with just a great smile

Baylor on Sunday after church at 9 days old

Look at those sweet cheeks, definitely very kissable :o) !!!

Baylor at 11 days

He loves to be swaddled and in this pictures it looks at if he's talking

Baylor is such a sweet baby and he has a very good nature. He does not have to be held all the time as Brayden always demanded, this is a great thing considering I have 4 BOYS now to divide my time between :o).