Sweeepy Kids

The other night when I was with Lindsay and Gabriel, Kelly told me bedtime could be at 8 because they were so worn out.

Well, Gabriel fell asleep at the kitchen table waiting for me to cook dinner. And Lindsay fell asleep watching Peter Pan.

Gabriel was not going to put up with any nonsense and when Lindsay was playing with her food, G told her to stop playing with her food and eat it!

Having to give the kids separate baths now, I took L up after she fell asleep so incase she fell asleep again I could carry her to bed. She asked if I had noticed the new shower curtain. I said I had and that they had lots of new things in the kitchen. I said the counters, dishwasher, she said sink and then I said oven. She started laughing, and said that was funny because they didn't get a new oven. It tricked me and she would go look downstairs to see if it tricked her too and see if it looks new.

They were drooped all over me while reading bedtime stories and they were out like a light by 7:45. Hopefully they didn't wake up too early the next morning, I tried to keep them awake as long as possible for that reason!

Big sisters are life savers!

Probably a month ago I watched Cora, and for the first time Amelia.

Amelia and I laid on a blanket on the grass while watching Cora play in the yard. Amelia fell back and she started crying. I decided it was time to go inside. She wouldn't stop crying. I didn't think she hit her head very hard when she fell back, but I guess it was a mixture of lots of things, like me being a stranger, her hurting herself, her being tired and hungry. But she just wouldn't stop crying. Cora and I tried everything to make her happy. We tried all the tricks I was told to try. It was a little early but I got her bottle ready and tried to feed her. Cora the amazing singer she is, started singing "Puff the magic dragon" to her, and it worked! She settled down a bit while her bottle was warming up. But she didn't want her bottle. Cora suggested we tried to feed her upstairs. She ate a little and was still fussy. I got her to burp. I felt bad for not being able to play with Cora. She had a list of things she wanted to do with me. We walked around with Amelia singing to her and rocking her around. Finally she took the rest of her bottle. As I was burping her, it all came up. Not on her, all on me. Cora was just outside of the door and said "EWWWWWWW!" I told her not to look and to brush her teeth. When I finally got Amelia down it was time for Cora to go to bed.

Here is a picture of Cora singing to Amelia in the kitchen to calm her down.



Hopefully the next time I get to watch them, it goes a lot better!

Long time no see

Well this summer has been crazy! Summer school, babysitting and for some reason I feel more busy than I was when I was taking nursing classes. I have stories from babysitting and pictures I will be adding

I have been sick since Monday... and finally feeling okay to be out of bed so I figured I would update.

Has anyone watched Lost? Josh and I just recently got into it... We are watching it on Netflix. Everyone said how crazy and confusing it is. I wondered what they were talking about, but now we are in season 3 and i am totally lost! Some say its a waste of time and the ending is disappointing. I hope not.

This summer I have been doing lots of crafts! I have several I am doing for Addison's 2nd birthday and my friend from nursing school is pregnant so I working on a cross stitched growth chart! very time consuming! I am teaching myself different patterns for dish cloths, because the same old thing was getting boring... here is my latest.

I love drummers

So I know I haven't updated on my babysitting lately... I have to load my pictures on the computer first.... but I figure I would share with you a new drummer, who in these videos are ages 4,5,6 and blows my mind....

1st one, my cousin showed me b/c she knew I loved Blink. This is "All the small things" He also does "Dammit" "Obvious" and "Go" by them.


Here is "Detroit Rock City" By Kiss


AC/DC "Rock and Roll aint noise pollution"


And last one I will leave you guys with... is Chop Suey by System of a Down. My 3rd favorite group.... that never tours... and when they do its in another state... I think it is so cute he has a Shrek shirt on. An old friend got me into this group when I was about 12. Josh's cousin last year asked me If i ever went through that "grunge phase"... And I guess I still haven't gotten out of it... if its a "phase" because I still like this kind of music 10 years down the road. Soooo I guess thats me.


and yes BTW I have a count down on the Blink/MCR concert 67 days.... I am still super stoked... and yes I am a nerd. <3

This kid does so much more... Rush, Led Zeppelin, Korn, Guns n Roses, The Who, Nine Inch Nails, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Michael Jackson
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Just go to Youtube and put in Jonah Rocks or he has a website... www.jonahrocks.com

Stephanie Is Excited!

I can not express enough about how excited I am about this concert!


Plus


on Sept 9th!!!

Whooo Hooo!

Crawfish 2011

On May 21st, our family had birthday party for Josh and Luther/ Family reunion for the Beard's.

We counted about 77 people came. And we had a quest list of 100, so not a bad turn out.

For some reason the pictures aren't in order.

We're the 3 best friends that anyone could have...

A couple of weeks ago I watched Lindsay, Gabriel and Himani. It was a lot of fun! They all play great together.
It was different seeing Himani actually play with kids. It has always just been me and her. It was so cute.
Last time I went over to the twins, Lindsay wanted to make ice cream sundaes, they had everything but the ice cream, so I stopped at Sheridan's and picked up 4 kid size sundaes for us, for after dinner.

I brought my nice camera to get good pictures. We played in the back yard for a long time. They decided to make me the bottom of a dog pile for about 20 minutes. Then I gave everyone a piggy back ride, i got my work out for the day. We ran inside so I could fix everyone some dinner. They played on the screened in patio. Lindsay and Himani made one of the chairs "Stephy's chair" And put all the pillows and blanket all on it. They didn't like it so much when Gabriel wanted to sit on it. After dinner Gabriel said his stomach hurt. I asked if it was a throw up hurt or a full from eating so much dinner hurt. He said both. So I said ok lets lay on the couch watch some TV and let our belly's settle before our dessert. Himani said her belly hurt too. I had a feeling she said this because she wanted to watch some TV too.

When it was time for ice cream, Gabriel still said he didn't feel good and didnt want his. He asked if he could take his bath and go to bed, he didn't have a good day at school. Eventually he did. Then they played tag and finally bath time. The twins wanted to sleep in their sleeping bags, and Himani was wondering where she would be sleeping. They were ready for a slumber party.