Two girls will be staying home and watching movies from the couch.

I found this picture of Blake that he took of himself on my phone.  Silly kid.

So we learn all over again.  Andy took him to our neighbors driveway-

Where he wiped out a few times.  So he ran home and came back like this

With his rollerblading knee pads on.  Upside down.

In the meantime someone borrowed his bike

And someone else watched

Waiting for her turn to learn to ride on this bike, that has now taught three kids (so far)

And I am working on a project for her room

More pics of that to come

Cole’s schedule is probably the craziest.  Half day K is 2 1/2 hours.  So it seems that he is only there 30 minutes.  He does rec center classes three days a week.  Art, swimming, gym.  Otherwise he gets so bored.

I have so many good intentions to scrapbook, good ideas pop into my head, plus I love watching the boys look at their books.  I am hoping that I get enough down on my blog so that I can go back and reference when I actually find the time to sit down and do something.

I want to remember Austin and Matt’s conversation about pole jumping on the way to LAX practice, I want to remember Eva getting freaked out over MB’s doll, I want to remember Cole learning to rollerblade and holding Lynne’s hand up the middle of our street.

I want to remember that although our days are crazy, I am loving every minute.  Ok well not every minute.

These minutes

Because this boy is crazy.  Yesterday he told me that he wanted a new mom, a nicer one.  Because I told him he had to come home with me after his rec center class, not go with a friend.  By this point in the day he had gone to K, had a friend over, gone to rec, and now it was time to go home and get Blake to guitar, then Austin to LAX.  He was mad.  He wanted a nicer mom.  I told him good luck with that.

He changed his mind later in the evening, when I took him rollerblading again.  And man was it helpful to have an extra pair of hands- thanks Lynne!

The park was hopping.  They replaced our whole playground down by the river over the winter.  Now they have all kinds of stuff, even swings for Eva.

I didn’t get back home to make dinner until 7:30.  Which is fine when your husband doesn’t get home until 8.  See there are some benefits.

There was wrestle mania on the floor.  The girly jumps right in

Poor Blake

The change back and forth between warm and sun to rain and chilly, kills me head.  It started on Saturday when the rain started.  The pressure, ugh.  It even makes my cheeks and teeth hurt.  Weird.  Fortunately, only one of my kids seems to have inherited my allergy/sinus issues.  Blake suffers right along with me.

The good news is that today is supposed to be sunny, and a little bit warmer so I am hoping things are looking up.

Here is where Shiloh stays when the weather is not so great

Everyone seems a little tired.

This picture of Shiloh cracks me up.  I push Zoey’s food under the card catalog so they other dogs can’t eat it and she can fit under there and eat in peace- I caught Shiloh sneaking up to eat it, looking over her shoulder to see if I was watching

If Eva’s hair has been up in any way during the day, it tends to stay that way even when I take out the clips or rubberbands.

This is her Princess Leia look

This morning I went after a two week break and I just have to say that I have not missed the place at all.  It is seriously time to re-evaluate my choice of work-out facilities.

I love the fact that I have been going there forever, see people I know, everyone knows my kids… but the downside?  it is filled with grumpy old men.    I am not kidding.  On a regular basis, some grumpy guy will say something rude to me or one of my friends.  Everything from bumping into my friend on the track every time he went around because he thought she was too close to his lane, yelling at me when I forgot to put my initials on the board for my elliptical even though there were three others that were open, to the guy today that was running and threw up his hands in the air, gave us a dirty look and said ,”COME ON!” as we were getting off the track and stopped to say hi to a different friend (there was plenty of room for him to go around).  Seriously I could go on and on.

SO. TIRED. OF. IT

Today when the guy was rude my friend (who is also Eva’s doctor) yelled, “he is ALWAYS such a jerk!”  Only she didn’t say jerk.  She called him something much better.

I just don’t understand why people have to be rude.  It makes me just think think they must live unhappy lives.

She isn’t grumpy

iPhone pics today

Aunt Julie this picture is for you

You didn’t mention how hard it is to have this piece of furniture with a toddler in the house

Most of us were more than ready for a break- me being one!

Blake is always the good sport, Austin just wanted to go home.

Downtown Memphis was rockin’ early on this Saturday night.

After two days of playing outside in our nice 60 degree weather, today we have rain.  And it’s good because I have lots and lots of laundry to do and things to put away from our trip.

Poor Austin has LAX practice in the rain and then has to go to Cotillion- should be interesting!

headed home

I am not ready for cold weather.  50 is not 70.

When I moved from Michigan to Austin I swore I would never move back north.  But I did.

More pics of Austin

Eva and her cousin Joey

And with Grandad

And with Max

the squirrel friend

That is it for today- more tomorrow as we drive back into northern territory!

We arrived at Andy’s parents house in Ft. Worth early afternoon.

Eva was happy to ditch her shoes and enjoy some time with Gramma

Grandad provided the music

Blake and Austin tried to figure out if the ukulele was anything like a guitar- oops- Grandad wanted me to correct this, it is in fact a mandolin- not a ukulele!!

Tomorrow we head to Houston to see my brother whom I haven’t seen in two years, and they have never seen Eva.

Eva has been waking up so much at night.  It has been hard.

It’s a good thing she is so cute.

I know it’s her teeth.  Her mouth is just a mess!

We got more snow- record amounts now.  I’m done. Spring where are you?

By 5pm Blake was done with his Lego engineering class and by 6 Austin was home from his friends house.  I got them fed and Blake out the door to basketball at 7, then picked up at 8, Eva to bed- and I was in my bed by 9 with a book.  Of course Eva was up a million times last night.  Andy and I took turns.  I get so grumpy getting up at night.

I am hoping that all of this nighttime waking is because of her teeth and will pass soon.

She is a different baby during the day.  All happy and normal.

The girl loves her cheerios

I am so glad it is Friday

guess who waits for cheerios to fall?