Four year old sass!

Mommy- "Okay Gator, run and get your socks and shoes on. Then come back into the bathroom and I will comb your hair."

Gator- "Okay!"(Runs off.....comes back moments later) "I did it mom!"

Mommy-"Oh great job at being a super fast minder.(inspection of shoes) Dang buddy your shoes are backwards and you need to change them to the other feet."

Gator-"I just like them that way"

Mommy-"yeah, but nobody can see your light sabers, it looks a little weird!"

Gator-"YOU LOOK A LITTLE WEIRD"

Mommy-"just change your shoes to the other feet"

Piggies

Munchies hair fits into piggies. They are the stick straight up, three strands piggies, but they are in and Oh SOOOOOO Cute!

She is also working on the two top teeth. They will break through any day now.

Accident Prone Man

Gator is totally accident prone. He doesn't go a day without injuring himself. For some odd reason most of his big injuries happen to his head/face. I think he should wear a helmet 24/7; but then what kind of life is that? This happened in the shower. He was reaching to shut off the water and slipped. I don't even know the whole story because I was doing Munchies hair and wasn't right by the shower. I heard him scream and rushed in to see his face bleeding and his teeth pushed back. I let him bleed in the shower a few minutes and called Ry to get dressed. I grabbed his towel, some underpants and shorts and we headed out the door with wet hair, no make up, very little clothes, and no shoes on him or Munchies. (I was grateful I had on a bra) we headed to an insta-care. I called daddy who would meet us there. Upon arrival the nurse took one look at our bloody mess and told us they didn't do teeth. We couldn't get into our dentist until 2:00. I guess that meant a trip up to PCMC. If I would have been thinking clearly I could have just taken him over to the Riverton Hospital, but I thought if it needed more care we could see the periodontist right in the hospital. So daddy took Ry for the day and Munchie, Gator and I headed up to the hotel on the hill. We got into a room really fast. I have never seen that ER so quiet. The nurses and doctors were great as always and we found out that Gator's teeth would be fine, he tore the frenulem and he bled so much because of his Aspirin and because mouths have a tendency to do that. He was given an antibiotic to ward off any infections that may have been introduced and we headed home. I was scared we might not make it home because on the way up to the hospital the gas light came on in my car. So we had to stop and fill up. Then my phone ran out of battery so I couldn't call anyone to let them know we were on our way. Funny us... Anyway. We did make it home fine. Gator has almost recovered all the the way. His teeth are slightly dark, his gums look better, and he is almost willing to take a shower again.

So, these pictures are of Gator after our adventures to the hospital. I have a few photo's on my phone while at the hospital I haven't figured out how to upload.

Spring Here

Spring here in our lovely state is fickle. One minute it is hot and lovely and we can go out and enjoy the outdoors. The other minute it is raining, haling or snowing. It can't decide how it should act. We, on the other hand know that on the days that are lovely we go out and enjoy it. So here is munchie (who has spent very little time outside) exploring grass for the first time.

She wasn't sure if it was food or not so she gave it a try. I thought I should be worried, Debbie girl reassured me that grass is just roughage and she would be fine.

Even her little toes-z's liked the grass. Her glitter toes need a pedi.

Yummy yummy grass. Poor thing ended up with a tickle she just couldn't manage and threw it all back up.

Hope Kids Birthday

Munchie gets pushed around in the stroller.
Even though he looks grouchy he is having the time of his life. He didn't want to stop for me to snap a picture. He needed to stop and have a teeny rest. Look at those blue lips.
Best Daddy ever! Probably should have been working, but came to spend time with his family.
Our Roller derby princess.
HopeKids treated us to an amazing event. Every year they have a birthday bash. We get to do all the neat things at Classic and we get to spend time as a family. They also bring out a cake so that each child gets to blow out a candle. There are even gifts for each Hope Kid. This year Alex got a motorcycle race track. It is awesome and he plays with it a ton. Thanks Hope Kids. (again no pictures of me... Well at least I know what I look like)

Womens' Heart Luncheon

This years women's luncheon was amazing. I think they get better every year. I helped organize glitter toes by calling on our favorite hair school, Taylor Andrews. These lovely gals donated their time to come and pamper us. The school and students are always so willing to help out IHH. It may have helped that Cafe' Rio catered the event. Who could pass up a free sweet pork burrito/salads?

I didn't get one picture with me in it of course! (always behind the camera) But here is our friends Arianna's mommy and grandma. Munchie came as my guest. I should have brought my mom or Jeff's. Both have been so supportive and helpful through all of Gator's surgeries and really his whole life.

Another adventure in mommy land

I have to write this little story even though it paints a bad picture of me.....

Yesterday, MONDAY, was .99$ bread at the Bakery. I love the wheat bread there it is squishy like white bread. I usually go about every other week. We grab our bread and then we pick a donut. My favorite is the chocolate chocolate. I am sure it is a zillion calories but I can have one every other week, right? After making our purchase I:
 pick up the baby in her car seat
 Grab our bread and goodies
 Hold the change and my keys
 head to the car.
Ry is in front, Gator is in back... We watch for cars cross the parking lot and I unlock the car for Ry and pop the trunk for the bread. CRASH! Gator goes down, scrapes his knees (we are wearing shorts and tee-shirts on a brisk 61 degree day. We can't help it... we are optimistic dressers) Scrapes his hands and is bleeding. I get the first aid kit out of the trunk and clean and bandage the boy. Crisis over, I slam the trunk shut.... Oh nooooooo, the car is locked, My purse and cell are in the front seat and my keys are???????... Why did Ry lock it. I jumped down her throat. Honey! why did you lock the door we can't go anywhere now? Upon further findings I figured that she never got into the car. After pushing the unlock button the car gives you to the count of 25 before it locks back up. Dang it! I was the one that slammed the trunk with the keys in. After telling my daughter it was actually mommies fault, she stopped crying and was on board with an adventure. I went back into the bakery. Saw a friend who let me use her phone to call daddy. He was busy and couldn't answer. She offered to take us somewhere but with my family of four and her family of five, there just wasn't enough room in her car.... I finally thought we could walk over to Grandma D's work. It wasn't too far. Only about 8 blocks away, we could manage that.(that might be an exaggeration, but it felt like that) I carried the baby in her car seat, and held Gator's hand because he kept falling down each block. One time I went to hold him up from a fall and slammed his head into the car seat. Those short legs are slow movers. We finally made it to grandma's work and tried daddy again. He could rescue us!!!!!

Blessing #1- It was a nice day to walk
Blessing #2- We were able bodied enough to walk
Blessing #3- Gator wasn't on oxygen so all I had to do was lug the car seat
Blessing #4- We had the car seat for the rescue
Blessing #5- Daddy was in a position to rescue us. Bless him!

I wish I didn't have to go out and run errands very soon... I guess I will have to be more vigilant!
Have you done this before. I used to do it all the time. I haven't done it in such a very long time.