Skating

Look at these two... wish life was this easy for me.

Goofy Girls

Like always the girls have had several birthday parties to attend... to be quite honest I am literally sick of it and wish all the rest of the kids this school year skip their birthdays. Sounds harsh right? Every freakin' Saturday there is another party. Yuck. But here are the highlights from a few of them:

Olivia killing the pinata...

Ava became a cowgirl after riding the horse at Juli's and talking to the cowboy (horse owner).

Ava at a different party jumping with her friends.

Ava's collection of bugs from the pinata.

Mother's Day Tea

Miss Ava served me lunch at her school for Mother's Day. It was wonderful to be with her and share the moment with her without having to bring the baby and have him grasping at the food. Rachael kindly watched him for me and picked up Olivia from school.

Here we are celebrating together- me and my cakearoonies.

These are the flowers Ava gave to Karen for teacher appreciation week. She used them for the Mother's day party and Ava was so pleased.

All the kids said a poem together to us.

Ava practicing her waitress skills.

Fruit kabobs- Yummy!

Cookies!!

The finished product.

And the angel who gave me a beautiful present, a heart necklace she made herself. What an awesome day!

Silly Gavaroonie

Phew! What stinks?

Hehhee.. It was me!

Yeah, I'm pretty funny..

I'm a sneaky little devil.

How I imagine Gavin on his first roller coaster.

Can we go again?

Spoke Too Soon

Snaggletooth popped out yet another tooth last night. Not knowing she had any more loose teeth the tooth fairy was caught off guard and without the usual gold dollar and silver dollar. But you know what's great about kids... they think four coins are better than two. So when Liv woke up to find four quarters under her pillow imagine the shrieks of "hooray" that flooded the halls.

Oh to be six again... and totally naive.

Yip, that's the new jack o'lantern face.. ready for Halloween.

More Teeth!

On Sunday, April 29th, Olivia pulled out her first top tooth. From that minute forward she smiled. Beamed rather. She couldn't wait for the tooth fairy to arrive and she did bringing Liv a gold dollar and a silver dollar. She was rich! She ran to school and showed off her gaping hole to all of her friends...

Boy is she a little stinker... she's not the only one.

Gavin for the last week had been pulling at his ears and he was getting a tooth as well. It had cut through on the top awhile ago but it was still dropping down. I figured the ears were sore from that. But then he didn't stop rubbing or pulling so then I thought he probably had an ear infection. I called the hospital for an appointment but apparently you can't get sick on a Sunday after 1PM because they aren't open. Ooops. Thankfully he had a well-baby appt. scheduled for Tuesday, so we were just going to have to grin and bear his fussiness another few days and lack of sleep and then hopefully get his issues resolved.

Sounds easy doesn't it?

Well Maybe if in the wee early morning of Monday I didn't throw up it would have been. Dave feeling bad himself decided to stay home and help me since Liv had to go to school, Ava had a field trip to the farm, karate, and my back was killing me from barfing. Sounds like things are progressing a little better on the brighter side of things the help from Dave? Not when I heard Dave wretch and throw up right before taking Liv to school. Yea us.

I jumped out of bed and got Liv in the truck and took her to school. Thankfully one less kid to deal with for awhile. On my way back Dave had the other two packed in the other truck and they were headed to the farm. I offered for him to leave the baby but he said it would be fine. And it was. They all had a great field trip. Liv was worried we were too sick to pick her back up at school but alas she was picked up right on time. Dave and I were feeling better...

And then n hour later Ava barfs and barfs and barfs... with diarrhea. Yea us. So she is taken care of and Dave gets Olivia ready for karate who now is melting down that Ava gets to stay home. REALLY?? You are jealous of your sister puking? For the love of God please go to karate and behave yourself!

So she goes and whines the whole time about not feeling well. Neither of us believe her because she doesn't exactly tell the truth all the time. So Dave calls me and we discuss it and she is staying and going to finish, oh look at that she puked. Of course... but Liv can make herself puke on key so we still think she is faking it but Dave brings her home all the while scolding her for her behavior. Then two minutes after she gets home she pukes the entire night on. Guess she wasn't lying this time. Ooops. What horrible parents we are. But that is the lesson learned to tell truth so we can believe her... We'll see later if that theory sticks.

Somehow by midnight no one is puking any longer. People are sleeping everywhere.. or shall I say wherever they last threw up. One dog slept in our bed under the sheets. It was like a fun house at a really bad carnival.

The saving grace- Gavin did not get this virus. But what he got was another shiny little tooth poking right out of the top of his gum. Tooth number 4, welcome to the family...

Today is Tuesday, the day he had to make it to to get to his appointment. We made there, of course his ears were fine today, no rubbing, no pulling, and no ear infections. Just a tiny shiny new tooth today.

We can all sleep peacefully tonight. *Sigh*

STATS:
The Whopper 22lbs 1.8 oz 75%
Height 2 feet 5.25 inches 82%
Head 18.27 80.8%

Gavin Time

 Gavin roughing up Elmo.

 Gavin using his Star Wars fishing pole for the first time in May.

 Gavin's first time crawling on April 14.

 The big moose takes up the whole tub.

 And he laughs about it.

This is our time for reference. When Gavin lays back he fills the entire thing up. It is hilarious.