who serve breakfast when mom and dad aren’t fast enough.

Truman served Elliot milk and Lucky Charms straight out of the box.
Magically Delicious.

These night time nasties that keep appearing at our house, in the middle of the night, are no fun.

Mommies and Daddies need sleep. Especially this mommy.
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Can we please get the babies teeth in, without all the teething pain, and late night/early morning tears? And the acid reflux, two weeks for the medicine to kick in, seriously???

The growing pains. Must our little boys bodies grow so fast that their legs and feet hurt so badly? And why does this happen only in the middle of the night?
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Don’t get me started on the bad dreams/nightmares/night tremors.

Sleep is an essential part of being a human. And so it’d be nice to get some every once in a while (I think my whole family would agree).

Sincerely,
me
*pictures taken last time we were visiting Grandma and Grandpa in Logan*

Remember this?
Well apparently Tuck doesn’t think I learned my lesson.

This was left next to the computer.
Wish I could get inside his brain, and figure out what he’s trying to tell me?
(’cause when I ask him he just giggles, and giggles!)

there is a collision, in my dreams of motherhood and reality.

When I dreamed of motherhood it was this…

kids doing homework at the counter, happily, whilst I made a delicious and nutritious meal.

Our dreams do come true…

The way this art makes me feel, when I look at it, I feel proud, excited, and like I used to when I used to visit the beautiful art museums of the world.

And it was created by my very own Truman, whose passion for drawing has been increasing daily as of late.
(Of course I am not biased or anything.)

And in case you were wondering the title? ‘I can keep my heart healthy by eating carrots’.

Look at those fingers, the perfect carrot, and awesome table? Swoon. I love it!

A new space.

We have an extremely long office space. And it is the most rearranged room in our house, it’s constantly changing, and finally one day I figured out why, because I hated the space. And when I pondered why, it was the one thing that hadn’t changed…the bookshelves.

(You can kind of see them behind Toph…only picture I could find, and it’s not a good one, one day I’ll remember to take pictures!)

It felt like there was a lot of wasted space there, where the kids weren’t able to play, and that they actually avoided. So once this realization happened, I decided to change it up, and started that day actually, and although it was alot of work, I am so glad I did it!

Here’s all the books, we love books at this house. And we can’t buy anymore for awhile. As we’re running out of space to really put them!

I am trying to elimate things I don’t like, and leave or make only things that I love. I didn’t want to spend any money on this project, so I just took an old cabinet thing and turned it on it’s side, placed it between the bookshelves, and painted them all black.

Here’s a picture of Elliot helping me put everything back together, he loves to climb up and down, and up and down on the bench.
The boys are in this room, and over there constantly now.

And it feels so good, I love it, and wish I would have realized it was the bookshelves sooner! But I am just grateful I figured it out at all– And again, the power of creating things is a re-energizing thing for me! I need to remember this!

he searches until he finds at least one chicken.

This day was his lucky day…he found them both.
And couldn’t be happier about it. Today I am looking for happiness in the little things.

I think when milestones happen, they should be spaced out, to stop mothers from being sent into SHOCK.

My boys, without my permission, are growing up.

Tucker lost his first tooth, he is so happy to finally be a member of his classrooms’ lost tooth club.

And even though I shed a few tears, this grin is too adorable to be sad about for long.

Truman is all registered for Kindergarten,

And, although I cringe just thinking about being without him the whole day, he couldn’t be happier about the prospect of being in the same school as his big brother, and I am excited for him in his next adventure.

Elliot after watching his brothers run, skip, jump, and practically speed everywhere, decided he’d done enough sitting, and has taken up walking.

And strangely enough, it happened completely unexpectedly. He took a few steps back in November, but then showed no interest after that, and would not walk more than two or three steps. So I was UTTERLY FLABBERGASTED to see him stand up and walk across our entire kitchen one afternoon to get to me. When I get to heaven, I hope I get to view that moment, so I can see the shocked and joy that I am sure was very present in my face.

So all of these milestones happened all within days of each other. And I repeat, things like this should not happen to mothers, they are hard enough to take one at at time, let alone in groups of three. Although I am so happy to see these moments come, time just keeps on ticking, and I really want to freeze it for a little while!

Make a pledge, make a difference.

Seeing how Valentines was on a Sunday this year, we celebrated for a few days, but mostly on Friday.

(Truman helped me paint the chalk board for Valentines, isn’t it cute to see his little writing of LOVE?)
With much sweat, and luckily no tears, the Valentines were made and ready to be delivered to friends at school:


The day started at Tuckers school with a Mom’s and Doughnuts Book Fair Breakfast.

I can’t believe I have three kids filling up that bench!!!
Healthy, sugar free doughnuts were served

And books were purchased:

Then off to school, Truman had a great valentine party (I signed up to help, but they didn’t need me at the last minute ), and returned and promptly dumped his loot on the stairs, to look at the cards from his friends, he stayed there for a good hour, looking at the cards, and eating the candy.

Off to Tucker’s class to help with the class party, it was a great party,

there is a good group of students in his classroom this year.

Tucker too came home, to dump his treats out and read the notes from his friends.

That evening, Cat came down, and sent us out on a date. A very thoughtful gesture, and it was much appreciated!

And you can tell from the pictures, Toph and I were not the only ones who enjoyed our evening away.

And of course, a few tokens of my hubbys and kids love,
Flowers, real

and Flowers, made from balloons.

As well as a HUGE balloon. I kid you not, it’s bigger than me. And even three weeks after the fact, it’s still floating!

A great day day celebrating the love, love, love in our lives.