Bringin' home the bacon . . .

Well, dinner at least. The other day I sent Russ and the boys out to find us some free food. Luckily they had a little fun too.

Nine months and counting

No, not the nine months you were thinking . . . Colton is nine months old. Yippee! He is crawling, pulling up on furniture and loves to let go of your hands and try to stand on his own. He wakes up every morning and starts looking for his brothers. He is getting his two front teeth right now and it is NOT FUN, for him or mom. He does like baby food, but will eat anything else that is fun to crunch, squish or play with. He finally takes a bottle!!! Hallelujah!! (For those of you that know me, I breast feed because I believe in it, not because I like it.) Colton was my first baby that refused to take a bottle, and I did not know how to handle it. So now he is still breastfeeding, but atleast I can feel the wisp of freedom on the horizon. Colton absolutely LOVES the bath. If I walk into the bathroom with him and then walk out again, he gets very upset because he thought he was going to to have bathtime. Too bad he also has horrendous excema just like my other boys, so the doctor's recommendation is as few baths as possible. Poor kid. He still takes two naps a day and goes to bed without a fuss, unlike his brothers. His official stats from the doctor's visit were: 18lbs 4oz and 28 1/2 inches. He is in the 90th percentile for his height and now only in the 50th for his weight. I swear he said his first word, although it could just be a kind of lipsmacking sound, but I was changing his diaper and I swear he said "poop". It wouldn't surprise me if that was his first word since with all the boys in our house that is a very frequent word that comes up in any and all conversations. Nine months has gone by super fast and as spring and summer come, I'm sure the months will go by even faster. I just try to love the small moments and hopefully not forget all the good times. Oh how I love all my boys!

Eat your heart out

I decided I love Valentine's Day - well, and most holidays. Holidays are just so much more fun with kids. I think its because kids are so easy to please. For Valentine's, anything pink, red, or heart shaped makes the ordinary cool and fun. I'm glad we have these holidays to force me to get over my procrastination of all the supermom things I wish I did all the time. So of course, I had to document our fun with lots of pics, so my kids can't say that I never did anything for them. :) We had a great weekend with lots of pink, red and hearts . . .

Friday night started with homemade heart-shaped pizzas (and can I just say I am really not good at working with pizza dough. It drives me crazy! But the boys didn't care, they thought it was great fun. And it was actually pretty yummy!)

Pink cookies for desert (ie. really easy cake mix cookies with white chocolate chips mixed in)

Valentine's Day morning: heart cutout pancakes and pink donuts that Daddy surprised us with when he got home!

Valentine's dinner: Heart-shaped meatloaf (doesn't look that great, but it was good enough), heart breadsticks, and of course, you can't do Valentine's Day without heart-shaped jello jigglers

The jello was definitely Colton's favorite - and since it kept him happy all through dinner, I gave him all he could eat, which I later regretted when he was spitting up smelly red gunk in the middle of the night.

The best part of the holiday: sharing our love with each other! I love my boys - all four of them!

You make my heart glow!

Corbin's valentines this year for his classmates and neighbor friends:

A little on love

In honor of Valentine's Day, I thought I would share a few quotes from my little loves on love.

Corbin: "Mom, all the kisses that I have given you since I was born til now, til I was five, that's how much I love you."

Corbin:"Is Pluto the farthest planet?"
Me: "pretty much"
"Well, that's how much I love you, to Pluto . . . and back." (with a little smarty smirk)

Corbin: "I love you so much, I just, I just don't know how to explain it."

Putting Cody down for nap:
"Mommy." pause. "I love you." pause. "And I love brother's legos."

Last minute Valentine idea

Cute, eh? Just in case you are still searching for something fun and creative, this is what we did last year. You can also say "You melt my heart".

It's a great way to recycle all those broken crayons you have around the house. I got this heart tin at the craft store, but I also saw that they have cool silicone ones at Wal-mart. For actual instructions, click here. If you have kids and are not familiar with this site, you should be! I love it!