What Were We Thinking!?

When I had my son I thought he was a bit of a challenge. Then I had my daughter and she is beyond a bit of a challenge. I like to call her my warrior princess. She wants to be pretty and dance and sing but she is also all drama and fight! She IS the most stubborn child I have met.

So my husband and I know this about our kids and still we decided we wanted a third child. With number 3 on the way there are days, today for example, when I wonder what we were thinking because I can barely handle the 2 I have. But it is one thing for me to have these days and another when I am told "I was surprised you decided to have another child after Ella." Someday I will probably look on this crazy time in life and laugh. Until then I pray for patience, endurance, and long naps!

Kara would be proud

I have been just horrible about blogging since we moved. I guess I never dreamed how busy I would be and so quickly after moving.

Kara, this is for you because you would be so proud of YOUR little Ella. Yesterday I let Ella choose something from the desserts that were left after a womens' function I helped with. Secretly I hoped she would choose something not so messy like a cookie. She pointed to this fudgy, sticky chocolate cake and said "I want that." I figured it was the first thing she looked at so I tried to convince her to choose something else. She then pointed to another chocolate dessert saying "I want chocolate." In the end I was able to convince her to take a brownie which was slightly less messy than the cake but to her satisfaction was still chocolate. Did we get our girls mixed up at some point? =)

Rain

The other day it was raining. When I say raining I mean soak you to the bone in about 12 seconds kind of rain. My son stood at the back door and watched the rain. After a while he got an idea and asked me to put a bucket out to catch the rain for him. I reluctantly agreed, then proceeded to quickly open the door and stick my head and arm out just far enough to get the bucket into the falling rain. It probably took 3 seconds but that was long enough for the water to be flowing off the tip of my nose and down my arm.
I went back to my dishes in the kitchen. I hear a door close and Micah announces that he "ran with everything off and hardly got wet." I had no idea what that meant so I poked my head around the corner and saw Micah standing there buck naked (and hardly wet). He had run (fast) out the door and halfway across the yard to right an upside down bucket, then back again. All I thought was "I'm sure glad we have a fenced in yard."
What goes through their heads? =)

I'm back

After a couple of month hiatus to move and basically go crazy, I have decided it is time to get blogging!

If you know my husband you will get a kick out of this one.

Our new house backs up to a bit of woods and if followed goes to a small pond. After a few days of looking at the woods from the backyard my husband, Jason, asked Micah is he would like to take a walk in the woods to the pond.
"A little scary" Micah responded.
"I'll have my knife" Dad said.
Micah smiled and said "Oooooo, I can cut some flowers for Mommy."
Jason rolled his eyes. "That's my son!"

Feeding Giraffes

With Jason being gone again, preparing for a vacation, trying to sell houses and getting ready to move the family all the way across the country I've had little time to share any new stories. I will likely not have time over the next few weeks either. Before the utter craziness begins here's a memorable moment we recently had.

Micah, Ella and I went to the zoo last week. We've had a membership these last couple of years but we have never had a chance to feed the giraffes until this particular trip. Because I love Giraffes I was super excited and thought it was the best part of the day!

On the drive home from the zoo I asked Micah what he thought of feeding the giraffes. He very matter of factly said "I liked it but it was slobbery like Ella's kisses." I thought it was a very accurate description!

Proud mama!

Today Jason and I took the kids to the Arizona Science Center. It was a free weekend which was nice except for the fact that it was beyond packed and kids were pretty much running the place! Even so we had a great time.
Micah thought it was "cool" that he was able to try all kinds of interactive things. He even got to climb the 30 foot climbing wall. He has only ever climbed the little climbing walls at the park (10 feet tops), so this was a pretty big deal for a 4 year old. He watched a 9 or 10 year old girl climb before him. She did well going up but struggled coming down. Micah on the other hand must have learned from her challenges. He went up that wall faster than I have ever seen a kid go and he figured out right away how to straighten out his legs and walk down the wall. He was up and down in a few short minutes. I was soooo proud of him! Unfortunately we forgot the camera. . . I hope the picture I took on my phone turns out!

Moving dilemas

We are going to be moving in a few months. In order to "prepare" my son for the change I have been talking a lot about moving, the fun of making new friends, getting a new room, and (because this is super important to a 4 year old) finding new parks.

We currently live in the desert and even though my son was born somewhere else, this is all he knows. We will be moving to North Carolina where the air is sticky and everything is green and beautiful. One thing that came up in our moving conversations is our yard, what we have now (rocks) and what we will have (grass). Micah is not really a big fan of grass. When I said that our yard would not have rocks he looked sad at first. Then he perked up and said that we would have to bring a lot of our rocks with us. The immediately stirred up images of our brand new mini van loaded down with dusty quarter inch rock and I was about to say "absolutely not" when my son went on with his plan. "We need to get a zip top bag, the big one mom (this means 1 gallon), fill it with rocks, and put it in my backpack to bring with us." I smiled at this and said "absolutely." We are now both happy. My son gets to take "his rocks" to NC and I get to see him happy and keep my mini van clean!