lamp inspection

so i can't believe i am actually posting 2 posts in one day.. but this was too funny.

i wonder if these animals have just never seen a lamp before, or if they are hanging out like high schoolers in a parking lot on a friday night? jackson was very particular that they all face into the circle. :) i love this funny dude.

TRASH TRUCK!

monday (otherwise known as "monkey monday" here).. is trash day..

and most mondays, usually during breakfast, we hear the trash truck barrelling down our street.. it is required that, if you are the first to hear it, you must say, at the top of your lungs, "TRASH TRUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!"... the rest of the family drops everything (today, i was in the middle of french braiding avery's pigtails.. you can see we have one in, one out) to rush to the couch, and peer out the window to watch the truck pick up our big green trashcan & rush onto the next house..

and i am not sure why my kids love it so much, but if we miss it... well, let's just say there are some frowns involved.

it is quite an event.. and i love that our kids get so much joy from it..

:) (but i will say, that resuming breakfast afterwards is always a bit anticlimactic)

bling

this child loves shoes.
i mean, really. she changes shoes/outfits so many times a day that we have a new rule: only 2 outfit changes a day.
she changes when she goes outside to play,
when we go to the store
when we come in from playing
if scout licks her pant-leg
if my hands are wet when i am buttoning up the back of a dress
if she thinks my hands were wet when i was buttoning up the back of her dress....

the child spends more time getting clothes out & cleaning them up than she does playing!

today i took the kids to target so i could find some croc-like shoes for jackson, and avery took the opportunity to try on probably 20 pairs of shoes. no joke.
hello kitty, disney princess, dora, brown with pink flowers, pink glitter mary janes.. you name it, she tried it on.

but these... were classic. she exclaimed..
MOMMY!!!! LOOK!! these have diamonds on them!!!!!!!!!!!!

what's your name?

it's amazing that with all the chattering that avery & i do.. that i have (gasp!) forgotten that my little 2 year old dude is working up some words of his own. recently, he learned his own name (or at least, his nick-name.. jack-jack)
up until then, if asked, "what's your name...?" he would respond, "avray".. (yes, arkansas accent).. and then with a smirk, "sissy!".. but now, he points to his chest, and proudly says, "jack-jack"!



some other words he loves:
sawsaur (dinosaur)
(and if asked, "what's a dinosaur say?".. the answer is loud, with claws.. "RARRRRR!"
GREEN! (for all colors.. but mostly, for green.. interestingly enough, this was avery's favorite color at that age!)
(mama asks..."where's lambie?". his answer, with a certain nod of the head: (wash)
(because, honestly, with the amount of love that little lambie gets, i take every opportunity i can get to toss it in the wash)
his favorite word, though, is.. still.. BOAT. (just like his daddy)

:0 well, now, aren't you all impressed?
a video and a new blog, all in 48 hours??

i did it!

yes, we finally have a blog. that's it for now. just feeling accomplished getting this far. :)