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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

The leash






So this is my new lifesaver. After 2 close calls with Ava and the busy street we live on I finally broke down and bought a leash. She likes it.. Loves the puppy and the buckles. She likes to put it on in the house and then run like crazy so the cats will chase the leash. She is funny. She has been so naughty lately about the road though I was scared to death. She likes to drop and twist her hand out of mine and then RUN like hell!! She is sometimes like having 3 kids!! She climbs on kitchen counters, up the crib.. is able to open doors and drawers. There is nothing this kid can't climb!! Today she opened up the X-Box, put in a game and proceeded to plug in a controller to play. She was parked in front of the TV hitting buttons trying to make the game come on when I caught her. There is nothing wrong with this kid's intelligence whether or not she is able to talk. I have cleaned the house at least 3 times today.... it still looks like her room exploded in the living room. She likes to roll her toy trains around the kitchen and put her wee-people in the school bus and make it crash into the dog water... The water dumping all over the kitchen is just a bonus. I think we need a kiddie playground just to wear her out. I have yet to connect with the infant/toddler program about her speech though... Those people are about as hard to get ahold of as BSU financial aid!!




Sunday, April 13, 2008

BAD Ava

Today Ava tried to set the house on fire. Dwain was kind of dozing on the couch while she played with her toys... suddenly he smelled smoke and was awake in an instant. Bad Ava had taken a lid from a plastic cup, thrown it into the dishwasher and turned the dry cycle on. Totally melted the lid and filled the house with smoke... We have a child lock on the dishwasher... She is just TOOOO crazy!!
Scared the pants off of Dwain though....
A couple of weeks ago while I was feeding Ruby she got into the fridge and decided to have chicken. Suddenly an entire cooked chicken was flung into my lap. "Der" says Ava. I screamed, not knowing what it was and Dwain came running. She was mad that we took her chicken LOL.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

funny thing

Each of our cats made it into a photo in the new bunch... see if you can find Jewel. Josie is the big obvious one in the livingroom but jewel is harder to find.

Hint.. she is in the dining room photo

I love our cats. HEHE

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Listing

Now here is the listing flyer she made for the sign in front of our house. I love it too. It almost makes us want to just stay here. I can't wait to have a bedroom for each of the older girls though. It will be nice to have them separate.. especially at night. I am so tired of them being up all night and Olivia being SOO tired all the time. It makes me sad.

OLD flyer

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NEW flyer

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So here's the new pictures.

These are much better I think. They really make the house look it's actual size. It also doesn't look as much like four kids live here. Now that is an accomplishment!!

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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

sneak peek

Here's a sneak peek at the new photos after we did some painting and rearannging. They look SOOO much better.
HAHA.. I just noticed the child lock on the dishwasher. Ava is so naughty.. she opens the dishwasher, throws things inside.. takes things out and uses it as a stepstool to climb onto the counter and eat cake. I love her.


http://www.the208realestate.com/Listing/VirtualTour.ashx?listingid=1650686

House listing

So our house is listed to sell now. It took 2 runs to get photos worth looking at LOL. I have to admit, our realator took great photos to begin with.. given what she had to work with LOL. I was totally suprised that she was there to take pictures the first time so I wasn't quite ready. The second pics were MUCH much better. I sent her some with dirty words cut into the lawn. Shamefully... she didn't post those although she had a good laugh about them. I am going to miss owning my own place. I will miss the feeling of being a homeowner and having the freedom to do what I want. It will be a better life though. Closer to everything giving me more time and more gas money. I think this is a good choice. I am thinking though we will have to get a four bedroom. I don't care how else the kids are arranged.. but I think Kayla DEFINATLY needs her own room. Her room was absolutly SCARY to clean out this time around. I literally just swept the garbage off the floor and got over 2 garbage bags full.
Here are the pics before: you will have to wait for the after pics because she hasn't uploaded them in stealable format yet AHHAA

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Friday, April 4, 2008

funny things that happened today

Ava got her finger stuck in a ferret cage at petco. That in itself wasn't even the funny part. After we freed her finger.. I kept thinking, what if we had to call the petco guys to free her finger. That would have been the topping to my night. Um.. guys, my kid's finger is stuck. She wanted to poke a ferret and your equipment doesn't seem to accomidate this. Can we do something about that?" What if we had to call the fire department. I was wandering around with the girls looking at hampsters and Dwain was pushing the cart. When I went back over there, Ava was just sitting there with a strange look on her face. It was too funny. She didn't quite know what to think when I started laughing. It was kind of like the spikey ball thing.

Kayla thinks when we move into city limits we will finally fullfill her dreams of owning a sea turtle. "mom, I'll keep it in the yard when it gets to big" hmm....

Olivia rode her bike all over the garage we were trying to clean. She said "mom, I'll stop if I see garbage"

Spikey ball stuck on hand = AWESOME




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and some more random Ava pictures.. just cause she cracks me up

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Olivia's birthday

Olivia had a great birthday!! She got everything she wanted... princess EVVVVERYTHING of course...

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Easter pics

We went to an easter egg hunt at my work. Here's Ruby and Olivia with the BUNNY


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and just a few more cause I CAN.

Today

Today is April fourth. Miss Ruby is THREE months old today. I know I promised some pictures so here they are.


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These are her 2 month pics. I will post three month ones later.

Today was NUTS. I posted a free ad on craigslist and got OVER RUN!! It was amazing.. people run like crazy for some free stuff!! I am hopefully getting rid of the rest of it tomorrow... one more insane day.. I can do it. I am just suprised that people weren't bopping each other on the head for an over-the-toilet organizer!! It is looking good though.. I think our house will be ready for sale in the couple of weeks that we promised. I hope...

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Your baby girl, Ruby Layne, is 88 days or 12 weeks (Approximately 2.9 months) old now.


Now that is hard to belive... I have already been back to work now for 8 weeks and she went to daycare for the first time today. I am eager to find out how that went but she will still be there for another hour yet. Poor Dwain realized JUST how fun it is to get four kids ready to go somewhere by yourself. He mistakenly thought that he could start a half hour before he had to go... Silly hubby.... It didn't work as well as he thought...

Well, I shouldn't say that. He actually got them out the door on time... but forgot to put the one item that I didn't pack FOR him in the diaper bag. Bottles and food for Ruby. SO he ended up driving back home and was late after all. I told him I usually start getting ready an hour and a half ahead of time and still end up late half the time, so he was just being over ambitious. LOL. Not too bad for the first try though. It will either get better or worse with time.

Anyway... so we are selling the house. Dwain and I have argued and argued over the past several months... anytime I wanted to sell.. he was against.. and the the opposite. Now we are both in agreement. I am going to be glad to be back in town again. No more nasty commute and the kids will have things to do. It is a good decision all around.

Well.. I should probably get off here now... especially since I am at work right now. I promise I'll post some new pics within the next few days... You have to see Ms. Ruby.. She's kinda cute!!

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