The Livestock Show

When my parents were here, one of the must do things that we did was go to the Houston Livestock Show. We love this time of year and being able to go to it!! So much fun. We ate good food, petted and saw lots of animals, and just enjoyed some relaxing fun.
Unfortunately Carter wasn't the most well mannered kid that day. He actually was quite the stinker. He was just not listening to us at all and was whiney and trying to run away and everything else. He was just sooo exhausted from sleeping in a different room at different times and so on while my parents were here . . . . . . .. I need excuses to his behavior because I really don't want to think that I'm raising a child that is like this all the time, and that he's going to keep being like this. . . . so he was naughty because he was exhausted. yep. that's my story. and his if he knows whats good for him. :)
Most of the pictures from the day are of him at the petting zoo. That was fun. A stupid deer kept trying to eat my shirt. Really. It must have thought my green shirt was grass???? It was fun though.

Grandparents!!!

My parents were in town last week. We had soooo much fun. They were here for approx. a week. We played at the house, showed Ike destruction, had way too much fun with balloons, went to the Houston Livestock Show, went on walks, ate good food, played Rock Band (we actually got my dad to participate!) and went out to eat. It's always so fun to have guests, especially ones that help watch the kiddos and let us sleep in!!!! :)
Oh yeah-- Thanks Dad for fixing our car!!!!! We didn't think it was possible, and it almost wasn't. Luckily he had a breakthrough the last day he was here!! We're back to being a 2 car family. All may join in the celebration!!!

Here are some pics of when they were here, excluding the livestock show which will be in a seperate post.

Playing around with Meg's hair.
Meg isn't clothed much in the first few pics because she had a bad fever for a couple of days. Luckily she was fine. We never did take her to the doctor. The nurse had told us just to keep fluids in her, and so we did and she was fine.

Rock on Dad! You can tell he's having the time of his life. He actually did pretty good.

This picture just captures Carter ALL DAY LONG!! Leave her cheeks alone!!!!

motivation

I'm just trying to find the motivation to write all the posts that I have stored up in my camera and brain.
Any of that posting going on tonight?
Nope.
It's 10 min. to midnight.
Not happening.

I will leave you with this random message:

I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them Sam I Am.

I found a melted green crayon in the dryer two days ago. Ruined my favorite shirt. Ruined a lot of favorites. Stupid pockets that hide things like crayons. grrrrr.

Ironically my fav. shirt that got ruined was green. It said "real mint flavor" it was awesome. You can't see the green crayon but you can see the waxy oily residue. fun times.

I'm thinking of holding a service for said shirt. All are invited. Unless you think I can still wear it. The real bad spot is on the back. . . .

Sick?

For the last couple of days Meg's voice has gotten kinda low, and a little husky. How can you tell on a 5 mo. (almost 6 months--AHHHH) old?? A mother knows. I told Bo and he even noticed it too. Today I'm noticing a little cough too. Not a whole body hacking one, but it's like the hollow kind.
Is she sick?
She's not acting it. She's still happy and smiley. I don't think I should trust that though. I have tough kids. Or at least Carter was, and since he is the only child I've known, he is the example I will be using.
I think I'll call the doctor tomorrow. My mom would think I'm paranoid. I might be, but she's my baby and you can never be sure. A baby boy in our ward had the whooping cough last summer and was in the hospital for a month. I know that Meg doesn't have that, but it's made me very aware of the possibility of sick kids.
My poor baby. Lucky it hasn't phased her.

Ahhhhhhhhh

This picture is definetly worth a thousand words. . . . . . . and my sanity.

Meg's hair

I promise we didn't touch it. This was how it was when she woke up from her nap. I think her 'do looks like the dog guy on SpaceBalls. hahaha. Look at those curls!!

*side note*-- look at those rolls on her arms! Don't forget the dimple on her elbow!! Oh man I love this girl!!

Five kids under four

So we watched our friends' girls the other night, and wow were there a lot of kids!! It was fun, but Bo and I decided that we are REALLY glad we don't have 5 kids under the age of 4. haha.

Carter's room while they were here.
I love Lizzy's face!

Carter loves to pose. He cracks me up.

Playing pirates with Bo. You can't see it, but he has two pirate boats on his lap, and yes he is wearing a pirate hat.