Quote of the Day

Yesterday at church Jesse's primary teacher stopped me in the hall. She said that Jesse had said the cutest thing. They were talking about baptism and how when you are baptized your sins are all washed away. Jesse had a question about that....

"If when you're baptized and your sins are washed away, then isn't the water dirty? What about the next kid?" Something to that effect. The other kids thought it was a great question and thought that we should change the water inbetween baptisms so that you didn't get stuck with the other kids sins. Kids are so literal!

Little stinker

Tracen is such a little stinker. He jabbers up a storm all day long and you can get him to repeat almost anything you want except one word.....Mom. He'll copy you with dadada and tickle, tickle, goligoli or anyother nonsense word, if you growl at him he'll growl back, but if you tell him to say Momma, he says no no no and shakes his head. Sometimes he even laughs. He's such a little stinker.

We're making progress toward walking, he will stand up in the middle of the floor these days, he still walks around furniture and he'll occasionally let you walk him around a bit, but still no steps on his own.

Quote of the Day

I havent' done one of these in a long time. I was going to post some pics I had on my phone of Tracen and of our trip today to Jumpin Jacks with my cousins but my phone won't send the pics to my email. I wonder if Josh changed it...I'll beat him later :) I also have a really cute video of Tracen to post later.

Jesse: Mom, when I undo my belt my shorts fall off, look!
Me: Jesse that's because your skinny and have no bum.
Jesse just looked at my like, of course I have a bum mom are you crazy! lol, it was hilarious. Then he rolled his eyes and walked away.

Also if anyone has seen the shirt Tracen is wearing in the picture at the top of the blog, I can't find it. It was my fav and I'm sad. I really want to get rid of that laundry monster living in my house that steals all the good clothes.

Happy thoughts

I've had a pretty crappy week or so and I was going to get on here and whine about it, but then I figured what good would that do me. So for my own good I'm going to post the things that made me happy in the past week.

• Tracen snuggled in bed with me this morning and gave me big slobbery kisses.
• He also slept through the night last night and I finally got some sleep...though the lack of sleep was not his fault, I'd been up for 31 hours.
• Tyler gave me big hugs last night and yesterday.
• Jesse likes to hang out with me at home
• Tyler and Jesse were very good on Tuesday and helped me with Tracen all day so that I could sleep since I had to go back to work that night. Thanks guys.
• Josh let's me cry to him, yell to him (as opposed to at him) tries to make me feel better.
• Josh is also an awesome dad, he's pretty good at Mr. Mom. He took the boys up to the cabin this weekend while I worked, then he took them to their last two baseball games. He also made sure they did their jobs and practiced their piano, he did all the laundry and helped clean up the house while I was working 4 nights in a row.
• I helped a sick baby at work the other night.
• My new trees that I planted last week are sprouting leaves already!
• There are things growing in my garden...and they're things I want to grow. Onions, peas, beans, radishes, tons of tomatoes, sunflowers, pumpkins, watermelon, cucumbers, squash, canteloupe, eggplant and carrots. The potatoes aren't going to work out this year and my corn hasn't sprouted yet, but we're on our way to a lot of yummy food and canning/freezing in the fall.
• I have fun at work and like my co-workers, even if they give me crap and tease me for one of those things that started out my crappy week.
• I'm taking the kids to the pool today. It's been awhile since we've gone.
• The boys did their chores this morning and practiced their piano.
• I have the next 14 days off!

Trouble

Just because Tracen doesn't walk yet doesn't mean he can't cause trouble. Tracen LOVES toilets (Josh found him in one the other day just sitting in it splashing) and he's figured out how to open our doors. That makes trouble. He can now get into trouble again. I just think playing in the toilet is really gross. I hope they have door knob thingy's for the types of knobs we have. We also need to get the door locks on the cupboards because he likes to empty the cupboards.

We love him he's so cute. He smiles and laughs and giggles and talks all the time. He tips his head back and looks at the ceiling when he laughs.

I'm so excited because after tomorrow I have like 15 days off! I get to spend 15 days with my little buddies. And hopefully get something done.