To Infinity and Beyond...

William is REALLY into Toy Story lately and especially loves Buzz Lightyear. My sister gave him some dress up clothes for Christmas last year and luckily there is a Buzz Lightyear costume in the bunch. He has been wearing it constantly and jumping off all the furniture yelling..."I'm Buzz Lightyear, To Infinity and Beyond!" He wants to wear it out of the house, but I won't let him. I feel like I have to draw the line somewhere.

Kids Say the Darndest Things....

William had an end of the year party at Mother's Day Out and they gave all the kids Happy Meals. When we got home I went through his backpack and found his Happy Meal toy. I unwrapped the toy and took it to him in the playroom. "William, look what you got at school today." He looked at it for a minute and then held it up to me saying enthusiastically, "Look Mommy, she looks just like you!" Did I mention that the toy was Princess Fiona from Shrek! For those of you not familiar with Shrek...she is a giant green OGRE. Thanks William.

The other day William woke up from his nap demanding a snack. I said, "That's not how you ask for a snack from Mommy. What do you say?" He looked at me annoyed and sarcastically said, "please." I responded sarcastically with, "Please...beautiful sweet Mommy." Then I waited for him to repeat what I said. He looked at me and said, "Please...Grumpy Old Troll." Then he gave me this look like, your move Mommy. I thought about putting him in time out, but I just died laughing and then he started laughing too. What a little stinker.
Side Note: The Grumpy Old Troll is a character from Dora the Explorer. He is yellow, covered in hair, lives under a bridge and makes Dora solve riddles to pass.

Jonathan was changing William into his pajamas for bed when William pointed at a stray hair on Jonathan's shoulder. "Daddy, what is that?" Jonathan responded with, "a hair, see daddy has hair all over his body. Look at my chest, someday when you get big you will have hair on your chest just like Daddy." William burst out crying in horror and yelling, "No, no, I don't want hair like Daddy!" Jonathan, "Don't worry buddy, you can always shave it or wax it." William sniffling, "O.K."

Here are my favorite sweet William stories too...
I caught him hugging Logan the other day and saying, "I love you SO much Logan."
He tells me I look like a princess every time I wear a skirt.
Jonathan was out of town a lot recently and William sadly goes, "I really want to hug Daddy."

Summer Fun

Baby Pool: $12.00
Sprinkler: $8.00
Toy Story bucket and beach toys: $5.00
Enjoying some old school backyard fun before bed: Priceless!

Logan Pictures

I feel like Logan gets a little neglected on the blog, so here are some pictures of our little Logan Man. It's hard to believe that he is 5 1/2 months already!

Memorial Day Weekend

We went down to Rockport for Memorial Day. The drive was a little tough, it took us about 5 hours going and 5 1/2 coming home. William and Logan both don't sleep in the car like most kids which makes it really hard. We miss the easy 3 hour drive from Houston.

William had a blast as usual. He went to the beach, swimming, fishing, boat rides, flew his Spiderman kite and played baseball. He also sat by a fire ant bed getting bites all over his legs, feet and hands. He broke out in a heat rash all over his body and then bumped his head pretty good on a corner when we got home giving himself a giant goose egg on his forehead. He looked pretty beat up, I guess it's just the sign of a good time!

Here are some pics of our trip...


My birthday was on the 28th, so we got some cupcakes to celebrate. William was super excited...

It was so hot I had to keep Logan inside most of the time. Here he is getting tired of playing in the Exersaucer...

See if you can spot the fish in this picture...

William pretending to be a pirate...

Mother's Day Weekend

I want to give a special thanks to Jonathan for a wonderful Mother's Day. He went above and beyond to make it a great weekend for me! It started out a little rough when I came down with food poising Thursday night, but luckily I felt better by Friday evening. Jonathan has been such a trooper taking care of the boys and letting me get some extra rest this weekend.

He also gave me some beautiful flowers, a balloon, a card, presents, cooked breakfast and cleaned the house. Sunday we went to church where William made me a sweet bookmark that he was very proud of and then we had dinner at my favorite restaurant, Elite Cafe.

This was the first Mother's Day where William has really understood what was going on. He came running in the bedroom this morning yelling "Happy Mother's Day" and gave me a big kiss and hug. I feel so extremely blessed to have healthy, sweet, joyful children and an equally great husband to boot.

It wouldn't be a proper Mother's Day blog entry without lots of pictures of the boys, so here you go...

William holding my Mother's Day bookmark...

For all you moms out there, I leave you with a few of my favorite quotes about motherhood from Erma Bombeck:

- "My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first one being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint."

- "Seize the moment. Think of all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart."

- "My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch on fire or block the refrigerator door, let it be."

- "I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie."

Poison Control

Last week we had a little family of sparrows that set up shop on our front porch and started building a giant nest right by our front door. They are very mean birds and would swoop down trying to peck us if we went out there. I heard from a neighbor that you can put mothballs by their nest to get rid of them, so I went to Lowe's and bought a box.

I had Jonathan go out there with a ladder and put mothballs on the front and back porch. The next day Jonathan started to feel sick. He thought it was just a stomach bug, but the rest of us felt fine. He could barely eat and felt extremely weak. He left for a meeting after lunch and looked like death. I was really starting to worry about him when it hit me, the mothballs are making Jonathan sick. I'm sure it was divine intervention!

I looked on the Internet and Jonathan had all the symptoms of mothball poising. I called Poison Control and they told me to take Jonathan to the doctor if he didn't start feeling better in 24 hours. It turns out the poison they use in mothballs is highly toxic and Jonathan is obviously very sensitive or allergic to it. He got extremely sick that night...fever, chills, body aches, etc. I asked him multiple times if he wanted to go to the emergency room, but he wanted to wait until the morning. Praise the Lord, he finally started to feel better the next morning and was 100% after a few days. He keeps telling people that I tried to poison him. I just tell him to let this serve as a warning to never cross me! :)

The mothballs are gone and we ended up dealing with the sparrows Jonathan's way....a bebe gun. Jonathan is very proud of himself, he shot each Sparrow through a crack in the front door and I quote, "smoked them" with one bebe each. All is well again, no sparrows and Jonathan survived the mothball poison.