A little thrill for the week

I get to leave work today at 3:00! And I get to go HOME, with OUT kiddo's! Oh my goodness I am so excited to have 2 whole hours of quiet time. Time, all to myself. No questions, no work, no being a mommy. I am thrilled! I might just take a bath or something. Who knows. Just me & my book. Can't wait. Only 1.5 hours to go.

Mary Mary quite Contrary, how does your garden grow?

We planted a vegtable garden this spring and boy oh boy are some of our plants growing! Our tomato plants have grown the most and we have about a bazillion green tomatos on them. I only bought 4 plants, two of the red cherry tomatos, two of the little yellow tomatos.. I think I got 2 too many. I have no idea what I am going to do with all of these tomatos! Especially when we go on Vacation at the end of next month.. ALl of my plants will be overflowing with fruit and I have no one to pick them. Unless someone wants to drive 15 minutes out to Sheridan from McMinnville for some Cherry tomatos and Zuchini.. Maybe some corn & chili peppers too. Who knows? We have had a few strawberries ripen.. But not many and the ones we had were a bit watery. Here are some pics of our garden.





And here are a few of my great kids.

Sleep, who needs sleep?

I am right now sitting in my office/Peyton's bedroom waiting for the little monkey to fall asleep. I don't trust her anymore! I walked in here earlier today after I put her down for her "nap" to find her standing up and leaning out of her crib. I swear I just caught her before she tumbled head first out of it. For cryin out loud.. The baby is refusing to fall asleep. She took one nap today, and that was on our way home from Church at 11:00 am. It totaled approx 20 minutes long. Now she is little miss fussy pants.. Hmmm could it possibly be because she needs to SLEEP?! So, now I need to tally up all of the new milestones she has done in the last month..

1. Army Crawl
2. Going from a crawling to a sitting position
3. Crawling (very fast might I add) on her hands and knees
4. Pulling her self up to standing
5. Wave Bye Bye
6. Saying Dada

Whats next kid? Running a marathon?

Nothin new

Hey all, nothin new goin on here. Just living life one day at a time. Girls are good. Hub's good. I am good. It's been hot here. Which is nice, but I want it to get back into the 80's. Much more comfy. We are only 1 1/2 months away from Vacation. Hallejulah! We are going to Sunriver for a week the last week of August. I can not wait! The girls are excited to be able to go to the pool everyday, and to ride their bikes there & back. Plus just being able to relax will be so nice.

Peyton had a big day the other day too. She went from a crawling to a sitting position, and started crawling on her hands & knees instead of the army crawl. She also had her 1st solid poopoo.. But we really don't need to go there..

I will try to post pictures in the next couple of days. It's been a while!

Cracker Jacks

Who used to love Cracker Jacks? I know I sure did. Thinking back, I am not sure if it was the treat itself, or maybe the anticipation of what "treasure" I was going to get from inside the box. Life is kinda like that I think. Not so much what you know what you are going to get, but the anticipation of what you don't know yet. Sometimes its the greatest thing in the world to you, and other times it just kinda sucks. I have been in kind of a funk lately, and I think I just need to get back to the anticipation of life. Sometimes its the best part..

A few cute stories from the past

I have been thinking back alot lately, about what the big girls used to do & say and I just had to document some of them.. Here are some of my faves.

~Literal Maddy ~
One evening when Maddy was 4 years old, I went out to get the mail. I was flipping through all of the envelopes, seeing what bills we received & whatnot, when I found an envelope address to Miss Maddy Johnson. I told her, "Maddy, you got a letter in the mail!" She got SO excited, and said, "Which one? An M?!" Yes, my ever so literal child thought a letter could only mean one from the alphabet...

~Envious Alex~
Alex, as we have determined in prior posts is a "free spirit". She also hates to lose, and gets very very envious.. Well... She went through a time where she REALLY wanted to have a penis. I was actually quite disturbed about all of it. Here are two stories from that "phase"..

One afternoon, I was picking the girls up from daycare.. I noticed Alex wasn't wearing the pants I had put her in in the morning. I questioned Diane, and she told me that, yes, Alex had an accident. That didn't bother me too much, because she had just turned 3 and had only been potty trained for about 6 months at that time. What disturbed me the most was when Alex walks up to me, pulls down her pants and shouts, "LOOK MOMMA, DEESE UNNERWARES HAB A PENIS POCKET! THEM ARE WEALLY COOL." Yes, she shouted that her panties had a penis pocket in them. Turns out she had run out of panties in her spares there so Diane loaned her some of her extras.. Which just so happened to be the little boys underroos. Oh joy.

Another GREAT penis envy story...
One night I was downstairs and the girls were up in bed "sleeping". Well I heard a bunch of noises coming from their room so I decided to see what in the heck they were doing. BAD IDEA. I walked into the room and found baby wipes all over the place. And Alex's panties were wet. Not soaking wet like she had had an accident, but damp. I asked her "Alex why are your panties wet?" And being the honest little girl she is said, "Cuz I put wipes in dem so I could have a penis".. WHY?! "WHY, Alex do you think you need to do that?!" "I not know" was my precious daughters reply..

~Back to Maddy.. Literal Maddy strikes again! ~

This is one of my Mom's favorite stories of Maddy's. Probably because she was right there when my oh so charming daughter said it.

I was making dinner one night, and my parents were over for the evening. We had just started to eat, when my mom asked me what I put in the food I had made. (I can't remember what I made that night) I replied with "just some seasonings". Maddy's eyes got really big, like whoa.. She said, "What kinds of seasonings, Momma? Fall, or Winter?! Christmas ones maybe?!"

My girls make me smile & laugh so much.. What a bunch of goofy girls!

What a doll...

Isn't she just the cutest baby girl ever?! I sure think so.. I am having a really hard time with the fact that yet another month has gone by. Peyton is now 7 months old, and crawling EVERYWHERE. I had forgotten how much work a mobile baby is. I had also forgotten how much fun a mobile baby is. I just love watching her learn new things. She also says Dada, and I swear she says Hi as well. She also LOVES her big sisters. Last night Travis took the big girls up to Vancouver to buy some fireworks for tonight (the 4th of July) and Peyton totally missed her sissy's. She would look around, crawl to each corner of the downstairs trying to find them. When they finally got home at 10:30 last night, they went up stairs and Peyton woke up and litterally SQUEELED with joy when she saw them. Then she proceded to start to cry when they went into there room to get ready for bed. When Trav walked in to console her, she was up on her knees, trying with all her might to pull her self up to standing. All I could think was NO, NOT YET! I seriously don't think I could handle another baby milestone yet.. I guess I am going to have to drop her cribs mattress down now. I don't want my baby to fall head first out of her crib and get a concussion. No thank you.

Hope you all have a fantastic 4th of July!