Pictures of the Kids

I decided it was about time I took some pictures of my kids since I haven't done it for a long time.  The boys haven't changed much and Elly has only changed a little but I still wanted some knew ones of them.  These are just some we ran out and did one day when we had a couple of minutes.  I still need to take them and do some good ones.  These will work for now though.

You see why it has been awhile since I did the kids pictures.  I can never get all of them to look at me at the same time and all have on a normal smile.  I guess it does capture their personalities this way.  I have better luck trying doing one at a time.  I wasn't in love with the coloring of Mason's so we tried again the next day and of course this is what I got.

This kid is something else, but you have to love him because he is a happy and fun kid.

Loving it!!!

It has been almost two months since I have had to change a diaper and I am loving it.  Elly started to show some real interest in potty training over the summer but I didn't want to try that when we would be camping and traveling.  We waited until Tyler started school and then we started.  She has done so well.  She wears a diaper to bed at night still but I can handle that.  She wears her underwear when she goes down for her naps though and she stays dry for that.

It is so nice not having a diaper to change.  She loves her cute little underwear.  They just don't make underwear small enough for little girls so these ones have worked really good, especially on Sunday when she wears her dress.  They cover her bum pretty good, since we all know how modest little girls and dresses can be.

The longest break I have had in the last 6 1/2 years is two months, that was between Mason and Elly.  With Tyler I had a two week break before Mason was born and I was at it again.  So I am enjoying it. 

Boxing

Mason and his friend have been so funny to watch play the Wii.  This day they were doing boxing.  Watching there faces was better then watching the TV.  They were so hot and sweaty after they finished. 

They got so into it.  Their faces they would make and the sounds was pretty funny.  I wish I could video them and put it on here.  These two are cute guys that have so much fun together. 

A bad week...

Two weeks ago Tyler came home from school with a black eye.  He ran into another kid during P.E.  The other kids didn't get anything and he got this nice black eye which lasted the week.  He had a nice bump on his eye for a couple of days too.

Two days later I picked him up from school and he tells me, "I didn't have a good day at school today."
I ask, "Why not"?
Then he proceeds to tell me that he broke to teeth at school that day.  I was just hoping the weren't his front teeth as soon as he said that.  He must have read my mind because he said, "Don't worry it's not the front ones.  They are in the back." 
So he puts in a piece of gum and tells me that it hurts to chew on those.  So I pull over and look at his teeth, then turn around and head to the dentist office.  He ran in and showed them his teeth and since they didn't need to do any drilling they just hurried and fixed them for him.  Ten minutes later we were on our way home again.
The story of how it happened came out once we got home.  When he was on the monkey bars at school he let go and his friend was standing below him.  Tyler didn't know that.  When he landed Tyler's chin hit his friends head and broke Tyler's teeth and gave him this nice bruise on his chin too.  I can only imagine his friend had a nice headache too.  It was a bad week for him. 

It held!!

Most people don't have a problem with this but I do and now so does my little girl.  When we curl our hair it is straight in a matter of moments.  I have decided not to waste my time with trying to curl mine anymore, but I still try to curls Elly's on Sundays anyway.  This sunday she just looked so cute after I finished it.  I knew it wouldn't last so took a picture of her as soon as I finished getting her ready.

I also put a ton of hair spray on it, which I hate to use and her hair held for most of the three hour block.  I know your thinking of corse it held with hair spray, but it takes so much on us that it isn't worth it most of the time.  She did look pretty cute.