When the pool comes out.

The boy gets naked!



Lillian thought it was pretty fun looking and Will had already gotten her soaked so stripped her down to her diaper and in she went.

 

And her eyes after!! It looked like pink eye all over again. They had to have burned because she mostly sat there eating with her eyes closed. Poor girl!

Will came in at some point and wanted to go back out so at least I got swim trunks on him. :0 Silly guy.



Keep in mind that the pool is intended for the dog... This sweet little girl who frankly, is probably hotter than Hell in the summer! I wouldn't want to wear a black coat in Kansas' summers!!

Start of summer!

It's not quit summer but this is the start of our summer. The first time Lillian has ridden in the chopper and she LOVED it!

Will watered my flowers for me.... I don't think they need watering for another week!

 

 

 

Wish it wasn't so blurry!



And it has begun again.

 

Spring chopping that is. This picture just cracks me up. Love it. And yes, it is from fall chopping (2 years ago) but just too cute not to post. Prayers of no break downs and no injurers are welcomed! It's always scary when they have such little sleep, too many accidents could happen.

I'm still here!

Hi there, remember me? Ya, I'm that blogger that posts pictures of my adorable kids. I haven't been around much lately. Why? Who knows! I have been in some kind of funk of not even taking many pictures. After about two weeks, I looked through my camera and found a few pictures to share with you. So, photo dump, here you go!

 

I think you can read her mind in this one!

 

Sharing Mom's protein shake. Got Milk?

 

She is going to be my little artist. She LOVES to color!

 

Will just likes to cut paper.

 

Spaghetti means, naked eating.

 

 

KISS!

 

It turned out weirdly like he is an angel just glowing.

 

Watching tractors on the kindle is possibly his favorite past time right now.

 

'Helping' Dad plant the garden. Yes a coat and hat, that is how our spring has been going!

 

 

 

While Lillian and I were sliding, the boys, okay maybe just Will, was tilling the yard.

 

So, will it be another two weeks before I'm back? Who knows, hope not!! Until then, all you Moms out there, have a great Mothers Day!!!

Family update

Will- He needs the sleep, but.... he LOVES to procrastinate. The things he will hate me for when he gets older... "MOOOOMMMM, I gotta poop!" "MOOOOOM, I need to pee." "MOOOOOOOOOM, I want Daddy." "DAAAAAAAD?" "MOM?" "Hey Mom, I want to snuggle!" This goes on anywhere from 20 minutes to 2 1/2 hours! He needs the sleep because if he misses it, he will wake up in the middle of the night and scream. Other than this, the boy is tired of the weather. It's amazing one day and he can play outside for hours and then the next day it's snowing. He just doesn't understand that he can't go outside to play when there is 3" of snow on the ground. Well, he could, just his hands would be ice cubes. The last few days he has been acting like his ear hurts but you ask him and he denies it. In fact he told one of his daycare providers that he was holding his ear because it 'not hurt'.... silly boy. But with this we are keeping an extra eye on him wondering if he may have an ear infection. He is pretty much potty trained! Tonight and last night he pooped in his diaper for the night but I'm sure that's because we were trying to ignore him because of his procrastination. But for the last month and a half or so he has only been wearing big boy underwear. Pull ups and/or diapers are only for sleeping time.

Lillian- FINALLY, she has 2 teeth! She was 13 months and 2 days old when the first tooth popped out. I was really beginning to think if she even had any teeth in her head. She took about 3 steps on the 11th and since then has only taken one hear and there but she still has no interest in taking off. The girl is determined to be a baby forever! Yes, she had another ear infection last week. The good thing with tubes is that we could treat it with drops instead of anti-biotic. They always gave her infections and so then we had to treat another problem. After a week of drops, she was good to go.

Dennis- Is starting his long working hours. Once daylight lasts longer, so do his work days. He's been working on a fuel trailer at one of the guy's house that drives for him. There are about 6-8 cows still to have calves but most are done. He has about half the herd out on wheat. His chore buddy has a blast helping him. Talking about Will if you didn't get that. Since winter has seemed to hang around forever and a half, I'm not sure when he will start doing spring chopping. It's usually the end of May but if it doesn't start warming up with lots of sunshine, who knows?!

Natalie- Working like normal. I am glad that I finally found something to help me sleep during the day. I started taking melatonin when I sleep during the day and it took about 2 weeks of taking it to see it actually working. For a while it was just making me drag on when I was awake but finally it started working and I got to sleep until 4 this afternoon! That makes me handle nights a lot easier. I'm not sure if I ever blogged it or not but from the end of January to the beginning of March I lost around 7-9% body fat. When I realized I was finally in the 'average' range I was very excited and realized HOW to set goals. I've been on the 'weight loss' journey for so long that that's how I looked at it, as a 'weight loss'. Thing of it is, it's not a weight loss journey for me anymore. I want fat loss. That's how I should have looked at it the entire time. I always knew that muscle weighs more than fat but I guess it didn't sink in until I was measured and was told that I have 160lbs of lean muscle mass. My goal weight wise WAS the weight I was when Dennis and I got married, at 173lbs. That would put me at less than 8% body fat! That is very difficult for a female. So I know now to make my goal a percentage instead of a number. This is especially true since I want to continue to build muscle. So, for my "fat loss" journey, I am lifting my butt off! Well actually, I kinda like my hinny since I've been doing so many squats so I don't want to lift my butt off but that wont happen since I'm lifting and doing it heavy!

A couple youtube videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGI8GxQnJDg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvRPk3jOFa0

GWL

This past weekend we went to the Great Wolf Lodge for Dennis's Dad's birthday. We had all of his family and it was a great time.

 



Mollie, Will, Tenley, and Hadley

 

I did NOT get many pictures at the Great Wolf Lodge. When we got there we went straight to the pool and when one parent is chasing a 3 year old and the other is holding the 1 year old, you just don't get the camera out. They both LOVED it though. Before we even got into the swimming area, Lillian was laughing.

We swam until about 5 the first day and went up to get some supper and relax a bit. Will and his pain tolerance will forever amaze me. We got to the room and I notice his toe is bleeding all around his toe nail. I said "buddy, your bleeding!" And he looks at his hands trying to figure out where... This is probably when we should have tried to get Will down for a nap. He does not do well without naps yet. He NEEDS them or he NEEDS to be in bed, asleep at 6:30PM. End. Of. Story.

Lillian got to sleep pretty much on time, with only a morning nap she was falling asleep at 6:45 drinking her bottle so she went straight to bed and was doing great. The rest of us stayed up and chatted, watched the game and just had fun.

 

I am a person who does not do well on less than say 7 hours of sleep. I do best with 9. So at 10:00 I said Good-night and headed to bed. Will stayed up for a bit longer but I finally got him to bed at 10:30. Around 11:30 is when the fun started. With so little sleep, Will was a bear! He screamed for Mom, his Monkey (that we so happened to have forgotten) and that he wanted to go home. We were all in one room so his screaming proceeded to wake Lillian up. She screamed. He calmed down for a bit and then started to scream again. She woke up, and screamed. This was the pattern for the next 3 1/2 hours. I *think* we had about four hours of sleep. That might be stretching it some.

 

Woke up around 6:45 with more screaming and that was when we gave up and got up. Everyone else got up and went to church while we decided to stay and try to get the kids to nap a little more. Lillian got another 30 minute nap until Will woke her up. See a pattern here?

 

As we were both exhausted it was a toss up to swim again or just go home. We opted for the swim as this is our vacation. Left around noon and silence the whole way home! It took Will a good FULL day to catch up on sleep. He took a 3 hour nap the next day and I even had to wake him up.

 

This was Wiley. He was at story time that night and Will wanted to give him a hug until time came to hug him and he wouldn't go near him. I even tried to go with him, so cousins, Sadie and Sawyer took the picture with him.