Late Night Partier

I thought this picture was hilarious...he has been doing these lips lately.
The last few nights Anderson has had to be waken up at night so that he can have dinner. Anderson is only awake for about 4 hours a day. Last night I woke him up at 8pm and tonight Armand had to wake him up at 9:30pm. Why would we wake a sleeping baby? I put him down for a nap at 3:30pm and I was afraid he may get up super early or in the middle of the night. So he's been getting up and hanging out with us for an hour to an hour and a half. He eats then plays. His newest favorite game is pick up a book or toy chuck then, pick it up and show us then, chuck it again. It's so funny to watch him and see what he is entertained by. Anyways, in the morning it's great cause he sleeps in until just before 11am. I wonder when he'll grow out of this sleepy stage of his life not that I mind it!

Our Future Construction Workers

Ayden fled the scene as soon as he saw me

Ashten was enjoying the back hoe and didn't care that I was yelling at him to get home.This construction equipment has been parked across the street for weeks now. The boys have stayed away from it until today. Yesterday, when we went out picking berries the boys must have felt comfortable so the ventured out there alone. I was panicking because I couldn't find them and they didn't answer when I called. I ran down to the end of the driveway and saw them...so of course, I had to grab the camera. By that time Ayden had seen me and was running home to pretend like he was an innocent bystander. Ashten on the other hand had to be dragged home. He did NOT want to get off this thing!

Picking In Our PJ's

Armand and Ayden Ayden and Ashten
When we got home from the cemetery we saw some people picking blackberries in our "front yard" so after lunch Armand had the idea to go out and pick some berries. Now I don't know about you but as soon as we get home from church it's a race to see who can get in their Jammies the fastest. So the four of us (AJ was napping) went out and got a pan full of yummy berries. Luckily we only got a few drive by...I'm sure we looked ridiculous!

Trip to Tahoma

Ashten EARL "Thousands of Stones"
Tahoma National Cemetery

"Where Heroes Lie"

Grandpa's birthday was on the first and since then I have been thinking about him a lot and have been wanting to go out to his grave in Covington. So after church today, we went home and I cut some fresh flowers from the yard then we headed out. As soon as we pulled into the entrance Ayden remembered instantly that "this is the place with thousands of stones." (I don't remember when we were there last but I was amazed that he remembered that at the entrance sign where you can't see any of the head stones.) I love to go out there it always makes me cry but I still love to go there and think about him. The boys don't understand yet, but it's interesting to hear their questions and to talk to them about their GGpa. Here is one of the conversations I had with Ashten on the drive home.

Ashten: "Where does our Ggpa live?"

Me: "He lives in heaven with Heavenly Father."

Ashten: "Why does he live there?"

Me: "He was old and he died."

Ashten: "Why did he die?"

Me: "He had Cancer it's a sickness."

Ashten: "When is he going to get fixed so he can come back? I miss him." (Ashten was born about 3 months after Grandpa passed away.)

You should have seen the concern in his eyes when he asked that, I couldn't help but tear up. It's hard to take the boys there but I hope that they will learn a reverence when we take them and that they will also learn to respect the veteran's who have served our country.

Six Years!!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!The Lobster ShopAnother rainbow we saw on the way home from dinner

we could see both ends...so cool! Another shot of the above rainbow

Today, is our sixth anniversary! We asked Mom to watch the boys while we went out to our favorite restaraunt, The Lobster Shop. It was so relaxing not to have the kids with us, we haven't been on a date alone in months. When we got there, there was a huge rainbow right in front of us. It's so pretty right on the water on Ruston Way. The food at The Lobster Shop is awesome! Afterwards, we went over to Blockbuster to get some movies. It was the best day, so relaxing having Armand home with us all day and a date in the evening. I love celebrating our anniversary, it's nice to take time and reminisce about our perfect wedding day. I love Armand and look forward to celebrating 60 more anniversaries with him!

What in the World?

This is what Armand and I woke up to this morning....I don't know what it is or how to explain it. Some how they take a pair of pajama bottoms shove their favorite stuffed animals in it and make a hat. I don't get it but it sure was a funny thing to wake up to!

"Ashten Did It!"

Poor Baby,he was not happy!Notice the shoes...he DID try to go to the doctor's office like that.

Luckily, I noticed BEFORE we left the house.

I was folding laundry when I heard Ayden screaming. He came in from outside and his thumb was gushing blood. I tried to calm him so he could tell me what happened and he said, "the thing you cut hair from your leg cut me". I told him to show me and he took me outside to where a disposable razor was sitting. First thing he said was, "Ashten did it" (At the time Ashten was in the house playing with AJ in his crib.) I cleaned it up put a Band-Aid and some of the wrap I had around my arm from donating blood the night before. I called the doctor (I was avoiding the emergency room) and they had him come in. Luckily, he did not get stitches even though it was deep, it's a hard place to stitch up. Dr. Naylor was not there so Dr. Takahashi looked at his thumb and was very impressed with my wrap job. HAHA When the RN came in she put in Toy Story for the boys to watch while tried to clean and bandage it back up. Then we were on our way home!

Now here's my "temporarily insane" moment of the day: On the way home we were driving down Hoyt in front of QFC and this old, old, old man comes out of the QFC parking lot, heading towards the suicide lane instead he changed his mind and cut RIGHT in front of me going SOOO slow I SLAMMED on my brakes HARD and honked. It was a VERY close call! Ashten woke up and was screaming he was scared and mad at me cause "you woke me up, Mommy" and Ayden was completely freaked out screaming and had hit his mouth on the seat in front of him. I continued on my way home but then I thought I just want to follow him for a minute, well he lives like a street away from us so I pulled in behind him at his house. Here is our conversation:

Me: "Excuse me sir, but you need to watch where you are going"

Him: "I didn't scare you that bad did I?"

Me: "I have 3 screaming children in the car who are scared, you just need to watch where you are going."

Him: "I was watching very carefully"

Me: "If you were watching very carefully, you wouldn't have almost taken out my whole family and my kids wouldn't be screaming right now."

That was it, he didn't even say sorry or anything. So I went home crying, of course. I know I'm crazy, but how often do you get to tell the person that could have hurt all of your babies what you think?