Life has just been a little busy. Last week we had company over 4 nights, so I was doing a lot of cooking and yelling and stepping over my posse in the kitchen. I really need to learn to just buy things pre-made at the store...... Saturday we had a birthday party at the bowling alley, then tried to fit going to the Shrimp Festival downtown in before running home to make dinner and cookies. Why, you ask, would we try to go to a Shrimp Festival with 3 little kids on a VERY hot Saturday afternoon after we had just been at a birthday party? I have no idea. Tuesday we went to the pumpkin patch with some friends to get pumpkins and have a picnic lunch. It would have been great if I hadn't made the lunch and left it sitting on the kitchen counter. We ran home, just in time to wash all the dirt off before we went to our dentist appointments, all 4 of us. I found that is rather difficult to keep your kids in line while getting your teeth cleaned. They didn't seem to understand what I was saying with my hands. I am sure they were glad to see us leave..... Ran to the store and made it home just in time to make dinner for company. I did my best not to fall asleep while they were talking after dinner. I
think I succeeded. The rest of the days have been filled with much of the same. In between was date night in our sunroom that we spent most of the time telling the kids to be quiet and Jason trying to get something out of his eye (it was really romantic, but hey, we try), Kyle doing scary wheelies on his bike, Ryleigh on top of the kitchen table every time I turn around, a house showing, a play date that ended in broken glass, doing one load of laundry 4 times because I kept forgetting about it, Aiden and Kyle sick, and my dinner consisting of apples that Ryleigh had thrown off her highchair. So is life on the Port Side.....
I can not, for the life of me, get all of the to look at the camera at the same time and smile
Here they are, all ready for lunch......that I left at home.
Feeding the rabbit green beans. Ryleigh ate the green beans instead of giving them to the rabbit. Do you blame her? Her mother forgot her lunch.
Feeding the goats, Ryleigh enjoyed their food also.
Here are the pictures for our camping trip a few weeks ago. It was fun, besides the fact that our air mattress had a phantom leak and we woke up on the ground every hour. We made sure that no one around us got a good night sleep either since we blow up the mattress every hour and Ryleigh woke every half hour to cry. Taking a 14 month old camping is great, I would recommend everyone try it at least once it their life. We are suckers for punishment, we are doing it again later this month. See that face below, she is like
"Me, trouble?"
There was a hill right by our campsite and the boys spent most of the weekend climbing this hill and then running back down. They slept
fine.
Ryleigh kept running into the woods after the boys and we had to keep going in after her. I wish she had a little more fear of the unknown.
We went camping with friends and one morning we were all at their campsite. Ryleigh had not finished her breakfast, so this is how Jason got her to the next campsite.
Until next time, which could be a long time.......
Ryleigh turned 15 months old today! I can not believe she has been here that long! :) She is not very cooperative, picture taking wise, like she used to be. It is all part of that our kids won't sit still thing. She just wanted to stand on the bench and throw the pumpkins.
This morning when I got her dressed she pointed to her bows like she wanted me to put one on her. She knows the routine, we don't go anywhere without a bow!! lol I guess she figured I might forget. Not a chance. :)
She loves her daddy and whenever he is outside and she can't be, she stands at the door and watches him. The below picture I was trying to get a photo with her, as you can see, she really is not interested.
One of her favorite things to do right now is "write". She loves to have a pen and a piece of paper. She will color with the boys and of course I have found her crayons have made their way to other places besides the coloring books. :( She makes her way into the bathroom every time someone forgets to shut the door, it is like she has radar or something, and proceeds to unroll the toilet paper, empty soap or drop things in the toilet. Her favorite place to play is in my bathroom, she goes in the cabinets, finds all sorts of interesting things and drags them out. She even handed a tampon to a guest one day. Her favorite basket of things are my hand bands, rubber bands and my large wooden brush. She puts them all on at once and goes around brushing her hair. She also tries to brush the boys hair, but usually ends up using the wrong side of the brush which results in more of hitting, than brushing. Remember, it is a large wooden brush! They cry, she tries to hug them and they run away from her, scared she will hit them again. She loves to wave and is starting to say a few words. "Baby" is her favorite so far. She calls me "Maaa", and know how to say it very loudly when she wants something. She is very lovable and throughout the day she will just come up and hug your leg then go back to whatever she was doing. She has reached the stage where she poops in the bathtub. All the kids have gone through this and it truly is an horrible phase. Since I bathe them all together, when she does this the boys totally freak out (I really don't blame them) and jump up and straddle the two sides of the bathtub. Screaming and splashing water everywhere. Ryleigh just looks amused. It adds at least a half hour to bath time. By the time you get it all out, clean all the toys, scrub the bathtub, and refill......fun times. Of course by this time 3 naked kids really can wreck a bathroom. But, those leg hugs and squeezes she give you around the neck totally make up for it all.
Growing up with with three girls in a row was not always a walk in the park. Contrary to popular belief, we were not perfect and did have an occasional fight. One fight in particular involved a very large blue book that somehow ended being used to hit me over the head. To hear Liz's side of the story, I deserved it, I only remember being attacked. :) But from the time we were little, until this very day, my sisters have been and always will be, my best friends.
November 2000 - Disneyland, CA
November 2000 - when Chelly and Liz came out to visit for a few days.
Christmas 2006 and Liz's new game from us. She loves games and usually wins. She always beat us in Dutch Blitz. :)
I won't tell you what was going on here, because it will cause us all to get in to trouble!! hehe Remember this?
Liz - winter 2006 - with Ryleigh. All my kids adore Aunt Liz. This morning they had to call first thing and wish her a happy birthday.
Liz, you amaze me with all your talents and strong loyalty. I am glad you are in my corner! :) I love the friendship you share with Jason and the fact that our friendship continues to grow. I love a good shopping trip with you or working on a baking project together. I can't wait until we all live close again so it can be a weekly thing instead of a few times a year! Thank God for myspace, blogs and cell phones!! We all love you dearly and hope you have a great birthday!!
