chilly stinks

I'm hot.
this house is full of drywall dust
chilly really stinks.
I skipped our outing today to the water park because the girls didn't want to go.
Harvey is sweating on my chest sleeping.
girls are throwing balls at eachother across the room.
I taught piano all morning.
considering teaching piano in the students home instead of my own.
too many squawkers in the background.
I want to research charlotte mason homeschooling.
We put an offer on a house...but don't know if it will work out or not.
I'm going to shampoo the living room carpet because someone shook chocolate milk all over it.
Stephanie is pregnant! I was the first to find out....(well besides Aaron) and I'm so excited for her and glad it's her and not me. I'm blessing her with the gift of a 12 pounder. Just so she can experience it.

come on to my house

come on to my house. I'm gonna give you CANDY. come on to my house to myyyy house I'm gonna give you CANDY.
I have no clue where that song is from or if I made it up.
But I will give you candy if you come to my house.

We are house shopping. looking for a new slum house to purchase. Don't worry we will be slum/ghetto lords. It's Danny's new goal.

Today we looked at house number 1: 1920's 3 bed 1 bath with a NIIIIICe yard, but needs a roof, new kitchen, new furnace and a.c. and that's almost all. well not including cosmetics. BUT is only 19,000. And it's on a cute little street and the neighbors were nice. I talked to the girl.

Number 2: a good street in a semi shady overall neighborhood. This house had a cool upstairs apartment with a 2 layer deck. but it stinks like an animal died and rotted and their is no floor and the basement is loaded with mold. 30,000

Number 3: Over by our other house this is a lovely ( I feel like a real estate agent) cape cod. It's actually not lovely...mint green and the bushes are as tall as the house. But it has a newish furnace and the roof looks okay. But it has a huge ramshackle shack in the back with power running to it that makes it look like it was used to grow da drugs or something. Also on a decent street. This one is only 16,000. But it has mold in the bathroom and needs all new interior stuff.


Stephanie said we are currently looking to buy vermont ave and we're going to have to work up to park place.

The last place had a typewriter in it and pea green carpet too. It was awesome.

The girls are just holding their noses and whining to leave. anywho....what else can I write about? this summer just WONT
QUIT. I swear.
okay I'm done.

boys vs girls

I'm spending time with my little nephews tonight along with the girls and Harvey.

When I gave birth to a girl A GIRL!!! The thought of having a little boy was so foreign to me. I pitied all the poor mothers who gave birth to boys first because having a girl was the biggest treat in the world. Like a humongous icecream sundae with loads of whipped cream, and a huge cherry on top. covered in gummy bears. With three flavors of icecream. and hot fudge.(can you tell I still haven't been eating sugar?) That was having my Addie.

Then I had my second girl and I felt the exact same way!

And then I found out (number three) was a boy. Danny yelled an outloud "YES!!!" and I smiled kind of but I was afraid. Boys. Legos. Cars. Dump trucks. footballs. buzz cuts. Mullets. For some reason really bad boy haircuts kept popping in my mind. Attention deficit disorder..hyper.

biased ya think.

I was still a little afraid all the way till I saw Harvey. Upon viewing my 12 pound chubby ,squinty eyed grunting boy my heart leaped and all I could think was "A BOY!!!! I'm the luckiest woman in the world. " and that was like getting a HUMONGOUS mango ritas frozen custard. So now I pity all the poor unfortunate mothers who had girls and can't put a bow tie on their tiny little bald baby man.

3 on the 4th

3 months today!!! So I will take tons of mommy liberties by smooching his chubby cheeks and feel free to squeeze fat thighs to my hearts delight. This was last night at the fireworks in Dayton. We went with our neighbors and their granddaughter and my mom.
The downtown had a cityfolk festival which I'm not sure what that means but there was a ton of puppetting people with their works of art like the one above.
of course another picture of the 3 month birthday boy. Happy fourth!!

its all good

this is 3 weeks of no sugar. Well I guess I broke that rule once maybe but I'm doing good with it. No sugar to me is like eliminating a huge food group. I mean gummy candy is actually it's own food group, then sugar and desserts have their own category. when I was younger a trip to the meijer bulk gummy section was considered dinner...because well you had the gummy strawberries, the sour worms, the sour bears, the gummy fish. It was a buffet of gummy delite. So after like 3 days of having chills, sweating, and shaking I'm feeling like a new woman. But being Mormon means I have even more things forbidden from my diet, like all coffee products, (even mcd's frappes) all tea products...well except herbal tea but it depends on the kind..I only like the fruity kinds anyways. So if you're a word of wisdom abiding mormon you get into sugar because what else gives you the buzz? well...now I have no way to get my high and I've decided marijauna is so much healthier and way relaxing. JUST KIDDING.

I'm trying to eat mainly whole grains, lots of veggies, some fruits, and meat that isn't preserved with nitrates. So aren't I special. And the occasional left over chicken mcnugget. And french fries. oh yes and pizza. So this diet of mine may not prove successful but I do feel better.

oh and I've started doing yoga at home. youtube fat burning yoga and you will get a killer workout. I'm going to shed my baby chub because I certainly gathered alot of it this time.

My question is why is Ohio so hot and humid? The other day I thought a bug was crawling down my back and it was just sweat. It grossed me out. We've had a good week with almost zero pictures because I just don't take my camera anywhere.
We are out and about and Harvey and Malachi have discovered eachother. Katrina and I were sitting at the Y letting the kids play when we realized we were both holding the little men on our laps and we were like..."They need to be introduced to eachother!" So we had them face eachother and Malachi had his mouth hanging open so wide and his eyes were shocked looking and Harvey was smiling and talking and laughing. Harvey kept talking like he was really waiting for Malachi to respond but Malachi just kept looking stunned. It was cute.

anyways I predict a great friendship between the two men.

fodders day

(my niece lilia and eva)

Happy fathers day to my dad and my danny.

Dad -you have so much energy for my kids and I do love you for it. growing up you were there to tell a weird joke or play pig in the backyard. Your strange humor and lots of hugs and treats galore make you YOU. We all think you are the best.

Danny- You and I get to share equally all this crazy love we have for our children. Laughing about them together and watching you play with and teach the girls is a blessing. Harvey smiling just like you brings tears to my eyes because I know he has a great example in you.

okay enough mushy stuff. now I'm writing a recipe for large group family fun.....

a, pick a major holiday....preferably one where people like to go out to eat...mothers day, fathers day something like that.


b. decide that night you will go out to eat with your entire, exremely large and kid heavy family, to a very popular moderately expensive, nice restaurant. That is located at "The Green" which is a phony feeling fake downtown, outdoor mall, that is constantly packed with people. Not only that they had a really loud 80's cover band with a lady belting out tunes for 4 hours.

c. eat at restaurant. This involved me nursing in a packed lobby with the server telling me to nurse in the family bathroom which didn't actually have a chair inside it. It was so tiny it just had a toilet and a trash can. I wonder where she thought I would sit.....add about 2000 more trips to family restroom because all 600 of our toddlers needed to go non stop. leave restaurant.

d. beat through throngs of joyous fathers day celebrators to go see a movie with all the children. Unfortonately it didn't start for 40 minutes so we had to keep all the children safe (as we sisters traded child abduction stories we'd read or heard about). Enter movie theater and realize there are no seats left. All 1000 of us leave and start telling off the movie theater girl while the kids are crying loud enough to create a sonic boom. don't know what that is but..trust me....its loud. Then wait another 30 minutes to see the next showing. This was Toy story 3 people....there would be a riot if this didn't happen.

e. watch movie. 3-d didn't totally impress me but hey...it was cute seeing 8 kids lined up wearing the glasses. nurse baby in movie, pass out loads of lollypops, leave movie with crying baby....fall asleep in lobby.

and by the way....Rachel I love you happy happy birthday.

we're living in brazil

thats what danny and I keep repeating over and over to eachother. Now neither of us have actually BEEN to Brazil...or even south America. BUT in our view of the planet...Brazil must have weather just like we are having. No where else...Just Brazil.
Now we live nowhere near Brazil...just in the midwestern world of Ohio where people purchase Cincinatti reds onsies for your baby boy.
Harvey is just your everyday midwestern man.
And Eva is your average midwestern yogurt in the yard eating summertime 3 year old.
and Chilly is your average midwestern rat terrier.....Anyone want a dog?