Horses, Friends, and Baskets...

Lee and I went to the Foley outlets today to have a chance to get out and play in the sunshine. Such beautiful weather, and lucky for us (or shall I say Knox)...the carousel was open! I immediately jumped at the idea and I am so glad we did. He LOVED it! Sadly, I was nauseous by the time the ride was over, but seeing his face light up was well worth it!

If you have kids, ever notice how hard it is to get a picture with ALL of you in it? I hate that we always have to take turns and let the other person actually snap the pic. Anyways, Foxie had a blast. He grabbed hold of that pole and went to town, bouncing up and down throughout the ride.

Sanders came over to play this week while his mommy got a haircut. We love having friends come over to play! Sanders will be 1 year next month, and he will also be a big brother to TWINS early this fall!!! As soon as Brady dropped him and left, it occurred to me that neither one of the boys could walk, and it was lunch time for the both of them! They were both looking at me like, "What now? I'm hungry?" Here's how I resolved the immobile issue:

It's true. I brought the wagon inside the house and snapped them in. That way I could take them both with me and they could play together at the same time. At one point I had both boys on my hips and I had no clue how to function. Thank you Radio Flyer wagon. You really know how to help a girl out. I'm sad that Aidan didn't make the pic (Cathie's 18 month old). If he were there he could have pulled the boys around! The 3 of us all have boys that look EXACTLY like their father. I tried to get some close ups while we went for a walk outside. It didn't really work out too well (surprise surprise), but here's what I got. Please say hello to Matt and Lee (Sanders and Knox):

Sanders- He has the most amazing blue eyes! Can't really tell from this pic, though :(. When I look at this pic, all I see is Matt, his daddy.

Foxie- giving me a "what are you doing?" face, just like his daddy always does. Of course, when I look at this pic I see Lee.

I need a picture of Aidan! He looks just like his daddy as well and has bright blue eyes. Hopefully we can get a shot of the 3 of them together soon...

And lastly, I have been working on Knox's Easter basket. If you and I are close, then you know that I am possibly one of the cheapest people alive and hate spending significant amounts of money on things that I feel like I can make myself. There have been many trial and errors along the way, but half the time I get an idea of exactly what I want and I can't find it... OR it is crazy expensive. I didn't really know what I wanted for him, I just knew that I wanted something different. Anyways, I saw some cute ones online between 50 and 60 bucks. The more I looked at them the more I realized that they could be reproduced. I went to Michaels and shopped around a bit and ended up buying this basket for $3.00:

and turned it in to this:

I plan on painting a verse on the back of it, but I still can't decide on which one. It's sitting on my kitchen table to remind me to finish it, but it's been there for over a week. Decision, decisions. Anyways, I love painting and doing anything involving crafts, so this ended up being a fun thing to do and I am going back to buy some matching baskets for future kiddos (hopefully!). To end on a funny, Wawa (we all know who I'm talking about) took one look at it and asked why I made a basket big enough for the actual Easter Bunny himself to fit into?? Gotta love it. I guess that means she doesn't want me to make her one??

Spring Fever Chase Run

This weekend was Fairhope's annual Arts and Crafts Festival, and with that came the Spring Fever Chase Run. I won't go in to details about my performance (hence the fact that my bum knee'd husband AND friend that is preggers with twins both finished before me)...just know that I didn't stop running and I finished it. The saddest part of the run was that my sweet friend and running partner, Cathie, was unable to run with us due to shin splints :(. She brought her family down to cheer us on along the way, though, which brought a huge smile to my face!

Here is Brady and I after the run...and she has a little boy that is 11 months old AND 2 HEARTBEATS INSIDE HER BELLY!!!!!! I love it!!!!!

Praise Jesus, Lord on High!!!! (and I don't say this lightly!)

The tooth fairy came to our house 2 nights ago and left Foxie a little somethin' somethin'! OH MY WORD has it been a long teething season! No lie. My entire family had a celebration over the first "tip of a toofer." Of course he won't let me get a picture of it, but hopefully we will be able to snap a shot soon. It has been a big week for Knox...first crawling and now a chomper :). Hopefully the others aren't too far behind!

Here he is celebrating with his squeaky beads from Lolli!

And here we are celebrating with you know who... (and of course, with his beads on!)

Big Day...

Well, he waited 7 months to do it... but today "Cheeks McGee" started crawling! Hopefully I will get a video of him in action soon, but for now I have to go chase him! :)

"Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em!" (M.C. Hammer, that is...)

I am loving this new face that I get from Knox whenever I rap and sing to him while incorporating some serious dance moves. I find myself doing it ALL the time. At first, he gets real concerned and gives a face like, "What in the world is this lady doing?" but as soon as I hit him with my M.C. Hammer moves... he's laughing extremely hard. Not sure if I should take it as a compliment or an insult. Lee always tells me that I set the bar too high because he expects everyone to "act a fool" like I do and when they don't produce the Roger Rabbit on the spot, he wants nothing to do with them. Lee's just jealous of my moves...

I just started noticing how much I do it. I was folding the clothes yesterday while he was sitting on my bed watching me, and I sang and danced to him the entire time while throwing clothes at him. He loved it. I just thought to myself that this couldn't be what goes on in most normal households. Maybe I just secretly love the fact that someone enjoys my singing and I can belt out any song and know that I will get a rave review? I would NEVER do any of this in front of other people, so it's kind of an outlet :). Anyways, here we are this morning in the kitchen. I was cleaning up and he was sitting there watching me. The first face is when I started my rapping, and the second face is after I did a few snake moves for him...

so thankful theres not a hidden camera in my house!