weekends

rob and i go back and forth about the actual reason for weekends. i think it is an opportunity to get caught up on all of the activities that didn't get done during the week. he thinks that weekends are best used in total relaxation in front of a game, playing cars with the kids. this weekend we had more things on our agenda than hours on the clock. running, walking with friends, dinner, more dinners, shopping, yard work, painting, laundry, play, swimming, the list goes on. and then, before you know it, the weekend is over and everything starts all over. every night when we walk down the hallway to bed Will asks "is tomorrow a school day or a pancake day?" monday thru fridays fall into the school day; early wake up times, frozen french toast sticks and backpacks. pancake days are special though. if it is a pancake day it means its the weekend and he gets to sleep in, watch a few cartoons, play all day with his dad, and enjoy the company of his favorite friends. oh, and we always make homemade pancakes on the weekends; straight down to the griddle. will stirs the ingredients and even pours the batter onto the griddle. he prefers mickey mouse pancakes (although he has no idea who mickey mouse is) and lots and lots of butter and syrup. this weekend we added waffle day as well, signaling that swimming lessons would take place later that day. too cute.

this picture is of will and rob reading a new book about the planets. will is totally into space and the moon. this particular book covers all of the planets and then at the end we got to make a mobile to hang from his ceiling. so exciting.

and this is addison trying to put her fuzzy coat on. she likes to nuzzle her neck into anything soft and this coat does just the trick. don't let the sweet look trick, she was just very angry at her rocking cow which was not behaving to her standards.

say cheese!!!!

addison is quite the character. first the girl is cute. so dang cute. i think there is something about baby cheeks that just makes you melt. right now she is sporty a scratch on her nose which is a direct result of my fingernails be unruly! i reached over to take her out of the car sear a few days ago and scratched off the tip of her nose no worries on her part though, she just said "Uh-Oh!" she also has the oddest teeth of any child i am yet to meet. when her teeth first started growing in about a year ago she got the bottom two, then the top two, and then the side teeth slowly followed. in about october, after many sleepless nights on the part of all of us, the back molars started popping in. this has left big gaps where the middle teeth should go. it is a sign of expensive orthodonist bills to come.

but i digress...she is quite the character, and I gues you have to be to keep up in this household. lately, she has been in to having her picture taken. this started about a month ago, at the beginning of the holiday season when we started snapping lots of pictures. we usually say "CHEESE" before we actually snap the picture. One day i was playing pretend with her and pretended to take a picture of her. i said "cheese" and she got this crooked smile up on her face. as soon as i "snapped" the picture, the smile was gone and she was right back to doing whatever it was she was doing. in the weeks since, we have been laughing at how she goes from totally serious and focused, to this crazy smile in a matter of seconds anytime she hears the word "CHEESE." It is a hoot! tonight aunt lyndsey was over and snapped these great pictures to capture the essence of the "cheese." enjoy!

A new year's resolution

sometimes I imagine our life as a record playing the same tune over and over and over and over and over. The record includes various "must do's" like weight loss, getting more organized, cooking healthier, getting up earlier (or when my alarm actually goes off), the list is long. There is however one tune that we are going to try really, really hard to change this year. That's blogging more. So many great things come out of blogging. First our long distance family can catch up on our family with just a click of a button. They can then text us via cell phones about this and that and then finally, one day, we'll actually talk on the phone (ha-ha). Second, it's a great way to capture memories for the family. When Will was first born Rob and I were religious about capturing the days activities in his journal. It was easy then, we had one little being to take care that didn't move much and time on our hands to write and write and write. Now, things are a little different. Rob and my work schedules pull us in all different directions, the kids are busy, and our schedule seems to get full so fast. By the time the kids are in bed and settled, all we want to do is climb onto the couch and get caught up in some trashy reality TV (Rob's favorite right now is Snoop Dogg;s reality Tv show.) This has left Addison's journal very, very slim.  I have these visions of my kids reading through a blog when they are older and laughing at how ridiculous their parents were and remembering fondly on memories of their childhood. The third thing I like about blogging is that it alleviates the guilt factor for me not scrapbooking and capturing the pictures somewhere. I secretly want to be a power scrapbooker, making great layouts and pictures and "art." But whew, the time that goes into that stuff and the money..more power to those ladies. Maybe one day I'll do it. Until then, I am vowing to not be a broken record on this little item.

To make things easier, Rob got me this cool new laptop for Christmas, a Macbook. I've mostly been a PC person, but there is something about how cute and cuddly macs are. They make you want to work on them. in fact, i sometimes go searching for reasons to get on this thing. So here I am laying in bed under a new heating blanket (thanks mom) typing away, planning to make this a nightly practice.

all I can say is wish me luck...