Today is the Birdie's Birthday!

My sweet little Bird turned one today. It wasn't your typical birthday, but a good day with her nonetheless!

My favorite hospital picture of her!

She has been so fun watch grow and I can't wait to see what the next 50 years bring!

I love you Birdie!

Carl's Jr. ...Junior

CornDog

Fries

And a Shake

Don't bother me...I'm eating!

Awwww, the party's over

So, I've been busy for the last couple of weeks planning a Star Wars party for both my boys and it's over...Aaaawwwww!
This is what I envisioned for the party...

But

It turned out more like this!

Fortunately 4 and 6 year olds enjoy a good cupcake enough to forget the rest!
Thanks Mom and Dad for all your help!
I'll post some pictures later

HELP!

The ;)Binkie Fairy(; came to our house today and Thatchie is not the least bit happy! She left him a Toob of Astronauts that she KNEW he really wanted but that just didn't cut it! He really misses that darn binkie!

The time had long since come. The poor kid is nearly 4 but I've held onto it through the seizures. Fortunately we have control! FINALLY!

So, I'm in need of some support to get through the next few treacherous days!

Wish me LUCK!

Spring is in the AIR!

My Living Nightmare!

12, Yep, TWELVE Three year-olds on a field trip to the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

Saving Grace: This Really cool interactive exhibit! (We are recreating it in our classroom next week!)

Aren't my kids CUTE?!?!?

Just needed to bury that last post!

Here Comes Freaky-Scary Peter Cotton Tail

Okay, my kids SERIOUSLY think that THIS is what was in our house this weekend!

I'm shocked we didn't have any nightmares last night!

Little Do They Know...

The Lessons...

The Practicing...

The Nagging...

The Lost Play Time...

The Better Grades...

The Stronger Connections in their Brains...

The Ability to Play anything they Hear (I hope)...

The Woo-ing of the opposite sex (or their parents)...

Like Father like Sons

Today Dave's car broke down...AT PepBoys! Weird! Anyway, while we waited with him the boys picked out their birthday presents...






Start Savin', Dudes!

Yipee, this is 100 for me...

Here's my Day in the Life Post!

Enjoy!

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Hope you all have a great day!

Strength of Character

So, Epilepsy. Right? It SUCKS!

My little Thatch-man has been so great through all of this! Let's face it, he is my stinker. At home he is a challenging child. It's totally enhanced by his medications, but he has a mind of his own and ain't no one tellin' him how it is!

Today we went for one of his many blood draws, he calls them - blood shots-. He is such an amazing little sh*# when were there! He sits so still and expresses his nerves but gets through it really great and really quick! He has totally risen to the occasion every time we've needed him to!

I am so proud of him and his inner strength. It's weird but I think he's being strong for me!

He's amazing

ps, if, and I really hope not, you ever need any sort of lab work done on your child - Primary's Lab is THE only place to go! Today one of them put a ball on his head and found a pink baton. Then he put on a whole little "Dark Thader" show for us. Their prizes are huge, too!

Quite the romantic!

Tag, as you may know by now, LOVES he Ladies!
There was Melanie. He was so impressed that she knows English AND Spanish.
Whitney is the girl next door, literally. I don't think he'll ever out grow liking her!
Megan and Tag have been playing kissing tag since the beginning of February. Despite being asked to stop several times by their teacher.

Last Friday, I got called in by said teacher. She told me has been getting tickled by Lola! Which of course meant he needed to return the affection, um, 3 fold! She had to have the whole "hands to ourselves, personal space" discussion with him!

Anyway, this morning as we watched an Amazing sunrise from our breakfast table, Tag said "I wish Lola could watch this with me!"
Pretty sure I'm lockin' him up all through his teenage years!

The Super Amazing Tally-Bird

My amazing little girl is saying her first word...Ready?





Okay, so I helped a little.
Since I'm showing her off, here is another one of her amazing talents!

Hooray for 'Movie Night'

Thatcher is really into "Dark Thader". His obsession began when our next door neighbor came over in full costume, right down to the voice changer helmet! At first it scared the pants of the poor kid but his fear quickly turned to fascination.

We've made the analogy of this last med of his and 'The Force'. On it he turns to the dark side and now off it, he's back to his sweet little self!

Tonight we've decided to watch the first Star Wars movie! It's completely out of their league, not being a Disney cartoon and all, but they can hardly contain themselves!

Bring on the bad dreams?!?

(ps, It was fun to look for that picture. I found hundreds of blah-blah-blogs devoted just to HIM! Hey, whatever floats your boat!)

My Funny boys

As I walked in from playing outside today, Tag looked up from diggin' in the dirt and said "Mom, do you know who's got your pizza hot, ready and waiting for you? Little Caesars, Pizza, Pizza."

Um, never say that again AND I really need to turn off the T.V.

Later Thatcher had a light bulb moment when he asked me if I swallowed a baby and then had to go to the hospital to get it out.

Can't wait to hear what they say tomorrow!

Anyone else lost their Umph for cooking?

Last night's dinner consisted of a Costco rotisserie chicken and a case of blueberries. No plates, no utinsels, no napkins, just a nice soaky tub after!

Thatcher, who was seated ON the table, said "this is the Best dinner you've ever cooked, Mom!"

I'm CooCoo for Kid's Books

I love giving kids' books at babyshowers. I attended one in January and some of the other moms asked about my favorites. Now, for those of you that don't know...my mom is a Librarian in an elementary school (Such a Cool Job...Right?!?) She has given me tons of suggestions. Then I went on a Caldecott kick, found tons more great books. Now I know my favorite authors and illustrators and we have our favorites around here.

I thought I'd share them and I would LOVE to hear yours!

okay...

Mark Buehner is one of my All Time Favorite Illustrators! We have all of his books, my favorites being "Taxi Dog"! You've all probably heard of "Snowmen At Night", he and his wife Carolyn did that one together!

I love all of Audrey Wood! "Napping House" is Thatcher's current favorite book, you know the one we read about 16 times a day!

We also really like the Mo Willems books! He was a writer for Sesame Street and his books are a real kick! He's fairly new on the scene! Oh, and he has a GREAT Blog.

One of My favorite books is "The Man Who Walked Between the Towers". It's a true story and is reminiscent of the Twin Towers. Tag "Read" it to a 6th grade class at my mom's school when he was two! It was priceless!

Anyway, I'd love some of your ideas here..what are your kids reading and what do you like. Tag is outgrowing what we've got and I would love some suggestions for short chapter books that he can read as well as some chapter books for me to read to them!

What's Grosser than Gross

Double yolk
Originally uploaded by josemigum

Okay, Breakfast at Ihop this morning! Thatcher loves "Runny Eggs". With his mouth FULL of 'em, he Sneezes 4 times.

Breakfast is OVER!

(Had my camera...couldn't put you through it!)
I found the picture Here! Such a cute blog

Binkie Buddies

(Yes, my 3 1/2 year old still has a binkie but it has REALLY come in handy this last year and I'm NeVeR going to take it away from him again. It can be peer pressured away from him by his 16 year old friends in highschool for all I care!)