This IS RIDICULOUS!!!

This is what we woke up to Saturday morning (that would be 4/28)?!?!?!? At least it was gone (mostly) by the afternoon! I have given up hope of Spring and pulled out the winter coats again (did that the night of the other post about not wearing jackets anymore!). This is what they mean when they say Minnesota only has about a week of summer!!!!! This year I'm thinking it could be!!! The funny (???) thing is Brayden got a virus the night before my mom left (I will post a pic later from her visit) and the doctor said it is a 'summer' virus that he has?!?!?! SUMMER virus.....pleeeeaaaase! He spiked a high fever (104.4) and it lasted about 4 days, varying from normal to 103 after that first day. I guess that is what a 'summer' virus is; a high fever and not much else. Well today is sunny and close to 60 degrees, the boys just woke up and we are headed out! We have to find a green soccer ball for Brayden. He starts soccer camp this Saturday.....of course they are calling for rain and cold, at least they aren't saying snow, yet!!!!!

Mom's On the Plane

My mom comes to visit for a week starting today. She'd be here in about 15 minutes if she hadn't missed her flight! Not her fault, the plane left Detroit late. She got in and ran like crazy in O'Hare but had to get to another terminal so she made it just as they were shutting the doors. She got on the next flight and will leave Chicago in about 15 minutes and get in around 2:45pm. Brayden and I keep clapping and singing 'Grandma's coming to visit'; Camden just grins and claps his hands at our singing and jumping around like loons. We'll see if Cam gives her the evil eye like he did in the car last fall after I picked them up at the airport!

I will try to post pictures of moms visit but don't want to take away too much precious short time we have with her so don't be upset if pics don't get posted until after she leaves!

Everyone have a great week; I know we will!!!!!!!!!

My 3 Year Old

Here is Brayden's 3rd birthday cake. Yes, I made it myself. I had this crazy idea that I needed to start making my kids their birthday cakes (after their 1st). After all my mom made mine when I was little and I have wonderful memories from that. Well it started out pretty bad but it is amazing how much those 'stars' cover! I let Brayden pick out the colors, so of course it had to be a green race car. Why blue wheels?!?!? I have no idea but he was set on that color. I have to say I sort of had fun doing this and I don't think it turned out half bad. So maybe I will do it again next year?!?!








When we asked Brayden what he wanted for his birthday he said, "a big bad race car". So after much searching for something that we didn't have to take a small loan out on (amazing how much kids cars are, even the pedal kind!), I found this. Yes, MOMMY found this. I think he liked it! Daddy and Brayden were 'racing' in the driveway right after he got it.

Just feel sorry for me.....

So there is no picture with this post, just wanted everyone to know that it snowed here yesterday. Gratefully it didn't stick for long, but it is supposed to snow again on Thursday. The sun is not shining and it is lucky to get to 40 degrees lately. The weatherman says they don't see it warming up for awhile. Well I have boycotted winter coats and I am just wearing sweatshirts and so are the boys.....we will probably all get colds but I am done!!!! I am trying to look on the bright side; it's not -40 degrees or even close. In New Jersey we never experienced such loooooong winters so I normally took spring for granted, I've learned my lesson and will be outside enjoying spring with my boys as soon as it gets here......whenever that is?!?!?!

Camden's 1st Haircut

As you can see Camden needed a haircut! Just needed to be trimmed around his ears and in the back. I had vowed never to touch his hair with the scissors. I made that mistake with Brayden when he was a baby and tried trimming around his ears.....he looked like he had mange.




















If I would have had to bet on it I would have lost. I never thought this little man would sit still and do so good getting his hair cut. Unfortunately she didn't take enough off the back, not her fault I was just so nervous that he was going to lose it at any moment I didn't look close enough. So.....Jared trimmed him up at home. Like I said I wasn't going to touch his hair, Jared still gives me a hard time about Brayden's hair (well, not anymore because I've got this on him). Jared has these trimmers that have a guard on them so you can't cut too short. Well for some reason that I still don't understand he took the guard off. All I know is Camden moved and I heard 'zip' and Jared said 'oops'. I almost dropped Camden because I was laughing so hard.....what else was I supposed to do???? Jared 'fixed' his mistake the best he could and we prayed that his hair would grow in the next 2 days before his birthday party!?!?!? The unfair thing is that Camdens hair is so light that you couldn't even see the mistake unless I pointed it out....which I did!!!!! Now we are even!!!

Spring is here (I think!!?!?)

So the first picture is at an Easter Egg Hunt the Saturday before Easter. It snowed on and off that day and into the night. Like I said before we woke up on Easter morning to the sound of a snowplow! Then it warmed slightly and most of the snow melted. Could it be, could Spring actually be coming?!?! Then April Fools! The second picture; the one with Murphy wading through the snow is on April 1st! The snow started on March 31st and came down quite hard at times. It was pretty watching it fall and seeing it stuck to all the bare trees......but pretty for December or January NOT MARCH/APRIL!!!!! At this point all I can do is laugh!

Well today it finally happened, we pulled out the spring jackets. I even got a little warm in mine! Oh please let it be so! I can honestly say I have no idea what the weather is supposed to be like for tomorrow or the rest of the week, I am too afraid to look! But I will be adding my hope for the weather to keep improving in my prayers tonight!

Such a good big brother

I have wondered why God gave me the boys in the order that He did!?

Brayden was the 'easy' child, I baby proofed but really didn't have to. Brayden never messed with buttons on the tv, he never paid any attention to cords, he never played in the dog dishes and they were in a place he crawled by a few times/day, he never ate my lipstick....not that he didn't get into any trouble but overall he was just a very well behaved baby. Then came Camden and he is to put it mildly; my handful. I just wasn't prepared for a child that would get into so much AND think it was funny. Camden has this smile that is VERY devilish; it announces he is up to no good but it is a smile that makes you want to laugh too! He will pull himself up to the tv and push the buttons (I have tested the tv for a tipping hazard, it passed, but still makes me nervous), but as he's aiming with his index finger at a button he is looking over his shoulder giving his award winning smile and shaking his little booty. HOW CAN A PERSON NOT LAUGH?!!?!? So why wasn't he my first????? I think the answer to that can be summed up with the above picture.

This toy crate was in the corner of the room, that's where I put it but it kept being moved over about 3 feet!?!? So for about a week I kept moving it back wondering why on earth Brayden kept moving the darn thing. Then one day it hit me; he was moving it to keep Camden from playing with the carbon monoxide detector that has buttons and will let out a loud screech when the button is pushed (we know this thanks to Camden). You can see the crate covers the buttons perfectly. So I ask Brayden if this is why he keeps moving it to which he replies very simply, "yes, Camden kept pushing the buttons Mom"

This is why God gave me Brayden first, without him Camden might not have survived with only me watching over him.

Pretty......but not on a boy!

So I don't have a picture to go along with this post, wish I did but my panic mode took over a little. This could also be titled 'My 1st call to poison control' (Debbie I thought of you when I was calling). My first call and it wasn't about the child that's been in my care for 3 years!

So this is what happened; I needed to get in the shower and Camden woke up from his nap. Normally this is no big deal, Brayden plays with him in my room (which is baby proofed or so I thought). Well Brayden decided that he wanted to stay on the main floor while I took my shower so that left Camden upstairs with me. I brought in plenty of toys, books, etc.....and I didn't have plans to shave my legs (sorry Jared!) so I would be in and out of the shower in 10 minutes tops. I used to shower all the time with Brayden playing outside the door and NEVER did I have ANY problem/issue. I got in the shower looking at Cam and there he was playing with his activity table (which keeps his attention the longest), I take a quick shower and then as I'm getting out I just get this feeling as I look and don't see Camden. No biggie, he's probably playing with the stuffed animals in the corner of the room. But I quick wrap a towel around me and look out into the room to see my 1 year old little boy holding a lipstick cap with berry color all around his mouth and on his teeth! My makeup that I use is locked up in my bathroom, I had forgotten in my vanity there was a couple tubes of lipsticks that I don't wear anymore and really don't know why I hadn't thrown out (they are in the garbage now!). I scream NO, to which he starts crying and drops the lipstick (which he had obviously done before because there are a few berry spots on the off white carpeting!!!!). How much did he eat....is he going to be sick.....WHY!?!!??! I'm thinking this as I'm wiping out his mouth. Turns out he only ate a little and I think most was probably stuck to his teeth. But I called poison control anyway just to be safe; I think the woman was trying not to laugh but she was very reassuring to a mom who was on the brink of bawling. He was fine, not even a tummy ache....but after I got off the phone with poison control I gave him a sippy with water (to help dilute the lipstick I guess) and he left berry colored lipstick on the mouth of the sippy, what a girl!?!?