if i had a daughter...

i think she would look like this:

LOL. earlier i was changing pooks' diaper and he was playing with my headband. well he decided he was going to wear it! he actually got it on his head but the band was in front of his ears. i fixed it and he was more than content to keep it on. nanaw commented that if i had a girl, she would look like him. "with those curls and a cute headband"...so i snapped a few pics before i took it off. he is adorable either way but the man can pull off a headband!

as long as i'm talking about hair, i'll share some bubba pics. he got a haircut today. (at a hair place, not with B's clippers). he did very good overall. he was shy, so he kinda hunched down like he didn't have a neck but he never screamed/cried/tried getting down, etc.

here is a before pic from last thursday. he was coloring with real markers for the first time. but you can see how...big? fluffy? overgrown? his hair was:
and then from today. you will have to ignore the cheesy face and the pizza sauce on his cheek. its not the best picture, but its the only one for now.
we are still at nanaw and papa's house, and the boys are enjoying every minute of it. they act like wild and crazy kids, LOL. pooks keeps throwing thing away in the trash. let me re-word that, he keeps throwing NON-trash items away...like a saucepan lid, binky, shoes, etc. so you have to watch him like a hawk, and double check the trash before you throw anything away.

bubba has nanaw wrapped around his little finger. he started saying ''pepsi'' which is what nanaw is usually drinking, and of course she thinks it is SO cute so she lets him have a drink. he's hopped up on caffenine for sure! between that and cookies, he's on a sugar high.

oh well, it's fun while it lasts!

death warmed over...

it's been a couple days since i last posted and i thought i'd update.

basically, i feel like death. i felt sick to my stomach wednesday and the only thing i ate all day was a piece of cheese pizza. (healthy i know) but it was all i could keep down.

thursday i woke up and felt fine. i made waffles for breakfast, ran some errands with a boys and went to lunch with B. we came home and the boys and i took a long nap. when i woke up from our nap---it was not good. even though it had been 5 hours since lunch, i apparently hadn't begun digesting it yet because it all came back up. from then on, i was sick all evening. i couldn't keep sips of water down, it was horrible. luckily B was home, so he fed and bathed the kids while i worshiped the porcelain God. i was like a pale sweaty zombie on the couch. i am not even exaggerating when i say that EVERY time i got up, i was sick. this lasted until almost 2am when i crawled (literally) into bed. i didn't move, i didn't even try to get comfy. i just laid down on my side facing a trashcan.

i slept straight until 8am when bubba woke me up. this morning, i have yet to try to eat anything solid. although, i didn't throw up stomach bile, so we're up one from last night! i did have (and so far, i have kept down) 1/2 of a graham cracker and a few sips of sprite. mostly i feel like an elephant sat on my chest. just really sore and it feels like bad heartburn/indigestion. as soon as pooks wakes up, i'm going to run to the store and get some soup. i'm hoping i can at least keep that down.

it must be a stomach virus...at first i thought food poisioning, but i've eaten the exact same thing as the kiddos and neither of them have been sick at all. i don't know how i was the lucky one, but at least it seems to be getting better.

tonight we are headed to nanaw and papa's house for about 5 days. B has to be out of state for work, so i figure we'll hang out there. the boys will have a ton of fun, nanaw and papa seem to get a kick out of them, and i'll even get a little help watching them! i'll try to take the laptop so i can update adn stuff. hopefully i start feeling better soon because a 2 hour car-ride is NOT sounding appealing right now.

ugh.

what do you get when you cross a brown chicken with a brown cow?

Brown-chicka-brown-cow!

(if you totally don't get it- say the answer out loud.)

LOL. i love that joke! i know, that was random but so is this post. i have a bunch of pictures to upload from the last couple days but they are pretty random. the only thing they have in common is that they are of the boys ;)

first off, the baby doll. i'd say that overall it went well. they loved on her and kissed her and bubba even put her down for a nap! (in his cars bed) pooks would put her in the shopping cart and push her around. total they probably played with her for maybe 30mins combined out of the whole day but they did seem to enjoy it!

the baby (which B says is ''freaky'' and creeps him out)

bubba with baby and arf's

pooks giving her some lovin'

on another note, for his birthday pooks got this crayola ''tadoodles'' markers. they are designed for toddlers hands and to be ''low'' mess. yeah--not so sure about that but i know it could have been worse!

first of all they have some flaws. the way they are shaped, the kids kept trying to color with the bottom part while the marker tip just colored their palms. of which (naturally) bubba didn't like because he doesn't like to be messy. i corrected him a couple times and he finally seemed to relax but he never really got into it. pooks was just making a mess and throwing his paper, lol.

he was really trying but the thing is sideways. see the red all over the palm of his hand?

bubba didn't like how it made his fingers green

finally relaxed with some ''real'' crayons

the next pic is meant as a joke! while i think everyone knows that, i thought i would clarify. we did the same thing to bubba when he was like 7mos old(?) but hadn't done it (yet!) to pooks.

typical guy, drinks too much and passes out watching tv!

just being silly. he'll get a kick out of it when he's older. (btw its a bottle of Malibu Rum)

so i bought the boys...

a baby doll. boys can have dolls right?

the last few playdates we've had, pooks has a habit of playing with the baby dolls. he like giving them kisses. he loses intrest after a couple minutes but i figure with a new baby on the way, maybe a doll will be good. we can lay it down for naps, hold it nicely, be gentle, etc.

of course, this is pooks and this may blow up in my face but i can hope right? besides i didn't get him like a $20 doll with accessories; its a little $5 baby with a beanie like body and plastic face. i even made sure not to get the one with a hat or eyelashes, because i see these gets pulled off and lost.

i told B to get over it. its just an at home toy--i'm not going to let him take it to the store or anything. but we have a shopping cart that the boys can push it in and i think they'll like it. while the purchase was made for pooks, i'm sure bubba will love on it just as much. we shall see. if they play with it tomorrow, i'll get pics.

and honestly, i don't a(nd probably won't) have any girls, so is one doll really that bad in a sea of thomas the tank engine, tonka, diego, cars, legos and trucks?

boys and their toys

today bubba and i went out looking for deals. for the first time in my 'adult' life, i went out specifically to look at garage sales! i have occasionally stopped when driving by, when something looked interesting; today however it was our mission. with (soon to be) 3 boys, i wanted to find some outdoor toys without spending a bunch. obviously they are just going to get beat up, fought over, left out in the rain, etc. i also wanted to try to find a toddler bed for bubba to use once the baby gets here. (i would buy a new mattress-duh!) anyways, the first place we stopped bubba scored a toy lawn mower for 75 cents! we kept going, hit a couple duds then found one with a really nice wooden toddler bed. we got out only to find out it was already sold. i decided we were done. it was noon and we had gotten too late of a start. we came home and he showed off his mower.

well smart cookie that i am, i thought i'd check out craigslist. it rained today, so i assumed that maybe some people had to cancel their garage sales and were listing things online. bingo! found a lady selling a TON of little tikes toys. the 'cozy coupe' however caught my eye. they sell for $50 brand new and her's looked brand new--for $20! the only 'downside' was it doesn't have decals. they never put them on, then lost them.

like bubba knows that? i think not. so i went and picked it up and viola, instant new toy. (okay, not really instant. i washed it off with Dawn out in the driveway, dried it off and then let him have it. the chick had cats and i'm allergic so i had to clean that thing ASAP before putting it in the house.) bubba was EXSTATIC. you would have thought it was Christmas. he played on it all day. B was convinced that he was going to sleep in the thing.

doesn't he look SO happy?

the only problem is poor lil pooks. he's really too little to make it go, but he want to play with it. bubba is more than happy to let pooks ride in it WITH him, but he doesn't want pooks in it alone. pooks however wants in it alone and if you put him in it WITH bubba he has a meltdown.

anyone know where i can get a 2nd cozy coupe for cheap?

on the plus side, bubba was more than generous to share his ''old'' ride-on with his brother!

lol. it did get better as the night went on and the newness wore off. heck 5 hours after he got it, bubba let pooks sit in it all by himself ;) yes it was right before bedtime and only for about 7 minutes but pooks was happy, bubba was happy so mommy was happy.

oh, and a small update on my belly. it is doing better! i just have 2 burn marks/blisters. one about the size of a quarter and one the size of a dime. they did blister up but never popped or anything. B is convinced that i will scar, and i probably will. kinda sucks since my belly is stretching while it's healing. that will be a great stetched out ramen noodle scar. LOL. oh well, baby is safe, i'm safe and pooks was safe, so its okay in the long run. here is my 22 week belly pic.