"my name's mater...like tuh-mater but without the tuh"

the many sides of peanut

peanut was in a good mood this morning so i took full advantage of it. here are a few pics that i thought were pretty stinking cute, and they show off all his little rolls :)

he loves to ''fly'' and usually i get huge giggles, today just this look:

check out those thunder thighs!

and those big brown eyes!

apparently the sun tickles
(see those dimples?)

and finally, a squeal!

random thoughts

i have a lot of random thoughts/vents/updates so i'm gonna just list them out. read if you want to, and if you don't....well what are you still doing here?

• -i am tired and i'm SO completely over this damn virus that i've decided should be name the 'whine virus'. seriously. all 3 of my kids are so flipping whiny. and i get it, they are little kids, they don't feel good they are all mucousy and coughing, etc. i know they don't feel good. but we are on day 8 of this and mama is tired. i'm over it. actually, bubba really is almost over it. he's doing great and feeling a lot better. pooks however seems to be doing worse. he's so clingy and fussy and miserable. he has been on antibiotics since last wed but today he had green snot so i don't think that they are working. looks like we'll be back to visit dr. s tomorrow. peanut is handling well enough. he's sleeping a ton and when he's not sleeping he wants held. no problemo except for the fact that pooks also wants held. so i changed peanuts' diaper and got him dressed all with pooks on my hip. fun times....NOT! i just want my kids to feel better!
  

• -pooks 2nd birthday is in a month. up until last night, we still hadn't thought of a theme. there isn't any theme that he *loves*. he likes thomas the tank engine, backyardigans, mickey mouse, cars, dora--he's so laidback that he likes everything. then you have bubba who tells me what he wants. ''he wants mickey mommy" and pooks is saying ''pablo'' over and over. er, those don't go together. well then i decided that because pooks is still to young to really care or pick his own theme, i would just decide for him. then i realized that HELLO we share a birthday, we'll just make it a joint party and i can help decide without being pushy ;) so i told politely suggested a 'pirate theme' and pooks response was ''ARGH" so we're going with it. shiver me timbers matey!
  

• -sometimes i feel as though i have all this seemingly great ideas and i really want to run with them ya know? but then i realize that i might be a wee bit in over my head. like making diaper cakes. i love doing it, i make a little bit of spending cash and everyone is happy. i feel useful as a human being and not "just" as a mom, and it works. but then add those orders to my plan for the *perfect* mothers day gift, which truly is perfect. and i would tell you but i can't; and not because my mom doesn't know (because, well she does) but because it's also part of my brother and future SILs wedding gift. needless to say that it is time consuming in a different kind of way. the general idea is easy, getting everything needed to detail the general idea is the time consuming part. then i don't know if i ever blogged about it, but i also started a moms group. so i'm the organizer and planner of that too. which means i have to force my creative juices to plan and organize activites that kids will enjoy but that the moms will too; that work with a variety of age ranges.

i have GOT to learn how to balance things better.

(for some unknown reason the formatting just F'ed up and i can't allign the following paragraph correctly)
all of these things are are {obviously} in addition to my daily responsibilities/expectations that come with being a mom/wife/daughter/best friend/sister/living-breathing-human. some days, i'm just tired. like right now, i can think of at least 4 things {finishing a cake order, working out on the wii, planning may activities for the group, working on the moms day gift, showering, sleeping} that i should be doing instead of blogging, yet here i am. can we say procrastinator?

• pooks has learned how to stay ''i want that''. not only has he learned how to say it, but he's already learned how to over use phrase. referring to m&m's? done. toys? done. food? done. uncooked egg noodles drying on the counter? done. coloring books? done. a bottle of glue? yep. don't get me wrong, it was cute the first 5 times.

happy easter!!

i hope that everyone reading had a happy easter! we did...low-key but nice! the boys woke up around 8:30am and we kept them busy upstairs while nanaw and papa drove over. once they were here, the boys came downstairs, tore through their baskets then hunted for eggs. originally i thought we'd do the egg hunt outside but the weather didn't cooperate so we were forced to have it indoors. oh well, the boys enjoyed it. nanaw had to work at 11am today so we didn't have the traditional Easter sprial cut, juicy ham dinner. instead we enjoyed a breakfast of pancakes, eggs, bacon and coffee. i know for a fact that bubba liked it--he ate 3 pancakes! what a little porker. anywho, that's about it for us. here are the pics!

their baskets

{each kiddo received a book & the little dudes each got a pez dispenser, bunny toy with runts, a jelly bean ''carrot'', chocolate cars and teddy grahams. peanut got a light-up toy and binkys}

bubba checking out the baskets....

peanut staring at the egg light

sleepy lil' guy wasn't up for much, he's fighting off that virus

pooks searching for eggs

finding the eggs

once he realized that they were full of m&m's, he lost interest in hunting and just wanted to eat!

getting papa's help to open the egg

by bedtime, i finally found the bunny ears. go figure, right? so we snapped a few pics before bed...

bubba loved the ears. he WAS the easter bunny

pooks didn't really care about the ears at all

not.a.fan at all!

not even if *i* was wearing them!

it was nice out!

finally!

the boys are sick; well bubba and pooks both have a virus and an ear infection. (peanut has a bit of a cough, right now we are just keeping an eye on him). the little dudes are now on antibiotics and they seem to be doing much better. this morning pookie had a fever of 102...poor lil guy. B actually stayed home from work today because they both woke with fevers, they both were fussy and whiney and i knew i'd have to get pooks into the doctor. he was so hot, pulling on his ears, and i have never seen him so clingy...it was obvious that he didn't feel good.

well after a dose of antibiotics, a round of motrin and a nap they were in much better spirits! obviously i didn't want to take them to the park {hello, they are contagious} but we did take them outside. it was SO nice out! a light breeze and about 71 degrees made for a beautiful afternoon and we took full advantage of it. here are a few pics:






oh and you *might* have noticed that pooks got his haircut...and yes mom, i know i know, you hate it. well when the little guy has a fever of 102 and is sweating, then he is pulling on his hair all around his left ear, he just looked hot and miserable. i made an executive decision, so you'll have to deal with it. sorry! (but i think that he looks adorable!)