Sick boy, food storage, binky, work, cowboy, and bruises:)

That's right my little lady, these are our kind of shows:) I went to Blockbuster and bought a bunch of kids movies I'd been wanting to eventually get anyway for $1.25 each! I was trying so hard not to freak out in front of strangers, seriously. But of course I had to get 27 Dresses, a must have in a girl's collection.

My sweet boy. Secretly I love it when he's sick because he's so sweet and we can cuddle all day long.

As usual its been some busy weeks so slow to update. Lincoln was sick a couple weeks ago. I had worked a grave shift and came home to Mikey looking super tired telling me he'd been up all night with Linc puking. He had done probably 3 loads of laundry, maybe more, throughout the night. Awesome. So Mike let me sleep for a bit then went in to work after noon. He was sick for 5 days laying on the couch sleeping or watching his shows. When he stood up, he'd just go right back to the floor. But when is it news when Linc pukes? Luckily for us (not for her!) Kim came out to stay with us for the weekend. She was coming out for a date with a guy I know, and ended up helping us. She was a lifesaver, thanks Kimi!!

Quoi was just starting to feel better from teething (which have still not come out, ah!!) so it was nice to have a sweet little girl while Linc was awake for about 2 hrs of each day. So really I can't complain too much about it. It was such a relaxing (besides all the scrubbing of the carpet and laundry) time for us with him not feeling good. By the 6th day he didn't take a nap at all (only 2nd time ever for him) so he definitely didn't have the Mono that is going around. After having to call in 3 times, I was kind of excited to go back to work.

About the work issue, I have been working quite a bit lately. I'm the only one available to be the "fill-in" person so its been kind of crazy. And everytime I end up working more I'm super grouchy with everyone around and stressed so I'm hoping it will end soon. I'm hoping I can just move to one day a week, if not I'll just be a Mommy full-time. We'll see. I'm still loving both worlds right now:)

So I'm not into your traditional food storage of grinding the wheat and storing a whole bunch of yuck food I'm not even going to eat. I'm not even sure if I were starving I'd eat just anything. So we decided to use our tax $ on food storage. Its called Daily Living. Mike's parents bought some and told us about it. Its just a bunch of yummy food of different varieties. It feeds a family of 5 for 6 months and lasts up to 25 years. Its such a relief to have it and its so much easier to store; I love it! Now we just need water...

Oh man! I'll tell you what. This little girl is FEARLESS! She is everywhere in a split second. She hates to get her bum changed or get dressed because she has to be still. She is always on the go and climbing up anything questionable. I swear she has bruises all over her head daily. She thinks she can do anything and Bang! Right on her head. She'll stop and cry for a few seconds, then jump right back on. I love this little one so much! Almost everytime I pick her up from the babysitter she tells me about another accident and explains a new bruise.

But she is also so sweet. She's pretty content on doing her thing and just plays. She's super quiet most of the time and is pretty happy as long as she's on the floor. I don't hold her much because she'll just jump out of my arms. She is learning so fast too. When I say "Hi" she waves at me (Linc didn't learn that till about 15 months!) She drops something and says "Uh oh!" every time. She loves books, anything up high, and can walk along with stuff. My children are so different, I love it!

Lincoln just had his second session with the Speech Therapist today. Everything that they tested him at while at the CDC was great except speech. She's coming to the house every 2 weeks now to observe him and teach us some things we can do with him. When they came the first time they said he is right now in between a 12 to 18 month old for speech. We'll keep working at it. I was so happy! Last week he said, "Mom-ee" for the first time!!! Wahoo! Yep he's almost 26 months. It was so fun! Mike and I counted 28 words we could think of that he says. He is teaching us lots of signs from his Baby Einstein and its actually helped him say the word better if he signs along with it. He such a cute kid, man!

Lincoln is also totally a Daddy's boy! When Mike comes home he just freaks out and is so happy to see him. He wants to hang out with him and show him everything. And when Mike puts him to bed he wants him to sleep with him all the time. I love how cute they are together. Its been so nice that Mike has been home more often and can play with him. Mike is on a job right now. First one in a couple weeks and he shouldn't even be gone too long. Maybe just a couple days. Its been wonderful! We still don't see him all the time, but I'll live:) He plays volleyball 2 nights a week, soccer at the rec center just ended, but he is helping coach the high school soccer team keepers again this year. So when he's in town he's going to be helping out there as well. As long as Mikey's happy I'm happy! And of course that involves soccer:)

Oh yeah, and just a bit of info. I was finally ready. I cut Linc's binky last night. He was so put out. His voice was so emotional last night looking at it saying, "Uh oh! Uh oh!" It was sweet. He cried for maybe just 20 seconds when I left the room and was fine. What's awesome is the next morning when he got up, he had a different binky in his mouth. He had one stashed in his bed. Little stinker! So I hid that one and only gave him the cut one. He wont even put it in his mouth. He went to bed only with a cup of water tonight so we'll see how it works. We are hoping his communication will be better without it. But I still hate taking something away from him that he loves so much.

I bought him a potty (along with the whole entire store!) tonight. We'll see how he does with that. I haven't decided when I want to really start doing it. We are going to let him check it out first and see what he thinks. One thing at a time.

Totally twins! These two are looking more and more alike every day!

Inara came over the play last night. These 3 are so stinkin cute together! This is why Quoi has so many bumps and bruises. She just thinks she's so big and can do anything her big brother can.

Our mini Woody. Thanks to Grandma P he's a cute little cowboy and loves it! (Does Daddy??:)

He has worn these boots everywhere lately. He is always looking at the bottom just like Woody does.

They even have A-N-D-Y on the bottom. How cute!

So in this video it was the first time I've said "hello" to Lincoln and he's actually said it back to me. Cool! And I got Quoi to wave in this one too.


Quoia walkin around with her toy being a big girl.

DON'T MIND THE ANNOYING VOICE IN THE BACKGROUND, JUST A MOMMY:)