My parents live in fear

Big Dog has us trained. When he wakes up from a nap he usually gets a snack. Juice and popcorn is his favorite.

A bloggin slow down

You may have noticed that I haven't been blogging as much. Captain Awesome has been having some health issues and will be having surgery this Friday. I don't think I am going to have much time to blog until some time next week. Thanks for all the prayers and well wishes.

American Idol

We aren't big American Idol fans. We just watch the first few episodes of every season so we can laugh at all the strange auditions. Rooster watched happily trying to sing along. Big Dog just laughed at the contestants. He even laughed at the people who were talented. He's a little Simon in training. Where would he have picked this up? Then at the end of the show the answer to this question came. There was a blind contestant auditioning. And I told Captain Awesome, "This is a gimmick....he's faking" Well I guess he's not faking blindness. I'm just a jerk.

Big Dog

Big Dog fell asleep looking at books.

GH

41 weeks old

Playgroup fun

Mr T, Princess J and Tiny Tim came over to visit GH and Big Dog yesterday. I think GH really enjoys having babies around.

"Ladies and Gentlemen..................."

Rooster absolutely loves the toy microphone Santa left her. Isn't it great how kids can be entertained with such a simple and cheap toy? Best dollar Santa ever spent if you want my opinion.

I guess I'm her microphone/sound crew because when Rooster says "Ladies and Gentlemen" that is my cue to have a huge introduction or explanation of her next song. I try to tell her what to sing for her next song and she sings it. She loves every moment of being in the "spot light".

One time Rooster forgot the words to a song. So I told her if she ever forgets the words while she's on stage, that she is suppose to extend the microphone out to the crowd. I told her the crowd would eat that up:D

I think my favorite part is when she bows after her performances.

Some random pictures

We had a few pages left in a large coloring book. So I let the kids paint on them.
Bathtime is always fun. But, Big Dog didn't stay in the tub long. For a boy who believes he doesn't have to wear clothes anymore....he sure wanted out of the bath quickly.

How cute!!!

Archiving--From 2007

I saw this one night before going to bed. I had to get a picture of this. I mean, how often do you see anything quite like this? It had been an exceptionally rough day. And when I looked up and saw the look on Larry's face, I considered the possibility that Larry may have had a worse day than I did:D

Whatever shall I do?

A few moments ago I found a small load of towels and clothing in my washing machine. I noticed that on the dryer there was an open bottle of detergent. Someone dumped a full bottle of liquid soap into the washing machine. The first thing I thought was "I know GH did this" :D Haha. The second thought was

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhs7eCliAHA

What should I do? I could rinse the laundry out in the bathtub. I could just throw the laundry away. But, will there still be tons of soap in the basin of the washer? Should I run a little water into the basin then drain it...repeating this about a million times;) I seriously am clueless on what I should do. HELP PLEASE!!!

What we've been up to

I've been doing a lot of cleaning. I must be talking about cleaning a lot too. The other night Big Dog grabbed the broom and dust pan and was running around saying "clean, clean, clean".

Big Dog is really into zippers right now. He loves to play with coat zippers and the zippers on his pajamas. He also loves to play with GH's pj zipper. Saying "ZZZZZZip" as he runs the zipper up and down. I actually saw Big Dog flip GH over with his foot then go after GH's zipper. I don't know who was more surprised GH or myself. My friend Stephanie gave me a bunch of glow in the dark letters and numbers. She said she thought I might be able to think of something to do with them. My first activity wasn't really clever. We just sorted the numbers to the left and letters to the right.

At the beginning of the month Roosters preschool sends home a list of activities you can do at home. These are ideas from the preschool and other parents of her classmates. I like looking it over and seeing what the other parents are doing with their kids. It's a great way to generate ideas. Anyway, I saw something we hadn't done in a while so I thought we would draw in salt. Rooster wasn't really into writing her name. She loved making faces and Big Dog enjoyed making a mess:D

Dinosaur dinner

GH is 40 weeks old

Wordless Wednesday

Three Kings Day

Big Dog had a great time.

Earlier in the day we had a snack of a crown cake with jelly. It was delicious. But, it didn't look a lot like a crown.

GH wasn't so sure about the crowns.

We need more snacks Big Dog

Let's see what we can find in here.

She look like a little Martha Stewart.

Some pictures from last years Epiphany house blessing and Three Kings celebration.

http://ourtotallyawesomeblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/archiving-photo-file-1-8-08-ephiphany.html

Happy Birthday Shelia!

Where's the party at?

Saturday Seven

Seven things that happened this week

1) GH got to the fifth step on the staircase, he has been pulling up on everything, and has a very deceptive mama call. He has screamed for me in the middle of the night. When he screams "mama" he sounds a lot like Rooster.
2) Big Dog has been talking a lot more this week. I think it's really funny when he calls Captain Awesome "Rick".
3) While I read our Catholic Registry newspaper I expressed some frustration with Captain Awesome. I was all "I can't understand half these words. I swear I need a Catholic dictionary or something". He looked up from his coloring book (he was coloring with the kids) and said "Well do you have your decoder ring?" :D
4) The Roosters photography blog is blowin' up:D It's had like 15 hits.
5) My camera was misplaced and Rooster was a suspect in it's disappearance. I tried to bribe her with ice cream for the return of the camera but she couldn't find the camera. At that point, I knew that she did not know where it was.
6) Luckily I'm a big cheapskate. When the camera was missing I tried to purchase a new one on Ebay. I got outbid on 6 different cameras.
7) We had Christmas with Captain Awesome's family. We enjoyed the visit. The kids got tons of toys and they loved seeing their cousins.

Captain Awesome had a relaxing day with the kids

They played outside, colored, and made some awesome paper airplanes:)

Nothing goes better with a Husker win than

honey glazed hot wings.

It's what Captain Awesome and Big Dog eat....because, they are men!!

GH is 9 months old today:)

The chase is on

GH enjoyed chasing this balloon around the living room and foyer.

Rooster wanted a picture with Mama

Big Dog loves a good polka

My friend Krimsin is always giving my kids the coolest things like pirate costumes, DVD's, books, and accordians. This picture was taken at a good moment. Big Dog is trying to play the accordian the right way. A few moments later he decided to swing it around and he whacked GH upside the head:(

The boys

Mama and her boys.

GH follows the older kids everywhere they go.

Happy New Year Everyone