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Helping Daddy "fix" his Ipod. (for more on the Ipod scroll down to the next post)

Trying to get him to smile. Everytime he does he moves and the picture is blurry.

Another PhilCo creation!

Phil received an Ipod from a coworker a couple weeks ago that would keep the battery charged. He ordered some new batteries to see if that would work and it didn't. So this is what he decided to do....

Here is Morgan listening to some of the music after Phil "fixed" it.

In case you were wondering, that thing on the table with all the wires and tubes, I call it a Hydrogen bomb! That is Phil's other project to make my van more efficient! It is a Hydrogen generator. (not really a bomb)

He opened up the Ipod and soldered the battery pack to the inside.

It works now.


At first I wondered why he just didn't throw the thing away, but then I remembered that he doesn't throw ANYTHING away!

I hate it when blogger puts the pictures backwards!

She did it, not me!

Ava has officially grown up! Last night she went to the bathroom all by herself for the first time. She was very surprised but she did it. The only reason she did was because she wanted to wash her hands and I told her she couldn't until she used the potty! So she did! Yay!


And......


This morning she decided to get herself dressed!

Her pants are backwards!

One winter boot and Derek's shoe. She is also wearing two different boy socks!

Singin' and dancin'!

Recently I purchased the movie Hairspray, and today Morgan asked to watch it. As soon as they started singing he was up singing and dancing right along with them! Trying to copy their moves and everything. When Phil got home we were making dinner and Morgan comes into the kitchen and started singing: "oh, oh, oh, look at my hair" over and over again! It was so funny. I think I need to try and have my video camera accessible at all times.

To Schedule or not to schedule?

I have been thinking of making a schedule and trying to stick to it. I hate schedules because they seem so restricting but I am finding myself spending more and more of my time on things that aren't that important. I am hoping that having a schedule will help my children become easier to handle if they know exactly when breakfast, lunch, dinner and all the snack times in between are (my kids LOVE food). I am also hoping that it will just make things easier for me if I know that at 1:30 I will be folding laundry so then I can just put it out of my mind until then. We will see how well it goes. I will report on my progress on Sunday.

Circus Act?

I decided to go to our local grocery store and check out their sales for some meals I am preparing for the next week. Of course it being Saturday Phil was supposed to be home but alas he had to go to work. So I pack all the kids in and we head out. Thankfully the weather is great and the snow is melting. We get there and the leashes come out and we are all headed in to the store. We get the cart that has a car and two steering wheels, so the boys go there Ava up front with me and Franklin's car seat sideways across the cart. Here we go....walking down the aisle both boys hanging out the sides of the car me, telling them to get back in, not because THEY will get hurt but someone else might get hurt by them! I walk past this lady who is on her cell phone talking, she sees me and I can see her mentally counting! I am thinking - There's only 4! Come on! - we walk around the other side and she follows me with her husband, at first I think she wants to see the adorable 5 week old baby I have and instead all she says is: Wow, you have your hands full! I know I shouldn't be shocked or speechless anymore with what people say but, oh my goodness. I guess growing up in a large family 4 just doesn't seem like alot to me. Anyway, I felt like we were being looked at and pointed at like we were a circus act. Sometimes I don't mind. Like today, mostly because they were all being pretty good. But there are those days when one runs off, the other wants to follow but is pulled back by his leash and the girl in the family just wants to boss everyone around all while I am just trying to check out with the groceries, and keep the baby from screaming too loudly! I love my life!

My word for 2010!

There are alot of blogs on the internet putting up words that will hopefully help them throughout this new year. Sometimes they do sometimes they become just words and are forgotten after a couple months. Which is the way it goes in my case for most years. This year I decided to pick a word that was only two letters. The reason for this is for the last year and probably before that I have been asked too many times to count "How I do it". How do I do what? Take care of 4 children ages 4 and under! How do I clean my car? How do I get dressed in the morning? and so on. To all of these questions I have always replied, "I just DO". So my word for 2010 will be DO. I will DO whatever I want, I will DO what needs to be done, I will DO what the Lord asks me to do, and so on. The list for things I will DO is endless. What will you DO for yourself and your family this year?

Pictures

I tried to get him to smile but I think the cheeks were just too much for him!

Ava really likes having her picture taken.

Again trying to get a good picture to put in his baby announcement!

Derek is showing off his baby Moses and the basket form his very first Sunbeam lesson! Time flies so fast!

Having a lazy Sunday nap with Daddy

This was the first time he really had his eyes open.

Ava is definitely a cuddler
This was taken right after his first bath.

First time he caught his thumb!

He Smiles!

Franklin smiled at me for the first time today. It wasn't the over the shoulder kind of smile that you pretend was for you either. It was a real smile at me! As soon as I can I will try to get a picture up for all to see!