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Not me! Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday, where we can be brutally honest with each other, and live to tell about it. When you are finished here, head on over to MckMama's blog to see a list of more not me's. You will be so glad you did!

This morning, I am not sitting in the dark trying to get this typed out before I have to take the kids to school. Nope, not me! I am way too organized and on top of things to have waited until the very last minute possible to do something.

Yesterday, we did not take all 4 of the kids to see The Jonas Brothers at the rodeo. Nope, what are we....crazy? Hey, do not answer that!

If we had indeed gone to that concert, there is just no way that Tutti-Frutti slept thru the majority of it! I mean come on...there were 72,469ish people there and 72,400 of them were screaming teeny bopper girls. How on earth could he have possibly slept thru that?!?

It is a good thing we did not go to that concert too, that might have meant that we went to bed way too late on a school night...and everyone knows that we never put our kids in bed late on school nights. It might also mean that I had to drag children from their nice warm beds, when what I really wanted to do was climb in bed beside them. It might also mean that I would still have 2 of the 4 still sleeping when we need to leave in less than 15 minutes...oh, and did I mention that I am still sitting here typing? Guess you got that?

Oh...so glad that I did not fall UP a flight of stairs...twice...and inflict a lovely bruise on my left shin that still throbs days later...that would have been sooo super embarrassing and I would never admit to that happening. I soooo outgrew my clumsiness years ago!

Ah, and Thursday night...there is absolutely no way that I had a dinner/dessert date with the ladies from MOPS, and since I did not have that date, I certainly did not have a great time. Speaking of that date...you know, the one I did not have, I absolutely did not get to go without any children!!! Well, mostly...Tutti-Frutti joined us for his dinner while we were not having dessert. Glad none of that actually happened...that might have been way too fun and I cannot handle that much fun in one night anymore! Wheew, tired just thinking about it.

I guess that about wraps up my week of things that I did not do. Now, head on over to MckMama's to see what everyone else did not do this week. You will be so glad you did. Happy not me'ing!

Weekly Wednesday

I guess it is really official...he had his 6 month well check yesterday. We were okayed to start eating meat. Oh boy was my first thought. How am I going to figure that one out but I think we did beautifully. Tonight for dinner, he had chicken, sweet potatoes, some prunes and 1/2 a banana. Should I mention that they were all pureed together and resembled creamy peanut butter and was actually pretty good...yes, we did taste it! Do you honestly think we would feed our baby something that neither of us had tried?! And he LOVED it. It pretty much just tasted like bananas.
So, as of yesterday, our happy little guy weighed in at 15.9 lbs. and was 26 1/2" long. He is about average height and below average for his weight. What is this you ask? Yes, we have our first skinny baby! Oh, what's that, you didn't ask? Oh well, you know you wanted to.

Poor guy turned on the charm as best he could; afterall, he did get 5 shots yesterday in his skinny little legs. So considering the trauma he had to endure, I think he was more than cooperative.

Mostly on the serious side but I think he likes to see "The Mommy and Daddy Sideshow of Circus Tricks" on Wednesdays when we try to get a smile.

He has a way of turning on the charm no matter what.

He just melts my heart!

Oh and he discovered our lovely dead grass today too.

He thought it was the neatest thing ever.

Look what I can mostly do by myself!

We have a peeping Boog Tom too!

I just wish you could see his whole outfit...batman pj top, polar bear boxer breifs, and batman crocs! What a sight he was.

Not me! Monday

Welcome to Not Me! Monday, where we can be brutally honest with each other, and live to tell about it. When you are finished here, head on over to MckMama's blog to see a list of more not me's. You will be so glad you did!

This week, my precious baby boy did not turn 6 months old! No way! He is still my tiny little man. When going thru his clothes this week, I did not find a tiny preemie outfit and get all teary eyed and wonder how you have grown so fast.

Friday morning, I did not have to get up at the crack of dark in order to have time to shower, get myself and 4 children completely ready, cook a breakfast casserole for MOPS, call a neighbor for aluminum foil and deal with a screaming , fit throwing 3 year old who did not want to go to MOPS all by 7:30. Nope, not me!

I also did not have to take said 3 year old into the bathroom at CHURCH to spank him in order for him to calm down and stop his hissy fit. Remember the wild banchee child from church last Saturday? Well, good thing he didn't return or this might have actually happened!

I did not get to Sour Apple's basketball game 30 minutes early, thinking we were only 15 minues early to discover that all of the teams playing before us were running way late. Then I certianly did not have to stay at the gym for around 2 hours entertaining 2 small children while trying to visit with other mothers and watch the game.

I am definately not writing part of this post on Saturday, wondering how Boog is going to act tonight when we drop him off for church!

Updated to add: Boog continued the above mentioned hissy fit all the way to church, thru the parking lot, into the church, to Tutti-Frutti's classroom, down the hall to his classroom and we did have to pry him from our legs to get him inside...screeching the entire way. Only to have us return from hearing an awesome message on Love one short hour later to gather our wonderfully calm happy 3 year old child! WHAT? Yep, our wonderfully calm child played with other children, colored a beautiful picture, went to kid's church, watched the program, went back to his class, had snack and played with other children AND told us he had fun! Yay for us!

Sunday, I absolutely did not go into public looking like a homeless lady with my mother, aunt and 2 youngest children because my mom said we would not be getting out anywhere. Well, guess what...we got out somewhere, actually 2 somewhere's...good thing I did not run into anyone I knew!

Enjoy your week and go check out MckMama's blog for more wonderful Not me's!

Out of the mouths of babes...

While getting ready for bed the other night...

Me to 6 month old Tutti-Frutti (who has not been sleeping well at night): Could we please sleep all night tonight? Please...



Boog: NOOO! I don't want to sleep all night!



Me: But you do sleep all night everynight. Tutti-Frutti wakes mommy up and mommy is tired.



Boog: He wakes me up too and I haf-ta stretch...



Me: Well, if he wakes you up anyway, why don't you just feed him so mommy can get some sleep?



Boog: I caaan't!



Me: Why caaan't you?



Boog: 'Cuz I only got man boobs!



...and that was the end of it...

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Another faithful night in bed...waiting on daddy to come back down.



Boog: Mommy, I need a break...



Me: Well, take a break.



Boog: 'cuz I tiiiired. (while trying to pull cover up with dog laying on top of them) Mommy, this really don't work.



Me: Well, wait just a second and Daddy will come help you.



Boog: Ok, 'cuz Daddy is the strongest?



Me: Yes, cuz Daddy is the strongest!

Happy Six Month

and a day... In your short time with us, we have discovered that we have way more love in our hearts than we could have ever imagined. We never doubted the fact we could love another child, but probably never imagined just how great it would be having another one to love. You are such a sweet blessing in our lives, now I cannot imagine that we ever lived without you. You are the sweetest most loving baby. You have quite the personality already. You love your big brothers and sister, and they love you. They cannot keep their hands off of you. You have recently discovered the poor helpless dog, I am afriad he might not have such loving feelings toward you...yet. You are our precious happy baby. You love your mommy and daddy too. You light up the room with smiles when we walk in.

I cannot belive that you have only been with us six months, it seems like a life time.

Your expressions bring such life and joy to our already happy home.

You are growing up so fast...

You love to laugh and smile...

but you can be so serious too.

You love to put everything in your mouth.

I think you are going to be a serious thinker...

You have recently discovered your feet and they are a source of entertainment for you.

Your hands are fun to chew on too, along with anyone else's you can get to.

We are truly blessed to have you as our precious baby son. We love you more than you will ever know. You have come so far...our beautiful little man.

Weekly Wednesday

We are having a knee-slappin' good time today!