Late night thoughts

Well for anybody out there that thought I was going to be a regular blogger again...you were so wrong. What were you thinking? I don't have time for this-still. But it's late and I can't sleep so I thought I'd post about random things I've been thinking about or am thinking about now. Like the fact that I have no boobs anymore. My milk is gone leaving my boobs deflated bags of skin. Usually I'm still breastfeeding or pregnant again at this point, but since we are actually waiting a little longer for the next child I get to experience saggy boobs. Super. What else is on my mind...hum...The Twlight series baby!!! 5 more days until Breaking Dawn. I hope Mrs. Meyer can find some way to kill off Edward, have Bella end up with Jacob, and still have everyone love it. That is my hope, but I'm sure it won't happen. Sorry ladies, but Edward just isn't good enough for me. I want Bella to end up with someone she can actually have a FAMILY and NORMAL life with. But that's just me I'm sure. My friends and I are actually going to be there at midnight to buy the book wearing T-shirts with girly Twlight fan crap on them-just to be stupid. Any ideas for what my "I love Jacob" shirt should say? Jorie is doing things. She can say "please", "that" while pointing, and understands a few commands like "get me a diaper you stinky kid." When we are all wrestling on the floor Jorie will come over and throw herself on the pile screaming. It's fun. Cora is starting to get really good with her and actually likes doing things with her for me. Jorie loves her big sister now. Well...That's about all I have left for tonight. Pathetic isn't it. I haven't blogged in over 2 weeks and I can think of nothing else. Now you all understand why I don't blog anymore. Just know that life is good, and corn grows really fast in Nebraska.

When we sat down to read scriptures tonight AJ wouldn't let us start until he found just the right page in his Book of Mormon. When he was ready, he just started reading, "And it came to pass that the Lord commanded me, and behold I Nephi. And he said unto me." Then he had to turn the page and start over...5 times. As parents we were beaming with pride. We bought AJ a plastic lawn mower so he can mow the yard with dad. This time he got a little too close to dad, and got a little too frustrated. Watch...

Quote of the day Friday: Cora

Friday is sugar cereal day, so when Mark saw Cora eating regular Cheerios for breakfast he asked her, "Is that what you eat for breakfast every Friday morning?" Cora looked at her cereal and then looked at the ground and said, "Today's Friday? Damn." Mark's theory is that if we just don't make a big deal out of these things they say, then they will just stop saying them. I'm not sure why it's always Mark who hears all these bad things the kids say...Further more, I'm not sure where the kids hear the things they say!! Cora wanted to record a message for Jaxynn today So this one's for you Jax!!

Monday morning Garret told me he had such a silly dream. When I asked him what it was about he told me that angels were all around him just staring at him not moving or anything. He just thought it was so silly...I thought it was pretty special because he NEVER seems to remember his dreams. Speaking of dreams...Garret loves playing Mario party on Nintendo 64, and he says it is his dream is that Yoshi will win once instead of Princess Peach, and this ALMOST happened today, but AJ turned the power off. Garret was devastated and said that his dream was ruined!!

I've finally got Jorie off the boob! Hurray for me! Now she just walks around screaming for food, and she thinks she has to scream for anything else she wants, AND she thinks she can have whatever it is she wants. Thus, she screams all the time these days. It's great. We love her!

And today is my birthday. The big 29...which means 30 next year. Oh joy. Can't wait. The next video is what happens to me when my children wake me up with way too much excitement and expect me to share their same enthusiasm for my birthday. I tried really hard...a little too hard if you ask me. Nobody should ever try to dance to the happy birthday song while half asleep. And that video won't upload so you all are missing out on my birthday dance!! So sorry...

Our summer so far has had some fun like going to the zoo

Don't you just love it when parents let their kids do whatever they want in public places?

The zoo here is amazing with many indoor exhibits so that even in summer you can enjoy it! I've never seen so many different types of animals at a zoo. We had to go back twice to even see anything. They have a butterfly exhibit right now that is so neat. The butterflies fly all over the place as you walk through. The kids just stood there with their arms outstretched hoping a butterfly would land on them. One landed on Cora and she was just thrilled. We went to a fire hydrant party the other day. The fire department came and hooked up this attachment to the hydrant that shot water all over the place.

I forgot to bring anything to cover AJ's cast so he got it really wet...so I took it off because I was sick of dealing with a cast during the summer. He seems fine. We go to the doctor next week for an x-ray, and they can tell me then if I've ruined my kids wrist by removing his cast prematurely. I hope not.

Briefly...

4th of July in a state where fireworks are legal...Pure insanity. The videos below represent the scene for over 2 hours!

At the end of this next video you can hear the 5-8 year-olds arguing about where to throw the fireworks when they are lit. It's ok to let the kiddies light the "not-so-big" fireworks in NE... I swear people here must spend more on the 4th of July than Christmas.

This is what the fireworks table looked like after 2 hours!!!

And for the front yard finale we have... The Pounding Force!!



I couldn't breath the next morning when I woke up because my lungs were so full of that "after-a-firework-explodes" smoke. Probably took at least 2 weeks off the time I have to live.

AJ shared a yogurt covered pretzel with Jorie without asking us first...


While waiting for siblings to be done with gymnastics we had some fun with cones. AJ ran around the gym chanting "I am a temple. I am a temple."


Purple does look good on her don't you think?


Cora is really getting into cooking this last week. We checked out a book from the library that teaches kids to cook and she has made beef stew, cookies, eggs for lunch a few times, and chocolate bread. The other day she wanted to make lunch again, but we didn't have the ingredients for anything in her book. So she said, "I'll let somebody else make ME lunch for once." For once...I love it! 8 years I've been feeding this child lunch, and she makes eggs twice...She thinks she's somethin' else that girl. Anyways...that's some fun we're having here...Miss all you people out there that miss us! If you don't miss us we probably don't miss you. I'm just sayin' is all...
Oh and guess what concert I'm going to see July 22 at the Qwest Center in Omaha...!!!!!???

A Fractured Arm That Isn't and Fireflys

Happy Birthday to Jorie on the 21st! It's sad after the first child how little I have done for the others on their first few birthdays. Garret woke up on Jorie's B'day expecting balloons and streamers that were not there. I guess a 5-year-old wouldn't understand Jorie is only 1 and has no clue it's her birthday, and that his Mom is going to get away with not having birthday parties as long as she can...We did sing to her and got a cake. She just played in it

Until

That's enough of that. She really didn't know what to make of the whole cake thing. We got her a forward facing car seat that she just loves. Every time we look back at her she just gives us the biggest smile. Here is a singing video for anyone who wants to hear Happy Birthday being sung to my baby:

I don't know how many times I've thought over the last year how happy I am that she's a girl, and not a boy like they first told me she was. I'm just more comfortable with boys for some reason, and another girl really made me nervous. She is such a tiny thing, but so strong willed and almost as intense as AJ. Sometimes she just looks at situations around her as though she is trying so hard to understand everything, and has eyes that seem to see right through you. There is a certain smile of hers that is reserved for when she knows she has done something wrong and you say her name. I am scared. She is a joy to her sister and brothers, who just love her so much. Happy 1st Birthday Angel! We love you!

Last Thursday, Cora told me about how she wished she could break her arm. I told her how lucky we are that no one in our family has ever broken anything, and that instead of wishing for bad things to happen to her, she focus on being thankful she has such a strong body. Then, last Friday:

Yes, that is our son lying on a hospital bed with a supposed fractured wrist. The doctor since then has told us he can't seem to find anything wrong on the latest x-rays, but AJ still has a cast on for the next 3 weeks. AJ tried to do a trick on the tramp and it didn't work out so well. Mark took him to the emergency room on Friday night, and, of course, I ran out the door after him with the camera so he could take pictures for the blog. Almost every picture Mark took, AJ was doing a karate kick or punch with his good arm. Nothing slows this kid down except sleep!

In our backyard are many mating fireflys, whose butts light up every night around 9pm. Last night we got some video of the kid's and their fascination with these cool little bugs. Mark is just as excited about them. It's fun. You can hear Air Force One (one of the planes are stationed here) in the background, and we often see it up in the air with pilots practicing special flying things. It's pretty cool to see.



And hey!! There's our backyard!
The other night while I was tucking Cora into bed, she told me she left me a HINT for someplace she wanted to go on the computer. I walk into the office to find this SONG taped to the computer:


(I don't wanna wait, wait, wait. It's bader then pait, pait, pait. I wanna go to the zoo, zoo, zoo. So come on...Let's do, do, do. Do you want what I want? I bet you do oo oo. So come on let's go, go, go to the zoo!!! So come on man! Can we go to the zoo please with puppy dog face?)

I'm still trying to figure out where she wants to go...
I love that child, and I'm so glad she was born first. She is so resilient and has really done a great job of compensating for my lack of enthusiasm at times. I guess I need to start planning our trip to the zoo.