Childhood War Injuries

Here are some of our recent injuries you get from just being a kid:

Last week, Westley scraped the whole side of his body when he tried to do a back flip off the diving board after seeing Daddy do one. Mostly he just jumped backwards but not far enough. Needless to say, he didn't try another back flip.

Travis burned his hand today on my curling iron. I had just showered for the day (hadn't earlier, knowing I'd be in the pool in the early afternoon), and it was about 2:30 pm. We were going to take the kids to the mall to play and walk around, just to get out of the house. My curling iron was heating up so I could fix my hair, and I had put the gate up in our bedroom doorway to keep the kids out because of the hot curling iron. Travis climbed over the gate and went in the room when nobody was watching and the minute I heard him cry, I knew he had touched my curling iron. It happened to Westley at about the same age, only Westley's burn was worse, I think.

Travis and Caleb watching cartoons after a rough day. Corey took Travis to Urgent Care to make sure it wasn't a serious burn, and they wrapped his hand. About ten minutes after he got home, he was taking out the garbage, and Caleb got his foot caught between the screen door and the doorframe, which gave him a jagged little cut across his whole foot.

It was quite a day. Both the Caleb and Travis injuries happened today.

Howdy Y'all!

All the boys love to dress up. Here is Travis wearing Daddy's cowboy hat and Mommy's cowboy boots, both of which are now part of the costume box since becoming too tight for us to wear anymore.

Eliza at 7 Months

Eliza was seven months on July 6th, and these pictures were taken right around then. Since then, she's started crawling up on her hands and knees and she is really fast. She's even started pulling herself up on things.

Eliza is always smiling and happy. She has brought such joy into our lives.

Here I am playing with my little girl. She loves to crawl over to me when I'm on the floor and climb all over me, and she especially loves playing with my hair.

Here's our little chunk-a-boo on the first day that she sat up on her own. She was on the floor on her belly one moment and then when I looked at her again, she was sitting up, and she did it all on her own! This was on July 1st.

When You Have Kids...

...you realize that nothing of yours is personal anymore. I was just about to climb into bed one night, when I saw THIS sitting on the bed, courtesy of Travis, our little car-obsessed toddler:

Just For Fun

When Corey uploaded the most recent pictures from our camera, I found this whole file folder in there from before we went to Texas with some fun pictures that I had wanted to share.

This is Caitlin, Caleb, Toby and Westley playing Superheroes when we baby-sat the kids during Toby and Jenn's anniversary.

Here are the boys playing "school". Westley is the teacher, of course.

Here is Travis being Superman/Spider-man. He is dressed as Superman, but is slinging webs, like Spider-man.

Here is Travis slinging webs as Spider-man. Westley let him borrow the head to the Spider-man costume. Travis is always slinging webs (he even does the sound effects), and one of his favorite words is "webs", which is SO cute to hear him say!

Westley and Caleb are making snow angels--hence, the knit hats.

This is Westley and Caleb's museum, which they played for weeks after visiting the Museum of Natural History here in Mesa.

Westley and Caleb standing in front of some of their museum posters--signs they made showing patrons where to find each exhibit.

The Annoying Song

"Bad baby, bad baby, follow my patience..."

Anybody ever get a song stuck in your head, but you only know one line or one phrase? The above phrase is the current song stuck in my head; however, there is no other part to this particular song, as it is a song that Westley made up and woke up singing this morning. We asked him where it came from and he said, "My head made it up."

Too bad you can't hear the lovely tune that goes with it...

A Houseful of Sickness

Since we got back from Texas it seems that every child has been sick. We got back on Tuesday, on which day, Westley had a high fever. The next day, he got a sore throat and Caleb came down with a high fever. Then the next day, Caleb had a sore throat, and Eliza and Travis had the high fevers. By Friday, I was actually writing down the times I took Travis and Eliza's temperatures, how high they were, and how much of what dose I gave them, just in case it got worse and I had to take them to the doctor.

Today everyone seems fine, but Westley keeps whining about a sore throat still and Eliza is drooling and crabby. I think she's teething, but maybe her throat is sore too, that could cause drool.

All I can say is that having 4 sick kids is pretty miserable indeed!