She looks so sweet and innocent.... and then there are the boys. I think I might get to know the Elementary School Principal really well.

Nice slide...

Obviously it wasn't one of my resolutions this year to keep up the blog... but we have had a house full of sick kids (and grown-up kids) this week and I am BORED!! So, here's my everyone-stop-fighting-we-are-already-late-for-church-get-on-the-couch-and-smile-or-you-won't-get-your-snack pictures. :)

6 people with a stomach virus = lots of puke. The bad thing about it now is that the kids now think that everything IS puke. "Mom, why are we feeding Avery throw-up?" "Mom, your oatmeal looks like throw-up." (Taylor inspecting Cooper's puke bucket-) "Looks like he ate some raisins today, Mom." (Taylor throwing up with her head hanging out of the car window on our way home from school-) "That looked just like the chicken rings I had for lunch, Mom." ..... Anyone ready for dinner? :)

This one's for you, Cade

Taylor's blessing - 2003

Avery's blessing - 2009

My two beautiful girls!

Today at the park

Bubbles

cheeks

My new favorite picture!!

So we needed to take the kiddos somewhere, and I wasn't quite brave enough to battle the Texas temperatures, so we took the family to the Dallas Museum of Nature and Science. It was amazing! At some points it was more like a giant playground (playground/giant box of germs) which THRILLED the kids. (I believe the technical term for "giant box of germs" is "hands-on") Taylor was psyched about the dinosaur dig and the "real actual" paleontology lab, which I admit was awesome. And yes, real paleontologists look like you would imagine. (think more Woodstock and less Jurasic park) We had lots of fun- and as you can see in the last picture, Cade was no exception. :)

A few random more...

Yes, you would think that I would be posting mostly pics of the sweet new baby, but I haven't read the (quite large) instruction book for the new camera, and I don't know how the stupid thing hooks up to the computer yada yada yada. It's on my to do list!!

The kids love to play in boxes- can you believe he actually fell asleep in that thing?


This was Taylor and Lincoln's subtle way of telling me that I had turned the air conditioner down too low and I was the ONLY one who was still hot.

T has wanted to be a paleontologist for quite a while now, and it was so cute- we went to Dinosaur Valley and she took very good notes.

There it goes!....

Some summertime fun!

See any similarities? (I wish I were sleeping!)

First day home with the family!

Adams Family... party of six!

Sooooo..... yeah. It's been a while since I have updated the blog. Let's see..... yup- still going to blame the baby on this one! :) She is finally here (seven weeks old now!) and she is SUCH a great baby! She was a teeny 6lbs 12 oz and 18 1/2 in when she was born, but she is getting chubbier and chubbier by the day. Sometimes I think I can actually see her growing. Why do babies have to grow up so fast? The kids are amazing with her (I was worried there for a while...) and if anything I just have to make sure that they don't go all "Lenny" on her and squeeze and love her just a little too much. And yes- she is the last baby, and yes- I have every intention of spoiling her. What is it with the last baby?.... (love ya Becca!) Anyways, here's my shout-out to Andy- he told me that every day he checks the blog, and every day he dies a little bit inside because it's, well... we covered that already, right? Anyhow, I told him that the next night that I got a combined total of more than 6 hours of sleep I would post. But here's the bummer- nobody really cares what I have to say, you want the PICTURES! And I have tons! But either my computer is retarded or I am retarded because I can't get them to post! I'll keep trying, and Andy- this one's for you!!!

Kiddos

So- Link is two now, and WAY too big to still be in a crib, yet I don't have the energy/will power/heart to put my baby boy in a bed. He is such a great sleeper!! Why would I ever do that to myself? (ok- so it IS really all about me) But come on- I put him down when he's totally awake (bedtime and naptime) and he doesn't even cry! He sleeps througth the night, and in the morning do you think he lays in there and cries for me to come and get him? NO! He plays and talks to himself until my lazy bones ( I mean- my bright, sunshine morning face) gets around to going in his room. What am I going to do in 10 weeks when I need that crib for little baby girl?!?!?

My sweet, funny Cooper! Ok- so on Easter weekend we had an egg hunt (of course) and after the treats had all been found the kiddos went inside to open all of the eggs and check out all of their goods. Taylor opened all of the eggs, gathered her candy together and organized them into piles (don't know where she got that from...). Lincoln sat in his highchair and started just shoving things into his mouth as fast as he could- wrapper and all. And Cooper just sat at the table and watched. He didn't want to open his eggs. He knew there was candy inside of them, but he refused to open any of them. (and believe me, Cade and I both tried to help, and our help was not wanted!) And almost a month later, they are sitting nice and safe in a giant zip lock bag in the pantry, still unopened....

Taylor had "rock star day" at school about a week ago, and we had some fun with it! (hey- any day that's not Halloween that you can spray color in your hair, I'm all for!- except I think I was high like half of the morning after that.... I don't know, it's all a blurr....) :) So we went for it! It was totally fun, and she even got her picture in the paper! (don't worry Mom, I bought an extra copy for you!)

So the boys and I were eating lunch a few days ago - hot dogs and Cheetos (don't judge me!! ketchup counts as both a fruit and a vegetable!) and Link insisted on using a fork. Not fully understanding why, but wanting to save myself the battle I got up and got both boys a fork. I'm sure it was one of those moments that you "had to be there" to think it was funny, but they both started forking Cheetos, and each time they scored one and it made the crunch sound they would laugh so hard I thought for sure I was going to have to do the Heimlich on someone. It was hilarious!! Boys are funny!

Numbers...

Numbers are a funny thing. Lincoln turned 2 on Friday, and it's freaking me out! How is my baby boy two?! And it hasn't made me "baby hungry" or anything (let's put a pin in the small fact that I'm preggers), it' just doesn't seem possible! And how about the fact that I am trying to prepare myself for kid #4 in 6 years.... there's some crazy numbers. Or how about the fact that Cade and I will have been married for 10 years this September?! That's crazy to me! I won't even go into the numbers in my checking account or in the stack of bills on the counter, and those DEFINITELY make me crazy! How about the number of times Cooper gets out of bed at night? Or the number of times that I actually care enough to get out of bed and take him back? The number of diapers in my garbage can right now... the number of Easter eggs I stuffed this weekend... (or the number I stuffed into my mouth!)... the number of Build-A-Bears in Taylor's room... the number of things to do on my list... OR the number of snotty kisses I got today from Link, the number of smiles I got from T while she was coloring eggs for the Easter bunny, the number of people that I love, the number of long, dark eyelashes Coop has, the number of times I hear "nano" (the phrase for "I love you" from the kiddos), the number of times Coop gets out of bed at night and sprints to my side of the bed and touches my cheek so softly to wake me up. -- SEE?....numbers are a funny thing.

Wanna hear a CRAZY story?!?

So today Cade and I (and the boys, of course) are shopping in a kids clothing store, and we hear Cooper say, "My Chuck-E-Cheese money! My Chuck-E-Cheese money!" We don't pay too much attention to him because if he finds a penny on the ground it goes in his "Chuck-E-Cheese stash". Well I am of course busy searching the sale racks and trying to keep Link happy, and Cooper is a few feet from me not being too rowdy riffling through the clothes on the wall, and so I am not paying too much attention to his new-found money... that is until Cade (in his urgent tone) says, "Amy! Amy! Did Cooper get in your purse?!" And I'm thinking- who cares?! I have like a buck fifty in my wallet! If he wants it, let him have it! And I turn around, and Cooper is double-fisting wads of bills! And not just any bills- he found ELEVEN, ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR BILLS!!!! That's right!! $1100!!! And he is standing there with a big grin on his face yelling, "Chuck-E-Cheese! Chuck-E-Cheese!" (You can imagine the words coming out of Cade's and my mouth.) So we are all standing there FREAKING out (Cooper because we took his money, Lincoln because I wasn't paying attention to him anymore, Cade because he thinks that we are on some kind of hidden camera show,and me because, well- ELEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS! and the sales clerk because we were the only ones in the store and we were making quite a scene). So we called mall security and the cops and filled out statements yada yada yada and gave Cooper the buck fifty (which was in mostly change, so he was even more excited) and called it a day. But.... ELEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS! Seriously?!? Now that's a crazy story!!

That's right! More pics!

 
 
 
 

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