My Evil Plan

So here's the thing. I have a picky eater. It is my #3, my only girl, my sweet little princess...Tara. I've been noticing lately though, that #3 will eat off Gaber's plate, even if its something that I have previously tried to feed her and she has predetermined that she does not like it PERIOD. Today at lunch Gaber was eating some chicken, she walks up to him and says her, "ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-AHHH!" (mouth open wide like a little bird). So I take a piece of Gaber's chicken and tear off a small bite, and WALAAA, she eats it! Not only does she eat it, she DOES like it AND she eats the whole piece. (little stinker) So, I tell Gaber, "I have an EVIL plan. Would you like to be a part of it?" (saying all evil-ish). Gaber gets a big smile. I explain to him how #3 likes to eat what he is eating so tomorrow we will put her chicken on his plate and then let her "share" with him. After I finish telling Gaber my evil plan I did my evil laugh....mwuh-ha-ha-haaaaa as I tap my fingers together. Gabers is all giggles at this point and joins in with my EVIL laugh...mwuh-ha-ha-haaaaaaa! :D
So, that is my EVIL plan! I will let you know if it works! Mwuh-ha-ha-ha-HAAAAA!

Thursday

Jeff came home yesterday, but boy was he tired out. He had only been getting 4 hours a sleep at night all week. He said he had a lot of fun out there and I guess his team finished faster than any team ever has. So, Yay! :) He is graduating this morning, then off to tear down their building and clean up and then I guess he's coming home. Last night we did a little birthday celebration for him. We ordered pizza and I made him an ice cream cake. Yep, I made it. :) I used ice cream sandwiches and chocolate ice cream with girl scout thin mints cookies in it. No whip cream in this cake b/c Jeff doesn't like it. The cake wasn't very pretty but it tasted pretty good. :) Then Jeff and Josiah played Call of Duty together, Jeff told him when he turned 8 he could play. And then the whole family played Mario Party on the Wii. So it was a fun night. I'm glad Jeff is home. Not looking forward to any future deployments. I hate it when he's gone a long time.
The kids are all doing good. Josiah did great on all his tests last week. Gaber has been doing very well in school. No complaining about doing it any more which makes my day so much easier. I think he actually enjoys it now. He can read most 3 letter words, only if its a short vowel sound though. :) Tara yesterday found her eye lashes. I saw her messing with her eye so I thought she had something in it. After looking in her eye and not seeing anything and then noticing that she was pulling on her eyelashes, I figured it out. Then she proceeded to pull on my eyelashes too. I told her what they were and so the rest of the day she would say, "ssshhsss". So it seemed she was trying to say it.
Its time for lunch. Better go get busy before the Tar-Bear gets too hungry and starts fussin'.

#28

Today is Jeff's birthday! #28...he's an old geezer now! :) I am about 5 1/2 months older than Jeff, so whenever I turn that one age older he calls me an old geezer until he catches up with me. So now that he's 28 I won't hear about me being old and being a geezer and all that for the next 6 months until I turn 29.
No birthday cake or presents today for Jeff though. He's away this whole week in training. I'm sure he's having fun though, even w/out the cake. :) He is training on how to start a base in a foreign country and how to defend it and to get communications set up. I guess they will be attacked and all that stuff and then hopefully they will be successful in getting their tasks done. If so, he will graduate on Friday. :)
Jeff is a great dad and husband. He loves his boys and his girl. Loves to play with Siah and Gaber. He teaches them everything from playing football, riding bikes, skating, and then the more important stuff...he teaches them about God. He involves them is just about everything he does, at home and church. Jeff loves his baby girl. I think his favorite thing is her big hugs she gives him. He does so much with her and has since she was a newborn. He holds her whenever he can and takes care of her whenever he can. Jeff is a great husband. He works so hard which allows me to stay home with our children. Still to this day he can make me laugh so easily. He is a loving, faithful, kind man. I could go on and on. ;)
Happy Birthday Jeff! I love you!

#8!!!

Today is Josiah's 8th birthday! I really can't believe it's already been 8 years since I had my little man. The time really does go by fast. He has been such a blessing to our lives and I'm so thankful for the 8 years I've had him and pray we have the rest of our lives with him. :)
Josiah was my hardest labor. The doctor induced me on March 21st at 6am. By noon nothing had happened. The doctor decided to break my water to get things going. The only thing that did was bring on strong labor pains but barely any progress. By 7pm that night I was still barely a 2 and begging for pain medication. My pains were as strong at this point as they were with my other 2 babies at the end right before you push. The doctor finally let me have an epidural; he wouldn't all day because he said it could stop labor. So finally, after a hard day of labor and no progress I got my medication. With in minutes I was relieved. After everyone left, except one nurse, she told me she was going to stretch me to a 5 to get me going. So that she did. I've never heard of this before, so if anyone else has, let me know! Well, that worked. By midnight I was fully dilated and ready to push. After one hour and 9 minutes of pushing I finally gave birth to Josiah, Jeff and my first son. A 7 pound 10 ounce baby boy! Jeff wasn't there for our first baby being born which made it very hard for me but we soon had daddy home with us and started our lives together.
Now here we are in Georgia and Josiah has turned 8. For his party this year he wanted to go skating. Saturday night we took him skating with all his classmates and boy did he have fun! It was his first time to skate so he fell about 20 times, he said. :) I think it may have been more! Tonight I told him he could pick where we eat for dinner. He thought for a few seconds and then yelled out McDonalds!
Here are a few of his favorites...
-favorite cartoon: Tom and Jerry
-favorite food: tacos
-favorite toy: monster trucks
-favorite game: Uno
-favorite outdoor activity: play with friends
-favorite drink: Sunkist
-favorite restaurant: Taco Bell
-favorite movie: Transformers
-favorite food mom makes: taco rice

Happy Birthday Josiah!

No More Passy

Jeff and I have been talking about taking Tara's passy (pacifier :) away for a while now. I kept postponing it for various reasons; moving and then the possibility of moving again. Well, she is now 15 months old and still sucking on that thing. Every day Jeff would bring it up. "We need to take it away. She doesn't need it." I did agree with him but I was very reluctant. She sleeps so good with it...why ruin a good thing? I did a few trial runs earlier this week. I gave in every time to her. I could tell Jeff was getting a little annoyed with me for giving it to her but I just really wanted her to sleep...awful I know. ;) Two nights ago Jeff put her to bed with out it and to my surprise she went right to sleep! What a little stinker! Every time I had tried she would put up a big fuss, but when daddy does it she goes right to sleep. After she did that I decided she was done. The next day I put her down for her nap and she slept! But last night we put her down and she cried for about an hour. I didn't give in that time...mainly because the passy has been thrown away and the other one is behind the changing table which is way too heavy for me to move. So that's it. All done. My baby is growing up. *sniff* I am happy to be done with it though. No more worrying about grabbing it before we leave and no more searching for it if it gets lost behind the crib. Nice. :) No more passy. Now, how to get Gaber off the thumb. ??? Can't throw that away.

I Love Those Kind of Days

It has been one of those days where you feel so blessed. It didn't start that way actually, I overslept and so I had to rush around this morning to get Josiah to school on time. But after that everything has gone great. Tara had a doctor's appointment this morning, which actually wasn't that great but I at least got out of there in a decent amount of time. Then we ran to walmart and picked up the bread and milk and always those few extra things which were not on the list. Got home, started feeding Tara when Jeff walks in for lunch. I love it when he comes home for lunch. It just breaks up my day and plus I get a little help with Tara. Before he leaves he mentions that we will be going out to eat with some friends tonight so that is one less thing I have to do today. After lunch is over and cleaned up I lay Tara down for a nap and then remember I can call my mom because today is her day off. So I call and we chat, which we are great at doing! lol. Then out of the blue, Jeff walks in! He is ALREADY OFF!!! Wooohooo! So I get off the phone with my mom and decide to take Chloe on a walk since Jeff is home to watch the kids. Oh, and just to let you know it is around 70 degrees today, blue skies, light breeze. Uh huh! I take Chloe on a walking trail near our house which I hadn't been on yet. The birds were singing, the squirrels were out playing and I was just feeling so blessed at that point. Chloe and I walked around for a while, checking out other people's homes...I'm a very curious person...gotta see how others are living around me. :) We get home in time for me to go pick Siah up from school. Now I'm home, blogging and enjoying the rest of the afternoon and soon we'll be out the door for supper.
These kind of days don't happen very often, so I just had to blog about it and also thank God for my blessed day! :) Hope your all's was great too!

Nothingness

So not much has happened this week. I've been so tired all week. Its been way to hard to pull myself out of bed at 7am...oh I know, 7am is not early but it is for me. A couple mornings ago my alarm was going off and I was trying to turn it off when I realized I was hitting Jeff's forehead! Finally one of us got the alarm off and we dozed for a couple minutes longer when I realized what I had done! I asked him if he remembered me hitting him and he said yes and so then I told him what I was doing and we both just started laughing!
This week has been nice b/c Jeff has been getting home on time. What a nice change that is! So with him being home for supper I've tried out a new recipe, BBQ Cheesy Chicken aka Chili's Monterey Chicken. It was pretty good, Jeff said it was a keeper.
Tonight we are having our movie/game night with the kids. I think we are watching UP and playing Old Maid. :) We will also order pizza, have soda and I'm making some cookies this afternoon for the fun. I also bought some popcorn, the boys and Jeff love popcorn!
Saturday we will be taking the teens out bowling and then we will eat somewhere. I don't think that part is planned yet. I better ask Jeff! Jeff will be working at the church all day Saturday as well for the men's work day. With all of that going on our weekend will go by way to fast.
I'm so ready for summer. The warm days, pool days, sleeping in days, park days, bubble days. :) I thought I missed winter after living on an island for 6 years, but I've decided I don't miss it after all. I can't wait to wear flip flops and summer clothes every day!