Minutes before the wakeup

I have only a couple of minutes left before my house erupts with children waking up from nap time. Before the clean house becomes messy. We have about an hour of silence these days. I usually tidy up, listen to music, read a couple of blogs. Today I got caught up in pulling out clover leaf weeds out of my grass. Actually quite relaxing :)

We had a wonderful time visiting my older sister over the weekend, pictures and a post to come later.



My little nephew and my younger sister joined me and the kids for the long drive. It was fun and the kids did excellent and yes we LOVE portable dvd players. We didn't use it to often, the kids did listen to books on tap...ahheemmm...one particular book was played about a million time "the three little wolves and the big bad pig". I had intended on listening to it with them but my sister and I kept talking. Yep, we talked the whole 10 hours there and the whole 10 hours back. I love family! I did miss Drew however, it was a bit of a reminder of how much help he is with the kids. But it was a nice break from home and the kids played with their cousins and the sisters chatted, sipped wine and we all did our mom thing together.



My Mom watched the kids for me the other week and took some pictures. These two have been running around outside and digging in gardens for buried treasure. I fear Kaylin has a hatred of all things that do with hair looking nice, she is constantly pulling out the elastics and pins....



I came home from grocery shopping to hear this story. Told by Drew in my words...."I was in the house and the kids were playing, I heard them singing and running and looked out the window. Kaylin was swinging a mouse by its tail and Jacob was singing.....we found a chumpmunk....we found a chumpmunk. I ran outside threw it in the bush and raced her inside. Washed her hands and even had her rinse her mouth with listerine....only to look outside and see Jacob. Who had rescued the mouse from the bush and was swinging it by its tail "chumpmunk....chumpmunk....I have a chumpmunk.."

I came in and was informed by a very serious little girl and little boy that "Mommy....half sick mouses are full of GERMS....and they're not really chumpmunks..."

Needless to say that I was thankful I was on grocery duty and Drew was on kid duty.

On different news, my Mom took some updated family pictures. Kaylin was paying attention....



and it took more shots, but we finally got one in which, Drews eyes are open, Kaylin is smiling, Jacob is not screaming and I'm looking in the right direction. We'll have to work on Maddie.



Until next time!