Well we almost made it without anymore major tragedies. Yesterday Char was coughing and just couldn't catch her breath. I gave her a breathing treatment and that only seamed to help for a few mins. So I called the dr, took her in and she has freakin bronchitis. Just in time for Easter. :) Isn't that wonderful. Well, I talked to David this morning right before he went in to school. He has a few things left to do at school today and he thinks he will be on the road around 4pm. He is six hours away so that will put him back in St. Louis around 10 or 11 depending on Friday night traffic. Willie has been here with us this week. It has had it's moments but for the most part he has been a huge help. He sia dwe were going to spend the day cleaning the house today. Well, all of the kids are home from school today becasue it is Good Friday and it is raining. I hate to point out the obvious but what are we supposed to do with all of the kids while he and I are supposed to be cleaning? I am sure they don't want to spend the day cleaning too. Josie has a playdate today so at least she will get to go do that. Well, sorry I don't have any new pictures. Maybe next time. :) Off to find my kids some rubber boots so they can play outside. :)

Easter egg coloring and more...

Well, so after the easter egg hunt, and all he fell asleep in the Ergo. I layed him down and he didn't move. He was out! They all had a lot of fun. We did about 10 dozen.

Look what my sisters have taught me to do. :)

Check out my Elmo underooz. :)

Now they are teaching me to do this next. :)

pics from March

The top ones are from the bagpipe instilation dinner from last weekend.
So this pic here is the table set for the piper that no longer gets to be with us.

This pic os most of the band. There are a few pipers that didn't get to come. David being one of them. Billy is the drummer at the end.

Abi video taped it for Uncle Billy. She did a great job.

Abi knighted her sister.

Now Abi wants to take jousting lessons. Yah, right!











This is what happens when you go to bed with silly putty in your hand. You also have to throw away your pajama top becasue silly putty does not come out of clothes. It does however come off of your skin with cold pressed virgin coconut oil.

This is the rest of the cereal pics from Bubba learning to eat cereal with milk with a spoon. Oh how difficult the easy things are to learn. The things we take for granite... eatting with a spoon. Well, he is only 17 months. I'm not sure when this skill gets perfected but were still working on it. :)

Nothing goes better with cereal and milk... :)

day 32 of Survivor Bomb School

Well, if this was really survivor i think i would be winning the million dollars now. I have been through 5 kids with fevers for 10 days, head lice over spring break and 500 loads of laundry washed, and about 499 lasft to fold and put away before David gets home next Friday!!!! Yes, you heard that right. Next Friday my hubby will graduate from bomb school as a certified bomb technician. One of my girl friends said, wow, that sound like a difficult job. I bet it pays good. Well, NO! it's giant sounding name pays squat thankyou very much. I say this with much love and devotion. :)lol I would like for it to mean that we are making a ton more so that we could move into a large farm house and let the kids run around outside and dig in the dirt and pick th flowers. Here at home we share a yard with Uncle Billy who loves his garden and gets mad at the kids for digging holes in the yard and at the dogs for doing the same thing. Oh well... He'll get over it. I will have David back soon and he will stand up for me when Uncle Billy gets mad at the kids. Wait until he sees the trampoline we want to get the kids for Easter! HAHA! He's going to love that eye sore. :) well, I should be cleaning the kitchen floor right now while the twins are at preschool. so i gotta go. I will try to post some pics from the bagpipe instillation dinner later. :)

it's only wednesday...

Well, it's only Wed and I wish it ws aleady Friday. David is going to try to come home this weekend if he doesn't end up having togoto school on Saturday. They have practical learning things that they are doing outside and if it is raining thay can't do it. If they can't do it, then they will make him go in on Saturday to make up what he missed. Not just David but the whole group will have class on Saturday. I like these quiet school day morning periods where Abi has already gotten on the bus and no one else is awake yet. I'm sure I could find something a little more productive to be doing than this but it is just nice to clear my head before the day. Know what I mean? So, yesterday while the twins were in preschool I went to Target and got these really cool stackable shelves that cost a small fortune but are making my laundry room very organized and look really freakin cool. If I get a chance to finish sticking them together I will take a finished pic and let you see what they look like. They are Itso boxes. Now I am insearch of a babysitter so that I can go out Friday night with a friend of mine. I really feel like I need to go sit somwhere and unwind. Go and sit and socialize with girls, have a few coctails??? You kno what I mean? I offered my cousin and his girlfriend 10 bucks an hour. I am also looking forward to getting togo to church this weekend. I haven't gotten to go for the last few weeks because I either had sick kids or kids with Headlice. Yes, I said headlice. For those of you who didn't know yet, Abi had head lice last week over spring break. That was why I didn't post what we did for spring break. She had them pretty bad and it took me three tries to get rid of them. Those little buggers just wouldn't die. We were finaly lice free on Saturday morning but I didn't want to take any chances so she stayed home. The older two did get to go to my Mom's Saturday night after we knew we were lice free so that I could finish getting my house clean. Then my little brother Will came over to help me move some things around so I could do some real good spring cleaning. My house itsn't finished getting put back together yet either. Steff, my brother's girlfriend is supposed to come over today to help me put thing back to normal. I did mention on Facebook that I took 21 loads to the laundry mat last week. That was why. Now I have about 15 loads to still put away. I just put them all in baby david's room to get them out of the way. No one sleeps in there anyway. Well, only 17 days left. Maybe it will be smoother. I didn't read my horoscope for the day yet. :) I also didn't get to go to the park yesterday. I really need to though. Just as long as no one brings home any cooties!!!! PLease enough is enough. Oh, I didn't mention what Murrah did Monday night. I had a gallon ziplock bag sitting on my stove with mostaccoli in it that i had made sunday night but no one ate it yet. So i was going to feed it to them on Monday night because I know I would have Arthur to feed too then. So I get out the mostaccoli, set it on the stove, and go outside to get all of the kids. when i came back in there was an empty ziplock on the living room floor. He spent the rest of the night with diareah, a pukin. Searves him right. Since no one else had even gotten to eat it yet. He's better now though. i have another story te tell but bubba has woken up and i can't nac with him he's just big.

My Horoscope for today

(10/24-11/22) Scorpio
You've got far more going on today than anyone close can realize -- and your odder talents can help you save the day! It's a good time for you to step up to show the world what you can do.

Well, I don't know about today yet because it is only 7am but yesterday I had a nervous breakdown and I got on some meds. They are working very nicely and I feel a little more normal today. I am glad it is Tuesday and I have a nice week ahead of me. I don't realy know what my "odder talents"are so not sure what to do there but I do know that it is time for me to step up and show myself I can do this. Abihas left on the bus already and Arthur will be here soon so that he and Josie can catch the bus together. Baby David is still asleep for now. Not sure how much longer that is going to last. It seems he would sleep in until 8am if I was laying down beside him but durring the week I have toget up at 6 for Abi to help her get out of the house. I haven't taken to many pics since David has been gone but I will see what I might have to share. I know it is going to be rainy today but I could realy use a morning at the park to help clear my head. So of these pics, That is Cara wearing her hat with her swimsuit on to eat her pancakes. I posted the same pics twice but I can't figure out how to get one off so they both stay. That is Abi and two of her puppies in bed with her. Also her sibling pestering her to get out of bed. It was a weekend day. They don't all get up with her during the week. Then there's the ones of Bubba. He was eating a bowl of cereal. He can't EAT cereal, he only can wear it. That's all for now, I want to get a shower before baby david gets up if we ever plan to get to the park today before preschool.

happy st. patty's day!!

Well, sorry I don't have any cute pics to post. I know I am far behind. All the kids had on realy cute shirts for today too. Ab and Jo are on spring break this week but Char and Cara have school Tues and Wed. So I got a little shopping done today plus I had to go to a new Insurance place to get new Home owners Ins. I didn't like what I have know. I have been using State Farm and I didn't much care for them. It is a long story and I am trying to get this out before bubba wakes up again and I have to go to bed for good then. I already have the dishwasher running and my coffee set for tomorrow so I am ready for bed. I have just been having a difficult time falling asleep the last few nights. Sorry if there are mistakes, I am going to fast. When I get going ti gets hard to stop. I fi stop I will forget someting I wanted to say. I really want to do something with the kids tomorrow but it looks like it is going to rain. Maybe we will just take the dogs for a walk on the trail. We live very close to Gran'ts Trail. I wonder if they have the trail closed at Gravois because of the construction. We are getting a new bridge at Grant's road and gravois. One of my mother's made a comment to me today that really hit me and i just haven't been able to let it go. She told my little brother that my nephew was to much for me to have right now with David gone and that even my own kids were to much for me to handle. That really freaking hurt becasue I have been doi9ng this by myslef for the last 17 days, but whose counting, except for a few nights when one of my moms have come over to help me with homework, bath-time and bed time. I still do most of the work even when they are here becasue htye are not aware of the eveniong schedule that I keep so that I can get everyone into bed by eight pm. even whay the kids are on spring break i am getting them into bed by8. I let them sit and read for a little while longer than a school night but childrn need consistancy and I think i am doing a pretty damn good job all by mysef.. Thank you very much. I amsl had sick kids for 10 straight days in a row of fever and sore throats. I made it though. When I asked them for help before he left it was so that I could get maybe one night a week to go out fo the house without a kid. Everywhere I go I hacve five kids with me. I just wanted to go somewhere by myslef for a few hours to come back refreshed and be a better mom becasue of it. I am not asking for any simpathy here. So don't read any whyining into this. I am simply stating that all I was asking for was 2 hours on and friday or saturday to be by myself. I can't go out on a school night becasue my kids need to sty on schedule. UGH!!! Why am i said to not even be able to "HANDLE" my own kids, just becasue I needed a few hours to myself. My kids always come first in everything I do. Some people may not see it that way but it's true. And that's fine, I have not been asking for help from either of them anymore becasue of the comments made since David left that, why do i feel like I "need" help? They are your kids and you put yourself into this "sittuation" by yourself. Oh, here it comes again... noone did this to you Amy, you did this to yourself. :) WELLL!!!! Hah to you, becasue i love what I did to myslef, they are mine and thank you GOD for givingt each and everyone of them to me!!!! They are AWSOME and I am a better person for having them. Char and Cara are not easy and that is true but that's okay because, I learn tons from thm every day. And the comment, Abi would have been a great only child has got to stop becasue she is not an only child and she is also a better person for having such a big family. *nothing wrong with having only children* :) But i don't and I shouldn't be told that my daughter would have been better off if we hadn't given her a brother and 3 sisters. It really sucks that she didn't get to play volley ball with her school this year but when her daddy gets back she is going to get to do volley ball at the Y if she still wants to do it. Her Dad will be here to help me run her back and forth to practice and games. The season with school only lasted 6 weeks. It started two weeks ago and was practice from 7 to8pm on wed and thurs with games on friday and sat. That was just way to much to ask me to do this year. I did it last year while David was gone but I had another mom that helped with car pooling. We took turns. This year that girl was not doing it and I just didn't know any of the parents well enough. She is going to a new school this year from last and there are a ton more students. Buuba 's up gotta go

Not to terrible...

Well, today is day 12. It has not been terrible. I am ready for David to come home for a break. He says he is going to try to come home Friday after school which means he will get home around 12am and be here Saturday and then have to leave early Sunday morning. Josie is home sick from school today with a fever. She won't be going to school again tomorrow either. They need to be fever free for 24hours before they can go back to school. Tomorrow is their last day before spring break. Ab and Jo's spring break is different than Char and Cara's. They will still be going to preschool on Tues and Thursday next week. I have some pics and some video's i'd like to share. I will post the iceskating pics first. Then Abi and I made some video's of her with her instruments.