Ducks

We were out walking around yesterday and saw three ducks, two males and a female. It seemed so odd because we live in a townhouse complex with no lakes or ponds. We watched them waddle around for a bit and saw a couple people feeding them bread too. Then one of my neighbors (who has been here over 15 years) said that these same ducks come back every year and live at the pool for the winter. I'm actually going to take the kids out again today just to find them and maybe feed them ourselves. Funny the things that excite you when you have kiddos :o)

Mondays

My least favorite day of the week. I woke up knowing I had a TON of work to do around the house. I have about 5-6 loads of laundry that seemed to accumulate over the weekend. My floors are really needing some attention which means I need to sweep, mop and vacuum like a mad woman. All of this wouldn't be so bad, but I have to try to squeeze it all in between refereeing wrestling and boxing matches between Melanie and Brandon. It's about 9:30am and Melanie has already been in time-out twice for hitting Brandon...ARG! But atleast I've sorted and started the laundry and Brooklyn is down for her morning nap. I think that when she wakes up we'll walk over to blockbuster to return some videos and stop for some much needed caffeine at Starbucks on the way home :o)

Slings

After way too much fighting one night I decided that I was going to get the kids their own slings. The last two nights in a row they've both wanted to carry their stuffed animals around in the sling I have for Brooklyn. It's so cute...until they start wrestling and fighting over it. So I started looking around for doll slings. Some were so cute, but they were $20 and that was too much since I was going to buy two. Plus some of the fabric choices were'nt that cute on the cheapy ones. So I decided to try and make one. We went to the fabric store and got flame material for Brando and pink fuzzy flannel for Melanie. They were both so excited to get home and make them. Of course I couldn't find good rings, but ended up with some silver ones that opened. They worked since dolls don't weigh much. The slings are'nt super fancy, but I like them. It ended up costing $7 each to make them, so I was proud of myself :o) Here's Brandon slingin' Melanie's kitty...no pic of Melanie because she does'nt want to wear hers now...ARG...glad I didn't pay a lot for them.

Random blogging

Well I think the sickies finally left our house...dare I even say that. Brandon had a short bout with the flu while he was still sick with a cold, but it only lasted one night...thank God! Brian has been off work all week since we got some rain, so it's been a nice change around here. We went to Disneyland with his mom and got Melanie a pass since she's 3 now. We weren't planning on renewing our passes, but now I think we will. We have reward dollars on our disney credit card that give us disney bucks, so we use those to get our passes. Otherwise I don't think we would go...it's almost $50 just for one to get in...YIKES! It should be fun going this year though. Brian goes back on monday, so I'm trying to enjoy the weekend and prepare myself. Having three young kiddos is so draining!! We went out to dinner last night and had Brian's parents watch the kids for a few hours. It was a nice break because they fell asleep on the way home and we had a nice evening without fighting, screaming, whining and the usual bedtime responsibilities! We have so many gift cards for restaurants, movies, movie rentals, shopping, etc...so it was nice to actually use one of them.

We don't have any plans this weekend, aside from trying to get to church. I think it's been a month since we last went. It's so hard because Brandon won't stay in children's church and he won't sit still in big church. I feel like it's important for our family to make church a priority weekly as the kids are growing up, but I hate sitting in the nursery with him and now the baby too. I like that Brian can sit in church, but I miss being in there. I'm not really going to a Bible study right now either, so I really feel the need for the fellowship and teaching more so then in the past. Maybe Brian and I will start trading and hopefully Brandon will eventually start enjoying church. Melanie LOVES it so atleast we have one easy child on sunday mornings. WOW I didn't intend on blabbing on and on for so long, I guess I had more to blog about then I thought ;o)