The wonder of bubbles

I finally found some larger bubble wands for the kids so they could get more for their efforts and it has been the best thing. They all enjoy this so much and we get alot of bubbles blowing around! Bubbles are such an easy and magical form of entertainment...for kids of all ages. I know I enjoy it just as much as they do. It gives me a chance to spend time with all of them in a way that involves us all, playing, working, andinteracting with each other. I find that it's quite difficult at times to find activities that are suitable for me to get that result. Often times I have to do different activities with them on different levels while one is sleeping, doing homework, or playing independently. With this I don't have to worry about timing or who is going to be bored while I make sure I get time in with this one. This takes all that away. They never tire of it and neither do I and I know my kids are enjoying the time with me and each other.

Pirates and Princesses and Tigers! Oh My!

Arrrr matey! Shiver me timbers!

"Sprinkles! I'n a princess!"

"yeom....rrrrr" He's a "giger"

Trick or Treat!

This was a fun adventure for sure. I know I'm not the only one that has to do this, but man was it a challenge to get three kiddos ready and take them trick-or-treating! Not five minutes before we left I dropped one of my 5 gallon bottles of water on the floor....yeah....I'm sure you can imagine.....Needless to say I was rushing and it was a hoot and holler for the kids, but it was all worth it to see their faces and know that they were having so much fun. Landon caught on quickly, as I knew he would, and was very good about getting back in the stroller in between houses. All three of them impressed me with the use of their manners everytime! "Thank you" "Daint you" "Tay-too". It started to rain but that made it so much more fun for them! I'm so glad the water incident didn't get in the way and we were still able to go out and have fun. And as always they all got to enjoy one piece of candy of their choosing when we got home (I know I know but I have my limits for nights like this).

Messy, messy, messy!

Just a little farther....

mmm....s'good

What? Do I have something on my face?

This is what "cheese" is all about!

Um, yeah. I gave them their bowls of ravioli/spaghettios and they decided sticking their faces in the bowls to eat was much more fun than using their spoons. Shauna is actually the one that grabbed the camera while I got the tubby ready. She got some pretty awesome pictures in my opinion. The one of Cora trying to lick the "O" off her face is so funny, and I believe there is an "O" stuck to landon's top lip in one of them. They look so funny! Oh man. I hope you smile as big as I did at these pics.

Welcome Jesse and Dylan!

Homecoming

Kate and Jason bringing the boys home
got a secret to tell ya

Joke telling time

HOORAY! We are finally home

I am proud to say that the members of the Owen Party each have an upgraded status. Aunt, Uncle and cousins! Although, Kevin and I are Auntie and Uncle to some of our friends kiddos it's still fun to have acquired the title by relation. Jesse Darrell Davis, 4lbs 5oz 18in, and Dylan James Davis, 4lbs 7oz 16.5in, were born on July 16, 2008 at 1700 and 1712, respectively. They finally got to come home on August 7th, I believe for having reached the 5 lb mark! Congratulations to my step-sister, Kate, and her husband Jason on their new little bundles. And, of course, congrats to my Dad and Kelley, the proud grandparents, for being such their fourth and fifth times over. Aren't they so cute and ittle wittle. So far it sounds like all is well for the new family of four as they adjust to sleepless nights and exhausting days. Captions came from my step mom, Kelley, when she sent the pictures to me and I thought they were cute so they stuck. CONGRATULATIONS Kate and Jason!

Update on Kevin

Kevin is doing well, just really missing us. He loves all the packages that we all send him and he loves staying connected with the pictures he gets of the kids. Emails are always a great way to tell him hi and keep his spirits up so if you don't already have his email and want it you can certainly give me a call. Kevin can't wait to get home and we are both counting down the time until his return. We miss him so much and I can't wait for him to see the kids and for the kids to see him. Like I said if you want to send Kev an email, call me to get the address. He would love a hello from anyone I'm sure (just definitely don't send him any junk or forwards).

YOU GOTTA SEE THIS!

Okay, so I took the kids to the movies tonight, with Shauna, to go see Wall-E. Awesome, spectacular, cute, funny. Wall-E (the character) was so adorable and he reminded me of Number 5 from Short Curcuit (did anyone else love that movie as much as I did?). I will certainly be buying this one. The "short" before the film was HILARIOUS! The movie was touching and heartwarming, and I'm sure I could come up with a whole schlew of descriptive words but nothing can say it better than "YOU GOTTA SEE THIS!" The kids loved it, Shauna loved it, I loved it, and I loved taking the kiddos to do something fun with their mama. Anything to break the monotany. I just wish Kevin could have been there with us. We are really missing him, especially when we do family things because that is something that has always been so important to us...spending time together and doing fun things as a family.

Cute Kiddos

Club house fun!

The kids love their Cranium Clubhouse. It is so awesome! It's a lot of fun to put together and there are so many ways it can go. The kiddos love to help build their clubhouse and play inside. So as you can see they are all growing and I hope I've done enough to satisfy everyone for now. I'll keep adding posts of some of my favorite pictures that I never posted, as well as new and current ones. I really love seeing my friend's blogs and I don't know what I would do if I couldn't see pictures of their kiddos. I so hope that you all enjoy these pics as much as I do.

Keep an eye out for my next couple of posts to come. One will be of Kevin's pictures in the desert (I just have to make sure I am allowed to post them) the other will be of my new little twin nephews...I'm finally an Aunt! Thank you all for being patient with me and my craziness.

The Landon-meister!

Such a cheese ball

Stylin' after a haircut

Mom's fun with the toilet tissue...mummified

Dude, I'm good to go

Oh yeah, boo-yah beach boy

Okay now. I mean come on. Can he just stay like this forever? Landon is beyond cute and adorable. He is such a lovable kid. My goodness where do these ones come from? He has grown 2 inches in the past three months. He's just sproutin' up like a weed. Landon is really starting to talk so much more. I think he picks up a new word every day. He gets a little 'tude sometimes, but instead of being annoying it's tremendously adorable. He cracks me up. Just today he was in the playroom and I called him into the kitchen. As he came around the corner I jumped out at him and said "rah". He kept going forward as he looked over and jumped at me and went smack on the ground and he just got up laughing. We had each other cracking up! He's a funny guy. Always telling jokes and laughing and smiling. I can't believe he's my baby. My last one. I just want to stop time with my kids. Just stay small a little longer.

Cora the destroya!

My little dancing...princess

All American Girl

Beach goer

Miss funny face

A little Starlet

My Cora...is she ever a beauty. She is just talking so much and she uses a lot of "supporting" or detail words. She won't just say "Where's my cup" it's always with description "Where's my green froggy cup with the scratch on it?" I laugh every time. She, too, is growing up just a smidge too fast for me. She is nearly potty trained. She only has about one small accident a day where she doesn't quite make it to the "big" potty, and she is still in diapers at night. However, I don't think she will be much longer because she either stays dry or goes potty in the middle of the night. She can be so girlie at times and so not at other times. She LOVES millipedes. She names them and calls them her babies. I find her playing with them in the house or she'll stop and pick them up on our way to the car. Doesn't matter...if she sees them she is all over them. She absolutely adores horses and ponies. I love that about her. She is constantly asking me to play "warsies" with her. -sigh- What am I going to do with her.

Noah at his best!

Mr. Funny Face

Noah's cool snowman


Mom had a little too much fun with the toilet tissue

Breakin out!

Noah's first day of 1st grade

I can't believe how much he is growing up! :o( It's slightly disheartening. Noah-bug is such a character. He has so much compassion, yet, he's so stinkin crazy too. He truly is an all-around guy. He has lots of friends at school and does really well. He comes home with plenty of homework, but he does a really great job at it. He is smart as a whip, man. His vocabulary is vast and he will use a new word in context within a couple of times of hearing it used. I like to use big or seldom used words with him just to hear what he sounds like when he uses them. He is like a sponge with words (thus the whole cussing incident). He sounds super cute when he says 'indeed'. He's my big man growing up too fast.

From the mouths of babes

So before I go and add the photos from the past couple of months to update everyone I have to start with today. I just can't pass this up! First of all I am proud to say that I have a very smart 1st grader. Noah can read and write so well. He had a wonderful Kindergarten teacher and I have to take credit too, as conceited as that may sound. I love reading and I love reading to and with the kids, so naturally that is one of the subjects he excels at the most. ANYWAY, Noah decided to use the "f" word today. Don't be pointing any fingers...all I have to say is we live on a military base. I had to laugh (to myself) because he used it in context "Noah what are you doing at the window" "mama, I'm trying to get this bleepin thing open" "go take five and don't use that potty language in this house!" Then I prepared the paper and told him what to do. I don't think he'll want to do that again. He learned his lesson and when he was done he came up to me and said "mama I'm so sorry for using inappropriate language" (he has an awesome vocabulary) "it's okay, Noah, we all make mistakes. What matters most is that we learn from them or make them into something better." "yeah, mama, cause I sure as hell don't want to write all those sentences again!" "Noah, it's inappropriate to use hell that way" "WHAT! You say that all the time." (it's true, I'm guilty on that one) "Well it's inappropriate for me to say it too and I'm sorry for being disrespectful. I won't use it anymore, Noah." "Good, because you wouldn't have any fun writing all those sentences" -I laugh- "go play, Noah" "okay mama." NO KIDDING! I wrote the conversation because that is literally what we said. It is so funny to write this and I can hardly belive I didn't crack up in the middle of all of this. But dash it you would be proud but I kept a straight face! (And all you mom's know how hard that can be).

Oh I know...it's about time!

Oh but it has been a while since I last updated. To all of you, who may possibly look forward to updates, I apologize! Things have been very routine lately and I find that I have little time to sit in front of this dashed pile of junk (the computer).

Things are going fairly well this deployment, if you don't count the fact that we all miss Kevin so much, considering. I think we are, unfortunately, so used to him being gone that we find it easy to slip into a hearty routine. The kids all have their moments, but they are dealing quite well with all that is being thrown at them. Noah has had a couple of emotional "breakdowns," this time, and just out of the blue starts crying for his daddy. It's so heartbreaking but I can get him to recover fairly quickly with wonderful words about his daddy and such. Cora is so funny about it. I know she misses him but not in the emotional way that Noah does. She'll ask "where's daddy?" and then answer her own question with "he's at the store." There are other similar questions with answers along the same lines, but then there are times when she goes one step further and (as if arguing with herself) says "no he's in da desert." It's so hilarious and she cracks me up everytime. Landon....now he's the one that you don't expect much out of other than the crankiness in the beginning from the feeling of change. But I do see something in him. He likes to talk to Kev on the phone, and he will sit at the desk and stare at his picture on the screen for several minutes at a time. Other times he will be sitting with me when I turn the monitor on and say "hi" or "hewo dada" or "ees dada." It's so stinkin cute.

The kiddos are growing too fast and I just want it to slow down. I don't want Kevin to miss anything and I don't want to miss things myself. I just can't keep up with all their little quirks and cute phrases. I mean come on already. But such is life with little rascals running around.

I hope you all enjoy the udate and the pictures, however few at a time, I upload and feel free to comment and gripe and moan about my laziness all you want. I won't take it to heart. And sorry this is such a long blah-bity-blah. Phew!

A girl's mishap

Okay so the first picture was taken yesterday (Jan. 10th)....isn't she beautiful with her bangs growing out and I can finally clip them back....yeah, COULD should be the operative word here. As of today (the 11th) she found the scissors and discovered she would rather have her bangs short again....really short. AHHHHHHHH!!! Not to mention the fact that she got a fat lip at the playground this morning. And obviously the last picture is after I did the best I could to repair the damage that had been done. So now I have her saying "I'm a heewbiwwy" (I'm a hillbilly) She doesn't even look the same. She's still so beautiful, but I guess I'll have to wait just a little longer to grow her bangs out. (Thank goodness the rest of her hair was in a ponytail...only God knows what would have happened if it had been down.) Enjoy, and I hope my little hillbilly girl tickles your tummy with a good little, or hearty, laugh.