Austin's birthday survey

I forgot to publish Austin's 4th birthday survey so here it is!  


Name:  Austin

Age: 4
Favorite Stuffed Animal: Mimi the dog
Favorite Restaurant: Chic-fil-a
Favorite Movie: Cars
Favorite Toy: Bulldozer
Favorite Sport to watch: Soccer (I don't think he has ever seen soccer on tv =)
Favorite Sport to play: Soccer
Favorite Animals: Elephants and alligators
Favorite shirt to wear to school: Dumptruck  
Favorite holiday: Easter
Favorite Pizza topping: Pineapples  
Favorite Lunch: Peanut Butter and Jelly Crackers
Favorite Pre-K Activity: Play with my friends
Favorite Book:  Curious George Goes to the Zoo  
Favorite Colors: Orange, Green and White
Favorite Numbers: 1, 2, & 0
Favorite thing to do as a family: drive to Dolphin Hotel (hilarious, last December we flew there from Boston for a conference David was attending.  He talks about the Dolphin Hotel at least once a week.  For the record, we never drove there. =)
Favorite Breakfast: Apples and toast 
Favorite thing to play with Miller: Paint
Favorite thing to play with mommy: Bears
Favorite thing to play with daddy: Wrestle
Favorite Pjs: pirate
Favorite snack: Peanut butter and jelly crackers
Favorite Show: Curious George
Favorite thing about Mrs. Griesbeck: she's nice to me
Favorite Candy: suckers
Favorite Ice cream: chocolate and vanilla swirl
What do you want to be when you grow up: doctor 

Update on Miller

Friday morning started out with Austin running down the stairs to tell me that Miller had painted the walls.  I ran upstairs to find this.
Thankfully it was washable paint so it all came out.

Saturday was uneventful but then Sunday he came downstairs to tell me that he had a poopy so when I went to change him I realized he didn't have a diaper on. He had taken his pj pants off, taken off his pull up, put his pj's back on and slept all night without a pull-up. Every part of the bed was soaked. I never found the diaper but I am assuming that there wasn't a poopy (my pregnant nose would have found it).

So last night we started the night with zip up pj's thinking he couldn't get out but after only 10 minutes, Austin yelled down the stairs that Miller had his pj's off and was taking his pull up off. I ran up the stairs and saw him naked. I then decided it was time to put his pj's on backwards and it worked. He couldn't reach the zipper so his pj's and pull up stayed on all night. Operation successful!!! Hoping for poop free nights and mornings.
Seriously, this little precious 2 year old is killing me!!!!

Five for Friday

Five for Friday - quotes that have spoken to me lately

1.  As yesterdays blogpost showed...I am exhausted with my 2 children. I love them and wouldn't change anything about them but man they are wearing me out. These 2 quotes reminded me that raising children is hard and there isn't a perfect way to be a mother...we are all just doing the best we can.

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2.  I am so thankful for my precious husband.  I truly don't know what I would do without him.  He truly makes my heart smile.

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3.  I think about my little guy all the time.  He is truly always on my mind and I miss him so much.

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4.  I think people can easily become bitter and angry after something hard or difficult happens and I think each of us has a choice to decide how we are going to react to that situation.  It can change our lives for the better or for the worse.  It can leave us happy or leave us bitter.  For me its a decision I have to make often.

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5. I want to print this and put it in our house. I love these rules for our family.

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Happy Friday friends!  Hope you have a great weekend! 

Miller's antics

I truly don't know what to do with my littlest.  He is truly a mess.  His antics at night are about to put me over the edge.  I am praying that our little girl is much more calm and less mischievous.  We have a video camera but I can't watch it all night to make sure he isn't into something else.  Sweet Austin just sits and watches him get into everything.

Some of his antics include:
-Falling asleep under his bed without a pillow, blanket, or any of his animals.  David ran up in the middle of the night because Austin was having a nightmare and thought Miller had been kidnapped because he couldn't find him anywhere.  He eventually found him under the bed.

-I went up one morning and found the mattress on the ground and he had slept on the box springs.

-I went up one night and found his monkey with a diaper on and sitting on the toilet as if he was going to the bathroom.

-A few nights ago we found Miller at 10:00 asleep on the floor with his dog pillow, the table turned over and broken, and his stuffed animals placed inside.  One of my friends commented on instragram that this looks like a foreshadow of college.  Passed out after a wild night of partying.


Last night David and I went to check on him and found him pant-less and diaper less in his bed asleep.  We put a pull up back on while he was sleeping and left him under the covers.  This morning when Austin came down the stairs he proceeded to tell me that Miller was naked and had pooped on the floor and all over the room.  I went upstairs to find this on the ground.  Poop...yes poop on the ground. That is not from my dog but my 2 year old. It was everywhere!  Including the brand new bed skirt I had made and put on the bed yesterday.

I am exhausted and don't know what to do with this boy.  He is cute as a button but into everything!!!!

Pumpkin Patch

The boys and I drove to Hernando, MS to meet my best friend and her youngest at Cedar Hill Farm (this is the same Pumpkin Patch we drove to last week and wasn't open).  We had a blast!   I planned on only staying till a little after lunch so we could make it home for naps but we decided we were having too much fun to make it home in time for naps.  There were so many fun things to do and the weather was great as well.

Neither one of us brought a stroller so we decided pulling them in a wagon was the next best thing.

We started off with a hayride out to the patch to pick our pumpkins.
There was a pirate ship to play on that the boys loved.
We then walked over to the patch to pick the perfect pumpkin.  Sweet Austin took forever making a decision.  He couldn't make up his mind on the perfect one.


Miller and Charlie found the perfect ones pretty quickly.

We then rode the hayride back with our new pumpkins.

We took a break to eat lunch and play on their new playground.  The boys LOVED the new slide.

We then spent some time at the petting zoo (definitely my least favorite part of the day, I do not enjoy feeding the farm animals).
Another highlight was the choo choo train that rode around a small part of the farm.  The boys enjoyed pretending to drive it.

My precious Thiefs!

We then moved on to the pig races.  Farmer Joe chose Miller to represent the black team by holding the black bandanna.  Our team didn't ever win...poor black pigs were too slow.

After our team lost all 3 races we went to ride a pony.  I bought tickets when we first got there for both Austin and Miller but Austin didn't want anything to do with it.  Neither Austin (4) nor Charlie (3) would ride the ponies but Miller rode twice.  He loved it!


Ride #2

It was truly a great day.  I highly recommend making the drive to visit Cedar Hill Farm.

Five for Friday - house addition

As most of you know...we just bought a new house and are in the midst of making some purchases.  It has been fun, stressful, exciting, frustrating, and many more emotions.  Some of our things have taken over 3 months to arrive and some have come quickly.  There is no rhyme or reason to shipping and it can frustrate me to death sometimes.  Overall though we are thrilled with the way our house is becoming a home and look forward to raising our precious kids here.  So here is my Five for Friday house edition.

Top 5 favorite items we have purchased for the new home:

1.  Chandelier for the nursery


2.  Farm kitchen table


3.  Front porch mums and pumpkins (not really a furniture purchase but exciting because it means this is home to me ).


4.  Bar stools


5. Bedroom side table


We still have a long way to go but it has really been fun to make purchases that hopefully will be with us for a long time!

Happy Friday friends!