Happy Morning

Paige and Cason are almost always in good moods when they wake up in the morning. But some days they're both ESPECIALLY happy at the same time. This is one of those mornings. Paige woke up first, so we went to wake Caso up. We sang songs to him until he sat up smiling. He always wonders where Jess is on his first morning back to work. He held his hands up in the air and said "Daddy. Where?" I said "Daddy's at work." He goes "Work? No." Haha. That's how I feel about it.

Now they're in here being so happy and sweet to each other. I just heard a noise and then Paige said "Cason! No, you knocked over my cereal." A second later Cason goes "Surry. Surry." She told him "Oh, it's okay." They're so cute.

Here's how cute:
Paige is SMASHING him up against her so hard she can barely open her right eye. Ha.

Quack

Yesterday the kids were playing with Paige's doctor kit in the backyard. It's actually an animal hospital, but Paige does checkups on us too. I told her she was a good doctor, and she goes "NO! I'm not really a doctor, I'm just pretending. Because I'm just a kid. I don't have a suit on." Haha. She thinks I'm pretty easily fooled.

Chocolate Chipless Cookies

When Paige turned 3, one of her gifts had this REALLY cute tag on it. (That blob between them was once a pink balloon)
I love scottie dogs anyway, (even scottie dog sweaters) and pink and black together, so I decided then that this tag would be the inspiration for the next baby's nursery. (For a boy I'll just switch to blue instead of pink) I bought fabric a few months ago to start making a quilt, because I realized I couldn't find any baby bedding that happened to be scottie dogs AND happened to be the colors I wanted. I got the stuff for a boy quilt AND a girl quilt. I started cutting the pieces out and realized I underestimated (By QUITE a bit) how much I would need. So I had to start just one quilt, stealing fabric from the other quilt's stash. So I had to start with the girl quilt since it was easier to steal from the boy stash FOR the girl stash. If I stole from the girl one most of the fabric was too feminine for a boy quilt. I'm only explaining all of this so you people don't start thinking I have a feeling it's a girl. I have no feeling at all about the gender, sorry.

Anyway, I have it all pieced together, now I just need to get some batting and start actually quilting it. It's only my second quilt, so I'm not surprised by all the flaws it has, but apparently I don't improve AT ALL with practice. Ha. Oh well, I like the fabric, so it'll be okay. The quilt itself has nothing to do with scottie dogs, except for a couple paw print fabrics thrown in there, but I figure I'll paint some for the walls and make a scottie dog mobile, and anything else that pops into my head along the way.
I was doing dishes this morning and Paige asked me "Mama will you make me a waffle, and then when I'm done with the waffle will you make cookies?" So that's what I did. Then I realized we were out of chocolate chips. Jess is going to be so excited when he gets home. He's a weirdo and thinks there can be too much chocolate. These are actually really good though, even without them. Maybe they'll be enough to make up for keeping him up until 1 am like all week long watching Lost dvds. (We just decided to watch it for the first time and I can't stop)
While the cookies baked the kids played with some soapy water soaking a bowl in the sink. They were "accidentally" dropping toys in there, and trying to fish them out.
Then they kept wiping suds all over each other and cracking up.
Cason, by the way, has THE BEST mischievous boy laugh in all of creation. I need to record it. Speaking of which, yesterday I recorded Paige reciting nursery rhymes. She kept asking for help remembering some lines, and the second I opened my mouth she'd say "But mama can I do it by myself?" I guess I was supposed to somehow let her know without speaking, sign language or something maybe. My favorites were "Jack be MINDLE, Jack be quick." Haha. And "Little Miss Muffet, sat on a tuffet. Eat her curds and waves." :)

Such A Boy

This guy hasn't been napping lately. Which worked out nicely since we needed to try getting him to sleep in his big boy bed. He's just tired enough at night that we can get him to fall asleep in bed while reading or just tickling his back. But today he took a nap. A LONG, LATE nap. He woke up so groggy. Jess handed him some cheetos, because when he wakes up groggy food is the one thing that keeps him from turning grumpy. He sat alone on the couch, silently eating his cheetos with this look on his face.
It was a success and he turned happy soon after. He's been playing his boyish games. He's always "Falling" off of things, like the picnic table or the couch, very slowly with his hands outstretched for you to save him. He's always slowly yelling "AAAAAAAAAH, FALLING, HELP!" Or he'll be a monster or tiger and growl at you and ask you "Scared?" A few minutes ago he had a G.I. Joe screaming for help while trapped in a can opener.

Mr. Producto

Last night we were watching movies and having popcorn. Paige and Cason got bored with the movie and decided to bother Gia instead. She was sleeping on the floor, so Cason climbed all over her, yelling "Wake UP Gia! Wake up!" Then he got Paige to help tickle her feet.
Today we decided to actually be somewhat productive. One day out of the four this weekend isn't bad, right? Jess and Cason worked out in the yard all morning. It was getting hot so Jess took his shirt off. Cason ran over saying "Daddy, shirt, off?" I thought he wanted his off too to be like daddy, so I asked and he said "NO". So he kept working in his pjs and rainboots.
My mom came over this afternoon to help me make salsa. I was SORT of working on that, but also making our beloved zucchini tacos at the same time, so she ended up doing almost all the work. Paige came in to help, and my mom was chopping things while Paige and I were tearing cilantro leaves from the stems. It was so fun cooking with my mom and little lady. Paige was working hard, standing on her stool and chatting with us about all the things she cooks in her play kitchen. "Brooooooooownies, Cuuuupcakes, Pasketti, Chicken, Chocolate Cooooooookies." Then she was quiet for a few minutes, and out of nowhere she goes "Mama, you're GREAT at cooking." So sweet. Then she ditched us to go outside with Jess and Cason, who were doing MORE yardwork. My mom's salsa turned out even better than usual. We ate our zucchini tacos outside, with chips and salsa, which is of course all Paige wanted to eat.Cason KIND of ate with us, but then abandoned us to go "work" in the yard some more.
Gia just waited, praying and hoping for a bite.
Now the kids are freshly bathed and lotioned up, and looking cute in their pjs. Jess is getting the playroom ready for us to prime and paint the walls. The one we drywalled in DECEMBER. Haha, takes us a while to get around to doing things. But he's QUITE productive today.

A Boy Named Zoe

For some reason my mom wanted to buy Paige a turtle. She mentioned it to Paige BEFORE asking me, so that was fun. I had to explain you don't just buy a turtle and stick it in a bowl, they're more high maintenance than that. Plus we have a tortoise already. So I convinced them both to just do a Siamese Fighting Fish. So today my mom bought one for her, and we got a little aquarium. She's so excited. She's just been sitting and staring at him.
If Cason gets too close she tells him "No Cason, we don't want him to died. Right mama?" She named him Zoe and then sang a song to him. It went a little something like this:

"My red boy fish is named Zoe...." and repeat.

I told Jess about her song and she asked me what I was saying. I told her "Oh, I just told daddy I like your song." She smiled and said "It's about my red boy fish and his name is Zoe." Haha.

Half Way There Somehow

We picked the worst time of day to take a belly pic, so sorry about the lighting. But I figured I better post one, since I'm already 20 weeks and a couple days.