After The Alarm

Since the Disneyland trip the kids have been going to bed late again. I'm finally setting an alarm for us in the morning the last couple days, trying to get them back on a sort of normal schedule. I feel so cruel getting them out of bed and plopping them down for breakfast, when it looks painful for them. Although this was at 9:30, haha. You'd think it was 5:30 from their faces.
They eat silently for like 20 minutes, and then suddenly wake up and start playing happily.

Now then, a couple random things:

Paige looking cute and eating pizza while Cason naps.
Them sharing a chocolate milk while watching UP after their bath.
And me, 28 weeks as of yesterday!

Love Boats

The other night Paige fell asleep early and Cason was all feisty. Happy feisty, but feisty. He stuck both Paige's Minnie Mouses in this basket, turned it upside down, sat on it, and laughed his slow villain laugh: HA HA HA.
He was just really tough in general.
We had a nice visit with Grammy and Grampy, and Great Grama and Grampa too, last night. I forgot the camera though. :(

They let me take this painting of boats in love.
They also had a pretty, rusty piece of metal they said I could have for my birdhouse, so we finished it today!
So now I have my shabby, rustic looking birdhouse. I want to make a haunted one now, for Halloween.

I think it's cool that Jess went straight from using his saw for my birdhouse, to doing some work on his laptop.
Anytime Paige catches us hugging or kissing she runs over to get in on it. Usually she tries to climb up and join the hug, but today she just nuzzled our feet. Little weirdee. Like how my gigantic belly is making a cameo in the corner?

Birdhouse Builders

I have a birdhouse fixation, especially lately. I saw a certain one online and decided I want to recreate it. So today my fella made me one. I just need to paint it and find some rusty corrugated tin to make a roof.

Paige was drawing pumpkins at the table outside while we worked on it. I think all my wishing for fall to get here is starting to have an effect on her.
She took a break to help.
Cason took the opportunity to steal her seat AND her marker.

Steam Cleanin'

Tonight we went by Skye and Will's house to pick up the scottie art she made me. :)

We hung out a while too, talking and letting Paige and Cason run wild around their sofa. They also got to play with some stuffed turtles of Skye's. Something Skye told me reminded me of something cute Paige says all the time. If she cracks an egg she tells me she "hatched it". Like when we're baking, she asks if she can hatch the eggs for me. I think it's so cute. One day she was carrying an egg, and tripped and fell with it. It broke on the floor, so she came to confess. She said "I hatched the egg on the floor. I'm sorry." Haha.

Anyway, we had fun tonight, and when we left Skye and Will were staring at something in their driveway. We asked what they were doing and Skye said it was a "gigantic vinegaroon". As we drove off Cason was yelling "BYE GUYS!" and "BYE TURTLES!" Paige goes "BYE GIGANTIC BUGAROON!" Haha.

Tonight Jess and I have a date with a steam cleaner. Mostly Jess has a date, since he does most of the work. But I helped some.
We moved furniture, picked up, and vacuumed.

The kids helped vacuum up along the walls.
They also just danced.
And fought the vacuum.
Cason got this bike helmet today from Grampa and Uncle Coco. He LOVES iSt. While Jess is steam cleaning, he stands on top of this stepstool with his bat, and just leans slowly to the side while fake screaming "Ooooooooooh", until the weight of his own head in the helmet makes him fall.
Now the carpet should be as clean as our glistening pig dog, who I bathed yesterday. Why do dogs get like this after a bath?

Beso De Caso

First of all, 27 weeks as of yesterday. Picture is, again, courtesy of my first-born.
Jess worked like 12 hours today, getting ready for the first auditor visit for the year. So we spent the evening at Grama's house until it was time to pick him up. Paige loves getting to watch tv shows for once, instead of just the same old movies, so she spent most of her time with that. Cason desperately wanted to go outside though, so I went out back with him for a while. He loved running around her yard.

He mostly ignored my requests for him to look at me for a picture.
But not ALWAYS.
He looked for bugs and feathers.
Swept her patio.
Walked along the wall like it was a balance beam, and did some "racing" all alone.

He always says "MARKS!" Although it sounds more like "MOX".
"SET!"
"GO!"
Just hung out some.
And gave me some big wet besos. His kisses usually look like this, with huge puckered lips.
Eventually Paige's show was over, so she and Grama came outside with us.
Paige joined Cason in his races. And by join, I mean completely took over. She kept telling him to sit down until she finished, because it was a "girls only" race. He didn't listen, so they had words, complete with angrily crossed-arms for both parties.
In the end they compromised, by establishing a girl's side and a boy's side.
And all was well.

No Rhyme Or Reason

We have embarked upon the last week of the summer that Jess is off on Friday. :(

He'll be happy to go back to sleeping that extra hour, but we all prefer having him home an extra day. I wish he could work from home. Not that we'd ever let him ACTUALLY get anything done.

Although lookie HERE! We ARE letting him work tonight, sporting his new haircut by yours truly:
While Cason and Paige eat puddings and watch Diego. Paige eats hers perched on the coffee table like a monkey.
Our living room felt much better today, thanks to Karl and Barby who donated funds for a room air conditioner and it's WONDERFUL!

Last night Jess rented two movies for Caso. One was something to do with superheroes, and the other was Go Diego Go. He loves both. He was too pumped watching the superheroes though, and couldn't stop attacking us, so we stuck with Diego since it was so close to bedtime. Ha.

I had crazy leg aches yesterday and Paige asked me why I had them. I said I didn't know and she goes "Maybe it's because you were mean to daddy." We actually had a wonderful weekend and I have no idea why she decided I was mean to him. SO I asked her what she meant and she said "When you were sad because he didn't go to work." Haha. I have no clue, I think she was making things up for fun. I've NEVER been sad when he didn't go to work. Little weirdo.

This is a very random post. No rhyme or reason to any of what I've written. Oh well. Here are some pictures of Paige "checking" Cason this morning.

A Bug Slayer...

...and his MANY moves.

Speaking of bugs, Jess said he was in the front yard with Cason and they saw two bugs engaged in a highly inappropriate act. He said Cason pointed at them and told Jess "FRIENDS!" Haha. They sure were.