High and low

This jersey was given to Owen by one of Hair Spray Cafes great clients.  It's was too small for her grandson and has been too big for Owen until now.  The weekend before last we went to QTs annual family picnic and I thought it would be a great time for Owen to wear it.  Owen has never really cared too much about the clothes I pick out for him.  I usually pick clothes that will make him smile like a super Mario shirt or anytthing in green his favorite color.  Of course I'm always looking for my favorite when shopping for the boys.....skulls!  Before moving here his aunt nat-nat was reasonable for at least half of his woredrobe.  Once when Owen was at about 3-4 he told me he didn't want to wear a new shirt I got him that was black with purple pin stripes because it was a girls shirt. So I made a mental note not to buy him purple anymore.  I still pick out his clothes everyday for him in the morning.  When he saw the jersey he got really excited and kept saying "I get to wear a real jersey?".  It was so cute.  The picnic was on a Saturday and that Sunday Owen asked me if the jersey was clean so he could wear it school on Monday.  I can't think of a time that he has ever asked if he could wear something.  I love that he is showing that he cares how he looks.  I'm making sure that jersey is always clean.  

Tonite Noah took a face dive into the window sill somehow trying to look out of it.  Busted his lips, his gums and loosened a tooth.  He wanted me to take a pic of it so he could see it.  Livi had her friend from across the street over for dinner.  We did our usual around the table with our high and low of the day.  Then liv and her friends were asking each other silly questions....claire asked: would you rather have there be no money and everything was always free or be the richest person in the world? Then liv asked: would you rather be beautiful and poor or ugly and rich?  I won't go into their answers because they were stupid questions to begin with.  Its what Noah said that makes me love my family to pieces.  Noah says without even being asked just listening to the two girls talk "when I grow up I want to be a doctor so I can help Owen's body". This sweetness came from the boy with a swollen lips and gums.  Owens response was "my body doesn't need help!"  They are both perfect to me!

 The picture I took of them this morning before I woke them up for school.

Scarlett!!!!

Another post as promised :-) explaining why I wasn't completely home alone.  Back in November, right at Thanksgiving, we lost our chihuahua of 14 years Beau.  He was our first baby and was spoiled rotten by Nick and I.  We had other dogs that came into our family along the way but Beau was the only one that stuck around after we started having "real babies".  Nick and I were devastated by his lose.  I can still see his little head poking around the corner to check out what we are up to. He was such a good dog and we've found replacing him to be very difficult.  Right after our Disney trip in December Nick and I decided to get a chihuahua mix puppy to surprise the kids.  We quickly learned that a puppy was not the right choice for us.  The kids didn't like a puppy jumping on them nor did they seem to understand or care for the importance of training.  It made for a lot of work for Nick and I.  It had been quite a few years since we had a puppy and we began to feel like....what where we thinking getting a puppy.  After a lot of time and effort put into trying to make it work, we made the heavy hearted choice to find a new home for him.  And we did, he went to a single mom of an 8 year old boy that needed a play mate.  We were still feeling like we needed a family dog but didn't want to make another quick choice.  On our trip back to kc in July we all fell in love with nat and dom's big dog.  We began to think maybe a full grown big dog might be a good fit for us.  Nick started stalking recuse sites, Craig's list and the humane society looking for the right dog.  And we found her!!!

Scarlett!!! She is a six year old great pryenesse/lab mix.  We got her from the humane society.  She is perfect!! 

She sleeps with her tongue out!! The kids love her and she loves the kids back.

You'd think she's always been ours.  Nick leaves for work around 3:45-4:30am and she comes in every morning to tell me he has left.  Took a bit for me to figure out what she was doing but Now I find it very sweet and protective of her none the less.