What's a hawk say?

Charlie's hawk noise was one of my favorite animal noises he made..and guess which animal noise Easton made first!!

GAK

One night last week..or maybe 2 weeks ago we decided to do a family project. Charlie LOVES projects and he wanted to do a family project.  I had just seen and printed a recipe for GAK..you know, that slimy stuff, so I knew I had a winner!!  I felt confident that Charlie would love it, but Bradley and I managed to be entertained for a while too!!

Okay, Bradley and I had been painting..so you can feel super jealous of how great we look!

For the longest time it freaked Easton out to touch it..once he got over it, he kept trying to put it in his mouth!

I love Eastons look here...I tried to do the sneeze and act like I had pink snot everywhere...Charlie just looked at me and asked "Why did you sneeze on my GAK?"...oh kiddo:)

He was super appreciative of the necklace we made for him! 

My family did dinner at my house about a week ago for my moms birthday and I knew she would love to watch the kids have fun with this project...look at the pretty colors!!  The kids and adults were entertained for a good hour with this project!

By the end they had mixed all their colors and I had one big..well, I'll be honest.. it looked like a cow pattie on my counter.  I was super kind and sent it home with Adam and Christy.  I'm generous like that. 

and apparently I'm a little crude too....

Recipe:

1 tsp of borax

1 1/2 c water

 4oz bottle of glue

food coloring

Mix borax with 1 cup water and set aside

Mix glue, food coloring, and 1/2c water.

Add borax mixture to glue mixture and watch it come to life!  I whisked the two together with a fork for a minute and then just dove in with my hands.  The more you work with it, the more the water mixes in!  And yes, it does come off clothes:)

Easton's other mommy visits!

So, let me stop you before you go "What..she came to your house??"  Yes, we invited her cause we wanted her to come..and we were thrilled to avoid a 5hr round trip to Abilene:)  I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little nervous, but I honestly knew things would be fine.  I wasnt nervous cause "Easton's mom was coming", I was nervous because I just hate awkward silences and such and I didn't want that.  Well, with a almost 1 yr old and a 3 1/2 yr old....there is no silence:)  It was great and I am so glad we had them over as opposed to meet at restaurant..it was so much more laid back and comfortable. 

And more importantly, I am glad I have almost 60 pictures to share with Easton..to show him he is loved by his other family, he is important enough to change their schedules to come see him....I am glad he will have this documented time to know he is loved, cared for and that HE IS IMPORTANT to them.  It really does make me so happy to see "M" hold him and love on him.  Four years ago I would have never really meant it if I said I wanted my sons other moms to be involved..It was still all about me 4 yrs ago.  But I just can't say enough...for our family at least..having the kids parents involved makes me happy and feel like..for us...that we are doing whats right by our boys.  I get our "open adoption style" isn't for everyone, but it makes my heart full to hear my boys (Charlie) pray for his and Eastons parents.  And it makes me fill like I am abundantly blessed by God when I get full circle moments with the boys other parents.  I may be overly cheesy today.."M" just left about an hour ago and I am still kinda giddy happy...but really, we are sooo lucky!!!

K (M's twin), E and M

I thought this was a great one:)

twin and E..I thought this was a great one of them also!

  the one on the end is M's best friend..we met her at the hospital and she was at our last visit too.

Charlie actually took this one:)

this was the best of the 3 that I got like this...at least we tried!

Okay, here is my explanation for my lack of blogging..as soon as the visit was scheduled, there was a sudden mad dash to get all my liitle and big projects done.  It's like when a caseworker is coming to our house..you know they arent there to see the house, but it makes me and my type A personality feel better to have everything just right! 

I'd been wanting stripes on this little ledge..so this was a naptime project.  I loved how the stripes turned out, but you could only see them from the upstairs:(...

so the next day at naptime I painted some in the boys living room.  When I painted stripes in Charlies nursery, they were perfect. And they should have been..I had no children and all the free time in the world!  These are not all perfect..my lines are..the width isnt!!  Close enough, right!!

And then we painted ALL the white walls in our house this color...25 walls total, some big and some small.  But the entry way..um, ginormus tall walls  Thsoe walls will forver be this color!!

another nap time project..

and another..see now why the blogging slacked so much!

Then there was the kitchen..once we painted the walls that green/kacki color it didnt match the kitchen..so it got primed then painted..and since I was loving the stripes, we continued on in there!  Next up is the cabinets and counter tops...I'm already dreading the cabinets:(

But I sure do love the strtipes!!

by the way..spell check died half way through..sorry your having to suffer through my typos!!..and I know there are a ton of them!

brotherly love

I'm lucky that they both still love each others guts..I love to see them play and watch how much they love each other.  Easton often just stares and smiles at Charlie..and I kinda think it's the sweetest thing ever!

skull birthday party is on its way..no one is too surprised with the theme:)

I though this was too sweet..and no, Eastons head is not larger..I know cause I measured!  I guess it's just the angle..

these pictures are from Jan...I was low on March pictures, so I found some I had not posted in Jan!  By then end of Jan Easton was officially off his pacifier and his bottle!!!!  No surprise that he was so easy about giving both up!!

Love that toothy smile!

happy:)

It's a shame he isn't happy..and that it's so hard to make him smile:)

rockstar

Someone is way too cool!!..and way to cute!..and still has no hair:)

I'm over teething

So, Easton just cut his 10th tooth and this one was his roughest..teething has not been that bad for Easton, but this tooth..it sucked.  I came into his room the other morning and found my sweet boy with blood all over his face, ears, hands and clothes.  After a quick panic since he is on antibiotics for an ear infection and I panicked thinking and eardrum ruptured since there was a lot of blood in and near his ear.  Nope, ears were fine..I looked into his mouth and there was a HUGE blood blister were his new tooth was trying to come in....I have never had a tooth do that this bad.  I ended up having to change his sheets..and I hate changing crib sheets and stain treating the feet of this PJ's.  It did crack me up to find his feet all chewed on!!

okay, this doesn't look that bad, but as much as I hate changing sheets, it must have been bad for me to change them!

poor baby:(

Tooth #10 is all in now and we are happy and relatively clean!