I got tagged a while back, so here it is:

I am: neglecting housework right now (yes!!!)
I think: i have the best most beautiful babies in the world
I know: my family will be together forever
I want: a kitchenaid mixer, a red one to be exact
I have: braces
I dislike: mayonnaise
I miss: some parts of teaching, sleeping in
I fear: losing a loved one
I feel: most of the time,happy; sometimes impatient with Kailey; sometimes disappointed in myself because of my shortcomings
I hear: dancing with the stars, the babies playing, Kailey singing a made-up song to her mickey mouse
I smell: Rickey's breath, because she is sitting next to me grooming herself, throw-up!
I crave: sweets, I never had a sweet tooth until after I had Kailey, and last night nachos from Izzos.
I cry: easily when something is touching, and easily when I'm hormonal/pregnant
I usually: leave the dishes for the next morning rather than wash/load in the washer after dinner :( I have a goal to change this, I just haven't done it yet.
I search: craigslist for an upright freezer for the garage. Jamie and Joe have one, I'm pretty jealous
I wonder: what is going to happen with the economy, what my family will be like in 10, 15, 20 years
I regret: not taking more studio art classes at LSU, I loved Dr. Malveto's drawing class (Jeni, Aaron, Clare, Daniel: I see him at Wal-Mart sometimes with his mom)
I wish: that i could twitch my nose like Samantha and have my house magically cleaned (I would do lots of other fun stuff with the nose twitch, but that would be the first thing).
I love: every piece of Joel, Kailey, and Eli
I care: about being a good person
I always: take my vitamins in the same exact order every night before bed (I have a pack of 8 prenatals)
I worry: about few things, I am not a worrier at all. Even if there are things that I should be worried about, I kind of ignore it, good sometimes, really bad other times.
I am not: athletic
I remember: how exciting starting college was, and how much fun I had with all of my roommates; I LOVE YOU GIRLS!!
I believe: in Christ (incidentally that is one of my favorite hymns, I hum it to my babies sometimes)
I sing: to Eli when I change his diaper to keep him from flipping over, crawling away, a peeing on the carpet. I also sing to entertain Kailey and Eli; I like to sing despite my lack of skill and talent.
I don't always: put my babies to bed on time like i used to.
I argue: sometimes with Joel, but not a lot, and we play nice
I write: neatly most of the time
I win: at Scramboni sometimes (a game on my iPhone with scrambled words, i compete with people online. I knew that college education would come in handy one day).
I lose: my keys, my shoes, baby shoes...lots of stuff (i try to be organized, but don't do very well)
I listen: to music while i do house work, the Killers are on right now, because I should be doing housework
I don't understand: advanced physics, mechanics...
I can usually be found: with a baby on my hip, following around a spunky little girl with pigtails
I need: to Ferberize Eli
I forget: a lot, i'm pretty absentminded
I am happy: watching star trek with Joel after the babies go to bed. For the record: I have despised star trek for most of my life. It wasn't until a few months ago that I really gave it a chance and start watching Voyager with Joel. I actually grew to like this series. We borrowed the entire series (7 seasons) from Joe. We finished the last episode Saturday night and I've been kind of sad about it since.

I tag Keri, and anyone else that reads that hasn't done this one yet and would like to.

milk (formula anyway) is still a four letter word in this house and a long legged lizzard

I laughed so hard that I cried twice today:

1. I have been trying futilely to get Eli to drink formula. I have tried bottles, sippy cups, powder, liquid, warmed, cold...to no avail. Today I tried again cool liquid formula in a sippy cup. Here is what happened:

I guess it would be like trying to make us drink powdered or evaporated milk when we are used to drinking fresh milk. Can't blame him I guess. It is just so funny to me how everytime he gives either a look of disgust or heartbreak from betrayal.

2. Kailey has a lizzard that was I gave her once as a reward for using the potty when she was potty training. Evidently she really likes this lizard and when it lost its leg she was pretty sad. So the other day I tried to reattach the leg with tape when I couldn't find the super glue. Joel thought that it was funny so he modified it while Kailey was napping:

Kailey was pretty mad about this modification to her beloved lizzard.

Isn't that what parenting is all about, laughing at your child's disgust?

My three babies

This is Rickey's favorite spot to lay (I try to remember to put the boppy up, mostly for this reason). When Eli was a new baby, it would especially make my blood boil. Now I don't get so angry, after all Eli often grabs a handful of Rickey and leans in to bite.

Serious sippy cup drinking

Eli turned eight months old a few days ago, he is drinking from the sippy cup like a pro, crawling everywhere, and standing up and walking along the furniture a little. Today he went from the couch to the coffee table.

Kailey is all of a sudden camera shy.

Kailey sings

Our Kailey is a happy singing girl, and sometimes I have to struggle not to laugh at some of her versions of the classics.

Yesterday after church Kailey was singing: "a sun beep, a sun beep" (if your not Mormon or a convert that didn't experience primary, click here: "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam")

She also sings, "Old McDonald had a farm.....Eli-Eli-O"

Rock-a-bye baby goes like this, "Rock-a-bye baby in the tree top, when the wind blows in the great rock..." (I have no idea where this on came from).

4th times a charm?

Check out the dilated pupil, this was after going in and having the eye checked out.

Two Sundays ago, I was in the mother's lounge with Eli. I was trying to burp him, and talk to Laura at the same time. Eli, in true form, climbed up to standing and started jumping in my lap. As I was deep in conversation one of his flailing arms flung a fingernail into my left eye. Corneal Abrasion #4! (Kailey has gotten me three time with her fingernails, guess I need to wear safety goggles while holding babies). I excused myself from the conversation, and headed to the bathroom to assess the damage. On the way I noticed that the damaged eye was blurry, but assumed that it was because the eye was watering profusely. When I got the bathroom and dried my eye, I realized, much to my dismay that the blurriness was not due to the water. So I went back into the chapel, slipped into our pew, stepped over Joel's mom, dad, and sister (they had evacuated because of Hurricane Ike), and got to Joel to explain the problem. He was the one that reminded me that we have an opthamologist in the ward; Laura's husband, Jeff. Joel and I made our way over to Jeff, and he came out to the hall to take a look. He affirmed that it was a corneal abrasion and called in a prescription for me. I still have blurred vision in that eye, after two different kinds of prescription drops. I'm trying to give it time now to finish healing.

Flour power

Friday started out with a challenge. I was in the kitchen cleaning and Kailey and Eli were in the living room playing (so I thought). The tv was on in the background and Backyardigans were on. As I got to the end of the kitchen cleaning, I thought to my self, "I haven't heard Kailey in a while...Backyardigans is on maybe she has been engrossed in that for the past 15-20 minutes...not likely." I ran to the livingroom. Unfortunately she hadn't been watching Backyardigans.I left some groceries in the livingroom after shopping. I guess I should have cleaned the livingroom first. As you can imagine this took a very long time to clean up. Eli had even crawled over to play in it; both babies were covered in flour. There is still flour embedded deep within my wool rug. If you stomp on it hard enough, flour ever so lightly dusts the hard wood floors. If anyone has any tortillas or pie crusts that they need to roll out, come on over!

P.S. The picture above and a lot of my recent pictures came from my phone, and that's why they are low quality. Expect more low quality pictures : ) It is a lot easier to take pictures with my phone.

I'm not sure what it is about summer, but I have been terribly neglectful of my blog. I am so ashamed, I did not have one post in August! So since the last time that I posted, Eli turned six months, there was a terrible hurricane, Eli started crawling, we went to the beach, and Kailey started dance class. So here is a little time line:

Aug. 1 - Eli is 6 mo. old, weighs 18 lbs. 8 oz. and is a happy, growing boy! Also went to Chili's with some of the girls in the ward for Lisa's birthday, and headed to Barnes and Nobles afterwards for the Breaking Dawn release party (I ♥ twilight series).Aug. 2 - bought copy of Breaking Dawn
Aug. 14 - Joel went out of town for business and I headed to Lake Charles with the babies to hang out for a couple of days with Joel's parents and little sister.
Aug. 15 - When I got ready to leave to go home, Kailey asked to stay, so I let her stay in Lake Charles. I was really nervous that she would get homesick, so I called a couple of times on my way home to check and she was fine. She was so fine that she stayed until Sunday afternoon.
Aug. 30 - Left for Ferriday with Jamie and all of the babies, running from Gustav.
Aug. 31 - Eli is starting to crawl.
To Be Continued...
(I decided that I would do "to be continued" from now on because I have several drafts that I started in the past month or so, and never finished, so if I post part, I will have to go back and post the rest)