Growing arms

Jon and Dominic were outside and Jon noticed Dominic getting his arms wet with the hose.

“Dominic, what are you doing?”

“I’m watering my arms so they’ll grow.”

Today I grabbed Dominic as he ran past and hugged him. I told him that I wanted some cuddles. As soon as he could wiggle free he went running into his bedroom. He came back with his bear named Cuddles.

“Here mom, will this help you?”

Caitlin loves remotes. Yesterday she saw the remote laying on the coffee table and got so excited. Usually they are kept out of sight in the coffee table drawer. So she ran over and turned on the tv. She then climbed up onto the couch and set the remote beside her. I heard a huge sigh and came over to see her grinning as she watched tv. I'm going to have to keep my eye on this little one. =)

For some reason Dominic stripped from the waist down to go to the bathroom. When he finished, instead of washing his hands, he put his clothes on the steps and climbed inside. I hadn't heard the water come on and this is what I saw when I opened the bathroom door.

Caitlin's putting her angel to work early

Tonight was one of those times that I've imagined but hoped to never have actually happen.

I had come upstairs to start supper and the kids were outside with Jon. I started supper and then got on the computer. Jon came up the stairs and told Dominic-the last one up the stairs-to shut the gate behind him. He even glanced back to make sure it was closed.

Jon went into the bathroom to work on the shelves he's been painting. A few minutes later I heard a thump, thump!

I knew immediately what had happened and ran screaming for the stairs. I made it to the gate as Caitlin hit the last few steps at the bottom and landed on the tile. If any of you have been to my house and seen the stairs you can imagine how freaked out I was. Caitlin was crying a little bit, but I think she was too fascinated about mommy freaking out. She just kept staring at me. Dominic was scared as well and we ended up comforting him more than Caitlin.

We've checked her out and watched her for hours and she is totally fine. I've been thanking God every 5 minutes ever since.

I just couldn't get my heart to stop pounding and asked Jon if he thought we should take her to the dr. even though she was eating, laughing and climbing onto everything. He said no, but did we need to take me. We probably should have. =)

Cimn and Daddy Ack

Some of you might remember George. He was Dominic’s way of dealing with scary monsters. He disappeared when Dominic was no longer afraid. But around the time that Caitlin was born, Dominic created an imaginary brother. Brother gets blamed for everything that happens-good or bad. If I ask him where he heard something and he can’t remember he says that brother told him. If he wants to argue with me and knows he can’t he’ll say that brother doesn’t agree with me.

Gradually brother acquired a sister. Like brother she didn’t have a name. She was just sister. And then sister was joined by “friend” who was also nameless.

It can get amusing when Dominic tells someone all about brother and I have to explain that he’s imaginary so they don’t think I have more kids.

A couple of months ago he told me that friend was named Jon and sister was named Sarah. Last week he came up to me and showed me a piece of paper with CiMN written on it. When I asked him what it said he gave me a bewildered look. “Can’t you read it mom? It says simn. That’s my brother’s name.” So now brother has a name. Then a few days later he was talking about Daddy Ack. When I asked him who that was he said it was Cimn’s daddy.

Today I learned that Daddy Ack has brown hair, a pony tail and beard. He is tall and fat in places and skinny in other places. He rides a motorcycle and doesn’t own any other cars. So Cimn (brother) has to either ride on the motorcycle or drive himself places. He can do that since he’s 13 years old.

As you can imagine we have a rather full car and some interesting conversations when Kitty, Cimn, Sarah and Jon (friend) join us. =)

My cool kids!

This is just a random post with a bunch of pictures and cute things the kids have said or done.

Dominic is now enamored with kitty. Kitty is a mangy looking stuffed animal. I can't remember where we got her, but she looks like she's been around for a while. Dominic takes her everywhere with us, although I'm able to convince him to let her nap in the car when we get somewhere.

In this picture she is going potty with Dominic. It's actually a milk jug that holds cookies that Caitlin got for her birthday. But it works well in Dominic's mind for a potty for kitty.In this picture she is wearing a barrette. Since kitty is a girl and Caitlin was wearing a hair bow he thought kitty should have something too.After worship we always brush our teeth. I think this is Caitlin's favorite part of the going to bed process.I put Caitlin in these little overalls and Dominic ran to put his on. He wanted to "match" with her. Jon took this picture because he noticed she was walking everywhere with her hands in her pockets.Caitlin was trying so hard to look out the window to watch Dominic playing ball with Lucas. She pushed the chair over to the window and was standing on her tip toes. This is her expression when I caught her.Going down the slide. Caitlin can't climb up yet, but loves sliding down.I asked Dominic to wear his sunglasses. He obeyed, but this is not what I had in mind. Since I wear mine like this I had to laugh.Caitlin eating salsa out of the bowl at a Mexican restaurant. She LOVES that stuff.

Easter Part II

It was brought to my attention that I'd been slacking in the blogging dept. So here is part II.

Sabbath morning I tried to take the kid's pictures with their Easter church clothes on. I got some really cute pictures. But as you can tell, they were in a silly mood.Caitlin was showing off her dress.Dominic had said something funny-at least to Caitlin.Sunday morning I went out and spread the eggs on the ground. Dominic went around picking up his favorite colors.Caitlin obviously thought she was a princess. After picking up a few she sat on the ground and would point at which egg she wanted us to get for her.I didn't want to fill the eggs with candy. It's really hard to find little things to put in those eggs that don't have sugar in them. But the kids seemed very excited with their loot.

Easter Part I

On Thursday we had 2 Easter parties. We were invited to a 3rd and I said no. I wasn't sure the kids were going to be able to handle the two I'd already said yes to.

The first one was for our mom's group. Sam and Caitlin were hanging out in the shade.Brice, Dominic and Andy in an egg race.We had a potluck and Caitlin was digging the mac and cheese.Brice's Mommy took this picture of the boys praying and posted it on Facebook. So cute!Picking up eggs.Then it's off to the next party. This party was given by Miss Melony, the Parents As Teachers educator, who comes to our house. I couldn't say no to this one because we won't be seeing her to many more times and we'll miss her so much!

Miss Melony's daughter read a story-Miss Melony forgot her glasses. =)Caitlin loved the balloons. She held one most of the time we were there.Playing pin the tail on the bunny.Not so sure about the bunny.Miss Melony and the Easter bunny.I had to take a picture of this kid. He kept sneaking up behind the bunny and touching it's tail. Then he'd laugh and try again. So cute!Caitlin getting more eggs.Dominic, Andy and Caitlin after the egg hunt.Caitlin didn't want to let go of her little bag. It really fascinated her. She kept trying to put it on her shoulder like a purse.As we were leaving Dominic decided to have his face painted. So I promised to take a picture. It started out as a tiger per Dominic's request. But I think after quite a few wiggles the lady gave up and just made something up. I had remembered to bring bear so Caitlin is well on her way to starting nap time in the back ground.The kids did so well even though they were exhausted. I could tell that Dominic was getting tired and usually this means tears if he doesn't get his way. But when I told him he couldn't eat any candy he sighed and said okay. I'm so proud of my babies!

Beach weather

The weather has been really nice the past few weeks. So I scheduled a beach day with the mom's group. It was pretty cold in the morning when we got there, but warmed up nicely by about 11am. I finally figured out how to get black and white pictures on my camera.

Here's Dominic digging in the sand.Caitlin getting out the toys. She's still wearing her jacket.Caitlin and I enjoying some cuddles.Not sure if you can see the sand around her mouth.Dominic tried so hard to fill a hole with water so he could have a swimming pool and couldn't understand why the water kept disappearing.

He changed into swim shorts and got into the water. He wanted to take them off and I wouldn't let him. =)Sitting on the wall eating lunch. Not sure how much sand was consumed as well.A wonderful beach day that we hope to repeat a lot this summer.