curly...

is what we like to call Drake because he has this crazy habit of curling his hair around and around his finger. My dad actually started calling him it first. He seems to switch habits every now and again...for awhile he would pick his fingernails, then over the winter he developed this little cough that he would do NONSTOP...and now it's curling the hair with his fingers.

I think it's cute, but sometimes it gets a little crazy (Xandria says its a little tornado on top of his head) and I make him flatten it before we go somewhere :) But usually he continues to do it while we are out anyway. He has lots of little quirks, but they add to the fun of his personality.

favorite part of my day...

or not when I walk in the room and see this!! I went in the boys' room to put some clothes away and decided to check on Daxton sleeping and I find him naked!! Lovely. Especially considering I had just cleaned his bed from the mess he made in it this morning. I love that you can see the diaper and pajama pants tossed on the floor next to his bed. :(
I also love that it shows what he always has to sleep with...his Noah's Ark blanket and stinkin paci (which I'm hoping to get rid of at some point!!). He only has his paci at bedtime, but it still bugs me.
I do love naptime, especially on days like today where we have had to be in the house all day due to rain...it seemed to take nap time FOREVER to come. Does anyone else look forward to nap time??
I have to say that not everyday I look forward to it, in fact some days when it approaches naptime I don't want to put them down.
But not today :)

today is...

Daxton's 2nd birthday!! So far today him and I went and ordered his cake for his party that's on sunday, went to WalMart for cupcakes and a new phone for him and went to the party store to get him "nan-nee!" (which means candy, a sucker specifically) and a balloon.

The boy is GA GA for balloons!! He's also GA GA for purses...yes, PURSES!! Ang was sweet enough to find him a blue purse (it's not a purse, it's a satchel...for those of you that have seen the movie Hangover!) for his birthday and also had put fake money in it, REAL keys on a keychain and a brush/mirror set. He was beyond excited about it!! Daxton pretty much ALWAYS has to have a purse on his arm when we go somewhere...Nick tries to get him to leave it in the car, but nope, that's not happening! It always makes me smile :)

At least now he has a blue purse, though he usually likes to carry at least 2 on his arm at a time, lol! Today I got him to stick with just the one purse when we were out.

We are going to be eating cupcakes, opening presents and heading Chuck E Cheese...so I'm off for now!

my birthday...

My birthday was almost a month ago...I went out with my cousin and a couple other people and had an absolute BLAST!! It was exactly what I had needed! I stumbled in around 1am...Nick was a little surprised to see me like that...I never drink. And they made sure I drank! I was asked at one point how I can have 5 kids and 1 husband and NOT drink...I joked that I was beginning to wonder that myself ;)

The next day (which was my actual birthday) we planned on going to Chicago, but I was too tired and not feeling so hot :) Instead, I opened my presents (Photoshop CS4!!!), ate cake, we ran to the mall for a couple things and ate at Red Robin, came home and I took a much needed nap!
Sunday, is when we went to Chicago. We were going to go to Shedd Aquarium, but we didn't arrive til the afternoon and the city was crazy (there was a bike race going on also)...so we went to Navy Pier. For some reason, Navy Pier has always equaled Chicago to me...love it there!

We saw a "pirate ship" and decided we would go for a ride on that. The kids were all excited to go on the boat...it was an hour ride. The weather was perfect, with a nice breeze blowing. I had a wonderful day!
The ride home wasn't so wonderful though...babies were crying and crying...Ziana continued to cry most of the way home and when we were almost home Xandria was in tears because she had to go to the bathroom sooo bad and couldn't wait any longer...of course this was after Ziana FINALLY stopped crying and fell asleep...Xandria opens the door to get out and guess what happens?? Yep, Ziana woke up! Ugh, I was ecstatic when we did arrive home :)
Look...a family picture!! I love when strangers offer to take a picture of us, makes me happy :)

The "pirate ship" we rode on.

Ziana finally stopped crying and fell asleep in the sling...the girl loves to nap in her bed and it's tough getting her to sleep anywhere else!

Nick took this picture of the kids (minus Daxton that he was holding) while we were on the boat.

Drake freaked me out when he decided to just stand up and walk over to the railing of the boat! There is only those 4 little lines seperating someone from going in the water!

stung...

Poor Daxton! Last week little man was stung 5 TIMES...one being on his eyelid. We were outside playing and I hollered at him to show me how he can go down the slide. Next thing I know I hear him scream like I've never heard before!! I looked up and I see him standing there looking shocked and I see a big black bug flying around...I immediately took off across the yard (the kids later told me that they had never seen me run so fast, ha!) and scooped him up, making sure there was no wasps on him. Took him in the house and pack baking soda on the 3 spots that I see he had been stung at. He was crying and crying, which is not usually like him.
We get outside and I look at him...his eye is swelling and I see a red dot on it, then another one on his other arm! My poor baby!! I tried putting ice on his eye, but he wasn't having any of that and just wanted to carry the ice around.
This is what he looked like a bit after he was stung (it did swell up more than this and he could barely see). He kept saying "eye" over and over: And this is what he looked like the next day:

I felt soooo bad and guilty because the week before Drake had gotten stung by the slide, I just thought it was random, but it turns out there was a nest right under the slide. When Nick got home I had him go out and see where they were coming from and he said that Daxton must of seen the nest and knocked it down...he said the nest was lying on the ground and about 15 wasps were flying over it. Nick got rid of the nest and hopefully we won't see anymore!

I'm waaaay behind in blogging (are you surprised??), the past week for sure has been CRAZY, so I'm HOPING I can get back on track!

I'm working the fair tonight at Heather (our photographer)'s booth...and I'm sooo looking forward to it!! Six hours of quiet for me and I get to do it tomorrow night also :) Right now I definitely need the break!! On that note, baby is crying...