friday funny

after i brought eben his drink tonight, he said

"mommy, you made my drink come true."

HAHAHAHA

my life in the comics...

my marie

we had marie's one year check up finally

she was right around 50th percentile for height - 30 inches, 15th percentile for weight - 18 1/2 pounds, and her head was in the 80th percentile - 18 inches. :)

she's making progress but is still a long lean little girl.

she's not walking on her own yet - she'll take steps in between things and will walk from me to rhett and such and she LOVES her walker - she could win a nascar race in that thing. :) very soon i do believe we will see her walking all on her own.

potty training FOR REAL

so emily jane has been potty training in spurts - some weeks she did great some weeks she did horrible. BUT this week i think is the real thing :) she wants to go, tells me when she has to go, and hasn't had but 1 accident :) HOORAY

and yesterday i even let her wear big girl panties out of the house...to monkey joes! and she did great!!! no accidents whatsoever.

and then there was only one left in diapers

YAY!!!

friday funnies

eben(running through the living room): daddy! help! emily jane is trying to hit me!

rhett: emily jane - don't hit eben.

emily jane(running through the living room with a toy wand thing): i'm not hitting eben - i'm just going to tag him!

winter in may

it was so cold yesterday! we were all in long pants, socks & shoes, jackets and we were still cold! and yet we decided to go play at the park anyway - we couldn't resist the sunshine! we did have quite a bit of fun :)

wordless wednesday

funny fridays

funny things this mommy has said this week...


"marie! did you put chicken in your eye?!"


(on the phone to rhett) "eben! emily jane! i am on the phone!! you need to wait to fight until i hang up!"


(me) "daddy is doing his job tonight."
(eben) "what's he doing at his job?"
(me) "well, actually, his job tonight is dressing up as a cow."

wordless wednesday

our sweet gnarly-hearted dog

for those of you just hearing about our jonas - he's our dog - he's been having coughing fits for quite a while now. and after some extensive and expensive tests and a scary report - we now have a diagnosis. :)

He has a condition called endocardiosis - a very common heart disease in small breeds. Endocardiosis basically means that the valves in his heart are twisted and knotted, preventing his blood from flowing as it should - causing the blood to back up into his lungs and into his heart, enlarging it. In humans, valve replacement surgery for this is very common, but our Jonas is a dog whether he wants to believe that or not. :) We caught his condition pretty early on so with medicine, jonas should have quite a few more years with us. He has responded really well to the medicine the vet put him on initially so we are continuing with those: the antibiotic for the slight pneumonia, the diruetic to help his blood flow more easily, and adding another - the ACE Inhibitor to help the heart pump the blood.

even though his heart is unfixable - it is treatable - and for that we are so grateful. we are not ready to be a family without our jonas.

picking out our perfect puppy

letting our puppy enjoy the outdoors - he liked to eat the concrete sidewalk?

taking our jonas to vacation with us at green lake michigan - he LOVED it! he's watching over little eben on the dock. :)

oh the things you do to get a picture - HA :)

our jonas all grown up. we just love him.

for those of you just hearing about our jonas - he's our puppy - he's been having coughing fits for quite a while now. and after some extensive and expensive tests and a scary report - we now have a diagnosis. :)

He has a condition called endocardiosis - a very common heart disease in small breeds. Endocardiosis basically means that the valves in his heart are twisted and knotted, preventing his blood from flowing as it should - causing the blood to back up into his lungs and into his heart, enlarging it. In humans, valve replacement surgery for this is very common, but our Jonas is a dog whether he wants to believe that or not. :) We caught his condition pretty early on so with medicine, jonas should have quite a few more years with us. He has responded really well to the medicine the vet put him on initially so we are continuing with those: the antibiotic for the slight pneumonia, the diruetic to help his blood flow more easily, and adding another - the ACE Inhibitor to help the heart pump the blood.

even though his heart is unfixable - it is treatable - and for that we are so grateful. we are not ready to be a family without our jonas.

more disaster

this morning i woke up to find emily jane in the bathroom covered in soap. she even had it in her mouth?! at least it was soap and it was in the bathroom.

i also forgot about the first incident of the week. last weekend when i had the flu, rhett was on his way home from church but i couldn't stay out of bed any longer so i hit the pillow before he got home. and he found emily jane coloring on the sofa with a pen. it's still there. all over the arm of the sofa.

ah well...life with a 2 year old...huh?

how much disaster can a 2 year old accomplish in one week?

soooooooooooo...emily jane.......

beginning of the week, went to get her up, found her completely naked standing in a puddle.

then yesterday, went to get her up and found her playing in the jar of vaseline that was on top of her dresser. it was all over every inch of her, all over the floor, all over her bed, all over her door, her toys. you name it. slimy. it's still in her hair - 6 shampoos later. and taking a shower in our bathroom is really a lot more like ice skating.

this is her hair hours after 5 shampoos. still looks wet even though it's completely dry - and her skin even today still feels slimy. she won't need lotion for at least 5 years. :)

and then this morning. went to get her up and opened the door to the lovely smell of poo. all over her, all over the floor. and she drove her shopping cart through it and ground it into the carpet.

so...tips of getting pee and vaseline and poo out of carpet? i think we're renting a steam cleaner this week.

the vaseline stains are at the top left of the picture. the poo stains are all the spots in the middle and bottom. sigh. :) at least i'm chuckling and taking pictures right?