Buddy.....buddy...Chronicles of Parker

So, Parker is on this kick where he calls me "buddy"....and I call him "buddy" too. We are the best buddies in the whole world. He uses our "buddy" status to work me around his little finger. When I am eating something that he wants, he looks at me with those puppy dog eyes and asks me ..."Buuuddy Mommy, Don't you want to share with your Buddy?" I tell him that of course I want to share with my buddy! Heaven forbid if I eat the last bite though. He says, "you ate all of it, buddy? He's worked his way around doing the same to me though....he tells me...."I'm sorry, buddy, I ate it all gone....I'm sorry...." Then he looks all sorrowful at me like he's wronged me in the worst way and is sooooo repentant. He knows I can't resist that and can't be mad at him in any way, shape, or form. When he has to stay home while I leave, he throws the "buddy" card at me. He says...But buddy....I'll miss you too much...please don't leave me buddy...." How pathetic is that?! He also knows that when I have my door closed, all he has to do is tell me that my buddy is outside the door and I have to let him in. At first, it was...it's Parker....then...when that doesn't work...He says, "Don't you want to let your buddy in?" I'm a goner! I LOVE to spend time with my "BUDDY". Don't you?

Family pic

Family Pictures

Boys at the pumpkin patch!

Laura

Ok, sistah!

Here is my favorite!

Tuesday

So, today wasn't a very good day...had a migraine for most of the day and have a cough too. For anyone that has had these two components than you know what I'm talking about! "cough, cough" "OW, OW!" In the late afternoon I was trying to sleep and my little 4 yr old Parker was sitting outside my door pleading to be let in. Now, mind you, several of my other kids had requested the same thing and I told them that I was going to sleep and that I wasn't feeling good. They all went somewhere else to entertain themselves. However, Parker stayed at my door saying..."please, mommy...please let me in...please. He was begging, literally begging. I just couldn't stand it no more! I got up and let him in. Usually he likes to hang out with me and watch his favorite shows but he didn't even care about that. He said "thank you sooooo much!" and then plopped himself down on my bed and proceeded to talk my ear off. He first got out Logan's cash register because he had some money he wanted to put in. Then he used the price scanner to check how much my arm was and I was flabbergasted to find out that my arm was valued at 61.00 dollars. My neck came next and many body parts after that. Then, he told me that I needed to push his belly "button" so that I can have magical powers that only work on coyotes. Yes, folks, he's scared of coyotes. So, needless to say, I pushed the magic button. Guess what?! I could fly! Now I could fly over all the coyotes and never get eaten. Then he decided that our magic powers would be good for flying over Pumas. If anyone out there has seen Go, Diego, Go you might know that there are Pumas on that show. Crazy how they pick up on things. He was very descriptive on how we could escape these Puma's and with our magic powers we again SOARED over them all and landed safe and sound far away from these animals with lots of teeth! Unfortunately, his magic "button" stopped working, no matter how many times I pushed it and the poor guy just laid there telling me that it just wasn't going to work. However, I kept pressing it and all of a sudden he was able to jump up and fly again! What a miracle it was!
Lesson learned....make the most of your day....never keep a pleading child out...it was the best part of a lousy day!
Thanks Lahren for making the school "run" for me. You'll never know how much I appreciated it. Love ya sis!

Family Pictures

Oh my GOSH!!! I took the BEST pictures of my brothers and sisters families!!!! Can you tell I'm excited? Here are some of them.....

I took these pictures of my sister, brother-in-law, and baby back in January and these I think are the best ones.

Engagement pics

This is one of the pictures that I took of Wade and his fiancee Breanna.

The Deals

Ok, is there anyone out there who thinks that spending $55 on 7 shorts, 10 shirts, and 3 sunglasses is NOT a good deal?

What the....!

Ok, so today I decided to take Logan with me while I took Meghann to work. Wouldn't ya know....he threw a hissy! He told me, I mean, he screamed at me...."I DON'T WANT TO GO WITH YOU!" And he continued screaming this out the driveway, down our street, and all the way to the freeway. With me saying in between breaths..."we'll go to lunch, we'll go to Target, we'll have lots of fun!" Then him screaming ...."I DON'T WANT TO GO WITH YOU!!!!!" I'm telling you, I'm starting to get hurt feelings! However, it turns out that he wanted to go to the park with Lexi, Hannah and the other boys to "play with the wheel". I said, "the wheel?", and he said, "yes, the wheel" all sad and dejected with his chin down against his chest. Turns out there's a really fun wheel at the park that he wanted to get his hands on. After we went through the whole "I'm sorry that you don't get to play on the wheel" thing, he was fine! He was the life of the party! At least, he was after he talked me into going to the place I hate most! That's right, MICKEY D's! McDonalds for those that don't know or care for that word. He wanted to go in and play. So, we did! I guess I'm a sucker for those sad eyes and pathetic looks. He played for over an hour and I sat there watching him. At times he would call..."Mom! Mom!" I would look up and wave. But heaven forbid I didn't hear him in that madhouse.....He would scream..."MOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!! MMMMMMMMMOOOOOMMMMM!!!" Then tell me that I need to listen for when he says "Mom!" So that I know he wants me to look! It's only logical, right? Anyway, we enjoyed our day out. We ate, we shopped with AMAZING DEALS, and then came home. Can't get better than that, right? Well, maybe if there wasn't any screaming in the whole scenario....

I guess I'm lucky

So, this week I took my youngest son Parker with me while I drove Meghann to work. We had so much fun! He talked and talked and talked and TALKED! It's funny because not too long ago we were telling him that he was going to be able to stay home with mommy and have me all to himself while the rest of his siblings were going to go to school. Well, he threw the biggest hissy fit ever! I said, "Don't you want to stay home with me and go places with just you and me?" He crossed his little arms and shook his head and said the words that pierced me right to the core....."NO!" . Well, how do you have a comeback for that? LOL Anyway, while we were out on our "date", I talked about how we were going to be able to do this all the time while the kids were in school. Amazingly, he now thinks that it is a GOOD thing that he gets to stay home. I think that I'm going to miss that when all of them are attending school in a year. Its crazy how time flies and all of a sudden your kids are grown. My daughter turned 18 this past week and all I can think is "how did this happen?" I remember her as a baby, a toddler, a kindergartner, an eighth grader, a teenager (boy, do I remember her as a teenager!), and now a graduating senior who is already 18! How CRAZY is that?

My house!

Our house is just a little bit sick. Well, maybe a LOT sick! Almost all of the kids have strep throat. When we took them to the doctor she said she didn't think that they had any strep because all of their throats looked fine. In fact, she said she was almost 100% sure that they didn't. Then, one by one, she came back to tell me that ALL of them had it! It was kind of funny to see her face and see her shaking her head like she was amazed about it. I've been feeling like I'm getting a sore throat but its feeling a little better. I am not sure if I should go in or wait it out. Tonight, Schuylar was sitting with me all evening and cuddling. We had a nice conversation about how we wanted to go to Heaven. He said that he wanted to go to Heaven and see Jesus. I said that I wanted to also and to see my grandparents because they had died. He thought that I was talking about HIS grandparents and got a little concerned. I explained things and then showed him pictures of mine. I told him that I missed them terribly and that I still cried when I thought of them. When he saw my Grandma Shain...he told me in an excited voice that SHE had the same arms as me! LOL I couldn't help but laugh a little and just tell him yes, she did. Although what I was THINKING was that I wish I didn't have her arms!lol He was quite pleased with himself that he noticed that! Out of the mouths of babes, eh? Schuylar is starting to take an interest in school now. He is actually excited about going to school! I sure hope it lasts! And I also hope that he wants to do homework!

This is the one family picture that we managed to get before Amanda went back to school.