Mommy & friends

We call every one "the friends." Monday through Friday the friends come over. We love it.

Caden's shirt says "I'm the cute one." It is a shirt of truth. 

I changed my hair. I like it. After the fade we'll see. Eventually back to blonde. It always happens. 

Secret: I did this to the kids first. Then I did mine the next day. 

I told Cody we were playing Snoop Dogg. We came up to the computer and I showed him a picture of Snoop Dogg. He was not happy with me. He told me, "No! I am being a real dog.  A black one." Brawhahaha!  Poor B had 3 french braids, before I did Cody's hair. An experiment gone wrong. They had fun, though. 

All my kids

There is no love like that of a mother for her children. 

This is our United Nations family. 

We love them all so much.

A Daycare Day

I am awesome. Not as awesome as some ladies that blog. My blog is not just focused on my kids or my food I make or my great crafts or my organizational ideas. It is a mix, but mostly my kids.  In order to get to stay home with my kids I started an in home daycare. Shawndel's In-Home Daycare.  I love it. I only have a total for 4 full time right now and that is counting my 2. It keeps me busy. I have a schedule we try to go by. And pretty much do, at least roughly most days. I make my menus for each week and serve breakfast and lunch. We have tons of fun.  We do a craft and a little lesson each day. I try to plan my lesson plans a week out at a time, too. The kids span in ages so the learning is varied.

Some of our fun, food and crafting:

Playing Pretend

Nap Time

Magnet board. We mounted to the wall. 

Friend Circle

Stuffed toy fun

Letter C for Caterpillar craft

Necklaces and Learning Patterns

Lunch! Yum! 

It's gone

It was only a day and a half. We no longer have a dog. I am not ready. I tried to tell my sweet husband for months. like at least the last 12. I am not/can not have a new baby a new in home daycare and a new dog. It just doesn't make any sense.  I found her a loving home. 

On another note: 

That beauty sleep thing - totally working for Caden. He gets cuter every day and he has been sleeping lots. 

See for your self: 

One day old - June 2

June 29

July 4

This picture makes me laugh so I am sharing it

July 27th-ish

August 9th

September 3rd

All tuckered out 

Today September 22nd

I (might one day) Love Lucy

Some days you are minding your own business and sleeping at 5:45 am, when your husband come homes from work and kindly waits until your pre-alarm goes off to put a puppy on your bed and tells you he "accidently" on purpose "rescued" a puppy.


Today was that day for me. I think he is nuts! You don't get a new dog when you have a new baby. My sisters and sister in law all learned this the hard way. I was hoping not to have to learn that lesson myself. My husband disagreed. So for better or worse Lucy M. seems to be here to stay

Rain Rain Come Back

Today we took a walk up the street to the mail box like we do most days.  After we got there I decided to go around the long block. Which is up hill both ways. :)  I checked the weather report this morning because we have had awesome clouds in the sky, it said in the 3 o'clock hour there was a 36% chance of rain. Perfect.

It rained. Hard for this area. When we got back there was a little stream coming off the roof. It was really little more than sprinkling but it was fun.  We had to hurry back since Caden was in the front carrier.  It was Caden's first walk in the rain.  He seemed to enjoy it for the most part. Cody was running ahead while I pushed Lil JJ in ride along car and carried 2 year old B on my shoulder.  (Kids form my in-home daycare.)

Of course we didn't get any pictures but we had a great time! These are some other pictures from today.

I love how he pulled the little blankie up to his face. that is the first time I have seen him do that!

Yum! Lunch! 

They kids were playing out side. I heard giggling. I came out to catch this! 

They gave up on the side walk and decided to "color" each other! 

Playing trains

Learning through laying? 

This doesn't feel like nap time to me!