Play time.

James finally started moving. He is somewhat crawling. He still would rather be walking. On Monday I was trying to get video of him crawling. He crawled over to the cat bed better known as Oscars bed and sat down. The video showed the rest. (Oscar thought he was the best play toy.

Now I know why boys spend ours in the bathroom....

What is the chance that my son could make a poop mess again. At least last time it was in the bathroom. Today I was doing a little sewing. Ansley was quietly playing next to me and James was in the Johnny jumper. I hear Ansley telling me that James smelled like poop. I said okay he needs a few more minutes of man time. Not even a minute later I look over and he he jumping and giggling. Then I look down.......to my horrific suprise there is greenish gray poop everywhere. When I mean everywhere toe nails, floor, knees need I go on. The only thing that was clean was the jumper. Really????How does that happen. It was a two bath day in James' world. He considered it a great day.

Still itching.

We made another trip to the germ infested doctors office for Ansley's itching. Being the respectful parent I am I sat on the sick side just in case she had some wierd problem. We were the only ones sitting there so it was fine. However, I drew the line when a kid walked in and put on a mask. To make the visit even better Ansley had several melt downs once we got back to the room. She saved the best for when the doctor came in. Thankfully, Dr. Wilburn has three kids and understands the witching hour (4:30-5:30). Ansley still has the itchies. There is still no rash to show for it. When I pick her up from school she has clawed herself everywhere. Her face is starting to bleed now. Dr. thinks it is an allergic reaction or allergies. We are trying Zyrtec and some kind of cream. Hopefully this will help girlfriend. Keep your fingers crossed.
James is still not crawling or walking. He loves to push his toys still and to stand in the play pen. He has learned to walk forward in my mom's walker. This week his new "how to drive mommy crazy" behavior is sitting in the bath tub with sister and flinging himself back. He does give me warning before he does this because he thinks it is just so funny. Last night I let him go under (the water is not high enough for his face to even remotely get wet). My thinking would be that he would be mad when this happened. Well that back fired. He loved it. So he got a time out of the bath tub. Little sinker.

James is really thinking about moving. He is more interested in walking but is slowly coming to the fact that crawling is the first step. I did get him on video today taking his first steps with the walking toy!!! Ansley is still fighting some kind of itchy nastiness. We can't seem to figure it out. I am beginning to think it might be ezeyma. THere is no rash but she can't stop itching. She is starting to break skin. She has been doing aveno bathes since last Monday and taking Allegra twice a day. I have been loading her up with Eucerin calming lotion. Nothing seems to be helping. So I guess we are off to the doctor again. Suggestions would be great if you have any insight.

So I have been lazy about blogging lately. I have just been slammed with work stuff. I am slowly catching up with everything and not having to bring as much work home. The kids are doing great. I had to take Ansley tot he doctor this week because she can't stop itching her arms and legs. Not sure what is going on. I did find sand in her bed on Saturday. I realized that she took her shows off from school and the entire sandbox was in her shoes. Mother of the year didn't realize it until Saturday. Who knows what kind of nastiness was in there. I immediately cleaned everything. She doesn't have a rash or anything she is just clawing herself. She is on allegra and aveno bathes right now. Hopefully it will work. I am giving it one more day. Other than that she is such a fun chick. School has taught her to say yes ma'am and no sir. I love how she tells me the reasoning to everything. Hopefully I will get some video of this soon.
James is a mess. He is still not moving physically but mentally he thinks he can walk. He is pulling up on everything and standing. He even thinks he can jump like Ansley. He is crawling backwards but really has no interest in it. One of his favorite things right now is to talk to Bob on the phone. It is so cute!!! He has a soft spot for his grandparents(both sides). He just gets so excited.
I have decided that moving day is upon us with in the year. I am ready to move into a good school system. One of the main things is to get out of our neighborhood. I am done with our HOA system. We have the perfect house just not the perfect spot. HOA is full of crazy power hungry people. Now some of you would say they are just trying to keep the neighborhood nice...whatever... don't want to hear it. There has been a house in our cul de sac that has been full of rats and weeds with stucco falling off for 4 years now. How dare they come to me and tell me that this one spot in my yard needs turf or pinestraw. It is in the woods. I asked them to tell me where it states in the by laws. Oh thats right it doesn't. Move onto bigger and more important details like the rat house. That is my say for the day. Have a great night..cheers.

Dora!!!!!

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What a fun weekend. Ansley and I got to go to Dora the Explorer live at the Fox theatre with Addison. We had so much fun. Ansley was too cute. She was laughing and telling Dora where to go. It was so funny. Of course she was dancing. Her style of dancing is jumping up and down. It helped that we had awesome seats up front.






Here are some cute pictures of James that I took yesterday. He wasn't in to smiling due to the fact that he can't stand grass. I haven't photo shopped the pictures yet. I will post better ones later this week. As I was about to take Ansley's pictures she fell of a lawn chair and busted her lip and chin. So maybe some time this week I will get some good ones.

Before I replay the conversation Bob and I had with Ansley as we were putting her to bed, let me set the stage. Early in the evening I had asked her if she would let me come play at her school. She said of course. She was going to let me have a cot to sleep on during nap and I could ask the teacher if I needed help putting my blanket on. So I was having her replay the conversation with Bob at bedtime.
Mommy: Tell daddy what you are going to let mommy do at school?
Ansley: Take a nap on a cot.
Daddy: Wow can I have one too.
Ansley: (turns to daddy and says) you can have a cot (Bob will not allow me to write what she really said). She got the ending wrong and put a ck.
We started laughing hysterically. She thought it was so funny that we were laughing. It was a cute 3 year old moment.
James has been on a mission this past week!! To WALK. He has little interest in crawling. He has learned to pull up on things this week. Then he thinks that he can let go and walk. That is the part he does not get. It is only a matter of time before he figures it out.
Funny news to report is that Caroline's 18 month old is only a half pound bigger than James. Poor Thomas his cousin will be able to give him hand me downs soon.