ipod + ebay= whatever Zeke wants

Pantera made this nifty leprechaun in kindergarten. He has graced our kitchen wall half of the year and is replaced by a snowman the other half of the year. Zeke and Amari both call him dad. I failed to return him to his home on the wall and Zeke saw his arm in the closet today. He was so upset and said over and over "Dad's stuck! You need to get him down and put him on the wall!" When I finally did this Katurah was in her walkabout, Amari lovingly turns it towards the wall and says "Look bebe, is your dad!" For the record, Jess is way hotter.

 Pantera is picking up on swimming so well, I am really proud of her progress. I got her this shirt that she says makes her look like a "peace girl" aka hippie, so she wouldn't smile for any pictures and was trying to become one with the earth. She still says wonderfully hilarious things, but alas, she can read and I get busted if I post her funnies. I might create a secret blog devoted just to this;)

 Zeke got busted yesterday and is now grounded from the ipod. He ordered himself a car on Ebay! I opened up an email that congratulated me on my purchase, luckily it was only a $13 car toy and not anything else. I guess he figured out how to access my account through my email and was browsing through there toy car selection. He has to have one of the biggest collections of cars toys ever, but he knows exactly which ones he needs, and he ordered one he was missing. Smart kid.

 Here's Amari trying to get under Zeke's skin.

Amari has a special love for her little sister. I can always tell if she is talking to Katurah because she does the cutest baby talk and says "AWWW!" everytime Katurah moves. She asks to hold her constantly, there is only a 6lb difference between them, so it looks hilarious.

Katurah is eating cereals now and she smiles because she loves it (inside joke sorry). She now needs it before she will fall asleep for the night, I love the way she waits with her mouth open when she sees the spoon. She is getting big way to fast! She generally has at least one giggling spell a day and is usually so happy.

Jess and I have been married for 8 years today, holy moly I feel old!!! I love you Jess!

Little 2

She looks like a little model, does she not?

 Today Amari asked to wear this super cute dress, then she went for a flower in the hair. Being me, I was happy to let her and take a few pics.

I will try to post some funnies tomorrow, for now soak up the cute.

 Zeke has adopted this abandoned Easter bonnet as his own, he says he is Perry the Platypus when he wears it and does amazingly death defying moves when it is on his head. He also looks like a dork...so double bonus. He informed me the other day "I am amazing! I am Zeke!"

Pantera is taking swim lessons and loving it. There aren't many opportunities to swim when it rains so much, so lessons at an indoor pool sounded great. She loves to play outside and discover new scientific facts, the facts are usually fictional, but they are pretty entertaining nonetheless.

I finally broke down and bought some color wonder marker sets for Amari. If you don't already know, they are special markers that only show up on special paper and cost a small fortune due to this fact. At first Amari was so excited, I was handing her markers...in the living room! She looked like a kid in a candy store, where does she start? Then she looked like she discovered the candy store was filled with plastic candy, her doodles didn't show up on her arms, her shirt, the wall, or the couch! I showed her they work on the paper, but she just glared at me and took another menacing marker swipe at the couch.Amari's review of color wonder markers 0/5 stars I color wonder why they even make these, lame.

Katurah is, of course, a sweet little angel. She doesn't walk or talk back, she is perfect:)  She has picked up a pretty funny comfort habit, she likes to hold the tubes to the breast pump while I am pumping. I didn't realize how often she did this until she went after the stethoscope tubing at the doctors office. My baby is being raised by a machine.

I guess I kind of just didn't mention Easter in the last posts. Easter is was my very favorite holiday. I love loved to get my kids all dressed up and take pictures of there super cuteness. The kiddos decided not to cooperate at all and we even left church early due to out of control attitudes. So aside from Zeke in the Easter hat you will not get to see how amazingly cute my kids looked this year and this might have been the year that did me in. I'm thinking I will get myself a really cute outfit next year, I'm sure you will all love to see pictures of just me in a frilly Easter dress, that's what I thought.

Really big girl!

Katurah's well check was today. At 5 months she is off the growth chart at 20lbs, she is in the 97th percentile for height. So basically she is huge, I guess all the pumping has done her good!

Amari's birthday fell on Easter this year.

 I can't believe our beautiful little Amari is 2! She is such a doll with the cutest little high pitched voice. She has alot of attitude, but she is also very loving. I feel so blessed that she came to our family. She tries to be just like Pantera (Pantera eats this up, most of the time), but also has her own opinions, one of them being Phineas and Ferb rock!

 Her grandma and papa Hammond sent her this amazing shirt, she was more then happy to take pics in this instead of her Easter dress.

 She is my little artist, continually coloring on every possible surface. She colored on her legs the other day and told me she was "like Yayex," my brother Alex has tattoos and this fascinated her. I hope she sticks to canvas!

 If you ask her a question she usually replies with a head nod and a "uh-huh" it's kind of her signature thing. She loves to pretend she is a dog or a cat, we are working on teaching her not to eat off of the floor like one:) She is the best big sister to Katurah, constantly showering her with kisses and joining her for tummy time. She does the cutest baby talk to Katurah, because she is so old, duh.

She is seriously such an awesome kid, we all just adore her! Happy birthday Amari we love you!

Somebunny's adorable!

 When I brought home these ears Zeke said "These are adorable!" To think he wasn't talking 7 months ago...

 She makes the cutest little Easter bunny!

Happy Easter!!!

ipeed

As I have previously documented in detail, Zeke refuses to potty train. I have tried everything I can think of, every bribe imaginable. I literally took him down the toy isle and said he could have whatever he wanted. I bought more cars (he keeps careful track of which characters he doesn't have) and let him hold the box, then took it away until he went...cruel am I not?

Finally tonight he went potty, twice!!! He's been obsessed with my ipod, he looks at an ad that the disney store sent me for-guess what-cars, over and over again. He also throws killer tantrums if the battery dies or I take it away. So I made a new plan, you want to sit and look at cars, sit on the potty and look at cars. It was a small victory, but it's more then I usually get. Yay Zekie! He is now the proud owner of "Topatopalino" or "Uncle Topalino" from Cars 2.