Ruby Ruby Ruby

Big news! Ruby pooped in the potty tonight! *yay*

Um.  No.

She actually started out by pooping in the bathtub.

Rewind:  Corey usually has bath duty while I clean up after dinner every night. It's a great arrangement since she is usually ready to go straight into the bath after she eats dinner.  Well, tonight Corey had band practice, so I put the kids to work finishing up the kitchen and table while I put her in the bath.  

Before I knew it, she had started pooping in the bath.  So I GRAB her out and put her on the toilet to avoid more mess.

*maniacal laugh*   *ma-ni-a-cal laugh*

She surprisingly pooped a little in the potty! I held her up there a bit longer for good measure then said yay and all that good stuff, cleaned her up, and got her down.  

I then turn around to start cleaning out the bathtub. I'm using some TP to grab the poop from the bath and put it in the potty.  So she brings me some fresh TP and throws it in there too. Thanks Roo!

Split second later she's handing me poopy toilet paper that she so lovingly retrieved from the potty!

YAY. (no exclamation point)

Cleaned her off, CLOSED the lid this time and turn around to commence the cleaning.  Well...whaddya know, she decides to squat in the floor and yep...the word of the night.  Poop.

Clean that up. Clean her up.  Throw her in the tub for the fastest bath ever as she actually starts grunting AGAIN!

Get her out, towel her up in my lap, and .......

She pees.  I know this because I can feel it through the towel.

Wow.  Babies need diapers? I didn't know!

And just for fun I'll share the facebook status I posted about 30 minutes before this fiasco began:

Carrie Addis Thompson

46 minutes ago via mobile

Baked chicken, peas, carrots, diced apple, cheddar cheese, veggie pasta with Italian dressing and Parmesan cheese, and blueberries. Not the offerings at the local buffet but what ruby had for dinner.

Hip Hip Hooray!

She then proceeded to climb on a 24 pack of water, squat, take everything out of the snack basket, and bring me an oatmeal bar to open for her to eat. I know this because I understand baby grunt language.  Well, sometimes.

Happy Birthday Noah!

A wise son brings joy to his father.... Proverbs 15:20

Noah, we are so very proud of you!  You DO bring us such joy, and are growing to be wise and thoughtful, a blessing to us all! I am pleased to call you my son! 

We had a great day celebrating Noah's 8th birthday today! He enjoyed his food, starting with breakfast at IHOP, cereal and milk for lunch, and ending with wings for dinner.  He received many great gifts from his family and then immediately went across the road to Toys R Us and spent the birthday money he received from grandparents. :)  

It was a great day!

As They Grow....

I noticed the other day that Katie had become....MUCH taller. ha ha.  So, that reminded me that it had been a WHILE since we did one of these, so here we go. I just brought them in the bedroom and took their pictures with my phone, so nothing fancy, just what they look like right at this very moment.

All About Katie....

Age: 9 1/2

height: 4' 8 1/4" (up 3 inches from this month last year!)

Favorites:

cereal: Cheerios and Oops all Berries

vegetable: carrots and peas

drink: Grape Fanta

toy: DS

TV Show: My Little Pony 

game: Life

Video game: Animal Crossing

book: Junie B Jones First Grader Alohahaha

restaurant: Olive Garden

holiday: anything that has to do with candy

animal: puppy

soup: alphabet

What do you love about each person in the family? 

Dad: he tickles me and jokes around

Mom: she cooks every meal for me and she always works hard

Noah: he knows bunches of secrets about Pokemon and we secretly talk at night.

Ruby: she's cute and funny

Where would you like to go on vacation this year? Paris

What are some of your wishes for this year? to have a big birthday party and go to the beach, and get to be queen of the day on my birthday.

All About Noah....

Age: almost 8

height: 4' 2 1/2" (up 2 inches from this month last year)

Favorites:

cereal: Cheerios and Marshmallow Pebbles

vegetable: mashed potatoes

drink: Grape Fanta

toy: Legos

TV Show: Spongebob 

game: Life

Video game: Pokemon

book: George Brown Class Clown Attack of the Tighty Whities

restaurant: Tarasco's

holiday: Christmas

animal: rhino

soup: potato and bacon

What do you love about each person in the family? 

Dad: he works for money and when he wrestles with me.

Mom: she cooks all the meals and takes me to the park.

Katie: she's funny and we play Moshi Monsters together.

Ruby: she's funny too and smart.

Where would you like to go on vacation this year? the beach

What are some of your wishes for this year? more Pokemon games and spy stuff.

Age: almost 13 months

height: 2' 4 1/4"

Favorites:

cereal: Cheerios 

vegetable: peas

drink: juice 

toy: Violet

TV Show: Sesame Street 

game: throw stuff down and someone else picks it up

Video game: ?

book: The Foot Book

restaurant: kitchen floor

holiday: my birthday

animal: puppy

soup: chicken?

What do you love about each person in the family? 
Dad: he gives me baths and makes me turn flips.
Mom: she feeds me and gets me to sleep.
Katie: she reads me books and kisses me all the time.
Noah: he watches out for me and entertains me in the car.


Where would you like to go on vacation this year? the beach (?) ha.


What are some of your wishes for this year? to get all my teeth and put everything I see into my mouth.

Ruby is a year old!

We celebrated with a Hello Kitty birthday party!

 Birthday outfit compliments of Etsy, Target, and bow from Sunny Tuesday (the original inspiration for the entire Hello Kitty theme)

 Lots of great gifts! These keys have actual (we think?) metal keys which she LOVES.  Just as good as mine, but less yucky!

 Finger puppets from Katie and felt cupcakes from Noah.  We brought up the play kitchen from the basement for her to start playing with as well. :)

 Farm magnets, a puzzle......

 She really loves looking at cards too. It's cute.

 a doll stroller from Memaw and Grandaddy

 A riding toy and wagon from Nanna and Poppa

 A doll to love and poke in the eye from Meme and Grandpa

 The party favors...a photo collage

 First a birthday meal, then.....

 CUPCAKE TIME!

 The biggest smile of the day came from when we all sang Happy Birthday.  She LOVED IT can you tell?

 She really enjoyed her cupcake. :)

Then bathtime

 An attempt at a family picture, then the birthday was put to sleep by Grandpa.  Funny how he can just put her to sleep by talking.... (haha)

It was a wonderful and FUN day.  No meltdowns from the birthday girl.

Here is a slideshow Corey's mom made.  

A Year of Ruby...

1 more week!

 Last year I had no idea that I would be waiting one more entire week to meet this little bundle!

I'm kind of glad I didn't know! ha!

We've got a busy week ahead and next Sunday will be celebrating her first year of life! I can't believe it!

 See her walking down the sidewalk with her daddy? Such a big girl!

 We went to the zoo week before last.  It was fun!

 And last Thursday Katie and Noah both lost teeth on the same day! Here's a pic of them with their lost teeth.

 And then later that night Noah lost ANOTHER tooth! THREE in one day in this house!

 Here they are all dressed up for picture day at Education Play Station.

This was before any of the tooth losing.

 And on my birthday, Noah took me to date night at Chick fil a, for moms and sons.  It was super cool.  The lady was supposed to email the photo that was taken of us together but she didn't. :(

I figured I should take some time to upload these pics and post something.  It has been over a month since I blogged.  I have just been really busy!  Life with two older children and a VERY mobile 11 month old is tiring! :)

Happy Mother's Day!

MORE Photos!

 Do not underestimate the amount of pain and suffering that went into getting these photos from Corey's phone, to his computer, to my computer, to this blog post.

His pictures are way better. :)

 I do not know why we have this picture.

 This is "The Dragon" roller coaster.  Katie and I rode it after Corey and Noah did.  She did not like it.  It is cute though, it has indoor lego scenes of various castle stuff and then you go out to the coaster part.

 Katie and I at boating school!

 GIANT Albert Einstein made of....guess!

 Noah at driving school.

 Various lego statues

 More miniland USA

 Um.,..Noah with...someone

 Have you noticed how NOT crowded it is in most of our photos.  THIS is where EVERYONE was! Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

 This fish ride was super fun!

 Late lunch at the 3 broomsticks.  Katie and Corey enjoying their "butterbeer."  It wasn't very good really...VERY sweet, like a melted butterscotch candy.

 Uh...repeat.

 We didn't take many photos at Universal Studios, but this was super cute!  A minion from Despicable Me!

Ruby didn't really enjoy the characters.  She almost cried at Diego and Dora. ha ha.

So there you go...the REST of the photos.  

Be sure to look at the post before this one for more photos.