Check-ups

With the birthday bonanza also comes the doctor visits- all 3 recently had their check-ups.

Popcorn: 44 lbs (75%), 44 1/4 inches tall (80%). Do you see a pattern here?

Sweetie: 61 lbs (60%), 54 3/4 inches tall (97%).

Cutie Pie: 29 lbs (80%), 37 1/2 inches tall (97%), and 20 inches head circumference (97%). I thought her head was rather big, now I know it wasn't my imagination.

Everyone is healthy and doing well. Now for a story...

Sweetie and Popcorn had back-to-back appointments and as the nurse was leaving she quietly mentioned to me that Sweetie needed another chicken pox shot. This was surprising because we were told there were no shots needed. Anyway, I said that one of them needed a shot and so Sweetie launched into this big explanation to Popcorn about how it will be quick and feel like a little pinch (at which point Sweetie pinched Popcorn's arm). I was trying not to laugh when I informed Sweetie that she was the one who needed the shot. Sweetie put on a brave face, after her little speech that was all she could do, and didn't even cry (much to my surprise, you should have seen her wail when she got her flu shot).

We're all set for another year!

Cutie Pie turns 2!

Happy Birthday Cutie Pie! I can hardly believe that my baby is 2 years old! It seems like just yesterday that she was born. Cutie Pie has really turned into a little girl, she loves to play with her sisters and get into everything in sight.

I was actually in Nashville on her birthday (sad but true, it was the only time that worked for me to be there) so we don't really have any good birthday pictures. We spent the entire weekend having fun in the pool (part birthday fun, part holiday weekend fun) so here she is modeling her new swim suit... (In general I don't like the floatation suits but she thinks she can swim on her own so out of necessity we got her something with some extra buoyancy).

Cutie Pie only wanted to swim with Ladd, and she is so wiggly when she 'swims' that Ladd got a little worn out. She was introduced to the joys of the pool noodle.

Cutie Pie is obsessed with balls of every size and color. When I saw this ball toy I knew it was for her. It turns on and shoots balls out the top- they all have a great time playing with it.

I don't think I've had a kid so interested in dressing up at such an early age, Cutie Pie loves to wear her sisters' shoes. Here she is modeling Popcorn's new sandals and Sweetie's HSM sunglasses (that say I love Troy on the side)...

Some kids stack blocks, Cutie Pie stacks condiments....

Always the 'little helper' she also likes to wash the dishes...

Cutie Pie does have a little temper. Her favorite phrase at the moment is 'I no want it' while she folds her arms and makes a little protest. I was taking her picture and Popcorn snuck into the shot. As you can see Cutie Pie was not happy about that...

I suppose she can always get revenge with her water gun!

Happy Birthday Cutie Pie, we love you!

Update!

Short version:
We sold our house in Texas!
We bought a house in Tennessee!
We're moving right after school gets out!

A little more explanation:

Sorry for the lack of new posts...things have been crazy. However, life should return to 'normal' soon (whatever normal means). We are under contract on our house in Texas, we close right after school gets out and we're headed to Tennessee! I can't tell you how happy I am to be done with the showings. Although it's funny, whenever I ask Popcorn to clean up anything she asks: 'why, do we have a showing?' I trained them well, after a 10 minute cleaning frenzy the house looks pretty good.


I just got back from an intense house hunting trip in Nashville. It was 5 days of looking at houses and driving all over the place; I was out looking all day, every day I was there. However, Ladd and I did manage to see a couple movies (LOVED Star Trek) and got to try a couple great restaurants (found a great sushi place in Nashville). We had pretty much looked at every house for sale fitting our criteria and price range, and had narrowed the field down to 3 choices. The problem was that something was bugging me about each of the 3 final houses, I couldn't get excited about a single one.

I was leaving the next day, only had a few hours left and we hadn't found a place to live yet. We were talking about renting for a few months, trying to figure out what to do. Our realtor suggested we look through the listings one more time; so we revised our criteria a little and found a couple more houses that were a little smaller but had awesome backyards. I can't stare at the back of another house, you have no idea how hard it was to find a house in Plano that had any kind of tree view. Trees are abundant in Nashville, which is great because I do so miss the green.

Off we went for one last attempt to find a house and what do you know? We loved both of them. The first house was smaller than we wanted but had a huge screened porch and a separate large deck that opened up to a common area with trees and a creek. The second house had the floor plan that I loved (the builder is popular there and I saw several similar houses), and had trees but the yard was small and it backed up to a street that ran through the neighborhood.

We chose...(I feel like this is an episode of house hunters, anyone watch that show?)... house number 1. The backyard was just too awesome to pass up. It is a little smaller than we wanted but to be honest the house we're in now it too big for us. We will have a great time using the screened porch, there's a swing and ceiling fan out there too. The kids are so sad about leaving the pool behind (there's a community pool at our new place so at least they can swim) but we talked them into a trampoline and now they're excited about that. This house will be great for us and with our track record (this is now the 4th house we've bought in 4 years) we won't be there long enough to outgrow it anyway!!!!!!

Crazy swimmers

While my dad was visiting they all decided to go for a swim. It was warm out, but not what I would consider swimming weather. The pool was a cool 71 degrees (I think 80 is a comfortable temp). The video (below- I wanted it to be a different order but oh well) is of Popcorn jumping in. She quickly got back out.

The photo below is Sweetie doing the backstroke. She is very good at the backstroke, the best in her swim class. Well, she started to panic when she got close to the wall. She tends to be, how do I say this, a tad DRAMATIC. She started shrieking 'help me, help me'. I looked over and saw how close she was to the other side, and I mentioned that she could in fact stand up right where she was (the water is 3 feet deep there). She kept freaking out and I (rather unwisely I must say) started to laugh. Boy oh boy did she chew me out for that.

Cutie Pie also had a great time in the water. I had to take her inside kicking and screaming because she wanted to keep swimming. Poor thing was shaking and turning blue but she wanted to stay in the pool. I was able to quickly distract her with her other favorite water activity, a bath.