My Pipey

Piper deserves a post just about her today (you know, cause she reads my blog and all) because she has been one sick little munchkin. She has been sick since Thursday with one thing or another. Guess I better tell you otherwise you'll assume we have the plague.. just fever and cold and now ear infections.
Anyway, she is such a brave little soul. A good, sweet girl. I hate to see her sick because she rarely complains of anything, well, except her clothes, about every other hour. Oh, and pretty much the way I do everything...

Anyway.. Love my Piper. I really love these pictures of her cause they are just so her.

My Peanut Is Three

My Peanut turned 3 almost two weeks ago and we went to Disneyland on his birthday!

For the record, he is starting to be not too sure of being called Peanut. Don't worry, I have already ordered my antidepressants to deal with this. They will be here soon, let's hope I can get some more Peanut's in before that to tide me over.

We didn't tell any of the kids and that morning got them all packed up, met up at my house and told them we were on our way to fly to the airport to fly to Disneyland. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BECK!

Naturally, they didn't really believe us.
I mean.. with all the lies we tell them on an everyday basis.

Here are the pictures from my phone. I'll get to my camera at a later date... probably.. maybe..



"You're teasing."


Here we are in our 1000 passenger van!


Steph is more enthusiastic then me, apparently..


My fabulous family.


My fabulous husband?


Proof that my Piper is kick a. Tower of Terror. Hey, me and Jake enjoyed it! No, she loved it really, this was her second time.


It's a small world is more Beckett's pace.




How many more kids can we fit on this thing????? Is that a challenge?


My cute brother.






Yep, she got that face from me. We be so cute, her and I.

9 Months

Miss Lou turned 9 months.
15 lbs, 1 oz- 3%

Man, seriously, the more kids you have the faster it goes by. It never ceases to amaze me. I am so busy running around with my head cut off I probably just don't notice time going by. I don't know about you, but three kids- woooowza! Feels like a million. Good news is, from here on out... can't get much harder. Keep piling them on!
Seriously. I don't sit down. Over achiever? Unorganized? Bad discipliner? Schizophrenic? You choose the reason for my madness.

Miss Lou- she's a silly goose as you can see. She has a fantastic sense of humor.





What a crack up.




She's got one little tooth. Soon to be two.


Her dad likes to let her practice walking. I, on the other hand, do not. Don't walk. Ever. Stay a baby. Forever. PLEEEEAAASSEEE.


When you are a teenager and you look back at this and then look in the mirror, please know with every inch of my being how SORRY I am that you inherited my nose. Soooo sorry.
But it could be worse, it could be your dads...




Definitely pulling yourself up on the furniture.




Lots of adorable fuzzy hair.

Some Jems

How adorable are these?






This is really old and cool, up close it's all green and warped.

I Resolve To Resolve.

In looking forward to a new year I am really not one in making resolutions, probably because me, like most people, don't usually keep them! I love how the new year makes you think about how to improve yourself and your family. I have resolved (once again) to be better in a couple of areas. Assuming I better be slow but sure in my self betterment. So world wide web journal here are some, with confidence that writing them for the world will hold me to them.

-WRITE, like with a pen, in my journal. Everyday. (I do still know how to write, right?)

-Eat cleaner foods and ingest as little toxins and unnatural foods, cleaners and remedies as I can.

-Think about drinking less Diet Coke.

-Continue to wish for the impossible of my children eating no sugar. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH- that's setting myself up to fail.

-Be a better wife

-Be a better mother

-Say my prayers EVERY morning to help me do the above two things. I do need heaven's help for both of them most of the time.

-Be a better friend. I think it's easy to have people admire you, harder to have people relate to you. People want to be friends with people they can relate to. People want to be acquaintances with people they admire. I want friends not acquaintances.

-Run the half marathon, or two.

- Do not follow suit of the 6 years where I am pregnant every other year, in which I would be pregnant this year. Indie and her next sibling will be further apart, or will they?

-Keep sewing. I have a couple quilts I am working on.. and working on.. and WILL finish. This. Year.

-Keep one of these resolutions so I have one less next year :)

Hallelujah. That's all that can be said.

So much has changed in the Indie Lou and Carroll world that must be told!

My Little Lou says MAMA!!!! Yep, before dada. For once. Eat it dad.

She has a teeeenny tinnnny tooth!

She ~get ready for this~ sleeps through the night!

WHHAAAATTT?

HHOOOWW??

I am just an awesome mom. Ok?

Ok not really. After some pressure from Jake and what I believe was some release of some major negative energy paired with an hour and a half of screaming in the middle of the night, well, it sort of took. And stuck.

Que choir of angels singing hallelujah.

So this warrants a post about her. A very UNSTYLED post, have you. But she was in the cutest mood, so I grabbed the camera and there you have it. My sweet silly Lou. I know seeing the same face in the same crazy headband, with no pants and a half on shirt might get old to you, but give it a chance. Every single face in each picture is pretty hilarious.