Maid wanted...

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have been fighting a cold for a few days now. Quite fankly I'm just tired. I fell asleep on the couch last night about 6 o' clock. At some point I did make to my bed as Hunter performed his wake up mommy routine at 6:10 this morning and I was in my own bed. For some reason I just couldn't go back to sleep. Instead of cleaning my house I talked to a few friends on the phone this morning. To one I mentioned how embarrassed I 'd be if someone were to show up on my door step. I jinxed myself. I have had about 5 unexpected visitors. As I let one visitor into my house he congratulated me on my pregnancy and then said,
WOW, I hope your morning sickness doesn't last long.". The funny part that I'm still laughing about is I just told his wife this morning I was pregnant and didn't mention morning sickness at all. He's just assuming my house looks like this becuase of well.... morning sickness. The 2 above picts is what you see from my front door. Whats hard to imagine is I taught preschool yesterday and my house didn't look anything like this. It's kinda scary to see how quickly a house can be trashed. At the same time its shows how much I (and every other mom) do during the day. I don't know if my house has ever looked quite this bad. Any one have a maid to spare??? I think I may need to hire one just for the next few months.

This would be my dining room. Which still carries last night dinner plates, breakfast cereal, peanut butter and jelly from lunch and the art project Maddie has done today to keep her busy.

Yes, it is 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Today was P.J day at school so that's Hunter's excuse for being in his P.J's. And just for the record he did not wear these last night to bed. Emily however there is no excuse nor for myself. Maddie just informed me that Emily had an accident and wiped it up with the pair of pajama pants in the background. That is why she doesn't match. Which I didn't realize until now. So I guess it's time to end this blog. I've got much cleaning to do and a child that needs a bath before she starts a stinkin'.

The 10 Second Rule...

Hunter has never understood that when food drops on the floor it is now dirty and you shouldn't eat it. When he was quite younger we'd go to the movies and he'd crawl off our laps to sit on the floor and eat all the fallen popcorn that had been sitting there for who knows how long and from who know how many different people. There are too many times to relate how many times Hunter would show me a piece of candy he found on the ground that he was already chewing up.

It's probably true that a little dirt won't hurt but we all know that the 10 second rule is just a bunch of crap. However, we figured if we could teach this to Hunter than maybe eventually we could move on to the if you drop it don't eat it concept.

Last week we took a family field trip to Costco. My kids love going there for all the free food. (I must say thankyou to the sweet little lady who gives each child their own whole Go-Gurt. And we wonder why our kids love this place.) Hunter went up to one of the "free food" spots and took one of the freebies. The little chunck of meat slipped off the flimsy paper cup onto the floor. He imediately bent over picked it up and took a big bite. I seriously thought the lady who was passing them out was going to have a heart attack. Her jaw dropped, her eyes bugged, she grabbed the meat out of his hands and told him not to eat it, and gave him a new one. Hunter looked up at her and said "but I haven't counted to 10 yet." Kory and I both kinda chuckled. I was just so excited to hear him repeat what we've been telling him for quite some time now. To think he may actually be "getting" what we've been trying to teach him. It was definety something gross. We all know you just don't eat something that has beed dropped onto Costco's floor.

Yesterday Hunter wanted left over spaghetti for lunch. After warming it up for him he wanted to take it outside and eat on our front porch. He kinda tripped on the ledge making him tip his plate a little too much causing this.... He didn't seem to care so why should I??? I've been fighting a cold the past few days and the cold finally won. So not sleeping good at night because I can't breathe, being pregnant and fighting morning sickness that tends to last all day, babysitting this week and teaching preschool, I'M TIRED!, I really didn't care how, where or what he's choosing to eat.
Kory happened to be home at the time of this little incident. After him eating just a few bites Kory looked at me and said, "You gonna let him eat that, off the porch?" I should have had a quick come back something along the lines of your the one watching him do it, maybe you should do something about it. Instead I had a flash back of our house being sprayed recently for bugs. They usually squirt down the entire front porch with their pesticide. I decided it probably wasn't very safe for him to eat it so I helped him clean it up and got him some fresh spaghetti.

Preschool- Thursday

To continue with our "bug" theme of the week I focused a little more on the change of a catipillar. We started off painting our catipillars green. Some have asked, "what does Hunter do when it's your turn to teach?" Well he goes along with everyone else. It just adds one more student to the day.
For snack we ate cocoons (cresent rolls). Everybody got to make their own.
While waiting for the cocoons to bake and the paint to dry, we made a counting catipillar.
And in the end a beautiful butterfly to take home.
Maddie says that today was her favorite day. I'm so glad she has fun in our little preschool.

"I'm not tired", says Hunter.

For as long as I can remember Hunter's woken up at the crack of dawn. I think we trained him to do this when he was just a baby and I was working full time. I had to have him at the sitters at 7:30am so I would wake him up between6-6:30. ANYWAYS... So what seems like forever now he comes into my room about 6am every morning and asks,"Is it wake up time?". My response is usually, "is the sun up?" Unfortunately his answer is usually a yes. So for an hour he gets to watch cartoons or play the WII without his sister's opinions.

About once a month he gets incredibly tired. He whines, crys throws a tantrum, you name it. It's on days like this that I make him lay down. So the other day he was having one of his tired days and I asked him to go lay down. He threw a fit and kept saying he wasn't tired. He wasn't in his room to long when I went in to check on him. You know to make sure he was on his bed and not playing quietly in the corner. This is what I found. At first I didn't think he was asleep, but he was!!!
And he says he wasn't tired!!!!

Preschool- Tuesday

It's that time again. It's hard to believe we've been doing the school thing for 6weeks now. It was my turn to teach again. The letter of the week is G. The kids wrote the letter G out with glue and then we covered it in sparkles making us "Glittering G's" They each had a paper to color the capital G's one color and the lower case G's another.
Our theme of the week is "Bugs". This is my favorite theme. We made a Lady Bug Counting Book. Each page had a number on it and then the kids glued black dots to match the number.

Who doesn't like to paint??? This is the 2nd time I've tried having the kids paint with potatos. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but it didn't work again. So in the end Maddie painted one big black dot on the back of her ladybug. As long as the kids have fun it doesn't matter.

Emily turns "2"

Monday was Emily's 2nd birthday. I can't believe my baby's "2". Where has all the time gone??? Emily didn't have an opinion for her birthday cake like Maddie did when she turned 2. So Hunter and Maddie both agreed on doing a Fairy cake. I think it turned out pretty cute.
It took her a minute to discover the blowing out candles. But she got it and when she did she wanted to do it again and again and again.
Once she discovered that there was something special under all that silly paper she was hooked.
One of her favorites was her very own cel phone. Thankyou $1 section of Wal Mart.
Every 2 year old needs a new baby. Can't leave out the dress up stuff. A purse, shoes and necklaces.

Emily loves books. This was another big hit.
When asked Emily says she's "1". I couldn't get her to hold up 2 fingers for her picts. just 1.
What's a "2"year old without attitude. I asked her to smile for me. She replied, fat chance, Mom.

Thankyou all who came and supported our little 2 year olds birthday party barbeque. She loves her gifts.

Ebay here I come...

I had great sucess on my last batch of outfits that I listed on ebay. I recently cranked out some more and hopefully will sell these too. The above pict. is a 3T and the below a 4t. The only diference is I ran out of green fabric so I did a orange layer with the pants.
The above pict. I made in 2 different sizes. This one is my favorite. This is a friends little girl isn't she cute!!!
Emily is such a terrible child to get a good picture of. She really gives whom ever is photographing her a run for their money. These are the best photos of her in these 2 outfits.
The bottom layer on these pants are purple and black not blue. The spiders on the top have purple mouths. I think with 6 outfits I'm ready to try selling again.

Ebay here I come...

Baby #4

When we got pregnant with Hunter he was the 17th grandchild for the Heaton side and the 1st for my side. Kory and I made clues and sent them to each side of our families. Some of the clues were a wad of toilet paper, a picture of a bottle of Tums, a calender with a star on the due date, and the last was a set of baby keys. Some got it immediately and others it took a while. We had fun announcing my pregnancy to our families this way.

Hunter was 5mo. old when we realized I was pregnant with Maddie. We weren't too excited about another pregnancy so soon and were actually a little nervous to tell our families that our children would be 14 mo. apart if this 2nd child came around it's due date. If this 2nd child were to come 6 weeks early like Hunter they could be 12 1/2 months apart. Due to this concern we didn't do anything fun or cutsie to announce my 2nd pregnancy. Now looking back having 2 infants 14mo. apart wasn't that bad and it has been nice to have Hunter and Maddie so close together. I wouldn't do 14 mo. again but we did survive those first few years. Hunter and Maddie our the best of friends.

On our 3rd pregnancy when I was about 9 weeks I miss-caried the day of our 4th anniversary and then left the next day to Utah for Thanksgiving. We had only told our parents of the pregnancy. Kory has 8 siblings and we were the last to show up so by the time we had driven to Utah word had spread and everybody knew that we were pregnant. That was a different experience telling everybody that yes we were pregnant but not anymore. Needless to say when we got pregnant with Emily we waited till I was a little farther along and then told everyone we were pregnant.

Early last week we discovered that I am pregnant. Instead of telling everyone I posted a pregnancy widget on the top right of our blog to announce this pregnancy. I wanted to see how long it took for people to notice. I have one sister-in-law Camille who noticed (YEAH!!!) and that was it. We went to Hurricane, Utah this past weekend. When we arrived I had my little sister Hanna look up our blog and she discovered our little surprise. Hanna's 14 and is so excited about being a new Aunt again. She quickly spread the word as each sibling arrived to my parents house. My other sister Sheri got married a year ago August. Sunday before we left for home she announced that she too was pregnant. What a surprise to hear that we share the same due date; May 18, 2009. Everybody on my side of the family now knows that we are expecting. I have several family members on Kory's side that claim they check our blog regularly but so far we haven't heard anything so we'll see. I don't think I'm going to say anything. It may be fun showing up for Thanksgiving dinner being 14/15 weeks and wearing maternity clothes.

I wasn't sick with my other pregnancies and so far I still feel great. Hopefully this will continue. I forget I'm pregnant until someone asks how I am feeling. Our kids know that mommy has a baby in her tummy and they are all excited. Maddies all ready telling people it's a boy and his name is Brayden. I'm not to sure I like this name anymore. I guess time will tell...

Dance Class

Maddie loves, loves and did I mention loves to dance. For several months now I have been trying to find her a dance class that we could afford. I finally found one. We pay $25 a month and she has class every wed. morning. I even found her leotard at Good Will for $4. Yesterday was her 1st day. I think she's just biting her lip in this pic. There were no tears.

Isn't it cute???
Maddie loved the dance class and is counting down the days till she can go again. I'm so glad we found her a class.
This is Amber she and Maddie are best friends.

My Latest Project

After getting so many comments of Maddie's 1st day of school outfit. I thought I'd take the plunge and make some more to sell on ebay. After spending a few days browsing and watching ebay sales I decided I'd make some holidays outfits too.
Gobble...Gobble... Maddie absolutely loves posing for pictures. She is very photogenic. This was the last outfit she wore for picts and she was getting a little carried away with the head thing.
This outfit is a 24mo. and a friend let me borrow her daughter for this mini photo shoot.

This outfit and Maddies are identical just different sizes.


I had some left over lady bug fabric that I thought would be cute. This outfit was the 1st one I did when I started this little project. It was not my favorite. Seeing it on Maddie however I think it looks pretty good.

This is Maddie's favorite. She's hoping it doesn't sell so she can keep it.
Isn't she just to cute! Those are little ladybugs walking up the pants.


This is another Thanksgiving outfit. After looking at the photos we realized the rock she's leaning against is a little dark and you can't see the dark maroon fabric that is the lower layer underneath the striped fabric.

I haven't posted this outfit yet. I want to get another picture so you can see the pants more clearly along with the shirt. In every picture her arms were folded or the shirt was creased so you can't see the 3rd square very well.


This is my one and only halloween outfit for the time being. Emily is always a pain when it comes to taking pictures. She is so not photogenic like her sister. Maddie must have gotten all the photo genes from us and there were none left for little sis.
This outfit is also a 24mo. but as you can see is still a little big on her. She wasn't wearing shoes either at the time of these photos.

I do have another way way cute halloween outfit. The shirt is completely done, and one pant leg. One of my special feet to help me make pleats in the fabric broke. Leaving me with one pant leg needing to be done. Hopefully this weekend I can either get it fixed or repaired to finish my oh so close to being done best outfit yet.

All of these outfits come with matching bows and matching belts for those pants with belt loops.

Now you can see why it's been so long since I posted last. I recently bought some Christmas fabric. Can you believe it's out already??? I'm anxious to get started on them.