Bailey Family

Here's a quick picture review of our Thanksgiving weekend at Mom and Dad's house...I hope mom and Kristen got better pictures than me, b/c I don't have very many! Our newest game...the Wii. Ok, I give in. It really is fun. Yes, even anti-video game Beth played. (and Grammy!) Rob did his Black Friday homework, and at midnight, some of us went out for our first round of shopping! The second round started before the sun came up. Community Bathtime! (don't worry - the bubbles cover everything) :) Grammy and Granddaddaddy got to hold and kiss 4 grandkids. Granddaddy loves "baby head" (you know - the way their head/hair smell right out of the bathtub with baby lotion on 'em)...Grammy had to reapply the baby lotion about 5 times a day! We played late night board games. (Granddaddy had taken some nighttime tylenol cold stuff and was long asleep by this game. I had some the night before...I was out by 8!) The babies got rocked, held, or lied down with to sleep ever...

Our dishwasher broke. So, here are the 'hidden blessings': 1. We're going to mom's for Thanksgiving (so we won't need it for several days and we won't have 12 people's worth of dishes to do here). 2. My kitchen has actually been cleaner without it! (yes, I'm sure this will wear off soon.) After doing 2 days worth of dishes by hand (I had tried to wash the first day's worth in the dishwasher before realizing it was broken the second day)...I decided it was better to hand wash after each meal rather than once a day...so cleaner kitchen all day long. 3. Natalie can't turn off the natural air circulating throughout the house like she can the 'heated dry', so no more dripping dishes when I expect to find dry dishes. 4. Ok, that's all I can think of...and we are going to get it fixed - but it takes less time to wash the dishes than to deal with getting it fixed this week! Jewelry Thieves! (They were so cute...and Drisella (Carolyn...

After the loss of my blender lid, the dumping and scattering of important files, and the unmonitored use of scotch tape, I decided to take matters into my own hands! Natalie's already started working on the masking tape. Does anyone know how to get into that space under the cabinet (behind the toe kick area)? I think my blender lid got lost through an opening in the cabinet where two meet in the corner, and then slid under the floor of the cabinet. Rob says we can't get to it, but that blender's only a year old and I WANT MY LID BACK!  (how hard would it have been for the builders to put a board up to cover the cabinet front to cover the opening before putting another cabinet in front of it??)

I feel like all day long I say, "GIRLS!" Sometimes they're cute: (playing hair salon I think?) Sometimes they're sweet: But mostly these days, they're a pain! Either I was not paying attention or not warned...twins are hard! (Yeah, Libbi's probably saying, "no kidding!") They like to take their clothes off: (That would be her long sleeved onesie around her waist - yes, the neck hole of the shirt is around her waist!) My other children were so much easier to transition from cribs to beds: And they NEVER escaped from a gated area!! (yeah, that was naptime...I was trying to paper maché at the time) Funny story. So, I wanted to take a shower after the gym one day last week and not have to wait until naptime. They've been destructive a lot, but thanks to that, most of the stuff they mess with is now up high.  I put Carolyn in charge (haha), and took a very fast shower. After I got dressed I came out to find Nat...

This is quite impressive for me...streamers aren't my thing - where's mom when you need her? oops, one fell. I was going to post lots of pictures of the party, ....but I was too busy handling all the kids and I had Rob cooking or entertaining Carolyn and her friend, so I have very few pictures! Here are the cakes. (Cakes are homemade, frosting is bought -except the white - Rob made buttercream homemade frosting for me to write with) Didn't notice the cat's whiskers weren't symmetrical - I was doodling that while the guests were arriving! Ugh, that's going to bug me in the scrapbook. Yes, I washed every piece on that cake before putting it on! We played zingo (bingo), musical chairs, dinosaur stomp (try to pop each other's balloon tied to the ankle and protect your own...that would have been a cute picture, oh well), and a treasure hunt (12 clues - mostly dinosaur and some kitty, although Carolyn and her friend had no interest in participatin...

He was 5... And now he's 6! The only thing he asked for was a skateboard...so we got it (with rules to wear all pads and helmet!) And some cool batman pajamas - with a cape! (and some gym pants, not pictured) We're doing his party in November to combine it with Carolyn's birthday.

 Tuesday afternoon (election day), I was trying to do a craft with the big kids (babies were napping). A "family project" Seth brought home from school. I was packing up the craft doodads we didn't need, and Seth said something to me. I looked over and this is what I see (not the blueness and swelling - the picture was taken about an hour after it got stuck): He can't get the thing off. (I tried cooking oil, soap, and icing his finger.) No luck. Called my mom. Mom suggested the above attempts. Called Rob. Rob says, "use my chisel and hammer". Tried. Couldn't get a good aim at the thing without aiming at his finger! So, "Momma called the doctor and the doctor said..." bring him in.  The nurse wanted me to bring him in right away (like his finger would fall off if I didn't?) I said, when the babies wake up I'll bring him in. I'm sure she thought I was a weirdo for not freaking out. He could wait.  Then I took the above...