Where's my freakin' violin?

Today I'm:

• Doing chem work
• slowly torturing myself with psych crap
• feeling my lymph nods in my neck quickly expand to the size of apples
• sipping herbal echanacea tea, however the heck it's spelled
• eating Cheetos( and I don't even know where the heck these things came from since I have never bought them in my life, I blame it on my mom who came to visit this weekend)

And the question of the day? 
How many times can my children say, "Awwww, my Caterpillar never turned into a butterfly!"  just before chomping on their Cheetos.  I'm still tallying, but I'm sure it will be in the thousands by the time she's done, or until the bag runs out, which actually doesn't have thousands of Cheetos in it.  Whatever.

The Crazy is Growing Up

It happened again, she had a birthday, again, and now it's gone and over, again.  I'm okay with that, until I look at these pictures of her in her Roxy gray and pink shirt and realize she is starting to look almost like a pre-teen.  Maybe it's just the bangs?  I'm sure that's it, the bangs are throwing me off.  In real life she still looks as young to me as she does in the picture at the top of my blog.  She hasn't really doubled in age since I captured that moment.

But just in case, from now on she gets nothing but pigtails and overalls with baby pink tee shirts.

A mix of unrelated things

I can no longer do the laundry without this happening.

Ethan's class was asked to make a bridge with these materials.  This was Ethan's.  The rest, well, let's just say they weren't quite as structured.

I got this from our fantastic friends the Vera's!  You can not get this awesomness inside the US anymore.  They know how bumbed I am that they no longer make Postum here so they snagged this up for me the last time they took a trip to Chile.  Thank you!!!  I was so surprised to open it up in the mail last week.

This is Tyler's new look. I can't help it, I laugh my butt of every single time he does it.

Ha, ha, ha!!!

I gave Lauren bangs,which aren't looking that hot in this picture, but I'm starting to really like.  And this is her new favorite possesion, Felicia.  She named her after watching the last Shrek movie.  For her birthday she'll be getting more clothes and furniture items for her special doll, and rock climbing shoes and a harness from me and her dad.  Ssshhhhhh, don't tell her.

This is just a random picture I tookof the kids during dinner while their daddy was at the temple.  I actually just wanted a picture of Tyty eating because it's adorable, but then all the others jumped in as well.

And I need to write down a few more things before I forget forever.

1. The kids are doing awesome academically!  Lily knows almost all her letters, all her shapes and colors, and we are working on numbers.  I'm just so proud of how well she's doing.  Ethan just got his report card and only had one 89%.  Good job buddy.  Lauren was the first kindergartener in her school to finish the goals for the year and she only needed to remember how to write a couple of her letters right.  She's fixed that now.  Ty is no longer constipated and has become quite regular in his pooping, so proud.
2. This will have to wait for later, my family just exploded.