I don't believe it

I was stunned, literally speechless today when I heard Natalie sneeze in the other room and then she walked in carrying a booger encrusted... button!

She stuck this button up her nose on Memorial Day. That was over 3 months ago. Now I wonder if I should call the doctor to make sure she doesn't have a sinus infection from having a foreign object stuck up her nose for months.

And here is my wonder mom moment: She has complained about it several times over the months, but I poo-pooed her (I felt I should after getting poo-pooed from the on-call nurse) and just told her it was a booger stuck up there, that there is no way that the button was still in her nose. I mean, it's not like I didn't search high and low for the button, and felt her nose for something hard every time she complained. And I blamed her wild imagination, because every time she would have the sniffles she would complain about the button, you know how kids like to relive incidents over and over again, right?

"I want a Hee-hawk"

I usually give the kids several hairstyles when I shampoo their hair, and of course the most popular is the Mohawk.
But Natalie just can't seem to call it by it's proper name.
N: I want hee hawk.
H: You want a MO-hawk?
N: yea, a hee-hawk.
H: Say Mo.
N: MO.
H: Say Hawk.
N: Hawk.
H: Now say Mo-hawk.
N: Mo. Hawk.
N: I want a Ho-hawk now.
H: A Mo-hawk.
N: (chanting) Hee-Hawk. Hee-Hawk. Hee-Hawk.

I gave her the damn Hee-Hawk.

3 years and 14 hours later

February 26, 2005 7:05am

Little Natalie Sue entered our world and made our lives complete.

My "little" girl...

Do you think she liked it?


Natalie's princess cupcakes... even the boys wanted the tiaras! Well, Josh kinda talked Sam into declining ;)


Would you look at that face!




Had her 3rd birthday party today. Sigh. It was a lot of fun, most of the kids behaved sans parents, which made the party that much better.

Natalie was overwhelmed with wonderful gifts from all her friends and it was fun to watch a bunch of 3 year olds (most of them were younger siblings so they always get screwed) enjoying a party just for them.

The quote of the party came from Kate's son, Sam, as he and some other boys were assulting Larry with balls "Take that, old man!" Oh, boy, did we all enjoy that one! Well, I think Larry now holds a grudge on a 5 year old, but hey, it was worth the laugh!

And cutest pic of the day has to go to Nate. He out-cuted the birthday girl! But don't worry, we got some cute ones of her too.

And all the celebrations happened on such a beautiful day! Just like the day she was born.

Melt in your Mouth

So with all the TV viewing my children do, they end up watching a lot of commercials too. They're pretty good about not needing everything they see, but twice they've seen this commercial and I find myself wanting to buy it because they (really Nat)are so sweet. Now I have to say at this very moment Brady is hopping up and down screaming at me because he wants to haul out a game with many pieces 15 minutes before company comes, so forgive my grammatical errors. Oh, and I said no to the game if you didn't pick that up.

So the commercial is for a 3 pack of Shirley Temple movies. And it comes on, and they get quiet. Then Brady says "I need that movie." Then Natalie starts singing, in her little voice and impediment "Nanamal cackers in my sooooop." You figure it out, there are only 2 songs that Shirley Temple is REALLY famous for. It is so stinkin cute to listen to, I may just go out and get it. I'm a sucker.