So here are my tattered, weathered, beautiful doors:

And playing around a little to use them as photo props:

The first two Pinny Aprons I have made this season are reversible. You get two outfits in one and it is perfect if one side happens to get dirty, you can just flip it over and voila…. a whole new clean outfit! I have more designs cut out and one the way, I hope that you love them as much as I do! Right now I have my first few listed in my shop on Etsy, but I hope to have some listed in our webshoppe soon!

Zoo Boo Reversible Pinny

Rainbow Sherbert Reversible Pinny

I can’t say enough about how wonderful these bibs are, they wipe off easily, they catch everything, they snap so baby can’t yank it off, and they LAST! Mine have been through 3 kids and they STILL have wear left in them.

Kyle (just turned 6) is questioning all the mythology. I finally just said in answer to like the 100th question about all the logistics. “you can believe what you want to believe but your brother and sister still believe in the easter bunny (and tooth fairy and santa) and you need to let them keep that magic.” AND I’ll kick your butt and you won’t see your Nintendo DS for 2 weeks if you go around telling them that the easter bunny isn’t real. LOL! There must be some wild stories flying at kindergarten.

I bought the wrong PAAS kit. It had spackle paint and my kid’s hands are all dyed green and blue from it. Poor Evan was beside himself that he couldn’t get it to wash off (and god forbid mommy try to help him do anything these days, I send him out to the car 15 minutes before we leave b/c he has to climb in and buckle himself in the car seat and it takes forever. Huge fits if I do any part of it).

AHHH…. the joys of motherhood are without number.

Now who is going to eat the 24 eggs we dyed today???? Thankfully I have good cholesterol! I only hid 10 of them b/c I was worried they’d leave stains on my carpet. I don’t think anyone will notice.

Hope you all have a very good day with your families. I’m sick and feel really crummy, but my motherly duties for Easter are done in regards to the rabbit, so WHEW… and we have no family coming over… pretty easy!

Unforunately we had a repeat. Amy declared training wheels gone! I took her to the side yard, daddy came home from work… I told him I’d let him teach Evan how to ride a bike! But when they are ready, they are ready, it doesn’t take much to get them riding. Daddy did get to help with learning a few of the other skills.

There are definately 3 steps to learning to ride a bike:

1. Balance and stop. They have to learn to put their feet down when they stop.

2. Turn, the training wheels make the turning radius much different, they have to learn to judge space and turn within it.

3. Start, I think this is the hardest, the have to learn to push off, pedal, and balance at the same time. Of coure the little kids bikes you can’t rotate the pedals backwards (because that’s breaking) and that makes it more of a challenge in some ways.

Amy has plenty of bumps and bruises from learning to ride, but she is so proud of herself! Here is my little Amy Belle zipping around the street!

Evan got himself admitted to the hospital! I will admit I suspected it was coming, he was so sick, and I had packed a bag “just in case.” You know that old murphy’s law, I figured packing a bag and being prepared would be a sure way NOT to get sent to the hospital. Our family physician is organized with an urgent care unit so he was able to send us downstairs for labs, a chest xray, and an IV infusion. They put him on Rocephin and he was dehydrated so he needed fluids. Our doctor was borderline whether to admit Evan or send him home with us to monitor closely, then they did a blood oxygen read on him and he was at 85%. Which got him a fast ticket to the the hospital.

We did three nights at our local small town hosptial and Evan just wasn’t getting any better, they did another chest xray and his left lung was almost completely occluded. He had been on some pretty heavy duty antibiotics so to see that he had made no progress was very scary. Our family doctor then made the call to transfer us up to Dorenbecher chidlren’s hospital in Portland, he just felt like we weren’t going to receive the care we needed in our small town hosptial.

Evan and I had an ambulance ride to Portland and he was admitted to Dorenbecher. And I have to say after 3 nights in our small town hosptial Dorenbacher was like being admitted to the Hilton. The staff and facilities were wonderful. Evan ended up having surgery to drain fluid off his left lung and they removed an abcess. He had a chest tube for 2 days to drain off his lung. When they grew out the cultures from his lung he ended up having MRSA, which would explain why he didn’t get better once admitted. The antibiotics he was on don’t cover MRSA. As soon as they got him on Clindamycinwhich covers MRSA he started to improve.

We ended up doing six nights at Dorenbecher and it was a happy day when Evan was released! Nine nights in a hospital is a lot and having my baby so sick. (I know he’s almost three but he’s still my baby!) He is up and running around and seems to have recovered from his ordeal just fine. And we are just now playing catch up with our lives too!

Best of all FREE SHIPPING on the Dura-Bib within the domestic US.

They tried to make me get a hair cut but
I said no, no, no.
Yes I’ve been blind, but what I can find
You wont know, know, know.

I ain’t got the time
And if my daddy thinks I’m fine
He’s tried to make me get a hair cut
I wont go, go, go.

I’d rather be at home with Mom
Shampoo can’t be so wrong
Cos there’s nothing, nothing from my hair mass
That I can’t learn from my train Thomas!

Didn’t get my diaper changed so much
But I know my hair don’t cloud my sight much

They’re tryin to make me get a hair cut
I said no, no, no
Yes I’ve been blind, but what I can find
You wont know, know, know.

I aint got the time,
only Lala and Dipsy need to rhyme
He’s tried to make me get a hair cut
I wont go, go, go.

The man said, why you think you here?
I said, I got no idea
Im gonna loose my hair?
So I keep my kicking feet near!

Said, I just think you’re too young!
Kiss me, yeah baby
And go have fun!

I’m tryin to make me get a hair cut but
I said no, no, no
Yes I’ve been blind, but what I can find
You wont know, know, know.

Did you know I hid my sippy cup
In a place that will make it just mucked up?
Mommy says pee on the potty
But I just think she’s being naughty.

It’s not just my pride,
You see my hair is so divine!

They’re tryin to make me get a hair cut
BUT I said no, no, no….