Mommy's Day Out

Wow!! Is it cold enough for ya?! Did you get enough snow?! What is going on here? I can't take much more of this. Seriously. This is not working for me. The kids got a couple of snow days a couple of weeks ago. We found ourselves on a 5 day stretch of no school. I did not leave the house from Tuesday morning (Sienna's last day of school) until the following Monday when I took Mom to the eye doctor. Isn't that terrible? It's just too cold for me. This is the first day that I've had internet for about 3 or 4 days.

Back to my topic, I drove Mom to the eye doctor a couple of weeks ago because she was getting her eyes dilated. So I left the kids home with Dave. After Mom's appointment we stopped at the Olive Garden and had some lunch. It was a nice afternoon. Except for Mom's eye looking like it was going to jump out and attack me from across the table. By the time I got home the kids were acting like I had been gone for a week. Everyone was alive and safe, including Dave. It was a good day. After the kids had gone to bed I sat down and looked through my camera, for no real reason. It was a nice surprise to see that the kids had been using the camera while I was gone. They often do this and sometimes that get some really good ones (and alot of not so great ones). This particular day it was full of lots of good pictures for me. The girls had spent the day with the puppies, doing lots of things that Mommy won't let them do.

Notice how these poor puppies have their back legs through the seat belts. I asked the girls about this to which Sierra replied, "Sienna told me to." Sienna didn't hesitate with her response of, "So they could be safe." As I continued to look through the pictures I asked Sienna if all the puppies had their own car. She said, "Two of them had to share."

4 Weeks Already!

Can you believe the pups are 4 weeks old already? They are soooo cute. They are extremely mobile now. They run all over the floor and are very playful. I'm actually very surprised at how very playful they are already, not only with each other but also with us. Two of them were all over Sienna this afternoon. Biting at her pants and her hair. I started giving them solid food yesterday. It was gruel (ground up dog food & water) but they loved it. And Lola loved the fact that she got to skip a feeding finally. Sienna & I lost one of the pups for about 20 minutes yesterday. He had climbed out of the box and then went in between the couch and the wall but couldn't figure out how to get back out, so he just went to sleep. Here's some cute pictures of the kids and our rapidly growing puppies.





This is Sierra supervising the exploration of the doll house.












And here is Levi shooting the puppies.















And this is just Sienna loving loving the puppies.

















Breakfast Time!

New Glasses

Sierra was in serious need of a new pair of glasses. I finally made her an appointment and she was so excited. She said that she wasn't excited to see the doctor just to get the new glasses. She tried on every pair of glasses in the kid section. They were all too small for her face. They all made it look as if she was wearing Mr. Potato Head's glasses. We finally found this pair in the Hillary Duff collection. Since when did celebs start making eye glasses?! There was a Hannah Montana collection and a JLo (Jennifer Lopez) also. Is this really necessary? But, thankfully, we finally found a pair that we were both happy with.