Then and now!
3 years old and today – almost 5 years old!

I love my beauty!

I woke up groggily. Lucy sat up and the first thing she saw were her shoes. “Eh! Eh!” she grunted as she pointed her chubby finger towards the shoes and lifted her feet into the air.

Josh was talking casually about his trip into town.

“Da, Da!” Lucy exclaimed.

“You want to go to town with Daddy?” I asked.

She started to laugh and lifted her feet higher in the air, so I’d get the hint and put them on her feet.

Lizzie began to wake up too and plopped into the living room, in front of the computer. As Josh began to leave with Lucy, Lizzie asked, “Mommy, can I watch Busy Town again?”

“Sure,” I answer. “Then we Daddy gets back we can all eat breakfast.”

I relax on the couch, laptop open, ready to blog. The house is quiet as David slowly walks in.

And as he watches the cartoon, he pees on the floor.

Ugh. I forgot to have him pee first thing!

He feels embarrassed and lays on the couch with me. 

And I sit, in this quiet moment, and love my little life. Weekdays are chaotic with my job, babysitter, meals, cleaning, ballet, blogging and chickens.  In fact, Lizzie has to be at ballet in 3 hours. But right now I am just a mom of 3 tiny kids that are not too big yet. A baby, a preschooler and a little girl.

I close the laptop, clean up the pee, get dressed and start making the french toast before our day gets busier.

My friend Sara reminded me the other day that I never updated my blog with a picture of my mother’s ring.  The last post I wrote was when I gushed about how Josh spoiled me on my birthday.

Well, here is my mother’s ring! I wanted a picture with all the girls’ hands since it will probably pass down to one of them someday.

Engraved on inside with "MamaDweeb"

The weather is finally warming up, so we can get out of the house and take some lovely walks.  And you have no idea how much I am loving this. But a few weeks ago the weather was super crummy. And it will only get super crummy again. (April showers right?)

We needed fun. And this fun didn’t have to be healthy, but it had to be budget friendly.

Here is our budget friendly unbirthday celebration!

I let Lizzie and David pick out one cake mix each. Then I bought a large can of white frosting. (Yes, I could have made my own frosting, but this was easier).

Then, I let them each pick out one topping. Any topping they wanted, sky was the limit! Lizzie picked out chocolate donuts and David picked out blue and white chocolates.

Once home, I divided the frosting in half and dyed it the color of their choice.  We ended up with a “Cinderella cake” and a “Spiderman cake.” Then, I put candles on the cake and we sang songs to them and let them blow out the candles!

Most fun we have had in a long time. It was a gaggle of giggles!

Have you ever let your kids decorate cakes just for the fun of it?

Soon, I will be like Henrietta! (Which really is not a bad thing)

Happy Thursday! This week Rajean from Because I told You So has our #VlogMoms video prompt.

What is VlogMoms?

We are a small group of vlogging mamas! We get together every Thursday and answer a prompt on video. Then we put our video in the linky.  Please hop around to the other fun ladies on the linky, their videos are super fun! If you want to join Vlog Moms just let me know and I can get you more info.

The question this week:

What makes you giggle? What makes you laugh?

Enjoy my answer ~ I showed you what makes me giggle instead of telling….more fun that way!

This is Lizzie’s new chore chart and I am going to make David one too.  At 4 years old I know Lizzie is ready to start helping out with chores around the house. She has helped me put dishes away since she was about 2 years old, but I never created an organized system for her to follow.  Once in awhile, if she asked for a toy, I created a small chart for her to earn her toy with.

It is about time to organize my home and have it run on a system.

Every other time I create a chore chart I spend at least an hour or more searching for cute little pictures and try to design it myself. I waste so much time doing that. But I just found an easy, (and free!) online chore chart creator at GoalForIt.com.  It has a bunch of bright and colorful templates – or if you want, you can create your own from scratch. I chose not to spend more time than I needed to and chose the super pink princess theme. Perfect for Lizzie.

Then, she can either use the computer (her favorite way) to put a pretty sticker on her chart or I can print the chart off and let her use her physical stickers. The only thing I wish it could do is sync with our iPad as an app. But I really like how you can put stickers on it with your computer. And then I get to chose from two stickers at the end of the week – either  a YAY or “work on it.”  And you can choose from a huge list of chores, desired behaviors and healthy habits to put on the list, or you can add your own.

Check it out! I cannot wait to get Lizzie and David helping out by picking up toys, putting away clothes and helping with dishes.

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