A day in the life of Looby...

Laiklie - Looby as we call her has a strange fascination with SWIMSUITS (soups) as she calls them. She has 4 different ones and loves them SO MUCH that she changes them all day long. I decided the other day to document just how many swimsuit changes we could have on the average day. Here is the info...7:28 am - there is not a single alarm in this house that goes off before 7:30 am, but here she is awake and already wearing a swimsuit. This is early enough that she doesn't even have her hair fixed yet.
9:05 am - this is the first change of the day. If you can't tell, she is winking.;) It is also still too early for hairdo's around here.

10:40 am - second change of the day. This Elmo swimsuit is her FAVORITE and she wears it the very most. It is also the most immodest suit. I am glad she is sitting the way she is so you don't see TOO MUCH! This suit is going to "disappear" one of the days.

We had so many swimsuit changes that I didn't want to have to do two uploads of the photos. So these are the ones without pictures.

2:07 pm - I made her change into "real" clothes after lunch so we could go out and mow the lawn and at the 2:07 change she had come in the house and was crying while I was out mowing the lawn because she needed her swimsuit SO BAD. So she actually went from about 12:30 - 2:00 in "real" clothes.

5:32 - we ran to the library in "real" clothes and as soon as we got back she was back in her swimsuit.

7:56 pm - 5th change of the day. This is actually a dance leotard...but, she thinks it is a swimsuit.

8:49 pm - final change before bedtime. Most nights she will actually fight us at bedtime taking off the swimsuit and ends up sleeping in it. This night she decided pj's were okay though. What a funny little personality she has. Like we always say, "SHE IS ONE OF A KIND!!"

Giggle...Giggle

I know that this is #3 post of the day. I promise I have watered 50,000 of Ry's trees, done 4 loads of laundry, did some yard work and cleaned the house too, so I DON'T just blog all day...but, Rhett said something so funny that it is definitely blog worthy.

When I FINALLY finished watering all the trees Rhett and I were walking towards the house hand-in-hand and I said that I was going in to change the laundry and asked if he was going in or staying out and he said, "I am staying out...No, I am going in because one time when grandpa Hawkins stayed outside a yittle too yong the woodpeckers came and pecked him on his head and dat it why him has no hair on the top!"

Mothers Day Gift

If you are my mother-in-law and it is before mothers day...DON'T READ THIS!!

I found this mothers day idea on a website the other day and it even had a tutorial.:) My mother-in-law LIVES in these kind of gloves. She uses them for everything. I thought ruffling them up was a great idea.

They turned out cute...from a distance anyway. The tutorial didn't explain that rubbergloves and sewing machines don't always mix well. I think they are great for cleaning toilets or doing dishes though.

Branding Cows

Yesterday was branding day!If you can't tell, my boys couldn't get enough of it!! They are all boy and LOVE this kind of thing.
The branding crew!

Sore Backs!

So, anyone that knows me knows that I am VERY TIGHT when it comes to spending money on things we don't NEED. So, I about fell off my rocker last night when Ry showed up at 7 pm insistent that we NEED a new bed. He has mentioned it a couple times over the last week, but I LOVE - LOVE - LOVE my bed and didn't think he was serious. Anyway - HE WAS! So, we dropped the kids off at 7:30 at grandmas (thank you AGAIN grandma) and went to the only bed store still open. Ry had looked on the Internet and found what is suppose to be an "Excellent" bed for back problems and they were the only ones who carried it!:) So, he tried it and several others out...I attempted to try them out, but they all feel the same to me. I am a bed idiot I guess. Ryan decides as he is looking that he needs to downsize from a California King to a Queen. Ry is funny in that he was adamant that he have the bed to sleep in THAT NIGHT. So, they strap the bed and box springs to the top of my suburban. If any of you have ever lived here you know that it is an everyday thing that we have 40 - 60 mph winds...which we did yesterday. I just knew my little suburban was going to either take flight with the bed on top, or that the BRAND NEW bed was going to fly off and get roadrash. (This has happened to me and Ry before. We moved my bed when we were engaged to our going-to-be apartment and it got BAD roadrash. Funny story!!) Anyway, after a quick stop at Wal-mart to get sheets for a new Queen bed we finally made it home, got kids to bed, hauled old bed downstairs and new bed in and finally around 11 pm were ready to try it out.

It was hard to tell if it helped his back or not because both out backs hurt so bad by the time we went to bed from all the moving. I had a rough night because everytime I would move I felt like I was falling off the bed. I couldn't believe how much smaller it is than our old one. I guess we will see in a few weeks how we feel about it.:)

Gymnastics

We decided last Fall that Rhett needed something in his life to be excited about. His big bro. and sis. were both starting school and he wasn't old enough to start preschool, but I knew he needed some time away from mom where he had to listen to another adult for a minute. He was still so shy and quiet that he needed a little social life also. So, we signed him up for gymnastics. He loves it.Rhett is physically SO STONG. He has always been able to beat up his big brother Dallin.:) They call the rings Mickey Mouse ears and Rhett was the only one in his class that could actually pull himself all the way up to hold them the way they were suppose to be held. (This picture doesn't show that too well though.)
Gym has been so good to help him with coordination and balance. Plus, it gives him something to talk about that is his own when the older two talk about school and friends.

He only has 3 more classes before he is finished for the summer. We aren't planning on doing gym again next year because he will be in preschool, but it has sure been worth the money to watch him discover a love of it!

Fishing

Yesterday morning I took my own butt to the doctor after exposing my family to whatever I had all weekend - which was spent at my mom and dad's house with almost all 24 grandkids (don't worry I kissed on nearly all of them) anyway - the Doc told me that I had strep throat. My throat was so sore that it felt like it was swollen to the size of a drinking straw. It was MISERABLE. So, I decided that instead of exposing all the achievement day girls to strep that I would cancel yesterday's planned activity. The sweet lady that I do achievement days with brought us dinner - she is SO nice. So, I was hanging out in bed not feeling up to anything when Ry announced that he wanted to take the kids fishing for FHE. I knew Laiklie and the lake spells disaster so I had to go too. I forgot my camera and took a whole bunch of pictures with my phone, but my computer won't read my phone for some reason :( and I didn't feel good enough last night to mess with it. So, this is what you get. The only fish caught was caught by Dallin and I missed the whole thing. It was windy and cold so me and the two little ones went to the cabin and Oakley followed shortly after because she needed to go to the bathroom. So, Ry and Dallin were the only witnesses of the fish catching. He was SO EXCITED...if you can't tell in the picture.