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If you lay down on the floor in our home, this is what happens. It is not pretty and it does not feel very good, two little people will be on you in seconds, and think that you are their personal jungle gym.



Cute and sweet.
Not so cute and sweet. Oh the life I live.

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Stella sees a mirror and this happens, yes every day that she walks into our bathroom and looks into the full length mirror and begins to do as many posses as her little mind can come up with.

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Today Stella was a very lucky lady and got to spend most of the day with her Uncle KyKy. He took her over to Oklahoma to see his friend and her niece. Stella got to play and go swimming. I think I might have even heard something about ice cream? This all being said it was just Rhett and I running around town get some stuff done. We ended up back at the house with a little time to kill so I thought was a better way to spend my time than taking some photos of the cutest little man I know!
















A fun little side story about this morning before I took Stella to meet Uncle Kyky. I ended up meeting him earlier than I had planned and was in a hurry trying to get everything done around the house that needed to be finished for us to leave. I had taken a shower but just had on my towel wrap and was in Stella's room getting things for her bag and she was standing talking to me. I went to leave her room and realized she had locked the door. She smiles and goes its just me and you mommy. (Obviously we are in need of some one on one time) I then hear Rhett at the door crying and think of the outlet that is by the door and wonder if the last time I vacuumed if I had put the safety plug back, probably not and while I am locked in a room with Stella my son is probably outside the door electrocuting himself!. I become more panic and start to realize that there is no way out but the window and even if I got outside all the doors to the house are locked! I ended up having to break the door handle to get out! So lesson learned, it is great to have the lock on the outside of the door for bed time but not so great when it is the parent in the room locked in, must hide a key in the room for this moments.

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I think that today has been one of the hottest and longest days of my life. This morning we went to church, every other week Jason and I work in one of the toddler class and of course this week we did not get up in time to attend service, we just got there in time for the service that we were teaching class during. This week was promotion Sunday for the toddlers, which going into it you know is going to be rough because it is a new class and new teachers for all the kids. Yes, it was rough and we had some criers and not so happy little ones but we struggled through, praise the Lord we only had 8 children, in the past we have always had at least 12 and up to 20 on a crazy week! But for some reason this week I got overly hot in our classroom, which I normally am a little warm in the room just from chasing all the kids but I got really warm this week and by the time we got our kids from their classes and in the car I thought my head was going to pop off and my tummy was going to show my breakfast if you get my drift. NOT PRETTY and not good because we had a very busy day a head of us. Jason, my wonderful husband ran into a store and got me something to drink and some medicine and off we drove to meet my family for lunch in Fayetteville.

We meet down on Dickson St. at Jose's because Mallory and my Aunt were moving her into her dorm room, I thought it would be easy and some what fast. Well, was I ever wrong on all of that! I have to apologize to everyone that was there for my horrible, horrible mistake. The first clue was when I told the hostess that there was going to be ten plus a high chair and his eyes got really BIG! Next, when they seated us they only gave us nine chair plus a high chair. We had to go and find our own tenth chair and bring it to the table. Third, it was really warm in the room we were seated in, I mean WARM! After about thirty minutes we got our drinks and asked about the temp, the waitress looks at us and goes, "Yeah, it's hot in here but the back room were they have no one seated is much cooler." I thought that my husbands head was going to come off!(Note to anyone out there that does not already know this, Jason does not do good in warm temps. It leads to very bad things is all I am going to say!) It took about two hours to get our food and by that point we were all so hot that we really did not want to eat it. When I say that it was hot, I am talking I thought about taking Rhett's clothing off of him, Stella's hair was soaking wet, we had to ask them just to leave the pitchers of water on our table because they could not bring them fast enough to refill our glass we were drinking so much water. IT WAS HORRIBLE!

So after our wonderful lunch my mom and I loaded up with my aunt and Mallory to help with the dorm room stuff while my father and Jason took the kids home for naps, ( or I should say to try for naps that they never took.) Mallory's room was looking very cute but still not the coolest place on earth but better than Jose's (I think it was just one of those days that I was never in a cool location long enough to feel any better), she is doing rush this week and I am very excited for her.

This evening we had a cook out with our community group that was a lot of fun. We had hamburgers and hot dogs. Stella and Rhett were all over the backyard. We were lucky though because it did finally cool off a little before the evening was done. In fact, when we were leaving it had begun to sprinkle and rain a little bit. We really need some rain.

So, needless to say it was a long, busy, hot day. I have two very tired little ones.
Nope, she is not tired and she is not ready for bed.
The sky was really pretty one the way home.

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We had a very lazy morning and afternoon but a very exciting evening. My cousin Mallory, Aunt Mel and Mallory's best friend Alex came into town because tomorrow Mallory gets to move in to her dorm room at the U of A! I can not tell you how excited I am that she will be living her and we get to see her more often, Stella is just beyond excited. So tonight we got to have a yummy dinner at Mimi's with all of them and then we walked around the mall for a while. Stella got to make a wish, wonder what she was wishing for cause my wish of an amazing baby sitter has already come true!



Stella loves the horse in front of PF Changes and always wants to take her photo with it, tonight we let her have at it.

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Not the greatest photo but Rhett was hanging out with Daddy on the couch having his bottle before bed. He thought he was big stuff up there not being held on anyone's lap!

We had a pretty good day today, Stella did not take a nap for some reason today. This is very odd for her because she is normally a amazing napper/sleeper. Not sure what is going on with her but she was not horrible at dinner with Gigi and Papi considering the fact that she had no nap this afternoon. She did go to bed very easy this evening when we got home for dinner, she was one very tired little lady.

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I admit it, I have been a very bad mother today. It has been way to hot to play outside and I just could not handle one more minute of tea party, could not handle picking up play dough off my floor for the thousand time, could not read another book (I think I might lose my voice along with my mind), my body ached at the thought of another dance party in my living room, I caved in and let my daughter watch the below movie not once but twice today!

In my defense, with Stella so well entertained I was able to get lots of my little projects that I have been working on completed! I promise I will be a better mother tomorrow, I was just naughty today.

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This morning Rhett was big stuff sitting in the chair in his room. He is so funny in the morning just hanging out and full of smiles.