Wonderful Friday

This morning was just one of those great mornings where everything worked out perfectly. It made me finally feel after the last four and a half months that I am adjusting to two kids and can get things accomplished. Cash and Parkes both slept until 8 which gave me time to get everything ready for the day. Feed Cash, got Parkes feed and dressed and ready for school. Left the house at 8:55, dropped off Parkes, ran by a friend's and visited for 30 some odd minutes, went to the bank, went to Walgreens, Target and CVS, spent $0.67 total and got $60 worth of stuff and $21 back in gifts cards or coupons towards my next purchase, and home by 11:30 to feed Cash and myself. With this kind of good luck I need to head down to Tunica!!!

Happy Memorial Day

Hope y'all all enjoyed the long weekend. We worked really hard around the house Saturday and Sunday so we could enjoy some family time Monday....and of course it rained, but we still had a good day eating bar-b-que and playing a little corn hole (I think that is the right name). Parkes has a hidden talent for it. One of the projects of the weekend was to get Parkes' room and playroom cleaned out. In his playroom we had a lot of empty walls and a lot of artwork from the past three years so Parkes now has his own art gallery so he can admire his work. And finally Cash has become a belly sleeper. He decided to start rolling over to sleep and it is really what has made all the difference in his sleeping.

Update on Daisy

Just wanted to update those that had asked about Daisy. She is still no where to be found. Just went over to the Humane Society this morning to do another look around and a very nice man and women let me go back into the area where the new dogs were just coming in and getting cleaned to check there. I told them if they got a call about a dog that seemed scared and wouldn't let people near her it could be her. Brandon thinks she was snatched because another dog in our area disappeared that same day and it is just like Daisy...no sign of it anywhere, but I don't like to think about that so instead I think that some nice person without young kids has taken her in and she is happy and not as anxious as she was with us. I am not sold on her being snatched because I don't see her letting anyone take her....if you have meet her you would know she's not real open to new people, super loving and sweet once she decided she liked you, but we had to give her tranquilizers just to get her to the vet because of her anxiety problems so I feel if someone was taking her while we were outside we would of known about it. Parkes is okay about it, he just keeps waiting for her to come home. He, however, still asks when Bama's going to come back from visiting God to see us again. On a happy note Cash slept until 8 this morning!!!!!!!!!! For about the past month and a half he felt that 4 AM was a good time to wake up. Wasn't ideal but at least he was going to bed a 10:30 to 11 so there was no complaining well at least not after I got out of bed. Now if we could only get Parkes to go to bed before 11 to midnight we would be doing well.

Poor Daisy

Yes I've used this picture before, but it seems to be the only one I have of Daisy. Saturday she went missing while we were all outside playing and we thought she had gone back inside something she often does so she isn't being chased by Parkes. We have had the fence taken out to put in a new one for a few months now but she was always so good about staying around our house, she had anxiety problems and was scared to leave. Luckily we have wonderful neighbors who would let her in and out when we were gone so she wouldn't have to leave the house, but even that was very traumatic for her and she had gotten really mad at us about leaving mother's day weekend and wouldn't even go out for our neighbor. She has also had a rough time this past year after our other dog, Bama, passed away and then with bringing Cash home (she had finally gotten used to Parkes and wasn't thrilled about another baby). It's a little strange though that there is no sign of her at all from any of the neighbors and we walked the whole greenway near our house if she had followed the creek from our house down she would of ended up there. No sign of her, but I did find out with a quick mile and a half walk I can be at Target. And we have an animal hospital right down the street and they haven't seen her and we've been down to the humane society and she's not there. So hopefully she'll find her way home otherwise I hope some nice person has picked her up and is taking good care of her and she's not lost and scared. Parkes keeps yelling out the window for her hoping she'll come home.

Who is Who??

Well I finally got two picture of the boys from the same age on the same computer, might seem easy, but not how we have it all hooked up and that's a big long confusing story so anyway here they are.... I just need to get a picture of Brandon at 4 months too and it's really scary. Keri and my sister both said they thought they saw a little me in him at first, but wednesday when I saw my sister she said it was gone and today when we stopped by Keri's she said the same thing. I have always seen almost all Parkes and Brandon from the beginning.

Mother's Day weekend

Cash is trying to sit by himself. He still has a ways to go as far as being able to balance out his body, but he definitely has the strength. This morning I set him in his carseat so I could make his bottle and I can't do this for very long or out of site because he has been able to wiggle himself out of the carseat for a couple months now (way too early if you ask me to be doing that kind of moving...I'm having scary thoughts of an earlier crawler, Parkes was 10 months and it was very nice). Anyway, so I turn around to put in the formula and turn back around because he starts crying and find him belly side down in his carseat. And Parkes has started to try to hold Cash so every time I turn around I find them like this. It's hard to explain to Parkes not to hug him all the time. This weekend we went to Brandon's parents house in west Tennessee. They got a trampoline for Brandon's sister for Christmas and of course that's all Parkes wanted to do. He had a blast jumping around and even learned to do a forwards roll. Cash got on for a second but quickly spit up so had to go back in. And we had a great and relaxing Mother's Day with them as I got a break from being the bad parent and always saying no. Parkes was so sweet...he's been telling me all week "happy mother's day" because they were talking about it at school, and gave me a present when I picked him up on Friday where he written why he loved me. His answer, "Because mom brought Cash home and changes his diaper." And Brandon actually went out at midnight Saturday night to get some flowers for me which I didn't expect anything since we were out of town and he had already told me he was getting some flowers to go in what will be a flower bed in the backyard once the driveway goes down so it was sweet of him to sacrifice his sleep especially since he then got up with Cash at 3 when he woke up. Cash seems to be two good nights then one bad so not too bad...Parkes did spoil us, but we are learning not to expect anything close to the same except for looks. One day I'll put a side by side picture of them at the same age (Parkes' are on another computer), but it really does scare me sometimes looking at Cash because I feel like I am looking at Parkes 3 years ago. And finally some funny moments from the week...Parkes usually goes to children's worshop at church well at Happy's (Brandon's dad...Parkes named him) church there is none because it is small so when communion came out Parkes decided it was a good time to say the pray and proceeded to sing loudly throughout the whole communion, "God, our Father, God, our Father, God, our Father..." he never made it to the second verse. And last night when he went to bed he decided it was a good idea to hide from us, but indeed up falling asleep before we came to find him so when I went to check on him before I went to bed I couldn't find him...after a moment of panic I saw a small foot sticking out of a pile of pillows. Hope all the moms and moms-to-be had a great day yesterday!!!!!

Parkes' First Crush

Yes two post in one day, but wanted to share this story from Parkes' teacher. He looked up at one of his teachers and said, "Ms. Jenny you're cute." And she said she told him, "No you're cute Parkes." And then his other teacher, Mrs. Sue, asked him, "who's cute Parkes," and he responded, "Ms. Jenny's cute." Looks like he likes older women.

Cash's First Food

Cash has been waking up for about the past week or so throughout the night as if he is starving and looking at him you can tell we don't deprive him of food. So we decided to try some rice cereal last night...thanks to Keri for bringing it to us as I forgot it when I went to the grocery store and did not want to attempt to pull both kids out for one thing. Anyway, Cash liked the idea of food as you can see from the big smile on his face, but wasn't quite ready for swallowing the cereal so we'll try again later. Parkes was all about some cereal at Cash's age which he's four months today. And here is what Parkes does when he is suppose to go to bed. He has more energy then any person I know...he doesn't nap and will not fall asleep until 10:30 to 12:00 even though he goes to his room around 8:30 for bedtime. If you look closely you can find his head amongst all the mess on his bed. His room will be completely picked up and within 10 mins of going to bed this is how it looks. And finally it's an exciting week around here...we are getting new windows on Friday. Not necessarily what we wanted to spend our tax return on, but a much needed expense as the windows on our house are the original windows from when the house was built in 1946. So if anyone that reads this is looking for some old windows for decor (I wouldn't suggest them for your house unless you are going for the drafty home effect) call or email us and they are all yours. They make great picture frames as you can see here with some of our wedding photos. I have another one of Parkes' newborn photos so I guess I'll need to save one window for Cash's. Lastly, we get to pick up our first bushel of our fresh veggies and fruits from Delvin Farms next Wednesday. The fact that that excites me really makes it more realistic that I did just turn 30 last weekend. We haven't celebrated the big milestone yet until the boys are out of town with the grandparents...I will be having a girls evening Thursday where we are having massages and I am looking forward to that as I've never had a massage and I'm hoping it will help with the pinch nerve that Cash has left me with and maybe my neck and arm will not hurt for an hour...I guess two big boys was all my body could take. So that's what's going on at the Waymire house.

Yellow Daisies

We have had an abundance of wood scraps around our house these days so I decided to put them to use and have started making wall hangings. I put them for sale on etsy.com from the encouragement and pushiness of my husband who for many years now has been saying I should be selling my paintings I still don't think I'm ready to sell artwork, so I'll try out craft projects. I just listed them today and it said that it would probably take 24 hrs before it's up and running. So if you're interested let me know and I can make you one with colors and quote of your choice. I'm, also, going to making some for Parkes' teachers for teacher appreciation week so let me know if you are looking for a gift for your child's teachers. We'll see how it goes, but at least Brandon can't pester me anymore about it.