T-ball

The girls are playing t-ball/softball this year. They've never played before and I honestly do not know why we haven't had them on a team? The only reason it happened this year was because our new neighbors coach a team and we were invited to play on it! Yay!!

We had one practice on Saturday the 6th and then Sunday night at 9pm Dawn (our neighbor) ran over and told us we had a game Monday night!!! So Monday morning I had to go get t-shirts and get "Ladybugs" put on the front with their nicknames and number on the back! Talk about a whirlwind morning!!! LOL

We were late to the game because of some miscommunication on the directions. We left in plenty of time we just didn't go to the correct spot until the game was starting! To top it off, it was sprinkling. The girls were nervous! Oh, yeah! To back track, Monday morning when I woke Maddie up for school and told her about the game. All she could keep saying was, "Crap! Crap, crap, crap!! I don't know how to play the game!!! We've only had ONE practice!!!"

I chuckled about that all day!!

To make matters worse, Madison was passed while she was on 2nd base. The batter passed her because the 3rd base coach did not tell her to run. I felt bad because then there was an out. Which was fine. Lesson learned. Or so I thought. Next time the Ladybugs were up to bat, it happened again. In front of me a guy and a couple girls where saying. 'She just stands there!!!' 'That's the second time that's happened.' What's wrong with her?'

The 'momma bear' in me kicked in and I said, "Well, this is the first time she's ever played!!!!!" He says, " Has she been to practice?" Momma bear: "She went to the ONE practice we had!!!"

Guy: "Oh! Well, she will get better as the season goes on!" DAMN RIGHT SHE WILL!!!! I told myself!!

I told my mom the story and she wondered if the guy knew who my husband was?? I thought that was pretty funny. Apparently he didn't, but he found out at the next game!! LOL

Sean was coaching 1st base and the regular for 3rd wasn't there so the 'guy' had to coach 3rd.

Sean asked me later what was up with the 3rd base coach cause he didn't stay on the field. I told S he was the one who was talking about M! He said, 'Oh... that explains it!!'

The 3rd game, 'guy' had to coach 3rd base again and after the game S told me that 'guy' told him that your girls have made 'great advances'!! S said he was stuttering when he said. We think he was kissing hiney and not wanting a fight!!! LOL

Anyway, the 3rd game was really good! Taylor scored 3 runs and Madison hit a home run!! It was so much fun!! We got to get ice cream from DQ afterwards!! Thanks Maddie!!!

First Tooth!!

My last babies first tooth is just breaking through the gum!! I am both happy and sad!! I don't have a toothless little cutie anymore! Now I have a precious little baby who is probably going to try and bite my poor boobies while I am feeding her!!! I know it will be fine. The other 3 girls already had between 2 and 4 teeth already! This is definately a blessing!!

Not the best picture but what do you expect from a little wiggler?!

It's just the bottom right for now, but upon closer inspection I'm sure the left is closely behind.

I find it odd that both dog and baby are cutting teeth! What are the chances of that happening??

Shark-Dog

So, our puppy is losing his baby teeth. Actually, he's been doing this for awhile. I haven't had any problems with it and I guess I still don't. The lady who brought him told us he would be doing this and the only question I had for her was whether or not I was going to be finding baby teeth around or if he was going to swallow them? Silly, I know but I figured one of the kids would pick them up and eat them!! (Dakoda!!)
Anyway the whole reason for this post is: The other day I was playing fetch with Evan and I've been instructing the girls not to rip the toy out of Evan's mouth when he brings it back. Either wait for him to drop it or use the command 'drop-it' They were doing pretty good or so I thought until Madison screams, 'WHY IS THERE BLOOD ALL OVER THE CHEW TOY!!!?????!!!!' Upon closer inspection there were just a couple red spots here and there. But I looked in E's mouth anyway and sure enough a tooth was gone! I was a little wierded out. I was hoping like heck that it was a baby tooth gone and not an adult.
I kind of forgot about it for a week and yesterday when we were playing fetch again, (we play everyday, it's not just once a week in case you are wondering! :D ) I looked in his mouth just to check on his teeth and he has 2 rows of everything!!!!! (Well, almost, not the one that came out of course!) But it reminded me of a sharks teeth!!
When I told Sean the story, he thought he was being clever when he called Evan 'Shark-Dog'!! I didn't argue! I let him have his glory! I wanted to post a picture, but I couldn't get the puppy to hold still long enough to do that! That would have been the perfect time to have 2 or 3 more arms and hands!!
Till next time!!

I'm still here!!!

So, a lot has happened in the past month that I have not blogged. Believe me, they are legit. The biggest was my computer crashing a couple days after my last post. The tech guy first told me that it probably just needed to be rebooted and everything would be fine. WRONG!! It crashed, everything was gone. Big dork that I am, didn't save my pictures that I had on the computer and those are gone. I lost just about everything of Hayleigh's first 4 months of life. The only thing I have is what I had put on myspace. Thank the Lord for Myspace. I guess it is good for something after all! :D
So as a side note: If anyone has any pictures of my precious baby I would sure love you forever if you could send them my way!!!
I am FLYing with FLYLADY these days. I sure enjoy it. I can not get organized for the life of me and keep this house in order. But FLYLADY has shown me the way!!
I am super excited to say that I will be scrapbooking more. Now that I have become a CTMH Consultant!! Those should be some exciting posts to come!!

What a Wonderful Day!

So, I know I have been doing some complaining the past couple of days. I feel bad about that but today seemed to be a much better day. It started out kinda crazy but all was good.
First off, I woke up late for church this morning. I only had an hour to get my 4 girls, my hubby and myself ready. I'm sure this is an easy task for most. But I'm still working on it. I usually get every body else ready and save myself for last. So I only look 'half' put together when everybody else always looks so nice. Not this morning though. I took my shower, got dressed, fixed my hair and put on my makeup before I even attempted to get anyone else ready. Buy the time we all got loaded in the van we had just enough time to get to church without being late. (this of course being without any major dilemas) So we pull into the parking lot, feeling kinda proud cause there are a couple other people walking in too. Sean gets the 3 bigger girls out and I go to get Hayleigh out. AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! There was poop were she had been sitting!!!!!!! I calmly told S to take his 3 in and I would deal with H. He said, "but i don't want to go in by myself" Cute, Huh? I said, 'i'll be right there, it's better i'm late instead of all of us' So he went in. I was sooo proud of him!! What a big boy!! LOL :D
Church was Excellent! We hadn't been for a couple of Sundays. I hate it when we miss like that. I really needed church. I know that's why today has been such a good day! We took the kids to eat pizza. Came home and just had a lazy day. It was great!
We just met a little puppy we will be adopting. We will get him next Tuesday after we get back from MO! Yay!!

I'm sure it could have been worse!

Last night or actually Thursday night since it is Saturday now. I went to bed hoping to sleep all night. I think Hayleigh is teething, therefore I don't know if we are getting a full nights sleep these days or breaking it up every 2 or 3 hours. Which sucks cause she was sleeping so good for a month. Anywho. This morning aka Friday. I woke up feeling pretty refreshed. Excited about getting my to-do list wiped out. Since it wasn't very long. Madison and Taylor asked if they could play the computer since I downloaded the "Kidzui" site. I've let them roam around on that. I told them not yet. I haven't turned the computer on yet. We need to eat breakfast. While they were finishing up there breakfast I slipped back into the kitchen and turned the computer on. All I got was a blank screen. I got a very sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. I just knew that I had some kind of worm, virus, bug. Whatever the hell gets into your computer and seizes everything up. Right now we barely have any money for groceries. Where was I going to find the cash to fix our computer. That wasn't the only thing I was worried about. All I could think about and try not to vomit while I was crying hysterically was the pictures that are sitting on my computer that I haven't got developed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know I know!!! Why were they sitting on there in the first place???? They should have been on discs or on some website or better yet developed. Once again I haven't put the money forth for those yet. I thought it was more important to have a house and food and such. Silly me I know!!! Anyhoo!! I'm crying around not sure what I'm gonna do. For goodness sake there are 5 months worth of pictures of the newest Hood girl on there and I just know they are all lost. So I call Sean crying. I'm sure that by the way I started he thought somebody had died. poor guy. He told me to call the Geek Squad, but I didn't know how much they cost and I didn't have their number cause... Hello? don't i need the internet to look that up. God forbid i look for a phone book! But I did end up finding our phone book and i turned to the yellow pages to computer. I said a little prayer to God to help me find somebody. Wherever my finger stopped thats who I called. That poor man was so nice. I told him what my problem was and he said there is a 95% chance that my stuff won't be lost. I felt a little better but I'm not gonna get my hopes up!!!

After all that business the day did seem to get better. The sun finely came out and I marked off all the items on my list. I got to hang out with the girls. We made paper airplanes. That was fun, They LOVED throwing them off the stairs. yes I said throwing them. They weren't actually flying!!
Then my nice neighbors kept 3 of the girls while I ran to Wal-Mart to get stuff for supper. I only had the baby which was nice! I fed her before we left and she slept the whole time! I think she was just glad to have some quiet time herself!!
I better get to bed. Hopefully tomorrow a lady from the min pin rescue center will be coming with a puppy that we are wanting to adopt. If she doesn't come tomorrow then it will be Sunday. We are all so excited about getting a dog. I will have to blog about that later. That's a whole nother story!
Ahhhhhhhhh.......................I've missed this. This works so much better than a diary :D

Money, Money, Moneeeeeey!!

It never seems to matter how much money you have. There ALWAYS seems to be the need or want for a little more. That's how I am feeling right now. Sean makes great money to support us. And I am very fortunate and lucky to get to stay home with the girls. ( I know I complain sometimes, but I TRULY do enjoy staying home with them!) Mom stayed home with us when we were little and I am so glad she was able to do that. That is what I want for my children also.
Here it is Thursday....Sean just got paid yesterday and we are already down to less then $100 to make it through till next Wednesday. We need groceries. So I am trying to get creative with what we have. Tonight is leftover night. So that will save me some money there. But I do need to go buy diapers, so that blows a good portion of that!
I keep telling myself next month will be better. The reason we are short is because we drove to MO last month. Both Sean and I. So that was gas in 2 vehicles. Plus I had to buy some paint for the house. Money I thought we had and then came up short.
I always think....if there was just an extra $20. But that would get spent anyway. I know, I know. Shave some money off somewhere. I do try to do that. Give up satellite you say. Well, I would do that, but I feel after a hard days work, Sean should be able to sit and watch drag racing, or wrestling if he wants. He shouldn't be punished for 'bringing home the bacon'!!
So now that I have vented, I will go on with my day.