April 30, 2010

I doubt if I have a single follower left. I haven't posted in about 9 or 10 months. Needless to say, things have been busy around the Bice household. After our vacation to Ft. Morgan last August, Harper started "Monkey Class" on Tuesdays and Thursdays at FUM and Noah went back to his morning class at Tillis. Josh was busy running his distributorship and my photography business picked up during the fall. I struggled to stay caught up with that and everything that goes along with being a mom, wife, and homemaker. Laundry mountain took over, of course... and is still currrently on the loveseat-I NEVER seem to get caught up. Aanyways, that's my excuse for not blogging, and I am stickin' to it.

To catch you up, we've added 3 new members to our household. Around Noah's birthday each kid got a kitten. Noah got a little orange one who he names "Jett". Juddson got a black and white one, "Tomcat" (after Tom from Tom and Jerry) and Harper got a tan and black and white fuzzy one, who she names "Coffee Cat Race Car Bice"-- we just call him Coffee though.

Noah turned 5 on November 2, and had a splendid Mario birthday party. Hollie helped us A TON, making koopa troopa cupcakes and a huge Mario for a bean bag toss. She even made a mushroom pinata and homemade wooden stands for her cupcakes. She was amazing!

Christmas was an exciting time, Nanna's house was full of babies. Livi and Lake and Allie were new to Christmas at Nanna's and it was great to have all of the little cousins there. Santa brought Harper a doll house and some games and some barbies,and a Moxie girls guitar. Judd got some little people stuff, a keyboard, a bowlingn set, a game, and a light up noisey motorcycle, and a leap frog computer thingy. Noah got a boxing set, complete with a punching bag and gloves, an electronic violin, some board games, and alot of bakugan and hotwheels stuff. The boys VERY FAVORITE gift was the new Super Mario Brother Wii game, from Granny and Pa. Noah beat the entire game in only 5 days. I want a Nintendo sponsordship!!!
I have a gamer on my hands.

After the holidays ended and the new year began, business slowed down for me and we got back into a halfway normal routine. Harper turned 4 at the end of January. She had a beautiful Dora cake and Dora bounce around at her party. Nanna and Pappa got her a Dora tricycle which she rides around the house constantly.

Judd just had a birthday on April 19. He had a Sonic the Hedgehog and Tails party. Since they didn't have a Sonic bouncearound, he had the big green dragon one (like Noah had) and was very pleased with it. Since they all loved HJ's trike so much, Nanna got one for each of the boys... it's a traffic jam in our house with 3 trikes zooming all over.

In the past few months, Noah has backed off the wii games somewhat and has started playing more with his toys. He has several favorites and spends alot of time packing them in bags, boxes, or baskets, dumping them out and moving them to another container. Pa has been teaching Harper about dinosaurs and she wants to be called "dino girl". We have also been working with her on not sucking her thumb and have gotten her a little thumb wrap thing to help her remember. She has been thumb suckage free for about 4 days now. Pa got her a big box of dinosaurs to celebrate. He loves it as much as she does. She can name them all and knows if they are nice or mean (if they eat leaves or people). Judd is the new gamer in the house. As soon as his feet hit the floor in the morning, before his eyes are open he asks "where is one pwayer?" (one player remote for the wii.)

They like to watch Sonic on youtube, Dragon Tails, CatMouse, The Littles, and a bunch of other oldies from Netflix.

A few weeks ago, Noah's occupational therapist recommend we try a brushing technique with him. We have seen major growth and improvement in the areas of his vocabulary, listening, and overall mood. We are so proud of him and excited about this new therapy.

End of July, beginning of Aug.

Oh my, I have been so terrible about posting. We have been having birthday parties all over. This weekend, we went to Nanna and Pappa's to celebrate Josh and my birthday. Last night I cooked a huge fried chicken dinner for Josh and Dad for their birthdays.
The kids have been growing, faster than ever. Judd is now swimming under water! He loves it. Sometimes he swims and sometimes he puts his face under while he water walks. He lets Josh throw him now too. They all play the game where they will "get on" to Josh for throwing them and shake their little fingers at him and say "no golf ball," "no baseball," "no soccer ball" etc and he'll go "WHHHHAAATTTT?" and chunk them across the pool.
Judd "borrowed" a little Mario man from church and won't let go of him. First thing when he wakes up "where's Mario?" and we have to hunt through the sheets for him.

A while ago (AGAIN, please read past this if I have already posted this... I have all of these little notes around my desk and am going to type them in, so I can trash them) the kids were at Granny's. Noah peed in the dog water and Granny gave him a little swat. The next day Judd was on my lap pretending to call Granny and said "Hello Granny. Pank Noah's bottom, granny?" he he he... Maybe he's scared of her now... yeah right.

When Noah is upset at someone, he'll tell me they need a "red blood stankin." Meaning, they need one so hard it makes it red... I seriously, have no clue where that one came from.

We pulled up to see Josh's truck here and HJ said "stinker's home."

She was trying to get out of the car another time and Noah got out before her and shut the door and when I came around to open it and let her out she said "That stinkin' Noah, shut the door on me."

Right after Kara cut off all of Judd's hair, Harper was looking at a picture of all three of them (when Judd's hair was long) and said "There's Noah and Mario (and pointed to N's shirt) and there's Harper with pink elephant cat, and there's Judd with the wrong hair!"

She had been asking when Miss Becky was going to come over and see us and I said "I don't know, she was supposed to come visit, wasn't she?" and Harper replied, "well, maybe she gots a pwobwem."

Harper woke up with a stuffy nose and came into the office and told me her "nose won't work".

Harper was sitting on my lap on the couch. Mom and Judd were next to me. Harper was singing ABC's and Judd chimed in, wanting to sing too. Harper said, "no Judd- you just sing 'bum bum bum'." and I laughed and said "Judd she just wants you to sing back up." Judd started singing "back up back up back up, back up!" in the prettiest tune... loloolol... we were rolling.

Yesterday Judd was in the bath and I was in the office and he said "I meed out, piders on me." and I said "spiders? is there a mosquito in there?" and he started whimpering, so I walked in there and he'd pooped in the tub. I scooped some and said "is this spiders?" and he said "yeah." hmmmm...

Harper's preschool and swimming

Harper Jane and the rest of us went to visit First United Methodist preschool this week. She (and the boys) loved the classroom and I enjoyed meeting the director. My main concerns of safety were put to ease and I feel like Harper would really enjoy the program there. She will be starting Tues/Thurs school in Aug. Judd said "wha 'bou me?" and wants to go too...

Harper swam under Daddy's bridge, under water-- like Noah, he belly was almost to the bottom of the pool and she held her breath for a long time-- we have some good swimmers... unlike their mother.

The other Day, I was quizzing Harper.. "where do we live?" Harper says "Smort Smith"
"Right, now what street do you live on?" Harper says that right. I asked her her mommy's name, she got it right... then her daddy's. "Ummm, Daddy?" I said "No, his other name" She thought a minute and I could tell she didn't have it, so I gave her a hint and said "what does mommy call him?" she smiled and said "stinker". A few days after this we pulled up after exercise school and his truck was here and she said "stinker's home."

The boys are doing well also. Noah is really into "kiss you" right now and kisses me a million times a day (especially when he thinks I am upset with him for something) I guess he needs a kiss to reassure him we are best friends.

Judd's big thing is "hold me pweeze....on da couch" and points where I need to go. He loves puppy dogs and usually carries around a few of the stuffed animals. You know how he's into boxing... well, I found a $3 shirt at Walmart with a boxer puppy on it, holding a pair of boxing gloves in his mouth and it says "boxer in training"... well, being Judd's 2 loves, and only $3, I had to get it for him. I put it on him last night and he did his voice "Ohhh so cute!" he said. I gotta record that, it's hilarious, he wrinkles up his nose and says it in a deep voice.

Anyways, we went to church lastnight-- trying to get started in Wed. night church again. Noah got an award for being a good listener! Yeah Noah!

Weekly update

I need to post more regularly... I go thru spurts of posting a lot and then not posting. Josh is in bed and the kids are all playing nicely together. The kitchen is cleaned and the table is wiped down....The kids are clean too, I just got out of the bath with HJ and Judd. Harper is low on Iron again, which worries me. She is "so so so so tired." even after a 3 hour nap. She slept from about 6pm-6:30 this morning.
The boys especially are really into "water game" otherwise known as "wipeout" and watch it over and over. Judd loves the "big balls" and acts it out with his rubber ducks, or whatever toy he has at the moment.
While I am thinking about it, Judd holds his thumbs in between his next 2 fingers. He was doing it in the car today on the way home from Sam's and it's precious.
At Jessie's this weekend he "stole" a bowling set. He woke up this morning and put his hands out and said "where'd my bowling stuff go?" and went to find it.
Noah is really into hotwheels. The other day, he and I were together alone and I gave him a dollar bill and we went to Walmart and he picked out his own hotwheel and paid for it himself. Now, he thinks he needs one everyday.
Did I write about HJ helping me with laundry last week. For about 2 hours, she helped me sort laundry mountain into piles and she did a great job! "Girls panties, boys panties, Harper's clothes, Daddy's boxers, jammies, and wash towels."
I filed papers this morning. I found these notes that I don't know if I have posted or not, but they are from the past couple of months.
I said "Judd do you need to go pee in the potty?" Judd said "No, see, I got panties on."
We were in the car on the way home from exercise school and they were amazed that Addy had a Pa too. I was explaining to them that Pa was my dad and Pappa was Josh's dad and Noah said "And Wanna's yo mom?" and I told him "No, Nanna is Daddy's mom... Granny is my mom." He thought for a few seconds and said "wanna, gwanny, and mommy--- dose aw my girls." Awww. made me tear up and of course I had to call the other "girls" and tell them.
Harper asked me if she could watch the deer painting with bbq sauce on you tube and I turned it on for her and left the room. He ran back in the den and said "that deer scares me, it's fweakin' me out in dere."
A long time ago, several months, I told Harper she was being ugly (by how she was acting) and she said "I ugwee and pwoud."
I asked the kids if they wanted butter or cheese popcorn and Noah answered "chicken popcorn!"
Anyways, if those last stories are repeats, I am just sorry... I wasn't going to go back thru every post trying to find them.
And all 3 of them are here bombarding me.

July

The kids have been cracking us up lately. We have been trying to get them to sleep in Harper's bed every night, and our new routine is about 5 books, then Josh tells them a bedtime story, then I lay in there for a while and sing until they go to sleep. Well, they still don't really like it, and Noah always says he wants to go to mommy/daddy bed. The other night HJ and Judd were watching a show on the couch, and Josh and I were going to lay in bed and watch a movie... It was this weekend, and we were going to let them fall asleep on the couch watching shows. Noah came into our bedroom all wound up and excited and said "Hoppa and Judd sweep in Hoppa bed, Noah sweep in mommy daddy woom and watch a mommy/daddy show-- that's da pwan?" with his little hand held out to the side, it was precious... being that cute, he got his way and Harper and Judd watched a show on the couch and he laid in bed with us and watched a mommy/daddy movie and went to sleep.
We were waiting on Josh to take movies back the next night, sitting in the Walmart parking lot and Noah could see a Chicken Donalds far away. Harper was getting frustrated because she couldn't see it and said "you got some gwasses so I can see chicken Donald's too?"
Judd is still saying "Oh my dosh" the other day we were eating pancakes and he couldn't poke his with a fork and was getting frustrated, and Josh helped him get a bite, and with a big full mouth, he said "oh my dosh, daddy poke it!"
Judd saw a picture of Josh doing fireworks I was putting on the computer and said "dats so cool!"
If I ask him where his food went he puts his hands out and says "eat it aw dawn."
He calls Harper "harper janey" and always has to know where she is and what she's doing.
Harper has been wanting Miss Becky to come over and she said "where is Miss Becky?" and I said "I don't know where she's been..." and she said "Maybe she gots a pwobwem."
We were getting ready to leave for Stephanie's wedding yesterday and Harper said "Is daddy gonna come?" I said "No, not with us, Daddy's playing golf" and she said "Oh, dat daddy, he's always playin' golf." (He did go, we picked him up in Sallisaw)
That was a big trip... The kids were good on the way down. The church was huge and it was hard to keep up with them on the bounce around, trampoline, basketball courts, pool table, fountains and all that stuff... On the way home Judd cried for over an hour straight and Noah was telling Josh to drive faster and go home!

Today

Took all 3 of them to the dentist today-- they were incredible! It was Judd's first time, and he did SUPER! They all 3 just laid back on the tables, just like they were supposed to and held their mouths open. I just went from table to table checking on them and they were absolutely PERFECT. I was so proud. HJ even got x-rays by herself! Dr. Murphy bragged and bragged on them and their teeth! Yeah!
After that we went to chicken donald's and played and ate lunch for a treat. After that to Jennifer/Michelle's to drop off Noah, then to Nanna's bank so Harper and Judd could play. Glad to be home now.

The other day Harper said "I'm hiccing upping."
Judd has been saying "oh my dosh."

Sweeties

Oh the sweeties are doing good. We've had a super busy week. My friend Robin, and her 3 kids: Marlee 6, Reilly 4, and Ollie 10 months, came and stayed with us for a couple of days. We went to Chuck E. Cheese for a long time Tuesday night and had a little birthday party for Marlee, we came home and the kids played toys, video games and watched movies until they crashed on the couch. Robin and I stayed up until 4am talking!!! I woke up at 7 and worked on some pics... Dad brought us over Hardees biscuits at 8-- how thoughtful is that?? Thanks dad! At 9:30 I went with Alyssia and Vivian to shoot Vivian's 3 year pics, it was SOO HOT! Poor Robin watched all 6 kids while I did that. After I got back we went to Grandmom's and swam. It was hot for Ollie and Robin, who weren't in the pool, so we came back home and the kids were hungry, so we went to the mall and ate Geno's and the kids played in the playland. After that we tried to shop, but with 6 kids, go figure how much shopping we got done. After the mall, my sweet husband watched the kids who were awake and me and Robin and a few kids passed out. I couldn't hold my eyes open as hard as I tried. After my wonderful nap, we got them loaded and we went and did their pics. After that was done, they got on the road, and I picked up the boys from Granny's house. Poor Granny was exhausted... the boys were bad, mixing up the cat and dog food and Noah apparently peed in the dog water (which I didn't find out until yesterday)... or he'd have gotten into big trouble. Updates: When Noah gets in bed he said he needs the cold, and we have to flip all the pillows over to get the cold side of the pillow.... he learned that all on his own. His favorite show right now is "My new water game" which translates to "WipeOut" he loves it and watches the episodes over and over and cracks up. When they are panning over the course he brings me in and points to it and said "I can win this" and wants to try it so bad. Juddson is really into the wii and loves to play boxing and baseball and tennis. He has to use the Juddson Mii though, or he gets mad. He acts out the boxing scenes and when his wii gets knocked out, he falls to the floor and lays flat and still. Harper is still trying to not suck her thumb, and she's doing super during the day, but having a hard time at night. She loved playing with Marlee. They played dolls and painted nails and played with Marlee's schnoodle, Shelby. I so wish I could get her a little dog or kitten. Last night I had a photo shoot and Josh watched them, he said they had a blast playing blocks and hide and go seek. He said that he was hiding and they couldn't find him for a while and he heard Harper say "Daddy went to work... Mommy and Daddy both are gone." Isn't that terrible, after that he made noises so they'd find him.