Happy Birthday Big Brother

My baby turned 5 today. I can't believe this little guy is growing so fast. He had his special day planned out for us from the moment he woke up.

Dinosaur pancakes with birthday candles.

He had opened all of his presents before breakfast except for one. He walked outside and yelled, "My 4 wheeler!" and took off.

He even took Baby Jaws for a ride.

He had his standing birthday lunch at Chik-Fil-A.


Eat More Chikin!
Dinner was his favorite: Texas Roadhouse. He loves it for no other reason than he thinks it's cool that he can throw peanut shells on the floor.

He wanted to sit in the birthday saddle, but didn't want them singing to him.

He ended the day at church sharing his dinosaur cupcakes with all of his buddies. All in all, he had a fun 5th birthday!

Laundry Success

I found half of a granola bar in Baby Jaw's PJ shorts. I'm just thankful I caught it before it went into the washing machine, although as I've said before, I've washed worse.

Five Quote Friday

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.
~Attributed to both Marion Smith and Nicole Hollander

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.
~Helen Rowland

It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
~Helen Rowland

Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.
~Jerry Seinfeld

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard

Mommy Brain

I had a severe case of Mommy Brain this morning as I was making a bowl of cereal of all things. Big Brother and Baby Jaws both wanted Cheerios. I had filled their bowls, set them on the table and went back to the fridge to retrieve the milk.

I walked back to the table, took the top off the milk, heard Little Miss Happy Go Lucky yell, "TEA!" and thought, what a strange child.

Then I noticed it. I was pouring brown liquid into Big Brother's Cheerios. The look on his face was nothing short of sheer terror. It's as if he actually believed I was going to make him eat the tea covered O's.

He was relieved when I told him I'd dump it and make him another bowl with actual milk.

Better Than a Hallelujah

My friend sang this at church a couple of weeks ago and it made me cry. I love it!

Sn-oop

Big Brother had a crappy day today. A few bouts of diarrhea and a few changes of underwear later and he was feeling better. After dinner, he was standing in the living room and sneezed. The look on his face was priceless. He started yelling, "Oh, I pooped my pants!" He was half shocked and half disgusted that his big sneeze had set off another poop.

And being the loving mother that I am, I laughed.

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

I'm behind, which is nothing new for me. But since summer is here, I'm really behind. I feel a little guilty about not posting daily on my blogs. I love to write and it was a nice goal for me to have-this blogging every day.

I'm not going to sweat it anymore though. I'm spending more time with my boys and that's all that matters. We've had the best time this past week. We went to the nature center one day last week. They got to go to bible school with Pa and Gran. They got to go swimming with their cousin. Saturday, we had a BBQ and fireworks at PaPa and Mamaw's house. Sunday, we did more fireworks at our house. Yesterday, we all loaded up and went to the zoo, including Daddy.

I'm going to enjoy the rest of my summer with my sweet little guys. I'm not going to worry anymore about what I have or haven't posted. I'm going to relax like my little monkey friend here, but not before I share some zoo photos.

That's the life!
Big Brother was very impressed that Kevin from UP strolled by us.
Baby Jaws is my little animal lover so he got along great with the goats. It cracked me up that the goats kept cracking him up!
I can't believe that Big Brother actually touched the snake. He was quite brave!
So for the rest of the summer, I'm going to have fun like these little guys. I just wish I had the energy of an otter or of my boys for that matter.