Getting to know me...

1.) If you could give the world one piece of advice, what would it be?
Pick your battles. Sometimes it's better to just let things go....

2.) If you could have a room full of any one thing, what would it be?
My family.

3.) What do you value most in other people?
Humor

4.) If you could only see black and white except for one color, what color would you choose to see?
Blue, the same color blue of my children's eyes.

5.) If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I wish I was more motivated.

6.) If you could choose one of your personality traits to pass on to your children, what would it be?
My open mindedness.

7.) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
I'd try to fly.

8.) Would you rather teach a young child to read or have to learn again for yourself?
Teach a child.

9.) What is the best advice you've ever given and received?
"You can't fully love anyone else until you learn to love yourself" was the best advice I ever received from my stepmom. It's so true.

10.) How would you like to die?
Peacefully of old age.

My beard...

Tonight is night one of David's new job. He will be working Monday-Friday 5am-2pm. That means he is going to bed around 7, which is before Micah's bedtime. Micah keeps wanting to knock on the bedroom door and he keeps looking to the hallway and asking about Daddy. So tonight for our bedtime story we read some poems from Where The Sidewalk Ends, which is one of my favorite books from my childhood. We dedicated this poem to Daddy tonight....

My Beard

My beard grows to my toes,

I never wears no clothes,

I wraps my hair

Around my bare,
And down the road I goes...

10 favorite things...

1. This card.


2. She & Him. At first I didn't think I would like them but after hearing them a million times on Pandora I started to really love them.

3. The ending of Shawshank Redemption. For 3 days in a row David and I kept catching the last 15 minutes of Shawshank. I love the whole movie though.

4.Rally's fries. Everytime we have to take Micah to the Children's Hospital in Little Rock we always stop in Conway to get some Rally's. They have the most amazing fries ever.

5. Planning Micah's birthday party.

6. Infested. Actually it should be "thank god my house isn't infested with bedbugs"

7. Gulley Park.

8. Fred from Cars. Micah has Fred and it is the cutest toy car I have ever seen. It is so tiny!

9. This....

10. Micah's new Allerbling bracelet. I am hoping that when Micah starts school this will help him and his teaches (and other students) remember that Micah is NOT allowed to have gluten.

Where does the time go?

Harper is 8 months old today. I can't believe how fast this is all going by.

10 things...

Normally I would be making a post about 10 things I love, but since I am not feeling so well I thought I would do a much quicker 10 list...

10 Things I HATE

1. Bad drivers-that one needs to explanation.

2. Kesha-or Ke$ha...whatever it is I still hate her. Why would anyone want to pretend to be a drugged up slut?

3. The smell of sunscreen-I can't stand it and it's really hard to find unscented sunscreen.

4. Stuff that comes from an aerosol can-I can't see shaving cream, foam, whipped cream, silly string, or Cheez-whiz without gagging. I have always been like this and now Micah is too. And I HATE how many stores have the foam soap in their bathrooms!!!

5. Legos-Have you ever stepped on a lego? If you have, you should understand why I hate them so much.

6. Jersey Shore-WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY would you ever act like that in public? Do they not think about the fact that their parents will see all the shit they do on TV? But, they have no shame, so whatever.

7. When someone runs the fork along their teeth when eating-it makes my skin crawl!

8. Underwear that rolls down when you walk-okay...I know I'm not the only person who has had this happen!

9. Taxidermy-NOTHING is scarier to me than when I walk into a room and there are dead animals everywhere. I once had an anxiety attack in the middle of a flea market because I almost ran into a stuffed deer!

10. Celiac's disease-YOU'VE MADE OUR LIFE SO DIFFICULT!!!!

Such a quiet morning!

It's almost too quiet around here!

Last night we had a birthday dinner for my brother at Olive Garden (yum!) and my dad and stepmom asked if we would be okay if kids spend the night. So last night David and I were able to snuggle on the couch and watch Date Night with no interruptions. I am not used to watching a movie without having to pause it several times to do something for someone else. I was able to sit in one spot for the whole movie and I felt kind of weird about it!

But this morning I called my dad to see how the kids are doing and as soon as the phone picked up I heard Micah's voice yelling "HEEEEEEELLLOOOOOOOOOOOOO" kind of like Mrs. Doubtfire. Dad said Micah was being really good and bragged about how good Micah is at sharing (I must pat myself on the back for that one!) and he asked me if I knew that Micah can recognize the whole alphabet (which I did know...but I can't take all the credit for that one....pat Elmo on the back for that one!) Then he told me really good news...Micah actually sat down and ate breakfast! He ate 2 (YES 2!!!!) whole pieces of bacon and a piece of gluten-free toast with Nutella on it. Even thought we've been gluten-free for over a month we have still had a lot of trouble getting Micah to eat. He will eat little bits here and there but if he eats too much in one sitting he will gag and sometimes throw it back up. His stomach is still so damaged from the celiac's it's been a really slow healing process. But my dad said that Micah just sat down at the mini-table with John Andrew (my little brother) and ate everything on his plate and never gagged once. I don't know if he is just in an amazing mood or if seeing John Andrew eat so much made Micah realize that it's okay to eat...but whatever it is I hope he keeps it up!

We are about to leave to go to my sis-in-law's house for lunch and I feel really weird about the kids not going with us! April has 3 sons (her youngest is only 2 months younger than Micah) and Micah LOVES going there and jumping on the trampoline or play-wrestling with the boys. So going without him kind of makes me feel like he's missing out on the fun! But I have to remember that Micah is having alot of fun at my dad's house playing with John Andrew and the dog and Harper is probably having a whole lot of fun being carried around everywhere by my stepmom Kim...who I know probably hasn't put Harper down at all!

Everytime I talk about the kids David has been giving me a countdown..."we're going to dinner at your dad's house at 5 o'clock..." Only 7 hours to go. :)

Pic post

I'm short on time today so I decided to just do a quick picture post.

Micah and I snuggling in bed. How lucky am I that every morning I get to wake up to this much joy?

Micah playing peek-a-boo under my blanket.

Micah being Mr. Smiley.

Harper wearing the hat that my grandma made for her.

Miss Drooly-cheeks up from a nap.

And David and I.