January 27th: The day of Harrison :)

My baby is FOUR years old. I really do not know where the time has gone but he is the sweetest and most lovable boy there is. He loves to cuddle and he idolizes his big brother. He is smart, witty, funny, caring and all boy. I am a very proud Mommy. I love you very much my little Harry Bugs.
January 27th, 2008 (born) January 27th, 2009 (1 years old)

January 27th, 2010 (2 years old)

January 27th, 2011 (3 years old)

January 27th, 2012 (4 years old)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRION PRESCOTT!

William turns 5!

The hard part about taking a ton of pictures is deciding which ones to share.  I still go overboard but I love it.  William turned 5 on Tuesday and he loved his family birthday party/dinner.  Harry helped me decorate while William waiting in his room.  The entire night was so cute because no matter what came next, William’s response was, “Oh my goodness, this is great!  This is the best birthday ever.  Thank you so much!”  He was just so incredibly cute about everything and so excited he had a pirate birthday.  Since it was his birthday, he was able to chose what was for dinner on his special night.  So we had peanut butter sandwiches and chips!  Scott and I laughed because we asked, “what goes better with Peanut Butter?  Red or White wine?”  It’s really hard to figure out what to pair with it—lol.  Here are some pictures of our fun night together.  William was so happy and in turn, that makes us extremely happy 

January 17th: The day of William :)

I have to admit, I am not doing well with this baby of mine turning 5. Scott reminded me it is going to be worse when he starts kindergarten. 5 seems so much older to me. I just can't get over he is 5! He is such a great kid, wonderful protective brother, good to his friends and a great follower of Christ. He is intelligent, caring and very lovable. I couldn't be more proud of William. Happy Birthday!

A look over the years on January 17th:
2007 January 17th, 2008 Age 1

January 17th, 2009 Age 2

January 17th, 2010 Age 3

January 17th, 2011 Age 4

January 17th, 2012 Age 5!!!

Sunday fun

My absolute favorite thing to do on Sundays after church is to picnic at the beach.  We have done this off and on since we have lived here but for the last year we usually go at-least once a month on Sundays.  Not that we are moving anytime soon but when I look back to living in California some day, I know this will be one of my fondest memories.  We just have the best family quality time together.  We have  a nice picnic lunch together and then we play all sorts of games (baseball, catch, football, soccer, etc).  Then before we leave, we always walk the boardwalk and watch the birds at the end diving in the water for fish.  I know it sounds silly since we do all sorts of fun stuff like Disney and other great things (which I love as well).  This is just a FREE thing to do that brings such happiness to all of us. 

Yesterday we stopped at the outlet mall to return some stuff so they boys had to ride the toy horse and take a little pretzel break :) 

Kid Talk

William:”Mom, I want Belle to have babies.”

Me: “honey, she can’t have any babies.”

William: “Well then I want you to have a baby.”

Me: “hmm, well I don’t think that is going to happen but if I did, would you want a brother or a sister?”

William: “A baby brother!”

Harrison: “Me too, I want another brother!”

Me: “You wouldn’t want a little sister to watch over and protect?”

William: “Well actually I would be happy with whatever God wants to make us.”

I think it is so cute that if that were to ever happen again, William says to make “us.”  I just love that. 

 

 

On the way home from the grocery store tonight

Me: “William can you please not grow up and turn 5 tomorrow?  Can you stay 4 forever?”

William: “Mom, I can’t do that.  You know that.  It is in God’s power for me to grow and he wants me to grow.  You need to be happy with that and not be sad.  He wants you to be happy and I want you to too.” 

 

Well I guess that’s that!  I can’t be sad about him turning 5. 

Here’s one for the blog!

We have been extremely busy lately and I was so excited yesterday afternoon to be able to have more than 5 minutes at home and my plan was to clean.  Well it wasn’t but a couple minutes after we got home that Harry ran up to me crying saying, “there are cranberries stuck in my nose!”  Sigh! 

I could barely see them up there but yes, they were there.  I got the tweezers out hoping I could reach them but couldn’t.  I called our neighbor, a nurse.  She advised putting pepper in his nose to make him sneeze.  Sneeze he did but no cranberries to follow.  I tried just about everything. 

So we made an emergency trip to his E.N.T.  He tried too with the tweezers but no luck.  So he had to have a little microscopic procedure (pretty interesting) but Harry obliged since the cranberries were hurting him and he wanted them out. Since it’s the beginning of the year, we had to pay $250 towards our deductible-yuck!  Not too excited about that one since we just paid $350 less than a week ago at the dentist.  Anyway, enough about money.  The cranberries came out and Harry was happy.  He also got a lecture by his E.N.T. about never sticking anything in his nose again.  As soon as we got to the truck he said, “I’m hungry.  Can I have some cranberries?!”  Seriously????!

Then last night he was snacking on a graham cracker and says to me, “graham crackers fit in your nose.”  I about lost it :)  I said, “Harry, absolutely not, didn’t you learn anything today?”  He replied, “But if you smashed them into pieces, they fit in your nose.”  Why do I feel this is not going to be the last time something gets stuck in his nose?! 

Kid Talk

William: “Mommy, you are the best woman in the world.  You are the best Mommy. … because you put Harry in time out when he hits me.” 

Kid Talk

I had to change my routine “Toddler Talk” to something new and I can’t think of anything clever :) 

William today speaking about one of his friends at Preschool:

William: “Mommy, God tells us to love everyone.”

Me: “I know honey.”

William: “Well I think God forgot to tell Nathan.”

Our Little Getaway

Since Scott had time off of work, we wanted to take a little getaway and we love taking advantage of where we live and all that is close around us.  So we headed to Nevada.  We left Wednesday and came back on Friday.  Wednesday our first stop was Hoover Dam.  And if you aren’t afraid of heights, you would be after being there! 

It was absolutely magnificent though! 

     

Afterwards we headed to our hotel.  I think the boys favorite part of “vacation” is the hotel room.  They really think a slumber party and sharing a bed with each other is the best thing.  Or it could be that they love doing this:

We had a nice dinner in the hotel (which was huge).  Vegas does it up right. Our hotel room was huge.  We even had a walk-in closet and the bathroom was bigger than the boys’ bedroom at home.  Our hotel itself had 11 restaurants. 

Thursday we headed out to the Vegas Strip.  We played at Coney Island Emporium in the New York New York Hotel. 

After some serious playing, we went to M&M World.  And if you plan on going there ever, be prepared that the M&Ms cost $13 a pound!!!  Ridiculous!  

  We saw a fountain show and ate lunch at the Miracle Mile Mall in Planet Hollywood and then went to The Bellagio to see the fountain show.  And talk about perfect timing.  We didn’t know they only have shows on the hour and we got there at 3:59pm just in time to see the 4pm show.   We of-course had to play more games and then headed back to the hotel. 

It was then Scott got hit really hard with being sick so we stayed in for the night.  The next day we ordered room service for breakfast which the boys loved!  

We knew we had to get home since Scott was incredibly sick but we first made a stop at Ethel M’s Chocolate.  They have a botanical garden of cactus’.  We came in the day light so we couldn’t see but all of the cactus had Christmas lights on them.   Wouldn’t you love to be the guy that got to string the cactus with lights?!!!!  On our way home, our car broke down.  Traffic didn’t help with everyone wanting to get out of town for New Years weekend.  We did make it home and Scott made it to urgent care right before they closed.  Turned out he had a double ear infection. We took our car in the next day and it cost $1000 to replace the water pump.  Also the fuel pump is going out but that is another $939 to fix so we are trying to hold out.  But I don’t think we will make it through the week because it took 6 tries at Wal-Mart today to get it started.  Ugh!  When it rains, it pours!  We know we really need to think about getting a new car but we love not having car payments. And we cannot afford to add another expense to the budget right now.  And to top it off, William went to urgent care today.  He had 102.2 fever and cough.  They said he “just” has a viral upper respiratory infection and Tylenol should help. Then tonight he started vomiting A LOT!  So yeah Tylenol?  I don’t think so.  So our mini getaway was nice at first and then things have spiraled out of control since then.  Happy New Year!  But hey, I am doing better about blogging, right?!