tabology

1) What is your favorite salad dressing? Ranch
2) What is your favorite sit-down restaurant? Sweet Tomatoes (does buffet count?)
3) What food could you eat for 2 weeks straight and not get sick of it? Chips and salsa con queso
4) What are your pizza toppings of choice? Black olives and onions
5) What do you like to put on your toast? Butter
6) How many televisions are in your house? 2
7) What color cell phone do you have? Gray
8) Are you right-handed or left-handed? Left
9) Have you ever had anything removed from your body? Yes. Teeth.
10) What is the last heavy item you lifted? Marcail
11) Have you ever been knocked unconscious? No. Passed out after giving plasma though.
12) If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die? No.
13) If you could change your name, what would you change it to? That's tough! I really don't know, I love names but really am quite fond of my own for myself.
14) Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000.? NOOOO
15) How many pairs of flip flops do you own? 6
16) What’s your goal for the year? To make it through it
17) Last person you talked to? James
18) Last person you hugged? Henry
19) Favorite Season? Spring
20) Favorite Holiday? Easter and/or St. Patty's Day
21) Favorite day of the week? Saturday. James is home all day!!!
22) Favorite Month? April
23) First place you went this morning? Bathroom
24) Do you always answer the phone? No, if someone calls at a really inconvenient time I let voicemail pick it up.
25) If you could change your eye color what would it be? Blue
26) What flavor drink do you get at Sonic? Vanilla-flavored Coke
27) Have you ever had a pet fish? Yes
28) Favorite Christmas song? Winter Wonderland
29) What's on your wish list for your birthday? Eat out, cake, icecream, relaxation
30) Can you do push ups? Yes but not many before my arms are screaming at me.
31) Can you do a chin up? No
32) Does the future make you more nervous or excited? Both
33) Do you have any saved texts? Yes
34) Ever been in a car wreck? No
35) Do you have an accent? Not to me I don't
36) What is the last song to make you cry? I don't remember
37) Plans tonight? Blog and web surf
38) Have you ever felt like you hit rock bottom? Pretty close
39) Name 3 things you bought yesterday. Juice, M&M's, Doritos
40) Have you ever been given roses? Yes
41) Current hate right now? The tomcat that keeps meowing for a mate down by our complexes pool....for the last 3 months!!
42) Met someone who changed your life? Yes
43) How did you bring in the New Year? On the phone chatting with my friend of 18 years.
44) What song represents you? Um...never thought about it.
45) What were you doing 12 AM last night? Just thinking about going to bed but couldn't tear myself away from my laptop
46) What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up? "Those kids do not know how to sleep in."

my last name

My sister sent this to me via facebook but I thought I'd fill it out on my blog instead. Here are the rules:
USE THE 1ST LETTER OF YOUR LAST NAME TO ANSWER EACH OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS. THEY HAVE TO BE REAL PLACES, NAMES, THINGS. NOTHING MADE UP! TRY TO USE DIFFERENT ANSWERS IF THE PERSON IN FRONT OF YOU HAD THE SAME 1ST INITIAL. YOU CAN'T USE YOUR NAME FOR THE BOY/GIRL NAME QUESTION.

1. Your last name: Wright
2. A four letter word: Went
3. A Boys Name: William
4. A Girls name: Wanda
5. An Occupation: Waiter
6. A Color: White
7. Something you wear: Wig
8. A Beverage: Water
9. Food: Watermelon
10. Something found in the bathroom: Wastebasket
11. A place: Wyoming
12. Reason for being late: Wreck
13.Something you shout: WAIT!

animal noises

The kids showing off their animal noises.

kid-isms III

All three of the children call their underwear "weer-weer".

on saturday james and i went to a concert

A FREE Christian concert on the beach! It was so much fun because it was early enough in the day that I wasn't too tired to enjoy it. It was a fairly small crowd but it was neat to see fellow Christians join onthe beach to ROCK to edifying and non-offensive music.


The bands that shared their talent with us were Pillar (pictured below)
and FireFlight:

It was sooooooo much fun and we were able to enjoy it without children since James' mom watched the kids that day/night.

playing with rahul

We had the opportunity to go to the beach with their little friend who lives in our building. His name's Rahul and we play with him just about every day after naps on the courtyard tiles for an hour and a half or so. They all have a lot of fun playing together and so we went to the beach to play for a change of scenery. Naomi loves to play with the sand bucket and pretend to make food.

Henry, Marcail and Rahul being silly on a picnic table at the beach. Rahul and Marcail get along the best of the four kids. Look how Henry and Rahul are sticking their tongues out. Goofy boys!

photohunt:: hands

My sweet children's hands (and mine).

Happy hunting!

we have success!!

Henry went #2 in the toilet!!!!! I was desperate for him to get the hang of all of the toilet training stuff and especially how to relax and just poop on the potty. I tried everything: candy rewards, endcouraging words, stickers, threats ;-) and even showing him how to strain if he needed to. Then, I thought maybe I could encourage it by telling him that if he went poop in the potty and didn't poop in his pants we could go get a big dump truck at the store. That seemed to spark something. He said, with his hands in the air, "OK!!!" and not 1 hour later he purposely strained and pooped in the pot!!! Followed by 3 more poops in the toilet later that day and no poop accidents since. We are so proud of our 3 year and 2 month old boy!!! And I think he's pretty proud of himself too!

bedtime songs

All three of the kiddos recently received books in the mail from our friend Mrs. Esping. Naomi really likes her book. It has music buttons to sing with the songs in the book. It's called Bedtime Songs. We read that book almost nightly. Naomi also likes to sing her book by herself on the couch in the kid's room. I think it's so sweet because she knows some of the songs and some of the words to the songs but not word for word. She takes her book and her singing seriously.

fun in the bath

Henry didn't want his funny hair, everytime we gave him a mohawk he would flatten it and say, "Me no want dat." But at least he gave me a somewhat silly look for the camera.

allow me to be a little vain

As I post more pictures of our beautiful children. I have a lot of days that I just don't like my job at all but then I will look through the pictures on my camera and am reminded at what a gift I have! Three healthy, darling kids!!! What a blessing and I really shouldn't ask for more.

mama's "helper"

Naomi usually sits on my lap when I am blogging or just playing around on the computer. She enjoys the special mommy time and is pretty good at not touching the keyboard.

my friend nicole

On Sunday, our family traveled down to Sunny Isles, FL (a suburb of Miami), about a 17 min. drive from our house, to see my old friend from high school. Nicole is a nanny for a family that lives in Boston. Every year they travel to Miami and so we had the privelege of seeing her! I hadn't seen Nic in 5 years and we have the kind of friendship that even if we haven't seen each other or talked for a long time we can just pick up where we left off. We would alway get so silly and hyper when we hung out together in high school and this time was no exception except for a little more maturity! : )
Nicole had never met James or seen our kids before so it was great to be able to introduce her to my family. The kids took to her really well, she's so good with children. She has so much fun with them and plays with them too, which the kids love! Nicole and me!!!

We started out meeting at McDonald's for supper then we went to a park nearby. I took some pictures at the park but it was getting dark so the pictures didn't turn out well. After the park we walked over to Starbucks to enjoy a smoothee and Nic got some yogurt. The kids thought that she got it for them to share and sweet Nicci kindly shared with my begging kiddos!

Nicole and Marcail being silly!

Naomi and Marcail "sharing" Nicole's yogurt.

Here we all are around the table outside Starbucks.

Henry, me, Nicole and Marcail. As the sun went down it got chilly and was a bit breezy being so close to the ocean so we wrapped the kids up in their blankeys. This was James' wise idea.

I cannot tell you how good it was to see Nicole. I didn't realize how much I'd missed her!

happy st. patrick's day

From the Wright kids!

kid-isms II

So, I put oregano oil on the bottoms of our kid's feet every night after baths then pull their socks on afterward to keep the oil from getting all over my floor. Oregano oil is an anti-fungal and it absorbs into the kid's feet and helps fight off viruses and colds. I have found that if the kids do get a cold it doesn't last near as long as it has in the past when I wasn't using oregano oil! I am a believer in this holistic and homeopathic and, I admit, weird use of oregano! It works!!
All the kids like it when I put it on their feet and take this part of their bedtime routine pretty seriously. They do have a hard time pronouncing this unusual word, though. This is how it sounds when they say it:
"Paykanpo".
It took me a while to figure out what it was that they were saying.
"Me have paykanpo on my foots."

new jammies from great grandma

Our kiddos were given new p.j.s from their great grandma Jerry while I was in Kansas. They were so excited to wear them once they had their baths! Marcail and Naomi have never worn nightgowns before and were even more pleased with the prospect of wearing a "dress" with Princess' on them. Henry, of course, loved his Cars pajamas. Thank you great Grandma for our new jammies!

kid-isms I

It was suggested to me by my mom that I should keep a record on my blog of all the funny, cute things that the kids say.
Henry is #1 on my list. He adds an unnecessary word to the end of a lot of his questions, "about". For instance:
"Why my shirt have a tiger on it about?"
or
"Why me wearing gloves about?"
Very unnecessary but cute, huh?

Yesterday, Naomi was wearing a little button-down sweater as her jacket. We were sitting down to eat supper and I told Naomi I needed to take of her jacket and Marcail preceded to tell me,
"That's not a dacket, it's a feder." (That's her word for 'sweater'.)
I didn't even know she knew it was a sweater. It just goes to show how much she really pays attention to what I say.

this morning

As I was unpacking the kids enjoyed their little gifts that they got from their grandma's and Aunt Christine.

my friend jamie

This picture was taken at Seasons Restaurant in Lindsborg where I worked for a few months before moving to Florida. In the picture with me is my co-worker and friend Jamie. She was so much fun to work with and made me feel very welcome as I joined the team of workers at Season's.

I miss you and our fun times at Seasons! Talk to you soon.

my get-away to "familyville" a.k.a. KANSAS

This past weekend I had the privilege of flying to Kansas for a visit to see my family. James kindly let me go alone and willingly stayed home and played stay-at-home-daddy, a job he enjoyed! Here are some pictures from the visit. My mom and dad at almost their goofiest!

We went bowling on Saturday and had such a fun time. We hadn't been bowling since before the twins were born and Liv hadn't gone bowling since college.

My sisters, Christine and Liv with my dad and me!

Liv and me with our dad in the background, keeping watch over us!

The bowling alley.

My nephew Sean.

We went to our favorite restaurant in Hutchinson, the Anchor Room. We met my uncles and aunt and grandparents there and ate some yummy Mexican food! The picture above is my Uncle John and his daughter, my cousin Emily.

My mom!

My uncle Steve and Kelly!

Emily and her mom, my Aunt Cyndi.

Liv and sweet Chloe.

Liv and Chloe. I just adore my new niece!

My other sweet niece Eleanor and me.

Liv and her husband, Chris and Chloe.

My dad's mom and stepdad at the restaurant in Lindsborg, Seasons.

My mom's mom and me looking at a photo album.

Christine's birthday cake for her 19th birthday.

The three sisters!

My family minus Liv. :-(

My mom's mom and dad, my grandparent's and me at Cracker Barrel.

I had such a wonderful time seeing everyone and enjoyed my stay so much. I sure wish it had been a longer visit but I am glad to be home with my babies.