It's been brought to my attention......

that I haven't posted in a while! I think my friend Tracy was concerned that the monstrous pile of laundry actually swallowed me whole so she called today and told me to get on the ball!

In all honesty I have either been too busy (did I tell you I have a husband who lives in the basement on the weekends....he's finishing it) or I have been too lazy! Yep I will admit it there are times when I am just too lazy to do anything....hence the 15 loads of laundry in the previous post.

Not much has been going on around here. I had my birthday on Friday and I am calmly and collectively waiting for my present from my husband to get here (calmly..right Jon?). He has ordered me a new camera so I can hopefully get some better pics of the kids.

Cooper has learned a neat new trick this past week. He has decided that waking up at around 1:00 a.m. and staying awake sometimes until 6:00 a.m. is a really fun thing to do! For some reason he seems to think that mom really enjoys it too as he keeps me awake with him. This lack of sleeping has actually concerned me enough to call the doctor and see what he thinks. We know that Cooper has one tonsil that is enlarged and we have taken him to an ENT specialist to get it checked out. At the time the Dr. said we will just keep an eye on it and see if he will grow into it. However if it seems like he is having problems eating and/or sleeping to give him a call and we will re-think things.......I called him.......it's time to re-think things........I'M TIRED!! He goes in on May 13th to get checked out and will probably have a sleep study done to figure out why he is doing this.
This whole situation has only confirmed what I always thought about Cooper...if there is going to ever be a call from the dean of students at a college saying this:

"Yes ma'am sorry to have to wake you at 4:00 a.m. but we just caught your son running around campus naked with just a hat made of newspaper on his head and yelling I'm freeeeeee!!!"

.....I'm gonna know right away that it's Cooper!! This child doesn't seem to require a whole lot of sleep, he LOVES a good party and he can run really really fast and that down right concerns me!! Contact me in 18 years if you want to hear me say "Told you so!"

As far as the other 3 kids:

Jackson: Just had a friend sleep over last weekend and we watched the movie "I am Legend." I think he is a little concerned that there is a virus out there that will turn him into a zombie. We will be buying stock in Purell at this rate!! (I am not a bad mom....I didn't know that this movie was about zombies...and his friend had already seen it so I thought it would be okay).

Grant: Has learned some choice words and we have no idea where he learned them. For example:
While riding his bike in the basement watching his Daddy work this past weekend I caught him saying "boobies...boobies....want some boobies." Oh yeah...and that's just one of them!! I just love the age 3 stage!

Rossco (our furry kid): No changes there besides he desperately needs a haircut and bath!

So that's about it. I did get my toilets cleaned and I got somewhat caught up on my laundry even though I have come to realize with 5 people living here there will never be an end to the laundry!

Hope all is well with you and your families! Take care.