Changes........

Daddy and I have had to make some pretty major life decisions in the last 24 hours. I have to say, as tough as they were to make, we feel really good about them. Totally at peace.
We lost our sitter(which really was a pretty tough choice for her)and we have decided that I am going to go part time. I am also going to try and go back to school this fall. I will be taking it slow at first, probably only 2 classes a semester until the trio starts school. It will take a long time to get my degree but that is OK. It is time to be a full time mom and a part time paramedic, instead of vise versa like it has been for the last 2 years. I have faith that we will be just fine and the Lord will provide what we need when we need it.

I have a few new pictures to post but I will do that tomorrow. I haven't downloaded them yet.

Updates

I don't know where the time is going that I can never seem to post on a regular basis anymore.

Joshua saw the ENT again today. He decided he is going to take out his adenoids. We won't know until the day of surgery if he is going to take the tonsils too or not. The surgery won't be until sometime in August.
Josh is also sitting on the potty on a regular basis and he has even peed once. I am so not pushing this potty training thing. Not yet.

Markas asked to go potty tonight while we were getting ready for bed. He was sitting there and I was talking to Joshua. I heard something and *assumed* he had peed. He kept telling me "caca mommy, caca". I said, "ok, so go". He then hiked up a leg and reached his hand to his butt and pulled up a "caca" covered hand! He had gone all right and I guess decided he needed to show me since I wasn't listening.

Lucy has decided it is up to her when people get to watch tv. She usually says it is her turn but occassionally she will tell me it is daddy's turn. She is becoming a couch potato but it has been so blasted hot. I think we are on like 16 of 100+ temps.

OK, gotta run. I am sure there is a ton more to tell about the kids but I can't think at the moment and I have so much to do to get ready for work this weekend. Oh, and I still need to clean the house.

The Final Beach Pics

Here are the final beach pics. I must apologize to all my fellow bloggy friends. I have been horrible at following everyone's blogs and even worse about commenting to let you all know I have been there. I feel like I have been super crazy busy but the thing is, I can't figure out what I have been super crazy busy doing.
Some recent Lucy phrases:
"I come mommy"
"I right back"
After peeing on me:"Mommy need diaper"
"my mommy", "my daddy"
"Boys, nap!"
Some recent Markas pharases:
"Shua bad! Shua bite!"(we actually hear this way too often)
"Mommy hep. No daddy hep"
"My mommy"
Some recent Joshua phrases:
"Big water!"(as heard at the beach)
"mommy me cook"(while I am trying to make dinner)
"I done mommy/daddy"(as heard when getting tickled, nose suctioned, or just anything he doesn't really like)
They actually are talking to each other a lot more but they still have their own language and we have yet to break the code. Lucy is by far the best talker and she does it almost constantly. It is not unusual to hear her singing to herself, talking to her babies or even dancing. She loves to sing and dance. Caitlin and I are working on teaching her the Cha-Cha Slide.

And Still More Beach Pics......

And today........Caitlin put the trio down for their nap. When Markas got up he was no longer wearing the clothes I had dressed him before I left for work. He was wearing jammies! He has gotten really good at not only dressing himself but changing clothes at random.

More Beach Pics

This kid doesn't like the water too much. He also refused to get down in the sand. He played in it but wouldn't sit in it and as soon as we were able to clean his feet off he was HAPPY!


My center-fold model in training! She loves the water.

They had fun and there are still more pictures to come.
They are really starting to talk a lot. Lucy has taken to calling me honey instead of mommy or mama. Markas called his daddy a geek the other night when he was mad at him. Daddy will call them little geeks when he gets upset with them about something.
I was changing Joshua the other day and he tooted. I said, "did you toot?" He giggled and told me "no, I fart".
I think I need to have a talk with their father.

Mustang Island S.P.

Sweet Berry Farms.

A ton of pictures because I couldn't ever get the slide show to load. Sorry. We had a great time last week at Sweet Berry Farms. We picked, itty bitty, but good strawberries and nice fat blackberries. The trio had a great time. We showed Joshua which berries he needed to be looking for and those were the only ones he picked. Markas and Lucy didn't care. They just pulled berries off the bushes. Although, towards the end they started getting the hang of it. We had a nice picnic next to the river afterwards. Then we took a driving tour of my BFF's old hood in Austin. We decided we needed to stop and stretch our legs so we took them to the "zoo", also known as Cabela's. They loved all the animals and the fish, especially the BIG fish in the aquarium.
Coming soon........pictures from our trip to the beach this weekend.