I need pictures

yes I know. I can't download anything though until I delete things from my hard drive, yes, it is that full. So one day I will get around to that and post some pictures.
Until then, it has been a little crazy around here. Crazy good though. Layla had her birthday yesterday. We had a fun day. It is kinda odd to think of sometimes, I am now the mommy to a 6 yr old, a 4 yr old and a 1 yr old. It is weird. But anyway, Layla is 4 . Gwen is walking now. Still not using it as a form of transportation, but she is walking. More then the few steps. It is very sweet and she is so proud of herself. She is also getting to the let's stand on everything stage. Driving me slightly batty. But I know it passes. I just have to keep her out of the ER until it does.
And I just got my braces off, hours ago. They are gone! Gone!!! I feel a little weird, in some ways no different, but in other ways? They really were a part of me, of who I was for awhile. So it is weird, how many times can I add in weird here? So hopefully I can get around to deleting some pictures and post some things here soon.

Oh Gwen...

Gwen has never been umm, unadventurous. I think having two older sisters has something to do with it. Things just never seen to be beyond her reach. She has this sense of "I can do anything" It really is amazing and I have lots of confidence in her. Probably more than I did with the other two girls. Some of it may be due to this is the third time around and I really don't think babies are born stupid. If they were then well, how did we get to where we are? So I don't freak when she climbs around on the bed, she sees that she can fall and she usually doesn't. Having trust and confidence in your children is an amazing thing.
But still, we have been to the park a few times and I think I am going to kinda miss the just rolling, scooting Gwen I had last summer. But also, I have to admit that things were kinda easier. Just like everything I have seen with being a mom things get harder and easier all the time. There is always a balance. If it ever gets easy I fully expect my life to get crazy shortly after.
So some pictures of our park day. The older kids were a little freaked out that baby Gwen went off the tarp :) Tayla was so sweet to keep an eye on her. I fully expect these two to get into a good bit of trouble this year.




And you always think of Gwen as this sweet little love. But she seriously takes lessons from Layla for stink eye. Gwen definitely has an attitude. She doesn't show it often, but it is there, so watch out! Of course anyone in this family has to at least be able to compete with Layla.

some pictures of my henna experiments. Layla stays stiller than Natalie. Didn't think that would happen.
Hmmm, what else? Natalie lost her fourth tooth. So now she is missing her bottom two and top two. Her bottom adult teeth are almost in though. She just pulled out her other top tooth today.
We got food poisoned. The girls didn't get hit so bad. I can't say mine was bad compared to my friends, but it is still kicking my butt.
Gwen has a new nicname, Squawker. Se gets really upset when oh many things, too many to list. She was such a calm sweet baby, thought she was going to be kinda like Natalie. But not so much. Interesting, isn't it? To see them grow into their personalities?

so much for anti-social

I am sitting here eating guacamole and cheese, that is what Layla calls it:) Listening to a conversation outside my window. Hey, it is nice enough to have windows open. I can only hear one side of the conversation though, my girls talking to the giirl who lives in the apartment up from us.
They are sitting there, eating their guacamole and cheese telling this girl about the game they were playing, introducing themselves and about every other thime, "why don't you come play with us?" This girl won't tell them her name and just keeps walking away at odd times. I don't know why she isn't coming down. If I remember right she is older than Natalie. I could be wrong though. If it were my kid I would be shooing them out the door to go meet new people. So, anyone want to tell me that homeschoolers are anti-social? My girls are alright striking up a conversation with just about anyone, from birth to well, pretty old.
And by the way, the game they made up was really cute! I didn't get to hear all of it, but the trees back there are evil kid treehouses. And on our balcony is a dead spider where they can go and refill their powers to run from the monsters in the trees. This is where there is a problem though, Natalie says that there is a door for those monsters to get out, Layla disagrees. I love them and their imagination. No pictures, think of it as a test of your imagination, watching my girls running, hugging trees and eating guacamole and cheese.

Taking lessons from Huck...

So, Gwen was being really quiet and we look over and see this... Isn't she kinda funny? She seriously eats about as much as either of the girls. I am starting to see how much work it is just cooking for three people. It takes up a good bit of my day.

Been too long

I think this may be the longest I have gone since I started up again. I am sorry. I
won't even say I have been busy. No excuse. There have been things going on, and definitely things to write about, but...
So Natalie lost another tooth. The tooth fairy had to work hard to find something for her this time. This may get hard if she keeps losing them so quickly:) She now has a
middle tooth. She thinks it is pretty funny. Her top tooth is already coming in. I believe her other one is coming in also, her teeth are all pushed out.






a cake I made for a pregnant friend...




and that pregnant friends hennaed belly. This is the second belly I have hennaed. I am not that great, but I am decently proud of this. It isn't easy and you know when you have kids all around you, it really isn't easy. I didn't get a picture before we started sealing it, covering it with watered down glue. The picture on top was actually taken by Natalie. She caught a few really good pictures. My little photographer:)

Forgot

I meant to put this here. It was kinda funny and yet, not really at all. Jack, the very wonderful husband, got some chocolate to I guess keep me sane during all this sickness? Okay, no he got dark chocolate, I think he got it for him. We also had some dried mangos. These were both on the counter when we left for a little bit yesterday. There was also a pan of what was supposed to be banana nut bread. This did not turn out. Yeah, my stuff still doesn't turn out all the time. Very frustrating. So we left, we came home. HE ATE THE CHOCOLATE!!! Grrr!!! Doesn't he know that it is so bad for him? And the amount he ate. So we are keeping an eye on him. He has eaten chocolate before, but you know, Huck is getting old. I am not sure why it has never bothered him, but still when you see how much he eats...Anyway, he ate the chocolate. He got the mangos down, but thank goodness, he didn't eat them. I may have had to hurt him. And the pan of what was supposed to be banana bread, really I can't even say it was banana bread, it really is just what was supposed to be banana bread, was down on the floor, empty. So, I thought well at least the dog liked it. We went about our day and then that night Jack was getting the girls in bed. And he yells out to me, we need to wash the girls sheets. Why? So Natalie and him come out of the room with handfuls of what looks like cat throw up. I was like gross!! Get something to clean that up!
But no, it wasn't cat throw up. It was what was supposed to be banana bread. Even my dog wouldn't eat it. But then he didn't eat the mangos either, and everyone knows that mangos are good. But yeah, the what was supposed to be banana bread, umm, not so good.