Lots to tell...

Well we're still loving Colorado! Still no snow yet and the weather is still pretty nice. We've had our cold days though but it's not steady freezing cold yet.

Living in a new city/state I am very thankful for my GPS in my van...thanks honey for buying it in my van, I know I rolled my eyes when you had to get that option but thank you so much! If it weren't for that thing I think I would just stay at our house and go nowhere because it's such a big huge city with so many highways and it's all so confusing. I'm coming from a place that I grew up so I know all the roads and highways by heart and if there was traffic somewhere or a road closed I knew exactly what other way to go. I depend on that GPS a lot...I wish I could depend on God as much I depend on that GPS. Kind of like the Staples commercials...just hit the easy button, my GPS is my easy button...just push HOME and it tells me exactly how to get there! I am getting to know my way around without it a little bit though. I'm finally recognizing where I am now when I'm somewhere that I've been before and get excited when I can say "oh I know where I'm at now!" I know it doesn't take much to excite me!!

Phoebe

Some funny things Phoebe's done lately:
1. A few weeks ago for a couple of nights she slept on her floor and I really wasn't sure why. She'll make a pallet on the floor and get comfy and sleep there all night. When we questioned her about it she said she just wanted to but then I told Denzil it was probably because her bed still had the toddler rail on it so he took that off and made it into a day bed and now she sleeping it in again and loves it that he took that off.
2. I picked her and Eliott up from school one day last week. Right by their school there is a building being built and as we are driving by it she starts saying "mommy, mommy, they are naughty 'ol boys" and I'm thinking who is she talking about and why are they naughty?? I said "who" and she said "those boys back there, they aren't supposed to have pink, pink is for girls." And I can't figure out what she's talking about for awhile but then I realize that there were big huge bags of insulation laying out and they were in pink bags. Now every time we leave school she says "mommy, I'll tell you if they are still naughty boys" and if those pink bags are still there she says "yep, mommy, they still have pink!"
3. Another day that I picked them up from school...I usually turn off the radio and DVD player and ask her how school was and what they did today and all of a sudden before I had a chance to ask her she says "How was your day mommy, what did you do while we were at school??" She wanted to know every detail, it was so cute!
4. All of a sudden last Saturday we were calling Daddy to the dinner table and Phoebe said "Big Poppa, dinner's ready come on Big Poppa." I of course busted out laughing and I think Denzil liked it because he came to the table with a big smile on his face. So now every time she talks to him she calls him Big Poppa!! It's hilarious!
5. One of the wonderful things about Colorado that I love (again, another thing that excites me easily) is that we get our milk delivered to our doorstep. They also have other stuff besides milk...like oj, coffee, bread, and they have some awesome french onion dip. Tonight we were eating some of the dip and Phoebe said "where did you buy this mommy?" I told her that we got it from the milk man. Right about that time I was pouring me some Gatorade and she says "are you sure we didn't get it from the Gatorade man!!" LOL

Eliott

These two pictures sum this little man up!! Phoebe calls him Tornado Eliott and the first picture you can see how destructive he tries to be. He goes from room to room and just destroys stuff. That's the pool table at Oma & Opa's house and he's trying to rip the pocket off. The second picture is at the game table and looks so ornery. He's such a little ornery man and has been one big handful. He's total opposite of Phoebe...not shy at all. And I'm realizing more every day that not only he looks just like his father but he acts like him too. Denzil never has liked to be places with a lot of people and I just realized last week that Eliott hates it too. He doesn't act shy at all, he just acts like he's unhappy and doesn't want to be there (see pic below with Denzil...we're at the Denver zoo and it was a Free day so there were a ton of people there.)
He's saying so much more these days though and even says "i love you" when you say it to him...it's so adorable!!

Making cookies...trying to eat the flour!
Fineas

Little man Fin is smiling all the time and is so happy...when he's not hungry and not tired that is!! He's almost 7 months now and he's grabbing stuff, putting stuff in his mouth and he'll sit up for a few minutes by himself but then go crashing to the floor.

I know it was 2 months ago but here's pictures from when my mom was here:

Phoebe wanted to watch her put her make up on every morning..

We love it that Grammy's here!!

Fin asleep on Grammy

One of the things we did while my mom was here was go to the Children's Museum of Denver and that's one cool place!! It's a ton of fun for the kids! They have a real fire truck in there that you can get on and here is Denzil and Eliott on it...

In the Construction area- Fin in a wheelbarrow-
And they loved "grocery shopping" with baskets that were just their size. After throwing a whole bunch of groceries in-
They checked out with another little girl playing grocery store-
For Halloween Phoebe was Deedee Doodle from the Doodlebops, Eliott was a fire cheif and Fin was a little monkey. The baby bear in the middle is our next door neighbors baby, Jack.



We went to their school Halloween party and they had lots of fun there-

Then we all made Halloween cookies-

I also celebrated my birthday a couple weeks ago and my wonderful husband bought me an Ipod touch. It's my first Ipod ever, not ever had one and it's soooo cool! I must thank my new neighbor (and friend too) Cait for turning me on to the Ipod. She's also turned me onto coffee and looming. I've made Phoebe and Eliott hats on the loom that Cait taught me how to do and I also made me a scarf and I am currently working on my own hat. It's great fun...thanks Cait!

I'll have to type the rest of my blog some other time about our trip to Oklahoma with my crazy mom...it's a pretty funny story but Fin's crying now and I want to hurry up and get this posted!

Ditto!

Ditto to my friend Connie Johnson's blog...WOW!
We had a crazy day today. School by 8:30 for Phoebe & Eliott, Fin and I off to The UPS Store to mail 4 packages, Home Depot to return a fan, Lowes to buy Phoebe some curtains, Eliott some curtains, Walgreens to pick up Denzil's film for work then to get the kiddos from school at 11:45. 12:10 dentist appt for Phoebe & Eliott...Phoebe had her teeth cleaned and has 4 cavities, Eliott's teeth look good for now. 2:15 dermatologist appt for Eliott. He's gotten some odd itchy rash/bumps or something on his head and he's miserable and itching, itching, itching. Well they, of course, didn't know what was on my son's head. They scraped it and looked at it under the microscope which ruled out some stuff and so the thing they wanted to do was a biopsy. I had to hold Eliott on the table (while Fin sat in his seat crying for a boob) they stuck a needle in his head to numb the area and then stuck this tool in there to take a big chunk of his skin out of his head...HOLY COW!!! All right in my face...then sewed it up with a couple of stitches. The dermatologist gives me a prescription for the itching and so we leave, go to Walgreens (again) and they don't have the cream that was prescribed....AHHH!
So needless to say I'm really tired...worn out. My house is a mess and I don't really have the energy to get up and clean it up but then again I don't really want to wake up to a disaster of a house. It's a real pull to try to be a great wife, housekeeper, cook, maid, and most importantly of all a MOM. I know and realize that they won't be little forever and so I really need to enjoy these moments and take advantage of them.
I will blog some more tomorrow-Goodnight!

Quote

"Children are the most wholesome part of the race, the sweetest, for they are the freshest from the Hand of God. Whimsical, ingenious, mischievous, they fill the earth with joy and good humor. We adults live a life of apprehension to what they think of us; a life of defense against their terrifying energy; a life of hard work to live up to their great expectations. We put them to bed with a sense of relief - and greet them in the morning with delight and anticipation. We envy them the freshness of adventure and the discovery of life. In all these ways, children add to the wonder of being alive." Herbert Hoover

School Started!

Today was the first day of the kids going to "school". They both had a great time and did really well. Eliott is starting to pee pee in his little potty too. I noticed he kept telling me when he peed in his diaper by grabbing it and saying "uh-oh". So yesterday when I changed his diaper he was acting like he was trying to pee so I said do you need to go potty and he shook his head yes. So we went and got on the potty and he went, it was sooo cool!! And he's peed a few times on the potty today...never thought I would be potty training before the kid is talking!!
My mom is here and we've had lots of fun while she's been here. We've went shopping, up to the mountains to see the big horned sheep and to the Childrens Museum of Denver. That place was awesome and the kids loved that place too. I'll post pics soon.

I lied!

Well poop!! I just thought there was going to be school today. It turns out that at 10:30 last night Phoebe was in her room crying with a really stuffy nose, sneezing and just didn't feel good. Daddy brought his little princess into our bed. At 2:30 am Eliott woke up feeling like crap too. They started yesterday sneezing and a little runny nose but I was hoping it was just allergies. So none of us got much sleep, except Fin and the dog, they slept right through everything! This morning I could tell they both felt horrible and I didn't want their first day of school to be miserable so no school today...darn!!
I called the doc's office at 8 and they said to give them 1 1/2 tsp of benedryl and I did and now their runny noses aren't so runny anymore and I can tell they feel a little better, so it is probably allergies.
Trying to teach the 16 week old puppy, Roxie, who's Alpha because she's not listening to me at all. I pick her up lay her on her back, get in her face and star into her eyes until she looks away. It's worked pretty good so far giving her a reality check!!

YEAH-School starts tomorrow!

Well I went to 3 of the preschools that had openings close to our house, when I say close I mean 20 to 30 minutes away, and one of them we all really liked. The first one was a Montessori preschool, which is really big here and so I thought I'd go check it out. Phoebe and Eliott hid behind me the whole time, never talked to the teacher, never smiled or interacted with any of the kids there. The director walked me through it and it was in a 50 year old house so it was kind of separated into 5 different areas. I didn't like it at all. It just seemed to me like they were teaching these kids to be to independent to early in life, i just really didn't like it and Phoebe and Eliott obviously didn't either. So we went on to the second one that is a gymnastics place that also has an Enrichment program. So in the time that they are there they also have 45 minutes of gymnastics time, which I know they both love!! We got there a little early and went ahead and went in but the director we were meeting with was not there yet. So the teacher, Ms. Jessie, invited us into the gymnastics part where the other kids were playing and she asked Pheobe and Eliott to take their shoes off and they both sat down, took their shoes off and followed her. Wow, they just met her but they are following..hmmm. They went to the gymnastics part and followed what the other kids were doing. Then a little girl walked up to Ms. Jessie and said "I want to play duck, duck, duck". (She really meant duck, duck, goose) So they all sat down in a circle, Phoebe joined in the circle and a little boy started walking behind all the kids and patting their heads saying duck, duck, duck, duck and then he got to Phoebe's head and said Goose. I thought "Holy cow, she has no idea what to do please don't freeze" I know if it were me when I was little I would have froze and ran away. She turned around looked at me for guidance on what to do and I said "go run after him." Ms Jesse was telling her to run after him before he sits back down and she did but he sat down before she caught him. So them she started right where she was supposed to and started patting their heads saying duck, duck, duck and then goosed a little girl. Ms. Jesse again told her what to do and it was awesome to see her interacting with kids and the teacher that she just met. So I knew that this was the place to put them and this was the only place that Eliott could go to too. So tomorrow is their first day and I can't wait. I know they went in Oklahoma to mothers day out but I think I might cry.
I still can't believe we moved and are living in Denver. There were so many times that Denzil was looking for other jobs throughout the years and would say it's in Texas or Missouri or another state and I finally told him just to stop looking because we were not moving away from Oklahoma. But it was so meant to be for us to be here, I know this is where God wants us to be. And it will be so awesome tomorrow morning, 2 months after we moved here to actually get into a routine. The house is cleaned up, vacuumed, dusted, everything hung on the walls, everything put in the cabinets and now tomorrow we will start to get back into a routine and I think it will be a little emotional. Tues/Thurs will be school from 8:45 to 11:45, then on Tuesday Phoebe will start soccer on Tues/Thurs at 5:30 pm for a month and I have enrolled in a MOPS group here and they meet on the first Friday of every month, can't wait for that!! Then when soccer is over, she will start another class at our rec center, Mini Cheer....oh my goodness, how adorable!! In high school I didn't much care for the cheerleaders and never really got along with them but a 3 year old cheerleader, that's adorable!! We asked her if she wanted to play soccer and Denzil went in the backyard to play with her and she loved it...she asks him and our neighbor, Jeff, to play soccer with her quit often. We'll see how she does, I can't wait.
I must say God gave us some great neighbors!! I love them!!

Well here's my list of what I thank God for:
Thank you so much God for....
1. sending us to Denver.
2. giving us awesome neighbors/friends...thank you for friends!!
3. Denzil, for working so hard for us, and I'm glad I'm spending the rest of my life with him!
4. Phoebe, Eliott, Fin and Roxy, they all are so great to watch grow up and grow up together.
5. Phoebe not being allergic to the mosquitos here in Denver...really when she gets bit here, the bites do not swell up the size of a baseball like they did in Oklahoma.
6. For Grammy, my mom, coming to visit us for almost a week.
7. For my "little" brother who is now going to OSU as a freshman this year, wow!!
8. For all the blessings that you have given us and just help us continue to follow You!
And finally, thank you for Starbucks!! Yes, I've got on the Starbucks band wagon and although Denzil now thinks I'm a yuppy, I love getting treats from Starbucks!!

Loving Colorado!

Wow, we are loving Colorado!! I love the summer's here...hot during the day and down to 60 at night, absolutely love it! We'll just see if I still love it during the winter, LOL!
We've got everything hung up on the walls that we have, now it's just trying to find other stuff to fill the empty spaces. We also want to paint the walls but not in a hurry to do that yet.
I've been searching for a preschool/mother's day out for Phoebe and I've found a few that don't have waiting lists and I will be meeting with them on Monday. Our neighborhood also has a rec center that offers classes, so we may be taking gymnastics, mini cheer or pee-wee soccer but I need to figure out what days she'll be in preschool first.
Eliott got some weird rash all over his body last week and fever which was some kind of virus but the doc said he had fluid behind one of his ear tubes. So we went through 10 days of antibiotics and went back Friday for the follow up and it still has fluid and the tube is kinked. So off to an ENT here. He's on another 10 days of antibiotics that's more powerful but instead of going back to the peditician I said we're just going to go straight to the ENT. So hopefully they can open the tube and get the fluid out.
Fin's doing great these days. Eating, pooping and growing like a weed. He is all smiles and just started laughing this week. He's very ticklish like his brother.
Grammy, my mom, is coming this Saturday to stay for almost a week. That should be lots of fun and I know we will totally wear her out!
Life here for me is kind of crazy...it feels like I'm doing the same thing every day and I keep telling myself that if I just get it all done tonight then I'll be caught up and can scrapbook tomorrow but tomorrow never comes (I think thats a song isn't it?). I just continually clean up toys, dishes, huge messes that Eliott makes (i.e. pouring a whole thing of garlic salt all over the table, which went through the crack in the table so it's all over the floor too, poured bacon bits all over the table...and you ask yourself where in the world is the supervision here...well we were all out in the backyard talking to the neighbors and he went back inside by himself, climbed on the table and did this on 2 different occasions). The kids have been doing great these days with getting into a routine and Phoebe loves our neighbors and talks to them several times a day.
Oh...and we did something to make us a little crazier...we got a puppy. I know we're crazy but we thought it would make the transition easier, we wanted them to all grow up together and we really wanted one too. She's an american bulldog and she's doing pretty good. She's 1 week older than Fin so she's 3 1/2 months old. This is a pic of her when we first got her, she's gained about 20 lbs since then.