Packing and other fun!

Well, guess what we have been doing? Packing, packing and more packing. Let me just say this and get it out of the way, moving sucks. Moving with three kids under 5 REALLY sucks. When your last weekend to pack starts off with a 3 year old puking all of the living room, an almost 9 month old with a bad fall and busted mouth, followed by him getting an awful stomach bug is downright AWFUL. Luckily, Cade's bug only lasted about 12 hours. Poor Cannon though! Oh my, this baby is miserable. He hasn't kept anything significant down since Friday, he's running a fever and has puked and pooped on me more times than I can count. I just feel awful for him. Not to mention, I can't set him down for more than a second and we kind of have a lot to do around here! GOOD TIMES.

The boys seem pretty okay with the whole move, amazingly. They are more interested in playing in the boxes than just about anything else. Here are all three in a box.

Cannon in a box.

Carson and Cade are packed and ready to go! I wonder how long it took for Poppy to rig these up? He told Cade that he could sleep in it tonight. I plan to call Poppy when Cade is demanding the box at bedtime!

In other fun news, we have had our very own Elf delivered from the North Pole to keep an eye on the boys and watch for Errant behavior (NOT that we ever have any of that!). He flies back to see Santa each night and gives a report. In the morning, he is in a new spot and the boys can't wait to find him! This morning, he was in the half bath up on a shelf. It's such a disaster in here, it's getting pretty hard to find him!Even more exciting, we got snow! This of course happened on the one night of the year that I traveled for work!! I missed it, but I had a great evening with Jennifer in Sofie in Austin. Matt was home sick that day (YES, he was the originator of the stomach bug from hell) and then the snow hit that afternoon.

Here are some pictures that Matt took of the boys in the big snow storm! Okay, so it was only a couple of inches, but that is HUGE for us!

He didn't bother to wipe the pizza off of their faces.Or put on shoes, apparently! Flip flops in snow?? Again, reminder, I was in Austin.Carson and Nilza in the snow. Matt got Nilza to spend the night and help him when I was in Austin. He said that he really felt awful!Eagle Heights also had their big Christmas program last week. Carson was asked to be a shepherd and took his role very seriously. Cade's class was to sing a few carols.

Carson looking handsome before putting on his shepherd costume.Cade and I and one of just Cade before the show. BTW, I just LOVE this sweater outfit from Janie and Jack! Carson wore it to his first Lunch with Santa at the Junior League.

Carson dressed as a shepherd and on stage.
Cade having a meltdown. Yes, he was the only kid in all of Pre-K3 up there crying for his Mommy! I had to go get him. He freaked! We went out to dinner afterwards and everyone recognized him. He got quite a fanfare on the way in to school the next day too. He's a star, for sure, that one!

Well, say a little prayer that Carson and I are spared from the stomach bug and that our sanity stays somewhat in check over the next week. We have to be out of the house by the end of next weekend. We have a lot to accomplish in a short amount of time, not to mention, getting ready for Christmas, which we are totally unprepared for!! Should be a hectic two weeks to come!!

Carson is 5!

Carson turned 5 on November 24th! I can't believe it. He is just getting so big and so mature and is an absolute joy to be around, 95% of the time. I stayed home from work on Monday to spend his big day with him and we had a blast. We started off by going to Dr. Wilber's office for a checkup (no shots...I asked before I made that appt on his actualy bday). He is still my tall and skinny guy and he's just perfect!

Then, I took Carson and Cade up to Baybrook to Ridemakerz and let them each build their own cars. They had a blast doing that.

We had lunch out and then came home for Cade to take a nap. I didn't even have Carson "pretend" to take a nap and just played outside with him all afternoon and we had a blast.Cannon hung out in one of our many ride on toys and had fun too.When Daddy got home, he got even more presents from us and his brothers. He had called us out for not giving him one at his birthday party! Stinker. Here is the birthday boy with his two best pals...And his sweet baby brother.And our big 8 month old...

We then let him pick where to go for dinner...Joe's Crab Shack. Matt and I hate this place, but Carson and Cade love it. What is better than a birthday cheers with your brother? Before anyone calls CPS...it was root beer. I bet that we will have many more pictures like this with the real thing though as the years roll by..I absolutely couldn't believe it, but Carson got on this broom, wore the hat and giddy up'd around the Joe's Crabshack patio while everyone sang happy birthday to him.

Cannon clapping for him!

Cannon pulling Cade's hair..

We then ended the day with ice cream at marble slab for the boys. What a great day with our kiddos!!

Some random pics from the rest of the weekend...

Cannon pulling up with his "stinker" look.

Oh, and Carson came down with strep throat on Thanksgiving and felt awful! Here he was yesterday, relaxing with Cannon.

Until Cannon got too rough.

Cannon has now graduated to the big bathtub.

And loves it!

Cannon has started giving real kisses too....and guess who was the 1st recipient? Not me....Carson! Cannon just adores him! He is usually really sweet with Carson and really rough with Cade. Figures....that is how they treat him!

I don't know when I will update this again. It looks like we might finally be selling this house!! We are both happy to be out, but sad to leave our friends and neighbors (and our house too, that we love...). The good news is that we will be moved before Christmas, the bad news is that I don't know how we are going to pack all of this up in three weeks! OMG. Matt is going out of town all next week too...say a prayer for our sanity, please!! We have put in an offer on a house in The Woodlands and have fingers crossed that everything will fall into place. We're going to busy!

Carson's 5th Birthday Party

We had Carson's 5th Birthday Party on Saturday. It was at Pitch Putt and Play in Pearland and we played games, ate pizza, had cupcakes and then rode on the bumper boats. I don't know who had more fun, the kids or the dads! We totally lucked out and had phenomenal weather! I was really worried that it was going to be freezing and then we would have soaking wet kids on top of that, but it was a perfect day!! Cannon and Sloan were chatting it up and taking it all in. These two can't wait until they can play in the batting cages and squirt the big kids from the bumper boats!

Angie is so excited to win a million tickets! Maybe she got enough to get a piece of candy? Nah...probably not!Arden was a dancing queen...

Cute Blake had more fun than anyone, but Katherine, not so much!

I'm not sure what I was thinking doing bumper boats for this age group...the parents had to ride too with some of them, and well, the kids soaked us!Carson was in a boat with Austin and Jeremy...his two pals from school.

As you will see from these next pictures, the dads totally enjoyed it! They were using their poor children as shields. The kids were soaked at the end.

Cade soaked.

Matt played in the batting cages...

After the party, we came back here and Carson opened his presents. He got so much stuff! That is one rotten kid. He loves transformers! That is a good thing, because he got a lot of them, like he had asked for...unfortunately for me, I'm just not bright enough to figure these things out. They are hard! I can put together a heck of a barbie ensemble, but you need to be an engineer to do a transformer! They have levels on the boxes for the difficulty. Carson looked at one that was a 3 and told Trish and I, "IT's way over your heads!". Nice. He did get this nifty razor from Grammy and Poppy though and he LOVES it! He told Matt that he was going to wash it every day....I've had fun riding it too. Shhh....

I have a ton of more pictures, but I'm out of steam for tonight! I will get them up onto Kodak Gallery and send them out for everyone to see. The big boys are going to see Grammy and Poppy tomorrow, so maybe, just maybe I will get to it tomorrow evening. I have a lot of pictures from Carson's "real" birthday today too...stay tuned!