Sick of Construction

Construction on the building of new homes is all around us. We were one of the first homes in this section of the neighborhood so we will continue to have construction for awhile. They are building the houses fast, but I am getting tired of it. I am not looking forward to the last phase of houses which will be directly behind us. The builders work on about 14 or 15 houses at a time, I think. It is always crazy around here. The kids enjoy watching all the big trucks and tractors. They had fun watching the concrete poured for the neighbor's driveway. I was impressed with how efficient they worked together without much communication. Can't wait until they are all done though! It will be a happy day when all the homes are complete. Just a few more months!

Four at the window, Ice cream mess

Daniel's mom was here in Texas to help Aunt Brittany with the new baby. We got to see a lot of her. It was lots of fun.

This is one night while getting ready for bed. They were all looking out the boys' bedroom window. I can't even remember what they were looking at. Maybe the ice cream man in his van. He seems to come a little too late to our house... We thought it was cute that they were lined up in a row. Poor Addie couldn't really see out the window. And she turned around when I snapped the picture and then crawled away, of course. Maybe to get her jammies on since she is the only one not dressed yet.
Grandma Lees also liked to feed the kids messy treats like big ice cream bars covered in chocolate. I was fine with it as long as I didn't have to clean it up. Once you finally clean up dinner, who wants to clean up a kid covered in a sticky, gooey mess?? I told Bensen to smile, and got this...

It took two people to clean up Bensen on this night. Notice it is Daddy and Grandma doing the cleaning, and I am just laughing while snapping pictures.

Cul-de-sac

Our new house is in a cul-de-sac and we love it. It will be even better when the construction is over. It is starting to get hot. These pictures were taken before shorts.

The only down part is that we are the only ones ever outside. We miss our neighbors. There were always kids out after school. We miss them.

Addie

She is 11 months old now. Two more weeks and she will be ONE. I can't believe it. And I am quite sad about it. She is starting to practice walking sometimes too. She can stand up with out climbing or holding onto anything, she can just stand up in the middle of the room. Stinker. I love her little crawl. I will miss it. Especially when she is wearing a dress and crawls on her feet instead of knees so she doesn't kneel on her dress.

Sweet Bensen.

P.S. It is just driving me crazy that I cannot make my font the size I want it to be and that my pictures just move all over the place!!!!!! What is the DEAL!

Crazy kids

Just look how AdOrAbLe her face is! Don't you just want to squeeze her? She was climbing on my lap when I was trying to take pictures...

She is getting a little more hair on top so I tried clipping a bow in her hair. She will NOT hold still at all. And I think she still needs more hair. It just looks funny. The only time this little girl will hold still is when she is drinking her bottle. She is quite serious about her bottle.

Parker was just being crazy, but you can see his band-aid on his finger. He is not trying to flip anyone off. He smashed his finger awhile ago when helping Daniel move some bricks. His finger nail ended up falling off. He has been wearing a band-aid ever since he smashed it. First because it was bleeding and then to protect it from getting snagged while his nail was slowly falling off, and now to protect his tender finger while a new nail grows back. He will be wearing a band-aid for a VERY l-o-n-g time.
Bensen loves to throw all my pillows on the floor everyday! I always tell him no, but he has so much fun that I am not very good at being forceful about it...


One night that Daniel was out of town we had pancakes and eggs for dinner. The kids eat it so well and love it. Daniel does not love it. He does think you should have breakfast for dinner. It is always nice to feed the kids something I know they will eat when I don't have Daniel around. The night before we had pasta with Alfredo sauce and leftover ham because I knew they would gobble that up.

I gave Addie some pancake and egg too. She loved it!

Her little feet were kicking the whole time. She has crazy feet. They kick when she is happy or mad. So funny.
The other day a giant Mosquito Hawk got in our house. (They were out of control around here for awhile. The good thing though was that the Mosquitos haven't been very bad.) I didn't even know a bug got in. And then Staucie started screaming about one behind the couch. I asked who wanted to get it and Bensen, may brave, barely 2-year-old, decided that he would. I gave him some tissues and tried to position them so he could grab it. He ended up chasing it around. Every time he would try and get it, he would just touch it and then it would fly away. I ended up lightly smacking it with a shoe one time that it was on the floor. It was injured enough that Bensen could get it. He threw it in the toilet and flushed it! I love that some of my kids are not afraid of bugs. Parker ran up the stairs and watched from the landing as I would have if I could :)


Bensen's eyes always close when he smiles. I am pretty sure this came from his Grandpa Lees :)

Staucie wanted me to take a picture of Ariel. I agreed if Staucie would be in the picture too.

Parker apparently wasn't up to having is photo taken. That, or maybe he is just always trying to touch the camera!
And this is a picture of Perdy, the Dalmation. This is not Staucie. In case you didn't know.