Our Week in Bullet Points

I always feel like I have so much to tell ya'll, but no time anymore to spit it all out! 

*My mom drove out on Saturday from CA for a visit. She'll be here a week and a half or so. This summer has been a busy one for us with family visiting us and us going to visit family! It's been really nice for everyone to be able to meet Timothy while he's a little wee one.

*Sunday we met up with out sweet friends Kurt and Tracie at Mary Hill Park down by the Columbia River and had a delicious picnic! We made chicken and pineapple shishkabobs and had tons of other snacks like frozen grapes (did you know they taste AWESOME when put in the freezer!?) and watermelon soaked in tequila. YUM! After our picnic we walked down to the little water area and let the kiddos splash around. We all had such a fantastic time, despite it being 100* out!

*Timothy has been laughing out loud for a week now. Last Monday he laughed for the very first time and he has every day since then. It's the cutest thing I have ever heard! I'm going to try to get a video so I can post it sometime in the future. And he smiles like they're going out of style. If a smile could cure Cancer.....I'd have a line outside my door a million miles long! 

*Today I'm making crock pot applesauce. I hope it turns out well! I love homemade applesauce. I'm also going to make cute little "muffin tin pizzas" for the kids for dinner. Hopefully that turns out well too! 

*Remember I said I signed Anthony up to do soccer this fall? Well he has his VERY FIRST soccer meet tonight at 6! AHHH!! He's excited and so am I! Does that make me a Soccer Mama now?

*Here's a funny story for you.....This morning Anthony came into the bedroom at 7 and woke me up, telling me it was time for breakfast. I told him to give me a few minutes and I'd be up. Well a few minutes turned into 30 and then this is the conversation that followed when he came back in the bedroom:

Anthony - "I was waiting for you on the couch this whole time."

Mama - "I know it, I'm sorry, but I'm really tired so I slept longer."

Anthony - "But if I don't eat breakfast, I wont be healthy!"

Mama - "Haha! Is that right? Sorry Anth, you can give me a few more minutes. I'm tired. I go to bed after you and I also get up in the middle of the night to feed the baby."

Anthony - "Oh! I know what we can do. We can make something, like a machine. And you can make milk to put in it. How do you make milk?"

Mama - "Mama's body makes the milk for Timothy."

Anthony - "Oh yeah. But we can make some milk, like with some ingredients, and then put the milk in the hang up thing and it will go down a tube into his mouth and feed him so you don't have to wake up in the night to feed him." 

My oh my! What a little engineer he is! He is so funny to talk to. He's always coming up with these ideas and gets so excited over them. Just the other day he goes, "Mama, maybe we can go to the store and just get an engine and some wings. Then I can get paper, scissors, and crayons and we can make this airplane and helicopter!" Hehehe! What a cutie.

*Tomorrow we'll be doing story time at the library. We haven't gone in a year because our schedule got busy and the times just didn't work out. So the kiddos are excited to go tomorrow and then afterwards I get to have some hang out time with my gal pal Molly at her place. If you'd recall, she's pregnant with a little boy who is due in October. I've made her lots of little goodies and I'm excited to surprise her with them tomorrow! I promise to do a blog post to show you what I've made.  I still need to do a post about our trip to the coast and also one about all the little projects we've been doing recently. Maybe next week.

*Thursday, when Sammy gets off work, we're heading to his Godmother's place over by Seattle roundabouts. We'll spend a few days there and come home Sunday late afternoon. We go there every few months or so. Summer is always the most fun because the pool is open and the kids love going in the pool. We're excited! My mom will be watching the animals for us while we're gone, so that's pretty cool!! It's sure to be a fun weekend.

*Oh! And just so I have a picture of Molly thrown in here.....

With love,

Mama Hauck

Happy 3 Months!

My little Timothy.....also known as Sugar Plum, Cutie Bum, Cutie Pie, and Big Smiles.....is 3 months old today!! 

So I kissed him all over and told him how much his Mama adores him. 

 Love you Baby Boy

With love,

Mama Hauck 

Proud Mama

Yesterday I took the kids to the dentist ( 1 Mama, 3 kiddos.....you get the picture....) and Anthony did something amazing. I thought the kids' appointments were one after the other, but they were actually at the same time. So while I was dealing with little Molly, Anthony went and got x-rays and a cleaning all by himself. Holy smokes! How impressive is that!? Considering 6 months ago when we were there he cried when they even talked to him about x-rays and the likes! What a big boy.

Tuesday I was helping Anthony write a letter to Santa (already, haha!) when Molly came up to me and asked me to help her write her name. We've been practicing spelling her name aloud, so writing it is the next step. I told her what letters to write and by golly she freaken did it! I don't know if it was just a fluke or what, but it damn sure looks like "molly" to me! Did I mention she just turned 3?

Monday Timothy laughed for the first time (other than the little giggle he did in his sleep last month) and it was simply FANTASTIC! He has laughed 3 days in a row now and is all big smiles now a days. I'm so excited to watch his silly little personality develop.

I'm forever proud of my children.

It's moments like these I am reminded that my children are constantly growing and changing. There is no rewinding or holding back the hands of time. All our yesterdays will be but a memory that I carefully fold up and tuck away in my heart.

With love,

Mama Hauck