4 for 1

Awww, the joys of photoshop. How did anyone ever take pictures before the invention of digital and photoshop. I decided to take the kids picture today and I took a bazillion pictures. The picture below is a combination of 4 different photos. 4 partially good photos make one good one. :) So with a lot of help from photoshop, we have a cute kid picture. Have I ever told you how much I love photoshop?? It is a great hobby, except I spend too much time at it some days.





We set up a little pool outside and the kids have been loving it. It has been SOOO humid the past couple of days. I sweat all the time. I need to figure out how to stay dry in humid conditions. I shower, but never quite dry off. Yuck huh? oh well.

So has anyone used the kaboom toilet bowl cleaner? I tried one out on one of my toilets and it's GREAT. They are a bit pricy at $8, but totally worth it. Even under the rim is nice and white. :) Ahhh, the joys of a clean toilet without actually cleaning it. :) Who invents these things??? They are great.

Z man is doing great. We've been trying to figure out a schedule for him, but he doesn't really seem to want to do that. He does have a bit of a routine down, the mornings are sparatic--sleeping and eating on and off. I try to feed him when he wakes up to stay in the eat/play/sleep routine but he sort of cat naps in the morning, so I feel like I'm feeding him an ounce every couple of hours. . . weird. Then he poops around noon or 1 (sure everyone wanted to know that!!!!) and then he plays until about 2-3, drinks a great big bottle, plays for about 10 minutes before crashing for 3 hours. He is awake around 5:30 p.m. eats, plays for a couple of hours and goes to bed around 7 or 7:30. So he's pretty set in the afternoon, but the mornings are a bit crazy. Maybe that's because our mornings as a family are a bit crazy--going to the gym, shopping, etc. and the afternoon is our kick back at home time. :) hmm? who knows. He is sleeping a consistant 8 hours and sometimes 9 hours at night. He is pretty happy for the most part.

L is still trying to get his molars in and sleeps worse than Z-man right now. Last night, he was up about 4 times. One of these days everyone will sleep through the whole night and I will probably wake up and not know what to do with myself in the middle of the night. :) It's worth it though.




J is counting down the days until her b-day. she has her whole party planned. she REALLY wants to do a pinata and slip n slide with her friends. Of course presents and cake! :)

On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, we had some CRAZY thunder and lightening. It rained and pored. We had flooding, tornados, and crazy lightening hitting random things. It was a bit crazy, but kinda fun at the same time. Our little creek rose SOOO high. For those of you who know what our creek usually looks like, here is a picture to compare it too. Usually our creek is a trickle of water. It comes NOWHERE near the big tree the water eventually engulfed. All of our new trees and bushes we planted by the creek were completely covered in water. It was crazy!






Well, that's about all for now. Fun times at the Palmers. :)