These little piggies

Some girls say they can't leave the house without mascara, or without getting dressed. Well for me it is I can't show my feet unless I have my toes painted. I get pedicures on a regular basis ( I made sure it was added to the budget).

So why am I blogging about this, nobody cares about my feet. Well ever since Mallory was born I have had her in shoes or at least socks. I wouldn't let her leave the house unless she had either. I thought I was doing this because I am a good mom and don't want her feet to get cold, however sub-consciencely I couldn't let her naked feet be seen. So yesterday I gave her a little pedi and today at church she showed off her cute little piggies!

Failure to Launch

So has anybody seen Failure to Launch. The part in the movie when the girl is kept awake all night by a mocking bird and wants to kill it with a shotgun. I totally understand where she is coming from. There is a mocking bird that lives in the tree across the street, it is so loud we thought it was in our tree. It keeps Preston up and gives Spencer really weird, scary dreams. So if you see me on the news for putting a bullet hole in my neighbors window, please testify for me and let the judge know about the bird.

Ok on to blogging....

My kids are so funny and I know I have a million things to blog about but every time I sit down to write my mind goes blank. I have been having a lot of trouble with my mind ever since Mallory was born. Let's get to know our family....

Garett- is now a third year, which means he is now doing rotations. He started off in Internal Medicine (very long hours and lots to learn). I can't really say if he loves it or not. I think he is just focused on not over dosing anybody and staying awake. He has done a few night calls and has a few more. The boys miss him terrible and Mallory won't even look at him (it is actually really funny, she really won't make eye contact with him). However, I am proud of him and am enjoying hearing about people rather then book facts.

Rachel- I am learning to balance life with 3 kids. I am so far from being in a routine. My house is dirty all the time and dirty laundry is taking over our house. I am forgetting everything and it is driving me crazy. However, I love my kids and at the end of the day, even though my house looks like I did nothing, I feel good about what I did get done and little by little feel like I can handle it all.

Preston- He is almost done with his second year of co-op preschool. He is "playing" soccer. He loves bugs and caught a bee last week and wanted to keep it as a pet. He has officially lost any and all baby fat and very much looks like a boy and not a little kid. He has the best reading comprehension for somebody who can't even read yet. (We just finished Charlotte Web). He is allergic to sunscreen. He eats sooo much food consistently now. He and Spencer have pet crabs now. He hates his hair to be washed and shockingly has an opinion on how long and how to style his hair. His favorite color is still orange. He is working on being a gentleman by opening doors for girls. He loves to talk and will talk to everybody. He knows all the answers at church (at least that is what his teacher tells us, maybe he should practice what he preaches). Below is a picture of him with a "collar" he made for Salta on Mother's day.

Mallory is my Joy. I love her so much. She is such a good baby. She is sleeping about 6 to 7 hours at night. She scrunches her nose when she smiles, which she does all the time, except when dad is around. She does not like it when I eat Chocolate or Nuts. She loves her binky and likes her face covered when she sleeps (which I hate). She also likes to be really warm when she sleeps, which I think she got from taking so many naps with Grandma and her many blankets. She finally fits nicely into her clothes so playing dress up is fun now.
Spencer is Spencer. We love him! He will be 3 in a few days but he acts like he is a 5 year old. He loves book to be read to him. He loves to climb and has really mastered the art of climbing trees. He screams all the time and we can't figure out how to stop him. He loves his sister and will sit there and play with her as long as she will let him. Sometimes he gets invited to go to Preschool with Preston and he loves it. He hates to clean up and usually has Preston do it for him (Preston always gives in to Spencer). He loves eating green onions from our garden but never really gets bad breath which is weird and awesome! He talks in his sleep and will sometimes have a conversation with you. His favorite color is Blue. He can not sit still and can not sit by himself, he has to be on or by somebody.

Camping

Yes we are the world's worst parents. We took our infant who was really sick a week ago camping. Sometimes I wonder what on earth I am thinking when I do certain things. Never the less it was totally a blast and Mallory slept 7 hours something she hadn't done before and hasn't done since, so I think we should go camping every weekend. We went to stone mountain. Really nice camping grounds and nice hikes.

We let the boys play in the river. We didn't have shorts they could wear so they just went in their underwear and thought that was super weird since we are not allowed to show our underwear. After about 5 min. Spencer fell in and got his shirt and underwear all wet and wanted to change. Well I didn't have anymore underwear so he went commando which he preferred.

After Easter I buy a ton a peeps so we can roast them for smores. So good, I suggest that everybody try them.

This is what Mallory slept in. I like to call it the abominable snow baby.

If you read the sign it says use caution! "Fatalities have occurred here"

Mallory just loved chilling around the camp fire. Good times

I just love this baby!!!!!!!

Spencer the sausage. And yes he did fall out of this so many times we had to lower it. And when that didn't help we just took it down.

What can I say...

So I promised myself that when the baby came I wasn't going to stop doing fun things with the boys. However, I have figured out that I can either do fun things or I can have fun blogs but I can't do both. So until further notice I will be doing picture posts of all the fun things we are doing.

This is Mallory in her cute Sunday outfit. I love playing dress up with her. Again Thank you to Robyn who made all of her cute bows
My friends Julie and her boys came up this weekend. They truly are our best friends. One of the days we took the boys to the forest to play in the creek. They had a blast. However, a lady who was walking in the woods wanted to make sure I knew that cooperhead snakes live in those waters. Yikes! But we will totally be doing it again, it is just way to much fun (plus it sounds like another ER visit for Spencer)
Love this picture of Presto. I love his eyes. It is really too bad that Mallory is going to have brown eyes.
This is Julie's Baby Catalina who was born just three weeks before Mallory. She looks like she is double the size but really she is not. The Kimsey's just have big heads (physically, mentally and metaphorically ;-)
Earlier in the week, Julie and I met at the zoo, which is in between Ft. Bragg and our house. The boys had a blast and we stayed until they kicked us out.
Preston is old enough to play soccer. He is so cute. And since the boys are so close in age you can't get shin guards for one and not the other so here they are posing in there soccer gear.

Just a random picture. I just gave them haircuts the day before and took Spencer really short and I think he looks so cute.
Garett told the boys about having a lemonade stand, so they decided to open one up in our kitchen. They opened crystal light packets and poured them into any kind of container they could find, clean or dirty. I am not really sure what I was doing but I wasn't watching my boys that is for sure. My kitchen floor is still a little sticky!

All of my kiddos.

Mallory is finally smiling but it is not very often, so I had to post this picture even though Preston look so mad. He really wasn't.