crazy sleeper part three

Today we went to Costco, it takes forever to unload the truck, separate the monster amounts of meat into smaller bags, and organize everything. Well, once everything is done I'm searching all over for Tyson, he's not in any of his usual haunts. (Trashing Mark's room, waking Taylor up from her nap, putting large amounts of toilet paper in the toilet) I'm calling his name and can't find him anywhere; then I look on the coach and find a weird lump of blanket. I open it a little and find a leg.
I open a little more and I find a boy who is dead asleep!

What a weird position huh? He slept like this for 2 hours. The guys got home from work, Taylor woke up from her nap, Mark practised his electric wheelchair, Darrell went to basketball practise, Jason played the Wii fit. Nothing phased the boy.

I love my crazy sleeper, I'll have blogging material for life!

busy weekend

There are a ton of pictures so be warned. We started our Saturday at Special Olympics track. Not too many people came as you can see, since it was Easter Saturday. We didn't mind, one on one attention is the BEST. Just ask Darrell : )And they're off!
Then Tyson had t-ball practise. Our last one before his first game next Saturday. Friday he gets his uniform. There will be TONS of pictures next Saturday!

Our first mistake was letting him wear those glasses. He couldn't focus on anything!

In the outfield with his new best friend.

If you are wondering that dude is the Dad of one of the boys and for some reason Tyson likes him. Could it be the shorts?

That kid in the black is a punk and kept messing up the line. He is in the middle of hitting that other kid. Stinkin punk kid! Coach ended practise 20 minutes early due to that kid and all the ruckus he caused.

Saturday night we picked up some freecycle treasures. Taylor loves her new V-tech table.

Tyson got a sit and spin and loved spinning himself around and getting dizzy. Freecycle rocks!

This is Ty coloring eggs. We did it too late at night so everyone else was already in bed. Such a busy Saturday!

Tyson even helped fill the eggs with candy. I love this age where they don't remember too much.

Easter morning means new clothes!!! Oh I loooooove having a girl. Taylor got two Easter dresses. She wore this one Sunday and will wear her other one next Sunday.

Oh I love having a girl!

Boys are OK too. Isn't he handsome?!

Well the guys needed new shirts too. Tyson kept calling Mark a girl though.

Our sad attempts at family pictures. 5 out of 6 looking at the camera, and Mark giving a thumbs up. I shouldn't wear short skirts, look at those knees! One word: volleyball

Again 5 out of 6, Darrell off in space. Were are my shoes? I don't know!

Our church is at 9am and it is hard enough to get everyone out the door on time so I refused to do any Easter stuff until after church. So before we left we hid the baskets in Mark's room.

Mark was so excited the Easter bunny came he was too funny.

Taylor didn't know what to think of Thumper.

It really is like having four kids. They were all so happy. So I opened all the baskets with the kids and the guys. Jason hid the eggs outside and a few in the house. We had Darrell and Tyson search outside and Taylor and Mark search inside.

Darrell announced each egg he found.

Taylor's first tooth has just cut through and she is miserable. She did like putting the eggs in her mouth though.

Some more funny Easter pictures.

Here is Taylor hanging out in the bean bag chair. Squeezing her chicken from yesterday.

Taylor's wake of destruction. This age is fun and then not. Everything needs to be baby proofed. I just haven't done it yet. Poor church books never had a chance.

I've been doing a ton of crafts today and I have a deadline of tomorrow at 10am. I'm stressed and have been letting the kids do whatever they want. What Mark doesn't know can't hurt him right?

Tyson loves to jump on Mark's bed. And for some reason Taylor is chewing on his hanger.

Hope everyone had a great Easter!

the county fair

We took the kids to the fair on Thursday. It was pretty spontaneous. We were trying to go this weekend, but between Special Olympics, t-ball and Easter fun we were not able to go. So I called Jason at 1pm and we decided to go. The guys had staff on Thursday so they got to go have fun with them while we were gone. Good thing, we are still looking to buy a minivan but haven't yet and we can't all fit in either of our cars, so we were glad the guys were busy and we only had to take one car. The first act we watched was this dude and his wife. Tyson loved the tigers! Jason and Taylor watching the tigers.
Tyson and I paid a dollar each to see a monkey behind a chain link fence. It was pretty stupid and I'd like my two dollars back!

Before I get into this series of pictures. Let me tell you about my son Tyson. I affectionately call him "the devil" on several occasions. This being one of them.
We had been talking about riding the horses the whole way up to the fair. (An hour drive)
We get there he is excited, but starts being "the devil". He won't stand in line, he won't wear his cowboy hat, he won't let me take any pictures; he is being "the devil"!
They put him on the horse.

He is super excited!

And then NOTHING.

He won't smile he won't look at me. I am running all around the coral and shouting and waving.

NOTHING!

Before you feel sorry for him or think that he doesn't know what he's doing look at this picture. My child is the devil! I am raising the devil! That little smirk says it all.

After a good hour Tyson finally snapped out of "the devil" mode. He wore his hat the rest of the night and was so happy with his first ever frozen chocolate banana. He was so cute with the banana. It will make several cameos in the pictures to come.

This was the hugest cow I had ever seen. This was as close as Tyson would stand near it.

Jason, Taylor, and a mama cow with her baby.

Not to overly share but I constantly complain about nursing and after seeing this poor pig and her 10 babies, I can't complain!

Tyson and Jason rode the ferris wheel. Tyson loved it! Sorry the pictures aren't better.

They had tons of little kid rides. Tyson was posing and loving every minute of it.

Taylor was so good at the fair. She's such a good girl!

Fireman Tyson.

These are just around the house pictures. That Taylor got half way up the stairs yesterday! We are getting gates TODAY!

I don't know if you can tell but he's blowing spit bubbles for the picture. Classic!