Here little lizard

After my last post, I sat down to a stare off with the lizard. I called my friend, Melanie, and collectively we deceided that the best plan of action would be to get my broom and a bucket and try to swat the lizard off the ceiling and onto the floor so that I could throw the bucket on top of him and put him outside. This after we decieded that sucking him up in the vacuum cleaner would not be such a great idea for anyone involved. After thirty minutes off swatting and chasing, the little lizard had retreated to under my bookcase and will not show his face. Darren just called and said, " just leave him, he will find his way out or die trying". I love the male perspective. The lizard will die and then a nice little smell will fill my house. And on top of it all, my favorite person just got voted off American Idol. AGHHHH!! Ok, off to try and catch the little *****. And of course, here are some recent pics of the kids.

Kayce has teeth!!!

The fact that my daughter has teeth is a huge relief as she is almost 15 months old and is just now cutting her first tooth. I took her to the dentist last week because of the absence of those pearly whites and he informed me that it did not look like they were even close to coming in. Low and behold, this morning I finally caught a glimpse of the very top of one cutting through on the bottom. I think that she holds the world record for being the oldest baby to cut teeth. Granted, this has not slowed her down in her eating habits. I have not found anything that the girl can not gobble up. She puts Blake to shame in the eating department. So while I am very happy that my child does indeed have teeth, I am a little worried as to what this means in the volume of food she will now want to put down.
On another note, the joys of living in Florida mean that you become immune to the fact that you will live with lizards in your house. As I write this, there is a little fellow on my ceiling looking at me. I tried to catch him but he ran and stayed on the ceiling the entire time. I am not willing to fight this fight tonight, as I have already dealt with a dead snake in my yard this afternoon. I think God is trying to tell me to love all of the animals, even the slimy, yucky ones. So I will go to bed tonight and pray that the lizard remain in the family room and not decide to join us in our bedrooms tonight.

We have ourselves a ball player!!

Blake had his first tee ball game this past Sat. It was a lot of fun for everyone. The dads had a great time out on the field reliving their childhood and cringing when their sons started to cry, the mothers had a great time on the bench laughing at all of the kids, and the kids had a great time kicking dirt, crying when they missed the ball and dog piling each other. Blake has talked about being a baseball player everyday since the game and can't wait for his next game. Here are some of the pictures.

Brand new blog

As you can see I am now sporting a brand new look, thanks to Hilary!!! After a huge headache in dealing with me, someone who is not so computer savyy, I was able to upload the new image and pictures. I love it and I hope you do to.

Happy Birthday Blake

Blakes birthday was the 25th and we have been celebrating for about two weeks now. We started by having pizza and cake with Sophia, who also turned 4 on the 25th. Blake and Sophia have been celebrating their birthdays together since they were two. I don't think they would know how to celebrate by themselves at this point. For Blakes birthday, Darren and I bought he and Darren tickets to the Indy race in Homestead (Miami). They left early Saturday morning and spent the majority of the day at the race. Blake saw his first concert, Three Doors Down, and rocked out for the first two songs, then told Darren the music was to loud and put his hands over his ears. He gets that from his mother!! I hate loud concerts, thus, I really don't like concerts. They had rides at the race and Blake rode a lot of them. The race started at 8:00 pm and Darren said the Blake was a tropper. He loved the race cars and can't wait to go again next year. Here are the pictures.

Easter

This post is a little late but that is better than never. My parents came into town to help celebrate Easter this year and we had a great time. My mom spent a lot of the time sewing things for the kids. She made some wonderful hooded towels for them both and then made an adorable outfit for Kayce. I wish that I had an ounce of her talent. On Saturday, we all went to the church easter egg hunt. The kids loved hunting for eggs and Blake was thrilled to have candy. Unfortunately, that night we all realized that he had too much candy when he threw up all over his bed and Darren. The good thing about that is that he will tell you today that he can't eat to much candy because he will spit up if he does. Then Easter morning, Kayce woke up sick so we opted to stay home just in case she had something that was contagious. Turns out it was a double ear infection and she is just fine now.

Weekend full of fun!!

As much as I complain about the hot weather in Florida, I do know how lucky we are to be able to enjoy the outdoors as much as we do. The weather was perfect here this weekend and we spent the majority of the weekend outside. We started by going to the 12 hours of Sebring race on Saturday. One of the guys that Darren works with gave us two tickets and invited us to spend the day with them at there RV in the infield. Blake loved watching the cars go by and Kayce just enjoyed hanging out. Then Sunday we spent the afternoon with our great friends, Melanie, Jimmy, Sophia and Ella. The kids swam and played in the pool and Kayce seemed to really like it. We all walked up to the beach and Kayce really enjoyed that. This was the first time we have taken her since she was an infant and we really did not know if she would like it. She surprised us and loved it. She did not mind the freezing water but preferred to just crab crawl in the sand. I know where I will be taking the kids during the summer!!!