A Few Thoughts

Sarah is about to have her world rocked. Right now she is the baby, everyone tends to her and she is the center of attention. That is all about to change in a few months. I hope that she will do well when Rebekah is born. I don't think that any of mine have ever really had a hard time. I also have never had one as clingy as this one either:)

She is at a cute age right now. She talks ALL the time. One of the church nursery workers commented that she was very quiet and never said anything. HA! I can understand a good bit of what she says, but sometimes it just comes out jibberish and she'll throw in a "right momma, right?" at the end. She will stand at the bottom of the stairs and yell "Lebi, Lalub, Yack, Aon!" She is super loud and loves to scream with delight when her brothers chase her. It seriously rattles the windows.

This weekend, the Martins were in town and she loved the twins. She really is fascinated with babies right now. She's just so rough. She would run to get a toy for Molly Kate or Eli, and then about trample them on the way back to give it to them. She was feeding Molly Kate ice out of someones cup on Friday night. These two are going to make Caleb and Joshua look like saints!

Sweet little Eli....

Speaking of Caleb and Joshua, the punks were at it again this weekend. On one vist recently, those two managed to smash out the back window of my van with rocks, to the tune of $500. This time, they hung on the back wiper of my van and broke it off, in a few pieces. Being the high maintenance person that I am, I demanded that my car be taken to the dealership immediately to be repaired. Ha! My dad and I actually got out in the driveway and super glued it back together. That baby is looking good! I'm afraid to take it through the car wash. Our rigging job just might not make it:)

Keepin' It Real

I don't know about y'all, but sometimes I read blogs and I think, "Yeah right." You know the ones with the kids that are perfectly dressed and the house is perfectly straight and they are making some fun craft while something wonderful bakes in the oven. That ain't reality around the Wahl house. Oh, I try...it just never turns out the way I have played it out in my mind:)

Here are a few pictures of the kids painting this afternoon. I always feel guilty because we have an "art drawer" that is full of paints, playdough, glitter, etc., and it NEVER gets opened! Today was the day to crack it open and pull out some paints and paintbrushes.

Before I even got everything on the table, little hands were touching everything. "Quit...stop it...don't touch...wait and let me get it all ready!" For a few minutes, everything was going well. I even snapped a few pictures.

Then, I heard Sarah gagging. She had a MOUTHFUL of blue paint. It was like she took a spoon, dipped it in and ate it.

After I tended to her, I heard a splat and both Levi and Caleb were staring at me with the big eyes.....

I'm glad that we were outside.

Everyone had to get straight into the bath tub. After I cleaned everything up and hosed down the deck, I was so tired. Ten minutes of painting equals alot of clean up with my kids. If only I had something really yummy ready to come out of the oven...

Dove Season

All good things must come to an end. This summer, it has been so nice to not open my fridge door and find something with fur or feathers on it sitting on the shelves. My garage hasn't had decoys and camo lying around. No mud has been in the driveway from a truck that has been deep in the woods.

Well, this weekend it all begins. I knew that it was coming. Not only did I receive a memo from Christian listing all of the important dates of the hunting year, but targets are showing up in the backyard. Deer stands are out there waiting to be put up in the woods. Food has been thrown out for the doves. When Christian gets home, he asks how many doves we saw in the yard that day.

Jackson shot his first dove out of our kitchen window.....

Tonight, we were sitting at the dinner table and Christian got up and went to the window. He said, "Y'all want to see me shoot a dove with my bow?" Of course, the boys were fired up about it. He went outside and the boys all gathered around the window. I just sat there eating my dinner wondering how this became my life. Then, Jackson yelled, "He SMOKED it!" They all ran outside. While I was cleaning up the kitchen I kept seeing the boys running by the window holding that poor dove by its leg. Later, I took Sarah outside and she walked over to the dead bird on the ground. She picked up a stick and poked it and said, "EWWW!" I started to smile thinking how proud I was that my little girl thought that the dead dove was gross and didn't want to pick it up or anything. Then she put the (same!) stick in her mouth and started chewing on it. (Sigh....)

Birthday Boy

Aaron's birthday was Friday. Most kids plan their party and what they want for presents. Aaron planned out the menu for the day. He wanted cinnamon rolls for breakfast, Subway for lunch (specifically a foot long meatball sub), and pizza for dinner. So, that's what we did....

After breakfast, I let them have a little fun computer time before we started school.

I spent $30 at Subway on these kids!!! Aaron, Jackson, and Levi all had foot long meatball subs each. They can eat so much food and they aren't even in the double digits yet! What's it going to be like when they are teenagers?

I wanted to take Aaron to the Lego outlet in Atlanta, but he didn't want to drive that far. He said he just wanted a family party at home....so sweet! Mimi and Papa, Mama Re, and Nannie all came over for pizza and cake. My neighbor Jimmy and his daughter popped in, too.

Caleb kept passing gas (meatball subs, remember...). Mallory came and plopped down beside him unaware of what he was doing. She got this horrible look on her face and snatched her head around with big eyes. I caught a picture of her holding her nose!

Ah, little boys. Gotta love 'em!

Aaron always keeps us entertained. He is so witty for his age and says that he wants to be a comedian when he grows up. When we were singing Happy Birthday to him, he was on stage...making faces and being silly.

He received some new Lego sets and a few much needed pairs of jeans, a shirt, and some shoes (thanks Nannie:).

I can't imagine our family without Aaron. He is hilarious, smart, and so compassionate to his brothers and sister. I am looking forward to all that the Lord has in store for him. Happy Birthday Aaron! I love you!

A Few Pics

I was looking back through my posts and realized that I don't have many pictures of the older boys posted lately.

Jackson

Aaron (little Christian)

Levi

Caleb

Aaron lost his second top tooth. Now the permanent tooth on the top looks gigantic!

Sarah (Hollywood)

This picture is for my dad. He always complains that my kids smell like nursing homes when they are in diapers because I wait so long to change them. I'm just getting my money's worth!

Randomness

I noticed Levi standing at the freezer door the other day. Every 30 seconds or so he would open the door and I couldn't see him, and then he would shut it again. I was curious, so I walked over and asked him what he was doing. He said, "Waiting on my pear to get cold." He then opened the door to the freezer (again), picked up his pear and held it to his cheek, then placed it back in the freezer and shut the door. I told him that it would take a while for his pear to get cold and so he should just leave it for a few minutes and come back. He decided the better thing to do would be to get a plastic grocery bag and put 2 ice cubes and the pear inside:) Here he is eating his not so cold pear...

This is Sarah's new grin...it's so funny!

I know that y'all will read this and say...."yeah, right", but I have been catching up on some much needed discipline with Miss Priss lately. She has started "flashdancing" when I tell her no or she doesn't get her way. Uh...not gonna happen sister! You better save those moves for dance class!

Four Brothers and Five Stitches

Well, the inevitable happened. We have been to the ER with a broken bone once, but never any stitches. I often have pondered how we have made it almost 10 years with no stitches. Christian had so many that he can't even count them all. I knew that it was coming sooner or later, but I never thought that with all of the rowdy boys in this house that the first recipient of those stitches would be....

my poor baby GIRL!

While I was cleaning up the kitchen from lunch, I noticed that Levi, Caleb, and Sarah had all piled into the swivel rocker by the fireplace. Aaron came by and gave the chair a "swivel" and Sarah fell out, cheek meeting corner of brick fireplace.

She had a nasty gash. It was one of those moments that you want somebody, anybody, to be there to tell you what to do! It didn't bleed very much, but I knew that it probably wasn't going to heal right without a little help of some steri strips, glue, or stitches.

Aaron was very concerned about Sarah. He told me that he was "ashamed" and asked if they would "gas" her before giving her stitches. He didn't want her to be in pain. Christian was able to come home and I took her to see a friend that is a surgeon. He graciously went to his office on his day off to see us and stitch Sarah up.

The doctor gave Sarah a drug like Valium to take the edge off and hopefully get her to fall asleep. After 20 minutes, she was silly, but NOT asleep. She kept singing and rubbing the chair we were sitting in with a tissue. She would then look at the tissue and yell "ewww!" She giggle and swayed her head around. I was laughing so hard. Then, she became a nasty drunk. She screeched at me and pinched me. She was so mean!

Finally, we just had to hold her down so she could be stitched up. THAT did not go over well. I think that she broke the sound barrier a few times with her supersonic screams. She finally fell asleep in the car on the way home.

After her nap, she was quite cranky. I'm hoping that she will be in a better mood in the morning and not so sore. Needless to say, we had a "discussion" at dinner tonight (again) about not being so rowdy and wild in the house. Let's hope it didn't go in 4 ears and out the others!