My Christmas miracle came early

Today was one of those days. Davy seemed kinda sad during her first therapy (vital stem). Normally that either means a loooong day or a really short day cuz she won't do anything. Well I am happy to say that she pepped up for PT. She normally never lasts the whole session. But today she was a chatterbox and totally participating! She never came to me crying wanting a hug like she usually does. In fact this was one of the better sessions we've had, take a look.

C'mon!!!! Are you kidding me?!!! This was the best day ever!!! I have had a personal goal for Davy, that she would be walking by the end of this year and now I KNOW she will be hitting that goal. Davy has giving me a gift. I know we all celebrate our baby's milestones, but I weep and then do karate kicks whenever Davy does the littlest things.

People, we really do take for granted so many things in life.

I love it when Davy reminds me how the everyday things can be a miracle.

P.S. Whitney, I think Davy was getting good walking vibes from Violet.

Harper is four

Harper why? Why do keep growing older? It makes me so sad to think of my lil buddy being so old. Why it just seems like yesterday you were climbing out of your crib and breaking out of the house.

So we Partied yesterday, Schultz style. He got to jump through his door full of streamers(decorated by Ollie). For his special breakfast he chose doughnuts, isn't he so lucky.

Then the one present he was wishing for was............Hungry hippos! Wow thanks for making your Birthday cheap and easy on us Harper!!

We also through in a trip to Chuck E Cheese with his brothers and Dad. All in all it was a low key day and he was completely happy.

As soon as my camera gets back from the shop I plan on taking a nice "4 year old" picture of him. But for now i leave you with Iphone pictures.

Oh yes i nearly forgot the giveaway. I asked my boys to pick a number between 1-46 and they chose. 7!!!!

So the lovely Ora gets to go to Gabba live!! Thank you so much to everyone for the comments. I love it when people talk to me via comments. I wish I could get you all in cuz it really is a magical experience.

So Ora email me and we will set it up!!! Also i expect a detailed report with pictures.

flashbacks & giveaways

Two long years ago, we took the boys to New York for a Gabba filled week. It's sad that I never blogged about it, but I was going through what I now call my "dark times O' pregnancy". But even in my dark cloud we still had a blast. We did every tourist thing we could do with two hyper boys.

We saw a show, OK not Broadway, a Yo Gabba show.

We walked around Times square.

We went ice skating at Rockefeller center. This was Max's favorite part. Ollie....not so much.

WE crashed in a swanky hotel over looking central park.

Went to FAO Schwartz and bought nothing.

Saw Miss Liberty.

Rode the subways, even though Ollie preferred a Taxi.
Ok, so now the fun part! In celebration of our awesome trip, I am giving away a trip!! OK not really, but I am giving away 4 tickets to The Yo Gabba Live show in UTAH!!

So if you live there or will travel there, you can enter to win.

I would love for you to tell me who your child's(or yours) favorite Gabba song is. I will pick the winner on Sunday.

Happy Halloween

As you can see I had big goals this year for Halloween. Ollie and Harper wanted to be Finn and Jake from Adventure time. Being that it is a newer show, I could not buy their costume. Luckily I only had to make Harper's cuz my very talented friend Abi made Ollie's, thanks lady! And then I had the silly idea of Black Swan for Davy. I have to admit it was partly because I already had a black ballerina outfit, so I thought cheap and easy. But I really did not think that one through as you will see.

Max being more mature, needed a scary/Ironic outfit like a zombie sock monkey.

My cannon is in the shop, so only Iphone pics this halloweeen, kind of a bummer.

So now on to Davy.......what was I thinking?!! I literally had eyeliner, lipstick and a fake bun in my hands to put on my 19 month old baby. Alyssa was all ready to hold her down and I realized what the hay am I doing? This is borderline child abuse. So I bagged the idea and she was just a scrappy black ballerina.

This is what I was going for

And this is what she ended up looking like

What she ended up looking like was a hot mess. This little girl won't even leave a clip in her hair, so why would I think she would wear a crown? Oh well, I loved my lil scrapper anyway.

How was your halloween? I would love to hear what you or your little ones were.

At 19 months

I was all prepared to blog bout Davy signing a new word. But then she did this.....

Her First WORD!!! So does saying book first mean she is going to be genius, or at least maybe a librarian.

Then again by the time Davy is an adult books will probably not exist. :(

Season four is done....almost

We are officially done filming! Scott has now moved on to post production. Which means.....his schedule is not so crazy! It's been nice having him around a little more, real nice.

These pictures were taking on the last Character day, so we invited some friends to come down To say hello.
For some reason I CAN NOT get a good picture at Gabba. It's always blurry or someone looks awful. Most of the time we just forget to take pictures. I really regret not taking pictures with the family more.

After pictures, Plex came by to say hello to Davy(thanks Mossi) . She never will sit and watch the show(sad I know) but she was loving the characters in person. She kept trying to love on them , saying ohhhhhh. It was pretty cute.

Meet the lady behind the scenes.....Alyssa. This girl makes our life livable. She is the reason why our family can go places or take Davy to appointments or just breathe.

It's always a little sad when Gabba wraps. We never know if it will be the last time.

So cross your fingers, wish on a star and say a prayer for a season 5.

I'll give it a whirl

OK, so you all know I have trouble sleeping. Well I usually just try and take melatonin and call it a night. But when I am really struggling I do take ambien.

For someone with Chronic Insomnia it can be a life saver.

I have learned something about taking sleeping pills though........

one. take it early so you can fall asleep at reasonable hour(get your pills worth)

two. Probably not a good idea to answer emails after you have taken it.

Whilst medicated I agreed to a blogher review on Mary Kay make up. I know I am not one to do product reviews, but I have to say it was kinda fun. So if you are interested click here and read all about it.

Ruth

and yes I am ambien free right now.