Fun at the Music Circus

Yesterday Tom and I took the three older kids to the Music Circus to see Annie. Wow! did we have a good time. It took us awhile to get there though. In the morning I had to do the therapy thing. Matthew and Julia had their physical therapy appts. and then Matthew had speech. I had "worked" a full day before the babysitter arrived at 1:00p.m. to take care of Matthew and Henry. Anyway we left and got to the theatre and Macie and Thomas started saying they couldn't see. Of course, the play hadn't even started. Once it started they could see beautifully. Julia was the one that had a hard time. She got scared of the dark in the theatre and she couldn't seem to get past how mean Miss Hannigan was. She kept signing home and go to me. I bribed her with candy at intermission, but then she threw in the potty sign and I had to take her out. While in the hallway, we had to wait through 3 songs before intermission, we saw a lot of the cast go by us and they waved at her. We even saw Annie herself walk by. That really perked Julia up and she was happy to stay through the rest of the show. Although she virtually beat me up during the second act. Julia decided that sitting still wasn't necessary so she was all over me. After the show we went to Spaghetti Factory for dinner and we even got to sit in the Trolley Car. It was fun eating dinner without having to worry about little babies. Grandma treated us to the show. She was going to go with us, but she ended up being out of town. We called her and told her how much fun we had.

Signing Time -

Rachel in action. Can't wait to get series 2.

More Signing Time!

We are so excited. Our favorite company Two Little Hands Productions is coming out with new DVD's. How loud can we shout for joy here at the Hay House? Rachel Coleman, Leah and Alex are at it again with a new series of shows. You can pre-order them at http://www.signingtime.com/ .
She is great. We can't wait until the videos show up at our house. (of course, we pre-ordered).

Bowling

The prodigy and his sister

Yesterday I took the 3 older children to a friend's birthday party. It was a bowling party, and they just love bowling. My 7 year old did really well. I'm not sure if we have a prodigy here or not. He got 5 spares in a row and bowled some mighty impressive numbers. The girls loved it, but what they loved more was the arcade and the winning of tickets to win small prizes. I left the smaller 2 at home with daddy. Daddy had a great time with a 2 yr. old and an 8 week old. Needless to say we had pizza for dinner. After the party we went to Grandma's to watch the GMA interview with the High School musical cast. The kids loved it, they even learned a new dance. Then we went onto Babies R Us to get diapers, diaper genie refills and door knob covers to keep the 2 year old Houdini out of rooms he doesn't belong in. We had a great day, but everyone was very tired.

New baby 2 months old

The 2 year old climbing prodigy. I should be happy, he was attempting to do the dishes.

What a Day

This is a picture of the gang when the new baby was born in June.


With 5 kids it can get very crazy around here. I can barely get the laundry done. I have a 2 year old who is a live wire. He makes a mess and then while I'm cleaning it up he is into another one. He flooded the bathroom twice and got into the fireplace and threw ashes all over the livingroom. I know, we should have cleaned out the ashes from the fireplace long ago, but as I said it gets crazy around here. The craziest times are when I am feeding the new baby. It all seems to break loose when he is being fed. Can I ask, When does school start? :) I have three that go to school and they are chomping at the bit to go. We have already bought the first day of school outfit and are just waiting.
My husband and I have decided that alot of the messes that are created around here are our own fault. While I am busy I still should be better at supervision. It is all about supervision. When the children are properly supervised things run smoothly. When the supervision is lacking, well, we get days like yesterday. In my defense I am out numbered. :)
Heres to a great day today!

First Post

I can't believe I am finally posting. I have now created 2 blogs trying to post information. So here goes.

My husband and I have been married 15 years and we have 5 children. This blog will be about the ups and downs of the Hay House.

I'm very excited to be blogging. The kids are all in bed now and that is great. The 2 year old just got a new bed so I'm not sure if "in bed" is accurate. We often find him on the floor next to the door. He has been aclimber and escape artist. He is the 4th child and none of the others have been like this. Time for bed. We have an 8 week old so I need to get some sleep. We'll see if my blogging abilities work. Here goes nothing.