A law abiding citizen

Whew is all I can say!!!!  Knock on wood, I seriously just knocked, this week has been MUCH better than last week.  On Friday of last week I was literally scared to wake up.  I didn't know what was in store for me as far as more issues headed my way.  We are all well and luckily, no one else has gotten sick, and I pray it stays that way.

 

Yesterday I went to the doctor for my 6 weeks post-op check up after having Annie.  The boys went to school and Little Miss came with me.  She was so well behaved.  She slept the entire ride to Memphis, during my appointment, and all the way until we got to our shopping destination.  I was so proud of her.  I checked out good.  I have lost 28 of the 35 pounds I gained while preggo.  I honestly expected to have lost more than that since I was sick as a dawg last week, but I didn't.  The last little bit is always hard to get off and I guess I should stop eating so much.  But people are still so kind and bringing us food, and I must sample it all!!!!  I am also pleased to announce that The Beast (my hernia) is gone.  I have been meaning to say this, but it slips my mind.  It pretty much went away right after I had Annie.  All my swelling is gone too.  I'm back to the Old Jill!!!!

 

My oldest babies before school today....

Prissy and I played dress up after her morning bath today.  I was really excited about my idea, but she didn't share the same feelings that I did.  My parents gave Annie that sweet little pearl bracelet and a family friend gave her the diaper cover.  She was accessorized and looking good, but she wanted NO part of my photo shoot.

Annie will be 7 weeks old on Monday.  She is so sweet and by far my easiest baby yet.  Last night she did not, but the 4 nights before last night she slept through the night!!!!  It was ahhhhmazing.  She grins a lot and it's pure sweetness and melts this momma's heart.  She is quirky though.  If I'm feeding her and she needs to burp she immediately stops eats and cries.  Once she feels better we can carry on.  She also cannot ruin her britches and eat at the same time either.  Multi-tasking isn't her specialty.  If this is the case, she again stops eating to do her business. 

 

She is spoiled.  She likes to be held.  I hold her.  I kiss her.  We chat about things.  I tell her I love her and she's a pretty baby about 50 times a day!!!!  Fortunately, she has learned to "self-soothe" herself at an early age, unlike her brothers.  Sometimes I cannot meet the demands of 3 kids at once.  I'm good, but not always that good.  Annie is left to cry herself to sleep on occasion, which is good for her.  I need a good sleeper.

John Brantley didn't talk until he was about 2 years and 5 months old, but Lord have mercy the child does some talking now.  He is making up for lost time!!!  He has a funny little vocabulary and pronunciation for words.  I want to remember some of them...

 

Garbage can- gar gar can             If something is easy he says- easy peasy

He is obsessed with puzzles.  Ford was at this age too.  Good thing we have a large Dollar Tree selection at our house to keep him entertained.

 

He LOVES cinnamon rolls.  You know the kind in the can with the icing.  He requests these every single day.  I am not even lying.  He calls the icing in the can- icy.  He requires lots of icy.

 

Mr. Big Stuff here likes my hot pink lip gloss.  Can you blame him???  It goes with any outfit!!!!



Do you see all the mud and dirt????  That's what happens when you build a house and have no grass.  I am pleased to announce that since this picture we have gotten some sod, but on this particular day we didn't have a stitch of grass.  The boys got all kinds of muddy and dirtied up the driveway.  Daddy came home and was M-A-D at the momma.  I spent almost 45 minutes blowing the driveway off.  Gosh Daddy,... boys love mud!

There's Ford's climbing tree in the background....

We took Ford to choir the other day.  It was beautiful outside and I didn't feel like driving home for an hour so we went to the park.  Bit brought his mower and did a little community service that day!

Slick likes to obey the law.  Me too for that matter.  He likes to look at speed limit signs and then amazingly, he can see my speedometer and tell if I'm being a law abiding citizen or not.  The other day we were on a road that was 30 mph.  I was going 50 mph.  Yeah... oops!!!  Well, slick (my kid in 4K) says, "Momma, you're going 50 and it says 30.  You're speeding.  You're going 20 mph too fast."
  Since when can he do math like that in his head?????  Definitely didn't get that from me!

Yes, he's still obsessed.  He kisses and messes with her entirely too much.

I have decided with three kids I need to simplfy my life.  I make the boys sleep together for several reasons, one of which that is one less set of sheets to change each week.  And we often times only use one bathroom in our house.  I can throw them in my shower just as easy as a bathtub.  Can I get an Amen!!!  It's hard to clean and mother three kids all at once.  This summer they might live in their undies...less laundry.

 

Hopping down the bunny trail

I like a clean and orderly house even though our home doesn't always reflect that.  Yesterday, Sunday, I was in a lets get it clean mood.  So I decided it was time to say goodbye to the sea of plastic Easter eggs flooding my kitchen and living rooms.  I emptied all the Easter candy I could find into a basket and threw a lot of junk, if you will, away.  I then came to the conclusion THAT my kids got more candy at Easter than at Halloween.  Isn't the whole point of Halloween to get candy... fill those pumpkin buckets to the brim???!!!  Easter isn't supposed to come with 50 pounds of sugar, but at my house it did.  All my boys can focus on is the basket of candy sitting on the bar, and whether I touch it or not my thighs will expand in size just by looking at it.

 

My Easter blessings

Annie's Bunny goodies....

Bitty's Bunny goodies...

Ford's Bunny goodies...

Daddy assembling the mower AKA bubbles

Baby girl and I just snuggled and watched...

Ford is obsessed with checking the weather and weighing himself.  His ultimate goal is to be 40 pounds or bigger.  Well, the smart Easter Bunny brought him his very own scale!!!! 

Annie is 6 weeks old today and with that birthday came a very special present for her momma.  Annie slept ALL night long.  I woke up at 5:00 thinking it was 2:30 or so.  Not even close.  Finally at 6:30 I woke her up.  And wouldn't you know that she went right back to sleep and I had to wake her up at 9:30 to eat again.  Big girl slept 14 hours.

 

Hear her ROAR

Do you ever have those days when you're like "what else can happen?  I am meaning this in a not good sense... Well, my friends, well, well, well.... I, Jill Anthony Lamar, have had one of those WEEKS!!!! 

Let's start at last Sunday.  I saw my dog, Delta, that morning about 10:15 and then she never surfaced again.  Trey left to go to Jackson that afternoon and that night Delta still hadn't come home.  I was concerned and voiced it to him.  During the night it stormed and I went to look outside for Delta, but she was not there.  Monday morning I woke up feeling crappy, (NO, I'm NOT pregnant.... Yes, people have asked), and I text two neighbors to ask if they had seen my Beagle.  Within 20 minutes one of the mother's of the people I text messaged called.  She had run over Delta on Sunday and didn't know whose dog it was.  I. Was. Crushed!!!!!!!!  This is/was my only dog I've ever had.  Trey and I got her the weekend of Hurricane Katrina, right after we got married.  Delta, the sweetest dog God ever made, was almost 10 years old.  I called Trey to tell him.  He came home that afternoon to bury her and help me tell Ford.  It was an awful day.

Monday night I got the stomach bug which lasted until Thursday.  Wednesday my car died and had to be towed and over $300.00 later I got it back.  And Thursday Ford got the funk too!  I mean... what a week.  BUT, a good thing to report is:  The Legislative Session Is OVER!!!!!!!!!

 

Welcome home, Daddy!!!!!  Despite the yelling kiddos, we are all pretty excited!!!  It was about 7:00 and Annie was tired and hungry.  Bitty was ticked because he had fallen asleep in the car and we woke him up.  That's life!!!

During my crappy week, a friend brought me some flowers to cheer me up.  She said it was that or Pepto!!!!

Since it's turkey bird season, Fancy must become one with nature and go on a little hunt.  No, both birds aren't his.  One of mine.... SYKE.... His buddy went and killed a bird too.

This sweetums slept 8 straight hours last night.  Can we say, GO ANNIE!!!!!!!

Crying or not, she's precious!

And she's started smiling and has a cute little personality.  She cries if: She's hungry and you better watch out.  You can hear her roar miles away, if she needs to burp, get a clean diaper, or go to sleep.

Amy, who works with Trey, kept Annie yesterday so we could go to a funeral.  SHE TOOK A BOTTLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I tried a new kind, Dr. Brown's, and she sucked it down.  YAY!!!!!

It just doesn't get much cooler than The Bit!!!!  He's 100% hysterical.  The best part is, he doesn't know he's funny.  He keeps me on my toes all day.  He is a big Momma's boy.  He tells me some sweet things during the day: 1.  I wub (love) you Momma.  2.  You wook (look) pretty.  3.  I need you Momma.

All of my boys looking out the window at the ducks on the lake.

Along with the stomach bug misery, I had to miss all of my kids' Easter egg hunts and parties at school.  It hurt.  I wanted sooooo badly to be there with them, create memories, watch the having a great time, and taking pictures.  Since I was on my death bed, I sent a sweet baby sitter and she took some pictures of my boys.  Ford had a blast!!!!  He asked me when he got home why everyone had on their green class shirt and he had on his purple class shirt.   Oooops!!!!!!!!  I felt so bad I told him to wear his from last year!!!

I missed John Brantley's too.  I was glad we had a pep talk about egg hunting and he understood.  I would have been sad if he didn't get an canny (candy)!!!

Annie had to attend his too with Samantha, super-sitter.  I was DYING!!!!

Thursday night, our church had an egg hunt which I couldn't attend since I was still under the weather, and by this point Ford was sick too.  So, Pops came to the rescue and took Bitty to the church hunt himself....

 

Here he is playing a game called don't let anyone steal your balloon.  My friend sent this picture.  She said he never moved!!!!!

Bitty and Pops checking out the stash!

I think it goes without saying that John Brantley enjoyed himself.  A special thanks to Samantha for risking her health twice this week to keep my kids, and to Pops for taking Bit Bit to the church hunt.

There's much more to blog about, but I am out of time.  We still don't have internet at our house and I am using Trey's office computer again.  I will leave you with this.... I went to Wal-Mart early and was gone 45 minutes.  During that time I was called three times and text messaged twice by my husband begging me to come home to a crying baby!