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I decided that it was time for Andrew to get his hair cut. This is not an unusually thing since he's had trims and haircuts since he was 3 months old. (Yes I know I have hairy kids!) Anyhow, when you make a decision like that and you have NO money it makes for a difficult time. Especially since his hair looked like this...

And this...

and this...

Really shabby. So I decided to take it upon myself and buzz his hair. So I called up James and asked him what he thought. He said that he didn't want me to do it cause he figured Andrew would decide half way through that he was done with me messing with it and wouldn't let me finish. I assured James this wouldn't happen and got the go ahead of sorts. Now I'm going to do something that I don't have to do very often, but I was wrong and James was right. But I did complete the task. This is what his hair is like now.

Gotta love the pouty (not sure on the spelling) lips.

Here's the side view. Much better from the first pictures. Then two days later he decided to do this to his face. I guess getting the hair out of his face didn't help like I thought!

Thank goodness he didn't get any closer to his eye! Just a side note, metal hangers are not to be played with. Ask Andrew, he'll tell you it's not a good idea.

Forgot!

I forgot to add this yesterday when I was putting all the stuff for Paisley's birthday. Here she is digging in the cake. Quite funny.

Paisley is one!!!!

I can't believe it, but my baby is now 1. Time goes by quickly. We waited to have a party for her until family could be down to help us celebrate. My mom decorated the cake for us. It's a family tradition that the one year old gets their own cake to demolish. Andrew kind of picked at his and Emma did okay, but I have to say that Paisley was the one that was the funnest.

Paisley opening presents. This was from Grandma, Grandpa, and Aunt Danielle.

Checking it out.

Shoes from Anna, Andrew, Aspen and Aliya.

The cake before.

Digging in!

Mmmmmm! That's good cake!

Paisley had little helpers.

This is the cake for everyone else.

More digging in.

She's proud of herself.

The cake after.

What a mess. This one just went in the trash. Nothing left to save from it. She went to town.

Paisley after. She went straight to the bath. And then down for a nap.

Happy birthday sweetie!!

Tennessee Trip

We went and visited Aunt Cathy, Uncle Brooks, Josie, Grandpa, and Uncle Mark a couple of weeks ago. We had tons of fun and got to see and do lots of stuff. I was worn out! I think the kids might have been too, but they had fun. We got to go to the Knoxville Zoo 2 times, the Little Ponderosa Petting Zoo (where we had a hands on experience), a discovery center, and this awesome fountain at the World's Fair Park. Here are a few of the million pictures we took.


Here is Andrew spreading his wings at the zoo.

Goats!

This is a camel from the petting zoo. It was just a baby. Funny story, while we were at the Knoxville Zoo Paisley was bitten by their baby camel. So when we saw this one a couple of days later, she cried any time we got close to it. And I mean she was hysterical! Poor thing has been ruined to them for a while.

This is the tower at the World's Fair Park. We went to the 4th floor of the ball and took some cool pictures.

Andrew's superman pose!



Isn't he cute!

And he loves his sister.

Here's me and all the kiddos. And if you look in between Andrew and Emma's head you can see the cool fountain we played in.

Cool Jumping pic!

Playing in the water.

Climbing! I swear they have no fear!

Different stuff

A while ago I had changed Paisley's diaper, (yes I do change her diaper more than once every couple of days) anyhow, it was a new package that I had to open and get the diaper out. The diapers seemed to be shoved in there a little weird, but I gave no thought of it. So I changed her and went about my business. Well, thankfully not too long after that I saw her crawling around and noticed there was a whole int he back of the diaper. And of course I had to take a picture of it.

If she had a tail, it could have gone through it. Ha ha, I got a good laugh.

Moms get laughs out of the silliest things.

I'm just glad that I hadn't put pants on her and then had her poop. Man that would have not been fun.

On another note, we had the great opportunity to see some of James' family that I had never met. We got a call saying that his Uncle Jack and Aunt Dolly were in town and wanted us to come over so they could see the little ones. So we packed them up and took off to the O'Bryan's house. It was nice to meet them and get to visit a little.

I'm sure you could figure out who's who, but if not from left to right: James, Emma, Aunt Dolly, Uncle Jack, Andrew, Me (Leiann), and Paisley.

Uncle Robin holding Paisley.

After we got home. I would say that she was a little worn out!

St. Patricks Day

I've been a bad blogger. I know. But better late than never right? Well, our St. Patrick's day was spent at home. I had bought the girls matching green dresses. So of course I wanted to get pictures of them together. But it was rather difficult so here are some of the ones I could get.

Cute Miss Emma.

Cute Miss Paisley.

Ineffective try at getting them together. I guess neither one of them wanted to do it! Emma was pushing Paisley away and Paisley was fussing and didn't want me to put her down. You win some and you loose some! Sorry no pictures of Andrew. He didn't get any special new shirt for St. Patrick's, they didn't have any cute ones. So he lost out. I'm sure he'll be heartbroken when he's a teenager that the I didn't get a picture of him on St. Patrick's Day back in 2009. I'm such a bad mom! Hee hee!

Bubbles

So I finally was brave enough, or not as anal enough, to let the kids play with bubbles. Now don't get me wrong, I have blown bubbles for them and they would chase them around and have fun with them, but up until now I have never let them hold them and do it themselves. I thought it would be too messy. I know, bubbles are technically soap so how can that be messy. I was just thinking about it being all slimy and stuff. Yes, too anal, won't let my kids play with soap! But I figured I needed to let my kids get "dirty" and try things out for themselves. Let them live a little. It actually went pretty well. Andrew didn't spill hardly any. Emma spilled some and put the wand too close to her mouth, but I just went with it. She actually was able to blow some bubbles. But the plus was that they had a ton of fun. Down side was that I didn't put them up high enough when we got inside and they got a hold of them and one of them spilled what was left on Andrew's bed.


Here's Emma blowing some bubbles.

I thought this was a cute picture. She caught the bubble on the wand.

Andrew blowing bubbles.

He was so very interested in seeing what was going on down there.

The kids hanging out on the PW truck. The older girl is one that I watch after school.

If you look close, you'll notice she has a bubble on her mouth. She was trying to eat the bubble stuff at this point.

Paisley was sad she couldn't play with the bubbles. Believe me she tried to grab them when I was blowing some.

Not a great picture, but it does show her little teeth. She has 2 now!