I love this family!

My boys are the greatest! Ethan was sitting on a stool and leaned over to get his blanket that was on the floor. Obviously, he tipped over, then as I was heading over to see if he was alright I could see the stool going too. He flipped head over heels on the way down, so when the stool fell it landed right on top of him, hitting him in the head. As I scooped him up in my arms and was cradling him and checking that he was alright I saw Topher JUMP UP from the table (he was eating lunch) and run over to Ethan. Then I saw Justin running as fast as his little legs could carry him, both were coming to see if Ethan was alright. Justin gave him a hug and said "Brother OK? And then Topher got up and spanked the chair yelling "Don't you hurt my Ethan! SHAME ON YOU!" Then Topher picked up the blanket that Ethan was reaching for when he fell and wrapped it around him. Then Topher went and got 2 of HIS favorite blankets so that he would feel better. Justin saw this and decided to follow suite. He went and got Ethan's frog blanket and gave it to him. It was so stinkin' cute. Apparently Topher went and got 2 pillows because they are laying on the kitchen floor together showing each other their owies. :)

Haven't posted for so long

So I've been feeling guilty about not blogging. I've just been so busy (such is the life of a mother I guess). Oh, before I forget though, I wanted to share a recipe that I got from Ranee' (yeah, it's pretty much the best). For pumpkin bread. Take a box of spice cake mix (by the way Ranee', they just started stocking it - or it was hidden behind the stinkin' yellow cake...grrrr...anyhow I found some). Pour it into a med. size bowl, mix with a can of pumpkin (the small can...15 oz I think). Then put it in a bread pan and cook at 350 for 20-25 minutes. Yeah, it's SOOOO good. And Michelle, I love you for introducing me to that Resolve, deep clean. It got all the spots up (well, all of them that I have cleaned so far). I've been living in this house for a year and a half (give or take) and I have tried EVERYTHING to get those up, nothing has even lightened them! And that carpet cleaner took those spots up almost instantly! And you thought getting your freezie stains up off your carpet was impressive.

So now to the fun stuff...although right now I can only think of one incident that I wanted to blog about. We were in Wal*mart and Jon remembered that he needed shampoo. So we were over there looking at the gazillion different kinds of shampoos when the fire alarm suddenly goes off. We look up and (to my horror) there is my son, standing with the door propped open - you know the one with the "Alarm will sound when this door is opened" sign on it? To make matters worse he has a hyper-sensitivity to sounds (the Dr. said it's due to his PDD). So it's got this high-pitched shreeking sound and of course everyone back there is looking trying to decide if there's really a fire. They saw us doing the "What are you doing?" "Why did you do that?" thing...I guess they decided there was no fire because they all went about their shopping. It took FOREVER before we could find a Wal*mart associate to shut off the noise. I felt so bad for my little guy, he's over there with his hands pushed against his ears as hard as he could, trying not to cry (he tries real hard to be "tough" when Daddy is there). It just made me want to cry. So that was our most eventful trip to Wal*mart...so far. lol.