no fear

well, we had an interesting bible study! one of our neighbors had just been to the pet store to pick up some mice for his snake... needless to say, zach loved them!! i guess he gets his fearlessness from brian, who teaches him to pick up all the creepy crawlies! he was even brave enough to hold it. it crawled up his arm and tried to go down his shirt. he just laughed!
then friends tim and sara brought their new "baby" belle. he had the best time playing with the puppy!

you know you're a mom when...

you know you're a mom when you are telling everyone about your baby's pooping habits. last sunday i think i kind of freaked out a couple of our child-free friends when i was telling them about makenzie's latest pooping woes. as a mother of three, not much bothers me about poop these days. i've seen it all- diarrea, seeds, whole raisins, all of those newborn baby textures and colors. but makenzie gave me another of those poopy experiences... constipation! audrey and zach have never been constipated. i haven't ever seen a baby cry and be so uncomfortable as she was the other day. she just was crying and crying, and i smelled poop, so i was going to change her diaper. but when i opened it up,the poop was sticking half way out of her little patootie. i didn't know what to do. it wasn't coming out, so i grabbed a wet wipe, and tried to grab it and pull it out, but it went back in instead. i just thought great! now she'll have to go through all of that again. and of course, late that night she did. poor baby, it just got stuck. anyways, to make a long story short, i ended up having to put some ky jelly around the area so the little turd would slip out! i know that's gross. the doctor told us to give her benefiber every day, so now i make sure to give it to her, but sometime she still gets seriously constipated. i don't know what causes it.

anyways, now that you are grossed out, you can look at a few pictures to remind you of how cute and precious the kiddos are. today was a beautiful day (a bit cold for the beginning of may, however). we put a blanket outside and the kiddos played around. i got this swing for kenzie this morning at a garage sale for 2 dollars.
we were doing superman with the kids, and i thought this may be a cute little picture with the blue sky and green trees above. they are different but cute!