old classics as new favorites.

We are slowly introducing Reid to our favorite childhood movies.

This week was Dumbo, or as Reid calls him,

"Jubbo da Eff-ent."

Umm...what did you just say, Reid? Oh, right. You were trying to say elephant. It sounded like you were saying...well, nevermind.

Next up, Aristocats.

What is going on here?

The kids are really cracking us up lately. I mean, all kids are funny...but put 3 young, very young, boys together and funny stuff happens.

Here's a good example:

The babies are rolling and crawling all over the place, and if one rolls near the other, they like to lick each other. They are definitely in the stage where they want to put everything in their mouth, and that includes their brother's foot, hand, elbow, forehead, etc.

See Dane's crazy hair? He's getting a good licking from Alec at the moment.

Here's Dane enjoying his brother's attention, and slobber.
I'm a horrible photographer, but can you see how slobbered Dane is? Alec is still going.
Nice.
Seriously, they are all over each other all the time. Rolling over one another. Pulling each other's ear, stealing toys, crawling over to each other to play and giggle...

It's too much cute.

Reid getting in on the picture taking fun. And begging me to watch "Nascho."
Do you remember how Reid is obsessed with keeping his towel on after baths? We're still in that stage.
The boys sometimes just collapse into sleep. Here's Alec, upside down (can't be good for his acid reflux) and completely zonked.
Reid...zonked.
More pictures of babies who like a view of the backyard. That's Dane with his head under the curtain.
Reid puts these silly getups together all on his own, and then comes over to me like, "here I am, being funny...want to laugh?" He closed his eyes right as I took the picture, but it's a great shot of those eyelashes. Seriously, to die for!
Funny kid.
Here's Reid teaching his younger brothers how to mess with the piano. Look at his hands, doesn't it look like he's explaining something? And look at Dane's red knees, these babies are toughening up their knees with all the crawling goin' on.

Lastly, Reid is really into "Church Song" which is when we put on a DVD of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. It's a Christmas DVD, the one with Mr. Krueger's Christmas on it and some performances by the choir...you know, the one that came with the Ensign a few years ago. It's one of his favorite "movies" and he begs for "church song, church song!" Yesterday he was asking for church song and then ran to his room to get the drumstick from his little music set. Once he had it he came back to me like, "all ready!" It's hard to see his hand (click on the picture to make it larger) but he's waving the stick around like a baton. And the funny thing is that for the faster songs he was really going for it and his face was so animated, but then for the slow songs he was so calm and reverent. He gets the vibe.

The post you've all been waiting for...

Yay-yeah!

We're going to talk about my hair!

I know you're so pumped. Oh, if only you knew how much I made Erik and Natalie (hairstylist to the stars) talk about hair with me.

But I have a plan. I think.

A plan that may or may not be thwarted by how badly I want my hair to look exactly like Naomi's of Rockstar Diaries.

Seriously, do bangs get any better than that?

No. They don't.
But here's my problem. I hate bangs. I hate them, except for the fact that every time, (I know I'm a super exaggerator, but I promise I'm not overstating this, so I'll use all caps for emphasis...) EVERY TIME I see a hair cut that makes me go, "ooh, cute hair"...the girl has bangs. So while I hate them, I not so deep down love them.

An unrequited love.

Bangs don't love me, I think that's the problem.

Nevertheless, here's the plan.

In two weeks when we go to Denver for Erik's sister Dana's wedding (woot woot!), Natalie (aforementioned super stylist) and I will attempt the unthinkable.

We are going to lighten my hair.

Dramatic pause...

The longer I think about it, the lighter I want to go.

Like golden brown Jennifer Aniston light.

Nice, right?

Then, when I get sick of that, I can finally go flame red (like the chick on the left, whoever that is).

Ooh, that's going to be rad.
Did you know I am a huge Ashlee Simpson fan? Like, even of her music? I know.
Then, when I get sick of that, I'll start transitioning back to dark. Looking something like Fergie's color here.
Then, the final awesomeness...

Super dark. Like this girl from Rocketeer and some other stuff. And I'll let nature take it's course and let my eyebrows run free like that, too.
How about that for a plan, eh?

I've realized that post-babies hair is just never going to be the same as pre-babies hair. Once I fully accepted that, then I figured, "shoot, well then let's have some fun!"

So, here we go.

My mom is probably shaking her head right now in terror and concern.

a question.

So, say you don't need something, and it costs a lot of money...

but it's on sale.

Does that make it okay?

Oh, and it's very pretty. That counts for something, right?

BIG news!

No, it's not what you're thinking. Or at least what I think you're thinking.

You know how I posted about the amazing and wonderful Denyse Schmidt? Well, guess what? She has a new fabric line coming this fall! Yay, now I can get in on the action instead of being totally late to the party with her other lines and having to get what I can at ridiculously high prices on ebay. What? I totally don't do that.

Yes, I do.

It's going to be called "Hope Valley" and the inspiration has to do with this postcard, apparently. Read about it here.

Oh, and another tied for person I obsess over the most (after the huz and the boys, of course) is Heather Ross. She's equally cool to Denyse Schmidt, but I had to start with someone so I posted about Denyse first. But guess what? They're friends! Like really good friends. Like Heather is having a workshop and Denyse is going to be a guest teacher and there's a bottomless cookie jar! Please say you'll come with me. Oh, the details: it's in Vermont or somewhere on the other side of the world. And it's the same week that Erik will be climbing Mt. Rainier, so we'll have to find someone to watch my kids for about 5 days.

Piece of cake.

Check out the details of the workshop here, and then look around Heather's cool blog.

my obsession.

This is the coolest girl in the world. Her name is Denyse Schmidt, and I think that we were destined to be best friends. Or, I could mop her floors or something. She is a quilter extraordinaire. The obsession started at least 10 years ago when I saw an article about her in MS Living.

Yes, I subscribed to Martha as a tween and teenager.

She has only gotten awesomer over the years.

Here she is, the Denyse Schmidt.

Here's her quilt Drunk Love in a Log Cabin. Perfect imperfection.

Denyse inspires creative quilting, like from one of my favorite bloggers, Ashley.

Check this out! Isn't this wonderful? If you're not already reading Film in the Fridge, you should. And you're welcome. Except for the part about how you're going to be so jealous/amazed at how much sewing Ashley gets done and all the gorgeous fabrics she gets her hands on. So, for that part...sorry.
Denyse teaches a workshop in CT where you can learn her technique for "Improvisational Patchwork" and I'm dying to go. Do you think they have on-site babysitting? No?

Maybe for my birthday I should ask for Erik to take work off for a few days to stay home with kids so I can go across the country on an expensive plane flight, rent a car, and stay in CT for a few days in an expensive hotel so that I can go to the 5 hour workshop (which costs $350).

Am I asking too much?
But look at how awesome! I explained it to Erik saying, "what if Dave Grohl (of the Foo Fighters) had a workshop where you could get a one on one drumming/guitar lesson for 5 hours? Would you do it?"

So...he gets it.

Maybe someday.

to satisfy your cravings.

Remember when this blog would go un-updated for weeks at a time? Now, it's only been a few days, and it seems like you've missed so much.

I mean, really important stuff.

Stuff like:

cute kids mesmerized by the TV. Reid gets to watch one of his kid DVDs most days, and on this day the babies were excited to be included.

They roll and crawl and play all over the place. But then they get tired and sometimes they poop out wherever their last roll takes them.
Reid loves playing with his puppets, and many times a day he'll come to me with two needing help getting them on his hands. He likes to make the cheerleader and the policeman kiss, and as he's doing it he says, "KISS-es!"
The three boys playing after waking up in the morning. They all love Reid's baseball toy.
Reid ready for church.
Calling "Nee" to say hello. (He calls his Aunt Annie, "Nee")

Cute babies in the morning.
Okay, I hope you all think this is as cute as I did, because there's like 10 pictures of it. After church yesterday, Erik was eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and playing with the babies. Erik has these babies under a magic spell, they just can't get enough of him. For the squiggly wriggly babies that they are, it's amazing that they stay still for so long when Erik is around. He was singing a made-up song about his sandwich, and they loved every minute of it. You can see the sandwich getting smaller as he sings about it.


Dane wants a piece of it.
They are fascinated with mouths and so if you come to visit, be prepared for babies trying to stick their hands in your mouth.
They are pretty proficient crawlers now. Alec is especially determined and can get anywhere he wants to go. He may spill on his face a few times, but he'll get there.
The face of determination.
And lastly, when Reid is napping, the babies play with his toy without having to ask permission. Reid is learning the sharing concept, and the babies have already figured out the concept of "while the cat's away the mice will play."
So that's what we're up to. Just lots of cute.

How was your weekend?

funny.

Reid was sitting next to me as I wrote that last post and when he saw the pictures of the dolls he kept saying, "puppets! puppets!" The boy likes puppets.

Even better, when he saw the doll with the dark yarn hair in buns, he exclaimed, "Mickey Mouse!" So cute. Even cuter because he only knows who Mickey Mouse is from when he wears Huggies that have baby Mickey on them.

like I need another project idea.

What we're up to around here.

Lots of cute, rolling, crawling (about 2 steps forward so far...), chewing, smiling, and the like.

These two love playing together.
Reid is just too sweet. I don't know how to describe it, but he has this magical magnetic quality. Even when he's napping. Look at how sweet!
Close-up on the angel face.
And an idea of something fun to do:

So there's this blog, Wee Wonderfuls, that I love. Super love.

She has patterns to make little dolls that I think are so precious. Do little girls still play with dolls? I hope so. All the girls I know are into Hannah Montana and Wii. Yikes.

Here are the dolls Kit, Chloe, and Louise.

And she also sells notecards of the girls doing cute things.

Seeing these doll patterns and this story from her blog (please click on that link, it's painfully cute) gave me a ridiculous idea. My sister Annie and I don't get to hang out very often, and I always think of fun things for us to do that we never get a chance to do. One day I thought it would be funny to make an Emily doll and an Annie doll and take pictures of the two dolls playing together.

Absolutely ridiculous, right? But in an awesome way, yes? I think so, too.

If I ever actually make the dolls and set up a blog for their adventures, I'll let you know.