a HILL of a good time.........: February Randomness....

February randomness, oh how I love you!! We have a few stragglers from January but I figured they needed a home as well. So here you go..

My sweet pea and I at Chuck E Cheese. He never, I mean never, sits still for this picture machine. I love, love, love the pictures that come out of this but usually we get half of Chaz, the top of his head or a screaming kiddo. This one is gold in my book.

One evening at my parent's house Chaz was doing everything in his power to avoid bedtime. He is three, you know? This one was too funny not to get a picture. He laid on the floor and used a tinker toy as a weight. "I am working out!" I haven't a clue where he got this from because neither his father nor I work out.

One Sunday, Cameron and Marcy were taking Jackson to Tulsa to see a Mickey Mouse show at the Expo. Mah and Dah were also going to take Anna and Ben as Brandon was on the mend from a recent tonsil surgery. We, of course, decided we couldn't miss out on this bit of fun! We hopped in the car with the boy and headed that direction. Chaz was beside himself with excitement. I couldn't tell if he was more excited to see his cousins or Mickey.

When we stopped to meet up with all the Hills, Mah gave Chaz a bag of powdered donuts. He was over the moon!! And a big mess!

All the kiddos were very good. For the most part they remained in their seats or on laps. It was very dark, so I wasn't able to get many pictures but you can tell by this one that the boy was having a grand ol' time!

Mah also brought a bag of candy. Yes, total grandparent! But the kiddos LOVED the treats. We knew naptime wasn't going to happen anyways so what the heck! Chaz quickly discovered a love for Starburst. Although, this video is only a half a second long (I had my phone on video instead of camera) I giggle at the lick every time I see it.

Dah had a GREAT time. HA!

Mah on the other hand, oh poor Mah. When they were dimming the lights she was in the middle of moving a row down and missed the step. In her defense, the step is a pretty tricky one AND a portion of the railing is missing. Seriously? Anyways, of all the Hill's that were present I was the only one paying attention. Somehow my little self leaped over a woman and managed to grab Mah's leg before she tumbled down to the bottom of the stairs. Yes, it was a sight to be seen. When she fell she managed to spin and hit her head on a pole. It wasn't until they turned up the lights at intermission that we noticed the gash on her head. Oh, what you do for your grand kids! As time progressed, she also realized she has a badly bruised/twisted ankle and an infected cut on her leg. Poor Mah!!

In true "Disney" form the hallways leading to the exits were covered with stands of goodies. Mickey wizard hats, snowcones, snowcone holders, cups, straws, weird light-up thingies, foam hands, etc... The boys were a little excited about this.

We got suckered.. Snowcone and a Mickey wizard snowcone holder for us.

So as if a snowcone in an odd Mickey Mouse cup wasn't bad enough... they only had the dreaded red/blue snowcone juice combo. Ugh, who came up with snowcone colors?? Obviously they were not a mom nor did they EVER do the laundry. We were actually lucky and made it out with minimal mess. I asked Chaz to show me his messy mouth.. Pic 1--Fail.

Pic 2- Success .. Although you cannot see the detail of the damage.

Cameron had to take one for the team and eat Anna's snowcone. For some terrible reason the girl cup didn't have a screw on lid but rather a flipback one. WHAT?? Again, not a mom and didn't do the laundry!

We had to make a quick trip to Babies R Us before we left Tulsa. It is a little absurd but no matter how big our little NWA area gets we are missing some MAJOR retailers -- i.e. Babies R Us. We have a Toys R Us but it just isn't the same. We went to look at car seats for Campbell. I guess we were testing the attention span of the little ones because they discovered this empty endcap and decided to put on a show. You can tell a few things from this video 1) Anna is the oldest and wants to give direction 2) she is the girl so she gets frustrated with the boys 3) the boys pay ZERO attention to her direction.. or even her talking. Get used to it girlfriend! Such is life.

As I was wondering through the aisles, my attention span was tested as well, I noticed this little beauty. Remember: It is not my fault that I notice these things. I have learned this from My Friend. She notices EVERYTHING and I guess I have started picking up this little illness. Oh well! I think this is hilarious. "Honey, just get in the cage by the fire. Mommy promises it is ok. Stay put while I mix myself another drink." Really? Someone didn't think this one through...

As you are well aware...we had a little, well maybe a lot of snow in February. One day before it melted this little guy escaped on the way to the car. When I put him in the car he had a little snow on his shoe.. Well, lets just say he took care of that problem.

A little stopoff to one of my favorite shops in town--Riffraff. While we were there we happened upon these cute little "lips on a stick" We just had to break the shop rule of "no pictures" I think it was worth bending the rules a little. I heart him.

According to my husband, one of the "musts" when building our house was a television in the bathroom. I know. We wired for everything but held off on getting the actual T.V. until this Christmas (Thanks Mah and Dah!) Note: the mount just had to be in the most perfectly thought out place, says my hubby. What is that place? Perfect line sight from the potty. Yep. There it is in print. In my blog. I can't believe I shared that. But there is a reason I tell you this. One morning Ryan found Chaz on the potty, lid down just using it as a seat, eating his breakfast (I know) watching Phineas and Ferb. Needless to say, I was a wee bit grossed out when Ryan sent me these but once I got over that I realized it was actually quite funny! Note: I cannot be held responsible for the nutritional value of this breakfast as I wasn't present at the time of consumption.

Nothing makes a day better than a 3 year-old laughing hysterically! Nothing.

I was flipping through Ryan's phone one day to ensure I had every cute picture of my boys possible....and I found these. Yes, there ARE pictures of me out there and I DO get to enjoy the fun..sometimes :)

This is hands down my favorite picture of 2011, so far. I was blogging away one night and looked up to see this. Why wouldn't you perch on top of Daddy to watch cartoons? And can I just point out how my hubby just goes on like there isn't a toddler sitting on him. Love it!