Biggest Loser Here We Come

We started working out this week and are determined to lose weight. I have been going twice a day hoping to see some results sooner than later and Mike has been going at night after work. Mike informed me yesterday that he has already lost some pounds, so i hop on the scale thinking I have worked out twice as much as he has so maybe I would have lost a couple pounds also...............no I gained 2 pounds. How the h*$# does that work? I hate to curse because it isn't very lady like but holy cow talk about irritating. Anyway, on the plus side, I have felt better during the day and had more energy, ohh and at night I am sooo tired that my head hits the pillow and I am out.

The girls have been great at child watch at the YMCA. They were so excited to get our pass again so we could go swimming. We went for family night and Natalie was so excited she about drowned 5 times with Mike and I right there. She thinks she can swim and even after falling in and about coughing up a lung to catch her breathe she would turn around and do it all over again. Then right before we leave Natalie decides she wants to go down the little slide and she climbes out of the pool and we see she has a HUGE terd in her swim suit( we didn't have a swim diaper but we thought she would tell us if she needed to go poop) so we booked it out of there FAST. A big thank you to Mike for stepping up and washing out that swim suit. Nasty. Never a dull moment. :)

Abby is done with preschool and is a big helper with Mia. She is so excited to go to kindergarten in the fall. Hailee and Abby have learned too get on the computer and play games and print lots of different things. They have gone through tons of paper and ink with this new found fun. Hailee is also a huge helper. She makes sure I get to sleep in by helping Abby and Natalie in the mornings. She has no idea how much I appreciate that. I am thankful for my girls, they always make me smile.

Still loving life

We are absolutely loving this nice weather. For family night we played woofle (not sure how to spell) ball in the front yard. The girls were so good at hitting the ball, we were so impressed. The ball only went over the neighbors fence 3 times. Not too bad. We have also enjoyed going on family bike rides to the park. Natalie LOVES riding bikes with me. Every now and then she convinces Mike to take her on a ride and he hops on my purple bike with the big mama seat ( I am always getting made fun of for, but those little skinny seats just don't work any more) and she is in heaven. School will be out in a week and a half and we are excited to do some fun things this summer. We are proud of Hailee and Abby for doing so well in school. Abby's school will be out next week so we went to the zoo yesterday and had lots of fun. We asked the kids what their favorite animal was and one of the kids said the slide. That made me laugh. OHH and Mia is starting to get better. The past few nights have not been bad at all. Either her she is growing out of her fussiness or we are learning to deal with it a little better. Could be both, but we are happy to have a little happier baby.

Chuckles had by all- NOT!

Natalie just turned 2 and the terrible 2's hit us all in a big way the past couple of days. Mike wanted me to write everything down so we wouldn't forget (and it has only been a couple of days and I have forgotten or blocked out some things so I will try hard to remember). She learned how to open doors so she helps herself to the bathrooms and loves getting in the drawers and putting on make-up, trying to brush her teeth by herself, and putting on deodorant. She ate half of a blue stamp pad so her whole mouth, teeth, lips and fingers were all blue. I put her in the tub to wash it off and she took a bite of the soap and left deep teeth marks. She got out of the tub and took a marker and wrote all over her body and then took her diaper off. She has also learned that if she pulls the piano bench out she can climb onto the back of the piano and walk along the top like a balance beam- scary. She also electrocuted herself by trying to plug in the humidifier after she sucked on her fingers. She hopefully learned her lesson but you never know. I think the neighbors have heard all of this craziness because when she gets in trouble or thinks she will get in trouble she lets off this siren like cry that is almost impossible to stop. Then last night Mike was getting after Hailee for saying stupid and Natalie started chanting stupid. We have to laugh inside or she would do it more. Abby also came in the house from outside and said that Natalie kicked her in the "nuts", and she is in lots of pain. These are the fun times in our lives and if it wasn't for our girls being so dang cute we would really be going crazy.

Mia's Blessing

We had some great times during Mia's blessing. It started early with meetings and ended late with a BBQ. I just wanted to post some pictures of the day. It sure is hard to get 5 people to pose at the same time. Mia was the easy one...

Time has flown by

So, everyone knows how much I love my little Rooster. She is a great little kid and she sure is cute. As you know if you read our blog, she is a jealous little thing. She has been trying to do tricks and stunts to get us to pay more attention to her. She has been SO cute as of late. We finally got grass in our back yard after our dog tore it up and I tore it out last fall. So she has been out in the back yard playing hard. It takes about 10 minutes for her to fall asleep every night and when she goes out, she is out hard. So, it is her 2 year birthday this Friday and I am entirely stumped as to what to get her. We are thinking about a trike since she loves to be outside so much. She gets all excited every time we go ride bikes.

We went to the park the other day and ate dinner for FHE. She is nearly fearless and goes down any slide or up any ladder. She came down one of the curvy slides face first. Hailee is getting so big, I have begun to think of her as a young lady. She is so responsible and helpful with everything. She has been trying to distance herself from the other kids, which I understand, because she just wants peace and quite. We are working on getting their bedroom moved downstairs so that they can have a bit of quite.

Abby's personality is sure changing lately too. She has always been a bit whiney and scared of LITERALLY EVERYTHING. She is scared of shots, bandades, the dark, men, male nurses (mainly cause she is a sexist and thinks all nurses should be female), doctors, the cracks under certain stairs, and anything that she can see through and walk on, just to name a few. She has turned a new leaf and barely cried for her last shot. She pulled her own tooth last week. She has been super helpful, and she has stopped crying as much. Amazing, I know, but these are not little things in our house.

Anyways, I just wanted to fill everyone in on the goings on in the Munn house. Thanks for listening.

I wish Conference was every weekend

I actually got lots of work done yesterday and it feels great that I don't have any real YM President type stuff to worry about. I feel awesome, even though I feel super lazy.

We have had the best two days of the year this weekend so yesterday was spent in cleaning the yard and getting some projects done that I have been putting off outside. I still have one sprinkler to fix, one to move and one to plug and I will not have to do anything for the rest of the summer.

Mia is finally starting to sleep and not be fussy. I think it was her poor little tummy. For those who care and can be there we are blessing her on May 3rd. If you have not been able to make one of the previous 3 blessings, this might be a great time to catch one since this is for sure the last one.

Till next time,
Mike

We will look back and laugh

A week ago it was quiet time in the Munn household and Abby decided to put my debit card and drivers license in a special place, but forgot where that special place is, so I am without any of my most important cards, and have been for a week. She feels bad but still frusterating.
The same day Natalie drank the whole bottle of Mia's gas drops so I had to call Poison Control. This was the second time in two weeks I have called Poison Control on Natalie. A few days before she got a hold of the tums and ate half the bottle thinking it was candy. Today Natalie managed to dump the whole white bucket of sugar all over the kitchen floor while I was upstairs feeding the baby. I forgot to mention she took her diaper off right before and was sitting in the sugar. She was sticky all over. The floor was sticky all over. What a headache. The mice we have in our house will love that sugary floor. Hopefully they are gone soon, thanks to the pest man who came yesterday.
Mia is fussy in the evening and not sleeping much at night so that doesn't help but add to the chaos. I took her to the doctor yesterday and she weighs 8 lbs. 6 oz., the doctor is having us switch her formula to hopefully cut down on the fussyness. Nothing has happened yet but we will give it time. Mike has a special armpit and Mia falls asleep everytime he puts her close to his armpit. We think she falls asleep, she might be passing out, but either way she does stop crying and settles down.
I did manage to get out of going to Hailee's parent teacher conference today because her teacher called yesterday and said she is doing so well we don't have anything to talk about. That is great. Hailee is doing very well in school and we are proud of her.
Mike has been a wonderful husband. He worked from home one day so I could sleep the whole day and he took care of the kids. I slept pretty much the whole day.
Mike has been busy at work. He thought he would lighten things up a bit by playing an April Fools joke on two of the ladies. Needless to say it has caused a LOT of problems. Hopefully he has learned his lesson, but I doubt it.
I hope next week things seem a little more under control. If not we will keep smiling.