So I said yesterday I would add more birthday photos, but this little incident this morning takes precedent! This picture shows my two beautiful, sweet wonderful girls in a battle of the will. They both have to take anitbiotics. So Piper got held down and gargled hers, and Alizah said she would take her own to my bribe of a visit to the fire truck (which is her newest thing), a present at Hanna's birthday and a swig of Mountain Dew at 8:30 this morning. Well, we tried to presuade for 1/2 hour. She ran and hid under the bed and claimed I couldn't get her under there because I was too big to fit, and she cried and pleaded not to take it. So I tried my best to hold her down. Well, I don't know what I'm doing at the gym every morning at 6:00 a.m., but it is not making me strong enough to hold down a four year old! She kicked and pulled my hair and put Britni (my sister's fights when we were little) to shame!! The medicine was in a syringe and got shot clear across the room, up the wall, in dad's shoes, and in the key rack, plus all over Alizah and in her hair. It took me 10 minutes to clean it up and another 1/2 hour to bathe and wash kids. She continued to gag herself until she threw up the tiny taste she got of it from her lips touching the syringe. Now do I let her go see the fire truck????? This is all we've talked about for a month. This to me is a lesson in what to bribe kids with because a strong willed child such as Alizah will not do anything she doesn't want to do and no matter what I bribe will not help. SO off we go to see the fire truck......

New question for anyone reading.... HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU THINK IT TAKES SOMEONE SAYING "PUSH THE BUTTON" TO MAKE A TWO YEAR OLD ACTUALLY PUSH THE BUTTON???? So the story that goes with this one again happened with Piper. Poor Piper, the things she has to do to get attention!! So as in my previous blog, we've been trying to get home for three days and couldn't make it. Here's one more of the reasons why. I'm running to the pickup, putting Piper in (the pickup has been running to keep warm because of the freezing cold Idaho weather), and turn around to pick something up. Piper hit the button and locked me out. So for the next forty-five minutes I say "Push the button, please push the button, where's the button, push the button for mommy, PUSH THE BUTTON, go get the button, etc., etc., you get the idea. Piper was probably enjoying watching me jump up and down in the freezing cold screaming excitedly everytime she got even near the button!! She finally had climbed in the back seat and happened to push the right button and in I go to find her sweating in the heat and at this point crying with the green snot (that I previously mentioned)running past her chin. Oh what a memory for me!! So we make it home today to run into Hanna's classroom do the birthday celebration, run to the doctor for anitbiotics, and run to work to teach gymnastics. It's 10:00 at night and I'm glad to be home and hopefully we are on the uphill of our winter colds battle. As sick as everyone was we sure enjoyed seeing family with the three new babies that were added into the family! We just pray we did not get anyone sick! I guess if we did, you can payback us if you come visit!! I'll add some more birthday pictures soon.....

Today is Monday and the sickness continues. ... We are still in Idaho unable to leave. Brandon started throwing up this afternoon, so we are going to try to go to Boise on Tuesday, then try to make it to Moses Lake early Wednesday morning for me to teach kindergarten in the afternoon. Oh, I can't wait to travel with sick children! Korbi you keep that baby inside until I get home OK???? We do not want to miss this!

Wow! I'm blogging after a month! We spent a quick weekend in Burley going to see family. Brandon's brother Dusty and his new wife Joycelyn were blessing their baby Fallon-the girls only girl cousin so far....Korbi's baby is coming soon-another girl! We also saw another new cousin, Broxton, and had two birthday parties for Hanna! The first picture is of Hanna blowing out her candles at her "surprise" birthday party at the Becks. The second picture is of Great Grandma Mimi-who by the way was very stingy with holding the new baby!! Hanna is hugging her and thanking her for the money for science camp that she gave her for the birthday. The third picture is of Brandon, the girls (Alizah is sleeping and very sick-HIGH fever), and Great Grandma Bowen. The last picture is of the three girls and the TINY little thing who is falling over is the seven pound new baby Broxton. Piper is Broxton's new body guard, not letting anyone else near him when she is holding him. She is quite the mother and my first girl who truely likes to play with babies, bottles, diapers, etc. Hanna scored in the present department. Her main objective was to get enough money to pay for her half of science camp this summer. I told her I would pay for half, but she had to earn the other half. Well at 25 cents a job, she's only earned 14 dollars, and only 1.68 from saving dad's pop cans, so she asked for money from her birthday and she's already at 130 dollars. I think she might have to pay for my half too!! She's so excited for science camp which isn't until June. She's such a patient child. She's been waiting since Christmas to go to High School Musical play which is finally next month!! As Hanna is turning seven I reflect back to the day she was born. She has always been such a good baby and now a good girl, so patient, loving, and basically good to the core. There are times when she will sneak a hit or scratch at her sisters, but her goodness usually prevails. My biggest tear moment is when she opens her cards and reads the messages inside. She can read just about anything and writes so expressively! I am very proud of her and am excited to celebrate her birth which we are 5 times....not my idea, but I didn't know we were traveling to family so close to her birthday, so after planning a friend party we also had to add two Idaho family parties, 1 school celebration, and one true "birthday" family party. AHHH! I think we MIGHT get enough cake for the month. I guess I gotta hit the gym more in the next week, because I never pass up cake!

So the question of the day is.....HOW CLEAN IS TOILET WATER??? We were done with dinner and I was doing the dishes when I thought to myself...."it's a little too quiet around here!" I proceeded to find all of the kids and found Piper with the door shut in the bathroom. I heard a splash against the door. I opened the door to find her scooping toilet water up with a scoop bucket and throwing it against the door. The floor was covered along with the door, walls, sink, and shower curtain soaked! And again, I can't find my camera to take a picture. Piper is still furious with me for taking her away from her fun and making her take another bath in the other bathroom while I sanitized the bathroom from ceiling to floor. So another day tommorrow might bring more fun!!

Thanks Aunt Kiki for coming to watch Hanna and video taping her!! Hanna had her best meet ever with another qualifying score for sectionals. She was one of two teammates out of 13 that didn't fall off the beam...AHHH!! (AIM Team had a rough meet!) After our last event-vault-one of the girls asked if we went to bars next....that tells me what I thought was true-that they were REALLY asleep on bars as their scores showed!! It was pretty funny. Hopefully our Spokane meet next weekend won't be so early (8:00 a.m.) and we will be more awake!! It was a fun weekend with staying in a hotel-with breakfast-which was Hanna's fav part and a little shopping before heading back to Moses Lake. We only had a few hours to cover the whole mall and we were actually running from store to store at one point. These were the actions of people who don't get out of town much!! It was also a big week with the birth of our new cousin Broxton from Burley. We are excited to have him here safely even though it's a month early....again for Aunt Britni! We can't talk about it much though because discussion brings upon tantrums from Alizah because we can't go see him. She doesn't understand why we can't go see him because "but, we know where his house is" she says. And if anyone knows her tantrums you would know we try to avoid them at all cost. Which actually we are listening/watching one now over the fact that mom didn't buy oreos at target last night. Which did I know she wanted oreos???...NO! Another tantrum we saw this morning was from Piper who literally 5 minutes before church this morning we found Piper with a Bingo dabber "painting" her body and whatever else she could find. So when we took the paint away-a tantrum progressed into actual rolling and kicking down the hallway....into the tub the kicking child went and I tried to scrub the red paint off. Her church teachers were surprised to see a child with pink hands and arms show up for class! Oh the joys of parenthood. I just wished I would have gotten a picture of the red dotted two year old to share with everyone!

Hanna practicing on Bars at Pasco meet