Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Ezra--2 months old!










wow..2 months old already! He now weighs 9lbs 13oz and is 23 3/8" long.




the Harrison Girls


My sister, Natalja, met me at Sam's Club this afternoon to pick up some bulk items and so afterwards she stopped by to visit. I love when we get to spend time together...I love my sisters so much I don't know what I would ever do without them, they really are some of my favorite people! I adore how smitten Tal is with my boys, maybe she's so taken with them because she doesn't have boys or maybe she really is just drawn to each of their personalities...either way it brings me a lot of satisfaction. I think we all take it as a compliment when people genuinely like our kids! These are my sister's beautiful daughters, they are also my husband's brother's daughters. That's right...my sister married Kenny's brother and they have these four gorgeous jewels--Isabell-9, Jacqueline-7, Abigail-5, and Alexandra-3!

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

A Trio of Harrison Boys



Cute Look-a-Likes! I just want to eat them up when they're like this!

Dog Breath Boy!



I know that it is gross that I allowed Streak--our dog-to lick all over Elijah for this pic but I did so in order for you all to see just how friendly our pit bulls are. They are just typical dogs and this one in particular absolutely loves Elijah--mostly because Lij allows him to lick him, in fact Lij almost forces Streak to give his nasty wet dog kisses. So naturally, Elijah smells like dog breath quite often--yuk! Streak also knows where to go to score table scraps or who will be ever so willing to allow him outside when he really isn't allowed--Elijah! All of these freedoms come at a cost for streak tho, he must put up with Elijah climbing all over him, stretching his lips nearly off his face, locked in bedrooms at random times, ran into with Elijah's radio flyer scooter, and dragged around constantly. And still, Streak loves him enough to cover him in dog breath with his stinky dog kisses!

Friday, October 24, 2008

Elijah--Naturally




He always wants a tattoo--on his neck usually!






one rockin' dude!

He is so busy that it can be a bit of a challenge to photograph him and when I ask him to do something he gets grumpy! I love the intense look that he gives in the close-up, he reminds me of Kenny!


Elijah--UGH!

We have been trying to potty train Elijah since he was 20 months old...I know that is kinda early, but he showed interest and Ben was super easy to train, he basically did it himself. Well, different story with this child! He was doing ok, and I stress ok, but recently he has been terrible! He rarely tells me when he has to use the bathroom and even then he has already had an accident. Then he tells us when he doesn't want to do what ever that may be at any given time--so it is usually a lie, manipulation. It sucks cuz I don't know when to believe him and I hate to discourage him from expressing when he actually needs to go. Well, his favorite thing to do while in the bathroom is to get into my mascara which is in the drawer near the toilet and smear it all over him! So that is why I took this picture to share with you all what I go thru on a daily basis...sometimes it is just a different song and dance for him...but it is always some kind of noisy music!





Thursday, October 23, 2008

Clean and Naked Baby!


Finally, Ezra enjoyed his bath...he was so relaxed afterward that he even layed still and let me put lotion on him! That is a hugh accomplishment if any of you know him--he moves so much that gets blisters on his heals!!!

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Tae Kwan Do Dudes!




Ben started Tae Kwan Do this summer and he has already moved up two belts he is now a yellow tip (yellow/white stripe with yellow tip) and he is doing very well. Elijah loves to do everything Ben does which includes skateboard, play soccer, play Xbox, ride bikes and ramp, wear Ben's shoes and sneak Ben's Tae Kwan Do uniform on and show off his moves. So cute, I love it! Joon Be....hiyah!

Ezra's 1st bath



Ezra HATES taking a bath! This was his first bath at 4 weeks old...it took that long for his silly cord to fall off. He cried most of the time. Ben and Elijah loved taking baths--they still do.

Soccer superstar!



Benjamin has enjoyed playing soccer this season..he is seriously the superstar of the team! They won 5 out of the six games they played and each game he scored the most points. The game that they lost he was the only one on his team to score! One game he scored 5 of the winning 11 points! Being competitive as I am, I was super proud of him and thrilled to hear other parents cheer him on and rave about how good he was!

Ben's new do--MoFaux Hawk!





LOL...I cut Ben's hair a couple of weeks ago and he wanted a real mohawk but I said noway am I gonna shave his head so we compromised and came up with this... the MoFaux hawk! I love it and the play on words! He is such a cutie... but I really do wish that all these little girls would quit being all googly around him. There are two that keep stalking him-a 7 and 10 yr old. I'm not exaggerating either...they were hanging out in the neighbors yard staring down our house several days one week that even my neighbor called me to inform me! These two girls met him at Tae Kwan Do and somehow tracked him down an found our phone number even though they didn't know his last name...stalkers! They thought that he was at least 10!

6 weeks, already!


Actually he is now 7 weeks but he was 6 weeks in these pics, I planned on updating my blog the day I took these (wednesday, the 8th). Oh well life happens, so instead I will flood my blog with everything I had been planning over the weeks but never had the time to do so.

The time is flyin by and I'm so bummed that I feel like I'm just surviving it rather than really enjoying it all! Kudos to all you moms who have lots of kids and make it look easy!

Beware--2 yr old learns to ride bike!

This is the best pic that I could get of this little rascal! I knew that I wanted to blog about him learning to ride his bike so we went outside but Ezra was fussy--as usual! By the time I got my camera setting just right Elijah was done riding his bike and no longer interested in showing off for the camera! He actually learned to ride on October 5th. Funny..he is so much like Ben--he learned to ride at 2 years old and then the next year learned to ride without training wheels..it will be interesting to see if Elijah will do the same!

Frustrated!



Today, I decided that I would "capture" some good pics of the boys picking out their pumpkins this year! They simply would not cooperate! Ugh! You know how you have the scenario play out in your mind but your kids don't live in this fantasy world where everything goes smoothly, in fact it is usually the complete opposite with my kids! I am not patient with them either so it just turns out to be a flop most times! Then...in my mind, I am some great photographer too, in reality...not so much! I do like the pic of Ben holding Lij making his goofy hand gestures even though Elijah is out of focus--because it shows how he tries to imitate whatever Ben does! It's so sweet how much he looks up to him and wants to be like him in every way shape and form. I wish I would've thought the same way towards my sisters when we were younger instead of getting irritated with them--hindsight is always 20/20!

Kenny and Ben went camping tonight so I thought that I would try to go visit my mom but she has too much school work to work on--that is the second time this week that visiting her hasn't worked out! I'm bummed, I miss her, we've really become good friends and it is such a good feeling to feel that way about her! Oh well, I will just have to wait till Monday when she stops by after school to visit! So instead of going to her house I decided we will try to go to Target but when I got there Ezra was screaming so I figured I would sit there in the parking lot and nurse him and calm him down since the last few times we've been in stores he was fussy. I let Elijah roam around in the van and started feeding Ezra only to smell this horrendous odor moments latter and when I asked Lij if he pooped in his pull-up(we have been potty training) he popped his head around the seat and shook his head yes proudly with colored-chocolate spit running down his chin from a rogue m&m he found in the back seat! I sighed and realized that shopping wasn't worth the trouble and figured I would be so much more comfy being at home instead of in a cold van half exposed with a fussy baby and a stinky toddler! So many sacrifices come along with parenthood. But now I'm happy cuz I'm finally blogging while kids are fast asleep with the added treat of UFC 89...finally a free fight on Spike tv instead of pay-per-view! Now I only hope that Michael Bispbing gets knocked out in front of his countrymen, I can't stand him ever since his fight against Matt Hammil which was totally stolen from Matt!