Happy Birthday Mom!

I love my pretty mommy!
Cati LOVES to help people blow out the candles on their birthday cake
Poor Christian got in the middle of it all
And here would be Caitlin's 1st shot w/the silly string...it got EVERYWHERE!
Caroline held on to PawPaw throughout the evening
Mom is letting Christian smell her wonderful Bath & Body Works lotion that she got



So today was my darling mother's birthday! She got to do whatever she wanted to...which included sleeping late (I wish!), not getting dressed until noon, and eating a wonderful dinner at Grandma's house. The food was GREAT (what Madge food isn't?) and the strawberry cake and home made ice cream were rockin'! Cati and John decided that since it was Mimi's birthday, we needed to buy silly string to shoot her with. Boy, that was messy! Cati got her pretty good as you can see from the pics!

When the cat's away...

...the mice get extremely bored! Daddy Haskell is in Ft. Worth today doing a skills test for an instructor course he is enrolled in. Many kisses and we hope you do well!
I think he really enjoys his new job, but we have been spoiled to having him home at nights now. Without him here, we really don't know what to do with ourselves! Should we shop? Nope. Should we go play outside? Wish we could, but it's pouring rain. Should we just sleep the day away? That would be nice, but let's stay in reality. I guess we'll have to just sit around and stare at each other, or maybe watch a movie. Hmmmm, so many choices. ;)
I actually got to stay up and sew last night, which is something I haven't done in weeks. Like I said, I enjoy having John home at night, but it sometimes cuts into my "creative time." When he was on shift, I would stay up until 1am sewing and it was fun! The other night, I tried to start a project around 10pm and John was already in bed. He kept fake snoring just so I would get annoyed and quit my sewing---which in turn was annoying him. Jeez, just because he gets up at 5am every morning for work doesn't mean he gets to whine and cry when I want to work---right? Just kidding!

ALERT THE MEDIA!!

We have just had a major breakthrough in the pottytraining! Christian came running through the living room just now, in the process of ripping off his diaper. When I asked him what he was doing, he said, "I need to poop!" He took the diaper off, sat on the potty, and did his business in it ALL BY HIMSELF!! WOOHOO!! We are getting closer to being trained, I can feel it...

More of C3

Caroline is now almost 5 months old, and she is getting SO BIG! She sprouted 2 teeth over the past week and she is a biting monster. ;) Also, she measured 26 inches long at her 4 month checkup...that's much longer than the other 2 C's. They were both only 25.5 inches long at their 6 month checkups! We put her in the walker yesterday and she LOVES it. Her feet are flat on the ground when she's in it--so maybe she'll take off running soon. Just kidding!
Caroline and I went to a jewelry party last night with Jill and Alexis, so I took that opportunity to get an updated picture of the girls.

Play-Doh Fun the Haskell Way

Play-dohbob Hammypants just had to make an appearance
Caroline Sunshine wanted to play too--poor Daddy has drool on his shirt ;)
OOOOHHHH AAAAHHHH....a big green booger

What is a pic without a goofy face now and then
Caitlin and I are suckers for nifty hats


Today was kinda boring...that is until we decided to play with some good ol' play-doh. It's Veggie Tales play-doh in cool colors! Anyway, I have had several mentions that I, the Haskell Momma, am not featured in any blogs yet, so I am including some fun pics w/Caitlin.