Hailey

My Sassy pants.  I cant believe how much she has grown.  My first girl.  She has a hard time with things when she was little.  She had a lot of people in and out of her life and I was the only consistent person there for her.  Which caused her a harder time and she just didnt want to get close to anyone.  She would hold her elbow over her face to keep you from talking to her.  While E and I had started to date, she constantly talked to him over the phone and when he visited and stayed she had no problem opening up with her.  They became partners in crime.  I feel because of him she started to open up and let ppl in and talk with others.

She is IMO more mature in ways then others her age.  Seems like either kids are older then her or much younger then her, that we are around.  She ends up playing or talking around us adults (wow weird to refer to us as adults!!)  She is a mother hen to her younger sisters.  Always talking or singing to them when they are crying.  Picking them up or taking things they shouldnt have.  Sharing or making sure they have snacks when she does.

She could live off of fruit.  She is the slowest eater in our house. She could take hours to eat.

I am not looking forward to her starting Kindergarten this fall.  I was ok with Ryu going but Hailey I will miss terribly.  It will be just me, Clara and the twins at home this fall.  I know it will be fun for us girls but I know I will be counting down the time until they are both home from school!!

Ryu

I have such a love for my children.  I love each of them dearly.  I am thankful each day for my little loves.  I may not know what I'd go to college for and I have always wondered if and when I get a degree what it would be for, but I've always known I have wanted to be a mother.

Ryu, my first born.  I am amazed at the person is becoming.  When he was little he loved to be naked and didnt need a friend to play with and he even didnt need to see me in the same room at all times (like my others have)

When his dad and I separated he became a handful. When i'd tell him not to do something, he would get angry ball up his fist and yell at me.  I was at such a loss.  I didnt know what to do or how to help him over come all of his frustration.  A lot of people saw this struggle and no one was able to get through to him.  The person I give credit to helping him was my mom.  Grandma has always been loving and really never getting on to the kids and for grandma to lay the law down surprised Ryu and she told him how much I loved him and how much it hurt for him to treat me that way.  After that day he became better.  It was when Ethan came into there lives providing structure and guidance in away I have never been able to do for them.

Ryu has helped me over come my fears of letting him go.  Ok well letting him go to school and not be so paranoid.  It was hard dropping him off at school not seeing him being secure in a class room.  I've seen all the kids and how easily you could get lost and it overwhelmed me.  He assures me that he is ok and not to worry so much about that.

I see such a smart side of him.  He surprised me at how fast he is able to catch on to the new things he is learning.  I however have seen him get so frustrated.  I am blessed to have Ethan.  When I dont seem to be able to help Ryu understand something and I give up Ethan comes in and talks to him and helps him understand what I cant.

I absolutely love to read.  It has always been a passion for me since I was Ryu's age.  I can only hope that all of my children learn to love to read too.  I know and have seen the struggles of others that do not read very well or understand the things  they read.  I can only hope that Ryu keeps up his love for reading.  It surprises me how excited he gets over the new books he gets.

My Ryu can be emotional sometimes.  I think he is still trying to under how to show what he is feeling.  But because of this he has a want to please you.  In a lot of ways I see good from this but I know it will also be something that causes him to struggle when he gets older.  He tries to say what you want to hear and doesnt always say what he feels because he doesnt want you to get hurt.

Ryu has gone from being such a picky eater to being one of our best eaters in the house!  Some days I see him being a typical boy and eating a lot more then what I expect.

There was a time when we struggled with listening to the rules but he has become such a respectful boy. In this I wish I had more words to describe how well he is behaved.  The other day I told him if he wanted to eat his breakfast bar in the living room he could.  He told me he couldnt.  He didnt want to get dad upset with him.  I had already forgotten how E had told the kids no more snacking in the living room.  (totally gross mess under the couch lots of crumbs).  Or how we have a new rule of bring us the movie they are done watching to get a new one.  We have had a problem with leaving disks laying around and even Clara getting a hold of them like a toy.  He has been very good at bringing them back to us.

I can see a wonderful young man that he is going to be and it scares me to death.  Why...?  Bc one day I am going to lose having him home.  One day he is going to grow up and have a family of his own and the idea of me not getting to see him all of the time breaks my heart!  But I know within this,  there is nothing I can do to stop time and with him growing I will get to experience pure joy from him and me showing and feel so proud of him and the man is going to be.

Ok so I totally intended to write an entire blog on all 5 of my children and I some how was able to write an entire blog of just one of my joys.so until the next one!

blog thoughts turn sour

So here it is.  I havent really blogged in forever and when I do its small or has become a blue moon kind of thing.  I have thought of lots of things to write.  But nothing that was happy fun.  When I think of things to share I have a sour thought put to it.

What I mean is...well weeks maybe a few months back ppl started to plan my High School 10th reunion.  Well I felt bummed.  I knew E and I wouldnt get to go.  I want to be there and be apart of it and then a thought hit me.  Why?  I didnt like High School like a lot of ppl did.  I feel sorry for myself because part of me realizes that the reason a lot of ppl cherished there days in High School is because they made it that way.  They made sure to make the memories and do things to experience.  I did not.  I hated it. I couldnt get out of High School fast enough.  I was just there to do my school work and be done with it.  Lets face it I enjoyed my elementary days much better.  I had many friends that I talked to in the halls or in the classroom but none of them were enough to do something outside of school.  Kind of like how FB is I can have hundreds of friends but there just my FB talk to friends.  So I thought why would I want to go..I am sure no one will even remember who I am.  I never did anything that was big enough to impact someone for them to remember me.  I know for some its to show off how big there diamond is or how fancy there car is and how much they still look stunning.  If I went it would be just to show off how I married the best man anyone could ever dream of having.  Plus if any and maybe a lot would remember who he was one of the biggest crushes everyone in the elementary to JR high days had.  Just the thought of him talking to you would make you weak at the knees.  Yup I got him and even better he actually loves me and treats me like a dream.  SIGH yeah I am married to him, Ethan Thomas Huchton.  (I was just telling him how I am spoiled that after 4 years of being in a relationship I still get told im beautiful just about everyday).

So see I thought I better stick to not posting for awhile because I had a feeling no one really wanted to know my bitterness of certain things in life.  Dont worry these thoughts didnt cause my day to be sour too.  All I have to do is think of this wonderful man I married and all of our beautiful amazing kids and what joy they bring us and those negative thoughts slip away!

my girls getting to be to big

Many changes in the last few days...

I have thought lately how Clara was getting to be a big girl and needed to learn how to eat at a table instead of her high chair.  But in my mind she was still to little to sit at the big table and needed one for just her size.  But then it was time to eat so she would sit in her high chair and the table thoughts were for another day.  One day I decided to get Clara to sit at the big table for a snack.  To my surprised she fit just fine.  She hasnt mastered getting down just yet.  But noo she cant be getting this big..

E had been telling me for  awhile that he wanted to test out how Clara would do in a toddler bed.  I just didnt want to hear this either.  I kept thinking I am not ready for the days of having to walk her to her room and tell her to go to bed 500 million times.  To both mom and dad's surprise Clara has picked this up wonderful.  Not as challenging as I thought.  But then again its only been 2 days!!

And now I have two girls crawling around my house.  All over the house.  I am not ready for the girls to be getting bigger.  NOT at all.  This is crazy seeing them crawl.  I dont know if I will ever get use to these kids growing on me.

My babies growing.

The twins are on a roll with there milestones.  Of course once it start it just seems like one after the other on the milestones.

Most of all the milestones are from Skyler.  Gemma doesnt take but a week or so following Skyler.  Skyler likes to help me feed her.  Grabs my hand and guides the spoon to her mouth.  Skyler has a better grip on holding her bottle on her own, Gemma can do it to she just isnt as strong so she cant hold it for long before it slips. All in one week Skyler went from grabbing the railings to the crib to half sitting to full sitting.  We have a big girl sitting on her own now!  But with Skyler progressing as such she also starting a new habit.  Since she thought it was cool to pull herself up on the rails she thinks its cool to use Gemma to push up on too.  Sometimes grabbing her by the hair to keep her balance and even worse pushing her head into the mattress where poor Gemma had a smoother me cry.  Skyler did this so much that after a few days of constantly pulling Skyler off of Gemma and pushing them as far away from each other as possible, we decided it was time.  The girls slept separately for the first time last night!

I felt so sad for them.  Gemma not having her snuggle buddy anymore.  But in all honestly I think it was me who was more sad!  Gemma LOVED it.  She was moving all around the crib and trying to pull herself up on the railings and very entertained.  Skyler she didnt like it at first.  But she ended up realizing all the room she had and soon got to entertaining herself too.  Usually about once and sometimes none at all one of the girls wakes up just wanting the covers pulled back on them.  Not a peep.  They even slept in a little longer and woke up entertaining themselves again.

So there you have it.  My girls are growing on me.  It will be so weird to see them walking around I just see them as babies!!

A little here and a little there

E and I have such an awesome relationship.  I cant tell you how many times at least once a month or so we end up in a flour fight.  Hehe our neighbor had to ask E if he had been painting.  I got him good!  And of course sometimes a little splash of water in the face, sometimes he gets me back and sometimes he just loves me enough not to soak me back hehe.  Sometimes you need those less serious moments!

E having fun on Ryu's Bday gift from us (ezy rider)





In one of the book series I just finished up the girl basically was going through somethings that made me think to myself to try to live more by.  We all have things and places we want to go in life, but we need to remember not to take anyone down or walk over them to get there.  It just doesnt feel as good when you finally get to where you wanna be.  Not that I walk over people to get where I want to be, but I want to be more considerate of others.

During dinner time, I had Ryu, Hailey, Clara chowing down, while I feed my Gemma baby.  While I was feeding Gemma I kept hearing this giggle, singing sound.  Usually when Clara has woken up for the day or from a nap she does this.  I had asked E to get Clara set up for dinner while I was feeding Gemma, and I thought man I could have sworn he got her in the high chair.  I look around and there she is.  Then I think man either the kids have the tv on or E is watching something that creepily sounds like Clara.  Then it dawned on me.  It was my Skyler!  She was just entertaining herself until it was her turn for dinner!  

So since getting netflix back in our house, the hubs and I started watching CSI N.Y.  Lets face it people this one is way better then the other CSI shows.  Anyways every time the theme song comes on Clara comes running out and gives this wild girl scream and dances.  Sometimes E falls asleep to watching it and randomly wakes up and starts watching it again.  Last night he said it was about 2am and he starts watching it again and he hears Clara give her little scream and bounces in her bed.  This girl has such a personality,  I cant wait to hear the things she will tell me.

Hailey and I lately have been having these contests.  When its time to feed the twins she wants to do it.  She has helped me get the girls to learn to hold the bottles.  We have a contest to see which girl finishes and burps first.  She ALWAYS wins and it doesnt matter which twin she has!  Ok lets face it, I usually give them a fresh diaper before bottle so she starts feeding a little before me, but she loves beating me!

I also have to mention how proud E and I both are with Ryu.  It is in my opinion that FL has a higher standard in grade levels.  Ryu was at level in all subjects but reading.  From the start of the year his teacher has stated he is below level, but he is progessing so well and not to worry he'd be where he needs to be and just keep up with what we are doing at home.  But as time continued we would get told the same thing.  Eventually school was let out for Christmas and his teacher retired.  He didnt get a permanent teacher until 3 months later.  During which I was mega worried.  My kid is suffering from no having a permanent teacher and I worried that the subs werent going to do enough to help with his reading.  I know there is only so much a teacher can teach, but there is only so much that a parent can do from home too.  Anyways long story short...he got a new permanent teacher and he is AMAZING.  He cares about his students and will go out of the way for them to help them in the area's he needs.  He told E today that he pushed Ryu very hard yesterday in reading and he is exactly where he is suppose to be.  I didnt feel like I did anything different every night at home.  I honestly feel like his teacher gets the credit for pulling my boy to where he needs to be.

Back to my twins,  so lately they have really gotten to know there feets.  A lot of the times during the day I find them both playing with there feet.  Its the little things they do that  I have those proud moments of the new things they discover.  We are also trying out the latest breakfast of blueberry oatmeal, and peach cinnamon oatmeal.  I love getting batches prepared for the girls, it can be rather fun.  I mean since I love cooking and all, and not that it takes to much to make for them. Plus last week during spring break, it didnt dawn on me until the end of it, but I usually give them a solid and a hour or so later give the a bottle.  But man after eating there solid they were begging for more food!  Now we are eating 5oz each feeding.  I am gonna give it another week or so before we start trying those cereal puffs and a little juice!

Spring Break

I have to say this was probably the best spring break any of us have ever had!

My sister drove in during spring break and we got to spend everyday together.  We got to do things I have never done here in Florida too.

The first day that she drove in, we ate dinner and walked down to the park by our house and walking around the lake.  Then she drove to her resort and unloaded her bunch for the night.

Tuesday, was beach day!  We drove to the Clearwater Beach.  Boy was it gorgeous and the dive there was beautiful too.  We spend all day fun in the sun.  We had our sand toys and picnic, blanket and umbrella all set up for the day.  After we had spend hours there we loaded back up and made a pit stop for some ice cream and came back to our house, let the kiddos play for awhile and the Sanchez crew loaded up to go back to there resort.

Wednesday, was the day for Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo.  Now this zoo was pretty neat.  They had a splash area to cool off, a few rides and a lot of animals!  I think my top two exhibits were the monkeys that had a couple babies, and the bird feeding one.  Now I didnt go inside since I had the twins in the stroller and no strollers allowed but I got to watch.  Ryu soo brave he loved feeding them.  My sister however *giggle* not so much brave!  We also brought stuff to make sandwiches, outside of the zoo is a picnic area.  So we went to the picnic area ate and feed the twins before going back in for round 2.  We stayed the entire time until closing!  After that we came back to our house and unloaded the husbands and kids and Stacey and I went to the store to make  My MIL Famous tortilla soup.  We made dinner and my sister and her two big kids stayed the night.  After eating Richard and Beckett said there good byes and went back to the resort.  After picking up the kitchen Stacey and I sat down for a famous game of cards!

Thursday,  We all slowly got ready and by the time we were all done getting ready for the day Richard, Beckett, and Richard's mom got to the house.  We all loaded up and went to Chucky Cheese.  We had lots of fun couple hours.  This place was huge!  After that we parted ways with the Sanchez crew.  They went into Clearwater to meet the famous Dolphin named Winter.  We stayed back and did a few picking up around the house getting ready for Ryu's birthday party.  After the Sanchez crew came back from seeing Winter, they picked up my lil man to stay the night!

Friday, we decided it was time for us to have a house phone.  One day my Ryu asked me to write down my cell number so he can give it to his friends to call him.  I really didnt wanna bunch of chipmunks calling my phone all the time..lol So the cable guy came and gave us an upgraded internet and a DVR box and installed us a house phone (who knows why we didnt do this sooner being only 40 cents more a month)  After which we decided we were gonna take my 4 girls to the Aquarium here in Tampa.  And since GiGi had never been we wanted her to join us too.  Which in turn came poppy and uncle Neil too.  (insert)  On this day the Sanchez crew and Ryu went to DISNEY WORLD!  Now we originally made plans to go but one thing lead to another and we werent gonna go.  But a certain Aunt thought it was imperative that Ryu get to go.  Being his birthday and all.  It was an awesome aquarium lots of cool huge splash areas.  I can see ppl just going there just for the splash areas.  My favor part of the aquarium was the seahorse section.  Such cool and different kinds of Sea Horses!


Saturday,  Ryu's Birthday party!  Now I already wrote a whole blog on the party.  But it was also the day my sister left to travel back home.  I felt like she lived here.  Like I got to see her everyday like I use to when we lived in the same town.  But back to reality and hopefully days will pass when I get to see the Sanchez crew again.  I realized not to long after they left how I wanted to call them back bc there is one thing I regret not doing.  We never got to have a picture of the two of us!!!