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Hot hot hot

Record High of 99 degrees today! HOT.

Right now its 72 outside at almost midnight. Inside the house? 82. Blech. It wouldn't be so bad if it was cooling down outside, we could get a breeze in here or something. Its so hard to sleep when its so humid like this!

Today might of been hot, but it was a fun day! My mom got my sister and I pedicures for Mothers Day...so sweet of her!! What a surprise! So all 3 of us went out today and got our toes all prettied up :) I had a great time hanging out with them and my toes are a fun blueish color with some flowers on my big toe :) This morning we went and worked out, and then this afternoon we took the kids to the pool. It was SO HOT but it was nice laying by the pool :) Kyle canceled soccer practice this evening, no reason to have the little girls running around in the heat, when they will be doing it tomorrow too.

I haven't been home much so my posts have been lacking and I am sucking at Blog 364. All of a sudden things got caddy wonkey and I have been pretty busy! So I have a bunch of posts that I need to get going on! Especially my special Mother's Day! 

Happy Birthday Mom!!

Happy Birthday Mom! I hope you have a wonderful special day filled with lots of love and joy! We love you!

Mollie's Caterpillars!

Haley's best friend Mollie went away on vacation in the middle of their caterpillar to butterfly transformation! She may be back in time to see them become butterflies but I am going to document their progress just in case! I am giving updates for her so she can see what is going on from Arkansas! :)

On the right side there is a link called Mollie's Caterpillars. There, you can see pictures or video and a little update of whats going on :)

New Home:

The 3 survivors have been moved to their bugalow Friday! I was so nervous moving them in there, afraid they would be come disconnected from the paper! with every little movement, they shake A LOT! Haley and Easton took the little one who didn't make it, and buried him in the backyard in a hole. Haley said a little prayer asking that God take care of this little caterpillar who didn't become a butterfly. Very sweet.

Changed:

Thursday morning 2 of them were already in their new form! The late bloomer was hanging upside down getting ready- less then 45 min later we took a peek again and it changed! That fast! I wish we would have been watching it to see how it happened! Amazing!

You see the gold specks? They were very sparkly in the light! 

Getting ready..

Here they go! They are beginning to change! The night before they were all crawling around the top and this morning two were hanging upside down! The other guy up there was finding its perfect spot and getting ready!  Sadly, we had a casualty. :( When we woke up that morning, we saw one of them not moving on the bottom. I thought just maybe he would snap out of it, but no such luck. :( The kids were pretty understanding about it. Thats Nature for ya!

Wordless Wednesday: The First Tooth

Before!

After!

This should be wordless..but I have to talk about such a BIG event! 5 years 1 month and 9 days after she got her right bottom tooth(2nd tooth) at 9 months old(6 months adjusted)...it fell out tonight after we got home from Awana! 19 days before her 6th birthday!

It has been wiggley for awhile now but Kyle has tried to pull a little and it hasn't been ready. Haley told me today she tried to rip a plastic bag with her teeth last night and it hurt her tooth a lot. Then today it seemed a lot more red and leaning more. So when we got home tonight she showed me again...(quite the topic around here lately..) I told her it needed to come out now...so lets try. (it just looked red and painful!) I took some pictures, turned on the video camera... Kyle tried little...she cried...she tried a little...and cried..we tried toilet paper..(to help grip..) I tried to get her to do it since she could feel if it hurt or not. She wouldn't and kept saying she couldn't do it..(these things gross me out...haha I had trouble watching and barely could wiggle it myself..haha) She asked me if I would do it for her...ack. Ok Mommy needs to step up. So I put the toilet paper over it..wiggled once and barely pulled up and OUT IT CAME! It totally surprised HER AND ME!  No tears! No pain! And pure excitement!!!!!! It bled quite a bit but she was fine with it. Just kept swishing water So cute!!!!

Of course she needed a pillow for it...I thought I had a little more time to make one or get one...So I grabbed some pink material I had and whipped up a little pillow, while she made a card!

She is now snoozing away dreaming of the tooth fairy! I just can't believe it! I remember when she got this tooth! We were so excited :) It came only 9 days after the first one!! All of a sudden her teeth were all coming in one after another! I wonder if they will fall out the same way!? She looked so cute with her two little toofers! She has had such beautiful baby teeth! I am sad to see them go!

I think I am more sad because its one more step of showing me she is growing up! I wish it would slow down! its hard to believe this time 6 years ago, I was praying to keep her in..and now here she is losing teeth! ahhhhh

I am adding this to 5 min for Mom for a great mommy moment! Dont forget to click the link on the side and enter in the contests! It ends tonight at 6!!!  

Baby Caterpillars!

These little guys came home a couple of weeks ago. The stuff in the bottom is their food. Enough to sustain all 4 of them.

Not before long, they got bigger and bigger. Doubling in size! I should have taken a few pictures between these. It really seemed like over night they were bigger! I don't know how they all fit in there now. Its so messy! Their food looks clumpy now and they have caterpillar poop everywhere. The cup even looks cloudy and there is have silken threads all over. There are moments when they are very still (sleeping? resting) and then times when they are crawling everywhere! Its been quite fun to watch this process!

We have their bugalow ready for when they become chrysalises :)   I am thinking it may be the end of this week!  I have never watched this process before

So its fun to get to experience it with Haley! Easton is getting a kick out of it too! We can't wait for them to become butterflies!

Oh and you can't have Caterpillars with out names..

We have Megan, Micah, Popple, and Hairy Biggy who was just recently re-named Mrs Nowlin. :)

my wooden spoon giveaway!

Go to My wooden spoon and enter to win a Kitchenaid! I have have always wanted one but never been able to get one.Hopefully I can win one finally! how cool would that be? so go on over and try to win one too! :)

Feliz Cinco de Mayo!

ahhhhh what a day! Its beautiful outside! Jodie and the kids came over...while they played and ate lunch, we sipped smoothies and soaked in the sun. Couldn't get more perfect then that!

After they left to get Hayden down for a nap, I brought my computer out and sunned my white legs while surfing the internet.

Absolutely Perfect Day.

Happy Cinco de Mayo!