I got nothin'...

I'm blogging just for the sake (is that the right spelling or is it the Japanese liquor?) of blogging but I'm just not feelin' it right now nor do i have anything really to talk about. Life has gotten easier I think. We've gotten in a groove of some sorts and the kids have been on their best behavior (minus the thirty minute tantrum Zeke had tonight about having ice cream before dinner...he didn't win.) We've been "crying it out" with Eli for the last couple weeks. It has been going pretty good. We had a couple 12 hours of sleep nights but that didn't last long. Now he'll go down without crying but then wake up maybe 5 hours later. I've been getting him because I'm so tired and just want to sleep and if i don't he'll cry for a good 30 minutes, wake the other kids up, and we have a whole household of awake and very grumpy people. It's not worth it for me. But those 4-5 hours straight is way better than the hour and a half he was doing before. It's progress and that's what i was looking for.
Here is a picture of him in his amby bed before he got too big for it. I'm glad I got some use out of that thing. Keep an eye out on craiglist for it in the near future...

We've been loving this nice weather and have been to the beach almost everyday. I feel guilty if I'm not outside or at the beach when it's so nice. We went to the rock after school one day and then the kids rode their bikes along the path over to the candy store. This was their first taste of cotton candy. it was a hit.

I was changing Eli's diaper but he's so stinkin' hard to keep still so i gave him the baby powder to play with. Somehow he managed to open the powder and dump it all over his face and in his mouth. He literally was choking on the powder. After some serious panicking on my part Eli made it through unscathed.

So anyway nothing really monumental going on in the lives of the Brown family. We're just trying to get by month to month until Ben figures out how to make millions doin' what he do or I win the lottery (which I've been playing on a regular basis) whichever comes first.