My Little Pony...

One of the best gifts the tribe received this year was four little ponies. Now before you go jumping to the wrong conclusion they are NOT the living, breathing kind! Like we could even afford that! LOL! They are even better, they are the bouncy kind! You see for Christmas my cousin & her family bought them some Rody ponies. They are one of the coolest toys from Italy. They come in all colors & even in different species. Amazingly they found one in each of their colors. How cool is that!?The tribe even named each of them with help of course! {Thank you Raine!} We now have Juicy the orange horse, Boris the blue horse, Pinky Dinky Do the pink pony & Penelope the purple pony. They are made from BPA free rubber & inflate just like a basketball. The minute we "blew" them up they hopped right on them & bounced around! They even bounced off of them too! LOL! It took them falling a few times for them to get what they needed to do. Now they are pro's & bounce all over the place! When they need to burn off some extra energy I just tell them to go get their ponies. It brings new meaning to the saying...

My Little Pony...

Merry CHRISTmas to all and to all a good night...

CHRISTmas was much more memorable this year than the past. The tribe really enjoyed themselves! We have been reading them the story of Jesus's birth. They really love Jesus. They even sing Happy Birthday! TOO cute! The other person they love talking about is Santa. They do not really like him they just know that he might bring them presents especially if they are good! Now that they are almost three they knew exactly what to do & did it VERY well!No sleeping in at our house! We were awoken VERY early to children on scooters/bicycles trying to enter our room, all at the same time mind you! LOL! They apparently stopped by the tree & found what Santa brought them, SCOOTERS! One glitch to the master plan was that Santa could not get all the scooters together due to a missing part. I guess that's what happens when "he" puts things together last minute! haha! Aave must have thought she was not good enough to deserve on because she said no scooter for me. Ahhh... We told her how Santa left us a note saying he could not find an important part on one of them. He wanted to make sure it was safe so since he could not do that he left us a special certificate to bring to the store to get it fixed & get a safe one! She liked that & went on to the next toy. Oh to see the joy on their faces from opening presents, presents & more presents. They really got the ripping open presents down to a science. This year it was NOT all about the box! hahah!Last month during one of my MOPS get togethers one of the women told us how they do Christmas in their house. Her husband happens to be one of the pastors from our church and way back when their kids were little & she attended MOPS a woman passed this along to her so she in turn passed it along to us. Giving your children three gifts just like Jesus received. You know the gifts the three wise men brought, Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh. I LOVED that idea! I wish she would have told us this in like April, when I started shopping! {Buying for 5 I have to start EARLY!} Trying to keep CHRIST in Christmas has been hard to do since everywhere you look there is Santa & not enough Jesus! We need more nativity sets around town too! That is why we now have a nativity set in front of our house this year. Keeping Christ in Christmas! Do not get me wrong Santa definitely visits the Fulton home. I think in the end they each received 5, hopefully next year we will be able to accomplish that feat. At the end of this busy & chaotic day we can say...

Merry CHRISTmas to all and to all a good night...

Grandma the snake slayer...

We had an "incident" the other day & it all started with our normal morning ritual. You see we are what you would call "newspaper people". We HAVE to read the paper each morning to feel that we know what is going on in the world. This practice has gone on for ages & I must say that my parents have rubbed off on me because I now read the same exact sections of the paper that they do or did. One of the first sections we read is the Local section to see what happened in and around our city & especially to see who died. Yep, we read the obituaries! Morbid I know but when you have lived in one place as long as my parents have you are bound to know someone. Never saw anyone my age UNTIL I saw the name of a former classmate listed. He was ONLY 22 years old! CRAZY! Anyhow this was a long standing ritual & there Grandma was beginning her day as she always did, getting the newspaper. There she was walking toward the yard when she kicked what she thought was one of the tribes toys. Don't know exactly what toy she "thought" would be laying like a rope in the middle of the walkway but this was HER story. She tells the tale that she kicked the "toy" & went on to pick up the paper. She NEVER looked at what she kicked because it was TOO dark. You know how Grandma's wake up BEFORE the crack of dawn! LOL! She walked back inside, continued her daily ritual, sipped on her cup of BLACK coffee & read the news of the day. It was not until I went out several hours later to get the mail did we realize what "toy" she kicked! There laying in the middle of my path to the mailbox was a VERY much DEAD snake apparently killed by major blunt force trauma! ha! Grandma has since said if she would have seen that it was a snake there would be no story to tell because instead of kicking it she would have ran FAR FAR away! She is completely afraid of all slithery creatures! Little does she know that after that one small feat she is now known as...

Grandma the snake slayer...

motorsuckers...

It seems that lately these children of ours have had some growth spurts in the brain dept! The words that have been coming out of their mouths! WOW! I especially noticed this after we got back from our trip. They have a wider vocabulary than they did before we left. I guess that had to do with their new enviorments. They had more people & things around them. I know that they are children & not animals BUT it is still amazing how they are learning even when we are not "teaching" them. Those little brains of theirs are like sponges, they just grow & grow & grow! Lately Brendan has taken a liking to motorcyles or as he says it "motorsuckers". VERY cute to listen to his pronunciation! My mom's neighbor Jim was the first to really pay attention to how he said it. Thinking he was calling him a "sucker". Then we all laughed when we realized he was saying motorcycle. The funny things that kids say! When he is being razzed by his sisters I will bring out a motorcycle & it seems to solve everything in his eyes. At least this is what I thought until he started having a favorite one. If I did not have the small white Hess motorcycle he wanted no part of me! It is part of a set that I think Dustyn got it as a gift from my Dad years ago. You know the yearly set that Hess puts out before Christmas well we have them all. It was sort of my Dad's thing. Dustyn LOVES trucks & stuff so my dad bought him a Hess truck each year. Now Brendan will have his own collection. However instead of trucks it may just end up being a collection of...

motorsuckers...

piggy bank...

I have previously posted about all of the COOL things we inherit from various people. Well, we have recently inherited a Fisher Price piggy bank toy from their cousin Veronika. The babies just LOVE this toy! Mostly it is Camryn that takes possession of it, she will start with the "mine" thing, which we need to break her of, and then play for hours with it. She really likes to play by her lonesome & dislikes when her siblings come along & take something from her. I just cannot get over how much she LOVES this pig! It comes with several coins that have different colors & shapes that fit into the top of the pig. It plays songs or will add as you drop the coins in. Now that we have had this piggy for a few weeks & they see how much Camryn likes it, they come up with "new" ways to tease her. You see Brendan & Lindsey have taken to "stealing" the coins from her as she trys to put them in. It is funny & terrible at the same time to watch them do this! They know that it really bothers her that she does not have ALL the pieces and that she does not like them bothering her as she put the coins in. She actually knows that we have seven coins & will search for the missing coins if she does not have all of them. There go Brendan & Linz with their fists up in the air clenching what coins they could grab giggling all the way with Camryn right behind them, crying as she runs after them. I think she is on to them because she now hoards the coins & brings them to me as she goes after the rest of them. Terrible as this is to watch I just sit back, giggle a little bit myself (I know I should not laugh but it is hard not too) & try to let them settle their dispute. The funny thing is that this is all over a silly...



piggy bank...

When it rains it pours!

Just when we were about to put our TOO small house on the market we incur yet another setback. Last night I noticed something strange about the rubber mat flooring we have in the babies "play room". It looked like there was a toy or two under a few of the mats. We put this COOL rubber mat flooring down over the wood to protect it & for it to be SAFE place for the babies to play on. Well. They did something to it! I would not put it past these little buggers of mine to stash a toy from one of their siblings so I went to fetch it. I was curious to see what the treasure would be! Well, it was NOT a toy! What I thought was a toy was in fact the wood starting to warp! It appears that we have a leak somewhere! Just what we need! So now we are off on yet another "adventure" to find where the water is coming from & fix it! We have had a TON of rain over the past few weeks & who knows where it is coming from. This is an "adventure" I would love not to take! What is that saying?...

When it rains it pours!

The "stuff" you can fit into a guest bathroom...

Today was not unlike any other day. Mommy had her normal visitors when she had to use the restroom. We never seem get "alone time" when you have little one's! hah! However this time she had more than her 4 little ones crowding around her! This time they brought everything but the kitchen sink with them!

Here is a short list of the "stuff" they fit into the guest bathroom:

3 babydolls
1 baby stroller
1 shopping cart
1 Mickey Mouse riding toy
2 Star Wars toys
1 pink potty chair
1 Teddy Bear step stool
1 mommy
and of course 4 twenty month old's

Needless to say it was quite crowded in the bathroom this morning. They did not care one bit! They just wanted to be near me. Funny how that works!

I wish I could share with everyone each of the funnies they do each day. This is just a small glimpse into our life. Next it might be what can fit into the bath tub, haha! but for now it is just...

The "stuff" you can fit into a bathroom...

indoor activities....

Since we are in the start of an ACTIVE Hurricane season I have decided to clean house & see what we really have stored away for a rainy day. We have been SO blessed by receiving so many hand me down clothes & toys! I have hoarded them away for just the right opportunity and it looks like the time is now! I discovered a ton of baby clothes, won't some new mommy be happy when I show up with that box!!, quite a few wooden puzzles & a "ride on" toy that they almost outgrew. I put it together yesterday when they napped. Boy you should have seen them when they saw it for the first time! I should have known better than to have only 1 new toy because all they did was fight over who was going to ride it. Luckily the horn, gear stick, center console thing came off so I could give that to one child, another could sit on it & one could push the child that was sitting on it. I had three of the four covered, oh to be the odd man out! I decided the one left out would get to spend some quality "mommy time". Whew! I escaped that trap! If a Hurricane comes what am I gonna do?? I need to get better prepared! So I am starting to organize all of their stuff. Not only do I have to organize the stuff we use but I also have to get rid of TONS! I have started a box of toys to give to Miss Janet, their former developmental therapist. We met her through "Healthy Start" where our little ones received developmental therapy from her in our home. She is truly one of a kind & works with mostly premature babies that qualify for her program. She brings a bag of "tricks", developmental toys, that she purchased on her own. SO whenever I have a developmental toy I try to pass it along to her. Then I have a box for a deserving family associated with the NICU full of clothes they have outgrown & then last but not least one for Goodwill. I always want to return the favor when we have been SO blessed. I never throw things away, I always find them a good home. Those last two boxes are the hardest on my hubby BECAUSE they never leave our house till they are full. He likes a CLEAN house full of no clutter! We have baby stuff EVERYWHERE! See what having four babies does to you? ha! I should have done this a LONG time ago! But I thrive under pressure! hehee! So I better get started while they are napping. I hope everyone enjoys their...

indoor activities....

our friend rosy...

Well it looks like Miss Linz has Roseola. Her fever subsided & she now looks like a bandit with a red marks across her eyes & neck. It almost looks like a mask like Zoro would wear! I feel SO bad for her! She is just MISERABLE! Can I say CLINGY! All she wants is her momma! It would not be that bad but there are 3 other babies I need to tend to. Ohh.. I cannot wait till she is feeling better! We leave Grandma's later today & hopefully she will be better in a few days! Just look her at her face.. my poor baby!
On a happier note, Grandma bought the babies a new slide for their "play room". They LOVE it! Miss Cam is the best on it, Mr B is the worst. He is still scared of being up so high I think. His sisters need to work on him! ha! Auntie Debbie brought over a battery operated ride-on truck for Brendan but again the girls took it over! They sure do have WONDERFUL people in their lives that bring them COOL toys to play with! Its amazing the things they come up with these days! I cannot even appreciate their new toys with a sick baby, ugh!
For now we have to deal with...

our friend rosy