Luckiest Girl in the World

I must be the luckiest girl in the world. I got to spend Valentines with two special boys. I know Valentines is kind of a cheesy holiday...and most men truthfully hate it, but I like the excuse to get treated a little extra special.

The smaller of the two boys especially enjoyed the stuffed animals and balloons at every store we went to:)

funny dreams and baby diapers

I have always had very vivid and sometimes telling dreams. My brother is always jealous of my action packed "save the world" dreams that last all night and often pick up where they left off the next night. A few days ago I had a dream that as usual seamed very real.

As a brief background to this dream--I was reading about the harm disposable diapers do to our environment. I read it takes over 500 years for one disposable diaper to decompose and then thought about all the hundreds of diapers we have already added. From that thought I began remembering the hippy movies I was forced to watch as a child in my Flagstaff, AZ elementary school where we learned in just a few short years the entire earth would be nothing but a landfill.

Anyway, all that said....I had a dream that we decided to go to cloth diapers. It was genius. The diapers were soft, cute, and we were saving the earth. In my dream I changed the first yucky diaper only to find the mess was worse than usual. As soon as I got the diaper off, our one cloth diaper multiplied into 15 more that I was then responsible for washing. The mess was out of control. My hands were suddenly covered with nastiness and I decided in my dream at that moment our new cloth diapers were about to be turned into disposable.

As much as we would like to save the earth...it may not be happening.

Favorite pass times in the Marshall house

We have had some uncomfortably cold weather here in the "great state of Texas" recently. As a result we have had to seek refuge and entertainment inside (an unfortunate and highly unusual course in the winter here).

When we did have power last week we all enjoyed playing the Wii. The family favorite seems to be the obstacle course because Ethan can participate. We hold him while dodging balls and jumping over moving platforms. He really gets into it especially when Mommy is beating Daddy.

Another activity that Ethan and Craig have enjoyed since Christmas is the remote control helicopter that Santa brought. Ethan loves it when it crashes--he crawls as fast as his little booty can get him there, snatches it up, and insists on giving it to Mommy rather than Daddy. Not really sure why--because Mommy then gives it to Daddy who controls take off. It has been fun and Ethan enjoys the rainbow lights it makes as it flies just out of reach of his sticky little fingers.

A new toy added to Ethan's growing collection this weekend is a walker toy. We are hoping to inspire him to start walking soon--Mommy's back needs this child to walk--and it seems to be fun. He laughs and laughs as he runs pushing this little thing into the wall. Then he gets really mad because he can't turn around, so one of us turns him around and he continues running and laughing into the opposite wall. We all enjoy it and hope that soon it will equal walking.

We are not the most exciting family on earth by any stretch of the imagination, but we manage to have a good time.