The wacky world of the Klauer Klan!

I guess I will start off with Tuesday was my brother Kody's Sweet 16 birthday! He did his last driver's Ed behind the wheel so now we are on the count down till March 9th when he takes his drivers test. whoo hoo. Then he will drive himself to and from school which will free up some of my morning and afternoons. No more shoving 3 kids in the car in a hurry. Now I am going to have to rework my schedule for working out. hehehe.. Wednesday I went to the dermatologist for my eczema.. Of course I was extremely flared up.. No fun. I have 3 new creams and I got a shot of Prednisone and will get another one next week tuesday. Seems to have helped a bit my skin has cleared up pretty quickly and not it is just dry not really red.. Which feels great.

Not really much happened this week.. I downsized my cloth diaper collection and pretty much kept the like diapers so that the boys are pretty much in the same type diapers.. instead of having ones that I stuff and ones that I don't I figured it would be easier to streamline. I sold my nice Bum Genius 3.0s to a friend who is having a baby soon and is going to put both her kids in cloth so it is nice that they are going to a good home. So like I said I put the boys back into the cloth diapers after my long bout of laziness. Which is fine cloth diapers are super easy to do just need to get back in the swing of it and making sure that I do a load every other day. We also just bought a new 21 cubic foot stand up freezer. Our poor little chest freezer just didn't have enough room for us anymore. We purchased another 1/4 cow so it is plum full of stuff and I have been stocking up on stuff at Sam's so we really needed the room. I have a few people who have expressed interest in the little freezer hopefully it will also go to a friend so that I don't have to put it on Craigslist.. I just want to make sure it goes to a good home. :D

Nick has a work conference today Saturday and Sunday so it is just the boys and me this weekend. Saturday we are going to Sears bright and early to get Adam's 4 mt photos done I know lazy lazy. I really need to get some drape clothes and do them myself but really don't have nice backgrounds yet. Plus at 4mts I had a photo of my hands and the boys feet done for each of the boys and really want to get this one done again. Cant really do that one myself. After that we are either going to a movie or gonna go spend time with Zoe and her kids for Shira's birthday.. Not really sure what is going to go on. hmm maybe it will pan out tonight..I am not much for last minute craziness I like to have a game plan to make sure I get naps and stuff taken care of.

Other News I found out that my sister in law is pregnant again.. I am so excited for her and pray that this pregnancy and delivery is easy and uneventful.. I now they have a lot on their minds and plate I hope to send as many good vibes and prayers their way so keep them in your thoughts too please. Well that is about it.. Better get some dinner ideas around. Have a great weekend..

P.S. I really really really want spring to come... So please Spring.. Start warming up this cold Wisconsin.. BRRRR I miss my flip flops.

Valentine's Day was Adam's 4 month birthday wow he is getting so big so fast.


Valentine's Day we packed up the car with presents and all the yummies I made the day before and headed down to Bagley for my mom's Birthday party. On our way down to Bagley we made a pit stop in Bloomington at the school my mom works at to decorate her classroom. I asked Father Bart if I could get his keys to get into the school. I didn't realize that was the easy part. I didn't know the combo for the gate and my brothers weren't answering the phone so I just climbed the gate to get to the 3rd floor where my mom's classroom is. Not an easy feat to do with snow boots on.. lol.. But I got to the 3rd floor and of course just my luck my mom had locked her door too! So so much for decorating in the room but I sure did a number on the outside. lol.. It wasn't as decorated as the year one of my Besties worked with my mom and let me in during CCD to go crazy decorative but it still had all the love.

We got down to my moms and hung out for the day. Then for dinner My Tante, Uncle Kurt and their boys and soon to be daughter in law came down for dinner along with my grandma and us of course made 16. Luckily I made 2 large Baked Ziti trays (Recipe on May 11th,2009 blog if you want it) and brought salad and cake and garlic bread. Yummy. My mom got some great gifts. The boys and my family made stepping stones and she got a navigation system and a digital photo frame. It was a late night but we headed back around 8:20 and got home around 10p.




Isaac is doing amazing with the potty I haven't really updated on that in a long time. He is doing his business every time in the potty though he does still wear night chonies since he doesn't wake up for that. Noah is showing interest in the potty but really doesn't have an idea of what you do with it. I think we are going to try to start letting him sit on it right before tubbies but we are not going to bother pushing anything.. He is only 2 and most boys don't start till about 3 to start training. Adam is just leaning oodles and oodles daily.. He likes his Exersaucer in small doses. He loves to roll like a log.. It is hilarious.. This morning he rolled from his back to his front and kept going back to his back like a little log rolling away.. FUNNY I tell you FUNNY!

As for Me I have run into a little luck lately and am half tempted to go buy a couple lotto or scratch tickets. I won off the radio 2 GC and then Monday won a $25 Gift certificate to my friends Photo studio.. She was having a drawing and I happen to win.. Of course the odds were in my favor not many people put in the suggestions and the ones who did only entered 1 suggestion and I entered like 6 so I had close to a 50-50 or better shot.. But that is cool we are going to put it toward a family photo. And we will have our photo in for a drawing also if it makes it to the finals I will let everyone know because you can vote on our photo it is $1 a vote and the money goes to the Now I lay me down to sleep organization.. It is a wonderful organization.. So like I said I will let you know if we make it to the finals so start saving your ones in case..

Well today I got up early cuz the boys were up running around upstairs. But had to take my brother to school and then work on some volunteer hours. Left the school at 8:45a was running a little late I wanted to be out earlier because Adam had his 4mt check up today. On my way from the school to the appointment I was listening to the radio and they were running one of those "caller whatever gets something" contests.. I never win those but it is fun to play with the phone and try. So imagine my surprise when the DJ says "Hi! Triple M you are the 8th caller!" And of course I was a little baffled my response was " Is that the number you were looking for?" Silly I know but I really wasn't paying attention to what number they wanted. But low and behold I won a $50 Gift Certificate to Lilianas Restaurant (http://www.lilianasrestaurant.com/) and a $50 Gift Certificate to Rock N Glam salon. Pretty darn neat.

So got to the Doctors. Sweet little guy is 15# 4 oz and 25.25 inches long. No wonder that baby carrier is getting heavier and heavier to carry. He also had to get 3 shots and his Rotovirus liquid stuff. Poor Guy I felt so awful since while we were waiting we were cooing and giggling up a storm. Even the doctor who's office was diagonal from our room stopped over to say how cute it sounded even through the door and that he wished his kids chattered as much as Adam was. Yup that is my boy.. CHATTERBOX like the rest of us.

After Kody got out of school Adam and I and Kody met my mom in Dodgeville to get our Meat (we just bought a 1/4 cow to fill our freezer) and to drop off Kody. Things have been pretty emotional lately and I really miss my mom so I kidnapped her for dinner. hehehe.. It was nice to be able to chat with her I wish I could get some real good 1 on 1 time with her maybe when I am rich we can do a spa day.. Or I can just start saving.. So in a couple years we can go.. :D

Monday the 15th is my mom's Birthday so we are heading down to Bagley to visit for the day.. I am making Baked Ziti and a double layer chocolate cake with Butter cream frosting in my new 8 inch square pans from my uncle Jim for my birthday. First Cake in the new pans.. YUMMY!

On another note my mom Bought me an Aquasana Shower filter (Thanks Mom and Bill) . So far I have had one shower, and 3 baths (I fill the tub with my shower wand--- takes forever but whatever) I think I am seeing an improvement on my skin.. I don't feel nearly as dry getting out of the tub and if I can control the scratching it isn't nearly as red and flaky.. I am still testing it out but I think so far it is helping. So if you want super filtered water grab a cup and hit up my shower. HEHEHE!



Well busy day tomorrow better hit the hay.. Got a cake to make and 2 pans of Baked Ziti to prep!

Yesterday the Boys and I went to a place Called Bean Sprouts it is a pretty darn cool little shop. It is a little Cafe' with kids in mind. There is a play area that includes a toy kitchen and blackboards and a ton of books and board games to play with. The bathrooms have 2 potties a big (Adult) potty and a small little potty for the kids. This place was just all around fun. They have a great menu of healthy items and even make healthy baby food purees for the newly solid eating patrons. I decided I was going to get their cookbook.. 1) to help support this small business and 2) because there was some great recipes and fun little things to make with toddlers like..Pita boats and pear penguins.
Here is their web site

http://www.beansproutscafe.com/

So back to the reason we were there. They were hosting a decorating valentines day cookies for the kids it was $4 per kid and they got to deocrate 3 cookies with icing, sprinkles, coconut, and dried fruit. Afterwards the boys played and then there was a person who came in and did story time with them. Afterwards I ordered lunch for myself and it came with a free kids meal since it was monday free kids meal with adult purchase day. So I split that for the boys since they had already scarffed down their cookies.. Well here are some fun photos that a friend (Catherine) took since I forgot my camera on the way out the door..

So in an email I got a cookie recipe claiming that it was somebody who got ripped off when they wanted to purchase the recipe.. After snooping it the whole email was false but the recipe still sounded good so last night my friend Zoe and I made the cookies.. They turned out pretty good.. A lot of sugar. May reduce the sugar next time but they were yummy. So here are photos and the recipe.





NEIMAN-MARCUS COOKIES (recipe may be halved)

Saturday was my niece and nephews joint birthday party.. Rylee turned one and Troy turned two. They had a party down in Dubuque at Jumpin Janes. Isaac, Noah and Nick went while Adam and I stayed home. Adam has been super hungry and fussy I think he may be going through a growth spurt so since it is a drive down to Dubuque we stayed home. Sounds like Isaac had a blast and Noah was a little stand offish.. Here are some photos the grandparents took.




On Sunday it was My Adorable little Adam's Baptism and my 29th birthday. We got up early and piled in the van and went to mass at St. Mary's. Afterward was the baptism.