Mother's Day Tea - 5.7.14

Of course I didn't get any pictures but I was invited to Amyra's class for a Mother's Day tea. I was late though and poor Amyra was crying because she didn't think I was going to show up. My sweet sensitive girl. Anyway, she read a poem while she sat on my lap as we sat in front of the class. In her poem she said that I was the only organized person in the family (true for now) and that I was really good at making money. I'm glad she thinks I make money. I'm good at managing it at least. It's times like this that I appreciate not working formally. I wouldn't trade this for the world.

Teef's Buddy - 5.4.14

We went to my mom's house for dinner and she invited a family that had a little boy who was about 4 months younger than Teef. Though Teef looked like a beast compared to Mervin (I love his name), they played so nicely together. It was like his first random little friend. They spent about 10 minutes passing a book back and forth to each other. I'm just glad Teef didn't try to beat him. 

Logan's 2nd Birthday - 5.3.14

We had the "pleasure" of taking all the kids to Yuko's new house to celebrate Logan turning 2! Yuko is just so classy and their house was beautiful. The food was home-made Sri Lankan food and the kids got to play with Logan's cool toys upstairs. Their were also high stress moments when one of the kids knocked down a wine glass on the floor, etc. Sheesh. Honestly, taking kids to others' houses is always high stress for me but five kids - and I was about to have a heart attack. Overall, we made it through the evening but boy was I glad to be home!

Uncle with his nieces. 

 My sweet little man.

 The kids and I with Ryan and TaReon on the side. 

 Yuko, Logan and Vimal. Do you see that wall in the background. Vimal did that himself! He laid wood laminate on the walls and it looked so good! He even did the electricity so they could have cool lighting. 

Aunty Femia Visits! - 5.1.14 to 5.5.14

Aunty Femia came to visit us with the girls for a few days and the kids had a blast. She even left the girls with us while she went on a three-day trip. Let me just say, watching 5 young kids was very interesting and very crazy at times. I don't know how Mama D does it when we offload all these kids on her. Let me just say it made me respect her much more in that respect and it also made me not want to knowingly ever do that to anyone ever again.

That being said, the kids spent a lot of time at the park playing and Amyra was such a great helper. She would sleep with the younger two at times and even tried to get Ceriah to sleep when she woke up in the middle of the night. Such a great helper. 

We had one bit of chaos when someone wanted to see our house randomly and we only had an hour to tidy up and get out of the house. This with crying children every where. CHAOS. I guess these are what memories are made of? 

When you're with daddy, you will most likely be outside at the park. 

 Cefia

 Ceriah.

Park Dos.

I love 'panoramic' pics sometimes. 

Lateef decided to remove Teef's carseat for some reason. This is what we found underneath. Amazing and horrible. 

 The girls especially love Ceriah. Probably because she's a little girl the same age as Teef.

Overall, we love having our cousins here and it just reaffirmed our decision to want to go back to Vegas so the kids could grow up with their cousins. 

The Kids in April - April 2014

So I started taking classes again online and that's totally pushed blogging to the side, but I'm still going to try and get caught up sooner than later. I have a break kind of in March so hopefully then. I suck. Anyway, these were some random pictures of the kids in April.

Of course, there's Mya, always posing. She's so cool.

 Then there's Teef. I feel bad because I'm starting to realize that with Amyra in school, she misses out on a lot of photo-ops. Anyway, this is Teef at the girls' swim lessons I'm sure. 

 And then finally Mya, sleeping on the dog bed. A solution to the bed-wetting! 

Our First Open House - 4.27.14

I'm telling you. The best way to be offended is to put your house up for sale. Seriously, hearing other people comment on what they do and don't like about your house is enough to want to fight people. Sheesh. Anyway, we had our first open house and it wasn't as wonderful as we had hoped. Most people that came to look at it were nosy neighbors. Jerks. People also didn't like all the colors in the house. Weird old people. Oh well. While the open house was going on, the kids got to enjoy the Children's Museum. No better way to spend a day!

We Listed the House! - 4.21.14

Well, as Lateef and I celebrated 13 years of togetherness, we also officially listed our house for sale! We were asking for $420,000. It was definitely high but not totally unreasonable because there were many other houses in the neighborhood going for around the same price. Plus, didn't want to move to Vegas for at least a year so we wanted to ride it out and if someone was crazy enough to buy the house at that price, who were we to say no?

Of course selling the house was stressful! Having to keep it clean constantly with three kids and a traveling husband was insanity. And then of course, our babysitter Ashley, who would come and help me clean on Thursdays and watch the kids, disappeared on us and wouldn't return our calls or texts. Makes me wonder if she did something shady. Oh well. Good riddance. Honestly though, I now know why they say selling your house is one of the most stressful events ever. True Homie!