May 09, 2012
May 08, 2012
Dad's Visit
My Dad came for a quick visit over the weekend to participate in the blessing of Aaron. We were able to do a few other things while he was here, too.
We made our way over to the park full of lilac bushes. The festival is this weekend so we once again avoided the crowds. However, with the insane weather we have had the last month (hot to snow to warm, etc.) many of the bushes have not bloomed, bloomed early and the flowers are past their prime, or the blossoms were killed by freezing temps. We still enjoyed the lilacs though and most especially the fragrance in the air immediately after stepping out of the car.
We were able to have dinner with Matt & Mandy a couple of times. The kids love to visit their home! The guys and Mandy also were able to see The Avengers on Saturday. They all gave it a thumbs up!
And most everyone enjoyed a minor league baseball game. Andy Pettitte is coming out of retirement to pitch for the Yankees again but before he does that, he is pitching a few games in the Yankee farm team which happened to be playing here over the weekend. I think the highlight of game for my kids was Uncle Matt catching a foul ball without a glove.
And of course Dad got in some Aaron time, even while reading his book. Aaron was in his bouncer and was getting fussy so Dad picked him up and Aaron went right to sleep in the crook of his arm. We really loved seeing Dad a.k.a Papa and can't wait to see him again in just a few weeks!
May 03, 2012
The Girls
The day Aaron came home from the hospital.
A Few Jillian tidbits:
Jillian is a little Momma. She always says to me, "His eyes are open, so I hold him. Deal?"
While playing the same game with Simon she said, "Boo-yah Simon! Boo-yah!" (After finally figuring out how to play and won.)
She is a wild child. She and Simon can destroy the house or at least one entire room in the 15-20 minutes it takes me to feed Aaron and usually it is her idea that she gets Simon to help her execute. Last week the mode of destruction was water...just dumping cup after cup all over the place; this week is has been dumping every toy we own out on the floor or moving furniture around. Yesterday, I thought they were actually playing nicely in her room only to find that they had moved the bunk beds to the middle of the room and had stripped the beds of all blankets and sheets! And when Jillian doesn't get her hair fixed right away, her crazy hair just makes her seem all the more wild, especially when she tilts her head back and shakes her little head just to get the hair out of her face.
Lauren. Oh where do I start with this girl? She is an emotional roller coaster. If she is like this at seven, I fear for the teen years. We have got to work with her on recognizing and handling her emotions better or we are going to be regretting it. She, of course, gets glowing remarks from her teachers on her behavior at school so it is when she is home that she lets it all out. I asked her why she does that and she said, "Cause I don't have to go the principal at home." Well, we have two principals here and we just need to lay down the law in some way, I guess.
She can also be pretty imaginative, so her and Simon can do some pretty funny things together. The picture above was a little finger puppet show they did for me. Lauren took her Polly Pocket dresses and put them on her fingers and drew the faces. For Simon, she cut pants out of paper and taped them to his finger and added the faces. I don't even remember what the puppet show was about but I loved the puppets!
Lauren has a new favorite movie these days...The Princess Bride. She is getting pretty good at quoting it and of course the thing she goes around saying the most is, "Inconceivable!" Love it when the kids get old enough to like things we like.
And that's about it for the girls...
May 02, 2012
The Boys
I received the comment from my sister on my last post that I better not put up a Wordless Wednesday post today. So today is a random post of things going on with the boys.
If I had posted a Wordless Wednesday post, this would have been my picture:
I might jinx myself by saying this so often, but Aaron is a really good baby! He is more alert, looking around, responding to our voices, and has started to be more generous in giving us smiles. Which are so big and cute that they melt this momma's heart.
Oh, Simon! This kid is just crazy and he is also my most imaginative child. So imagination and crazy can make for some pretty funny/frustrating days.
He watched Spy Kids last weekend and now has become a spy. He even made a laptop to receive his next assignments and to report to his spy boss, John. He asks me to help come up with his missions and so far he has cleaned the house of monsters under the beds, locked all doors and windows so Mr. Boogity can't get in, had to call the Ghostbusters to remove a ghoul, made sure Jillian was safe while I showered, and gone on several top secret missions that he can't tell me about. Yesterday, at the store he kept asking for a watch because, "All spies have watches, Mom."
Two more Simon quotes/stories: He was playing a game with Jillian and I overheard him say to her after gettting a little frustrated, "Watch and learn, man! Watch and learn!"
On Sunday during Sacrament meeting at church, Simon was getting to be a little out of sorts. I took him out to the foyer and after a few minutes asked him if he would like to go back in and sit quietly. He looked up at me and said in his best Animal voice, "In Control." I nearly died; I wanted to laugh but held it together.
Ethan is always on the go. With scouts, piano, band, friends, school, etc. it can be hard to get any pictures of him. I need to be better about that. His pace will only pick up in the next few weeks with concerts and end of year activities. He is such a good kid helping with the younger ones, helping me and Allen, and overall just being a kind, loving kid. He loves school and is really looking forward to middle school while I am scared silly about him starting middle school. I just pray he has a good experience and doesn't end up hating it as much as I did. He is also really, really looking forward to summer with cousins. He misses everyone like crazy and can't wait! Oh, and can you tell he has suddenly become a Syracuse fan? Nana made him the bag while she was here and he was SO excited to show it to his friends.
So there is a quick update on the boys. Was that good enough Jenny? Tomorrow I will update on Lauren and Jillian.
April 25, 2012
April 21, 2012
One Month
How in the world did one month go by so quickly? Aaron is such a good baby; I have been blessed. He hardly ever cries and does not have a fussy time like my other babies. He has been sleeping a good four and a half hour stretch at night before going back to his every two hour feedings the last five nights. After he eats in the night he will go right back to sleep. He is very alert and likes to look around at everything. And he has decent control of his head and neck already. At his appointment on Monday he weighed 10 lbs. 7 oz. and was 23 in. long, which is in the 90th -95th percentile. So he is growing rapidly...Too fast, if you ask me!
April 20, 2012
Bum Thumb
My little Simon is a nail biter. He often gets hangnails and such from constantly chewing on his nails. It's gross, honestly. It seems like I am always telling him to get his hands out of his mouth and I usually follow it up with, "You are going to get sick from putting all those germs in your mouth."
Sunday we were getting ready for church and Simon started shaking his hand and saying, "Ouch. Ouchie." I asked him what was wrong and he said, "Nothing." So I asked him if I could look at his hand and he freaked out and ran into another room. When I finally was able to look at it, I realized his thumb was really infected...black, blue, and green type of infected and swollen to twice the size of his other thumb. Allen came home from church to take him to urgent care where it was drained and bandaged. He is also on a round of antibiotics--All from chewing on his nails!
He has asked for help doing things this week that normally he can easily do on his own like buckling into his car-seat, getting dressed, help making his bed, picking up toys, etc. And every time he says, "Mom, can you please help me ___________ because remember, I have a bum thumb." Where he came up with that I don"t know but it is pretty cute.
April 19, 2012
April 18, 2012
April 16, 2012
Hillary Texts
Have you seen the Texts from Hillary website? I saw the story about it on the news last week and looked at it over the weekend. Apparently a photographer captured Hillary Clinton looking at her phone and texting while on a trip. So these two guys decided to do a meme site where they posted other photos of people Hillary could be texting and what they would be saying. Hillary (or a staff member) found out about the site and even submitted her own pictures. There are some funny ones and not so funny ones. Here are two of my favorites:
There is one of Tim Geithner texting her about the economy that I thought was also funny...check it out. Just google Texts from Hillary and you can find the site.
