McQueeny the climber

She sure loves this boy, and he loves her!

Playing catch

Jack & Chase played catch for quite some time...
These two, usually fight or generally just ignore each other, BUT apparently they are BOTH growing up and realizing that they are the same age...

Caught with WET FINGERS

Trina is a finger sucker! UGH! No matter what we do, she always pulls the pacifier OUT and sticks her fingers in! UGH!
Braces are so expensive little girl!

She is so dang cute!

Wii for the Wee one

Dear Two-Year Molars

Oh how I loath you! Up until now I thought that the worst part of parenting a two year old was the constant temper tantrums in immediate response to the usage of the dreaded word "no". I can manage that.
But you, YOU evil, horrid teeth! Nothing, I mean nothing, has prepared me for what we will refer to as teething.
I don't know what you have done with fantastic angel over a couple of teeth; I demand you come in immediately and return my son to his pre-psychotic state! I cannot take another minute of his unpredictable multiple personalities.

I want my son back, the one that eats, sleeps and heck even smiles.... YOU, you terrible molars may KEEP the son you have brought here, I have had enough of the word "no", the screaming at random times for no explanation what-so-ever, the whining, the hitting and the lethargy.

For the third day in a row, he has eaten NOTHING...

MENU -

Day 1: Breakfast -- Life Cereal with a banana (ok I'll take it); Lunch -- two bites
of a wrap (yup that's it TWO bites); Dinner -- one bit of pizza, the "inside" of one piece of bread and a Popsicle... (UGH!)

Day 2: Breakfast -- looked at a piece of soft piece of french toast (YES, only looked!!!); Lunch -- three containers of applesauce and one piece of Life cereal (do-able); Dinner -- four bites of beef stew, one egg scrambles, and a protein milk shake, all of which he was BEGGED to eat.

Day 3: Breakfast -- 1/2 a bowl of Oatmeal (a record!); Lunch -- TWO bowls of pastina in chicken broth and the crust of two pieces of pizza (that, we will take! Starvation must have settled in and he realizes a little pain in his mouth is better than pain in his belly, mouth AND head)..

I wish they made t-shirts or signs that said "TWO YEAR MOLARS - BACK OFF!", because we could have really used them at Walmart this morning as he proceeded to scream at the top of his lungs and thrash around like a maniac!

I REALLY REALLY didn't not like being 'that parent', the one dragging a kid out of the store kicking and screaming... We WILL NOT make that mistake again!
The most aggravating part of it was, after dragging him out of the store and restring him in his car-seat he proceeded to say "what did I do?" and “I don’t know why.”

So, you terrible-two-year molars, you better hurry or I may reach in and pull you to the surface myself!

Love Mom

Kali & McQueeny

The little kitty is growing on ALL of us, EVEN Kali...
When she first saw McQueeny, she probably was a bit jealous of the attention the little kitty was getting, but now, she too has grown attached to her. We often find these too playing together and looking for each other...

Nanook of the North

As part of our daily routine is to take a brisk jog each morning, just the three of us. As September is nearing a close, the mornings bring a bit of a chill into the air, so I bundle up my babies before we head out. Nice warm sweats, mittens, a blanket and even hats. The entire time we were running Jonathan and I were chuckling about how silly Katrina looked. As she was beginning to fall asleep in her seat, her hat crept lower and lower on her head. Of course all this silliness brought about a "teachable moment", so I spoke a bit about Eskimos and animals that can stay in cold weather, igloos and the like...

Cousin Vinny's First Birthday!

Jonathan, Katrina and I went over to the Masella's for cousin Vinny's first birthday.
What a gorgeous day for a party, the kids had a blast running around, playing mini golf, jumping in the bounce house and eating to their hearts content! Little Vinny was absolutely adorable, but oh so sleepy.... he barely ate his beautiful cake!

Can we workout?

Ever since I started P90X, Jonathan has been wanting to do it with me, ESPECIALLY since Poppy gave me an exercise mat! It's every kids favorite toy now!

Holding little sister...

Things have been a little bit stinky lately to the extent that I do not have enough extra money to do anything with the children. It makes me feel terribly guilty, since we cannot go out and do the fun stuff I would like, but there is nothing more I can do about it right now...
When ever I get a little down, I just look at the beautiful faces of my fantastic children and realize money does NOT buy happiness!

UGH....new addition

A little kitty has been wandering the neighborhood for just over a month now, Matt and I had been trying to find a home for it, by mentioning it to friends and family and taking up suggestions about where to take her....
that is until...
one little boy came out of the house and decided he LOVES HER....
Neither Matt nor I are cat people, so it is very strange that Jonathan is... but as any good parents we do not want to sway him in one direction or the other and the two of them are so darn cute together that we don't want to break either of their hearts...


The really funny thing is, as much as Kali (the dog) acts like a cat, this kitty, "McQueen" acts like a dog... no barking yet, but she follows Our littele man EVERYWHERE!
Plus, while I was in the garage this TERRIFIC little kitty got "rid" of THREE MICE! She's HIRED!

Like Mother: Like Daughter? Like Son?

Labor Day Picnic

For Labor Day, the kids and I joined my parents and grandparents, sister, some family friends and cousins in a very small BBQ picnic. While we were there Jonathan made "better" friends with Frank, he was his "little buddy" all day... Frank enjoyed him so much that he gave him 15$ for his little piggy bank...

Going to the animal fair

the birds and the bees will be there..


It was sooooo crowded and the traffic to get in was so slow that we went JUST to eat!

TOO BIG

Katrina is NOT even FOUR months old and she is already out-growing her chair! She can barely fit AND she cannot even sit up on her own yet! What are we going to do??

My little Mousey Girl is growing

Every time I look at her she has grown! And what a remarkable transformation to a healthy little one she is becoming!
Now if she would only sleep through the night I would be in pure bliss....

Father-Son bonding

HOLY COW

When I asked Jonathan what he wanted to be for Halloween, he happily told me a cow.
I searched and searched for a good cow costume and finally found one in a 4T, which is nearly impossible, since the "cute" costumes are usually only up to 2T...
Anyway, when it finally came in the mail, it fit perfect...
Which if you think about it, is really BAD news, because there is no way it'll fit in nearly TWO MONTHS if it is fitting perfect now and he is still in "summer clothes" underneath it! UGH!