Tony's Birthday Party and Tyce's Baptism

This was one busy weekend. On Saturday we celebrated Tony's birthday. He turns 5 the day after chloe turns two. Here are a few pics:

Coco and Jojo are such cute little buddiesThese three get along so well and are so excited to be going to the same school next year.We put a shirt over Chloe's dress so she wouldn't get red popsicle all over it.

Then on Sunday Tyce was baptised. More pics:

Here's Tyce with all his cousins:
Then

Ahhhhhh... Summer

School's out and summer vacation is here. Here are the kiddos on the last day of school:

Wyatt lost his very first tooth ever! He was so excited. He followed Jake's lead and wrote the tooth fairy a very nice note asking to keep the tooth. Then he promptly lost the tooth which was so small it could barely be seen by the naked eye. In other big exciting news.... Chloe's hair is long enough for pig tails. She now says, "Ouchy hair" when I fix her little do's. But, aren't those the cutest little piggy tails ever!

I'll try to post some video clip of the kids playing together in the wagon. So cute!

Happy Birthday Justin

Justin got to spend his 36th birthday helping me shuttle the kids to three birthday parties. We did get to have a couple friends over for dinner and relax a little. I'm going to try to find a picture of Justin when we first met 13 years ago. Hey maybe I'll even find a baby picture.

Wyatt Graduates from Kindergarten

We no longer have kindergarten graduation at school, but Wyatt's afterschool program does a graduation. They also entertained us with several songs. It was very cute. Jake used his new Vidster kids video camera to captures some of the fun. Here are a few pics:Here's Wyatt at his end of the year party:

Here are all three on our way out the door. Notice Chloe with her bag. She insists on having hers on her back just like the boys.

Monday is Wyatt's last day of school and then Jake and I have a 1/2 day on Tuesday. Woo hoo!

Happy 8th Birthday Jake

Yesterday Jake turned 8! On Saturday we had a party with his friends from school at the gymnastics center and yesterday we had a small little family party. Here are some pictures of the gymnastics center party:Jake's Grandma Lynn made him this awesome Pikachu cake for the family party:

Here's Grandpa Pete and the boys:Chloe loves the swing! Isn't this a cute litttle dress. I barely got her in it. She knows and loves the color blue so she was insisting that her dress be blue and the only one we have that's blue looked goofy on her, but I could not talk her out of it. As soon as Justin saw her he said, "Put on the pink one." Chloe said, "K." and marched right back to get the pink one. It was so funny. They definitely have that daddy-daughter bond. It is so sweet.

Chloe made Grandma Lynn's day by sitting on her lap while she ate her cake and ice cream:

Here's Jake with two of his cousins, Tony and Jaxon:Wyatt decided to pick Jake's nose to be funny. I caught the picture before I realized what he was doing and before Jake realized it. See that little glint in his eye.

Mother's Day Video Clip-O-Rama

Here are 4 great video clips from Mother's Day:

This is proof that Chloe can handle 2 brothers and 4 (and counting) boy cousins. She is a rough and tumble girl who loves to laugh.

Also hilarious is the part where Tony asks Wyatt if he knows how to tie and Wyatt says, "No, but Franklin does." To understand how funny this is you have to know the Franklin show. It always begins with the narrator saying that Franklin was growing up and could "count by twos and tie his shoes." I suppose this means I should get on that shoe tying thing.

*Don't forget to go to the bottom of the blog and pause the music and then click on the different windows to be able to play each of the clips

Click to play Make your own Smilebox

Baby Tyce Visits

One week ago today we had the pleasure of meeting The adorable Tyce. What a sweetie pie! The kids loved him. Wyatt was very excited that baby Tyce grabbed his finger. Chloe wanted to hold him so Justin helped her do that. The picture is pretty funny because Tyce looks like he;s almost as big as her. He was 11 pounds at four weeks! That's a few ounces bigger than the boys were at that age. I think he's going to be a big boy! We were making bets about how old Tyce will be when he's as big as Chloe. I bet that somewhere around 6-7 months Tyce will weigh as much as Chloe so we'll have to let her hold him as much as she can before then. Hehe.

The Cute Things Chloe Says

I just had to quickly jot down some of the funny things she's said lately.

A couple days ago Wyatt tried on Chloe's headband to be funny and she looked up at him and said, "Cute!"

Last night she was pointing to her tea party set and saying, "Dis... peas" meaning "This please." So I got it down and opened it up and she started prancing around chanting, "Party, party, party."

Later she got one of her babies down. She pulled off her clothes and peered into her diaper and said, "Nooooooo poopies."

Then, she was in the bathroom with me when I was getting out of the shower and she gave me the brush to brush my hair. After I brushed it she looked at me and said, "Pretty."

She is just talking up a storm and keeps us laughing!

Wonderful Wonderful Mothers' Day

I had the best day! Sorry for the delay... apparently I don't have time.

Mother's day started off in such a sweet way. Wyatt was up first so we played cards and then when Jake got up they gave me their presents which were so wonderful. I need to take pictures of those and post them. Then they sang songs for me and danced and just were the two sweetest little boys ever.

Then when the late sleepers woke up we headed for my Grandma's and enjoyed the day. Here are some pictures.

And how cute are Chloe and Joey or as Chloe refers to them, "Coco and Jojo."

Haircuts, Tonsils and Pictures

The big family news is that Jake just got his tonsils out on Monday and is doing well. There are no pictures of that. The only thing that could have made the whole thing less fun for Jake would have been me running aroung snapping pictures. He is eating again and watching lots of TV.

On Saturday all three kids got hair cuts. This was Chloe's first professional hair cut so I took a bunch of pictures. I didn't want the boys to feel left out, so I took pictures of them as well. The rest of the people were looking at me like I was some kind of nut. Who takes pictures of their school age kids getting haircuts? Chloe was a real trooper during the bang trimming and started to protest when she was trimming the rest of it. I wish I could have gotten a shot of the evil eye she was giving the hair dresser. It was so funny! Here are a few pics.

Jake Before:

Jake After:Wyatt Before:Chloe's First Haircut:Can you see that evil eye?:Chloe and I went to a lovely baby shower for my Cousin Matt and his wife Amy. Chloe got to play with her second, third or whatever number cousin, Carmen. Here's Chloe and I. She was still a little under the weather but has turned the corner and seems to be fully on the mend. She's sleeping well and making up for lost time with food.I took a bunch of pictures of Chloe trying to get a good one for her birthday invitation. The best ones were when Wyatt was making her laugh. Here are a few outakes.

Sick Baby

Chloe has been one sick puppy lately. She has an ear infection and is on her second antibiotic for it. She has had two viruses back to back complete with fevers, one was up to 103.3 under the arm. I thnk she's on the mend and will be going back to daycare today. Yesterday Grandma stayed with her and they had some god quality time together. She was so mad that I left that and kind of blamed Grandma. When my mom asked, "Can I sit my you?" Chloe said, "No." But, she warmed up and even snuggled with grandma a little when her ear was hurting.

These pictures are from one day last week when Chloe insisted on wearing Jake's raincoat. She was just feeling crummy and would cry if I took the coat off of her.