Happy Sweetie Day

I love Valentines Day!! No different than any other day, I use I Love You Day as an excuse to shower all my babies with even more kisses and lovins! Yesterday, Jackson had his Valentines party at preschool , receiving a load of goodies and cards from friends. Couldn't help but sneak into his classroom for a few snapshots during snacktime.


This morning my little sugars awoke to a bag full of candy surprises from mommy and daddy along with a few fun books to read before night-night. Needless to say, my little sweeties are on sugar overload!!!

Our little Goobley (Maddox), has really started to speak clearer in the last few weeks. A few cute things he has said lately.

-In the bath after I rinse his hair... "Toul"

-Slamming his hand on the refridgerator... "Ju"

-At nap, yelling..."booh" and then looking at the pictures, yelling "bye ma"

-Unwrapping gifts... "go trow ay" and running to the trash. This one Dan and I are extremely proud of.

Enjoy a few cute pics taken over the last few days...and I could post at least 10 more:)

Tiny Girl and the Da-tar

Little miss had her 6 month visit to see the Doctor this morning and she weighed in at a whopping 13 lbs 12oz and 24 inches long, still safely staying in the 5th percentile for both. My tiny girl eats wonderfully and loves eating fruits and veggies now, she must stay so tiny from all those smiles and giggles :)
So... our new hobby at the house is playing "Guitar Hero", which Maddox loves to yell DA-TAR!!!!!! Little cutie can say few things that we can actually understand but we all know what he means when he asks to play "Da-Tar". He has a little Leap Frog guitar, which he got for Christmas from Grampa Joe, that he digs out every time he, Jackson, and daddy want to ROCK! Jackson and he also enjoy dancing and tackleing each other to the music while daddy plays. Fun stuff to do while it is still cool and dark outside in the evenings.

Fun with friends

This past weekend our tribe made a jaunt to visit the Daniel family, our friends in Arkansas. We all had soo much fun!!!! Claire, age 4 (my future daughter-in-law), and Jackson were joined at the hip from arrival , playing dress-up, art projects and watching movies. Landon, age 2 (the most beautiful brown eyes on earth), and Maddox had a blast playing with Landon's awesome train set and running through the Daniel home.

Friday, we all made a trip to Chuck E. Cheese. What a fun place to be. Jackson and Claire kept the play place/slide busy, while mommies and daddies chased the little ones from fun game to even funner game. After a bit, the bigger boys, Geoff and Danno disappered playing video games themselves!!! Afterall, it is "where a kid can be a kid"!

Saturday, we spent some time at their beautiful outdoor mall. The kiddos made cute cuddlies at the Build-a-Bear workshop before moms and dads did a little bit of shopping. Amidst the shopping, Jackson leans over to me and whispers wide eyed and very serious, " I asked Claire to marry me mommy". For those of you who do not know the ongoing saga of love between Jackson and Claire, they have been betrothed to marriage since birth. Jackson and I will look at pictures of the Daniels and he will say dreamily, "Oh mommy, isn't she so beautiful? I am going to marry her one day when I am 25." I have countless pictures of the two of them hugging and kissing. It is absolutely the sweetest thing.

Good times, good company, and good friends. We are so thankful to have such special friends in our life who we can share and have fun times with. Dan and I had such a wonderful time catching up and making memories with our friends and know that many more memories our bound to come.

House of pain and agony

Last week, needless to say was the pits!! Maddox came down with some horrible puking virus for a little over 24 hours. 2 days following the massive loads of laundry, the a HUGE geyser exploded!!!! Dan, Jackson and I were all knocked out, laying next to the toilet, unable to make it into another room, sick...all at the same exact time. IT WAS AWFUL!!! I felt so bad for my babies because there was no mommy to snuggle and cuddle with them for 2 or 3 days (as we usually spend our time huggin' and spreadin' some lovins!). A hero prevailed in the form of Dan's sister Aunt Christie, bestowing treasured gifts of coca-cola, face masks and latex gloves. She made us some yummy bland-o food for our empty and achy tummys and took time to hold the babies. Yeah Aunt Chrisie!!!

Thankfully a prayer was answered in that our sweet baby princess Ava came through without being plagued with the nasty stummy virus. Yeah sis!!! Love a healthy smiley baby! Everything is wonderfully back to normal. I'm lovin on my babies and doing just the regular 2 loads of laundry per day.. yeah-hoo!!!!

Mickey and me

How sweet is this? Maddox is currently infatuated with Mickey and the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. When I called him up for his nap on Sunday afternoon, he tromps into his room with an armload of characters. He plops into bed and lays each one down ever so delicately on the pillow next to his. After I knew he was out, I ran down to grab my camera and capture my little man and all of his new sleeping partners. What I found was so much sweeter...

Daddy's Birthday

Dan and I were lucky enough to go out for a "date night", a first in who knows how long. Seriously, neither of us could remember the last time it was just the two of us, no kiddos, no clients, no coworkers, no friends, just us. We were celebrating Daniel's 31st year of birth at dinner in a wonderful restaurant, with cocktails , hors 'd oeuvres and a dessert!! Who has time with any of those things with 3 kids? The kids are always well behaved in a restaurant but, come on, there is always chicken to be pulled apart and cooled, ketchup to be set out on a separate little plate, cereal to be spoon fed, and sticky hands to be wet wiped. Never trading any of those sweet things for the world, we are making an official commitment to have "date night" more frequently since we both had such a wonderful time together, just the 2 of us.

That being said, the kids had tons of fun watching the big boy daddy open his brightly wrapped presents, decorating the kitchen with balloons and streamers, meeting him at the door and yelling "happy birthday" when he walked in the door from work, and lastly, blowing out the candles on his very special homemade by kiddos birthday cake.

Happy birthday baby! We love you soooooooooooooooo much!

Girly girl

Last week we made a road trip to pick up some bows that I had custom made for Ava. Did I even realize how ga-ga I was going to be over this girl thing??? After going home and putting the first one on her and giggling over the cuteness, I wanted to pull out every outfit in her closet and have a bow made to match!! (unless they already had a matching hat, of course.) I never realized I was going to be this excited over a little girl. I can't wait for the shopping trips, the hours at the hair salon with cut colors and weaves, the outings to get our nails done and , and , and...all of the little things that I CANNOT wait do with my daughter.

I can't get enough of my sweet baby boys, but I am going to have so much fun with my baby girl and all of our girly, girl time together!!