Monday, November 11, 2013

Baby bumps!

Auntie: 32 weeks - Me: 34 weeks

 

Carnivores

Daddy made a yummy dinner for us!

It's an unfortunate thing for my pocketbook that I have three hungry boys who love quality meat.

 

#1 Fan

Ninja is still playing basketball year round and still loves it. His current team is undefeated this season and has one more game to play.

 

Cut and color

31 weeks pregnant and I got the itch for some change. Antonio had been asking me for years to go red, but I've always been too scared. I figured its time to just go for it.

Before

 

After:

 

It's only up from here.

I was having a horrible, no good very bad day. First, I was extremely uncomfortable being pregnant. Second, Rocket was being a pill. His redeeming act was putting himself down for a nap (the kid hasn't napped in almost 2 years and should have been my first clue that he was sick).

Then, I dropped the lid of my favorite crock pot and it shattered all over my kitchen.

I burst into tears.

 

Later that night I could tell that Rocket wasn't feeling well. He was really wheezy and congested. As he was sleeping he was really struggling to breathe and had a lot of stridor. At 11pm, I finally decided to take him to the ER. His breathing was concerning me and I knew he needed some steroids to open up his airway. That led to us spending the next 7 hours at the hospital.

Thankfully he recovered from this bout of croup quickly and was back to his happy self in just a few days.

We are now up to one ER visit for each child.

 

Seven!

Gambit went ahead and decided to have another birthday and turned seven years old! We spent the afternoon playing arcade games and bowling and having a great time. He is still my clown, always making people laugh. He's still a cuddler and loves to snuggle up. Such a great kid!

Favorite food: pizza

Favorite color: red

Favorite thing to do with daddy: go camping

Favorite thing to do with mommy: cuddle up with her

Favorite thing about school: recess

Favorite toy: legos

Favorite book: Magic Treehouse series

 

Monday, September 9, 2013

Preschool

It's Rocket's first day of preschool!

3 years old

 

This was the first attempt at a photo....

 

Favorite food: macaroni and cheese

Favorite song: twinkle, twinkle, little star

Favorite treat: suckers

Favorite color: green

Favorite animal: elephant

Favorite book: Rescue Bears

Favorite store: BiMart

Favorite activity with Daddy: help him clean up

Favorite activity with Mommy: hugging

Favorite TV show: power rangers - samurai

Favorite movie: ice age

Who are your friends: Griffin and Addi

Favorite thing to do outside: ride my bike

Favorite thing to play with inside: Legos and a big sword.

 

Sunday, September 8, 2013

You can have your cake and eat it too.

 

We'll even throw in some whipped topping.

 

First day of school

First day of third grade for Ninja!

 
First day of first grade for Gambit!
 
The first days of lunches-
I love those lunch boxes.

 

Ta-Ta-Ta- TAYLOR!

Here's how a recent Thursday afternoon went.

 

Athena called me and said that a few more tickets to the Taylor Swift concert the next day were just released. Should we go? I responded, that would be super awesome! She calls back a few minutes later....GOT THREE TICKETS FOR ME, YOU, AND MOUSE!!

 

Much screaming and excitement ensued. Yes, I realize we were acting like prepubescent little girls.

 

So the next evening we went to an AWSOME Taylor Swift concert. We had soooo much fun acting young and carefree :-) As we were walking in a really nice lady and her daughter gave Mouse their VIP bag. It was filled with lots of goodies and awesome Taylor paraphernalia.

And Ed Sheeran, who opened for Taylor, sucked. I was super disappointed with his performance. Oh well, the rest of the concert was amazeballs!