Happy (belated) birthday!

My baby boys turned 2 on Monday. I can hardly believe it. Just yesterday, it seems I was waddling around waiting for their arrival.

John Carter
 

John, you are all boy. You love anything related to balls and sports. You have one helluva arm and Mommy and Daddy are really putting all their eggs in the "John's going to be a professional athlete" basket. You are a real daredevil and love to take flying leaps off the couch.  You love giving kissies and you are so tenderhearted.  You are my baby that still loves to snuggle. You get your feelings hurt easy and you get mad easily. You are world famous for your fits where you lay face down on the floor and scream! :) You march to your own beat and only do things on your terms. If you don't want to do it, you're not doing it.

Evan Connor


 

Evan, you are such a good kid.  You rarely ever cry, whine or get in trouble.  You are kind and are always the first one to share your toys or check on one of us when we have a boo boo or cough/sneeze. :) You love reading and literally can sit and study things for close to an hour. You are our little intellectual. We are convinced you will be a rocket scientist one day (in case the John as a professional athlete doesn't work out, we have your successfulness to fall back on).  When you do get upset, the whole house is going to know about it....your face turns red and veins pop out! You definitely look up to your big brother to see if the daredevil act he is about to commit is safe....and then you do it too. 


We love you both to pieces.  You are each so unique, but also similar in a lot of ways.  You have rocked our world by going from a family of 3 to 5, but we have loved every minute of it. I can't wait to see what the two of you grow into.  I'm looking forward to the next year to see what new boy adventures the two of you bring to our house.

Love,

Mommy

Baby Jaguar

For those of you who don't know, Baby Jaguar is Diego's sidekick (SEE PIC BELOW---isn't he cute?)

The almost four year old loves Go Diego (*barf*). For weeks, my kid has been saying she wants a baby jaguar birthday party. I came up with the idea to do all leopard print decorations (same thing as a jaguar, right?!). Run around all day today buying stuff.....get home pumped to show it to her. She tells me she wants a camouflage porcupine party!!!!! What the hell? I don't even know what that means?!

She's still getting a Baby Jaguar party, but would be interested if any moms out there know what a camouflage porcupine is and where I can find one!

Will I blog more now that I have joined the awesomeness that is the iPad club?

Probably not is the short answer...because I am so damn hooked on this iPad. Seriously people. It's getting ridiculous. I may need a 12 step program.

In other exciting news, I have been on a 2 week vacation from work! Hooray, but I am already getting sad to see it end and I don't have to go back to work until Tuesday. I never get as much accomplished as I thought I would before I went on vacation. My house is still a wreck and I haven't gotten rid of all the baby stuff I wanted to, but at least I am about to beat this awesome game I found as an app on this iPad...quell. Seriously addictive. You have been warned.

This past weekend was my birthday...god, 32. Puke! But at least I got this rockin' iPad just for turning 32 (thanks hubby)! My mom came up for my birthday and we took the kids out to lunch at one of the few kid friendly restaurants, cicis pizza (chuck e. Cheese is the devil and I refuse to go there without tranquilizers). Of course in typical fashion, a disaster of some type ensues....Maddy had a complete meltdown over a gumball. See photo of partial meltdown below:

The boys enjoyed the buffet part...someone remind me why I gave chocolate brownies to two 11 month olds?!?

And the other awesome part of the weekend...my mom's homemade cheesecake!


That's Maddy putting in my birthday candle!! The best part of this particular cheesecake was that there were no extended family members around to help eat it and Maddy didn't like it! I savored the last sweet morsel last night as my husband commented "Your piece is bigger than mine!". My husband is very perceptive! :)

My almost 3 year old

M's birthday party was this past weekend. Although I am worn out, I am proud to report it was a huge success. The clown was fantastic and boggled my feeble mind.........I have never understood how magician's do it! He was a regular David Blaine.

I can't believe my little girl will be 3 in just two days.  She makes me so proud!  I know everyone is proud of their kid, but I swear this kid is something special.  She is so intelligent. She is working 24 piece jigsaw puzzles by herself. Her language skills are amazing! She knows more words than most 5 or 6 year olds.

M is following right in my footsteps.......and not just on the intelligence part! :) She continues to get in trouble at the sitter for talking during nap time. Just like Mommy did in kindergarten!  She is also Chatty Cathy, just like Mommy! Some days I can't wait for the boys to get old enough to talk back to her.  Her stories are hilarious though. Here is an excerpt of a letter she made me write to her dad tonight:

"A little girl was walking down the street and she got runned over. The little girl stinks because poop stinks in the toilet. Then she fell down and she got runned over. Then she peed. THE END"

I was crying I was laughing so hard!