Short Stories

Matt took Nathan outside on the front porch to check out the rain this week.  Sometimes I forget how exciting and new everything is for our babies.  Matt was very wet when he came inside, but it was worth it. Nate didn't stop smiling.

I cut the boys' hair this week. What a production!

The meter reader from RG&E came into the house and said how he just read in a magazine that red heads are a minority, and soon red hair will cease to exist. Ummmm....

Brave Boo. Sick again. We now refer to him as "Fireman Tom" or "Fighter Pilot Boo".  The children are actually jealous that he gets to have so many breathing treatments and colorful medications.  Nebulizers and Antibiotics are my life. Some people ask if I will ever "go back" to being a nurse.
I never left.
(Side Note: Thomas has also memorized each medication, by name. You know it's bad when your two-year-old can ask for Albuterol and Tylenol.)

Nathan can't sleep at night. The coughing begins the moment he lays down. He has been sleeping in the stroller.
 Didn't I just leave this party??

Veterans Day Weekend

Tim and Jeanine made another supreme effort to get here over the long weekend. The kids had lots of time together, playing games and being silly. We loved each moment we had with them and can't wait to do special cousin time again soon!

Serious Times

These children should not be allowed to play board games. Seriously.

They come from a long line of over-competitive, crazy people that can turn the game RISK into grounds for...well....I am STILL mad about it 9 years later. (Asia was mine, Matt. But I really am sorry for throwing the board at you.)

 This game started out so innocently. I wish I had taken a picture of the clock. It was around 6am. The children were still in their early morning happy period. Everything was fine until someone told Nathan that he couldn't be King Kandy, that he HAD to play like the rest of them...according to the rules. We ALWAYS play according to the rules. We LAMINATE the rules up in this house! We have a folder...just kidding.

All joking aside, this next picture was taken seconds before Nathan flipped the board over in frustration and started to eat all the plastic gingerbread man playing pieces. (We are still missing the blue guy...)

Nothing is quite so embarrassing as watching your children act like you. It was mortifying.

I am going to confession this Saturday.

Funny Face

Our children have made some pretty goofy faces over the years.

None compare to Nate-Dawg.

Halloween

This Halloween was going to be awesome. Joseph was to have a party at school that we were all going to attend. Nathan was old enough to make it down the street, trick-or-treating. Sarah and Thomas had been playing dress-up for weeks, preparing for this night.

We woke up Monday morning with colds.
Joseph did not go to school.
We missed the party.
It looked like we might not even make it out trick-or-treating.
I decided that I would load the kids up with Vitamin C, and do some Halloween stuff at home.

Sarah, explaining to everyone how this all needs to get done.

Scooping them out!

Thomas, showing me what he wants his pumpkin to look like.

T-Rex and Dragon

"Show me your tails!"

Cutest Lobster

Looooooooove

Rapunzel, with our indoor jack-o-lanterns.

Pumpkins with Daddy

"If you have to kill a fly, use heavy artillery."

It turned out to be a Happy Halloween, after all!