Monkey is 3!!

(I am trying to play blog catch up! I am so behind! So there will be multiple posts today, I am going to try to make my posts quick ones!)

On May 2 Collin turned 3! I cant believe it!  This year he insisted on having another monkey birthday party! So together we picked out a monkey beach party theme!

Started the party with some racing around on the Radio Flyer Zooms.

 

Then moved on to the Bounce House!!

                 

He was so excited to have so many friends there! Especially the Camenga’s! & his Gracie love!!

Squishy lil Liam!

 

Cake Time!!!

  

Cousin Sophia sporting her cool shades!

    

He had such a fun day! & got lots of great gifts!   

In Love????

 

Tonight at bedtime Collin was doing his usual “stalling” getting into bed. You know the whole game of “Me need a drink!”, “I happta (have to) go poop!”, “Me don’t know how go to sweep (sleep)!”…… Well he did all of these tonight & then completely floored me with this one-

Collin- “Mom… me happta tell you a sneakret (secret)”

Me- “what is it?”

Collin- “Gracie lobs (loves) Collin… Collin looobs (loooves) Gracie!”

Me- “Oh really!?!?”

Collin- “Yep…me do!”

Me- “Who told you Gracie does?”

Collin- “Hers did!

 

LOL!!!!!!!! Guess Emily & I are gonna have to start keeping a better watch on these two!!

Little Rockers!

 

I feel bad that I haven’t had anything to share lately! Really havent had anything exciting going on. So until I have something real to post here are a couple cute pics of my little rockers jammin on their paper jamz guitars.

Christmas Day *2010*

 

 

Santa has arrived!!

The dogs are always as excited as the boys are about Santa’s arrival!

“Oh – My - Goodness!! AC/DC Paper Jamz! Just what we wanted!”

 

“a Bobcat with a snowplow!”    and   “the orange snowplow truck I wanted!”

“This is the best Christmas ever!!!”

 

Team effort!      "What is it?”

“A new train!”

“WOW! An aircraft carrier!!! Awesome!!”

This is what Buddy thinks about the boys getting all these presents!

My little artist!!

After presents & breakfast clean up we got ready to have our family come visit for the day! We always have the holidays at our house, A few years ago I decided that I didn’t want to spend Christmas day cooking & cleaning, but wanted to be able to enjoy the day too! I wanted to be able to relax & watch the kids play with all of their new stuff! So I started an *Open House Christmas*. Anyone is welcome anytime after 1p.m., food is out all day, eat when ever you want, stay as long as you want & relax! It works out really well since some family members “house hop” and this way they can come whenever. I make all kinds of picky food ahead of time so I don’t have to do it that day!

 

This is our niece Sophia loving the new baby that we got her.

Collin zonked out! Such a rough life!

But after his nap he preformed a great little concert for us!

Hope everyone else had a great Christmas! Happy New Year!!

Twas the night before Christmas * 2010 *

 

Christmas Eve after church service we had a little photo session with my boys & my cousin’s two boys.

What a bunch of hams! Especially this one. . .

 

 

Before the boys went to bed I attempted to get a nice picture of them in their new matching jammies. Ethan wanted nothing to do with taking a picture with his brother.

Finally after a dozen bad pics & a lot of coxing I finally got this one.

Then they were off to bed to wait for Santa to arrive. Ethan was asleep within 5 minutes!!

Another day w/ the bestest of friends!

 

Yesterday we had our monthly visit with the Camenga family. As usual a nice laid back day for the adults while the children run around, play & have fun. & I got to enjoy a lot of Liam squishing!!

Not sure why but we never seem to think about taking pictures until the visit is almost over. Here I caught Collin & Grace so nicely watching Toy Story together.

The whole gang!

Ethan could not wait to hold baby Liam, he asked me all day when he could have a turn! But he was quick to pass him off when he started crying!

Poor Collin always seems to get to hold him when he’s crying!

Can’t wait til next time!

Team Work

 

Last week I talked my parents into getting us a new kitchen table & chair set for Christmas. & then I talked them into giving it to us a little early so we could use it during the holidays. The table we had, we had bought from the man we bought our house from (almost 10 yrs ago) & it only had 3 chairs. Collin is getting to the point that he doesn’t want to sit in the hi-chair seat anymore so we really needed something new.

Before the table was put together the boys had a great time being “construction workers” & trying to figure out how to get the box open. They kept singing the Wonder Pets song “Whats gonna work? Team Work!” 

They had their “work helmets” (bike helmets), flashlights, & “work boots” (rain boots) on. They had a rope to tie it down & kept measuring it w/ their little measuring tape.

Here’s the table put together!

The perfect fit for our small corner area.