Tummy Time

Everyone knows that you're supposed to put babies on their tummies to help strengthen their arms, necks, and back muscles. Well, with each subsequent kid, tummy time has decreased and decreased.

You know how getting in shape is so painful and hard? Starting a running habit is so hard. And it's so much harder when you run for a week. And then you take a few weeks off. Then you run again for a week. And then you take another few weeks off (this incidentally, is what Scott has been doing over the past several months, and it's killing him!)

I think the same goes for tummy time. Poor Claire. She just hates it so much!





At some point (like in this last pic) you just end up giving up.

PJs

We took this pic a couple of weeks ago. It's kind of blurry, but the boys are still cute in their matching race car pajamas!

MIA

I promise to post again soon. If you can imagine this , I've been busy!

Poor Jack

Claire has an ear infection, and Jack has had an upper respiratory infection that has now turned into a sinus infection. So they both have fevers, and Jack is now starting to drain the funk that has been in his head for the past week.

Jack has obviously not been feeling well, and he's been on this side of cranky for the past several days. Yesterday, Jack unfortunately got in a fight with something in his room (no, for once it wasn't Cade) and he lost the fight. The bridge of his nose took a beating and it swelled up enough to make Jack resemble a rhino. If I had a wide angle lens, you'd get a better feeling for the war wound Jack received yesterday.

I'm sure CPS is already on their way. Poor kid.

Simple Joys in Life

Last Friday, we received a package in the mail from my Uncle Kenneth and Aunt Ginger. Inside was a cute outfit for Claire and some treats for the boys. Jack ate his dinner and was therefore allowed to eat a little bit of his treat: M&Ms that were inside a miniature Lightning McQueen lunchbox. Jack ate his chocolate, and then I grabbed the camera because he looked cute with chocolate smeared across his face. This kid wastes no time: while I got the camera, he got the rest of his M&Ms out of the bag and started eating them. So I caught him red-handed and brown-mouthed. But he sure was happy. (incidentally, Cade did not eat his dinner and so he was somewhere off-camera, pouting.)

It's a bird... It's a plane...

No, it's our kids rolling dangerously on a toy not made for that purpose!

Cade & Jack have been having a blast when Scott pushes them on a Mega Bloks firetruck. It was a lot of fun until the wheels literally came off the firetruck.

Donuts with Dad

Last Thursday at Cade & Jack's school was Donuts with Dad day. It's, um, pretty much what you think. The kids ate donuts with their daddy before school started. . Much fun was had by all, until all the kids hit their sugar high after the parents left. Glad I wasn't there for the crash!

A Very Busy Weekend

Whew! It's been nice to relax today. We've had a very long weekend! Scott's brother Steve and his fiancee Maria got married Saturday afternoon at a beautiful church in Fort Worth.

Things started with Scott's parents dropping by the house on Friday afternoon to see the kids for a few minutes. Here is Lin feeding Claire:



Cade was the ring bearer in the wedding on Saturday and looked so dapper in his tux! Cade stated that the tux made him look "cool." A few shots of Cade & Scott in their tuxes.






Unfortunately, I didn't get any pictures of the wedding (the lighting was bad in the church and flashes weren't allowed to be used for pictures at the altar), but trust me, it was a beautiful church! I think the marker outside said that St. Patrick's Cathedral had been built in in the late 1880s.

And then later, the reception was held at a huge Vietnamese restaurant (Steve's wife is Vietnamese). Now these people know how to party. The reception started at 7 PM. At 8, the nine-course sit down dinner started. Somewhere around the 3rd or 4th course, the traditional tea ceremony took place; this normally is done on the morning of the wedding, with the groom and his family coming to the bride's house to do the ceremony. But Steve & Maria wanted to keep to the Western tradition of the bride & groom not seeing each other before the wedding. So they did it at the reception. Basically, the parents and grandparents of the bride & groom sit in chairs, and the bride & groom kneel and serve them tea. It's a way of honoring the parents & grandparents. And then the parents & grandparents give the bride & groom advice and words of wisdom for their new life together. Pretty cool tradition!

Lots of other things took place as well (cake cutting, wedding party going to each table for a toast of the couple and the giving of cash gifts, etc.) But by 10:30 PM, Cade & I were starting to tank and it was time to go. Steve & Maria were just now doing their first dance, so the real party hadn't even begun. I'm guessing that the party went on until at least midnight. That's a five hour reception. I bet Steve & Maria were exhausted!!!

Congrats Steve & Maria!

Cade's first...

tattoo. And he's so proud of it. I don't normally let my children draw on themselves, but then, they don't normally want to draw on themselves. I was shocked to see Cade writing on his arm (he normally freaks and panics if he gets marker or paint on himself) with a pen.



And with his new tattoo, Cade busily circled everything in the Toys R Us Christmas catalog that he wants for Christmas. We've obviously been very successful at teaching our kids to be content with what they have.