Meghan's party #2

"I can get my whole cupcake in my mouth"
"ballon, cupcake? um, cupcake and then ballon!"
"yeah, a new toy!"
very cool clothes from aunt teresa!!!
A wonderful visit from Grandma Fran! We Love you! I am so glad she could be there.

Meghan's Birthday party

OK I bought what I thought was an ice cream cake but it was just a frozen plain cake. I am not happy with Kroger Foods right now. Thankfully I had made another cake and had ice cream. It was good but cold.
What a pretty girl I am, see my teeth! I have a cool gap!
Look I shared ballons with Meghan. I am such a good big brother!
Ok daddy take me to my cake!
Johnny helps to blow out the candle>
Me and my sister Teresa. Aren't we cute???
Johnny is such a cutie patootie!
Ummmmm, pizza....good food......

Out of the fog of illness and back to work!

The kids love to beat up daddy!

somehow the camera jumped in front of a picture of johnny and his big boy snowman. There was enough snow on the trampoline to make one.
Johnny and his starter snowman...the front yard was safer snow..
Johnny's favorite pillow- he's fresh out of bath and ready for bed
Meghan says "see my teeth, better to eat the camera"
Meghan gives Johnny hugs and kisses.

These two kids are joined at the hip these days. Meghan is Johnnys favorite toy and he is hers. She is trying to stand up and he keeps coming up behind her and trying to pick her up...

We had to postpone Meghans christening and Birthday party due to my coming down with strep throat last weekend. A sunday trip to the ER helped to restore my pain levels while Kevin held down the fort. He worked from home and took care of all three kids as well as me. He even managed to get Johnny to constistently go potty in the toliet. He is superdad.

Happy 1st Birthday! Meghan

This was the only way I could get her to quit getting into things for a few minutes.

I can't believe it's been a whole year.....well maybe I can. It's been a long one that went by so fast sometimes. Meghan crawls so quick that the entire house has to be baby proofed. There is a gate in every hall and all the doors have to be closed at all times. Her favorite game is seeing how fast she can get from one room to another.



It is also my baby sister's Birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MILLIE!!!!



School is crazy busy, what was I thinking? So far I have an A in most of my classes but it is only the 3rd week so we will see how it goes. My favorite part of the week is that I get to play raquetball with Teresa. It is a great stress reliever.

A week until Meghan turns 1~

Johnny has a new set of favorite characters from TV. Mickey and Minnie mouse top the list followed by Handy Manny. Of course there is my personal favorite The Doddlebops~I can not get that horrible theme song out of my head!!!

Johnny has a new bed. He picked it out himself at IKEA. It is about a foot longer than a toddler bed. He seems much more comfortable and is sleeping in his own bed all night once again. He loves the tent we got to go on it.

Meghan is all about the grown-up food. Her favorites are pastas and crackers.

Meghan's first spagetti dinner!
I am working on get the kids room kid proof for Meghan. She wants to play in ALL the rooms of the house now.

well the ice and croup is gone for now.....

I will add a few of the pcitures I have taken later today. For now I will let you that we are all feeling better and the roads are clear again.

It has been a really busy week. I started classes and the kids are getting used to being at Aunt Teresa's house during the day. We will have a pretty good routine set up in the next few weeks. It is going well so far. I really love having a class with Teresa. It is a nice change to know someone.

Tarah got her report card for last semester. She is on the A/B honor roll again! She had all A's and an 87 in Algebra. (maybe she will help me with my homework) We are so proud of her. She works hard and has always been such a smart girl.

Meghan is climbing up on everything and trying to stand up by herself. She can eat the smallest piece of fuzz off the floor but still has trouble getting a piece of mac n' cheese into her mouth.

Ice storm incoming!

Well we have hunkered down to wait out the ice storm. It really sucks here. Everything is covered in ice. I am worried we will lose power. At least we have a fire place and could put food outside if needed.

I start school on Tuesday so I have been getting everything ready ,clean and organized as much as possible.

The kids are still fighting off this horrible croup. Lots of mucus and sneezing. It has been almost 3 weeks now. I may have to take them to the doctor on Wednesday to make sure there is nothing more I can do to help them get over this. I have tried everything so far.

Feeling better~

We have all been fighting a bug this week, while we were fighting off fleas. The kids are finally getting over the croup.
I had a great time carrying two small sick kids while I took my 2 giant dogs to the vet and then to the groomers. But the house is bug bombed and the truck was bombed too! I got the chance to wash all the clothes and dishes in the house. It was also a great chance to wash all the stroller and car seats! But the fleas are Dead! (I pray!)

Thank goddness Tarah is home to help out. She is amazing when it comes to helping out around the house.