Glow in the Dark

We were gifted a package of glow sticks by Meme.  The kids love them, and ask for a glow stick every night before they go to bed.  On this particular night, Carter was exhausted.  He fell asleep immediately while Ava started crying about a half an hour later.  I heard Mike whisper "Tracey, come here and look at this."  I walked up the stairs and saw this crazy boy.  He had fallen asleep with his glow stick attached to his sunglasses right on his face!  How in the world could you sleep like this?

Meme, keep the glow sticks coming! 

Parky's Farm

On friday we went to Parky's farm and had a great time!

Mike had the day off, so he joined us as well.

Carter loved riding the horses.  He actually had two horse rides because

did not like the horse ride at all.  As you can see here she is diving off the horse for her Daddy.

Luckily we all liked the wagon rides.

The kids also had fun chasing the chickens.

Ava Franklin.

Carter is in seventh heaven because

the lamb was chewing on his pants!  

Initially Ava liked the lamb, but moments later she yelled at it "No eat my boots!"

Look at Dawson checking out this goat!  "Dad, what is that?"

We were able to watch baby goats eating bottles and a goat milking!  Brave Carter boy even milked a goat!

We had such a nice day together as a family, exploring the farm. 

At the end of the day we were able to get Ava to pet a horse, but she was not going for a ride!  But her favorite thing?  the horses!



Happy Birthday Meme!

Happy Birthday Meme!

We love you!

Cinco de Mayo!

Oh, this kid, what am I going to do with him?  This week I had to venture out with all three to the grocery store (in the rain, no less!) because we were out of milk.  Our house stops functioning with no milk so away we all went.  This is what my grocery store trip looks like with three under three:  Dawson in the car seat in the basket of the shopping cart and Carter and Ava trailing along after me.  This is totally an emergency shopping trip arrangement only, not how I do most of my grocery shopping.  As we are walking down the center aisle with cookies, pop and chip displayed everywhere Carter is saying "that's junk food, that's a sometimes food, that's not healthy for my body, we shouldn't buy that."  (Good boy, I've trained you well.)  Then we pass a lady picking up a box of fruit loops to put into her cart.  Carter yells at me, in full hearing of this particular lady "Why is she buying that?  It's not healthy for her body!"  I think my face turned ten shades of red and I got the kids out of there as fast as I could (with a three and two year old trailing behind me.)

This girl is all about PINK.  Which is funny because I've always dressed her in purple and decorated her room in purple because I'm not a fan of pink.  But this is one battle I'm not willing to fight.  Every morning she wakes up and asks to wear either her Steeler's jersey or a pink shirt.  Then at the library today she threw a fit on the ground because I couldn't find a book that was pink!  (We were in the adult non-fiction area looking for space books, and I didn't see any pink books!) 

I just love this little boy to pieces.  Even though 90% of our couch now smells like sour milk because of him, I'm still smitten.  Lately he has started crying if he looks around and realizes he can't see me.  Once I walk back into his line of vision he's back to all smiles.  This has made for some interesting dinner making experiences, let me tell you.

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Baptism and Five Months Old

Dawson, this weekend you were baptized.

You were a little fussy during the beginning of the ceremony, but it was nap time so I totally understand.

You loved having the water poured on your head.

Your godparents:  Michael O. and Aunt Patty

Grandpap Bob, Meme, Uncle Patrick, Aunt Margie and Mommy

What gorgeous baby blues you have.  Daddy calls them shark eyes.  You also turn five months old today, so much to celebrate.  We love you!

Baptism Weekend

This weekend Dawson was baptised.  Since we had family in, Mike took advantage and decided to hold a barn raising (actually a shed.)  Here are some pictures of our weekend:

Ava the Princess.  She had her drink and yogurt melts and didn't move from this chair for a good half hour.

Thank you Aunt Patty for making a delicious cake!

Cousins having a blast on the slide together.

Aunt Patty and the winner of the coloring contest ages 4-5 in Sidney, Ohio!

Congratulations Riley!

Uncle Patrick and Brendan i-phoning it up.

The new soon to be man cave.

Thank you for all your help everyone!  Whether it was helping me cook or clean up the kitchen, watch the kids or hammer away at the shed it helped SOOOO much.  We really have the best families!

Busy Weekend

Family visited.....built (mostly) a shed.......Dawson was baptized......cousins played........ate a pretzel sandwich (yum)...........yes, it was a busy weekend.  I have more pictures and stories to come, but I wanted to post this one tonight:

Carter became a bear and crawled across the yard to his Dad.  Funny little three year old!  Photo courtesy of Uncle Patrick.