Fun Day!

We tried to enjoy one of the last nice days of the fall by doing things outside yesterday. First, we headed to Chesterton to the European Market to look at the local goods. It was fun, the kids really enjoyed the fact that it was right on the train tracks and several trains passed while we were there. Then, we headed to The Port drive-in for lunch. I didn't think it was such a hot idea to let them eat in the car so we grabbed a picnic table and had a nice lunch outside.

Then, we headed to the park where we ran off our lunch, literally. The kids were running from one tree to another "racing" each other. Which we of course love because we are thinking about bedtime, even at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

Then we came home and had a cookout! We cooked hot dogs on "sticks" in the outdoor fireplace and then ate outside. Then for dessert we made smores made outside, but had to eat indoors because the bugs are TERRIBLE! You can literally be eaten alive in a matter of mintues! Poor Olivia has a huge bite smack in the middle of her nose!!! Which of course, swelled and made her eye puffy!!!

It was a great day!!!!

Movie Night!

We had our first official "Movie Night!" We thought we'd try and find a movie that the whole family could enjoy for our first Friday night movie night. We kicked it off with "Speed Racer." Carter of course was thrilled, Olivia was somewhat interested (she likes Trixie), and Annabelle was along for the ride. We had popcorn and juice and everyone was happy! Annabelle lasted about 30 minutes, Olivia about an hour, and Carter watched the entire movie, happily!

Not sure what's on deck for next week, but maybe something the girls would enjoy more!!!

Picture Day!

Here are the twins on picture day at the school. They were so excited to wear their "beautiful" dresses! Annabelle, who is notorious for not smiling and striking a "Mona Lisa" pose, actually got into the car when I picked them up and said,"I smiled Mommy, and the lady had a duck on her head!"

Carter who acts like the mere 9 months between them entitles him to some kind of "been there done that attitude" says, "Yeah, yeah, she had a duck on her head."

I've been bad, very bad...

at updating my blog. I have to be honest, I have cheated on my blog, with Facebook!!! I would like to sincerely apologize to my ever faithful blog, and its readers (my thoughts are that there are several of you out there!) But now that the novelty of the Facebook was waned, I am BACK, full force to be here for my blog!!!

What's been going on here? Sick, sick, sick, sick, (yes, that's 4 sick kids!) How this happens so early in the fall is beyond me!!! All 4 had fever, vomiting, headaches. Yes, there were 2 nights of all night vomiting, where we were doing laundry at 3 a.m.

I am not looking forward to cold/flu season!! Yikes!!!

Here are some photos, Cooper is getting SO big now! She is 17 months now and is CHATTY, we are in trouble!! She can count to 5, can say pretty much anything and uses about 30 words on a regular basis! She amazes us everyday!

We had a fun little party for my birthday last week, you know kids love any occasion where there is cake!!!

Rain, rain, go away!

We are still dry here, barely, there is no school today because of the heavy rain that we had all weekend. Carter said, "Mom, I thought you said hurricanes couldn't get us because we don't live on the ocean!" I said, well, I guess I was wrong!!! We got over 9 inches of rain yesterday! The good news, both of our houses are dry :)

We finally got our pictures scanned in from the beach! Here is one of the ones that we had taken. I am not going to debut the other one until Christmas, I am going to use it for our Christmas card (I can only handle one family photo a year!)

Anyway, here is one of the shots!!!

Popcorn Fest!

The kids were taken to their first ever Popcorn Parade! Carter and the girls had talked about it all week long and were so excited that their Papa was coming to visit, and their Aunt Ginger was coming to town! We took the kids down by the Franklin House so they could get the full experience (they are on a need to know basis about the rest of the fest, we only are showing them one thing at a time, can you imagine the CHAOS if we took them to the kids area?) So, this was actually their first real parade. Carter loved hanging out with Jack and Carlo and some other friends from school, that was really more important to him than the parade. But the twins really loved the bands, and the cheerleaders (especially Belle, we need to start working on her gymnastics skills if she has any hopes of being a cheerleader!). Annabelle announced that when she grows up, she wants to be a drummer, with sticks. Now, we weren't sure if she meant the band Styx or just sticks in general, I guess time will tell.

Basically it was a VERY long parade, the kids loved it, and we were ready to get them home and to the sitter in a few hours, so we go head down to the fest! It was really nice that Papa and Aunt Ginger made the trip to see them, it's so important for them to see their family, which doesn't happen often around here!!!

It was a great fest, Jason made it out in one piece, and it was a success, that's all you can ask for!!!

Here comes trouble...

Cooper has officially hit some new "status", she's not a baby, not quite a toddler, but yet she seems to be getting into SO much trouble! She climbs on the counter, she moves the bar stools, and her newest thing, which has put me in my own personal h*** is that she can open doors! Which means, she can empty a closet, ransack my shoes, get into everything under the kitchen sink, you name it. I know, I know, I should be "baby" proofing, but honestly, it's just a short amount of time, why ruin all the new fresh cabinets, and doors in our brand new house? I will just continue to redirect, redirect, redirect. Although, by about 6 p.m., I've had about all I can take!!! Oh well, again, this too shall pass!

First Day of School!

YIPPEE!!! The day that I have been longing for has arrived!!! The kids were excited, I was excited, Jason was excited, but poor, poor Cooper, she really thought she was going! She was trying to get dressed like them, she really would have gone I think had we let her! Oh well, January is right around the corner, she'll be there soon enough!