Let the games begin!

Let the games begin! As of today I am 33 weeks 4 days. Place your bets as to when you think Baby Liam will be born. all you have to do is click on the box to the right and place your bets. Obviously we already know the gender so no points will be awarded for that. other information is posted on the site that will help. Good Luck!

Easter 2010

Easter was a busy Day for us this year. We started off our morning with an Easter egg hunt in the house. (the bunny hid eggs for the boys) They got their baskets. Brady was so excited that he got a green Wheel Barrow like Daddy's. Cameron was more excited about the candy! We then headed to Church with Brian's family and then had the lunch at Great Babcia's house. We headed back to our house after dinner to see Erica's family. Grammy and pappa and auntie Shanna and Uncle Dave came over. It was such a nice day the kids played out side for as long as they could! It was nice to have some nice weather for a change. We all had a wonderful day!!

Updates on the boys

It has been a while since I've done an update on the boys, so I decided it was time.

Brady is doing well, still loving school, he knows all his letters and letter sounds and is starting to put that together to start some very early reading stuff. He also can write his name and all his letters. He of course is loving th enice weather and the chance to go outside. he is a true daddy's boy and wants to do everything daddy does and wear everything that daddy wears. It is very cute. He and Cameron have been sharing a room since December and while it was rocky in the begining ( they enjoyed being together too much and wanted to talk all night) They are doing great now. Brady is so excited about having another little brother, he talks all about when it will be summer and how we can take the baby outside and to the beach. He remembers comming to visit me when I had Cameron in the hospital so he talks a lot about that too. It 's so nice that he and Cameron get along so well and like to play together now. He is forever curious and always asking questions and that's what we love about him.

Cameron is doing great! His biggest news is that he is 'mostly' potty trained. I say mostly because he has only pooped on the potty once. However he has no problem asking to go pee on the potty, we can go out to stores and be out for a while with out even putting a pull up on him. Cameron loves to sit at the table and do things like puzzles or arts and crafts activities, he has a much longer attention span than Brady ever did at his age. He can count to ten and has learned all his colors and has started to recognize some letters, thanks to Brady. Cameron still doesn't fully understand that a new baby is comming but will kiss my belly. He has also taken an interest in a baby that I have during the day for daycare. He will sit and hold the bottle for a good five minutes, it is very cute. I can't believe that next year he will start preschool on Monday and Friday. This is the same age we started Brady and I think once he gets used to it he will love it. Although Cameron has his 2 year old moments he is growing into a caring individual, with a very funny personality.

Baby Liam is kicking around! he will be 29 weeks tomorow, hasn't been giving me too much trouble except for the heartburn, occasional back aches, and tiredness. He is extremely active! I feel like he never stops moving. Luckily I have managed to keep my weight gain to only about 10 lbs so far, which doesn't seem possible because I feel HUGE but I'll take it.

My handsome boys!

we went to a Baptism today for Meredith Grace! This gave the boys a chance to wear their new Easter outfits. They are so handsome 'if I do say so myself!'

project 365

We are at the end of the another month. I think I only missed 2 days this month, like I said before. No one is perfect and I'm doing my best to take a picture every day. Here are so me of the ones from this month.

First day of February vacation

Seeing as we really aren't getting a February vacation we decided to take the boys to the aquarium, which we were able to get passes from the library to go to, and since we have a season pass to the Children's Museum we decided to do both in the same day. The boys thought the aquarium was awsome! they loved seeing all the fish especially since they have watched Finding Nemo tons of times and we watched it in the car on the way up. After we finished up there we had lunch and went over to the Children's Museum. It was pretty packed, but there was a new curious george exibit that we wanted to see. So we saw the Curious George exibit and a few other rooms and decided to head home. After we got home we decided it was too late for naps and was actually pretty nice outside so the boys got to go outside and play for a while. Needless to say it was early to bed tonight!

Snow Day

The other day, we got some good sticky snow. The first kind of the season to be able to make a good snow man! As you can see from the picture Cameron went out but was back in the house in about 5 minutes. The combonation of cold and wet does not sit well with him. Brady stayed outside for about an hour and made the snaowman with daddy. I will be glad when spring is here and the snow is gone! I am very much done with winter!

Disney on Ice

For Valentines day this year we decided to make it a family affair. We took the boys to see Disney on ice. We started it out with a ride on the train. Brady thought this was awsome! he was all excited to see the "train master" and get a train ticket.

We arrived in Boston just in time to grab some lunch and get our seats and watch the show. The boys both loved it! They were so excited to see al the characters and when Buzz and Woody came out I thought they were going to jump out on the ice!

When the show ended we had some time before our train came so Brian went and got us a treat. he originally had gotten the boys chocolate covered Graham crackers and us chocolate covered twinkies. Well as you can imagine once the boys saw ours the graham crackers went right out the window. Cameron figured out how to eat the chocolate off of the twinkie and pretty much that's what he did.

We had a wonderful day!!! A time that won't soon be forgotten.

KEEP YOUR SICK KIDS HOME!

It isn't often that I rant on our blog. I try to keep it very positive, but something has been bothering me for a few weeks now. Now anyone who does in-home daycare will tell you that it has it's challenges. your house is taken over every day, and your children's toys get broken by other kids, and you make a lunch that doesn't get eaten and thrown away. These are things that come with the territory and I have learned to adapt to. The one thing that I am having a hard time with, is parents who send their children to my house when they are clearly SICK! If a child has a horrible cough and disgusting runny nose, please don't bring them to my house to spread their germs, especially to me(pregnant) and my children. I do MY part. I clean the toys, wash down all the surfaces with anti-bacterial spray, clean all the blankets and sheets, but I can only do so much. Please don't bring me your child and tell me that you were up with them all night because they were coughing so they should take a good nap me, or that they threw up yesterday but only once so they must be fine.
Something that really frustrated me was last week when I was really under the weather and was pretty sure I was getting the stomach flu. (something EVERY other child had had) except my own. When I called some parents to tell them, some very nicely said they would keep their child home for the day, Others responses put me over the edge, such as, well my kids already had it so the won't get it back and then sent their kid and kept them here late to boot! WTF! do people have no regaurd for someone other than themself. not to mention all thses sick children managed to get my children sick, Brady got bronchitis and I was unable to close and give him the full attention he deserved while he was sick. I decided to do this job so I could be home with my kids but at times I feel like they get the short end of the stick. So here we are about three weeks since all this sickness has begun and I am now getting sick yet AGAIN! I mean it's hard to avoid when it seems like ALL you are doing all day is wiping snot from kids noses! I have washed my hands until the are raw, quite literally, but I really can only do so much. So here is my plea, if your kids is sick PLEASE KEEP THEM HOME!!!!

** I do have to say not all parents send their children when they are sick. I do have a few great parents who keep their kids home when they are sick. and I'm writing this on their behalf as well as my own.

making pizza

Tonight we decided to have the boys help out and make their own pizzas. They had lots of fun, and were really into it.

A mom approved remedy!

So I have heard that if you put vicks vapor rub on a kids feet during the night to help stop a cough, it will help. I must admit I was very skeptical. Well Brady has had a cough for a couple of nights, the first night I gave him Delsym and he slept okay. Last night I had given him Delsym but still heard him coughing so I went up and while he was sleeping put the vicks on his feet and put his socks back on. well within 5 minutes he had stopped coughing and slept the whole night without coughing. I would definately use this remedy again before even giving cough medicine. I think I will try that tonight.

Project 365 continues

Well it's the end of the first month of project 365. I have done fairly well. I am missing a few days here and theer and I could have very easily thrown my hands in the air and said forget it, but I decided that I would accept that I'm not perfect and continue from here on out and try to do my best. I'm actually not missing as many days as I had thought maybe 3 in total, but I have 3 days of pictures on my phone and need to figure out how to get them onto my computer.
So I'll share some more of our pictures.

20 weeks and it's a BOY!

Today officially marks the 1/2 way mark. This pregnancy has been very rocky. in the begining we were told that it may not even be a viable pregnancy and at one point we were asked if we wanted to terminate it. After a resounding NO from us, they gave us another week to wait and one last ultrasound. Low and behold at our 8 week ultrasound we were told there was a strong heart beat and it must have just been too early to see on ultrasound before. Then at 19 weeks we had our big ultrasound, we found out we are having a BOY! We are very excited to have another little boy and think it will be great for the boys to have another brother. 2 days after having the ultrasound we were called by the doctor. I knew this couldn't be good, they never call to tell you everything is ok. They told us that there was a part of the babies head that was slightly enlarged and we needed to go to Dartmouth Hitchcock to see a high risk OB. Luckily they called and were able to get us in the next day. So on Thursday we headed up to the hospital. We met with a genetic councilor first and then had another ultrasound and met with the Doctor. Docotor Kaufman was wonderful and didn't beat around the bush in telling us that everything was fine and it must have been the angle that the ultrasound tech was looking at. We were so relieved to hear that eveything was fine.
I'm starting to feel the baby move more and more and can't wait for Brady and Cameron to feel it. Brady came with us to our first Ultrasound and got to see his brother on TV. he thought that was pretty cool. Although it's another boy we are going to need a few things, we need to get a new Carrier as our old one will have expired, and clothes are a very different season. the boys were born going into fall/winter and this little guy is being born going into the summer so we will need new clothes. Can't wait to start buying some cute summer outfits! Only 20 more weeks! or less ( considering I'm usually induced before my due date) until we meet our little June Bug!

Project 365 continues Jan. 5th -10th

Project 365 day 2

There are 2 pictures for today. I had to get pictures of the boys in their own beds in the same room. and NO, I didn't turn the light on, I found a really good setting on my camera.

Project 365

I heard about this project from a friend and after googling it I found out what it is. The goal is to take a picture every day for 365 Days. The pictures can be of anything, of course knowing me it will most likely be of my children, but I am going to try to take pictures of things that inspire me or I feel are picture worthy, shall we say. Then we will be able to look back at our year in pictures. I'm taking on this challenge. So I started tonight. I felt it only fitting for my first picture to be of the boys being their usual silly selves.

Day 1 of 365
The boys being silly at bath time!

Christmas 2009

After comming home from Christmas Eve dinner the boys had Reinder food to put outside that we had made.

After that it was time to come inside and put out our cookies for Santa and then read "Twas the Night Before Christmas"

Christmas morning was a blast! the boys opened their presents and played with all of them!

Vigilia 2009

On Christmas eve we celebrate Vigilia (the polish Christmas eve) with Brian's family. It is a wonderful tradition, I am so glad our children are going to have such a wonderful tradition to carry on for years to come.