D'Angelo will celebrate his 3rd birthday on Wednesday so he has become very excited about it. Today he decided that we should practice making his birthday cake. I decided we would make the only boxed cake we had and added a few chocolate chips onto the top. Auggie was napping when the cake came out of the oven- Adeline & D wanted to eat it right away. I let it cool for only 5 minutes then cut them each a small piece. They loved it.

Xavier cut his first tooth yesterday! That could explian why he was only sleeping 30 minutes at a time the few nights prior! Here are my little guys entertaining themselves.

It has been a long two weeks! busy, busy. Unfortunatly now all the kids are sick with colds. Coughing, sneezing, sore throats, no good sleep, no fun. why is it that they seem to be doing great at points during the day & then loose it? Nighttime is the worst.

Another great performance by ADA. Here they are playing the soup can instruments. At least it keeps them happy with I am cooking.

laughing it up while trying to eat

cooler weather means long sleeves for us!

We had a nice day visiting with our good friends Jeff, Susan, their daughter Lucy & dog Enzo. The kids played well together & even allowed us to enjoy our meal (for the most part). It is amazing to me how fast these little guys are growing up. Even Enzo was a little puppy not long ago. I think with the change of yet another season nearing I am really feeling that sweet sorrow of how quickly time goes by yet at the same time wholeheartedly enjoying how much my babies are changing, learning, growing and moving on to all the new milestones in their lives.

Who could that be?

Lucia

BROTHERS!

there is a new park near Gaga & Papa's house. The kids have been enjoying going there often. We had all five kids there on Thursday which was fun.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I didn't leave these little peanuts on the blanket long because they kept bunching it all up trying to get to the rubber pieces on the ground.

hey how'd the pirate get in here?

kissing piggies

this sweet daughter of mine loves her piggies...I just wish she'd stop trying to kiss them!

The big guys just can't stay away from their little brothers EVEN when I put them into the crib!

Here we are in color

Just for fun-

Do you know that it would cost us more than $50.00 to have this made for our car? I didn't order one.

Thanks for showing us where to make this up at Lynz.

Today we had fun, Do you know what we made?

Pretzels!

Yummy!

too many days of rain made me order this jump around thing... we have NO ROOM for this but I needed the kids to have this ASAP! Since D was the only big kid home tonight he got to have it all to himself.

and then D decided it was his new bed

Adeline & Auggie got to go home with Uncle Josh yesterday so D'Angelo, Xavier, Oliver & I headed out to Lamb's Farm since there was a break in the rain this morning. We met up with our friend Debbie & her daughter Taylor. The place was empty today so the kids had wide open access to everything there. We had a nice time but D was so tired he fell asleep as soon as I started driving then still couldn't get awake enough to keep his speech appt. Amanda got her & we just couldn't get D to be a happy kid and play nice- all he wanted to do was curl up & go back to sleep. Better luck next week!

Grampy Walsh came from Arizona to visit us this weekend. We had a nice visit and are excited that he will be back to spend Christmas with us!

Xavier crakin' up!

Oliver looking concerned because here comes his big sister with the ball!

Adeline couldn't even wait for us to get the groceries up into the kitchen. She tore into the grapes before we were done unloading the car!

Busy girl

boys in the tub!

Getting cleaned up for bed