Clean baby

I am one of those people who doesn't mind picking up a piece of food that just dropped on the floor and eating it. I am not an "over-sanitizer", slathering on the Purell at the slightest notion of a germ. So I wonder where Chelsea got this...

Tall Tale

And the stories begin...

Nick woke up one morning this week and he had wet his bed. The conversation went something like this,

"Mommy, I'm all wet"
"Oh, you must have peed in your bed while you were sleeping"
"No, I didn't"
"Then how did you get all wet?"
"It was water"
"Where did the water come from?"
"Tommy jumped up on my bed while I was sleeping and knocked the water over in my bed"

This poor cat gets blamed for everything!!!!

Holy Birthdays!!!

January means lots of birthdays for our friends and family. We kicked them off this weekend with 3 parties!!! Our neighbor's daughter Zoey turned three and they had a party at Kid's Club Funland on Sat. from 12-2. It was kind of like Chuck E Cheese with games and tunnels and ball pits. Nick had a blast climbing, sliding and running. Chelsea had a blast being pushed around in the cozy coupe for 45 minutes (she refused to be taken out...I opened the car door a couple of times and said "want to get out" and she leaned right over and slammed the door shut!) After that party we headed up to Haverhill for our friend's daughter Emily's big 1. The kids slept almost the whole way so they were ready for the next round when we arrived an hour and 15 mins later. Everyone had a great time and the kids were troopers. It wasn't very surprising though that the next day everyone (including mommy and daddy) took extra long naps before we headed over to Uncle Pete's to celebrate Auntie Karen's birthday. Again, not surprising when meltdowns set in a little bit earlier than they should have. It was a busy weekend but we had lots of fun celebrating everyone's big days.

Happy Birthday Emily, Grammie Sue, Zoey, Grampy Gary, Baby Kate, Gavin, Auntie Karen, Auntie Tara, Addison and Drew!!!!!! (I think I got everyone)

Daddy and Chelsea at Kids Club (look at how many tickets Ryan got playing SkeeBall with Nick's tokens!)

Nick, Zoey & Kylie riding the carousel

"We're going on a trip in our favorite rocket ship!"

John, Emily, Chelsea, Nick and Sawyer at Emily's birthday party (these are the children of Ryan's oldest and best buddies...and there are more on the way...soon the kids will out-number the adults)

Happy 2010!

Nick started the New Year out with a classic (quite logical) quote/observation. Well, technically it was on New Year's Eve. We were at my cousin Lori's house for appetizers and cocktails. She has two teenage girls with whom Nick is IN LOVE. Sometimes they babysit for us and he calls them "the girls". So cute. At one point they went upstairs to get dolled up for a party. When they came down one of them had replaced her sweats with ripped jeans. Very ripped jeans. She was standing next to Nick and when he took in her new attire he said, "Victoria, what happened to your pants?" Everyone was dying laughing and then we were all kind of looking at each other like, yeah, what happened to her pants??!! Why would she wear those??!! I guess we are turning into old fuddy duddies!!! I love that young kids have absolutely no filter and actually come out and say what is on everyone elses minds.

Wishing everyone a wonderful 2010 filled with peace, laughter and lots of love!