Father's Day Past

Here are a few pictures from

2006 Little Guy/Big Guy shirts

2007 Little Stinker/Big Stinker shirts 

Happy Father's Day

Every year I buy the boys a shirt with a cute saying on it. This year "Big Slugger and Lil Slugger" Then we take pictures in front of my favorite tree out front. (Note to self next year take pictures after naptime ) :) 

This is what happened as soon as we came in :) 




My boys love their blankets! 

NayNay

Colby said a new word today! "NayNay" ( Jake started calling Nathan that when the boys first started to talk...so we figured we would teach that to Colby first since it was easier to say. ) Nathan was sleeping when we got to the mall. So John put him in the stroller. Colby put his hand out as if to say "I don't know" and when he did it he said "NayNay". It was so cute! He kept asking for him until we showed him that Nate was in the stroller! SOOO cute! 

He also crawls into his room to look for him now! 

Can you say long day!

Today started off with Nathan waking up at 7. No big deal except Colby soon followed at 7:20.  We had a VERY busy day planned and I wanted to sleep a little later. No such luck :(

Nate and John headed down the street to watch Matt's baseball game until Colby and I were ready to leave. 

We picked them up on the way out to Lil' Nate's party. We could only stay there for a little over an hour cause next up was Show Week at the Little Gym.  Straight from there we headed to another Little Gym for Kendall and Kylie's birthday party. Then we were off again to Palisades Mall for a few hours before we had to head to the Jackals game. 

We got to the game just in time for thunder, lightening and huge rain storm. So no Jackals game for us tonight. We went to Park West for some dinner and last minute stop at Babies R Us before heading home. 

3 words.... I AM EXHAUSTED!!!  But we had fun!!!

Look at me now

Colby is growing bigger everyday. Yay for him :( for me. My big boy is already so big and now my baby  boy is following closely behind.

Look what he learned to do tonight.

He is too funny. He did it 1 time before I got it on video and as soon as I saw him start to stand up I called John. Not sure if it was just a coincidence but as soon as he realized he was standing he called "Dada". What a smart little man :) 

Now lets all cross our fingers that he doesn't follow in his brother's footsteps and start climbing out of the crib!  I WILL NOT SHARE MY BED WITH YOU, COLBY, YOU WILL STAY IN YOUR CRIB LIKE A GOOD BABY :)

New Trick

I guess we say "I don't know" a little too often around here. LOL. When you say to Colby "I don't know" or ask him "what happened" this is the response you get. :) 

Dishwasher Kisses

Colby was caught in the act. LOL He was kissing himself for a few minutes before I got the camera. Of course as soon as he saw the camera he stopped :( It was really cute he was kissing then laughing at himself :)

Recital Week Craziness is OVER!

It was another great year of dance and 3 great shows! And like every year it was HOT HOT HOT in the gym! The kids all did great. Kayla rocked 3 different number is 3 different shows. Cami and Stephen were in 1 number in 2 shows. (Cami also braved the heat with me during the Sat afternoon show). And Victoria and Alexa danced their tushies off in the Saturday night show! 

The boys had a great time here (less the heat and the air conditioning guys being here all day!) They had their traditional burgers, dogs, ice cream and smores! 

The Saturday night performance had a special guest star..COLBY! One of the older girls took him out on stage where he looked a little stunned at first and then started dancing along to the Pizza Hut song! 

Speaking of the Pizza Hut song...I don't think that I am going to get that song out of my head for a long time! Thanks Cami! And thanks for teaching it to Nate! LOL.

A new star will appear on stage next year! NATHAN! He wants to dance. So I will be signing him up next week. We will see how it goes! :)

Daddy's home!!!

John got home last night at around 9:30. Nate met him at the railing! He was sooo excited!  Of course John brought home some presents ! Nate was thrilled that he brought home a BIG piece of fudge from the Fudgery!!! He had to have a piece right away! While John and Nate were in the kitchen Colby crawled over the the railing and started whinning "Dada". It was soo cute..he was waiting there for his kisses! 

We had been talking to John through video chat on the computer every night. Colby would wave and say "Hi Dada" or "bye Dada". So last night I was on the computer while I was feeding him before bed and he started talking to the computer! LOL !!! I had to have John come into the room so he could see him! TOO cute!!!

Daddy's still in Birdland

Nathan did great again Monday night ...slept until 710. And last night he was asleep by 930 and slept until 810!!! Go Nate! I think John is the whole reason he gets up at night! He knows he is not here so he doesn't even wake up now! I hope that he continues when John comes home! 

Yesterday was a crazy day. It was night 1 of dance recital practice. Nathan went to Jake's house for lunch and to play until Mimi picked him up before dinner. He had a great time with Jake! They played on his swingset, went swimming and just had a blast together! 

Colby came with me to the practice. He also did great! He was talking and dancing and bouncing the whole time! I was a little worried that he would get upset because its sooo  loud. But he loved it. Which is a good thing since he is going to the Sat night show! (John will be here with all the boys! Big crew this year. Nate, Andrew, James, Stephen (he dances in the Friday night and Sat afternoon show) Zachary and Matt! They are going to have a blast in the pool, bounce house, roller coaster. They will once again be roasting hot dogs and making smores! And as long as the weather holds out I am sure there will be some fireworks! :)

Daddy's in Birdland

Nathan was very upset when John left last night to head for work training in Maryland. He didn't want to talk to John at first at bedtime. But finally did and sadly said goodnight to him. He did a great job sleeping all night. (Lately he gets up around 4-5 and makes John walk him back to bed and sleep 2 minutes. ) He got up at 645 and asked to watch "his movie" aka Noggin in my bed. I got up to shower...he came in and asked where Daddy was. When I told him he was in Birdland he got very upset again. :( Then he didn't want to talk to John again when he called. :( Its going to be a long week!

Batter Up.

Yesterday we went to Uncle Batman and Jonny's baseball game! The boys had a blast! 

Nate had a great time driving everyone crazy with his squirt animals! 


Colby was stylin' in my sunglasses! 
Playing ball with Daddy, Brittani and Brittani's brothers.
Nonique and Nate.
Sneaking up on Monique.
Team (mug)shot 

Splish Splash Colbys taking a Bath!

Nathan

I feel like a lot of the post lately have been about Colby. So here is one just for Nate!

He is getting so big! He really is a little man now! He was so excited to have all his "old" friends over the other night! You would never know that he was only 2 1/2 and the rest where 6-12! He could hang with the best of them! LOL. 

He is really branching out and eating better lately. He is still very picky (I wonder who he got that from, he he ) But as long as things are not what they seem he is good. He loves anything in muffins! (I have made onion, sweet potato and carrots, apples and banana muffins so far.) I made cauliflower mashed the other day and he ate it thinking it was mashed potatoes! YAY! And when we went to Johnny Rockets a few weeks ago he ordered a burger like Daddy. He only ate a few bites...but that is a BIG improvement! 

Crawling

So last night Colby starting crawling a new way (again LOL) he now moves both his legs...but still rocks and then does the army man.  

He also has a new love of crawling around the table while the kids eat begging for food! He got Cheerio yesterday. And he LOVED it. I wasn't sure how he would do with it. He did fine! And begging (whined) for more!

He is eating lots of things ! He eats wagon wheels, puffs, cooked carrots, cucumbers, olives, pickles (sorry Nana...she hates the fact that I let the boys have pickles), he has had some chicken, vanilla shake. And had his first taste of Dairy Queen on John's birthday!

Memorial Day

We had a BBQ at our house for Memorial Day and to celebrate John's, Lauren's, Jon's and my birthdays. The boys had a blast playing together! I wish I took some more pictures...(I have to get everyone else's pics). It was a really nice day. Great weather. Lots of food! And some cute kids too! :)

I really love how the boys play together now! I can't wait until Colby can join in on all the fun !!!

Seaside

We took the boys to Seaside late Sunday afternoon. It was Colby's 1st trip! They had a blast!