Eat your WHEELS and BALLS!

Nick loves his veggies. We call them all fun names and he loves to dip them, in anything! We went to CiCi's Pizza last night and he ate a FULL plate of veggies before he realized they had pizza.

Here is a fun Wheel with an olive on it. (balls are peas)
Nick loves to be clean and make sure everything is in its place. A little OCD. . .maybe (but definitely not from me!)

After dinner Nick helped me mow and water some plants I am trying not to kill. They are already half dead, but maybe they will pull through.
This morning we spent nearly an hour putting together this puzzle train set. We do it almost every day but Jeff and I are obsessed with having the train track go in all the right directions and Nick just sits and puts it together, over and over and over again. If we don't play with him, he accidentally drops some and needs help putting it back. What a con artist!

Pancakes!!

Today I tried Hope's from scratch pancake recipe. It was WONDERFUL! I used the applesauce and half whole wheat flour and it was REALLY, REALLY good. I will never use a box again! (unless I'm out of eggs). Thank you Hope for such a great recipe, I will be looking for some more useful and healthy recipes to come:)

Nick got a cooking set from Cracker Barrel (where Jeff works and we get a 40% discount) so we decided to make handprints and footprints for keepsakes. He really loved it!

Alex is in my FAVORITE wool cover here. He is almost too big for it so I am using it as much as possible. I need to crochet some but don't seem to have the time with work lately. Perhaps I will before he grows out of this one. He looks like a little hippie from a commune here!

PICTURES!

My Whitey baby and my Chicano baby.

So we went to the Picture People in the mall today since we had a coupon. I like them because they use large format cameras and tend to do a pretty good job. Today was much better than the last few times but we had a different photographer. So here are the few we bought.

Such a happy little boy. Seriously, he never cries. I thought it was a myth that babies would actually sleep through the night and in their crib!

That is Corn in his pocket, it seemed to make him happy at the moment.

Me and my boys

My boys

Alex is starting to eat solids. We have tried a jar of baby food someone gave us of Squash and we also tried bananas. So far he seems to like it.

Nick snuck this in and tried to feed brother. He thought that was wonderful! Brother didn't seem to mind too much either.

Angel is always trying to put her nose in when there is food around. She LOVES the boys. They love her kisses too.
I took the boys outside for pictures on Sunday since we all looked so nice. The boys look like they are in GIANT-LAND in this chair.

A trip to Milton's house.

So we spent a few days in West Palm visiting Jeff's Great Uncle Milton. It was hot and muggy, not outside, no, inside the house where the A/C hasn't been used in months and some animal climbed into the attic and died! It stunk soooo BAD and we were more miserable than normal. Milton likes to complain a lot (not that I am much better right now) and he loves to talk politics, my least favorite subject. Regardless of how many times you tell him you don't keep up with politics and hate the subject, he will continually ask your opinion. Should your opinion be wrong - Watch Out! But we love him and continue to visit him through a tortured trip. He thoroughly enjoys it and since he has no friends or family left, he really does appreciate the company.

(notice the plaid wallpaper in the background)

Celebrity Look Alike

My Knight in . . . murky waters?

So I had a wonderful mother's day. No throw up and Nick was in a great mood. Jeff worked while the boys and I slept in. We started the day with a milk shake of fruit, milk, OJ and yummy Tofu (Nick's favorite food) and then just hung out and played. Alex ended up cutting his FIRST tooth! Although he wasn't happy about that, I was pretty happy and nostalgic.



When Jeff got home we went over to his Mom's house with his two brothers and had barbeque from the Best barbeque place - Al's (so it is in a gas station parking lot, that does not lessen the greatness of this barbeque!)

The boys all played Tetrus, reaching level 5! (Yes, that is a Super Nintendo, we play Old Skool around here)

Uncle Jason

Uncle Mike

My Knight, he had to wash up after touching these waters!

It rained all day and thundered a lot, should help the smoke situation. I loved it and can't get enough of the storms. But while we were hanging out at Grandma's house, a little girl dropped her bike in the ditch which is usually dry but after a 30 minute hurricane, was full of a couple of feet of water. So Jeff went to help her get her bike and she started crying she had also lost her shoe. I thought she should have just left it and went home but apparently she was worried about getting in trouble (I don't know why, the lack of supervision wasn't her fault!).

So Jeff, being the wonderful guy that he is, took off his shoes and rolled up his shorts to get the poor girl her shoe. Then, he told her to just say she stepped in a puddle so her mom wouldn't be mad. What a great guy, goes out of his way to help a poor little girl lie to her neglecting parents. Eddi said the girl is a big problem and talks back, cusses and just acts out, perhaps Jeff gave her the attention she needs to be a good girl:) Yeah right, but at least she won't get in trouble and she will have matching shoes.

What a great mother's day. I love most the cuddling and kisses that only I get. I love nursing babies and being the only one who can help kiss a boo boo. I can't wait for all of the next stages and hope I am always loved as much as I love them!

Too much!

So Nick has been sick the last couple of days but he was feeling much better yesterday. Good enough to go to the corner (but aren't his panties, I mean undies, adorable!)

We had enough time for a photo shoot. . .

(Smile)

A bike ride once Jeff got home from work. . .

A walk with the girls after that (I WILL burn off the baby fat!). . .

But alas, it was too much. Nick was VERY sick today and couldn't keep much food down. I gave in and let him watch TV, our arch nemesis. But he was feeling better after his nap and will hopefully be much better tomorrow. Hopefully he won't vomit on me anymore during this week, 3 times is a few too many!

Historic St. Petersburg

My boss, Bob, has his office in St. Peterburg, FL. Last week he was out of town so I had to run out to the office to check mail and do a few things. He has a PO Box in the open air station. One of the first of its kind in the 1920's. Alex and I took these great pictures and had a lot of fun looking around. The water is the view from St. Pete to Tampa, It is about a 45 min - 1 hour drive from our house.

So we had a really great day. It is Jeff's day off so we started out by sleeping in, as much as possible with a 5 month old, but he came to bed with us at 5 am and slept until 8 when Nick got up. I made blueberry pancakes and cheese and ham omelets (which I do every day) and then worked for a couple of hours.

After that we went to a place called Pump It Up. It is an indoor play zone with about 10 HUGE inflatable things. They mainly do birthday parties but two days a week they allow little kids to come in and play for a couple of hours. It was $8.00 for Nick and we all go to play. We were only there for about 45 minutes since we were late but it was a really great time. After that we went to the pottery painting place and painted a plate for mother's day. It was really fun but Nick got bored really fast and Alex didn't sleep as long as we had hoped. We finished pretty quickly and came home for a nap. I worked through the boys' naps (Jeff, Alex and Nick) and then we got up and played for a little while so that I could finish some stuff and make some calls.

After that we went out with Jeff's brothers, Jason and Mike to the new Cheesecake Factory in the mall.

Nick loves his uncles and had a really great time playing with them.

During dinner we had about 5 people stop to see Nick's hair and ask about it. On average we have about 5-8 people per outing stop us to see Nick's hair, talk to him or just stop and point and comment. This doesn't bother Nick or any of us. Although we do worry about Nick becoming such an attention hog that he won't be able to stand not getting the attention. So we have thought about cutting it but still haven't decided. It is the cutest haircut you have ever seen, although it requires a little extra work but Nick seems to really like it.

So anyway, we are sitting there eating and of course we amuse each person and talk about his hair and how old he is, yada yada yada. Amusingly enough, if you ask Nick what his name is, he says it is Alex and if you ask how old he is, he says 3, the age he had to be to ride something at the fair. Very amusing to us but no one else usually notices.

So we are finally done after about an hour, waiting for our food, waiting for them to fix it and then waiting for, of course, our cheesecake. As we are walking out the table next to us stops me and asks to take a picture of Nick. I was surprised and said yes and then 3 people at this table pull out their cameras, phones and palm pilots to take pictures of Nick. He hamms it up and says his name is Alex and smiles for the cameras after I tickle him. He wasn't bothered at all, perhaps due to the fact that I took 5,000 pictures of him in the first year.

So Jeff and I were amazed and felt like rock stars or parents of Maddox Jolie or something. Nick could care less but was upset that he didn't get to ride the merry go round before leaving.

We came home and Nick reluctantly took a bath. Here he is getting his hair gel washed out. (Notice how the spikes don't move under the force of the water.)

So we are contemplating the idea of cutting off the beloved mohawk and perhaps getting a military buzz. So far everyone I have asked about getting it cut has said not to and that it would be a shame to lose such an absolutely adorable cut. I tend to agree, but Jeff who never liked it and still doesn't like it is leaning toward the military cut. We shall just have to wait and see. Although I did promise Alex that he and Nick can have matching mohawks when he is two, I can't exactly go back on my word.