The Life and Times of a 4-year old and Other Stories

My first baby boy turned 4 years old last week!! (and I'm finally posting the pics!) It's hard to believe he's 4 already! It seems like just yesterday he was the baby of the house... ;)

Look at those dimples :)

Baby Sister LOVED the birthday cake, she's been asking for birthday cake every night since!

Eatin' a little cake and tellin' a little story...

It was a funny one ;)

Time for the presents!!
Woo Hoo it's the SpongeBob pole he's been after :)

Can you tell he likes Cars?

Maria got him to pose with some of his presents! ;) Cheesy smiles and all!

Lounging in his new Cars chair

Maria has been busy taking a lot of other pictures, and she's gotten some pretty good ones!

Just hanging around with my big sis :)

Beatrice sneaking a seat and brushing Dora's hair (sorry but it's just not going to help!)

We've been working on potty training with Duncan, he has good days and bad days. But as you can see he had a pretty good week! We started the chart on Monday, but after the first couple of days he just kind of started sticking them where he wanted - the stickers there are just from Monday through Thursday.

Beatrice decided to take a gander at the sale ads.

I think she's looking for a job ;)

Bye Bye Summer :(

We actually spent some time playing in the yard last week, as it will probably be one of the last weeks for it! We actually had a frost warning last night! :( and for the next couple of nights as well.

This is Maria's idea of playing in the yard ;)

He was actually pulling her around the yard for a bit, but of course as soon as I got the camera she was pretty much done.

Hanging out inside watching a movie :)

Aw

And now some new baby pictures ;)

Amazingly was able to catch some pics of him smiling! :) He's been doing that for a couple of weeks now and is actually laughing! :)

Now I'm off to go dig out some winter clothes for the kids :*( This summer went by way too fast!!

Two Amazing Months!

Well, it's been forever since I've updated this blog!! I have tons of pictures that I have been totally itching to post... some of them will have to wait, so you are only getting the 2 that I was able to upload a month ago and a bunch of pictures from the last couple of weeks - most of them taken by Maria :)

I finally figured out my uploading problem: my camera hates me. Seriously, it is something funky with my camera. I can get them onto the computer with no problems. When it comes to uploading to the blog or facebook, I can only get a picture to upload half the time - I have to try most of them 2 or 3 times, and only one at a time... which is why I've been so awful about posting pictures! It was taking all day! I finally discovered that my picture file sizes were monsterously huge, so I shrunk them down to a little over 300k (they had been almost 3meg each!). But I was met with the same issues. Maria had taken a bunch of pics of Beatrice's b-day, and I had taken a few with her camera (which is our old [not so nice] one!) and guess what, no photo issues whatsoever! I was able to upload them 5 at a time!!! And the real kicker? The file size for those pictures was a little over 1meg. 3 times the size of the 300k pics! So I'm perplexed, but downgrading back to our old camera, and letting Maria use the fancier one.

That being said: get ready for tons of pics! I was so excited about being able to upload pics that I forgot about doing them in reverse order, so bear with me this first time, it's a tedious task to rearrange all the pics once you have a bunch of them posted...

Anyway, Dylan is growing like crazy! He's probably getting close to 12lbs, and he's already smiling AND laughing!! He's a very happy and social baby when he's not colicky. And he just really loves listening to the other kids talk. His first smiles were for Beatrice and Maria.



We finally broke down and cut Duncan's hair! He wanted to grow it long like Dad's, but he's such a sweat-head and it was in his eyes all the time. You could just tell he was annoyed by it.

Look at how long it was :)

I told him to smile for me and I got a couple of funny smiles ;)His first shave! ;) He had some wicked sideburns!Look at that pile of hair!!Beatrice turned 2 a couple of weeks ago!! It's amazing how fast time flies. Not too long ago she was my little baby girl, and now she's starting to talk a lot more and speak really well!

And look at those curls!


The girl is completely obsessed with Dora! *and notice how nice the new Dora's hair looks...

Aw :)

She's already starting to comb the hair...And here is what Dora looked like the next day... *now her hair is exactly like all her other Doras, dread-locked! :)

And finally, the 2 pictures I was able to upload a month ago but never posted...

All the kids!!

And Dylan at just a few weeks old ;)

I'll have to post more of his first couple of months later when I can shrink them...

This summer went by way too fast! Maria and Emma had a great time at camp and want to go again next year. Even though the summer went too fast Maria has been looking forward to school starting next week. And in a month or so when Duncan is ready for pre-school he will be joining her.

Anyway, phew... I promise I won't wait so long before updating again! ;)

First Week and a Half :)

Things are going really well, and everyone is adjusting to our new little addition.

Amazingly, Duncan and Beatrice are really quite taken with Dylan. Baby sister is really sweet on him and likes to kiss his head and rub his hair. She calls him "baby mine." Duncan is super full of questions about what he can and can't do, and what he has and what he's doing. He also loves to count his fingers and toes :)

Dylan's first bath :) He wasn't too thrilled with the experience ;)

Beatrice making Dad hold her babies ;)Running off with her dolls ;)