And The New Baby Will Be...

A girl! Both boys are so excited, and have already bought her gifts. As for the name, you find out on her birthday!

Yestertime

For those who see Kevin regularly, you have heard him say this. This his how he says anything from "yesterday," to "last week" and any other time in the past. He does not like to be corrected. I like it to much to get him to stop anyway.

Today we were talking about getting ready for Christmas. He mentioned that "yesterChristmas the tree was over there." I almost starting laughing right there.

My Good Looks

Kevin, Colin and I were watching tv last night. Kevin told me that there was a very pretty girl on tv when he was watching with Daddy a few nights ago. He then told me "She was prettier than you." Completely amused (How could you not be?), I told him "I am sure she was."

Then he told me "I told Daddy that she was prettier than you, but he told me she wasn't. But Mommy, I know he was wrong. She was." (Now I am laughing.)

He continued "There are a lot of girls on tv who are prettier than you!" I explained to him that I am not surprised, a lot of really pretty people are on tv. Then I added that Daddy loves me so he thinks I am very pretty (to try to help the guy out).

Kevin replied "But you aren't. She was prettier."

I had to give up. How can you be offended? He was too funny! We will have to make sure that he has more tact by the time he starts dating. It looks like my husband can help him be successful with that....

Colin the Diver

Colin put on his "worker glasses" and told me he was a diver today. Then he proceeded to to pretend to swim around and eat fish and hunt sharks. He even found a whale and fed him some fish. He was just scooting his head around on the carpet, and waving his arms and legs to swim. I took some pictures and video since he was being so cute.

Here is one last picture of the diver wearing his hat.

DTG's Birthday Party

This past weekend, my sister Cathy and I threw a birthday party for my mom, Marcia. She is known to the boys as Downtown Grandma, or DTG. It was originally supposed to be a surprise party, but my mom found out about it within a few hours of us sending out the invitation. Regardless, we went ahead with the party, which was at Favazza's Restaurant on the Hill.

Both of my mom's parents (GGma and GGpa) were able to attend, as well as each of her 6 brothers and sisters. Many of her friends also attending, including ones she hadn't seen in a while. I think she had a good time. She deserved it!

(I wasn't sure what pictures to include of the groups of people, and who doesn't want to see their own picture up versus who does. So I played the safe route. I apologize to anyone looking for their picture. Just let me know and I will post it!)

Cathy and my mom

GGpa and GGma

Steve Patterson and myself

Kevin's Birthday

Kevin had a birthday last week, and the boys were very excited to give him the gifts they had picked out. They had told me a few weeks ago what they wanted to get him, and when we went shopping they had not changed their minds. The boys were so excited that we opened presents at breakfast.

Kevin had told me that he wanted to get his daddy a game, since "Daddy likes to play games with me." He originally told me he wanted "a game for daddy to play with his friends. A game for adults." But when he saw all the games he chose one that he could play with Kevin. He ended up choosing a Scooby-Doo game. (He didn't quite get the premise of gift giving yet. The night we bought the game he told daddy "I didn't get you a Scooby-Doo holder!" I think daddy became suspicious.)

Colin was ecstatic to get Kevin fruit snacks. As you can tell by the look on his face.

Rock Star

Colin really enjoys dancing to music lately. The other night we had on one of our new music channels. Colin started showing off his guitar skills for us. There is plenty more where this came from.

Helping Rake Leaves

Daddy has been working very hard on the siding. So we all decided to rake the leaves last Saturday. The boys loved playing outside, and were very helpful! They both rakes leaves into piles and then even helped bag them.

Their favorite part was jumping in the leaves. Kevin called it is "leaf house." Colin called it his nest. So they acted like birds and I had to feed them worms since I was the mommy bird. Colin told me that he was a baby bird with a hurt wing. I had to wrap his arm in a bandage for him. The next picture is me feeding a (pretend) worm to them. The following picture is me fixing the baby bird's wing.

Feeding my birds their worms!