There's no place like HOME: 9/1/11

Funny and cute things the kids say ...

Tim had 2 tickets for the Warriors game Friday night. So one boy got to go to the game with him while the other would get to go to Lincoln Lopez's house to play. We let the boys choose. First they both wanted to go to Lincoln's house! Then they decided that Miles would go to the game with Tim and Caden would go to Lincoln's. Caden said the prayer that night. He said "Thank you dad can go to work, thank you that Miles can go to school, and thank you that I can go to Lincoln's house." We were all busting up laughing during the prayer.
-November 15, 2007

Miles was at a high school football game with Tim. One of the players had tattoos on both of his arms. Miles thought that was cool (oh great!) and told Tim that he wanted a tattoo. Tim asked him what kind of tattoo he would want and Miles replied with "SpongeBob."
-November 9, 2007

Miles: "Caden Doll is my arch enemy!"
-October 31, 2007

Tonight for dinner I made turkey broccoli casserole with rice. The boys always say that I make gross dinners, but tonight Miles added that "This dinner is worse than school lunch."
-October 22, 2007

Tim took the boys to another football game friday night. This time it was the Concord Minutemen vs. the Dublin Gaels. So this time, Caden thought the "Minimen" were playing against the "Girls."
-October 19, 2007

Last Friday, Tim took the boys to the high school football game that he was covering for the newspaper. The teams playing were the Northgate Broncos vs. the Concord Minutemen. They got to stand on the sidelines and watch the game. Caden thought it was really cool. The next day I was asking Caden about the game. I asked him if he remembered what teams played. He said, "the Boncos and the Minimen!"
-September 29, 2007

Caden is learning to count. He can count to 29 with a little help (but he somehow manages to skip 16 everytime). He gets to 29 and says twenty-ten, For 30. And does the same for the rest of the numbers.
Thirty-Ten = 40
Fourty-Ten = 50
Fifty-Ten = 60
and so on.
-September 2007

Tim and I went out with some friends on their boats. The boys went to the babysitter's house. After we picked them up we were telling them about how Tim got flipped around on all the different tubes. Miles said "So dad, there was 2 people on the tube ... you and your KIDNEY STONE!!"
-August 11, 2007

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Our baby is 3!!

Avery is officially 3!

We had a crazy day of traveling, football and baseball practice and school starting the next day we didn't do much celebrating. We did have brownies and sing "Happy Birthday" to her before we went to bed.

She had a hard time blowing out the candle.

(Yes she has no pants on - that's how it goes when it is the 4th kid!!)

Talking to Grandma and Grandpa Redding on the phone and trying to get all 3 fingers up!

Avery got money for her birthday from both sets of grandparents.

What 3 year old gets cash?? She did!

I'm thinking she is easier to let her pick out what she wants.

The day after her birthday Avery, Zani and I went shopping.

We first hit the Disney Store. The obvious choice since Avery loves anything Mickey or Minnie Mouse. Avery picked out a stuffed Mickey and Pluto right away. Then we found princess jammies. Of course, Zani thought it was her birthday too so she got jammies too. Then we went to Ross and went through every shelf of toys we could find. We ended up getting a princess cash register and a tinkerbell cell phone. Then we had to go pick up Caden from his first day of 3rd grade! The girls had fun birthday shopping and had a hard time just picking a few princess items.

Being silly in their new PJ's.

Happy Birthday to our Avery! We love you so much!!

Avery's funny ...

The other night I finally cleaned out Alexandra's room. It was overflowing with toys - and after watching a few episodes of Hoarders - it was time to clean up. I did it while Zani was taking a nap so there was no protest of toys that should be gotten rid of. I threw away one bag of toys/junk and have another 3 bags to donate.

While I was clearing out Avery and I found this baby doll that

was purchased by my mom at Wal-mart for $3: