6 Months Old!

Victor is 6 months old today! Can you believe it? He is currently working on his 8th tooth. He can roll from front to back, and back to front. He loves to grab onto a lion rattle he has and just shake it, and it's one of the cutest things I love to watch. He is in awe with Derrick, and honestly could care less if Eve is around. He can sit for a few seconds, but isn't too sturdy to be in the middle of the floor yet on his own. He's getting very good at running around in his walker, and the kids have learned how to put their chairs in their toy room so that Victor can't roll into their party! He is very interested in food - he has tried sweet potatoes and carrots and doesn't have a problem with either one. It's so cute when he smacks his lips and tries to savor each spoonful :o) We'll be trying peas in the next day, I'm interested to see how that goes!

New Pics

I wonder if this will make her leave me alone...








Eve doesn't always play with Victor, so this was a big deal for her to HOLD him!

















My two boys!














I haven't heard Dirk giggle like that in such a long time. All three were having a great time laughing, at really nothing at all. Just laughing!










Goofy Dirk. Sweet little Victor. They just LOVE to be by one another!













They are laughing at Eve doing something. I couldn't move the camera back far enough to catch her in the pic in time :o(












Learning how to sit up like a big boy!













I'm SO big!
(or learning how to tell Mom how big the fish was!)











He had SO much fun playing with a newspaper! His hands were covered in black ink. So we won't be doing that again.









Here's a link to the new swimsuit Eve has! She would NOT pose for you, sorry. She ran downstairs to show Dad and Dirk, then stripped it off 2 seconds later.

www.oldnavy.gap.com/browse/product.do?cid=48611&vid=1&pid=657794

7th Tooth!

Well, it broke thru. Tooth #7. This was one of the worst ones yet. But I'm hoping the worst is over. I haven't heard him shreak like that for a long time. Tylenol wouldn't help, ibuprofen wasn't working, Orajel, Anbesol, nothing. Poor little guy. It's not completely in, I can just feel the tip of it. But like I said, I hope the worst is over!

I'm heading out tonight for Mommies and Margaritas with a bunch of friends! I'm so excited! I love this day - we do it once a month!

Oh, and Evie took a really big magnet to our TV this afternoon. Now we have a big green spot and a big purple spot on the TV. Kids. I've said it before, I'll say it again - kids don't cost that much. It's what they break that costs so much!

Lucky 13!

So, who is going to be the lucky 13,000th visitor to this site?! Just click on "comments" located right below this posting! Even if it's just anonymously :o)

I've got cute kids :o)

I like this first one - V drooled all over D's face!

This one below - D got a hold of the camera before I knew it and pushed all kinds of buttons, so it's blurry :o(

New Shoes

Here are Evie's new "Princess shoes" from Gran! She loves them and won't take them off. We'll be heading into getting her pics taken and I hope she doesn't get them dirty until then!

Happy Anniversary!

Happy 33rd Anniversary to the best parents ever! :o)

Hope you two had a great day today. Thanks for being great role models for us kids!

*hugs* *kisses* from the little ones!

Victor

Thanks for the outfit, G-Auntie KaKa!



So happy to have a cute outfit :o)



He loves being around Daddy!





Victor is starting to understand so much. Ryan tells him to say "up", Victor giggles and says, "ah" or "eh" and then Ryan tosses him up in the air. He LOVES this game! I have him stand on my lap and I say "Kiss Kiss Kiss Kiss" and lean in, he opens up his mouth and I give him a kiss and he giggles. Gotta love those slopping baby kisses!

Here's a video of Victor giggling! He's SO ticklish!

Eve's New Pony

We finally used Eve's birthday money from Gran! Here's what she got!

The Many Faces of Derrick

I had fun asking Dirk to make faces. Here they are for your enjoyment!

This first one wouldn't let me caption it. He's a monster!

Super excited!


Very mad

Sad

Happy

PS - He knows Gran likes his hair spiked. He needs a haircut!

Evie-ism

So, the other day Derrick went with Ryan to a weigh-in at a fishing tournament. While they were gone, I realized I am no longer looking forward to when Derrick goes to Kindergarten. Why you ask? Because while Derrick was gone, EVIE WOULDN'T STOP TALKING TO ME! Oh my! I cannot believe how much that girl talks!! So, I finally got her to stay in the play room for a while and she turned the music on. When she came back towards me, I started dancing really goofy and asked if she'd join me. She made a horrific face, turned around, went back to the play room and shut off the music. When she returned to me, she looked at me and said, "You stop dancing!" AHAHAHAHA! What a little turd!

6th Tooth!

Yesterday Victor's 6th tooth came thru. He's doing much better with the whole teething thing, now that he's older and "experienced"! Ha ha!

AppleBabies!

Last fall, there were 5 of us servers that were expecting babies! Ellie and Jenaya arrived in September. Brooklyn came in October. Then Lucas in November and Victor finished them off in December. Rickeeta and Jenaya are moving to Florida next week, so we wanted to get together with all the AppleBabies before she left. Unfortunately, they didn't make it. But we had fun nonetheless!

Brooklyn is the little girl in pink pants and a white and pink hoodie. Lucas is the little guy in blue. Victor is wearing white with black stripes on the colors and pockets. And Ellie has purple pants on. Aren't they adorable!?! Brooklyn kept trying to grab all the babies' faces and made Ellie and Lucas cry. She's such a bully. No one will push that girl around! Ha ha! I loved watching Lucas, as he is 6 weeks older than Victor, to see how much our lives will be changing in the next few weeks with creeping and sitting and even crawling! Ellie loved Victor's pacifier and would take it out of his mouth every time I put it back into his mouth!

E washing her hair

I went upstairs to find Evie washing her hair in the sink. Not sure why. I tried to ask her. Something about juice. Then I stopped asking. I didn't want to know!

Goofy D

Here's my goofy boy! I still can't get him to smile normally unless I somehow trick him and snap a picture before he realizes I tricked him. 1 out of 3 ain't too bad if you ask me! :o)

5 Months Old

I don't think I put some pics up of Victor now that he is 5 months old. So here you go!

He's back to his old happy self. His 5th tooth just broke thru last night. He likes to make that face on the left there, and then try to blow thru his lips. He's learned how to blow raspberries already. The one on the right - gotta love seeing those baby teeth!

Derrick-ism

So, here's an interesting conversation I had with Derrick tonight. A little back story for you - Derrick doesn't like lettuce, he calls it "salad". We have also been trying to keep him from finding little "goodies" in his nose and eating them. *BLEH!* Anyways. I made a chicken broccoli hotdish tonight, and here's how the conversation went...

D - I don't like this.
M - You need to try it. You don't know if you like it until you try it.
D - I don't like salad.
M - There's no salad in it.
D - What's the green stuff?
M - It's green boogers (obviously joking and trying to get him to say we don't eat boogers)
D - No it's not!
M - We don't eat boogers, do we?
D - I only eat yellow boogers. The green ones are yucky.

I can't even write this without gagging! Oh Derrick...

5 Months Old/Goodbye Zale!

Yesterday, Victor turned 5 months old! I wish he would start sleeping like he did when he was 8 weeks old. Oh how teeth mess things up. I did get him to go back to sleep around 1 without eating, but had no luck at 330, 430, 5 or 530. I caved in at 330, but can't believe he was up that many times after that! We'll be moving him into the bigger crib, so hopefully that will help him also. He's almost sitting up by himself. He LOVES to be in his walker, and has the best time when he's sitting in it in the toy room watching the kids play. He wants to be a big boy so bad! His teeth have given him a break, but he's still in that waking up all night long schedule. But during the day he's so happy! And mom can be soooo crabby! :o)

Yesterday morning, Zale got food off our counter again. Ryan went upstairs (as he heard the plate hit the floor) to yell at him, and when he did, Zale snarled at him. He's never done this before, but we weren't taking a chance that he'd do that to any of the kids, or worse. We honestly don't think he'd do it, but we couldn't take that chance. So he went to the humane society up in Burnsville. We felt he'd get a better chance of getting a new home in a larger populated area. He, besides that one snarl, was such a good dog. When I'd put Victor in the chair to go make his bottle and he'd be screaming, Zale would walk over to him, lick his face, and then just sit next to him. Eve LOVES Zale, well, Zaley as she called him! I had a talk with D and E about Zale being naughty and that he could have bitten Daddy, so we have to bring him to a new home. I said we'd get another puppy sometime, and they thought we'd trade dogs or something! After the lady took Zale, the kids took off and I asked where they were going. They said to go pick out a new puppy! Ah, no. Sorry kids. We're going to wait a while before going down that road again! They want one like Hans, Gran's puppy. That's the smallest dog I'd have. Anything smaller, it's just a Kick-Me-Dog. :o) Don't get me started on tea-cup sized dogs! Ha ha! So, this isn't the way I wanted to see Zale leave our family, so I do pray he gets adopoted quickly. He doesn't deserve to sit in a kennel! I did see a gentleman take him out to the side yard to see how his temperment is, etc. So I did kind of "spy" on them. He told Zale to sit, and Zale did. So I hope he behaves so he can get a fantastic recommendation! (to a home with no kids, just in case)

So, my to-do list didn't get too much accomplished yesterday unfortunately. The whole drama with Zale took about 8 hours, and by the time I got home, I was exhausted. So, I have a lot to do today to get it all done! Or, is it ok if I take until Sunday to get it done? :o)

Spring Cleaning To-Do List

Last time I made a to-do list for on here, I got the majority of it done. We would like this to be finished by Saturday. We are able to take a lot of boxes of stuff we no longer need to the dump for no extra charge, but Saturday is the last day we can do that. SO, our timeframe is from now until Saturday to get this all done! Plus, it will be nice to have the house looking nicer if we decide to pursue buying a new home - it'll be nice and clean for us to show our side for new renters, plus it will need to get appraised I'm sure. Every little bit helps!

Living Room
DONE 1. patch holes
2. hang mirror
3. hang pictures
4. vacuum
5. clean off desk
6. windows
7. windowsills
8. clean by wall
Victor likes this now. 9. put swing away
10. put saw downstairs
11. move file cabinet
12. move fire box
13. water plants
DONE 14. throw out shelf
15. move furniture around???
16. sand patches on wall
17. paint patches on wall

Kitchen
1. clean floor
2. clean oven
3. clean out refrigerator
4. clean sink
5. clean windowsills
6. windows
DONE 7. clean cabinet doors
DONE 8. take down names
9. fix eating schedule and make it fun for kids
10. clean top of table and put table cloth back down
DONE 11. find place for placemats
12. wash dishes
13. put dishes away

Bathroom
DONE 1. clean floor
2. clean tub/shower
3. recaulk tub
DONE 4. clean sink
DONE 5. clean toilet
DONE 6. mud up wall
7. window
8. clean windowsill
9. clean ceiling
DONE 10. clothes out
11. organize cabinets

Our Room
1. put laundry away
2. dust
3. organize bookshelf
4. weed thru ryan's t-shirts
5. weed thru my drawer
6. vacuum
DONE 7. remove red nail polish from wall - thanks dirk.
DONE 8. remove red nail polish from mirror - thanks dirk.
9. fix crib
10. flip rooms
11. put up bigger crib
DONE 12. pick up dirty clothes

Kids' Room
DONE 1. donate books
2. organize bookshelf
3. fix nightstand
4. vacuum
5. clean windowsills
6. windows
7. organize clothes
8. organize cabinet
DONE 9. donate kids' clothes i don't want to store

Toy Room
1. legos upstairs
DONE 2. vacuum
DONE 3. toys in buckets
DONE 4. movies in order
DONE 5. crayons in bucket
6. books upstairs
7. coloring books on shelf

Basement
1. shampoo carpet
DONE 2. throw out garbage
3. fish tank
DONE 4. vacuum
5. clean floor
6. fold laundry
7. put away laundry
DONE 8. throw out chalkboard
DONE 9. dust
DONE 10. organize movies
DONE (well, we're going to paint over the rest) 11. clean crayon off walls
12. go thru corner storage
DONE 13. clean tv cabinet
14. put 3rd seat back in truck

Outside
1. bag up dog poo
2. rake up needles
3. water new plants
4. trim bushes
5. put in edging
6. put down mulch
7. throw out plant on porch
8. what to do with planters???

Ready...Set...Go!

Fantastic Weekend!

I've been trying to put these pics in some sort of order, but I must have downloaded them weird or something. So no captions. Just a bunch of pics of some really cute kids!

We had a great time at Mom and Dad's this weekend! I did not want to come back to Mankato. And neither did the kids! They came up with all kinds of excuses as to why they "needed" to stay. It was pretty cute.