There's no place like HOME: 3/1/11

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, March 20, 2011

Alexandra is 4!

I have a bunch of posts that I have started but never finished. So I am going to try and update -- because the girls are napping and the boys are actually playing nicely and not beating each other up. Another reason is the house is somewhat picked up and cleaned. It hasn't been like that for a while -- maybe month(s)??

Alexandra celebrated her 4th birthday in March. She is very into birthdays and loves singing and dancing. She got a Build-A-Bear Cheerleader from Grandma and Grandpa Doll. (While we were visiting them in Chicago, Grandma Doll took Alexandra into a Build-A-Bear store to entertain her while the rest of us were eating lunch -- Big Mistake. Alexandra didn't want to look, she wanted to BUY a bear. So Alexandra got her bear in the mail from Grandma a few weeks later.)

She also got a "Tangled" dress (she calls everything related to the movie "Tangled" and not Rapunzel. She is carrying around the purple roses that Tim got me for my birthday 3 days earlier.)

I also decorated her birthday cake.

I think she liked her purple cake and blowing out the candles.

Talking to Grandma Redding on the phone and telling her that she is "4."

Alexandra is very talkative and friendly. She loves to talk to talk to anyone who will listen to her.
Happy 4th Birthday to our Zani!!

Dining Room is Finished!

We (mostly me) finished painting the dining room Friday night/early Saturday morning. (I went to bed at 4 am). It looks so nice. We could actually have guests over again! We need to put the trim around the bottom and one day scrape the ceiling. But at least there is no more ugly hole/drywall.
The boys want us to paint their room next. Their color choice: Orange and Black. We'll see...