Playing in the Leaves

We decided to take the kids to the Spencer State Forest yesterday and let them run around. The boys had such a good time. It was a little chilly, but the forest had that really good autumn smell. We took some great pictures of the leaves and there is a really pretty lake (pond) there. Lily even enjoyed being outside and checking out the leaves that the boys kept throwing at us. We won't have many more days to be able to go out and play in the leaves it was a little cold this morning.

Lily's Smile

I had to post a short video of Lily talking to me last night, to all of you that haven't got to see her in awhile. She is getting so big and changes all the time. I will try again to get more video if this works and will try to get the boys of here to.

Lily's 4 month check-up

I wanted to write a little message to tell everyone that I took Lily to her 4 month check up and she is 10# 3 ozs. And 21 inches long. She is catching up to her curve mark as the doctor said and she was thrilled on how good she is doing. We are going to try some cereal with her tonight and see if she can handle it w/o chocking on it. I am so proud of her progress and now we are preparing to get everyone else in the house vaccinated for the flu, that should be fun. I will post some new pictures of her soon. I have been so busy I haven't had time to take any.

About Ethan's 1st day

Ethan had a wicked crazy good time at school he told daddy. He met some new kids, but can't remember their names and got to play outside. He also had to tell me he saw a very fuzzy spider today and that the sink in the bathroom leaks. He told the fix it man so hopefully he takes care of it.

His tooth is much better today. It is actually looking like it is setting back into place. It is still sore around the gums. He is not drooling anymore and talking much better.

Hopefully tomorrow goes as good as today and I am hoping the bus drops him off at a better time tomorrow. They were 40 minutes past the time they say they will drop him off. Nothing like thinking the school lost your kid on the 1st day.

Ethan's 1st day of School

Well it finally happened. Ethan is off at his 1st day of Kindergarten at Maple St. School. We had an exciting night last night, he crashed his mouth into Aidan's head and loosened a front tooth. He was afraid to talk, eat, drink or swallow last night. So he went to bed scared of having to go to the dentist. He woke up this morning and his tooth was still sore. But he wanted to go to school. We keep telling him the tooth fairy will come if it falls out, but that doesn't seem to work. So this morning he didn't want to eat or drink breakfast, so I was a bad mom and he went hungry. Then I loaded the kids in the van and e went tot the bus stop. Ethan was so excited to go and when the bus came, Matt waled him to the bus and he turned around and waved and yelled, "bye mom." He never cried and never looked scared. He sat in the 2nd seat and waved one more time and they left. And I cried the whole way back to the van. Aidan was screaming "come back buddy." He is going to miss him the most. I will have to tell you after 3 how the day went. Hopefully he will be so busy he forgets about his tooth.

Last week update.

We did a lot last week. Wednesday, Matt took Ethan to do a tour of the school bus. He was scared at the beginning, but did fine after he got there. Thursday, Aidan and Ethan got new bikes . As you can see from the pictures they love them. Can't get them off. And Sunday we took the family to Palmer, MA and went to lunch at an old train depot and got to see a couple of Amtrak trains go by. Aidan was so sad we couldn't ride one. Lily is still good, a little colic in the evening, but we are trying to adapt to the screaming. Today was open house at the school for Ethan. He is counting down the days before he gets to go. Where has the last 5 years gone?

Lily 3.5 months

Lily had her last visitng nurse visit yesterday. She weighed 8# 12 ozs. And is 21 inches long. 3 weeks ago she was 7# 5 ozs and was 19 inches. She is getting bigger everyday.