Preschool Time!

Every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday Emmy comes over for an hour and a half of preschool. Max, Rose and Emily have a blast playing with play dough, doing crafts, listening to stories and poems, doing fingerplays and singing songs. At the beginning of the preschool we sing a little welcome song. The top right picture shows Max standing up and showing us his smile.They each get a turn - their smiles are adorable!

The bottom pictures show them making letters with play-doh to go along with the coconut tree. We had read the book "Chicka, chicka, boom - boom." I think the kids were doing "the itsy bitsy spider or some other fingerplay in the middle two pictures above the play doh."

Normally Cecilia, John Paul and I have to do school while Mom is doing preschool with the little ones, but sometime Cecilia and John Paul sneak down and end up having as much fun as the preschoolers - especially with play doh!

I have been VERY busy lately and have neglected the blog. But I am back!

On September 9th our wonderful mother,(Teresa), had her birthday. We went to a park and had Chinese and Ice Cream cake in a pavilion. Then John Paul, me, and the birthday girl went bike riding. (Oops! I forgot, on the back of Mom's bike in the trailer were Rose and Ben!) IT was a lot of fun!

Time for Playing!

On the Tuesday after John Paul's birthday party, John Paul and me built his new k-nex. The pictures can't really capture how big and cool it was. But it was lots of fun to make and watch!

Fun at the zoo!

On Sunday with Aunt Lorrie and Uncle Fred we went to the Philadelphia Zoo. It was so much fun!

Fun with Aunt Lorrie and Uncle Fred!

This past weekend when Aunt Lorrie met us at Applebees on Saturday, Cecilia and me went home with her. WE had a wonderful weekend at their house! Saturday night ended with a delicious dinner made be Cecilia and Aunt Lorrie and then a quick visit to Longwood gardens. The first picture is of a beautiful water lily. The second is of Cecilia and Greg at Longwood. All weekend Cecilia and me had a fun time scrapbooking. Thank you Aunt Lorrie and Uncle Fred!

John Paul's Birthday!

This past Saturday was John Paul's birthday. We celebrated it by going to the Kids Cookie Break swim party and then meeting Aunt Lorrie at Applebees. On Monday we had a party for John Paul at Manor Township park with some of the McDonnell family and Grandma, Grandpa and Beth. It was a very fun party. My mom, again, created amazing cakes! Can you tell what they are? (Hint: You have to be acquainted with Star Wars). Another highlight of the party was when Daniel, Teresa, George, Ryan, John Paul, Cecilia, Julia, Joseph and me went to the creek(which is fairly big) and took a little dip. (Actually we went full in and were swimming. ) It was lots of fun hanging out with cousins celebrating John Paul's eighth birthday! Happy Birthday John Paul!

He is walking!!!

"Um can I walk now?"

Ben is walking! Yesterday while Cecilia, John Paul, and me were at practice, he started walking. today he walked all the way down the hall with out holding on to anything. He can run across the couch.(When he holds onto the couch.) So I am just posting this to let every one know that he is a walking boy! Last night right before dinner, he pushed one of the chairs all the way from the table to the counters. It was very cute!

One GIANT zucchini!

Every day John Paul and Max go out to our vegetable garden and pick all the ready vegetables. The other day John Paul found this GIANT zucchini! He is holding two to show the normal sized one(the one on the left) and the big one,( on the right). IT was pretty cool! (Another cool Vegetable story: We have a cucumber stuck in our gate. It grew in the gate and is now so big that it is stuck! It is very funny looking!)

Our little Ballerinas!

The other day Emily came over to play and I was going through Rose's clothes. I found these to leotards and at once the two girls begged to wear them. So I helped them get into them and then at their request I put their hair up in buns and pronounced them "ballerinas"! They then went downstairs and danced around telling every one that they were "ballerinas", it was very cute!

Driving Home!

The drive home went pretty well. We accidentally stopped for a whole hour, when we were planing on a fifteen minuet stop for lunch. But we got home and unloaded the car and then,(I know we a nut heads) , daddy ran off to work and Mommy took us(all the kids) to Dream Wrights so that John Paul, Cecilia and me could try out for the touring company. (We all made it in the touring company and are all excited. John Paul is in Rupert Meets Mrs. Tales and Cecilia and me are in Beany and the Meany!)

The beach IV

The last day on the beach was also lots of fun! Mommy took Max, John Paul, Rose and me on a walk. We went far out on the rocks and went on the trail through the sand dunes and rocks. AS you can see Ben had a blast too. He had lots of fun playing in the sand and watching the waves. The sand castle in the picture is the one I made. In the picture I am dumping water on it to have a 'flash flood' that ruins it! Max kept saying over and over, "Daddy! Mommy look! Look at the bridges! Look they stay up!" He was very excited about them. So our days on the beach and with Grandad and G were very fun! Thanks Grandad and G for having us at your house!

The Beach III

The pictures don't make the waves look very big, but they were. Not big compared to North Carolina, but, big for Connecticut. This was um...... Sunday. Yeah that's right. The waves were really nice! That was the only day Rose didn't really go near the water. It was a great day!