WOAH Hair!!!

Ty's hair is CRAZY, but I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!! Vinny has been bugging me to cut his hair for the longest time now, but I keep holding him off...(All the boys had crazy hair..Tucker had his first trim at 7 months, another trim at 10 months, and then a real haircut on his 1st birthday. Trey's hair was the most crazy...and at 6 months I agreed to let Vinny *trim* Trey's hair..when I came back in the bathroom he *shaved* Trey's poor little head...I was pretty upset...well no I was down right pissed...and even today, almost 4 years later, I still am pissed about it.) So Ty's hair is OFF LIMITS!! But I realize...Ty's hair is getting really long..when it is wet, it is to the tip of his nose...so it is almost time for a *trim* These pictures were taken almost a month ago, so it's even longer now!

Day 1 under his belt!

Just a little bit ago I got Tucker off the bus! Day 1 of kindergarten DONE!

First off this morning...he woke up early and did all the things we said we were going to do and then we walked outside and waited for the bus!! It was a little bit of a wait, but Tucker was so excited...alittle nervous, but mostly excited! He was so brave when the bus came, he said his good bye's and got on the bus without a look back at me! I'm SO very proud of him!!!!

Of course I asked him all about his day. He told me how his teacher showed them all around the school and classroom. There was one kid in an orange shirt who wouldn't listen..and if you don't listen you have to call your mom and dad. He said they ate in the cafiteria and they didn't have very long to eat..and some kids didn't have lunches, so they had to buy it. He was very excited about his teacher having a treasure chest. They got to see the playground, but didn't get to play because it was too hot. (I asked him his favorite part of the day and he said looking at the playground!) He also sat at the yellow table and he didn't want to play with girls only boys because they are better...and I asked why the boys are better and because they can do anything right...girls don't do much and boys are smarter! Because they can find stuff! They didn't get to play only got to color stuff.

He is pretty tired now, he told me he is tired and that it was a very long day! I asked if he wanted to go back tomorrow and he said yes. So looks to me like it was a pretty successful 1st day of kindergarten!!!!!!!!!!!!

Got the camera and tissues ready

In about 7 and a half hours I will be putting my big boy on a bus for the very first time and sending him off to kindergarten! I cannot believe Tucker is actually old enough for this...how did this happen so fast?!?!

We have done everythig possible to prepare him for this. All day long we have been talking about how in the morning I will wake him up (even though I think he will be the one to wake me up), he will eat breakfast, brush his teeth, get dressed, I will do his hair and make his lunch, we will pack it in his backpack and then we will walk down to the bus stop and he will get on the bus and go to school. I told him that he is going all by himself...and he said he is fine with this because he is 5 years old now and he won't cry or be sad because he is a big boy.

This past Friday we had meet the teacher and he was so excited. We brought in all his school supplies and got to look around his classroom. He said it was pretty cool and was very excited about the computers. He was pretty shy while there and didn't really say much, but he told me once we got home that when he is there by himself he will talk...so let's hope that is the case.

Well, I need to get to sleep..we've got an early day tomorrow! I will hopefully get the pictures on here right away tomorrow. I'm praying everything goes smoothely and I can hold it together...I have a feeling there might be some tears.

Go-karting and mini golf

Since school is right around the corner we want to make the end of the boys summer memorable, so Vinny thought it would be fun to take them gp-karting and minature golfing. I was a lot of fun, but SO dang HOT outside! They keep asking to go back, but we will wait for it to cool down.

forgoten pictures

When we went to the sand dunes I didn't take my big camera down to the water with us..I was too afraid of dropping it in the water or sand getting into it, so I used our old pocket camera instead. I totally forgot that I did that until I took the little camera with us to the pool and saw these pictures on it!
Tucker and Trey sleeping in the tent.
Ty in his cute little sleeping bag!

Beautiful sunset on our walk down to the dunes on the first night.

All of the kids..one 9 year old the rest all 5 and under! It was really windy!

This is really one of my favorite places in the entire world..it's so beautiful! We had FUN!

My water baby!

A couple of weeks ago my friend asked us to come with her to the pool in our neighborhood (I'm behind again, but this time it's really not my fault). I was a little nervous about taking all 3 boys myself..she also has 3 kids of her own to keep an eye on. But to my surprise it actually went really well. Ty really enjoyed himself playing in water and Tuck and Trey were so excited to finally go to the pool. After playing in the little pool for a while, we braved the big pool. The big boys had on life jackets so they can "swim" by themselves and my friend had a floaty thing for Ty to use. It went so well, we have even been back a couple more times! (There aren't any pictures of Tucker and Trey at the pool...they were being little stinkers and not wanting me to take any of them).

They say "bad things come in 3"

Or so that is the saying I've heard before...and let's hope that's true because I have had my 3...and I'm done with it....(it being the bad things)....

my 3 things..

......Vinny's dad getting diagnosed with leukemia (he is still in the hospital getting treatments and is looking like it is going pretty well)...

....my best friend (whom I consider my sister), her husband (who I consider a brother) is deploying to Afghanistan in the near future...

....and today my cat died....she had been a little off lately and today she was completely out of it, so I took her to the vet this afternoon and they said they would need to do exploratory surgery on her to see what was going on and once inside there was nothing they could do for her, as her organs weren't working properly....I haven't yet told the boys...I know they are going to be so upset......

So again I am asking for some more prayers...for Grandpa T, my best friend's little family, and us too.

New Bedding

I have been looking for new bedding for Tucker and Trey since..well since we moved them into their bunk beds a couple of years ago. I was being kind of picky about it, not wanting something to "theemey" or characters because they change what they "love" pretty often I didn't want them asking for new bedding every time their opinions change. So I finally found it at Walmart of all places! It's perfect! Outdoorsy..a little bit of camo and just a little bit of blue to tie in their blue walls.

I just took pictures of the packaging because it was easier than trying to get a good shot of it on their beds because of the way their bunk beds are in their room.

Going down!

I posted before about having to move Ty's crib mattress down and I finally got around to getting a picture of it. We also took the bumper out too because they say your supposed to do that now. It makes me sad because he looks like such a big boy now! Here he is standing up pointing to the dog..he loves all of our animals!

8 months old!

It feels like I just posted Ty's 7 month update and now I'm onto the 8 month one. Ty really has made some major milestones these past few weeks. He is officially crawling...on his hands and knees...going everywhere!!! It is funny because he actually learned how to push himself up to sitting on his little butt before he got the actual crawling down (he was doing some weird thing..he would be sitting up lean forward and kind of drag his bottom half..with his legs tucked underneath his belly and get around that way or he would just scoot himself around backwards). It is so cute watching him crawl. He is determined..if he sees something across the room, he will crawl all the way over to get it!


I posted last time he is quite the little chatter box and he is just getting more and more vocal! He is still doing the mamama sound and is even saying mama to me or when he sees me. He is also doing the dada sound and has said that to Vinny. He is still doing the bababa sound and he has started with the papapa sound..when we were visiting Vinny's dad, Ty focused on him and said, papa, so I'm thinking we might have to call him papa from now on. The newest sound his is making it the 'h' sound (whenever I am doing stuff around the house and he is in whatever chair or crib that will keep him out of trouble, I always wave to him and say hi.) And he is even putting up his little hand mimicking us waving at him..he also did that to Vinny's dad for the first time too. So now when we walk around the house anytime we enter a new room he waves his little hand and makes that 'h' sound!!! It is so cute..I just LOVE it!!! Ty waving hi to me!


Ty has always loved to eat and that is has not changed. He is now eating 3 solid meals a day. He really loves to feed himself, so we have been finding more finger foods for him to eat. The little Gerber dices, carrots and pears. Sweet potatoes and regular potatoes. Cut up bananas and those Gerber Biter Biscuits (I gave him one of those thinking it would take him awhile to eat it and he devoured it in a matter of minutes). He is also eating those rice Mum Mums. Of course he is still eating Cheerios and all those gerber snacks. He still loves his sippy cup even though he is still only getting water. Eating a banana for the first time!


Ty really loves bath time..the little tub he usually uses in the big tub has this piece you can take out so he can sit up instead of laying back..so we took that out and now he sits there and splashes the entire time!