Where did the month go?

My how time flies by when we are having fun. We have had so many fun things going on that we will have to back up a bit to tell you all about them.

First we had a very important birthday in our house. Joshua turned FIVE... We had a terrific party to celebrate the occasion with all his friends from school. We had some special animal friends come to the party which turned out to be lots of fun. They brought a huge snake, a baby alligator, a chinchilla, a lizard, a tarantula, a ferret, a guinea pig, a turtle and a few gross bugs!

Then we had Halloween which I did not take one single picture of... Josh received a Batman costume as a Birthday gift so the pirate costume was out.. and he decided to be Batman for Halloween.. Matty decided to be a Spider. (We are putting the pirate costumes away until next year... thank goodness they will still fit!)

November has been busy for us. Mom and Dad have been busy at work and the boys have been busy at school. They had their Thanksgiving feast at school yesterday. Lots of costumes and singing! Josh did a great job singing all the songs.. Matty preferred to not sing... instead he took off his costume and laid on the floor... (I guess that is ok to do at three years old.. since it was nap time! ) I did manage to get a few cute pictures before the meltdowns began. They are both dressed as Indians.

The pirates are coming the pirates are coming!

The boys have found a new favorite activity... they are constantly dressing up. Usually it involves being a "GREEN PACKER" for Josh which his father is just thrilled about... (I believe he mentioned buying him a STEELERS helmet in Dec when he goes to the game... no surprise there right )!

The other favorite costume is Pirate. The pirates are running wild in our house! We even have a pirate dog... when the mood stikes and Molly is up for an adventure!

We have also been experimenting with removing the junk from our diets... most specifically RED DYE #40. Josh has been having a few behavior issues at school... mostly not being able to sit still when necessary and KEEP HIS HANDS TO HIM SELF.. ugh... Anyways I tossed out the toothpaste and vitamins and started reading labels. It's even in his allergy meds so I bought new meds too. So far so good. We have actually had a good weekend so far.. no melt downs and we can see the difference already. Its good for me too... I haven't lost my temper and screamed at them all weekend! YEAH!!

We are off to Mass for the day. Joe won some drawing for a time share thing.. I am sure lots of people won. I can sit through 90 minutes of a presentation if it means we get a free 4 day trip voucher to be used later in the year... Yeah baby... They even give us a gas card so the trip up which will take about 1.5 hours each way should be fun and free... we like FREE RIGHT!

Over the river and through the woods....

We had so many fun adventures when we went to visit Grandma and Grandpa and all the rest of our family in Wisconsin this summer! I don't know where to begin...

The boys went fishing with Grandpa and Uncle Andy, we went to the zoo with Grandma and Grandpa.. (forgot the camera in the car for that one... ) We went to see some horses with our cousins and got to go bare back riding for a few minutes. We also went tubing and swimming and had so so much fun. The boys are already asking about when we are going on our next vacation to visit their buddies and Grandma and Grandpa... They also want to go see another big buck with Uncle Andy... ha ha

Oh where the time goes...

The last two months have gone by so very quickly I can't believe it has been so long since I have updated this page. The boys are getting bigger and bigger and have been keeping us on our toes!

Here are just a few of the fun adventures we had this summer:

Matty's Birthday was on July 23 he turned the big THREE!!!! I still can't believe my little baby is such a big boy now. All I hear is "I DO IT I DO IT" Mr. Independent now...

We spent plenty of time at the lake this summer boating and swimming. Both boys are very comfortable in the water with their life vests on. We are taking our second set of swim lessons and we are working on turning them into little swimmers!

We also need to document Matty's first catch! He caught his very first fishy with daddy's help right off the dock at the lake.

One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish

Have you ever seen a happier boy? The giggles and chuckles were loud and numerous today has he went fishing for the very first time!

$12 for his very own fishing pole...

the smile on this face as he catches his very first fish ever!

Priceless

Fish number two
And of course #3
Matty's first time touching a fishy!

Grandpa will be so happy to have two new fishing buddies!
And then he prefered to play with his toys...

Sports of all sorts

Last week we had a evening of sports. Joey decided to work on teaching his little brothers how to play a few different sports. They started with Golf with Dad's help, then moved to Lacrosse, Baseball and Football. I caught a few funny shots I thought I would share. Notice the standard footwear on Josh. He lives in his cowboy rainboots to the point they now have holes in them!

Break Dancing Mania

Josh just loves to dance. We were watching Disney's Tarzan and the urge to break out in dance created quite the show. Just had to share a few pictures!