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Music Sunday Week 2

Oktoberfest

We celebrated Oktoberfest on Post here a few weekends ago. The kids had so much fun, and I loved seeing how thrilled they were to ride rides for the first time. KS and I had never taken the kids to any sort of fair before; KS does not trust the rides at all and thinks that it is all just a waist of money. I on the other hand love the rides... but I do agree with the money part. We shelled out $20 for tickets and then bought a funnel cake for moi, and a jumbo cotton candy bag for the kiddos... and me. It was so worth every penny, the kids got to ride 3 rides and were able to pig out on the yummy snacks. They had German food, Folk dancing, and German music while we were there as well. Overall a wonderful experience and I cannot wait to go again next year.

The view from the top.

She kept trying to find the boys and I but each time KS would point us out to her she wouldn't see us.

I tried to get Kiale to pose for another picture with me but he refused.

Their first roller coaster.

The dad that was riding this with them made sure they had a blast. Their bear was twirling more then any of the others.

Our shadow family picture.

Amazing Grace

Colin's Swimming Lessons

Colin started swimming lessons two weeks ago, I have to admit the first day was TERRIBLE all he did was sit and pout at the edge of the pool with is arms crossed... I was livid. I have to be honest though, he didn't disappoint, he did exactly what I thought he would do. You see Colin is cautious and likes to be in his comfort zone, and swimming without a floaty was far from his comfort zone. Also, there were about 7 kids there for the first day. Thankfully after that fist day the number of kids there gradually began to dwindle down and Colin even had two full sessions where he was the only child there. Anyway back to the beginning, after that first day of swimming lessons and after much threatening and bribing Colin started to relax and participate. With each consecutive day Colin got better and better and so much more comfortable in the water. I couldn't believe it was my Colin some days, to see the difference in him from that first day to the third and fourth day even was amazing. By the end of the first week Colin would jump into the water sans floaty and swim back to the surface, to say I am proud of what he has accomplished in just two weeks of swimming lessons would be an understatement. He can now blow bubbles from his nose, dive underwater to get rings, and he can even swim unassisted under the water for a little bit. Unfortunately all of the other classes are booked, but I told his instructor that if any openings come up to give me a call. I would love for him to get in at least another two weeks before the season ends.

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 6 (I forgot my camera on Day 5)

Day 7 (didn't take any pics the last day)

Day 16 & Day 17

Day 16, a song that makes you cry... Letters From War by Mark Schultz

Day 17, an art piece. 

 Ballet, by Cristina Mavaracchio

This picture will hang in Cayleigh-Grace's room in the very near future.

Our Sunday

This is how part of our Sunday was spent, well the afternoon anyway. My husband has always loved anything remote controlled so here he is installing that addiction love...  in our kids as well.

The kids have a blast whenever KS pulls out all of his RC gear, I'm not sure who has more fun the kids or Daddy.

(Sorry for the TMI from Kiale, he had had an upset stomach earlier in the day and well... you can figure out the rest.)

Earlier in the day we took the kids out bowling for the first time, it would have been great if a certain 20 month old wasn't a little too excited about rolling the balls down the lanes. She got so cranky when it wasn't her turn. I think we have decided to recruit one of our friends to watch her next time we go, it was just too difficult bowling with her there. Unfortunately we were only able to play one game but it was still loads of fun watching them all play for the first time. In case you were wondering, KS and I tied with 70 points a piece. The only reason we tied was b/c he let Cayleigh-Grace bowl two of his games. I think I need to step up my game some more if we are going to keep this up... The last time we had been bowling we when Kiale was in an infant carrier and we would go with my cousin and her friends. So as you can imagine its been a few years.

Cayleigh-Grace & Daddy Time

Not Me or My Child Monday!

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

I did not start having second thoughts about Kiale joining the Army when I dropped him off at the hotel last night for his physical this morning.

I am not in complete denial about how long Kiale will be leaving us for (40 weeks+) when he joins the army... I would not be the type of person who lives by the "I'll deal with it when it gets here" motto.

I am not extremely proud of my husband for joining the Army today, he is going into active duty.



I did not have to argue with Little Kiale about why he cannot be home-schooled right now, and the have to convince him to go back to his school at the end of this month.

I do not have one child that wants to be home-schooled and one child that wants to attend school, and those two boys would not proceed to argue about where they will be going to school. Thankfully at the end of the day they were both excited to be going back to their school that they attended last year.

My daughter did not finally learn how to walk really well and she is not walking everywhere now. Goodbye sweet baby crawls!!! You will be very missed.

My daughter did not scarf down 2 pieces of cake at my Dad's birthday party. She is not going to be a blast to watch during her birthday party next month. (do you see her cute shoes?!! I bought them before I even found out she was in fact a she in my womb!!)


Little Kiale did not accidentally hit Colin in the eye with a plastic brush which did not result in giving Colin his first (of many I am sure) black eye.

Miss Piggy

This is what Miss Grace does, all the time. She has me in constant fits of laughter with all her snorting!! I just love it she has snorted since she was probably 2-3 months old and started laughing, but she does it non stop now!

Good Morning

Bye Bye!

I love this video of Cayleigh-Grace that I took yesterday. I don't even know how many times I have watched it at this point. Babies just amaze me so much, they learn so much in those first few months of life. Isn't her little sweater cute? Its definitely a keeper!

She is eating so good now. She has one jar of 2nd stage baby food for lunch and one jar for dinner. She eats every bite too, and she seems to really be enjoying it. She is actually getting some hair back now, I am so excited!! She still looks bald, but if you rub her head it is so fuzzy.

Random Videos to Enjoy

Jackson's Crazy Tickle Spots

Bath Time

Cayleigh-Grace's 6 month Checkup

I took Cayleigh-Grace in for her 6 month appointment today and she weight 19lbs 80z. I only had her get 2 of her 5 immunizations today since I do not agree with giving kids so many shots at one time, can you say system overload! She is doing so good, she can already wave open handed and wave by opening and closing her had. Its so cute to watch her wave bye bye to you. She is getting around so well now, I know soon I will be chasing her all around the house. She finally on Sunday started eating good, and began to open her mouth when I feed her baby food. It has been an interesting couple of weeks trying to get her to eat, although I wasn't pushing it on her and wasn't even trying it ever day since she was still satisfied with my milk alone, and still sleeping through the night. She still has a bit of a cough every once in awhile but it is much better now, thankfully all three of the kids are better!

"Patty Cake"

Thank you for the wonderful tub seat Toni, she loves it! Everyone should get one of these it makes bath time so much easier with little ones Cayleigh-Grace's age. She loves being able to splash until her little hearts content with now worries about falling over.

She was so exhausted after Colin's birthday party we put her down at around 6:30-7:00 and she didn't wake up until 8ish Sunday morning.

She finally made it all the way out of her room on her own power! She is getting around everywhere now. I just cannot wait until she is actually crawling so she doesn't mess up her clothes from scooting around on her belly.

Kiale's Cartwheels

Last week was Dr. Seuss week at the boy's school. On Friday it was "The Cat in the Hat Day as well as Crazy Hair Day." So as you can see his teacher painted his face for the occasion. For crazy hair day he wanted his hair spiked up like Guy Fieri off of food network, well it didn't work. So he ended up going to school sporting his very curly hair. He wasn't happy since he hates his curls but it was sweet and reminded me of his younger days when all I did was keep his hair gelled up with curls.

2007

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Kiale LOVES to do cartwheels! He is getting pretty good at them too.

Well, I couldn't let you guys get away with just seeing the video, no could I? So here are a few pics to enjoy as well!