Joey's 3rd birthday party

Pictures from Joey's third birthday party, spider man theme. Got an awesome spiderman cake at half price from Publix, someone couldn't come pick it up. Got it home and it said 'happy first birthday jimmy'...scraped it off and icing over it. ooops....

update on kids

Seems like the time between posts on the blog just keeps getting longer and longer. I don't have any pictures because the hard drive on my new laptop crashed (what a pain because I have a lot of Joe's work stuff there)..

Christina is saying mom and mommy. Mostly Mom, she'll yell it while she's looking at me. We were reading a book and I pointed to a duck and said 'what does the duck say' and she said 'quack quack' so two words now, we're working on daddy next.

She is really independent, wants to do everything I do, plays with Joey and they are so cute when they are laughing .. last night after baths they were running in and out of the bathroom just laughing...but then they fight a lot....just when I think I can't take their fighting anymore Joey will hand her the toy they were fighting over and sweetly say "here baby, you can play with my toy"...so darn cute.

Joey is so big, he's excited that this is his last day of daycare for awhile, we're leaving for atlanta Sunday and I have a sitter coming into the house 3 days a week with her own 3 year old son, so Joey will have a playmate, in addition to his friends in the neighborhood. Still not potty trained, since I don't have a sitter next week we'll be working on that, without the sugary rewards I have been giving him. Joey did say he will miss his friends Aiden and Austin from daycare, his playground buddies.

will update more when i get my harddrive data and pictures back. I have some cute pics from Joey's birthday party.

Aunt Sue's visit

got a suprise visit from my Aunt Sue who was in Orlando vacationing...here she is with the kids ..

I found this old video I took of Joey when Joe was out of town for his birthday - so cute

Daytona Beach, Spiderman

I bought Joey a spider man costume for halloween today, couldn't resist letting him put it on, he wanted to sleep in it


He's standing on our bed looking at himself in the mirror

pics from Daytona beach, the beach was so full of seaweed Joe's nephew Michael gave up on fishing, in one of the pics you can see Joey raking the seaweed

Update

No new pics this time, just too busy but wanted to give an update. We (me and the kids or hopefully all of us) are leaving Orlando October 20th. The kids last day in daycare here is October 16th. When we get back in Atlanta the first week I have to unpack and find new daycare. There's a highly recommended babysitter my neighbor uses a lot so hopefully she'll be available.

I was sick for about a month with a nasty cough and Christina has been sick, so we haven't been to Disney in awhile, plus just me with the two of them is a lot to handle since Christina squirms in my arms and Joey likes to run away or run 'just far enough' where I can still see him, he will stop and wait but makes me uncomfortable knowing if he really ran I couldn't run fast enough with Christina in my arms to catch him.

Joey is almost three so I need to start planning his birthday party, I'm thinking it will be at the house and be a small one. he loves his super hero's, especially batman and spiderman so probably will be one of those themes. Maybe we'll just have a couple of kids over and have some pizza and cake.

Joey has reverted back to calling me 'mommy', I love it - he sounds so sweet when he says it. He is full of questions every day 'why why why'...Christina is so cute, hopefully in a few months she'll be talking, I have to start looking around for a toddler bed for her. She is walking, running, babbling, pointing to everything, she loves to sit in my lap and have me read books to her, and she does everything Joey does. When Joey is done sitting on his little potty she immediately goes over and sits on it. If Joey is sitting on the couch she drags her little chair over and climbs up to sit next to him. They both like to jump on me if I lay on the floor (ouch!!).

We only have a couple of weeks left so guess I better start using up our disney passes. I will be glad to get home.

Jumpin Joey's is one of the kids favorite places, Christina only wanted to play with shoes.


She found Joey's shoes in the cubby and is running away with them

Joey and his new pals






Joey built a truck with the blocks, and added a steering wheel with one of the baby toys


Christina having cereal for breakfast, she decided it was too hard to eat with a spoon

this is where the bowl goes when she is all done

Kennedy Space Center and Epcot

Joe's family visited with us when they were here for their Disney vacation. We took them to Kennedy Space Center. Here are the pics.
Kaitlyn on the KSC bus

Michael and Tyler

All Joey wants to do is run from Mommy




At Epcot, kids just wanted to run in circles and ride the escalator

Joey and Nemo

Joey sharing his ice cream with Christina

After the Buzz Lightyear ride at magic kingdom, are these kids having a great summer or what?

drums at Epcot

Random Thoughts

Joey is 36 inches tall, 36 lbs (easy to remember).

Christina is imitating everything, funny when we are doing jumping jacks and she can't quite jump up.

I am homesick, or maybe it's because my fabulous husband has been working in Marietta the last two weeks and I wish we were with him.

oh where....oh where .. has my pre-baby body gone....oh where oh where could it be? With it's flat belly and stretch mark free, oh where..oh where could it be...

Magic Kingdom - Fantasyland

Fantasyland has a great Winnie the Pooh playground with a little Pooh's house and splash pad. We rode a lot of the rides too, nice when we can all ride together. By the time we got to the last ride, Joey was complaining that he was tired and I was carrying Christina asleep. Christina is so cute in these pictures...
the teacup ride

splash pad




hellooooo...anybody in there?


Pooh's house

Rainy day activities

Well it's hurricane season in Orlando and all it does is rain, like today. Here is some of what we have done so far today:
made a lego parking garage for Joey's trucks

colored

hung Joey's art work on the wall

Wish Joe was here ..