Easter

The easter bunny came to our house. we hunted for eggs this morning, Joey put his bucket on the ground, picked the eggs up one by one, after each one he would sit on the lawn mower and eat the candy out of it. I put out about 100 eggs, so you can imagine we were out all morning. The easter bunny also bought him a helicopter which he played with for 3 hours this morning, when we took a car ride to lull him to sleep for his nap he had it in his lap. Here are some pics

Joey's Hill

Joey has decided he has to pile all of his toys on top of part of his bed. This is the part of his truck bed that is supposed to be the front with seats and a steering wheel, but it's not done yet, so it's still a platform. He will stand proudly on top of his mattress and say 'mommy, look, my hill, my toys, all Joey's toys' (only he says hill like 'heel')



Here is Christina about to upset the delicate balance of the hill. she will pull out just the right toy to make everything tumble down on her

here are the nice bins the toys are supposed to be in - notice they are empty, I gave up trying to put the toys back every night

here's christina's latest bruise, she hit her head on Joey's bookshelf, shortly after I took this picture she fell on Joey's bed, then knocked down some books and hurt her hand, on top of this she has a stomach virus and has been cranky in general

I took Christina to the doctor this weekend, she had a fever of 101, no ear infection and no strep, just a virus.

Catch up

I wish I had some pics to post. Maybe next time. Some cute things that have happened:

Christina stood up for a few seconds on her own, twice last weekend..she was holding
onto Joey's truck and let go and was standing there for a second. I love those first moments when we are all actually at home and can see it.

Joey really really needs a week of intensive potty training. he is ready. we've
had little successess but he is just so much more interested in playing than using
the potty, I think i need some other reward besides stickers. I'm planning a week
at home where we do nothing but sit on the potty, with lots of rewards. He knows
when he has to go, the other morning he told me he had 'hot pee pee' in his diaper and laid down on the floor waiting for me to change him.

We had Joe's suprise birthday party last Sat, and wouldn't you know I was so busy
I didn't take a single picture. His cake said 'You're how old?' and had a bunch of laughing men on it, a lot of his friends and our neighbors showed up, Emily got Joe out of the house for me a few hours, she did a great job. They went to the movies, out for ice cream, drove by her friends house, then Emily told Joe she wanted to ride around and count mailboxes, at this point he started suspecting something, Emily texted me constantly telling me how stubborn Joe was being, that all he wanted to do was go home and take a nap. She is awesome.

Joey was riding one of his trucks the other day and Christina was hanging onto the back of it walking, Joey was going really slow for her and kept looking back to
see if she was ok. They love each other, so heart melting CUTE !!

i MISS my husband, he is in Orlando until sometime next week.

Christina eating table food

Christina has been eating table food, here's her first experience with spaghetti:

Christina 9 month checkup

Christina had her 9 month checkup today and everything is great, she's 19 lbs, I'm supposed to have started her on table foods so I guess I need to do a better job of that - she's been eating the chunkier stage 3 foods lately so tomorrow I'll cut up in tiny pieces whatever Joey is having for dinner and see if she will eat it.

The kids have both decided they don't want to go to sleep until 10:30. They are killing me, Christina starts getting fussy because she's sleepy, but if I leave her in her crib she now stands up crying until I come and get her, in the meantime I am trying to get Joey to bed. He wants to come with me everytime I check on Christina so we end up going back and forth from Joey's room to Christina's room for an hour and a half. Joey's in the habit now of most nights waking up and wanting to get in bed with me, so I'm tired and I let him instead of having to stay up 30 min in the middle of the night teaching him to stay in his own bed. AAuuuggg....I just want an uninterrupted night of sleep.

Christina pulling up and other pics

Christina isn't going to crawl for long, she's pulling up on everything and trying to go up the stairs. Here she is emptying out the laundry basket Here is video of Emily and Joey playing roller coaster on the couch, they are screaming and throwing their hands in the air

More pictures of Christina pulling up on everything


Here's mommy welding Joey's truck bed together, I went thru a couple of cases of welding sticks before Joe took over

Here we are working on the bed again, Joey is sleeping in it for the first time tonight.

Christina is Crawling !!

Christina just started crawling yesterday, slow but she's finally moving forward with both knees! I have to pick up every little crumb off the floor, she stops and examines everything. She and Joey took a bath together last night, they were so cute, Joey was splashing and making her laugh. I'll get some pics to post after the weekend is over.