Gabe

I've been seriously slacking on blogging!!!

The kiddos are so big now!! So much has happened that I havent blogged about! LOL

Gabe is one now! WOW! Time flies!! He is so funny! He is starting to talk a lot more, and show his own very different from Alex personality! He doesn't walk... he RUNS and CLIMBS and JUMPS. He is a crazy wild baby! But he is just sooooooo cute!!!

When I want him to go to sleep at the end of the day I lay down with him and he'll put his head down on my chest for like 3 seconds then get up with a HUGE grin on his face and say "Done!" and I tell him "Not done yet! More sleeping!" and he'll lay down again and get up a few seconds later and say "Done!". lol We do this like 5 times lol He is so funny!

He is starting to copy peoples body movements. Jenniffer stands with one foot crossed over the other ALL the time, and silly bebe wants to hold on to something or someones hands and do the same thing lol He looks so stinkin' cute! I really need to get a picture of him doing that!

He likes to throw things on the floor and say "Opps" or "Uh oh!" a million times a day!

He cries when I drop him off to my Mom in the mornings! Mondays are especially hard on him! He will cling to me all crazy and be sad. Then when I pick him up in the afternoons he does the same thing but opposite LOL he doesn't want ME to take him from my Mom! LOL Crazy baby. He really only does this on Mondays lol

I used to be able to sit and chit chat with my parents before going home after work. Now as soon as Gabe sees me walk in he starts telling everyone "Bye" and runs to the door and starts to bang on it and says "Outside!" (sounds more like "owside"). And if I don't get up to leave right away he starts to cry LOL So I'm forced to leave right away!

If he is hungry he will sit in front of the microwave and wait for his food to be done. And as soon as he hears the beep from the microwave he will get up all excited and dance and say "DONE! DONE DONE!" LOL

He is definitley my good eater! I swear he LOOKS like we starve him, but he could eat an entire meal (his size of course), and if he sees someone else eating he will go up to them and open his mouth for a bite lol Or he will  want 6 oz of milk, or will say "Snack" (sounds like "a nack" LOL)

If he hears the bathtub water running he will start to take his clothes off LOL Even if he JUST got out and we are filling the tub up for Alex's bath LOL

He LOVES to dance, and copy everything everyone is doing!

He is so fun! I LOVE my little baby!

GRRR

So I'm trying to make my blog all cute, and I accidentally put the wrong picture on my title thing, and now it wont let me change it?! LOL So frustrating! So just pretend that that watermark thing on the bottom isn't there until I can figure out how to put the picture that doesn't have that on there up! LOL

A new baby....

So we were having dinner last night, and while we were eating Gabe kept throwing snacks and pieces of food at Alex. LOL So Alex was getting mad, and then Gabe threw his sippy cup at Alex and hit him in the collar bone. So Alex stands up all huffy (I mean do you blame him? lol) and slams the sippy cup on Gabe's highchair tray and says

"Mom! You need to eat another special breakfast sandwhich so another baby grows in your belly!! Gabe is too annoying!" LOL


Oh boy! LOL

Skype

I decided I'm doing to get Skype. want to be able to talk and see our family from all over the place! So if anyone has a skype and wants to skype with us let me know! (o:

Thankful November 16, 2010

Today I'm thankful that no one reads my blog LOL Otherwise people would know what a big slacker I am LOL

Thankful November 9, 2010

Today I'm Thankful for my Mom!

I have a friend who is due to have her first baby in 2 days, and she is seriously stressed out beyond belief about child care. She is a single mom, and can't afford to not work.

So today I'm Thankful for my Mom that she is able to stay home and take care of my precious babies. Even if they are sick, I dont have to worry about them at all. Her unconditional love towards my boys (and the other kids she watches) is unbelievable! She is truly amazing!

Thankful November 8, 2010

Today I'm Thankful for prescription medicine that Gabe has so that he can stop coughing and start feeling better soon!

Thankful November 7, 2010

Today I'm Thankful for XBOX lol That way David and Alex can be entertained for hours, while Gabe and I nap since he is feeling sick!

Thankful November 6, 2010

Today I'm Thankful its Saturday, and I could get some rest today.

Thankful November 5, 2010

Today I'm thankful to have a job. Yes some weeks are longer than others. But in this economy we should ALL be thankful for our jobs.

And in all reality, I really DO love my job. I love my kids this year they are amazingly smart and awesome! I just sometimes have weeks that drag LOL

Thankful November 4, 2010

Today I am Thankful that it's getting dark early outside.


That way I can convince Alex that it's bedtime earlier LOL Not that he's tired yet, but at least he starts to wind down and when he's calm down, Gabe starts to relax and settle down too LOL

Thankful November 3, 2010

Today I'm thankful for my two babies!!

They are so cute and funny and even though they drive me nuts sometimes, I wouldn't change them for any other two kids in the world!

Thankful November 2, 2010

Today I'm Thankful for having a wonderful husband who decided we should go out for dinner last night and try something new.


We went to an Italian Restaurant called "Carrabas" and it was so good! We live like 2 minutes away from it, and have seen it many many times, just have never thought about going. Since we had a gift certificate for them, we decided we had NOTHING to loose if we hated it (o: Which we didn't we loved it! (o:

Thankful November 1, 2010

Well, its that time of year where we should remember what we are thankful for every day! I do a Gratitude Tree with my 5th graders every year. And this year is no exception. I have them reflect on their day and write one thing that they are thankful for. They were having a hard time at first thinking that I wanted some profound thought. Then I read them mine...


November 1, 2010... Today I am Thankful for remembering to bring extra shoes to school. Otherwise my knees would kill me by the end of the day!

LOL Then they realized that you are "allowed" to be thankful for ANYTHING that made you happy that day!

So different, yet the same...

 Alex 3 weeks old

Gabe 3 weeks old

So random how they look so much alike when they were first born. But now they look soooo different!! My sweet cute babies!!!

Alex 11 months

Gabe 11 months

Gabe Goes up the Stairs

Gabe LOVES to go up the stairs! He foes this ALL the time! At first it freaked me out, but now he is pretty good at it, and pretty fast too!! Alex thinks its hilarious too!!! So we have to make sure to keep the gates at the top and bottom of the stairs closed at all times! Crazy baby!!!

(Crap it posted sideways! GRR! Oh well you can either flip your screen over or turn your head to the side LOL Yes that is my hand behind him. I dont fully 100% trust him not to fall backwards, and yes I did tell Alex to get out of the way LOL He likes to block the top step for some reason when ANYONE is coming up the stairs! Crazy boy!)

8 more Days!

Gabe will be one in 8 days! Wow time sure does fly once we get those kiddos out! I remember this time last year I was sitting at my desk at work hoping that my water wouldn't break WHILE I was in class!! How traumatic would that have been?! I mean with Alex I wasnt working so I didnt have to worry about WHERE my water would break. Which it never ended up doing anyways, so I wasnt sure what that would be like. I used to have dreams that I'd flood the classroom! NASTY!!!!!!!! Anyway thankfully my water did end up breaking, but while I was at home at 3am! Imagine? I'd be soooo upset if it would have waited  4 more hours LOL I would have been at work by then LOL

Anyways looking back at the first year of Gabe's life is so weird! I mean so much has changed yet stayed the same. It's like he has ALWAYS been in our family. I dont remember life with just one kid. (Well I do but you know what I mean), Alex is so good with him most of the time. He does try to play with him and doesn't always remember that Gabe isn't the best walker on earth and that he doesn't know that throwing matchbox cars at people hurts! LOL So Alex gets mad a lot of the time at Gabe. But then he'll see him sleeping and sing him "The Sunshine Song", or run and get him a blanket or a toy to snuggle with. Or he'll run into the room and just want to give Gabe a hug and a kiss or dance with him LOL I think we waited to have Gabe join our family at a perfect age for Alex.

So Alex is VERY excited about Gabe's birthday Party in a few days. He keeps telling me how he is going to help him open his presents and feed him his cake so he doesn't get messy LOL I need to show Alex pictures of HIS first birthday when he made a mess LOL

Going Private

Ok, so I totally freaked myself out watching too many episodes of Criminal Minds last night where serial killers were perusing through peoples blogs and other public networking forums, and finding out way too many details about them and killing entire families! LOL Ok so I know its just not THAT common, but for my own peace o mind I'm going to make my blog private, so if you want to continue to look at my pictures and read our ever so entertaining hours of ummm nothing-ness then let me know so I can add you! (o:

Almost 1!!!!!!!

How in the world is it possible that its been almost a year since Gabe was born??? I still VIVIDLY remember when he looked like this!! My cute sweet sleeping newborn!! Now he is such a big kid!! Walking and starting to talk! How can that be?? Time sure flies!!! In 29 days my baby will be One! WOW!!!!!

Oh man!

So I seriously DO suck at blogging lately! LOL Opps!

Well I went back to work on August 9th. I miss my bebes a lot, but they are in GREAT hands with my Mom. So at least I dont have to worry about them! (o:

The first week back we just set up our classrooms. I'm kinda bummed out because I lost my big huge spacious classroom and now am seriously crammed into a small room less than half the size! I have 24 kids this year and am also a "Mentor" teacher to a new teacher who has never taught before. Thats kinda cool. I keep forgetting to mention things to him LOL Opps!

Now its Friday and the first week with students is over and done with! So far my kids are awesome! They are quiet and its so weird! LOL If I go to the office to make copies or step out of my room I leave them working and come back and they are still working! Its awesome!! The past 2 years as soon as I step out of my room all hell breaks loose LOL Yelling, hitting, screaming kids bouncing off walls! It wasnt pretty! LOL

Hopefully they continue to be good for me and arent just giving me false hopes at good kids! LOL

Lets see... we are going to Las Vegas tonight as soon as I get home from work! I havent been to Vegas since I was like 20 or 21! Craziness! We are going with my family to celebrate my Mom and brother Mario's birthdays!

We are going to the M&M Factory and watch a sword fighting show and light show and eat at the buffets LOL I'm excited! (o: And the best part is that the hotel was free! My sister got free rooms and we are using one! YEY! Ok well I';m going home now! So ta ta!

Oh oh one funny story...

Our "time out" spot is in our kitchen by the laundry room door, and Alex knows this area VERY VERY well LOL And he hates being in that are for any period of time LOL And the other day Gabe decided to play in that area while I was cooking. Alex came running into the kitchen to ask for a snack and stopped dead in his tracks and looked very concerned for his baby brother and asked me "Mama, what did Gabe do?" so I turned to see what he was up to and I said "He is just playing" and Alex was still not convinced and kept asking me "Mommy why is Gabe in time out? Thats so sad Mom, he's just a little baby!" LOL He was so sad for Gabe! So cute!! I should start putting Gabe in time out tough! LOL Little walking menace LOL So cute though!!

Lots of stuff

Yeah, so I suck at blogging lately! Weird you'd think that since I'm on summer vacation right now and home a lot more I'd have MORE time to blog. But who knew I'd find better things to do than blog? LOL

Well so far our summer has been really good.

We went to California for a Tim McGraw concert in June with Matt and Sara and some other friends. It was a lot of fun to spend time listening to awesome music and hanging out with some friends. But we think that next time Tim McGraw is around we're going to stay home and go to his concert here like 5 minutes away instead of driving to CA. Just less stressful (o: But it was a lot of fun!

We spent a week in TX, it was super hot and humid. But if you dont count the weather the vacation was really fun. We saw some family we havent seen in years! We went to the beach, Sea World, hmmm other places too LOL Driving for 17 hours straight to get to San Antonio from Tolleson with Gabe (8 months) was so not fun LOL he didn't want to be in his car seat anymore lol so he tried to convince people to take him out of his car seat! Crazy baby!

hmmm I worked summer school as a sub for 2 weeks. It wasn't so bad. A little extra money never hurt anyone (o: I also have some professional developments to take for ELD (English Language Development). Luckily I had already taken the first part of the training so I got an extra week off! WOOHOO! I do have to take the next 2 weeks of training though! Oh well!

hmmm.... ok thats enough for now LOL

(Pictures next post!)

...

Well, we've been home for about a week now. Its so nice to be home. Going on vacation and visiting family and new places is always fun. But its always nice to come home too. I'll post more later... just wanted to make sure my blog didn't disappear!

Happy Independence Day everyone!

Texas

We are currently in TX... its HOT and HUMID...TX kinda sucks LOL


More later!

Cousins 2010

We went to California on a spur of the moment trip because Sam and her kiddos are going home. So we figured this would be the last time we'd be able to get all 6 kiddos together for a Grandkid / Cousin picture. Gabe hated it! He cried, and wouldnt smile. Of course he did get woken up from his BADLY needed nap to take pictures. So thats understandable. But he was sad pretty much for ALL of the pictures with all the kids. As soon as it was Alex and Gabe's turns he was happy and not crying at first, and then we finally got some smiles. Poor tired little guy )o: I think yesterday was rough on him, I think he cried more yesterday than he has his entire life! Poor little guy! Anyway here they are! (o:

Gabe hates Strangers!

We took Gabe shopping with us this weekend, and he would cling to us like crazy whenever a stranger would walk by him...


Having family all over the place is going to be interesting when they visit!

Easter

I was at Target and saw these dye kits, and decided to get them since we've never dyed eggs before. Alex and David LOVED it. They had fun making their creations (o:

Adding the color tablets.

The finished product! (Yes Alex was eating
chocolate lol)

He was excited to show them to Gabe, Gabe
was like "What the heck are these!? And more
importantly WHERE ARE YOUR PANTS!?!" lol

The Easter Bunny came by and left these
baskets for the boys!

Gabe was like "What am I supposed to do with
this stuff!? But Look I'm sitting down all
by myself just like a big kid!"

Alex showing Gabe how to use his new blocks.
(Um, dont mind my folded laundry in the backyard!
The Easter bunny forgot to hide those lol)

The silly Easter Bunny hid eggs all over the house!
Alex had a lot of fun looking for them though!

"WOOHOO! I found another one!!!!!"

We then went to breakfast with Jenniffer, and then went to my parents house to have dinner, feel an earthquake and hang out LOL

Easter Egg Hunt!

We took Alex and Gabe to the Peoria Sports Complex this morning for an Easter Egg Hunt kids event. They have different hunts for kid ages. So kids under they pretty much just throw a bunch of candy onto the baseball field and then let the kids run wild on the field and get as much candy as they could. Now the rules are that parents can walk on the grass with the kids, but CANT help them pick up any candy. So of course David followed the rules and other jerk parents were picking up the candy for their kids. Which sucks because that meant that the kids whose parents actually followed the rules only got like 3-4 pieces of candy. Alex didnt care though, he had a lot of fun. They had pony rides, train rides, bouncy houses, slides etc. He had a lot of fun! (o: Gabe just loves being outside, so he had fun too LOL

he was sad to go home LOL

he took this of himself in the parking lot lol
Apparently he got over being sad lol