Is it May Already?

5/16/2008 "Is it really too late to go outside??" Yes, it is too late to go outside once you have already had a bath.
5/11/2008 At Nana's and Pop-pop's on Mother's Day. Alex, Cassie and Nicholas watching a train going down the tracks.
Alex holding Belle.
Nick playing with Pop-pop's camera.

5/4/2008. This is the sad face we get from Alex when we can't give him what he asks for.

The Rest of April

4/27/2008 - When you see a picture like this, you may think that my children have no toys. Don't be fooled. Sometimes, they'd just rather play with laundry baskets to make a train than play with their toy trains. This laundry basket train was eventually connected to their walk-in Thomas train.


4/25/2008 An unseasonably hot day in April made for some fun with water.
Alex looking a little afraid of the mist
Nick doing what he does best - running!

4/6/2008 Alex with the giant, life-sized monster he made at school

Nicholas with his monster

Michael's Birthday

4/13/2008 - Michael's Birthday. He had a great party and got lots of Star Wars stuff - including 5 or 6 light sabors.
It is amazing to me how a child who really doesn't actually eat any cake still can look this messy.
Alex enjoyed a bite of ice cream
Cassie really liked the cupcakes.

Arghhh, me maties

The Boys are really into pirates lately. If everything could be about pirates, dinosaurs and trains, they would be continuously happy. 4/12/2008 - Here they are dressed like pirates
5/19/2008 Here are the pirate ships they got for their birthday.
Here's Alex dressed up in a different pirate costume -- not sure how I feel about the sword, but luckily, so far, he's not caused too many problems with it.

The boys arre really comfortable with pirate jargon. After they got the pirate ships for their birthday, we heard nothing but the typical pirate 3-word- phrases. I tried to make up a few new ones like - "Clean yer toys!" and "Swab da Kitchen!" and "Eat yer peas" but they just didn't catch on.

I'll try to add a video soon.