This is not a restaurant!!

Happy Birthday Uncle Jon!!

Lazy Bones Jones

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Whatcha doing there buddy?

Poor Fredo is getting a little lazy in his old age... Discretion just isn't his strong suit anymore.
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Marching marching marching...

March never really works out well for me..

don't know why - just seems to be filled with shenanagins

Regardless - life goes on - and this sunny March day - I found myself at the dentist. Seeing as how Poppy is out of commission for a few days - and Nanny was suddenly busy with important business - boy came with me. (girl was at school)

Seeing as how an electric hand dryer or vacuum can bring boy to tears -

the dentist office is an endless tunnel into the abyss of scary noises.

So to break the ice - the ladies in the reception area did their best to woo him with any treat he liked from the prize closet.

(note: after I got drilled, scraped, buzzed, zapped, and every other dental onomatopoeia you can imagine.. Boy got more free loot - one tear when its his turn to go - and he's doomed)

either way - boy drew his first full body picture ...

arms & legs are a mighty big step in the art community!

in the time it took me to send the pic to daddio -

he showed me "I colored in my hair & put on some mittens!"

You would have thought he was Lukey Matisse the way I was praising him

***insert here the ride home from the dentist- down 78.. mighty speedy might I add.. for a majority of the ride, with the e-brake up... ***

zee ides of march... yeessss eeexxxccellent

Next was a trip to the pizzaria for a quicky lunch with Mr Nick

I tried sooo hard to reproduce a picture from last March.. and as hard as I tried - it just wasn't going to be exact. I'm not being so picky considering I got a few cute pictures from a 4 year old & 2 3year olds

pizza guys making a pizza will ALWAY be facinating,

and this is the only seat in the house where a person under 4 feet can see what's going on.

***insert here when girl turns to me & says "Hey mommy! Look what I did in school today!"

and proceeds to lift her upper lip to show me her mighty bloody - mighty loose front tooth..

ahhhhh march

2011

not exact - but close enough

2010

after pizza, we went to gym class -

and after gym class, I dropped the car off for the wonderful repair to whatever part of the breaks I ruined by driving around with the e-brake on

love it

This past weekend was the local yokel St. Pat's parade..

Sadly - Poppy being under the weather - he couldn't come with.

so in honor of him, I bought the kids the most horrible horns I could get my hands on...

and although I apologized extensively to the people around us BEFORE I bought them, you can still see the woman behind the kids tensing up at the sound of these things.

a simple squeek would have been bad enough..

but these kids, every breath -

in SQUEEEEAAAKKKKKK

out SQUAAAAAWWWWKKKK

Even typing it is annoying

ahhhhhhh and what's better than the silent drive home from the parade -

where you yank a horn out of a sleeping child's hands- and hide it until the day you're driving to Nanny's house

and this is just a plain old day at our house -

a plain old day, a plain old nap..

I waited for the day I could sneak up on my kids and scare them out of their skins just like my mother did to me,

and I'm sure her mother did to her

and so on and so forth

Paper for dinner

How dare I ask what's for dinner. "I want paper for dinner"
Hours of mouth-open-entertainment brought to you by 2 pairs of toddler scissors.

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OUTSIDE!!!!!!

I signed girl up for the big K this week..

so we went out for a celebration dinner...

sushi (read: edamame) and ice cream

and then we went outside!!

and stayed outside!!!

Nanny & Poppy brought over boy's Christmas present...

THE TRACTOR!

Needless to say - everyone was pleased!

so there wouldn't be any jealously issues - I also brought out the bicycle ...

the bicycle that has never before been seen by Tyler-Children-Eyes

Boy jumped off the tractor SO FAST... and couldn't get his hairmit on quick enough

Girl was more than pleased with his decision to get off the tractor

Then we did some serious walking

Well, we did some walking - and the kids did some serious riding...

Exploring new parts of the yard -

and new fields... the kids couldn't be happier.

I noticed that the kids seemed a wee bit nosey about the grass.. and I didn't really think much about it..

and this pic was 2 seconds before girl fell down -

I walked over to help her up & nearly had a heart attack when I saw what she fell on - and what the kids were so nosey about

WRETCH & VOM

what I thought would be a big picture of the fam near a tree that had fallen -

ended up being my heart attack when boy decided to go under the gigumbus tree.. and investigate the tiny sapling that was holding its tremendous weight.

also - Boy has learned how to nicely smile for a picture.. but the next step.. is to face the person taking a picture. You tell him "SMILE!" and he stops dead in his tracks - and smiles.

he needs to acknowledge the person taking the picture a little bit more


after numerous spills - we decided girl needed her hand held at all times...

boy just ran through the woods with reckless abandon

Nice boy insists on helping daddy push the wagon up the hill..

hitching a ride

AND THEN THE STONE PILE
boy had a grand time mastering his jumping skills

Girl found her way to the back of the rock pile -

but was sure to stay out of the picture sort of

DOUBLE JUMPERS

I said he was mastering his jumping skills -

not his landing skills

good place for the girl to strike a pose

Boy was insisting on pulling girl in the wagon...

it was funny - at first, she was too heavy for him to pull
then, all of a sudden, he magically became stronger..

and pulling the wagon really wasn't that big of a deal.

So much easier for everyone this way

Happy babies back at home

Someone is getting lazy...

chicken feeders