Pictures of the little ones

The upside (or downside) to being home with mommy all day is she is snap happy and makes up dress up for photo's.

The triplets are doing great. In fact they are ahead of schedule and were invited to attend the 3 year old preschool program. Normally they would have to wait another year since they are not yet 3. They start tomorrow 3 days a week 4 hrs a day. The preschool has given us a great price after I had researched many of them trying to find something we could afford the day care they were attending is giving us a price break.

Addison is completely potty trained day and night. The boys are doing so so through the day and I still put them in diapers at nap and bedtime. Not because I doubt they wont use the potty if I put one in their room but I am certain they would play in it.

Oaklen is having a tough time with 6th grade. We spent the weekend catching him up in math. Poor guy had to work on it for about 6 hours to get caught up with his class. We have had one meeting with his teachers and have another scheduled for the 14th with the district to get him set up on a 504 plan. For those of you who do not know what that is it's a contract with the school to get Oaklen extra help throughout the day when he needs it. I'll try to snap a few photos of him if I can get him to stay home long enough to do so. Although with all his homework more than likely that's what he will be doing. :)

First day of Middle School

Oh boy....I'm old enough to have a middle schooler. :( Oaklen first day of school went fine. He said it only took him half a day to get into his locker. Haha. We mentioned many times this summer getting him a practice lock and he kept saying "it won't be hard to figure out".

We had to work on getting his schedule changed to include band in which he will be playing the drums. Oaklen said he did NOT want to join the band he wanted to draw, watch tv and play video games. After getting his equipment I think he is excited. Are you seeing a pattern here? He's at that age where nothing mom and dad say can be right until he tests it himself.

These little ones below want to be just like bubby and had to have a "pack pack" too. Luckily I found these lunch boxes that were perfect size to pass as little back packs. :)

Cincinnati Zoo

We enjoyed a trip to Cincinnati to visit with my dad and brother at the zoo. Very proud to say Addison is completely potty trained all day all night. I even tried to put her in a diaper for the trip. She had a big fit and although I won, she wore it, she refused to pee in it the entire drive. This was a nice trip all around. The kids behaved nicely despite missing their nap and travelled to and from wonderfully.

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A new pet

He's borrowing in this spot because there is a heater posistion under him.

Oaklen went to the gun range with my dad and came home with a box turtle (named Tank). It was crossing the road and almost got hit. Instead of just picking him and moving him to the side of the road he found his way to my home via my 11 year old. We are a pet free home except for a beta and thought ok maybe this is something Oaklen can take care of on his own because I have enough to do. I mean it's free right? Surely they are low maintenance right? NO THEY ARE NOT! After a little research I found that there were many thing we needed for the survival of this turtle. After going to the pet store I found that there was even more needed. So this turtle has cost us a bundle but here are some pictures of the kids enjoying the turtle and his new home which somehow ended up in my room?

Water day at Nonni's

Oaklen is home!

Bubby got home really late so when the kids got up they jumped into O's bed. They were so excited to see him it's so nice to capture these sweet moments. Especially now that we have 3 terrible 2's and a preteen. These moments don't seem to happen daily.

O loved his new room. He came in that night and I told him to go peak in on the babies. He went to his room (formerly their room) and threw himself on the bed. He absolutely loved it!

Oaklen was baptized two sundays ago and it can be seen at the following site. It's at the end of the service and you can fast forward through.
http://www.truthcasting.com/player.aspx#showChannel=10000091

He came home a little more tan than he left and I think 2 inches taller. :)

Quick update

I'm very proud to say Addison is almost completely potty trained. She has not worn a diaper in two days. She had two accident the night before and none last night. I put a potty in her room with a night light beside it and she seems to be using it.

Brock and Tyler are still having some accidents here and there if I do not remind them to go. I'm still putting them in diapers at nap and bedtime.

Addison told me the other day that her pee fell off. She said it all day long in a sad little voice "my pee pee fell off". I guess she feels she should have what her brothers have.

Tyler keeps telling us "I'm serious". I wonder how serious a 2 year old can be?

Brock gets mad at me when I laugh at him. Even if he is being silly if I start to laugh his eyes tear up and he tells me "NOT FUNNY!". :) oh the emotions of a 2 year old they change in seconds.

We made these hand puppets a few days ago. They were fairly easy and only cost us $1. Can't beat that. The kids love them! In fact they love them so much I am constantly having to glue eyes back on. :)

Tyler settled down for a nap reading a book. 10 minutes later this is how I found him. Yes he's asleep under that book and no I did not remove it. No way was I going to risk waking him!