Bed vs. Floor??

I don't know what the deal is but Sebastian seems to prefer the floor to his bed.  Every night we tuck him into his bed and then later on check on him thru the video monitor and every time his bed is empty.  I go upstairs and put him back in his bed and he usually stays there.  He does this during his nap time too.  So silly, he does this every day and every night.

Gabe loves to write..

Gabe absolutely loves to spell, read, & write. He likes to get out the markers for our dry erase board and spell words, erase them, and spell more. He also loves to play with his magna doodle for the same thing. He will bring it to us and tell us a word and then say "spell it". This kid is a sponge, you can show him one word and he knows exactly what it is and knows how to spell it. He even sounds words out, it is amazing! Well the other day I left him unattended with markers, (yeah, what was I thinking?) This is what I came back to:

Luckily it was Crayola Washable markers this time.  He was so proud of himself, he just kept saying "from, from, from".  That is the dry erase board eraser that he is holding in his hand.  He was trying to erase it off of the carpet and didn't understand why it wasn't coming off.  He looked at me and said "uh oh".

I went to the laundry room and grabbed the Spray & Wash with Resolve Power (love that stuff, works great on carpet) and a wet washcloth and I was able to scrub it right out.  Thank goodness!  I told him "color on paper, not on the carpet" and then I gave him a stack of printer paper. 

He had a great time with that:

He is amazing to watch, he can write a word the correct way and then he will write it in mirror image, you can see that with "this".  As you can see, he also know his vowels.  He cracks me up.  Okay, then he found a big piece of sidewalk chalk the other day and has had great fun with that too.  He went all around the backyard writing words all over the fence and the backyard.

( I put together a collage of the different sections of the fence)

He wrote "jump" on the trampoline, "table" on the patio table, "house" on our sliding glass door, "slide" on the slide, "swing" on the swing.  Later in the night I went to put the boys to bed and found that he wrote all over their bedroom walls with chalk.  In Sebastian's room he wrote "bees", "oh pig", & foot.  In his room he has big squares painted on his wall; red, yellow, & blue.  Well, he wrote "red", "yellow", & "blue" in the appropriate squares.

Good thing chalk rinses right off!!

Abby is 6 Months old already!

I can't believe how fast the time is going! She is now already 6 months old. It has been a busy month for her, she has said "Mama", she has rolled over, she started on baby cereal and baby food.

She didn't quite know what to think of her cereal the first day.

Yesterday she had her 6 month well baby check up.  She weighed 15 lbs 5 oz which puts her in the 50th percentile for weight.  She measured 26.25 inches which puts her in the 75th percentile for height.  She does seem to be tall and skinny.  It is different from any of the boys because she actually wears the size of clothes that her age is.  She is 6 months old and wears 6 month clothing.  The boys were wearing 12 month clothing when they were 6 months old.  So, the skinny thing is a bit different for us.  She is doing great, the doctor said that she is right where she needs to be developmentally.

She sure is a cutie, she loves to be talked to and loves to play peek-a-boo!  She sleeps in her own bed and wakes up once a night to eat.  Her sleeping habbits are getting a bit better, she actually only stays up til about 10:00 pm now instead of midnight.  Thank goodness!

Busy busy busy.....

Well I thought it was time I do a new post.  Things have been going pretty crazy around here.  We are getting ready for our big move and I am just now realizing how much there is to really do.  I have been going thru closets, toys, clothes, baby stuff, etc.  The snow has finally melted in our backyard and the kids have been having a lot of fun playing outside.  The only problem with that is the fact that Sebastian wants EVERYONE to go outside and play with him, if I am not out there then he is whining.  Oh boy, I am sure our neighbors like LOVE that!
Here are just a few pictures of the little guys outside..

They love to jump on the trampoline and play on the swings.  They have found a new interest....MUD PUDDLES!  Yikes! 

I only have a few picutres because Gabe broke my lens on my camera.  He LOVES cameras and loves to take pictures.  Well I left my camera in his reach and he came walking up to me with my Nikon hanging from his neck saying "take a picture, take a picture".  Argghhh, how could I have left it in his reach?  Austin says "Mom, look how cute Gabe is, he was walking around downstairs like this pretending to take pictures."  Well I panicked and quickly took it away from him and put it away.  The next day Gabe was eating a blue sucker and his face was all blue and he looked a bit silly so I wanted to take a picture, I took out my camera, turned it on, tried to zoom in and the lens was so stiff to turn and it wouldn't focus at all!  Great, my camera is broken!  I took out another lens and tried it on the camera and it worked just fine but this lens has a higher zoom and I can't really use it for regular close range pictures.  I had to stand super far away from the kids to take these pictures.  I took my broken lens into a repair shop and the guy was able to straighten it out but it was still pretty stiff, oh well.  So I thought anyway, I just now pulled out my camera to take a picture and it won't focus!  UGH!  I guess I will be getting a new lens :(

While going thru a bunch of stuff I ran across Vinnie's old camera and showed it to Gabe.  He is in heaven!  He loves this thing.

Austin is doing great!  He is excited about the move one day and the next he is really sad about it and doesn't want to move.  He said that he wishes he could take all of his friends to Utah with us or move our entire family here.  Poor guy, I know how hard this is on him, 11 years old is a tough age to move away from your friends especially since he has a girlfriend, and feel like you are starting all over again.  Thank goodness for technology, he can keep in touch with all of his friends thru email and of course texting.  I swear that kid texts more in one week than I have in my whole life.  I think just last week alone he had over 1600 text messages.  Good thing we have unlimited texting on our plan. 

I think he will be fine once we get all moved in and situated.  He is pretty excited about his new space downstairs.  He can't wait to pick out new bedding and get his bedroom and his gameroom all decorated.

Abby is doing just great!  She is so cute and so smart!  She is quite the partier though, she stays up til all crazy hours.  It sure makes it hard on us to sit and relax at the end of the night when she doesn't want to go to sleep. 

Well I guess I had better get back to cleaning and organizing and preparing for our move...*sigh*