The pumpkin patch and Vince turns 3!

We visited some friends in Pittsburgh over the weekend after my cousin's wedding. While we were there we went to a pumpkin patch. It was a lot of fun, Vince loved it. Daddy and Vince went on a giant slide that went under some hay, through a little maze, jumped on a bounce house, and we all went on a hay ride to the pumpkin patch. It was a lot of fun and it was a beautiful day with all the leaves changing. We had a fun time visiting our friends and family at the wedding. Thanks Steve and Jess for a place to stay and a nice weekend!

Sunday we drove to Steubenville so Grandpa Martineau could meet Mia for the first time! Bad mom forgot to take a picture of that! We had a nice visit with Grandpa and the kids took a nap on his comfy bed. Next we went to Wellsburg to visit Nana and saw Aunt Sarah and Hunter, and Uncle Dan and Jesse. Nana made us a delicious dinner and Vince received some great presents since it was his 3rd birthday!

Our family

Vince posing like a big boy


Daddy and Mia at her 1st pumpkin patch!

Vince riding his sweet new Scooter!

Looking at his birthday card that had spinning wheels

My new video game learning system!

Singing Happy Birthday!

Me and my buddy Tyler who came by for my cake and ice cream

Happiness

Riding his new Scooter! Thanks Uncle Dan, Uncle Paul and Aunt Kateri!

Funny quotes from Vince:

"I wear my knee pads so I don't get Hoort!"

"Knock, knock! (who's there?) "Boo hoo" (boo hoo who?) "Aww... don't cry mommy!"

"Mom- you feed yoor baby witt yoor boob?!"

"Wanna go play witt my buddies!"

Of course I can't think of any more right now, but I'll have more later I'm sure! :)

8 months old!

8 months old

Look at those teeth!

Havin' fun with my loving brother!


We've made it to 8 months and Vince will be 3 this weekend! We can't believe how old they are already. Seems like Mia was being held by Vince with Croup yesterday...
Mia is still trying to crawl, still not crawling forward, but that's a good thing since I'm not ready for that yet! We need to get some baby gates back up. Going to a wedding this weekend, so we should have some fun pictures of that. And we're going to visit the Steubenville/WV family. Mia is meeting Grandpa for the 1st time!
She's having a hard time cutting that 4th tooth in the front, but we're working on it. She likes to gnaw on the coffee table.
Vince is going on the potty pretty well now, we're working on #2 still, but as I type he is on the potty thinking about it right now! Better go...
Hugs and kisses to all!

Got out the heavy pj's and a few extra...

It got so cold this week we pulled out some warm pj's and I had to put some of Vince's old ones on Mia since I'm having a hard time finding some that will fit her thighs! Here is us hanging out taking pictures being silly... If you look close you can see Mia's teeth!

Hehehehehehe......

Love the coffee table Ma!

Almost 3!
Vince has been peeing on the potty now- we're so excited! Funny thing he's been doing lately is at night when he is in his room and he decides he has to go pee or poops (because he refuses to go in the potty with that) he knocks on his door from INSIDE his room so we come up and get him or check on him! It's really funny and we keep telling him to just come out, but he keeps knocking! It's funny.

Me and "my wittew sista!"

Awww.... cars EVERYWHERE!

The bib says it all

Some "artistic shots...." and no those are not balloons on the side of her body!

She IS sweet

Best friends

Blowing in the wind

And this concludes the Vince and Mia show. See you in a few days for Mia's 8 month(!) photos and Vince's 3 years! I can't believe it!

Picture heavy!

Cereal face!





We're fighting the Croup again here in the land of sickness! Vince is coughing away and sounds terrible, but is still in pretty good spirits and only a little fever. Mia is still healthy, so that's great. We took a bunch of pictures today for all you fans out there, I hear it when I go too long! So here you go...

Working on my workbook....

Love my "wittew sista"!

ALWAYS giving her kisses! ALWAYS.

Mommy painted a couple of my nails- I WANTED her to, daddy!

Another lover of TV!

"Bal-cano!" (volcano)

Soon-to-be matching grins.

Our baby is 7 months!

Mia turned 7 months yesterday! We can't believe it. Not only that, she is cutting a tooth and well on her to crawling! Can't believe that we're almost there already. I felt like the first few months after Vince was born were so loooong and now I'm wondering where it all went! Here is her 7 month photo shoot...


LOVES her toes!


Get a load of those arms- a little boy was wondering how she had such big muscles, just like when Vince was little!

Bottom right!

Get that big butt up!

I'm gonna get it!



Hope everyone is doing good!

While recovering from pneumonia....

Mia LOVES riping up magazines!

So happy to be outside again!

" Wuv' my bike Mommy!"

See ya!

Made in the shade!

We missed you mommy!

Who knew you could get pneumonia in August?! Well, you can, and I am proof!! Last week was a terrible week, after 3 interviews on Tuesday I started feeling really terrible- I was freezing and EXHAUSTED and that night when I woke up with Mia to nurse I was sweating and almost dropped her because I was so weak. But, the next day after a little while I perked up again after some Aleve and brushed it off. Well, the following day I had to deliver a meal to a mother in my mom's group that I had missed the previous day and doggedly made cheesey potatos and stopped at the store and got her a chicken while having my kids fed and dressed all by naptime. So, we get home and take a nap and I'm starting to get more sick. By Friday I told Gabe he couldn't go to work and leave me with the kids because I couldn't get out of bed, which he knew was bad because I'm NOT that type of person. The fever, body aches, headaches, chills, small cough, and shear exhaustion were terrible and plain old Aleve was no longer doing it. On Saturday morning I woke up and could feel the cough in my chest and I thought; Oh no, time to go to the Dr. So Gabe dragged me to the Urgent Care where he thought it was probably the flu or maybe pneumonia and asked if I wanted a chest X-ray as I layed up in a ball on the examining room freezing . Knowing what I felt and worrying about the kids made me wait another 30 minutes to take the X-ray and wait for the results in which case he thought that it WAS probably Walking Pneumonia- he couldn't be sure with the X-ray and me breastfeeding, but he gave me a Z-pac(or C) and sent me home. I felt worse that day and evening and of course Mia would sleep no other place that night other then right by mommy! I made it through the next 2 or 3 days and here we are!! Thank God- I've never been so sick or thankful for good health! I see now how this is what kills many older people and young children- it is ROUGH and exhausting! I'm still working on catching my breath. I'm glad to have caught it early, I'm sure it could have gotten much worse and that would have been BAD.

Today, Tuesday, dad went back to work and the kids and I got dressed (yay!) and even made an appearance outside! It's been a great day, but boy, am I ready for a nap!!

Thanks for taking care of me Gabe- even though I had to drag you away from your work computer a couple times! XOXO

Mia is 6 months!

Yay! I'm 6 months old!


I'm gonna get that camera mommy!


No, this isn't a beer belly!

Mommy, quit tickling me!

Doing some writing...

Mia is starting to sit up with help!

Have I mentioned I L-O-V-E ice cream?

Gimme that!

Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum...

Snuggling

Keep your eye on him mom...






Yep- made it to 6 months on the 4th! Crazy how time has flown! Seems like just yesterday; well, maybe not! Mia is huge- obviously, and we see what her stats are on the 10th when we go in for her check-up. I'm anxious to see how much she has gained. Vince was over 24 lbs at 6 months and I think she at least has some height on him if not a couple extra rolls!

She rolls all over the floor now and occasionally gets her big butt up a litlle like she's thinking of crawling. One can only hope.... she's HEAVY!

Vince is doing well too. He says something new everyday that makes me laugh. Gabe calls Mia "honey" alot which Vince has picked up on. He always giggling at her saying "oh honeeeyyy!" It's super cute. I can't believe he's almost 3! Just crazy. He moved up to a twin bed so I wouldn't have to here the head banging anymore- thanks Grammy and Grampy! He cried when you left, by the way... it was sad. We bought some Diego undies tonight to try out soon, as soon as I feel like cleaning up pee and poop I suppose. I hope that will work because I'm so tired of diapers!

Bye for now! Xoxo