What a weekend!!

We had quite the adventure this weekend. Let me start off by saying no kids were hurt in the escapades, they were safely playing at Nanas house.
Saturday DH and I went car shopping. We are looking for a new van because our little car just is not holding up in the space department. We decided to head to Toronto because we had found some "awesome deals" on autotrader. We are driving, everything is dandy. As we start to pull off the highway, into the ghetto, the car starts acting funny. DH pulls over and we find out that we have a flat. Yay. He gets out of the car on the side of the off ramp and changes the tire. All those times I gave him grief for not being handy, he proved me wrong. He can change a tire in a few short minutes. SO he changes it and off we go. Around the corner with our beautiful donut on the car and boom boom boom. The donut is FLAT! WTF!! So there we are, downtown Toronto, in the GHETTO, with no tire. Luckily, there was a little mall (if you can call it that, it was so run down I was afraid to step inside) and we were able to call a Taxi. Thank goodness for a decent taxi driver, he knew of a tire place just around the corner. Off we went. Get to the tire place and they were wonderful. Took our tire back (which we had to bring in the cab with us) and fix it right away. As we were waiting, a homeless man comes into the shop and starts asking me for food. I tried to be polite but he was VERY persistant. Dh had to end up talking to him and he finally left me alone. We get our tire, call the taxi and back to our car. DH changes the tire for the third time in a matter of an hour and we were left with one whopping hour to look at cars. We got to two places that had "deals" online. Funny, NONE of the cars they advertised online were on the lot. ALL with high miles and shitty body. NOTHING like what they showed online. GRR!! All that for nothing! Back home we go. We made it home and took the car in the next day for new tires all around. What an adventure.

Oh a side note, the girls had a blast at my parents and they had quite a few stories of their own when we got back. Leave it to papa to make the day interesting. :)

Gosh Im a slacker

Its my promise to stay on top of this thing. So dang hard, life is such a rush lately. School is keeping me on my toes. I really didn't think it would be this hard and this much work. BOY was I wrong!! I love it, dont get me wrong, and have no intentions of stopping before Im done. Its just hard. I give credit to all those school mamas out there.
Things for the girls have been great. Alexis is still keeping strong at gym. She has accomplished quite a bit in training the past month. She is now able to do a full pull over unassisted on the bars and swing herself back around and up (cant think of the name for this). She can do a diving front roll on the high beam unassistant and a roundoff dismount. She has also 100% mastered cartwheels and gets her 1 hand 95% of the time. She can do back walkovers off the wedge unassistant and flat on the floor with one arm support. This is huge for her, especially only being 4, and her coaches and I are so extremely proud of her. She just adores gym and likes to practice everyday. We got word that next near her hours up to 6hrs/week (either 2 3hr sessions or 3 2hr sessions) and they may up it as of the summer, depending on parents schedual. Luckily, they are very understanding about summer time off because we are going away a few times this summer.
School is still going good. We had a meeting with the teacher regarding her reading (she was becoming frustrated at home with her bag-a-books) and we all agreed it was a good idea to up her to a level 6 because if she does not find challenge, she gets very upset. Level 6 is the cut off for senior kindergardens entering grade 1, so she is officially reading at an entery grade 1 level. We will see where the rest of the year brings us in that aspect. Everything else is school is dandy, she adores math (crazy kid)and science, and thinks that she needs to be doing work during snack. Her teacher laughs because she is suprised at the strong cliques that have already formed at such an early stage. These kids grow up too fast but luckily, she is close with a very good group of little girls (and 1 boy...gotta have that token boy!)
Speaking of summer, we are headed to Ocean City in July for a week, which I am totally looking forward to. We are also possibly heading back to either PA for idlewild early summer, or a trip to NYC. I love summer, we have so much planned and it can not possibly come soon enough.
On to baby Brooke. So not a baby any more. That child suprises me each and everyday. She is her sister mentally through and through. Her speech is doing wonderfully and she is nothing but a compelete clown. Always wants to make you laugh and will come out with some very random things in order to acheive that. She loves to color lately, especially on things she is not supposed to. Oh geesh! Keeps us on our toes that is forsure. This summer her and Alexis will be in swim lessons and as of September, off to gymnastics she goes. She is already egging to go, so I am sure she is going to be utterly in love with it just like her big sister. Now for the fun part, some pics!









Enjoy :)

Mommys Little Monkey!

Momma loves this outfit, so I just had to share with all of you. Suits her well, she definatly is my little monkey!! :)

Did I forget 15?

Brooklyn has picked up counting like it was her second language, but she casually forgets the same number or two everytime. We will get there one day!

Its been that long?

Ok, so I'm a slacker but after the constant battle of words with family about keeping them updated, here I am. I vow to be better! So much has happened, I dont even know where I begin. Alexis turned 4 and had a great birthday at the animal farm/pumpkin patch. She had about 17 of her friends join her and they had a great time. Shes been on the countdown to turn 5 ever since the party ended. She is still enjoying kindergarden and Im a very proud mommy to say that my baby girl can read! She is doing great, and really loves it. They upped her to a reading level 4 and she can go through the books with ease. Her gym team is doing really well. She has mastered her cartwheels and with a bit of encouragment she is able to do them 1 handed. She loves the days she gets to go to gym. Thats my girl!!

Brooklyn had her 18m appt and it went well. She was 24lbs and I believe 33 inches. Growing like a weed. Her vocab is unreal, Ive lost count of her words. She strings 3 and sometimes 4 words together and is definatly the chatter box of the house. I have the sweetest video of her counting to 20 I am going to post and I need to get one of her singing her ABCs. So sweet!

Now, on to some pic posts!

Reno blog#1

Dh and I are on a kick of renovating/redecorating the house. It has been a LONG time coming, and finally we have the cash flow allowing us to do this all little by little. Feels great, and finally feels like "ours" even though we bought it 2 1/2 years ago! No longer anothers awful style, but little by little the rooms are becoming our own.
Here is our "new" upstairs main bathroom. Trust me, its a long shot difference then what it used to be like LOL






Notice the burnt out lightbulb, how did I not notice that until I took the picture???



Lastly for today, the master. We painted the walls (no more tacky pink!!!) and bought a new bedset. We are searching out a new dresser and curtains, then I can update with a picture of the WHOLE room!! The last thing on the list for this room, replace ugly pink carpet. We have saved half (who knew carpets would be SO expensive!!) so they will be done next spring.





Last on the list for the 2008 year is.....THE KITCHEN! Yuppie. Ive actually started, but wont post about the work in progress. That will be all until after christmas. The rest of the house will have to wait until after jolly old saint nick makes his way here. Enjoy!

My Kindergardener :)

That's right, my baby is now in school. She goes everyday for 1/2 a day and is loving each and every second that she is there!!! Despite a bit of kindergarden drama (thats a whole other post!), she is adjusting perfectly. I spoke with her teacher today who said Alexis is a gem and was adjusting very well and catching on quicker then anyone could expect. She is currently doing Senior Kindergarden work, while only in Junior K. I asked what would happen next year when she IS in SK, and she said we will fight that battle when we get there if she is still ahead of the rest. So enough blabber, time for pics!

My little lady all dolled up for school


Where on earth did my baby go?


And were off!


Ready - Set - Learn!