Fort Rapids Weekend

This past weekend we had a 4 day weekend. After mom got through crying and feeling sorry for myself, we decided to go have a little fun. So we went and stayed at Fort Rapids. It is an indoor water park here in Columbus. We had a blast. It was -10 below outside, but we were having fun in the water. The older three were scarce to be found until they got hungry and came searching for food. They were too busy going over and over again on all the bit water slides. The littler ones and I were more in the play area. We spent the night and did two full days of water sliding fun. Here are a few picts to share from the fun.

Duncan looses his front tooth

We had a great event last night. Duncan lost his front tooth. He is the funniest kid. He showed me it was loose about 6:30 p.m. So I told him to wiggle it as much as he could so that it would loosen up and come out in the next few days. By 8p.m. that night it was sitting at an angle and hurting him like crazy because he had wiggled it so hard. I put some orajel on it and got him ready for bed and told him to leave it alone until the next day. I went to put Izabella to sleep and by the time I came to tuck him in it was gone. He told his dad it was bothering him and Theran always willing to use the needle-nose pliers to get a tooth out grabbed them quickly and pulled before anyone even knew what happened. Duncan was so glad to have it out and got his golden dollar from the tooth-fairy last night. Mom is sad because the perfect smile is gone. I love Duncan's little smile and now we'll have to see if with his grown-up teeth it will ever be the same. But I have a long time to wait until all those teeth are in and the little ones gone.
A close up view of the great event!!

Even though our Buckeyes lost at the Fiesta Bowl on Monday night, we had a fun night of team spirit, even Peaches joined in.

Christmas 2008

This Christmas we had the best present ever!! My sister and her husband and brand new baby came to spend Christmas with us. My Mom and Dad who were staying with them to help for a few weeks also came and we all got to spend Christmas together. It was heaven!! Not only did we get our family to be with us on Christmas, but we got to share in Miss Bentley Ann's first Christmas. What a blessing family is.


Madsyn got an easy-bake oven from Santa and it has been cakes and cookies ever since!!

Izabella Rose got shoes, baby dolls and ballerina outfits from Santa. Is there anything else more important for a 2 yr old?


I The 7 a.m. wake-up call/screaming was a little early for some, especially the new mom up with a baby throughout the night. But of course Alyssa was a great sport about it all and didn't want to miss out on all the action, or perhaps it was that she couldn't sleep through all the chaos. Which do you think it was?
One thing about having children, especially boys, is you find yourself doing things you never thought you would. Like allowing them, even buying them guns to play with. These airsoft guns are suppose to be safe and we have had the gun-safety lessons, but who would have thought mom would have come up with that idea?

Everything is Pink

Izabella loves everything pink. When she goes to sleep at night she tells me, "I am going to dream of pink princesses in pink castles and pink ponies and pink ice cream and pink school buses that take me to pink school etc.. etc.. etc.." Of course mom loves it because I love pink too. And what is cuter than a little girl in pink? Here she is in a dress up pink ballerina outfit with a pink feather in her hair.

Duncan is 7 in '08

We had a birthday this past weekend!! Our Duncan, aka Deddlebug, turned 7 years old with a bang. We did a big birthday party at the local bowling alley with balloons, pizza, presents and cake and ice cream!! What a blast!!


We had a blast bowling. We had some strikes, spares, and even (for all you bowlers out there) a 7-10 split!


On Duncan's actual birthday, we had his best friend's family over for dinner and cake and ice cream to celebrate our deddlebug's birthday.

Promises

I am keeping my promise to update my blog more often than once a year. Here are just a few glimpses at our past few weeks.