Lots of Fun and Working Too!

So to try and keep the kids entertained and also get something done at the same time, we decided to wash the car. They think this is great fun, they get to get soaked, squirting themselves and anything around they can find. In the process, my car gets cleaned. Of course it took alot of work from me too, but the end result was great, tired kids and a sparkly clean car!

Olivia's 1st Big Boo Boo

It finally happened after almost 7 years of being parents, an injury that makes you go running to the emergency room. Olivia was playing last night and slashed open left eyebrow. She fell or tripped and hit her eye on a metal Cars lunchbox the kids keep crayons on. No one is exactly sure what happened, as I was in a different room and Steven was in the kitchen, Sofia was with her and all we got is lunchbox and she has BLOOD! One look at it and we knew we had to head to ER, it was so deep. The kids went to the neighbors and we left the house and sped to the ER. Luckily they were not busy and we were seen within 5 minutes and they said stitches right away.

Olivia was not happy about any part of the visit, she cried when they put the id braclet on her foot, and every time someone touched her she was sure to let them know she was not happy about it. After waiting a half hour for medicine to numb the area, she received internal and external stitches. The hardest part was that they had to wrap her and strap her down so she did not move and she was screaming the entire time the pediatrician was stitching her eye. At the end she was getting pretty tired and started saying "all done", bless her little heart, she was more than ready to go.

Today she is happy and back to herself, these photos are from after we got home and all cleaned up, she was more than ready to go to bed. You would never know that she got hurt, but her parents still do, events like this leave lasting effects on us! I would rather go through chemo and all I did over and over again than have one of them hurt, that is something I just can not handle.

Going Green

I just read this article and am happy that I have purchased my first two cloth bags, and plan on building a collection and using them for shopping instead of plastic.

I think alot about "going green" and am beginning with little things and working our way towards making our home "greener".

Oh how he loves legos!

Christian is a true lego-maniac! That is my new nick name for him, he lives, sleeps and breaths legos. He is really good at it too, amazing to me that he is just turning seven and can master legos so welll.

Here he built a lego Starwars fun land, complete with cars, etc. and we took some photos of it because he wants to send them into Lego Magazine in hopes that his unique creation gets published.

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Cutie Pies

Just a few photos of the girls before we headed off to see Christian's camp inventions, I love how Olivia is looking so adoringly at her big sister.

Invention's Are Fun!

This week Christian attended Camp Invention - where he had a lot of fun inventing new items, really using his noggin! He made a Mars Rover using a waffle box, water bottles, tape, etc.






He also invented Robot Russo, utilizing a broken VCR which he took apart and reconfigured to make his robot.




He had a good time, made some new friends too!

Twirly Ballerina Girl

For as long as I can remember Sofia wanted to go to Ballet, she went last summer at bit but was just not ready. This summer we are trying again, she is LOVING it, runs right in and participates throughout the whole class. She looks so pretty in her outfit, the best part being that she willingly lets me put her hair up with a pretty bow too, something she does not like on any other day. Today after class the teacher painted stars on the girls faces, she loved that.

Sisters Are So Much Fun!

I have never had a chance to be a SAHM, this year though that has changed and I am getting that chance to be home with them. Home recovering from my treatments, I a spending the summer lounging around and doing fun stuff with the kids. Christian attends came, so the girls and I spend the most time together.

Today I took them to the School House Children's Museum and they had so much fun playing together. Olivia enjoyed running around and exploring the museum, Sofia entertained herself by pretending to cook and be a post man!







Sofia and Olivia are becoming fast friends, now that Olivia is able to play, she is having a lot of fun with her older sister, she loves to play in her room and play babies with her. They are becoming so close, I am really happy that they have each other! They have a built in best friend for life!

Not sure why the photos are blurry - maybe little hands touching it?? Got to work on fixing that ASAP.

All Star Game Fun!

Daddy is a huge baseball and Yankees fan, this year we sat down all together to watch the All Star Baseball game, we had a late dinner of hotdogs, peanuts, chips, etc. Here is our all star kids eating their dinner and being silly.