We finally did it!!!

We made it to Disney!!! After 2010 being filled with RSV twice, puking kid for 2 weeks, car accident resulting in ticket and fees up the wazoo, plus no car for close to 2 months, we finally made it to Disney World!!! We had a blast! The boys were terrific, Piper was sooo good! I can't wait to take them back! Of course it won't be for another 4 years or longer but I'm already looking forward to it! Jake and Tyee loved Star Tours, that of course was their favorite part. Luke loved meeting the Little Einstien crew. He refused to go up to any of the characters, he would cry if they came to him, but he RAN up to Leo, Anne, June and Quincy and gave them a big hug! It was so cute!!! Piper enjoyed playing with the dolls, whenever the boys would see something girly they brought it over to her and she just lite up with joy! So we bought her a doll and she refuses to even touch it lol. She also didn't like the characters, she even pushed Leo's hand away. The resort was awesome! I think the room was bigger than our house! It was a wonderful vacation! One we will always have fond memories of!

My Baby is 1

Piper's birthday was on Friday, the 16th. It was such a sad day. I realized, that's the last first birthday we will be celebrating till grandkids! Her first year has been so much fun! Knowing she is our last I treasured every milestone. At the tiny age of 1 she has no teeth, wouldn't take a bottle till she was 8-9 months (which I am very proud of btw), has never had a bottle of formula (refused that as well!) refused a paci, delayed solids till she was 6 months, has been my smallest baby and yet is 20lb 8oz at 1! She has decided to wait on walking yet started sitting up at 5 months. She loves daddy and crawls around the house babbling dadda, she will say momma but she loves her dadda. She giggles at her brothers when she is sitting in her carseat. She sits behind the passenger side, still rear facing and I'm not so sure I'm going to turn her around anytime soon as she is able to see all her brothers and each one can make faces, talk to her and she will babble back and giggle, it's so cute to listen to her giggle! She loves cars! I was so excited to be able to buy a doll when we found out we were expecting a girl after 3 boys, but all she does is stick her finger in the eye then throw the doll and goes right to the cars! It's cute though to see her push a car around the house. I decided to get her a pink one, but guess what! she still perfers good ole fashion hot wheels! I'm looking forward to watching my little girl walk around in a dress, twirling around, playing dolls but I'm also so sad she is past her "baby" stage. I will cherish the next few weeks that she is still a baby crawling around and crying for mommy and daddy to pick her up! (although soon enough she will be walking around and crying for mommy and daddy to pick her up lol)

Just a few

Just a few to start it out.
http://www.theunnecesarean.com/blog/2010/2/21/acog-on-fallibility-of-obstetric-judgment-and-mode-of-delive.html


http://www.rememberthemothers.net/

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,830142,00.html

I'm not a Hippy, nor am I a Diva... who am I?

I know who I am but I think people get me confused with those in the physiatric ward. I'm tired of people telling me I'm crazy for having natural births or a homebirth. I've decided I'm going to start posting info that I find on here for reasons natural births are a passion of mine. I think what annoys me most is that people feel free to tell me how crazy I am and yet I have NEVER EVER made a comment towards anyone about their choice of birthing. To each their own, but it can be hurtful when people tell me their opinions about my choice and outcomes when they weren't even present. For the record, NEVER screamed during any of my 4 births, NEVER tore, NEVER asked for drugs, NEVER had anyone assist in my child entering the world the way they were meant too. How is that crazy???? Everyone of my children have been completely healthy, calm and perfect when they were born. Isn't that what we strive for? So why am I crazy for birthing a perfect child? All of which barely even cried when they were born (because of the calm way in which they entered this cold world). I'm not hear to preach (ok maybe slightly preach my reasons for going natural) or say this is the only way to birth a baby, or that someone is a wimp for using drugs during labor, I'm just tired of being told the way I birth is crazy. Seriously if one more person makes a comment I think I'm gonna punch them in the face!

Ok well I probably wouldn't.... ok I wouldn't at all! But the stereotyping is awful, I'm either a hippy or I'm ruining the world because I don't recycle. I've never been one to fit in and I'm still not one to fit in, whatever. I am who I am so stop judging me. I make choices that work for MY family. Just the way you make choices for your family.

So where did this all come about? It's been brewing for a long time! But just had to recently hear another comment, where I bit my tongue because if I had opened my mouth, I'm sure I would have been the one to come off as a crazy, hippy lunatic. So get used to my new posts about Breastfeeding, natural childbirth and all that holistic stuff. (and no I'm not a hippie, I wear make-up... GASP!)

The kids have been Elfed again this year!

The kids had a blast elfing themselves again. Downside was when it says JibJab, Luke thinks it was saying Shut up so he would yell SHUT UP at the computer lol!

http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/vB6iaybC1vD5BSLQ


http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/NY7nJEu886uDqdAT


http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/3kyPPbkSXSVloLbC

http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/JC3NpSFlnRzbjyirSEHh

I'm not very good with keeping this up to date! I'm always on facebook and that seems to be my update lol. Things are going well. We still haven't sold the house and seriously considering an addition. We're keeping the house up till March and in the meantime looking into what we need for the addition. I wanted to avoid this stress but I guess Heavenly Father has other plans for us. We love the area so I guess it will be worth it. I hope it will be anyway!

Jake and Tyee are loving school and they are doing awesome!! Both teachers say they are above average and Tyee's teacher was surprised I thought about holding him back because of his late birthday, she said he is so ready and ahead of the game! I'm so glad we decided to send him to kindergarten! Now if we can just get him to behave on the bus! He's had 3 strikes now and is separated from the boy he was sitting with and getting into trouble with so... so far he's been behaving. The last issue was him and the boy scratching each other's face... FOR FUN! Thing is I can totally see Tyee doing this and thinking, "what did we do wrong? We were just having fun!" Silly boy! He does know now that its behavior that will not be tolerated.

Luke is getting so big! He's been such a fun toddler! He adores Piper to pieces! He can not get enough of her! He gets a boo boo and it's a kiss from Piper is what he wants. It's precious!!

Piper is getting so big too! At her 6 month check up she was 17lb 8oz. Funny thing is she's actually my smallest! lol. I make good milk! She's been such a good baby! I have been so blessed! (I admit I'm gearing up for her toddler years though!)

So that's about it! Busy with school and everyday life!

Has it been that long???

So we've had a busy summer, doing what? Not sure really just keeping busy doing fun stuff. Going to the park, to the shore, playing outside. It seems everyone is enjoying their summer! Jason had off this week for vacation and the kids really have enjoyed daddy being home. We ended up not doing all the fun things we had planned but we did go to the shore and go to Crystal Cave (still haven't downloaded those pics) Jake and Tyee ran right into the ocean! They love the shore! Luke on the other hand ... it took him till the end of the second trip to actually get in and not cry. His cousin Katelynn brought him in and got him to fall in love with the water! Funny thing is he LOVES the water, but I think the waves were intimidating... Don't blame him!!

So we have decided to send Tyee to kindergarten this year. We do feel he is ready. He has a late birthday but just makes the cut off date and we thought because he was so young starting, that maybe he needed more time to grow, but after much thought we decided he is ready and holding him back would hold him back in learning. He is eager to learn and has been learning quickly! He's nervous but getting excited! I can't believe I will have 2 in full day school! It's going to be quiet around my house this year! Though I am looking forward to some time with just Luke and Piper. We're going to work on getting into a routine. I'm not much of a scheduler so hopefully we get into one once the older boys are in school. Luke will be attending story time at the library, I'm sure he will enjoy that! Jake and Tyee will be doing soccer this fall, Tyee is more excited about it than Jake, but I know it will grow on Jake. When Jake did it in prek, he had an awful coach so I think that really made an impact on him. Hopefully this year he'll get someone that lets the kids be kids and enjoy practice and games. Piper is growing so fast! She still wakes up once a night but nurses right back to sleep. She's a great napper during the day as well. We've thought about getting her into the crib as Luke has decided he's a big boy now and sleeps in the bottom bunk of the boys beds. But it's just so much easier to have Piper in our room! Why mess something up that works great!

As for our house it's still up on the market. We've had lots of people come look at it the last 2 wks or so and everyone has said they like the house, some say too small but we did have 2 that really liked the house enough to consider putting an offer in on the house, but nothing yet. We're still hoping soon, hopefully soon someone will love our house enough to put an offer on it!

So here are some pics from the begining of the summer or middle of the summer.

Yes, he's walking down the slide lol

Silly Tyee

She was not happy, but I love this dress!

Jake put Piper to sleep then Jake and Tyee fell asleep too

Luke loves looking for Piper and always making sure she knows he loves her

Interview with the Monsters

1. What is something I always say to you?

J: LUKE I mean JAAKKKE

T: Tyee help Piper

2. What makes me happy?

J: whenever I tell you I never lie to you

T: helping you

3 what makes me sad?

J: when I don't listen

T: when I don't do good things

4. How do I make you laugh?

J: when you make funny faces

T: you tickle my belly

5. what do you think I was like as a kid?

J: 8, you liked Zelda

T: a girl, played dollies

6. how old am I?

J: you have to tell us how high we can go... 13

T: 61

7. How tall am I?

J: 13 inches

T: 90 ft

8. What is my favorite thing to do?

J: play with me

T: play with Piper

9. What do i do when your not around?

J: go on the computer and hang out at home

T: hang out on the computer

10. what am I really good at?

J: helping us

T: playing Super Mario Brothers

11. what am I not really good at?

J: cleaning up

T: playing Zelda

12. what is my job?

J: playing on the computer and being a mom

T: clean up and being a mom

13. what is my favorite food?

J: watermelon

T: lukey bear soup

14. what makes me proud of you?

J: cleaning up

T: cleaning up

15. what something you and I play together?

J: the animal game

T: you and me playing "bow chicka wow wow" (he's obviously getting bored lol)

16. How are we the same?

J: we both have the same hair

T: we both have hair

17. How are we different?

J: we don't like the same animals

T: we dont like the same animals

18. If I were a cartoon character, who would I be?

J: the princess from Zelda

T: spiderlady

19. How do you know I love you?

J: cuz you treat me good

T: i dont know because we have hair

20. Where is my favorite place?

J: a type of resturant.. maybe Chatterbox.

T: at Land of Make Believe

Bad Luck?

I swear, if it weren't for bad luck we wouldn't have any luck at all. At least that's how I've been feeling lately. Still trying to sell the house... still no luck. Found a leak in the ceiling, our water pump is acting funny. Just feeling like everything is falling apart on us. We've lowered our price on our house in hopes to get people in here, and we succeeded in that, but it's always too small for them. I'm not sure what they think when they see the price and pictures with room measurements, what do they expect?? I'm not really sure what more we can do. I guess continue to have faith that it will work out.

Other than that things are going well. Piper is getting so big! She's been smiling up a storm! Schools out this Thursday the 18th and I guess we're in for a wet summer this year. Looks like we'll be spending alot of time at home inside this summer. We're planning a trip in Aug. I think we may go to Mysitic Seaport in CT. Possibly taking the kids whale watching and the aquairium. We may also go to Hershey Park. And for sure going to the shore this year! We haven't made it down there in a couple years and I miss the shore! Hopefully we'll have some dry days to be able to do that.

Just a bunch of pictures!

Jake just looked like a big boy that day. I couldn't believe I was sending my 6 yr old off to school.... yeah I know it was May hehe

The kids with their Build A Bears. Piper is actually wearing her bunny's outfit haha
She didn't get a coming home outfit since she was already home but this one is my favorite!

Tyee LOVES snuggling up with her!

Jason lost his ring almost the next day!!

I just love this pic!

Luke has decided he is a big boy now and can get his won cups! Hope he takes alot longer to figure out how to pour it! ahhhhh!!

So far I think this is the most baby acne she has gotten and it might have actually been that she grabbed her face and pinched herself to make those marks.

One of our first family pictures! The actual first was right after giving birth and I hate the way I look!

He just ADORES her!! He is always saying me me me! to hold her.

Just some outfits that I had to make sure I got pics of since we most likely wont be using them again :(

Well that's all the pics for today. I wanted to get some up of the birth... not graphic ones just ones that I thought were cool or special but it's late so I'll try that another night!