Christmas Tag

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? both

2. Real tree or Artificial? artificial

3. When do you put up the tree? as soon as jason has a chance to help me get the stuff out of the attic

4. Do you like eggnog? LOVE IT!!

5. Favorite gift received as a child? barbies, barbie house, barbie car

6. Hardest person to buy for? there's a few

7. Easiest person to buy for? My kids and jason

8. Do you have a nativity scene? 3

9. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail

10. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? hmmmm can't think of one off the top of my head

11. Favorite Christmas Movie? home alone 1and 2

12. When do you start shopping? depends, last year I think we started in Aug. this year the day after Thanksgiving

13. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? ummmm sorta

14. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? the whole Christmas dinner

15. Lights on the tree? white

16. Favorite Christmas song? santa baby

17. Travel at Christmas or stay home? we go to jason's mom's

18. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? hmmm not sure

19. Angel on the tree top or a star? star

20. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? kids open gifts from each other and jammies and sometimes a game on Christamas eve, then the rest on Christmas morning

21. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? That some try to take Christ out of Christmas

22. Favorite ornament theme or color? on our fun tree, star wars, cars, bat man, superman and one barbie. on the nice tree right now it's gold and red

23. Favorite for Christmas dinner? ham, mashed potatoes, corn, egg nog, homemade pie

24. What do you want for Christmas this year? to spend it with family in a happy joyful setting remembering the reason we celebrate Christmas.

I tag Erin, Meagan, Troy and Mel

We got Elfed ... AGAIN LOL!!

The boys couldn't go to bed till I finished this, they laughed and laughed and laughed!! It's fun doing these, and I'm getting so excited for the holidays!!!

http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/jOUUXqf3QJ2oiHzTCMeb


On a side note, I'm finally feeling real movement!!! I've been feeling the flutters and stuff but Sunday he was really moving around in there!! Now is when it starts to feel real!! Wow I'm actually pregnant... AGAIN lol!!!

FLU SHOT?!?!?!?!?!

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-health/20081016/Flu.Shot.Fight/?cvqh=itn_flu

So they have made it "mandatory" to have children in daycare and pre-k get the flu shot in NJ. I am sooooo not happy about this. It's only Tyee that I would have to have get the shot but I do not know enough about the shot to say "sure poke my son with a needle full of stuff that could actually make him sick." My Dr doesn't even recommend the flu shot and didn't even have it available till just this month, ... and only made it available BECAUSE of the new law. I am doing some research to find out how I can get this waived. I just do not think it is neccesary to give Tyee or any of my children this shot. If they tell me Tyee can not go back to school because of it, then I for sure will be sending him to kindergarden next year and he will just have to do kindergarden for 2 years. (I was planning on having him stay in pre-k cuz he has such a late bday. cut off date is Oct. 1 and his bday is Sept. 27th) So any help on getting this shot waived would be greatly appriciated. He's all up to date for all his vax, I'm just mad about this new law mandating these children to flu shots!! They need to back up their reasons alot better than, "so we can reduce the risk of children getting sick." I do not go for that. And I will not be shooting my kids up with some stuff that they can't even say is completely totally safe. My children are not ginea pigs. What happened to parent's choice?!?! Taking away our freedom.

Oooops!

So I thought I'd post some pics. This is after Tyee's Halloween Birthday party, I walk in the kitchen to Luke helping himself to a piece of cake lol

He thought it was funny!!
We went pumpkin picking with my sister Michelle, Tina and their kids. Doesn't Luke look like a big boy!!
Their cousin Justin, these 2 are the troublemakers LOL
I tried to get a cute brother pic....

Kinda having a hard time getting everyone to have the perfect smile....

Then cousin Justin had to give cute Luke a kiss awwwwwThen it was ALLL OVER !!!! LOL
Tyee loves to draw, I caught him sitting near a ditch just drawing pictures, it was so cute.
And last but not least!!! Can you read his shirt?


It says, "Ooops, They did it again...... (I'm gonna be a big brother!!)

So Yup, Luke is going to be a big brother in April!! We are so happy to be adding another one to our family! The boys are so excited to have another baby sibling, they're hoping it's a girl but I'm sure it's a boy lol!! Yes, we are crazy!! We are totally crazy about our children!!!

Cough, cough, cough, cough.......

So Tyee has had this nonstop dry cough for ummmmmm over a month now!! He's waking in the middle of the night from the coughing waking him up. I thought maybe it's allergies, but I'm thinking nope since I have given him Benedryl and Zyrtec and it doesn't seem to be doing a thing!! I just hope it's not asthma. I'm taking Jake and Tyee to an allergist soon (since Jake was having issues in the middle of the summer and it's coming back again) I blame it all on Jason... Yup! Cuz I don't have allergies, but he's allergic to pollen, cats, dust, mold,... you name it. but apparently not dogs???? go figure!! I just feel so bad listening to this nonstop cough. And the teachers keep making comments. I did take him to his pedi. but I had such a difficult time understanding him, which I usually don't. He's from China and has a very deep accent, he's a great Dr, but I felt really jipped this last appointment. He didn't even check Tyee out, I guess he figured it was an appointment for Luke, but I specifially told the receptionist that I needed to ask questions about Tyee. So I hope this specialist will be able to give me some answers, cuz I'm feeling like a horrible mother each time I pick him up from school and the teachers comment on how he's coughing allllll the time.

And our most recent family pic!

Now I just have to figure out how to change our previous family pic.... cuz I have time to do that! LOL (I think Tyee might be wearing the same t-shirt lol!!)

The Please Touch Museum

Since we were so close to Phillie when we were at Sesame Place we took the boys to the Please Touch Museum. http://www.pleasetouchmuseum.org/ It was soo much fun! The kids had a blast! Although I didn't get any good pics of Jake, the batteries died grrr!

Sesame Place

We took the boys to Sesame Place!! They had a blast!

The boys on Sesame Street

Someone was playing with the camera and now theres smudges on all the pics

waiting for the parade

Luke taking a sip

He can see Grovers head over the fence and thought it was funny

Elmo only has 4 fingers
tuckered out

Brotherly Love
Tyee LOVED this ride!!
Oh yeah don't i look good LOL

A walk down memory lane

MEMORY LANE-This will be fun especially if everyone and I do mean EVERYONE will join in!This is just too fun to pass up.

Here are the directions:1. As a comment on my blog, leave a memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!!!!!!!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments.

We can make it a competition if anyone wants. Let's see who can come up with the funniest memory and who has the most memories. Please keep it going. ENJOY :)

I've been slackin AGAIN!

I know I really need to update! I actually did about a month or so ago, I started downloading a bunch of pics and Blogger just didn't want to work for me that day, so then I slacked off and never got back to it! So a quick update...

Jake is loving full day kindergarten. He has such a sweet teacher! I was nervous about it being full day and him enjoying his sleep but it's been working out.

Tyee is enjoying pre-k. He loves his new teachers. He likes to draw new pics for them everyday.

Luke is 15 months now... I just can't believe how fast this last year went!! He FINALLY got 2 teeth, his upper teeth. After 14 months I didn't think he was ever going to get teeth lol. He had his first fall today where his teeth cut his lip and made it bleed... poor guy, but he's fine.

Other than being busy with the boys in school and Luke taking over the house, we haven't been up too much more. I will try to get on later and post some pics.