No pics today, just wanted to share a few things. Malena is talking more and more and using signs like crazy! "more" is the biggest one. She has also said "Cah" for "cat" and a few others as well as "Mommy" (well, once).

Today, Jacob was counting how many times he threw the ball at the board. He got all the way to "nine", then said "seventeen." Of course I corrected him by saying, "No Jacob, it's ten." Without hesitation, he said, "I was getting to that." I apologized through my hysterical laughter.

Joshua is fully recovered from his allergic reaction to what I think were pistaccios. I'm finding he is quite the lady killer, also. At the playground the other day, I went to get the boys to go home. I grabbed their hands and led them away saying we have to go home now. All of a sudden about 4 or 5 girls (I'm not kidding), about 4 or 5 years in age ran to Josh and started kissing him and hugging him. A cute little blonde girl even KISSED HIS HAND, and said, "He's my bestest friend." Then she gave him a big kiss on the cheek! He just met her! Boy are we in trouble in about ten to twelve years!

My Little Rocky... Why does everything always happen to poor Josh? Today we gave the kids a unique little candy with some kind of nuts in it. I think they were pecans or pastaccio. Well, Josh was screaming at his naptime (not unusual), but this time I decided to go up and calm him down. I open the door and he's rubbing his eyes. When he stops, I notice his eyes are swelling up like he got hit in both eyes.

After calling the doctor, I gave him some benadryl and let him sleep. When he woke up from his nap, I noticed that not only had the swelling not gone down, but now he has red blotches all over! Off to the ER we go, while Jake and Malena get dropped off at Grandma and Papa's for swimming.

Turns out this could last for a couple of days, and the benadryl only helps to stop it from getting worse. Just to think what could have happened had I not gone up and let him cry it out, or if I had not gone up and it had constricted his airway! It was so scary, and so sad to see him. He was fine through all of it, though, only complaining once to say, "MY eyes huurt."


Here he is before and in his "Rocky" look (right).

Happy Birthday to us, happy birthday to us. Happy birthday dear Us... Happy birthday to us!

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Some pics from our recent lake trip

Heading to the lake the other day, Jacob said from the backseat, "Mommy, I draw hippotomus." Jacob is a talker. Just like his Daddy. Talk, talk, talk. So, without looking back, I replied, "Oh, yeah, Jake..." Well, he wouldn't settle for that and wanted full recognition, "Mommy, hippotomus!" So, Daddy and I looked back to notice that he did indeed draw a hippopotamus! I will never doubt my little Van Gogh again.

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Daddy and his boys all went for an overdue haircut. Don't they all look spiffy?

Here are my little stinkers getting ready for gymnastics class where Jacob manages to get hurt EVERY time he jumps into the foam pit.










New beds for everybody! Yeah. They just LOVED their new racecar beds.... Until it was time to sleep in them....









Here's where they woke up. All 5 of us in Mommy and Daddy's bed! Things are better now, except for Joshua beating up Jacob when they're left alone. Jacob even tells me to take Joshua away because "Joshua be's mean to me." We're working with the little bully.

Here are my cuties at Easter. Don't the boys look so sweet to their sister? Hahaha.