No backstory... just cute

Austin's loose tooth.

Austin got his first loose tooth today... it's the bottom front one! There was about 10 minutes of full hysterics followed by his lame and immature attempts to use it as an excuse. For example, "Daddy, I can't do my sight words bc I have a loose tooth!" "Mommy, I can't EAT dinner bc I have a loose tooth!"... etc, etc.

Last Day

Sorry the picture is such poor quality, but here's one of the gang.

So Austin started swim classes the Monday before Grandma and Papa came to visit. It's a once a week class.

Grandma took the boys swimming TWICE a day every day she was here. By the time Dave and I got back from Puerto Rico, both boys were pretty damned good swimmers. Austin was floating on his back and swimming the width of the pool. AJ is also swimming with no float vest, face fully submerged, jumping in and swimming back to the stairs.

So Papa takes Austin to his 2nd official swim class- where he is told that Austin is way too advanced for the class he's in! So in 4 freaking days, Grandma managed to get the boys fully skilled... Awesome!

Grandma and the boys.

Any pictures of Grandpa and Grandma with the boys in Florida??????

Pot head

AJ's questions of the day..

"Why do meatballs look like poop?"

"How do boogers come out of your nose?"

Happy Birthday Dave (one day late)

Hey Dave! I realized that I should probably somehow acknowledge your birthday since you actually took the time to call me on mine. So, yeah...here it is. Happy Birthday! I know it's a day late, but I didn't get home from school until 9:30 yesterday, and frankly was not about to call you then.

You are now officially old enough to be President, huh? Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't there some Florida delegates in dispute? I might be about ready to drink the Obama kool-aid, so as far as I'm concerned, they're all yours.

YAYYY!!

Escape...

So we went to a family party on Saturday and it got to about 10 pm. We're all getting shoes on and Austin asks for some fruit 'for the road'. Dave and I get up and go into the kitchen to search for baggies and fruit and there's chaos all around. Everyone is packing up and leaving..

Maybe a minute or 2 goes by and I look at Dave and say, "Where's Nathan?"... I start looking around thinking he locked himself in a bedroom or bathroom as is typical, but don't find him after one sweep of the house. Now I get frantic and start screaming, "WHERE IS THE BABY? WHO HAS THE BABY???" and everyone starts scrambling and searching... My sister-in-law runs out front to see if he's gotten out and the neighbor from across the street is walking back towards the house holding Nate. Apparently someone left the front door open and Nate walked out, crossed the street and went up to the neighbors open garage- the guy was in there with the lights on doing laundry...

Needless to say, we were pretty freaked out. It was pitch black out and people were leaving the party- cars in motion and all. Nathan's fine.. but as Austin said, "that was pretty scary, Mom".

Xrays AGAIN

Here's Austin getting his third and final (God willing) set of Xrays. He's scheduled to get the cast off and the pins out on Monday.

After he did his Xrays he said, "that wasn't scary at ALL!"

:)

Trouble maker

The picture on the left is the first picture. This is when I said, "No Nathan... don't play there! You'll fall in the pool."

The picture on the right is him still not giving a shit about anything I said even though he fell in 5 seconds before this shot. sigh.

(blow up the naked baby shot and look at his hair! hahahahaa)