Just like Daddio...

JMR

A little update on our cutie patootie Mac-man!

He is really fiesty! He spends a lot of time trying to wrestle or hit Tucker but he is improving in his interaction with Charlie. We caught a sweet moment above when he wanted to get in the pictures I was taking of the baby. He is absolutely hilarious when he is not being agressive. He teases all the time and acts out what things that have happened earlier in dramatic fashion and he is LOUD. He has figured out how to communicate without talking to us. We can't wait for him to start talking!
He loves his new Cozy Coupe and he loves to eat! When he gets hungry we find him in the kitchen on the floor with whatever he could reach on the counter or in the pantry!

Happy!

I'm trying hard to take pictures of Charlie like I did with Tucker and Mac. He loves the camera so he is making it easier. Tucker was like this -- he would always ham it up for the camera, but Mac was much more serious. These were taken at 7 weeks.

Happy 2 Month Birthday to ME!!

Charlie!

He sleeps well (we had an 8 hour night this week - yay!)

He eats well!

He loves to coo and talk and smile!

He is sweet, sweet, sweet...

Cloned again.

Tucker - 2005

Mac - early 2009

Charlie - early 2011

Real life with 3 children

a.) Watching more TV than they should because I need them to be still while I nurse Charlie.

b.) Laying on a pillow with no pillow case because getting laundry back to where it needs to be seems totally unrealistic.

c.) Mac always climbing in Charlie's baby gear.

d.) Catching a few minutes of sleep while cuddling Mac at 5:30am (thankfully he has miraculously started sleeping later in the last month!)

e.) Hmmm.. watching another show while Charlie sleeps and Mama catches another minute of sleep.

Laughing Cow

Tucker has been begging me for 3 months for Laughing Cow cheese after seeing a commercial. I have seen their commercial and cannot figure out what about this commercial captured him, but this IS Tucker we are talking about. You never know.

So I've searched for this cheese (not that hard... it's not like I've asked a Publix employee to walk me there or anything.) I found it randomly yesterday -- on the end of an aisle?? Because it isn't refridgerated?? Any dairy product that doesn't need to be refridgerated totally freaks me out.

Can someone clue me in to how this can happen? What is Laughing Cow "Creamy Swiss"?? I don't even know if it actually claims to be cheese. Someone help me not be grossed out as my son makes his 10th "Laughing Cow sandwich" (between two crackers) to the right of me!

Awake!

Charlie at 4 weeks in my favorite day gown...

December 25th in no particular order

The Year of Airplanes. It is worthy of an entire post but my child (and thus children) are completely and wildly obsessed with airplanes. Most days at about 4:00 I have to tell Tucker something like "I cannot discuss anything else about an airport or plane today. We'll pick this up tomorrow morning." He wears me out (and anyone else he talks to) every single day playing airplane, wondering about airplanes, watching you tube videos of different planes, asking more questions about air travel in general, ... It is hard to explain how intense it is but it makes the minivan obsession seem like child's play. It is more like the car wash obsession of years' past but just four times more verbal! Above is the assembly of his new airport from Nan & Pop for all his play planes. Santa found specific models of Southwest, Delta & American complete with food trucks, baggage shuttles, etc. Below is the Lego Airport he has wanted since July. He screamed when he opened it and spent the next 8 hours methodically following the directions to put it together. He picked up the airport shortly before going to bed late Christmas night only to drop it in to MANY pieces on the floor. He was so upset! Mimi and Daddio poured some cocktails and got started putting it back together so it was fixed when he woke up the next morning!
Funny hat from Uncle Bill & Aunt Diann!
Checking out "The Motherload" (Tucker's favorite term for a lot of anything) of gifts!
Christmas Eve reading of "Night Before Christmas"

The worst hour of the year??

Ahh, the elusive perfect Christmas card picture. This year I tried to prep Kyle for an extra painful session as there was a wild 2 year old and a 2 week old involved.
These are some of the better shots of the 100 we took. I try to comfort Kyle when he is reaching his patience limit by telling him "some girls I know take 500 pics to get the perfect one" OR "at least you aren't paying for professional pictures" -- amazingly none of this reasoning helps him feel better about my crazy, neurotic behavior that emerges during this hour each year.

This year we had to try two separate sessions because Mac was sliding out of each picture before I could get a good one. And there were lighting issues and sheet issues and Charlie looks weird in this one issues and this shows Tucker's ridiculously bad hair cut issues. It's just so painful.

Shortly after this picture was taken Mac pulled the towel hard and almost sent Charlie to the floor. We decided to try again the next day...


And finally got this one which I picked after deciding perfection wasn't going to happen in 2010!