Growing up....

Replacing the batteries on my toy He loves to "cook" too.

I am so bad about posting these days. I just feel terrible. The morning sickness this third time around (holy cow- 3?? really??) has been terrible. Mark says it is because I am carrying a girl : ) others say it is because we are having twins! We don't know either of those for sure and I guess we won't for awhile. I just do the best I can and try to keep up with Maddox. His latest craze is playing with his daddy's tools. he loves to fix everything. He is so cute! Cody is finishing up soccer this week and then we move right into basketball. He just loves playing sports- any sport really.

While I have been typing this Maddox climbed up in my lap and had to look through all the pictures. He loves them. He says Co-ey and he calls himself a baby in pictures. Mark always tell him- You're the baby! So now he says I baby! He won't get to be the baby for long though! I still have trouble wrapping my mind around the whole we will be outnumbered thing. It will be interesting to see how Maddox takes it : )

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Fall fun!

We went to a local apple harvest festical that we go to every year in York. The boys had the best time. They loved playing in the hay for some reason. Got some great pictures of course! I love the last one here. Cody is such a fantastic brother. Sometimes I am struck by how selfless a 10 year old boy can be. He loves Maddox so much (the feeling is mutual). They are too cute together. Maddox just wants to be wherever Cody is.

Life

What??? Am I not suppose to climb in here?

Our official due date is June 17. That will put this baby right between Maddox (May 25) and Cody (June 23). So for the rest of our lives we will have 3 kids birthdays in 4 weeks. Crazy! Cody is super excited about having another baby around the house. Though we do argue over whether it will be a boy or a girl : ) I am already outnumbered enough around here, even our dogs are boys! I realize I never say much about Mark and me on here. We are just not as exciting as the boys I guess. We are doing fine. Mark is doing his own General Contracting business and so far it has gone smoothly. He passed his exam on the first try which was a big deal. I have signed up to be a sub teacher at Cody's school and have been able to do that a few times. It helps that Mark has a very flexible schedule now. Other than that we just live life and try to enjoy the craziness that our boys produce. We wouldn't have it any other way.

Zone defense

For the last 16 months Mark and I have been able to run man to man coverage as we like to call it. He can handle one child and his needs while I handle the other. It all runs pretty smooth most days. Except for Maddox not being a very good sleeper (STILL!) we have 2 pretty fantastic kids. Well that is all about to change. We found out that we are expecting baby #3 in June. We will now have to switch to a zone defense because we will be out numbered! I thought this would be a good post to include a few of my old favorites. The first 2 are from the day Maddox was born and the third one is from our beach trip in Aug 07.

Our fall tradition

Halloween is by far Cody's favorite holiday. We always get pumpkins several times and he loves to carve them. We did our first one last night. We go to a big pumpkin festival in York every year to get our second round of pumpkins . We will have lots of great pictures of that - check back for that after Oct 18th. This one will be rotten long before Halloween. I love things like this. I know Cody will remember this for as long as he lives, carving pumpkin after pumpkin every year. Maybe he will even do the same thing with his own kids one day.






Maddox had to get in on the action.
Can you tell what it is ? A vampire on top biting a girls neck. It looks better in the dark with the candle but those pictures don't look as good.