Peyton's Birthday

Peyton has turned EIGHT!!!!  How.In.The.World?!?!?  She spent the night at Grandma Jeanne and Mark's the night before her birthday.  So, she woke up on her birthday at her house.  This is a picture that I received at 6:22 in the morning!!

I guess she was so excited to turn 8 that she couldn't sleep in.  The night of her birthday was her softball end of the year party.  She had a great time there with her friends and then she had two of her friends stay the night.

Happy eight birthday to my first born, that continues to bring us much joy ALONG WITH much challenge!!!

Maira, Peyton, and Kate getting all settled in for the night.

Happy Birthday, MADDIE!!!

Maddie is TWO!!!!  Guess what?!?!  She acts like a two year old too.  Sassy, doesn't like to share, we hear "no" a lot, cute as a button, smart as a whip, likes to tell on her siblings,……you get it!

She woke up to cupcakes (that's what she wanted for her birthday!), then he big kids, Maddie, and I went to Chuck-E-Cheese.  She LOVED it!!!  We finished the night with more cupcakes (a candle this time too!) and then a trip to the ball park for Jack's last ballgame.  I'd say Maddie had a great day……and now she is TWO!!

happy birthday!!!

cupcakes, balanced out with a banana

heading in the see chuck-e

dancing with chuck-e

jack having a blast!

sliding with Peyton

one last game before it's time to go home

yep!…she's two!!  throwing a fit before we leave 

getting the party started with blowers

i was shocked that she knew how to blow it out

she liked her present….baby on a scooter

Zoo.....take 100

A zoo trip is pretty normal for us, however, Peyton was adamant that I take these pictures and post them.....so here they are:

Thanks for the heads up....

We were getting ready to leave for the lake last weekend and I went to check the mail before we left.  When I got to the mailbox I found this.....I'm sure the mailman would've got a kick out of that if I wouldn't have got to it first.....

Jack lost his first tooth!!!

Jack his hit another milestone….his first lost tooth.  Sunday, July 20, 2014……..he's got another coming out any day now.  His two big teeth have been in and pushing these little guys out for a few weeks now.  It was wiggly enough that I pulled it and he was talking to Mike and never realized it came out.  Once I stopped him from talking and showed him his tooth, his reaction was hilarious.  "My tooth!!!  My tooth came out!!!"  He seriously had no idea until I showed it to him in my fingers.

The tooth fairy brought him four, 1 dollar bills.  He was impressed!

Jumping Jack….

Jack is quite the little jump roper!  He's REALLY good….like really.  He can do all the criss cross tricks and stuff that Peyton nor I can do.  His P.E. teacher at school this year told me how good of a jump roper he was and their kindergarten class in general.  She said she was able to do so much more with her jump roping unit with this kindergarten class than ever before.  Here's some pics of my little jumper…..

Jack's big J.O.B.

Jack declared at the dinner table last week that he wished he lived at the Orlando's house (this is his best bud, Will).  When we asked him why, his response was, "So he could live with their lizard."  The next night we were playing Will's team in baseball and I was telling Natalie about our dinner table conversation….she said, "Perfect!!!  We are leaving town next week and our normal lizard sitter is out of town!"
Jack is on lizard duty this week.  He's been holding him, feeding him crickets, going up stairs several times a day to look at him…..he's enjoying his babysitting duties!
How long will it take for him to ask for one of his own?!?!