Sara and Mike

Sunday, November 18, 2012

Week 82 and Week 195

William is 82 weeks old. His new trick, he can count to five! Not on command of course, but if I say one, he will continue with 2, 3, 4, 5. I had been noticing anytime I said the word two/to/too no matter what the context he would say three! He is getting the idea of numbers and yes of course is copying everything!!

Emily is 195 weeks old and finally had a nice, normal week! We had dance and school on a regular schedule and are back in the swing. Mommy even made it to the gym 3 times this week! Both kids love going and playing in the playroom there. As soon as we walk in William heads right to the train table and is in heaven! He's definitely my train kid!!! Emily is doing great also and is soooo much better about leaving me than she was this time last year. I always get a big hug and a kiss before I leave, but I'll take that! Emily has really been interested in my camera lately and loves taking pictures (on my point and shoot only!). She's also made some pretty funny videos.

Here are some pics....

Hugs for Violet

Fun with Scout

Somebody is ready for the cold weather!

Emily insists she is never cold and is now rolling up her pants! She does pull them down before or shortly after going outside though.

82 Weeks Old

Outside Fun

Chatty Boy

Love him!

Tickle Time!

Tickles!!!

Emily's Self Portrait

Buddies

Emily took this one too.

My little photographer

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Week 81 and Week 194

William is 81 weeks old. He is continuing to learn new words and is constantly talking! He officially says the names of all of his Grandparents and uses them to get their attention. Grammie is proving to be the toughest, but he is working on it! He says Emily much better now too. It's amazing how his speech is evolving! He had his 18 month checkup this week and was 33.5 inches and 26 lbs 13 oz (I think!).

Emily is 194 weeks old. She is our little comedian. Not sure if I've posted about this before, but for a couple of months now she has just loved telling jokes. She has a couple of good ones and the rest are just made up nonsense, but she just thinks they are the funniest thing ever!!!

We realized how lucky we were at home as most of our area still did not have power this week. Schools were all closed and Emily finally had a make up dance class on Friday. Looks like next week we can start to get back into our normal schedule. We have been watching our friend's pet snake since they did not have power and it was getting too cold for him to stay in the house. The kids absolutely love him and even got to watch him eat his mice! Emily stood there and watched the whole thing and loved it! She has decided that when she is bigger she is going to get a black cat with a pink collar and leash.

We also had our first snow this week. We didn't get much, but just enough to play in for a little bit before it all melted. Emily was so excited when she saw it starting to snow and couldn't wait to go outside and make snow angels! Will had no idea what it was and was not excited about it at all. From putting on all of the snow clothes, to going out, he was just not all that happy about the whole thing. He wanted to explore, but was afraid to touch the snow!

Here are some pics of our fun...

Watching the snow fall

First thing she did...snow angel!!

As you can see we didn't get much and it was melting fast!

Thinking about touching it...

My cuties

No snow in the house

Snow slide!

You know its time to go inside when you start getting muddy!!

Pretty girl in her rocket ship!

She colored and decorated a box to make a rocket ship!!!

WHACK!

Swing!

Baseball dude

When we went outside he brought me right to the balls, bat, and tee! He knew what he wanted!!

Daddy's helper.

Emily loves helping in the kitchen and is getting pretty good at cracking eggs!

William has to be a part of the action too!

Ladybug!

Emily wanted to hold it.

Jets kids!

Having fun!

Silly boy!!

Mama and her boy

81 weeks old

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Week 80 and Week 193

William is 80 weeks old, Emily is 193 weeks old and what a week it was! Definitely a week to remember...or forget. We had lots of togetherness this week as Mike didn't work all week and we awaited, experienced, and dealt with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy!! I have to start with being super thankful that we did not have any damage other than losing our power and we are all fine!!! We had 2 trees fall into our neighbors yard, but that's the worst of it. They are still there and will probably be there for awhile considering all of the destruction around. We lost power around 8:00 Monday night as we were putting William to bed. Emily got to stay up a little while and "camp out" in the living room. We "roasted marshmallows" over the lantern and had a little fun before sending her to bed. We then sat up and listened to the crazy wind and things blowing around while playing games. The worst of the storm was overnight and we woke up to quite a surprise in the morning! At first there didn't appear to be any damage, but after looking out our bedroom window we saw the 2 trees that had fallen. And a bunch of huge branches that fell into our neighbors driveway. We had a bunch of trees removed and trimmed this summer and I am so glad we did that!!! Otherwise we may have had some more tree damage. The power was out, but we had a pretty good Tuesday and decided to venture out later in the afternoon. It took a few detours to get out of town, but rumor had it the Rockaway mall was open so we decided to head in that direction. Nothing else around had power, but the mall area did. The kids fell asleep so I did some shopping in Target, then we woke them up to get some dinner, and headed to Toys r Us for something to do other than sit at home in the dark. We met up with some friends and had some fun wandering and playing in the store. We went with them to the only restaurant open and had a drink. It was packed of course, but warm!!! We got home, put the kids to bed, bundled up and had some more game fun! By the next morning it was getting much colder and we knew we had to do something although kept hoping if we waited a little longer our power would come back! It wasn't looking good so we headed to the Kopcho's, one of the lucky houses to have power! Thank you so much for taking us in! We had fun and hopefully weren't too noisy and messy!! Our adventure took us to the Beattie's house for the next couple of nights and we finally had hope when we saw the number of outages drop dramatically in our town! Of course no one was left so we had no confirmation that we had power. Mike headed up Saturday morning and we did indeed have power!!!! Yay!!!! As much as we love our family and had fun with our sleepovers, it was so nice to be able to come home! And we are still super lucky, because looking out in all directions all we see is darkness. It is so strange. There are still tons of outages, schools are still closed, stores are closed, and since getting gas is so difficult we are just hanging close to home. Hopefully the area will continue to gain power and get cleaned up. It's amazing the amount of damage that was done and it doesn't even compare to what happened to the shore areas. Just seeing the pictures of the devastation there is unbelievable. And again makes me realize how lucky we are.

Here are some pics of our crazy week...