HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

we had so much fun trick-or-treating and mady was hilarious with her yelling trick or treat and when people handed her candy she would say, "i want two!" good thing she's cute and people understood that she's new at this! :) we thought it was pretty funny. tony's costume was a big hit and alot of little kids got blamed for farting at the doors when they were getting candy by the people handing it out. jen and his mum said it suited him and thought he was the biggest kid out there. i so love my husband for making this an unforgettable halloween and bringing so much fun and life to the night. he had as much fun as the kids and they really enjoyed him out there with them

all dressed up and waiting for auntie jennie and cousins to arrive to go trick-or-traeting




"trick-or-treat." kids getting lots and lots of candy





grandma wearing mady's strawberry shortcake hat. mady: "haha. she look silly, mama"

this is all the snow we got yesterday starting at 4pm until 8am this morning. there's gotta be about 10-12 inches. and i had to drive through that last night coming home from syracuse. it took 2.5 hours instead of 2 hours. normally it takes 4 mins to get from grandma's to our house but last night with the weather it took 15 mins. i drove 25ml/hr home the roads were that bad. mady keeps telling me she loves the snow. luckily it's not too cold outside with all that snow. this is gonna make trick-or-treating an adventure!! :)

how fast they grow up.....

Kian has been doing some amazing things for some time now and it has taken me this long to either capture it on video or picture and post it for all of you to see. He has been rolling over, laughing, drinking from a sippie cup, sitting up, doing all the things that I want him to do then once he does I can't believe how fast he is growing. Mady sure does love her baby brother and tells everyone "Kian loves you." Mady sure is excited about Halloween. She's dressing up as Strawberry Shortcake. Kian is a farmer. I am a cow (I don't have a full costume, just a hat that has horns and a nose.) You all remember the nicknames that Kian and I got since he has been breastfeeding. I'm Jersey and he's famer. Well that's where we got the ideas for our costumes. Tony is a woopie cushion and has a fart box to carry around with him. We went to a haunted house on Friday night and dressed up and everytime a kid touched his head, he would "fart." they found it pretty funny. What a big kid my husband is!! When we go trick-or-treating, I'll be sure to get pictures of all us dressed up in our costumes.
Now time for some videos and pictures.

Kian being tickled and laughing. Since this video was taken he has a stronger more heartier laugh. Makes this laugh sound more like a giggle but I haven't had a chance to get the bigger laugh on video and probably won't for a while since he won't do it on que!!


Kian rolling over


playing with a balloon

anticipating the balloon


last week was his first time in his bouncy toy. he loves it.


drinking for his sippie cup. he has been trying to master holding it and his bottle by himself but sometimes he still needs a little help from mama or daddy.


Mady playing with Lily on some bleachers at a football game of Mack's

The Best Invention Ever

This is called a podee. The money I spent on it has never been better used to buy anything for my children than this. It's a bottle that doesn't need to be held for your baby to drink and both Kian and I love it (as you can tell). It prevents propping his bottle when I don't have a spare hand. It's very helpful until they are at the age to hold their own bottle. I highly recommend it to anyone and hope someoene else can share in my extreme gladness with this product!!!

i was on the phone with krystin one day last week and kian was lying on the floor and mady was playing but what i didn't notice was mady put bracelets and necklaces on kian. once i saw and asked mady what she was doing she said "kian pretty, mama." later she tried to put her barettes in his hair but as you can tell they won't stay in peach fuzz!!! he better get used to it cause she'll probably want to play dress up, have tea parties, paint his nails and do a whole bunch of girly stuff with him as they grow up. and i am sure there will be plenty of times, he'll make her play gi joes or cops and robbers and all other kind of boy things. i don't think we'll have any troubles with these two growing up together. they seem to have so much for love for each other.



just a cute picture to share. when kian was getting some tummy time, mady pulled him up on her stomach to snuggle.


notice anything different...................?!?! (you may have to blow up the picture to see)


..................we got madisyn's ears pierced thurs. she sat on my lap when they did it and all she did was shrug her shoulders when they were pierced. they did them both at the same time. no cry, whine, whimper, peep, squeal, complaint. no words like ouch, stop, that hurt, no. she was such a good girl and she'll show everyone her earrings and say, "earrings pretty." she wants some just like mine, mine are airplanes. always when tony is gone she says, "daddy flying airplanes." she's so proud of her daddy and misses him so much.