guess who's turning EIGHT?

He was such a little kitty of a baby....

hee heee...this makes me LOL!

and you should see him in this sweet outfit NOW....

Levi's 8th birthday is coming up on Sunday, October 31. I find it rather hard to believe that he will actually be this old.

He was just born.

and I'm listening to him out on the front porch, as he plays Go Fish with Mel...whining and saying "I'm telling Mom....."

On this day, and by now, my mom has boarded a plane for California. This was the day last year that we got HOME from our Great Adventure. she's going out to help my bro with his boys. we shall miss her.

Also, today is my dad's 63rd birthday...(raw deal for him but she did leave him a fridge full of yummy food).

Happy Birthday, Jimmy! We love you...

Thursday happenings

loves to touch his beard...scratchy!
so limber

Just a few of them, anyway.

I'm sitting here waiting for the snow to show up...they are predicting 4-8" for our area...I hope they are wrong. :( I just looked at my calendar and realized that it's February 1, 2008...one month down, 11 to go!

This month holds lots of fun times for us, as E. will turn 12 on Valentine's Day (sweet li'l cupid that he is)...and then my sister turns thirty on the 27th..man, I can't even fathom that she is going to be that OLD! old, ya hear me, Beck? really, 30 isn't as bad as we all make it sound...it's a whole heckuva lot more fun that FORTY!! (not that I'm 40 but I'm halfway there)...let me know if you have a birthday.

Also this month holds a leap year, and the Groundhog will hopefully NOT see his shadow this Saturday! (thanks for reminding how that works, Sherry)

These pix were taken at my parent's house tonight. Levi kept doing somersaults and this was the best that I could take...as my cam is slower than molasses in January. (Canon Digital Rebel would be swell). Molly got some G-ma and G-pa lovin' and we ate a lovely beef stroganoff dinner! Yum, thanks Momma and Daddio. We be lovin' your grub! and you as well.

I'll let ya know if the snow shows up, take some sledding pix for those of you in warm places...you know who you are and I'm coming to visit! Make up the sofa bed!

Update: it had started snowing at 11:30 or midnight and I just checked and there is some rain coming down, making a niiiiiiiiiiiice layer of ice! Things will get messy!

Sweet, sleepy babies

My beard finally grew...no, really, Molls getting loved on by Gramps...she loves his picky beard
vision of sweetness

This post is to finish up yesterday. After a crazy day of running to lunch, errands and just basically taking care of my #4 and #5 kids ON MY OWN (no help from those bigger kids that I love and depend on so very much)...poor little Levi couldn't keep his head up on the ride home. Molly had been crying a lot in the car due to no one being around to give her the pacifier, so she was plum-tuckered. Levi felt the stress and at one point in the ride, he cried because she was so upset and he said it made him sad. Whatta peach! I have totally done the 2 kid deal before (Hi Will and Ethan!!) but I'm older now, more dependent on my built in helpers and it is blasted coooooooold. I love you, my children. You are such incredible helpers and this has shown me to stop sighing at you and appreciate you for the willing helpers you are!!
Ok, hope you all are having a superb Thursday!! Stay warm! God Bless You!