Silly faces!!! :)

We were trying to decide who could be sillier???? What do you think? LOL :)

Memorial Day Picnic Fun

Cute pics from the cell phone

Sleeping babies....

My sweet Austin and Katie being tired.......my little thumbsuckers......... :)

4 bathing beauties....

Mommy and my babies

posing for a Memorial Day picture.......(Nick was already with my sister and brother

in law-sohemissed out on the pic!)

My beautiful Memorial Day girls.....

Mommy loves you!!! :)

Nick and his girls........

Boys' haircuts

Just hanging around.......on Nicky's sick day...

Sick Nick!!!

Poor Nicholas was sick again.........this time with a fever and a stomachache........and poor Austin was a "cuddlebunny" that morning........

Nick's Loose Tooth!

Finally, my six year old boy has ONE loose tooth! He is so super excited-he is about the last one in his class to have a tooth fall out............tonight he was trying to decide if he should use tweezers to get the tooth out OR bite into a frozen cupcake to get it out (that's how Lexi lost her first tooth!) Decisions, decisions.................BTW, it is the bottom middle tooth on the right that is loose.......... :)

Powder!!!!

This is what happened when I left the babies ALONE in the living room for about SIX minutes.............I wanted to cry!!! LOL :)

Mother's Day 2009

I was able to spend a beautiful Mother's Day with my children. Many of you know, the past few weeks have been very rough on our family. I wasn't quite sure if I was ready to "deal" with Mother's Day this year, especially with all the new knowledge I've been dealing with. However, I must say, this may have been one of the best Mom's Day I had in my life. It started out with Lexi and Nick allowing me to sleep in; they both took care of the babies! And when I was awoken, it was to breakfast in bed!!!! Talk about a nice treat!! Lexi made delicious scrambled eggs with cheese (and ketchup! for me).........and Nick helped out by giving me three cookies (yes, for breakfast!) LOL.......We ended up going to the local Azalea Festival, and I had a GREAT time........The babies did well, Nick had his face painted, and I even bought myself a beautiful flower pot to hang in front of the house...........I know that I am so thankful for ALL of my beautiful children. Thank you kiddos for making me a Mommy! :) I LOVE YOU! :) :) :) :) :) :)

Lexi's 14th birthday!

Katie's trip to CHOP for Pulmonology 5/7/09

Here is a quick shot of Emma at CHOP............we were there for Katie's Pulmonology appt. We were concerned about Katie's constant coughing. We ended up doing another chest xray which did show some irritation in her lungs, however, the doc thinks the coughing is NOT asthma, more so the effect of a really bad virus...........

Matty has whooping cough! (Isn't it 2009???) LOL

Seriously, I soooo thought whooping cough was a thing of the past.........but nooooo, not with my children! :) Matty has had this barking constant cough for awhile now.........but as you can see from my previous posts, I've also been dealing with a bunch of other sicknesses. In any event, I finally took him to the pediatrician today. Yes, Matty has "para-pertussis", which apparently is a form of whooping cough. We also had a chest xray done, as the ped. thought he heard some rattling in Matty's lungs-but xray came out clear, so that was good news. So for now, Matty is on an antibiotic, along with a cough medicine with codeine-which is helping him sleep VERY NICELY right now! :) (I think I need some! )

I do have to mention that we have lots of sicknesses going on in the home right now......Matty has whooping cough, which the violent coughing has also led to some vomiting b/c he coughs so hard and intense. Austin has a snotty nose and I *think* an ear infection-I've been treating him with Tylenol, but I may bring him to the ped. tomorrow as well. Katie's cough continues........and Emma has the stomach bug along with a fever. She is very quiet, not eating, vomiting here and there today, and just not her "ornery" self. And then there is my Nicholas. Poor kid. He woke up in the middle of the night with violent vomiting. I felt so bad for him. Since Daddy had to work OT today on his day off, Nick and I camped out on the couch (with a clean sheet down to prevent any stains!).......Since Nick still sleeps in our bed most nights, I had horrible visions of Nick puking on a sleeping Tom..........that would NOT have been a good sight! :) So, as of today, Nick has stopped vomiting, but continues with the diarrhea, is running a fever, and is even complaining of his "heart" hurting........that part makes me nervous.........but I think his heart is racing at times when he is doing too much.......so I think that is the problem. So, depending on how everyone is in the morning, I MAY bring Austin, Emma, and maybe Nick to the pediatrician.......I stocked up on Lysol last night at ACME and plan on using a TON of it this weekend! :)