Here are some pictures that we've taken since we moved in. They are of Mommy and Me, Joey's first day of school, The light show at the ecology site and Santa visiting the house on the firetruck.


More Pics of the Kids

Jenny's first haircut

I went to get Nicky's hair cut and I asked to get bangs cut into Jenny's hair...I ended up taking about an 1 1/2 inches off of her hair.. She was such a good girl!

Nicky wasn't too happy but he looks handsome.

Voila!!! The finished product..such a pretty girl!

We have Poop!

OK - gross entry but we must record the milestones!

The day before yesterday (on his birthday), Nicky did Poopy on the Potty! It was a 2 hour ordeal but I refused to put a diaper on him - so it was either the toilet or his underwear and - thank goodness - he chose the former!

Being the enterprising young woman that I am - I told Jenny that Nicky can get birthday presents and birthday cake b/c he is a big boy. If she didn't do poop on the potty then she wasn't going to be able to get a birthday cake. (Ok - I know, I know, cruel..blah blah blah...and if it didn't work it would have been a huge blow to my credibility when she got her gifts on Sunday but..)

It took her less then 24 hours and she did poop on the potty too!!! She was so proud of herself!

I have never done the "Poopy in the Pott-ay" song so much in my life!

And if you were wondering, yes - I took a picture with my camera phone and sent it to Joe at work! LOL

Have a good one!

That bugger has been holding out on us....

So as most of you may know, I have been potty training Jenny but Nicky has had absolutely no interest whatsoever in it. I ask him if he wants to go on the potty and he simply tells me "Nope!".

Last week I pretty much didn't give him a chance and said "Kick - you are putting underwear on now - let's go!" He resisted at first - ended up running around naked a little bit and then within an hour - was peeing on the potty!

After that - a complete champ - he has maybe one accident a day and it is usually when he is completely pre-occupied with something and just forgets.

AND...He has been waking up in the morning completely dry! Jenny doesn't even do that yet..So I think he has been potty trained for months - he was just holding out on us!

He hasn't pooped yet...but he is a toilet reader! LOL:

Here are some pics of the twins playing in the snow yesterday......

This is the three of them in their living room fort....

Congratulations!

To Ally and Dave on her new beautiful baby girl AVA!!! I can't wait to see pics!

Yes we Can!

Oldie but a goodie....

The McKelvey Girls:

Not too much going on...

Joey had his first reconciliation on Saturday (confession is what we called it in our day). He is so cute – he confessed that he talks too much when he should be listening in class – lol. For the life of me I can’t understand why they make 7 year olds confess. It makes no sense whatsoever – what could they possibly have to confess?

The twins each have a cold – Jenny is so dramatic. Joey asked her for a kiss goodbye yesterday morning and she said “No Joey – I’m sick – no kisses!” LOL Then, when I got home I said "Hey Jenny girl - how are you feeling?" and she looked at me like I was stupid and said "Mom, I not crying!" LOL

Finally - a Nicky story….I call Joe “Babe” and every once in a while Nicky will call him babe if he is not listening – he will say “Dad? Dad? BABE!” So yesterday morning we were watching Franklin (God I love Noggin!) and he said “Mommy – there’s Franklin and there is the Daddy the Babe”

That's it - no updated pictures since Christmas. Talk to everyone soon!

Well you asked for it! Here are pictures from Thanksgiving, Around Christmas, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. I hope you have some time because there are ALOT of them!!!

Few things to notice:

1. There are pictures of Nicky's very first wall picasso - I am buying stock in Magic Eraser.
2. Alot of the pics are blurry - sorry!
3. The first group of pics are from Thanksgiving night at Kelly's house. Yes - that is my brother PJ licking whip cream off my brother Anthony's nipples. Typical holiday.
4. The very last pic is my daughter's very odd atire from the other day. God love her!



Holiday Season 2008 .


I hope everyone has a safe and happy new year.

How hard is it to get ONE freakin' picture????

Step 1. Negotiation: You can't open presents until you sit for ONE picture.

Step 2: Organization

Step 3: Logistics - how do you fit 11 kids on one couch????

Step 4: Corralling the big kids (yes you, Kristin, Kenny and Samantha) - notice all the little ones in place and also notice that Aaron is getting really freakin' bored!

Step 5: Apparently someone needs to turn down the TV first????? WTF????

Step 6: Almost perfect....except - hey - where the hell is Samantha's head????

Step 7: Oh there she is...wait, what's wrong with the camera - why the hell is it blurry and where did KJ go ????????

Step 8: Completely give up! Anarchy!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday little man!

Happy Birthday Joey !!! It seems like you were born only yesterday and now you are 7 years old! Thank you to everyone for coming last night- Joey had a great time and loved all his presents. He was especially happy to have his birthday party in his own house for the first time ever!!!

I will post my pics later tonight if I get a chance but here is his very first professional pic:

Joey Physical

I took Joey to the doctor on Saturday for his physical - he is such a midget - lol - He is 3 feet 10 inches and only 46 pounds! He is in 25th percentile for both height and weight!

Then...I forgot to warn him but he had to do the turn your head and cough thing - Holy crap the two of us were cracking up - he could hardly cough he was laughing so hard. I couldn't catch my breath - what a fiasco - too funny - I guess I should warn him next time.

THEN>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

When she was done he said "Mommy - that felt cool!" OH MY GOD! I almost died ! What a six year old will say!

Anthony is coming home this weekend! YEAH!!!! We are having dinner at my house on Saturday night with everyone! I am so psyched to see them - it has been FOREVER!

That is it - my small update.

Halloween 2009

Halloween was FANTASTIC!!!! The kids had a great time. We went trick-or-treating in the new neighborhood. If I wasn't happy about moving before, yesterday would have convinced me. The neighborhood is filled with kids and everyone is so nice it is amazing. It was good to go out and meet people in the area. Joey was also excited to see some familiar faces from school in the area.

Sammy, I hope you are feeling better soon - some excuse to get out of trick or treating - sheesh!

Here is a link to some of the halloween pictures:

Halloween 2009

My brother Anthony and his family are coming next week - we are going to have a big dinner (probably at my house) during his stay. Can't wait!!!

Have a good weekend.

Quick Quick update..

Hey - for all of you that aren't blood related, here is an update.

Well we closed on the house on the 3rd and have been crazy busy getting everything together since then. We slept in the house for the first time on Friday and are now more in the new house then the old. We still have a few things over there but we are coming along.

Hopefully by Halloween we will be completely finished!

I got the babies costumes yesterday - they are going to be Raggedy Ann and Andy! They look so freakin' cute I can't stand it.

Joey is going to be Iron Man with a light up chest and light up gloves. We are trick-or-treating in the new neighborhood this year - so exciting!

Anyway that is the update. I will post pics as soon as I can!

Office pics of Babies

Well it is official (as the text message went out yesterday), I am up to my eyeballs in debt! LOL We closed (FINALLY) on the house yesterday - I am completely exhausted mentally after this process. I don't know how people buy and sell houses like crazy and I have a new respect for Robin (for those that don't know - she is a R/E Agent).

So now we do clean-up, replace two carpets and then we move in!!! Joey will definately be trick-or-treating in the new neighborhood!

Last week I had to bring the kids into the office with me for a little while - here are some pics Aunt Kim took:


Hard at work at the computer:




Making a mess:

Playing Hide and Seek:

Some new pics...FINALLY

Here are some pictures of the kids. We went out east on Sunday and hung out at one of the little playground areas out there. We had a great time and afterwards went to a farm stand and ate roasted corn and fresh peaches!

Life is Good

News...

First Day and Panic

Joey started school yesterday. He was very nervous but he went right in and didn't look back. I am so proud of that kid! I bought him a Speed Racer car while he was at school and it was waiting for him on the seat of the car when I picked it up. Needless to say he was thrilled.

I have been having little panic attacks lately where Joey is concerned (not real breathing in a bag panic attacks - just little bouts of worrying).

We went to the beach on Tuesday night - Joey was playing in the crashing waves and I was almost freaking out - telling him to be careful - freaking out if a wave was too big. It was weird because I am usually more laid back with that stuff.

Then this morning, as we were waiting to go into the school - Joey said Hi to this little kid from his class - the kid (2nd grade mind you) had this HUGE earring in his ear - isn't 2nd grade young for that????

THEN....there was this little girl (no older then 4th grade) with a full face of makeup on - eye shadow, blush lipstick - little hussy. On the way home I just started freaking out "What if he ends up with the wrong crowd? What if he gets picked on?" On and on it went - very weird. I guess it is just a mom moment - one of a few thousand more I will have - but it freaked me out!!!

I took a picture of him yesterday but it didn't come out great - his shirt was white so the sun kept reflecting off it - I will try to post later.

Have a good one!

Oh and CONGRATS (and Happy Birthday) to Ally - She is having a GIRL!!!! Woo Hoo!!!! Keep up the good work!

Chas - good luck on your appointment next week - hopefully we will get some pics!

Lesley - need an update - getting worried about you!

I've missed my boyfriend!......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60og9gwKh1o

Good weekend

I was able to register Joey at Ridge so he starts the new school tomorrow. We were able to tour the school on Friday - and he loved it since it had THREE playgrounds. It was "way better then CEW"! He was able to even see the classroom he is going to be in - so he is excited (Thank God) about starting.

I can't believe summer is almost over...it seems like he just got out of school last week.

We had a nice relaxing weekend. Sunday we went to the Park at Joey's new school so he could show it off to his Dad. Then we went to Friendly's for lunch. The babies conked out on the way home and then I went grocery shopping..weird to buy juice boxes and sandwich bags again!

Yesterday we went to the "Fish Park" as Joey calls it in Mt. Sinai (it is a park that has a climber shaped like a Fish). Then we ate at McDonalds. We went home - the babies didn't nap - but I watched Rome on HBO on Demand and Joe took Joey to the Bay to go fishing and then to the beach.

Then after all kids were showered and in PJs I went to Borders by myself.

It was completely uneventful - you are probably snoozing after reading - but a Really Really good weekend.

I will let you know how first day of school goes!