Some news..

News:

-Ben lost his first tooth yesterday (eating an apple).

-Invention Convention was a hit. Ben invented a Hy-Go (hydrating bike helmet) and Charlie made a Super Snack Machine (machine for Mommy to deliver snacks to him).

-Charlie won the Mardi Gras Mask contest today. Happy Fat Tuesday!

That's it - I'm switching to wordpress.

My images look awful on blogger.  That was the last picture I will post on here until I have time to switch.

In case it takes me a while I need to report the following:

1) Charlie put Coop's diaper and pj's on today.  Cooper was very excited about that.

2) Ben has his first loose tooth.  His buddy, Sam, was over yesterday and he told him at least a dozen ways to get it out, including the old tooth-floss tied to the doorknob trick (thank Heaven it didn't work).  So cute!

3) Ryan (another good buddy) unlocked some very important things on the DS's today.  Very exciting indeed!

Fancy Nancy at Christmas

These are all out of order, but I'm pulling them off randomly.  Mark would keeeeeel me if he saw how disorganized my folders are.  I need to work on that.

Just a couple recents

I had these on my computer.  L in her soccer uniform (cookie face) and B after school.  The two C's were somewhere...

Our vote for a new word

I'mn't = I'm not

All three of my kids have used this word around 3-4 years of age.  Anyone else?

Maui

Finally our pictures from Maui!  We went with our good friends, Scott and Carolyn and celebrated our 10 year anniversary and Scott's 40th birthday!

Dinner at Tommy Bahama  (why do my pics look so weird in blogger?):

Waiter told us these are edible???

Guess not....

Mark and his Draper 'do:

The view from our chairs every day:

Here is the view if I turned my chair around :)

That's Mark out there:

Our last night at The Four Seasons.  So sad!

This was the first night - dogone Blogger drives me crazy by inserting these wrong:

Walked to the little chapel at the Grand Wialea - stained glass in Mark's eye:

Can you believe this hottie has four kids?

From our balcony:

Back to the first day after a LONG flight:

Our Thanksgiving at Grandmama's and Grampy's

I'm so excited to get these up before Christmas!

Thank you, Grandmama and Grampy for a wonderful time!!!

Chothers

Ben is at the counter doing his homework and says: Mow, how do you spell Chothers?

Me: Huh? What is a Chuther?

Ben: You know, "We play with chother's toys."

Me: (Trying not to laugh). Ahhhh! you mean EACH OTHER'S!!

On our way to piano lessons today....

We were almost there and Ben says, "Oh shoot, I forgot my shoes."

By the time we got back home it was too late to go back, so no piano today.

Seriously? Who forgets their shoes?

This happens at least one of every twenty trips.

I thought about it, but he didn't even have SOCKS on!

I could also get some backup crocs I guess. Maybe some pink ones - hehe. Is that wrong?

They also forget to bring home COATS, homework, lunch boxes, etc. from school. So frustrating.

One more that Mark took

He was pretty proud of himself. Please don't mind my roots.
(It's a llama at the Pumpkin patch.)

Happy Halloween

I swear! One of these days I will update on everything we have done in the past few months. In the meantime, here is a little pumpkin:

Guess you peed on the potty TWICE today?!?

Cooper! I swear; I have no interest in training him right now, and this might be a phase.

He pulled his diaper off and said,"go podieeee, go podieeee...." I humored him and let him stand on a stool by the toilet. He peed this morning and then again this afternoon! Go Coop! Big boy bed and potty in the past two weeks. Now he just needs to sleep through the nigh. Ughhhh!