Fun at the farm

Jp: do the chickens peck you?
Me: no but mommys gonna peck you!
Jp: mommy! You don't even have a pecker!

So I don't forget

What the kids said when they told them they were going to have a baby sister:

Madeleine got a huge smile on her face and said, "God answered my prayer!!"
Then,
"Can we get the baby baptized in church??"

John Paul first said, "I want a boy!"
Then, "can I hold her?" and "is she going to come out of your tummy today??"
Then later he said, "I put Baby Sister in mommys tummy!"
And Madeleine said, "no, God did!"

And we all celebrated with strawberry cupcakes!!!

It's a......

Beautiful baby girl!!!!!

Who thinks...

This is what my ultrasound will look like on Wednesday?

Vacation bible school

We are all having a great time! I got there yesterday and they made me a "lead teacher" of crafts. It is working out pretty well so far!
Leo had kind of a hard time being in the nursery yesterday so he stayed with Grandma today. John Paul is having a great time in the nursery! They feed them snacks, take them outside to play, do crafts, and go to story time. They have so many teens in there's it's pretty much one on one!
He did miss me today so came to "help" for the last 2 classes. Tomorrow is green day!

14 weeks

Father Dominic!

Leo's godfather got ordained a priest on Saturday! So proud of him and happy for our Church!!
Madeleine and I went with mom and Jenny and had a girls day out :)

Madeleine waved to Deacon Dominic on the way in and we all received one of his first blessings. The next day we all went to his first mass and reception. What a great weekend!!

Good report!

We had madeleines post op appointment today. The doctor says she is doing great and there's a huge improvement. Her eyes focus straight ahead and her depth perception is perfect. She was a tiny bit more nearsighted than last time but she said that happens with the healing process and she will get back to normal in a few weeks. She doesn't have to go back until the fall and them not until the next summer! So glad these two surgeries are behind us!

In other news we found slugs and some kind of giant white beetle in the garden today. I scooped em out and the kids stared at them and picked them up with sticks for about two hours. I got my whole kitchen cleaned, mopped and put away all the laundry! Thank you slugs!!

How Leo is celebrating 18 months

My baby is a year and a half!

Working for the weekend

So a friend gave me the genius idea of putting music on and everyone cleans for a half hour. John Paul always requests Beatles radio on pandora and we have a great time! This morning Jp mopped and picked up and M picked up the screened porch. I cleaned the kitchen, got BBQ short ribs in the crock pot, baked a loaf of bread, folded all the laundry and organized the school stuff. I think this will be a great routine to get into! It's fun for all of us and the house is getting into shape :)

Poor sick boy

He's on breathing treatments every 4 hours, steroids and antibiotics. Looks like he's following in his brothers footsteps :(

John Paul-isms today

After I finished reading Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV

John Paul, longingly: Mommy someday can I watch too much tv??

And about 100x a day:

John Paul: I WUV you Madowin!!!