a typical saturday morning

Miles continues to annoy and aggravate Sophia. His goal is to make her mad. He does this day in and day out. I am pretty sure that he lives for this. In fact, in speaking with other people that are brothers, this seems to be ingrained in the brain of a brother.

Justin says to Sophia, "just ignore him. Don't let him bother you."
Sophia then retaliates back at Miles, Justin questions Sophia about why she did not just ignore Miles. and then she states, " Dad, sometimes, it is just easier to ignore you."

The Ladies Man

Miles is a man of many words, many faces, and many ladies of all different ages. Miles has figured out how to charm all the women that he meets. He has different girl friends of all ages, just not HIS age.

Any time we are at the hospital, he usually makes really good friends with all the nurses and they just love him. He can also milk it for all it is worth.

Today, when we were at Target, Miles found a little girl and her mom. He started talking to the little girl, asking her name. She was shy, so the mom answered and then the mom asked Miles some questions. After his lengthy answer, she said, "Wow, you are very smart for your age."

Miles' reply: "Yes, and I am also a Ladies Man."

I am sure that I turned red in the face, and laughed. He definitely knows how to work a crowd.

$10,000

Yes, this was a goal for me to reach for the AHA.

No, I did not actually think that I could reach $10K, especially in this economic state.

HOWEVER, MY CURRENT TOTAL IS $10,052.00

Tonight I received a call from PNC Bank. I had entered a contest where you could win $250 for your favorite charity and $250 for yourself. I was surprised to be called by PNC bank, let alone being told that I was chosen as the Grand Prize Winner. (those words sound pretty good together.)

I wanted to thank everyone who helped me reach my goal. For all the friends and family that took the time to donate. All of your support is greatly appreciated. I could not have done it without you!

THANK YOU!!

Help, I'm stuck!

Miles and I ran some errands (wow, much easier with just ONE kid instead of TWO kids fighting and being hungry) on Thursday after we dropped off Sophia to school. As we were leaving Michaels, I went through the automatic door and Miles had stopped at the door to look at a scarecrow.

Then.....

the door closed.

Miles was on ONE side and I was one the OTHER SIDE. He did not panic, but started to look worried. I keep trying to trigger it from my side, but it would not work. Then I started to tell Miles to "back up, Back up," thinking that he might trigger the sensor. However, he did not figure it out and he probably would not have been tall enough anyway.

I considered running into the store, but was worried that he would panic when he did not see me or someone would come through and he would exit. No good answers.

However, I thought this was the funniest thing EVER and could not stop laughing.

Finally, an older gentleman saw us struggling and came and used the sensor to fix the problem.

For the rest of the day, Miles said, "I got stuck in the store."

Hopefully, he will stay closer to me next time.

Sophia's 1st day of 1st grade

My, how things have changed (and kids have grown) over the last year. Last year, Sophia was just starting out Kindergarten, next to the smallest in her class. Last year, Miles was barely to the doorknob last year and Sophia was a little above the doorknob.




Sophia has grown quite a bit over the last year. She was so excited to be going to 1st grade.




Miles was pretty excited too. He was actually more happy to have the house (and his mom to himself only.. not needing to share or fight during the day)



Above was the pictures from last year (2008) and below is the picture from today, the walk to school is always enjoyable to watch and walk.

Sophia turns 6!!

Sophia celebrated her 6th birthday a few weeks ago. In true fashion, we dressed everyone for a fairy celebration. It was a small party, but a great time was had by all! Even Miles dressed up for the girls too!








I love these pictures of Sophia blowing a bubble. At the end, you can see her face after she accidentally tasted some of the bubble juice. Yuck!

Sophia and Carmen, 2 girls who love to dress up and pretend. I hope they always do.

The fairy girls, Carmen, Sophia, Allie and Abby.

Its Raining Meatballs...

This is a movie that we are hoping to see when it comes out, but it is not out yet. However, today we accidentally created our own version of Its Raining Meatballs.... with Sophia's birthday donuts.

Miles is sick with a teething temperature and we decided to try to make her birthday fun. So we got into the van (while still in our pj's) and went to get donuts. Sophia got the donuts out of the van and the bottom of the timbits container had not been closed well and all the donuts (except for 4) rolled down the driveway.

SO, we hopped back in the van and got some more, at dunkin donuts. I hope the rest of her birthday goes a little better.

Sophia, Miles and other family pictures.

Since Sophia is turning 6 on Thursday (8/20/09), I wanted to take some new pictures of her. Her are some of my favorite!

Photos

I had the privilege to take photos for a friend of mine. She had her 3rd child on 8/10/09 and Sophia is good friends with her daughter. We had a great time with the photo shoot and I am excited to share these pictures with everyone!

I hope that you enjoy!