Baltimore Baby!

hard to see, but this is one of the crabs we caught

Mo LOVES the ocean, we had to drag him out!

Noodle chillin'

Andrew and Tipper

Grandpa and Noodle

Baby Baptism

She smiles!

Flowers grandma bought for Noodle

Two boys causing trouble

She's not a heathen anymore! Last weekend Noodle was baptised. We had a lunch at the house after. All in all it went pretty well. Noodle is starting to smile and laugh and really develop a personality. She is a lot like Mo with her facial expressions and temperment. She is adored by her brothers and loves to be entertained by them. She has become a pretty good sleeper. She gets up once at night to eat and goes right back to sleep! We'll see how long that lasts. We are going to Baltimore next week to get out of the house. All the boys should be there so it should be another interesting trip. We are going to try to hit the children's museum and aquarium so there should be some good pics to post. We're getting ready for August. I will be going back to work on the 11th and the new nanny will be starting. The boys are very excited about it! I have been ready to go back to work for awhile and am really looking forward to it. On the 17th Andrew has his in home development evaluation and he starts school on the 25th. He is very excited about going shopping for his school supplies. He is planning on buying a transformers backpack and can't wait. We will make a special day of shopping, just Andrew and Mommy. Daddy started his new job this week. It sucks that he has to drive to Cinci but it is better than Georgia! Once he gets settle in the job he will be able to work from home a couple days a week so that will help. Hope everyone is enjoying their summer! Have lots of fun!

The Mom

pictures continued

Big fat lip; it's even worse the morning after

Such a ham for the camera

What a way to fall asleep

Say Cheese! Random Pictures

The first non-sponge bath; she's a water baby!

Playing with Grandpa Snowden July 4

Quality family time

Tummy Time!

Just hanging out!

Playing with aunt Michelle and the new Shark slip and slide!

Every 4 year old needs silly string!

Don't you love my hat?!

The cake; we have a small obsession with transformers.

The loot! Mom and Dad went a little nuts with the transformer theme.

Here are a few photos for everyone! On Saturday we had my birthday party; just a small get together at home. We couldn't really do anything major b/c Elizabeth is still too small. I had a great time. We had a silly string fight in the living room thanks to uncle Chris. Mommy had lots of fun cleaning that up. Did you know that silly string sticks to wood floors and to get it up you have to get on your hands and knees and scrub? Mommy knows that now. We have been preoccupied lately trying to decide if we will be moving to Georgia. Mom and dad have been doing a lot of talking lately about it. Mom says we will be getting our pictures done next week so we will get those out for you. Hope you are all doing well!!!

Hugs and Kisses!

Andrew

Cakewalk

Driving the pink jeep; what fun!

Mo is coming around! No more hating his sister!

The awesome edible arrangement Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Rosa sent. It was quite delicious and even came with chocolate for dipping!

Two children is a cakewalk. We know this now that we have three. Three is a crazy-mad life change! We are in for the ride of our lives.

She's Here!

Miss Elizabeth is here! She was born on Tuesday June 2, 2009 at 7:36am. She weighed in at 7 pounds 7.4 ounces and was 20.5 inches long. We are all home, happy and healthy; though a little tired! We will post more as soon as we get settled and rested!

Love Ya!
The Mom

Random Pictures

Two little boys hard at work for mommy!

Andrew's vegetable garden; finally done!!!!

Two cute little boys!

Easter baskets!

Momo and Daddy on zoo day!

All Grown Up!

MMMM...blue frosting!

Joseph and Nevaeh going for a ride....he likes the older women!

Shy boy during his happy birthday song!

The Cake.

Who doesn't love a Thomas Cake?!

Our baby boy is all grown up! That's how it seems anyway.... This weekend we had a small get-together for Mo's second birthday. I can't believe he is two already! We were lucky to have some great weather and everyone seemed to have a good time! Mo's checkup went well on Monday and the doctor has no concerns for him! Tomorrow he gets his day out with Mommy and Daddy and we're heading to the zoo. One of our traditions is now to get a day out with Mommy and Daddy and no siblings for birthdays. We should be able to get some good pictures at the zoo. Then next week we will get official 2 year pictures taken. We've been keeping busy here; we've started our nanny search and have been busy going back and forth to Columbus to see Uncle John. And of course getting ready for Elizabeth has taken up a lot of our time. The daddy will be building our raised garden soon (hopefully this weekend!) and then we will begin planting our vegetable garden. I can't believe it's almost time to plant already! We are hoping to really get the boys involved in planting and harvesting our veggies this year. We think it is something they will really enjoy! We have started the process applying at preschools for Andrew to start in the fall. The program we want is highly selective so we are crossing our fingers! It is an integrated program with small class sizes with half of the class "normal" and the other half disabled. It is a great learning environment and children who are in these programs generally do very well. There are only a couple of classes though and they are tough to get into so we have applied for a backup. Who ever would have thought we would be going through so much for preschool! I feel like we are applying to colleges! We hope everyone is doing well! Hugs and kisses! We'll try to keep you all updated!

The Mom

***we should have some more and better birthday pictures when everyone forwards what they have to me! I was a little busy and missed a lot of shots!

Air Force Museum

Today Daddy and I went to the U.S. Air Force Museum. It has to be one of my favorite places to go. We saw old airplanes, airplanes that crashed and have boo-boos, airplanes with guns, and the Shark Airplane! Daddy took some pictures so everyone can see how cool the planes are.

Andrew & Mommy--OOPS!!! Wrong Strawberry B*tch!!!

This is Bockscar. It was the Nagasaki bomber.

Look Papa! Me and Ronald Regan!!! Ike is cool too!!!

Is that a thermonuclear explosion or am I just that hot?

Sorry Goose, but it's time to buzz the tower.

COSI

The entrance to the frog exhibit

Boys in the moon

Inside the spacecraft

Last weekend was mommy's weekend to work so we had a boys day out. Daddy took us to Cosi in Columbus. We had so much fun spending the day just being boys.

In an update about Elizabeth....mommy tried to start working on her nursery updates and has now turned a simple update into a full construction project. A very larg hole has appeared in her wall and she will be receiving a new door. Mommy is not very happy. She says she wanted to have this room done by now and not have it be like when Mo was born and Aunt Jen was finishing Andrew's room while mommy was on the operating table! It should be interesting to see how long this takes!

On a more positive note, we are all VERY excited for spring. Our 65 degree day last week planted the bug. Mommy has started thinking about all of our outdoor projects and looking forward to all of Kettering's park and rec updates. We are getting huge updates to our water park, rec center and neighborhood parks. It is all very exciting. We'll update with pictures of our park as it gets going. We are big park people so all of this is very exciting to us! Check it out at

www.ketteringoh.org/newweb/about/BondLevyRenewal.php

Hope everyone is having lots of fun!

Hugs and Kisses!

Andrew and Mo

It's a Girl!

Upside down picture b/c mommy doesn't know what she is doing! This is snack time at Bounce U during our break between bouncing rooms!

This is one of the many contraptions at Bounce U (upside down picture again) you have to scale to the top and then go down a giant slide!

A little unsteady, but tons of fun!

More bouncing equipment!

Mo loves his dogs!

Holy cow everyone; mommy is having a girl! She truly never believed this would happen. Mommy always had a perfect plan in mind of raising 4-5 BOYS who would one day go golfing with daddy while mommy would go shopping. She had dreams of never having to pay for a wedding, and only having to cover the rehearsal dinner and open bar! Mommy likes being Queen Bee and being adored by all of her men! This has thrown a serious wrench in mommy's plans. Suddenly pink things are appearing in our house. Talk of baby dolls and barbie fill the air. We must tell you, it's a bit unsettling. Boys are the only thing we know in this house! What are we going to do with a girl! Daddy is VERY EXCITED. We are hoping he has some kind of clue as to what to do with this girl. We'll have to wait and see.

Yesterday Mommy took us to the coolest place! It is called Bounce U! So much fun we can barely describe it. 2 rooms full of inflatable bouncing equipment to completely wear us out! Mommysays it was the best $8 she's ever spent! It was kind of hard for her to take pictures with everything going on, so if you go to their website you'll get a better idea! http://www.bounceu.com/

We hope everyone is doing well. We are keeping busy getting ready for Elizabeth's arrival, moving bedrooms, getting rid of all the old and bringing in the new!
Hugs and Kisses!

Andrew and Mo

The Timeline

We've been a little busy; here's our timeline to give you a bit of an idea....
12/19 annual Christmas dinner with Chris, Matt, Danielle, Leslie and Angie
12/20 drive to Archbold for Christmas with the Simon clan (horrible weather)
12/21 drive back to Dayton in snow, freezing rain and 40mph winds
12/22 mommy works
12/23 mommy works (horrible weather, every major highway in Dayton is closed d/t freezing rain), was supposed to be off work at 5 but didn't leave till 11 b/c of good 'ol mother nature
12/24 drive 9 long, long hours to Baltimore
12/25 Christmas Day; too many presents couldn't even see the floor of my parent's house!
12/26 daddy's birthday; mommy went outlet shopping with jen and grandma (it's a tradition), i love micheal kors! also got great new bamboo jammies for d-day! ebola virsu begins to take over mommy's body
12/27 drive 9 even longer hours home to dayton, ebola starts working on daddy
12/28 mommy admitted to hospital for cardiac workup! yippee, also day of Snowden family Christmas, at mommy's house!
12/29 mommy discharged from hospital to follow up with cardiologist next week, finally real food but no appetite d/t ebola virus stronghold, sucks a lot cuz daddy got all of mommy's favorites from DLM
12/30 mommy alone with boys for the first time in a week, forgot how tiring they are, daddy home from work early d/t severity of ebola
12/31 mommy's first day back to work, ebola and heart make it difficult, exhausting, wished home 2 hours early, yippee! sleeping by 10pm
1/1 first day mommy can breathe through both nostrils simultaneously, winning the fight against ebola! made mistake of trying to shop for furniture for basement play room, exhausted again, decide sudacare shower soothers are the greatest invention ever and we would not survive without them, sudacare may have created ebola to boost sales......