I found a T

I was hunting up a big T- shirt for Wil to wear as he has had a high temp and I didn't want to cover him up to much and came across this T-shirt that was given to us for Tom!
Thought the family would have a laugh too.

 For the American side of family

 For the English side of the Family

And this is what he wore at night!

Easter

Last year I hunted high and low (meaning I visited alot of stores) to find hot cross buns but didn't find any. In England these are eaten on Good Friday. They are a dried fruit bread roll with a cross on top to remind us of the cruifiction of our Lord on that day. This year I found a recipe for Hot Cross buns and cooked my own. They came out great and we all loved them... but I went shopping for Easter Dinner and guess what our local supermarket was selling Hot Cross Bun!!!

Saturday we had a Egg Hunt with 78 plastic eggs filled with candy....

 Wil Found an Egg too..

 And with Daddy's help found out what was inside!

 mmm..... this wrapper makes a great noise.

 I hid them Everywhere...I had too there where alot of eggs needing hiding places.

 Each egg only had 2 candy in them!!!!

But they enjoyed hunting for them, and they are still finding lost ones!



All My Men

I was in the thrift store looking for Sunday Clothes for wil when I came across a little pair of Black sunday pants, just like his older brothers, I just had to buy and a little white shirt too.
That Sunday all the boys looked great.

To be Wil or not to be Will

Yes! William is now 7 months old. I was going to write a post of Wil at 6 months, but Wil caught a cold and this lead to me not having too many brains from very little sleep. In fact after 10 nights of little sleep ( each night total sleep was 3 hours) Mike ask me how I could be walking around and shopping and driving!! ( ha Ha). My reply was that I was so numb that I didn't feel ANYTHING. Not even in nursing and all the night work and shift changes was it as bad as when Wil was sick with a cold.... bring on the teething!!!
 Another thing I have found out with having 3 kids that we are alot more relaxed. where as with 1 and 2 we were strong in making sure we call the kids by their full name until their first birthday then shorten it down to the nick name, William has always be Wil, but it seems things are not always as they are. As mile and I have been spelling Wil's name differently, Mike as Will and I have been writing Wil, the debate is on to what way will last!!!!!!
'Anyway back to that last 7 months and all what has happen with Wil!
Alot of learning has been going on and not all of it being the baby's. How long it takes for teeth to drop down into gums and then cut. what food a sensitive stomach can handle and how much a baby can TALK.
These are just some of the difficulties we have faced.
What has Will llearnt.. well
He smiles and talks
He can sit up and Talk.
throw Cheerios on floor and Talks ( I'm sure the cheerios multiply when they hit the floor)
Play peek-a-boo with his brothers and any blanket that is handy and talks.
wakes at 3am and talks!!!
Anyway to the Photos of the last few months enjoy the quiet view of our little boy!

Look I can Rock myself.

Right out of my chair!

I can sit up all by myself....But refuse to go on my tummy!!!!

I CAN swing myself.

A big boy tub.

General conference fun.

The only thing I put in my mouth is Mum Mums and any finger I can get hold of.

Yeah I can slime everything!

Bad side effect of hair cutting

My hair has been growing since may without any cutting and by Christmas it was driving me insane, being too long and not staying up. As we were trying not to put Christmas on any cards this year there were no extra money for me to visit the hair dressers. So i asked Mike to cut it, then I asked Mike to cut it. But Mike likes long hair so he was not ever available to cut it.
So I did in a fit of a temper one morning when 3 boys was too much for 1 mom!..... I cut off the ponytail, way to short, but boy did it feel great. Didn't look good but I had short hair again and I felt alot less angry.
I wouldn't tell anyone to follow this example and would caution everyone NOT to do it in anger. But it still did feel great.
Anyway this type of behaviour doesn't pay and you know what they say about kids coping their parents actions.......
Yes Tom came home from school minus the front part of his hair, his "bangs" is US and his "fringe" in English.
all due a fit of temper due to a young lady not liking him.
 I think he has learned that this was NOT the best thing to do in front of a whole class room of friends.
anyway being the mean mom I am I took pictures of him, not of me ( I hid the camera for 2 weeks so that no one could sneak a photo of me) and I'm posting them here for all to see!!

After cutting it equally we had to use hair gel....

Snow days

Yes, It's that time of year again when we get snow and the kids get official days off from school. This year most of the area storms have hopped over us and dumped on new york city.
But we finally got some snow this week. all of 4 inches and it was very fast falling and a wet heavy snow (which does more damage to tree and power cables). It started to fall at the peak of rush hour, so Many many people got caught in it going home from work which took them 4-13 hours to do. Luckily we know what the area is like so we stayed home all day and just watch others get stuck instead!!!.
We also was lucky not to have any power failures too, we were deeply concern for this as William is a little young for another 40 hours without electric ( I'm too young for no electric too).
So we have been having fun playing in the white stuff. while Mike cleared the car and parking space!!

The boys FINALLY got to use their snow disc.

Mike takes a break from clearing snow.

William not too sure about the white stuff. But makes a cute blue teddy bear.

I also shot video of the boys sledding.

Ashton is okay he just hit his head on the wall. the mom in me panicked!!!

Boys First War game!

As most of you know Mike paints for and plays war games.. Little miniature figures that on a large board fight each other .
Mike like the historic games, but little boys being boys like machines and aliens.
One the the presents this Christmas was the stuff to play a game on the kitchen table. Mike had painted up "an army" each for him and the boys and he also worked out and brought the items needed to turn the kitchen table into a battlefield.
So today was the first time that they got to 'play'.
Much to the delight of Mike.

Tom's Army

Ashton's army and the pigs he rescued.

Mike's Army

The battlefield.

The scenery.

Of course Tom Won. and Ashton captured the pigs.!