"Plastics"

My sisters have taken their daughters to an open gym hour at a local gymnastics place several times.

 

I'll admit...when Kate asked me to go one Friday, I was hesitant, but also desperate to get out of the house.  I explained to M that we would be going to Gymnastics.  He had no idea what that meant.  We'd be jumping in with our eyes closed.

 

And that's what he did.  Well, maybe not with his eyes closed, but he definitely jumped!

 

It was wonderful and he LOVED it!!!

 

Jumping on the trampoline!

 

Jayde on trampoline

 

 

Love the face!

 

 

 

Miss Brooklyn - love the arms!

How can you NOT smile in the block pit?

 

 

Oh so sweaty!

Afterwards, we went to McD's in hopes the littles would fall asleep on the way home.

No such luck!

 

All I heard was "Mom, I want to go back to plastics."

 

"Michael, can you say 'Gym'?"

"Gym"

"Nastics?"

"Nastics"

 

"Gym-nastics"

 

"Plastics"

 

I felt like I was in the friends episode where Joey tries to learn French.

 

We have been back to "plastics" one time since then, but it's only a winter/spring thing, so it is now done til next year.

Good thing Papa and Nanny have a trampoline!



Michael turns 3 (almost 2 months ago)

Hello, all!

 

As is my usual fashion, I am terribly behind in updating this blog.

So much has happened in the past 9 months!

 

We are finally homeowners again!

We closed on our new home on December 20, 2013.

What we assumed would be a nice, easy December turned into drama when there were issues with our appraisal that was needed in order for the bank to fund our mortgage.

I am not exaggerating when I say it was down to the wire (literally, the papers came 45 minutes late for closing)!

Finally all the stress of our "homeless" 6 months came to an end!

We took a couple days to move our stuff in and spent our first night at the house on Sunday, December 22nd.

We had lots of helpers, between use of trucks and trailers, heavy lifting and watchers of the little man, we hope they all know how appreciated their help was!

 

The new house!

 

 

 



Believe it or not, this was after I had been cleaning and organizing for several hours!
Looking into living room from dining room/kitchen.

 

Even though we moved in just a few days before Christmas, we wanted to celebrate our First Christmas in our new home.

That meant putting up the Christmas Tree!

 

 

 

Shortly after, and by that I mean a couple months, we had the families over to celebrate Michael's Third Birthday on February 15th!

He is completely into Mickey this year and that was his requested theme!

 

His Mickey cake made by Mommy

Mickey Cookies

Mickey Centerpiece

Michael with Mom and Dad

Blowing out the candle!

M and Godfather Andy

M and Godmother "Jo Jo"

M with Grandma and Grandpa Polingo

M and Godfather Joey

M with Papa and Nanny

After a busy day with no nap, M fell asleep at 5:45.  Awake again at 8:45 :(
It was a late night after that!

 

 

We finally got around to having M's Third Birthday Pictures taken today!

He did awesome!

I must have been telling him he was very handsome a little too much, cause when someone asked him if he was getting his pictures taken, he said, "Yes.  I am very handsome."

 

 

 

I happen to think he's right.

 

Happy Third Birthday,

my Handsome Michael!

Playing catch up!

I have officially decided to give up on getting "caught up" on this blog.  Let's face it, it's just not gonna happen.  So...I am going to post some recent pictures of the fun we've been having lately!

 

We celebrated Michael's 2nd Birthday in February!

We colored eggs for Easter

We moved out of our townhouse in June!

We welcomed this little man in July!

My newest nephew

We celebrated this lovely lady's birthday

Another one of the newest, simply because he's just so darn cute!

Papa and Nanny with the Grandkids on Nanny's Birthday

The whole family!

We went to a few parades - Michael loved the tractors, fire trucks and horses!

Grandpa joined us for the BBQ Days parade.
He drove to and from the parade on his tricycle!

The Polingo's joined us for the BBQ days parade as well.

Michael and Daddy

We watched some "horsies" race on a beautiful July evening

We celebrated my Grandpa's 92nd Birthday!
(That's him in the middle of the back row!)

Michael and Great-Grandpa Pieper -
M is getting some horseshoe tips from the master!

I told him "If you give me one big smile, I'll leave you alone."
He agreed.  Not a fan of the camera, my grandpa!

 

 

Well, as you can see, despite the amount of drama that has been going on in our lives, we have managed to have some fun too!

 

As I was looking through pictures, I have realized how much I have NOT picked up my camera in the past 6 months.  Thank goodness for cell phone cameras!

 

Thanks for checking in!  Hopefully we will have better news on the house front soon!