Tate, The Big Brother. (no, I am not prego)

Remy had a hard first year or two (or three or four) year of life. He was born early, was in the NICU for a week, was on oxygen for a month at home. Didn't like to eat, didn't like to entertain himself at all, ever. Had to have 60,000.00 worth of shots to avoid getting RSV. Didn't crawl until 11 months....you get the picture, I won't go on.
So, Darrin and I always said, "you know kid, you make a very strong case for being an only child."

Luckily, we didn't believe him totally. We were then blessed with Tate. Tate has his own brand of mischievousness, but we feel kind of bad because we find ourselves saying..."you know kid, you make a strong case for being a big brother."

Unfortunately, not going to happen.

So, Tate just had to adopt a little brother. And that he did.

Meet Gavin.

Gavin is child #5 in his family and #1 in Tate's eyes. He loves to play with him, and carry him around, and stay by his side and help him however he can. He is a natural born nurturer.


Gavin and his brother and Sister came to play this past Saturday and while the other kids were upstairs playing, Tate was having so much fun pushing Gavin around in the laundry basket.


I think Gavin really loves Tate too.


The end.

Back to school

I finally up-loaded some pictures from my camera. So, here are our back to school and Halloween posts for your enjoyment....

Remy started 2nd grade this year. His teacher is Mrs. Webb and he LOVES it! Tate is in his final year of preschool (sniff, sniff) and he sometimes loves his teacher and sometimes he doesn't like her too much...especially when he gets in trouble. ;)


We had our "Back to School Dinner" the night before school started. The boys got to pick out the decorations and what we had for dinner.


We had pancakes with strawberries and whip cream. We ate by candlelight.



I take a picture of all my preschool kids by the August calendar. So, here is Remy's back to school picture by the calendar too. I usually take a picture of Remy with his teacher, but I never got around to doing it this year...yet. :)


And, here is Tate's 'too cool for school pictures' picture.


And speaking of too cool for school...Tate and I found these totally cool school lunch trays at the DI. The boys love eating from them, and I guess I would have to admit, I kind of do too. I am just always on the look out for my elementary school principle Mr. Dyett. Don't pinch me please Mr. Dyett!!!

Batman wears capris!

We had a fun Halloween complete with caramel apples, cookie decorating, parties, chili, apple cider and hot dogs, and trick-or-treating in the rain!


Our proud UPS man in training



Cute Tate Batman at his preschool party


Making Witches Brew at the preschool party

We had lots of fun this year and Darrin and I are starting to plan out our costumes for next year....I finally convinced him to dress up with me!