snow.

ugh.

Kevin.

I had to have the "how to ask out a girl" talk with Kevin the other night. He likes the little girl that sits next to him in class. He wants to be her boyfriend, but wasn't sure how he'd do that. His first girlfriend was in preschool, she told him he was her boyfriend lol. So anyway, he's writing her a note on Tuesday. The typical "will you go out with me" note. Too cute.

Today, we were at my grandmothers, and he was making himself burp. After the first few times, I had had enough, and told him to stop. He did it again, cause all kids listen so well, and I told him 1 more time, and it was soap city (mostly kidding). Five mins later he did it again. Sooo I chased him around the kitchen with the soap. After he decided that maybe I was serious, he stopped. But in the meantime, he was writing things, on the crayola light up glow board thing, and Nan's dog was being a turd. He wrote "Koal is not cool. BURP."

Boys.

Nick.

The child puts everything in his mouth. Everything. Kevin and Cameron never did this, so its brand new, and super annoying. He does it on purpose, he'll come over with something, anything, and say "Yuck!", and then stick it in his mouth, and run off laughing.
He's grown so much recently. He seems so much taller, and even Kevin noticed today, he said "Oh, Nick is so skinny!"
He cracks me up every day.

*little side note, LOST is coming back, and I cant freakin wait.

I've been slacking.

I forgot about the blog.

To catch up, Christmas was awesome. The kids had so much fun! They got tons of stuff, and I got to find spots for everything!

New Years was fun too!

We have lots of snow, seems like we've gotten a storm every week. This week we're in for a "deep freeze". Today'll be the warmest of the week, in the 30's I guess....New England. I got a frappachino at Starbucks recently, and the lady there said "only a true New Englander would order a frozen coffee drink in the middle of winter." lol I'm looking forward to spring time.

anyway, hopefully now that things have calmed down, I'll remember to blog it up.

7 days until Christmas...

and I am almost done shopping. I need 2 more presents for Cameron, 2 more for Nick, and to start and finish Mike (him for me too) and our parents.

I cannot believe how fast this year has gone. Not long after the new year, I will have a 7 year old, not long after that, a 5 year old (again), and a not long after that, a 2 year old (again, again).

Kevin's Christmas concert....

cutest thing ever. I miss Kevin being a baby, but I love all of this "big kid" stuff too!

He thought Mike was taking pictures, so you'll notice the smiling while singing! lol this was the first song they sang :)

I'm boring.

nothing worth blogging about lately, I guess. thanksgiving was nice, my mom and Karen, Scott and Sean, and then us. small, and nice.

Christmas is getting ridiculous. I get so flustered thinking about how many people we need to see, that I dread it, rather than get excited. Mikes family always does Christmas Eve. My mom's side always does Christmas Eve. So if we want to see both, we have to run around like chickens, with our heads cut off. Then, Christmas day, we do our present thing, and normally my mom and sister come and we do a late breakfast, and presents. We usually squeeze my dad in there Christmas day too. then we decide when to add in my Nan (dad's mom), sometimes the day after we'll head up to her house for the night, but there has been the years when we haven't found time until January. February even!

I was talking to Nan the other day and she was telling me about my aunt and how she went to her friends for Thanksgiving, and that Katie (cousin) went to her boyfriends family, and Emily (other cousin) was working. Amaya (Emily's daughter) was with her fathers parents. After all of that it got me thinking, they never had a real traditional thanksgiving plan, after Nan moved to Maine. So since then, sometimes Nan goes to Dads, sometime to Kathy's. When my parents were married, we always had thanksgiving at Nans in the Hampton house. Always. When we moved to Greenland, mom hosted her side at our house. But, I started thinking, when my babies are grown with girlfriends, or wives, where will they all be? At the girlfriends family's house, like Kate? With their wives family? And if so, where will I be? So I have decided, that I am hosting thanksgiving every year. It will just be what we do. So the future daughters-in-law, will marry into the family understanding that that's the way we roll.

Christmas on the other hand, is tricky. We'll always have the morning, but I cant just host. My dad's girlfriend doesn't do anything that would involve my mom. So we always have to have 2 if we're including dad. This year, I cant fit dad in on Christmas day, so its gonna have to be the day after. We've already planned with Nan that we'll go up for a weekend in January, mostly to take the present buying burden off of her. She;s got alot of people to buy for now.

Anyway, random thoughts on a Wednesday afternoon.