Well I've been a slacker

Chris is now 8 months old. He's such a sweet little boy. He is still getting up 1-2 times a night which keeps us pretty exhausted. He cut his 3rd and 4th teeth the past couple weeks, having got the first two shortly after he turned 6 months. He can sit up really well and loves to play with blocks. He makes a sound like a pterodactyl and had been blowing raspberries this week. Maddie is such a big girl now and almost 4. She can write letters and draw pictures that actually look like things. Her favorite thing to do now is cut paper. I'm so busy during the week, its hard to find anytime to myself between working 10 hour days and taking care of the kids. DJ is in school full time for nursing as of last month. Life is HECTIC!

New baby

Christopher Van Buren was born on October 12, 2011. He was 7 lb 6 oz and 21 inches. Pictures and a blog post to follow!

August 2011 and 3rd birthday

Here are some pics from Maddie's birthday party and from our (brief due to hurricaine Irene) vacation to the Outer Banks. Maddie LOVED the beach and doing fun thing on vacation like mini golfing for the first time and going out for ice cream.

More Pictures- Summer 2011

Catching up

We now have a three year old and I'm 8 months pregnant! We struggled with getting pregnant this time so this was all the more special. Maddie is having a little brother due on October 25th. She was pretty upset about it being a boy at first and still occasionally asks for a sister instead. Just last week Maddie became potty trained during the day. I'm so excited and proud of my big girl. She started daycare/preschool full time and absolutely loves it. She had previously been at a babysitters house since 12 weeks old. We loved the babysitter, but Maddie is quite the little spitfire and needed some structure in her life. I'm going to do a few posts of pictures to catch up over the past 9 months.

Jan-April 2011

So much for keeping up with this

I promise I will be updating soon with new pictures. What can I say, its been quite a year. We are expecting a little brother for Maddie in about 6 weeks. I will post later this week with a slew of pictures from the past 9 months and an update with our lives in general.

Long time no post

Well, It's been a while. Maddie is 2 1/2 and can pretty much say anything now. She's learning to count and recognizes numbers between 0-9 and some letters of the alphabet. She started preschool one day a week last week and so far loves it. Here are some pictures from the holidays.