May 2011

I can not believe that it’s June…tomorrow is the last day of the school year with all 4 kids. I always felt like June was so far away and here it is. The kids have been a lot of fun lately. I’m sure the combination of the 4 getting a little older and the weather being nicer has made time fly by! I now have (1) 3 year-old and (3) 1 year olds!!
May brought family/friend visitors, Mother’s Day crafts, birthday parties, more walks to the park and library, and as of this week “POOL DAYS!!” If you told me last August that I would be taking 4 toddlers out to swim I would have said you were crazy!! But they LOVE it and were so sad today when it was rainy. The girls kept asking for ‘water, water, splash, splash?’ The kids are playing more together and are starting their own conversations. It’s incredible to see how much they have all grown up and truly love each other
May also brought us Brett’s 3rd birthday! I still am not grasping the fact that he is 3. I would say he celebrated his birthday WEEK in style. I was fortunate enough to have both our friend Sarah Colella and Grandma Nancy to offer to watch the other kids (and an additional Colella kiddo) so that I could have a special lunch date with Brett on his birthday. He choose The Choo Choo of course, where we went for his 2nd. He waited very patiently for a booth table because he told me you HAD to sit right by the train. We were actually there with Kerry Wood, from the Cubs, with his family (only I didn’t notice until he had already left). I have a video of the Happy Birthday song they do as they bring the cupcake out to Brett…Kerry Wood in the right-hand corner watching! That night the kids and I met Rob at Chuck E Cheese for games and pizza. The Memorial Day weekend was full of visits from Grandma and Grandpa Wood, cake with friends and family, a Harman trip to Navy Pier and the Children’s Museum…AND an all boys movie day to see Kung Fu Panda 2. The next week I asked Brett if his birthday was ok or awesome. He yelled AWESOME!!
Fun Stories
Brett was pretending and told me that I was ‘Colin’s mom’ and he said to me “Thank you for coming to my house, you go to work now…”
Bailey was COVERED in dirt. ‘Bailey, were you eating dirt?’ She said no confidently, although revealing evidence suggesting otherwise.
On one of Brett/Grandma days…Bailey kept calling out ‘Brett Brett..where are you?’
For some reason both kids were in the mood to sit on my lap while we were waiting for daddy to get home. Bailey fussed as she tried to push Brett off. I said ‘It’s ok Mommy’s big enough for both’. Brett says ‘NO mommy, you’re not big – you’re SMALL!’ I love it:)
Brett told me Uncle Pat Pat’s was his favorite place. I asked if it was because he gets to do whatever he wants…he responded immediately ‘Yeah! And he always has snacks!’ I see why Rob loves it too
After a stressful day…Brett says ‘you relax mommy, you worry about you’
Bailey wasn’t feeling well for a couple of days, only Minnie and Colin made her smile.
Brett was stuck on carrying a backpack around like daddy does...and we only had a light blue butterfly one that Bailey got for her birthday. Thankfully his cousin Aubrey got him a nice (very boyish) one and lots of new dinosaurs and books. He loves matching them and looking up their names in his book.
Walking back from the grocery store, Brett and I played ‘Red light, Green light’
Brett asked Bailey if she wanted to dance…they held hands and danced to Row Row Row your boat
Brett was off playing with his trucks and I heard him say ‘firetruck knocked over the station, he wasn’t listening, he needs a timeout.’
Brett asked if we could go see the elephants…but the ones at the zoo, not the scary ones at the Rainforest Café.
Brett told me ‘Daddy doesn’t like your singing show, he likes PTI!’
Grace and Bailey LOVE Minnie Mouse.
My friend from college came to visit last weekend. Brett was soooo attentive. He was always asking where she was and if he could check on her. He actually didn't understand why he couldn't talk to her while she was in the shower.
‘Brett, please don’t fart when I’m trying to change you’….his response ‘maybe my dinosaur needed to fart?’ What is it with this kid and farting dinosaurs??
The 4 kids play Ring Around the Rosie together daily in the kitchen.
Bailey spent 20 minutes in the grocery store taking the cap off my pen, putting it back on and then yelling ‘I did it!’ We made a lot of people laugh that day.
Rob called one morning after he left saying he wasn’t sure where his watch was, if we could keep our eye out for it. I told Brett what he said when I got him up. He without pausing said he knew where it was and went right downstairs to the dining room table and picked it up. Daddy took it off before dinner. Brett remembered.
Bailey holds her arms out, stomping her feet, saying ‘dance dance dance’ with the biggest smile on her face.
Bailey loves 'getting ready', she'll sit on a chair and watch me or will pretend to do her own hair and 'mape up'
Colin is still climbing up on everything, he was actually trying to use Bailey to pull himself up. Bailey got confused, then smiled and gave him a high 5 instead.
Bailey’s most frequent response to a question now it ‘Yep’ and ‘ok’, while Grace says ‘Alright Kelli’
Brett said he wanted something to drink. I said how about some water? He said ‘No water is wrong…I guess juice is right’
Overheard Brett say ‘got your nose’ to Bailey..smiled until I realized he was literally trying to pull it off.