Library PK costume party!

The Local Library had a special costume party for the PK and younger kids!

Friday is Olivia's school party I will post more pictures.

Superman doesn't have a mask however, Gavin wanted to wear one b/c Channing was. So, I let him! lol.

Daughtry!

For the past week I had been trying to win Daughtry tickets from the local radio stations!! Friday, being the last day, I WON!!!!!! I took my girl Tracy and we had a blast! Ps. Daughtry is awesome!

Pictures!

The kids and I went up to Grandview Drive in Peoria, Il with Tracy and her family to get some pictures of the kids. I was hoping Mike would go with us so we could get a nice family picture.....however, He's always so busy with work.

Yesterday, (oct 20th) was our 5 yr anniversary.

Apple Blossom Farm

Halloween is fast approaching! The kids are so excited to dress up and go Trick Or Treating! This year, Olivia was going to be Spider girl however, her costume had several malfunctions. She has decided that she wants to be Minnie mouse so we are going to use her dance costume from last year! Channing was going to be batman however, his head was too big for the head part of the costume so we exchanged and he picked "Dash" from the "Incredibles" Gavin will be Superman! I'm dressing up again this year! I love Halloween! However, I'm not revealing my costume just yet as I will be attending a costume party! ;)

The kids have been doing great. Olivia is writing her entire alphabet and is learning to spell bigger words. She is also sounding out words. I'm hoping it won't be long until she's able to read! She can read some things but just from memory I'm sure. Channing and Gavin got bunk beds. We have them as single beds for now. They can become bunk beds when they get older. The boys are still in the climbing stages. So far, they have been doing well in their new beds! Gavin is talking a lot more. He loves to sing "Scooby dooby doo, where are you" I have it on video and will have to upload it soon. He loves putting blocks together, playing cars and chasing his siblings around. He eats anything and everything. He and Channing have the same size foot. Maybe off by an inch but not much.

This past Saturday the kids and I went to Apple Blossom Farms with some friends. Mike was working all weekend. Channing was so excited to ride on a big Monster truck! Olivia loved the slide! We were able to pick our own pumpkins right from the patch, they loved that!!

Mike and I have our 5 yr wedding anniversary coming up on Tues. Hard to believe it's been 5 yrs. Not sure what we are doing. He has been working a lot.

My friend Tracy and I have been hanging out a lot with our kiddos. She and I have started 30 day Shred with Jillian Michaels along with our point counting and whew! It's a great work out!

That's about all with our lives. Here are some pictures.

Happy 18 months, Gavin!

Gavin is 18 months old today! Hard to believe!! He did great at his check up! He was very talkative. Impressed the Nurse! He said, "Sticker. I want one. thank you." He even responded to her by saying, "oh" that's his latest. The other 2 kiddos, they would reply with an "ok" however, Gavin responds with "OH" IE... I had to get Gavin his drink last night. He was really fussy and so I said, "Gavin, I have to get your drink bud." He stops crying and says, "OH" LOL. It's really funny. Probably just one of those, "you have to be there" moments.

Gavin is 32 1/2 inches He weighs 24 lbs. we forgot to get the percentiles but I'm pretty sure it's still in the lowest! I think percentiles are over rated. How can you honestly compare when all babies are different.?!. He did great with his shots.

I had Olivia's parent/teacher conference last night. It went well However, there are some areas of improvement she needs to work on and mostly talking and following directions. We have that same problem with her here at home. I did speak to the DR about it today at Gavin's check and she gave me some papers to fill out to have her tested for attention disorders. Then again, they aren't too concerned b/c of the age but better safe then sorry! When I brought the school papers home for Olivia to go over. She went through it and passed with flying colors. I told her teacher that I would like to get Olivia into speech therepy. She still has a hard time pronouncing words and some letters. I would rather have this corrected now, then later!

Channing's favorite movie to watch is "Wizard of Oz!" I think we watched it 3 times today. The weather hasn't been the greatest so we have been cooped up inside. We love having our playdates with friends.

Yesterday, we went to chuck e cheese with some friends and the kids had a blast!

Olivia LOVES picking Tomatos from Grandma and Papa's garden! Everytime we go over to their house, she runs right for the garden and knows which ones to get! The tomatos were so delicious this year!

We find out Thurs. what the teacher has to say about Olivia! Hopefully, we get some good reports!

Friday, Gavin will be 18 months and will have his 18 month check up.

Channing is going through the lovely terrible 3 phase right now. It's not too bad but it's there!

I will post a new update on Friday!