Summer/Fall

Wow, we're a little behind here in the blogosphere so here's a rehash of the last couple of months. Part of the reason I've been having a hard time getting this thing updated is because my husband is a photographer (part time) and when we do anything together as a family he takes the pictures (obviously) but he takes them in raw and by the time he finds time to put them into a format that I can use its long past the date and they are hidden in some file that I cant locate..blah blah blah...anyway I had wanted to put stuff up from Father's day and I have yet to see the pictures taken from that...so we are going to skip that for now and I'll put up some pictures of what I have now from the last several months
Roman finally graduated to a real big boy bed (I think this was back in the late spring early summer. He's been doing great and we have left diapers behind as well. He was a champion potty trainer and it only took him a week and he's never looked back!

Cousin Noah came to visit over Rocco's 6th birthday. Rocco and Roman love their little cousin and are constantly telling me that all their old baby toys are for baby Noah(he's not much of a Baby any more)

The best man from our wedding and his wife came to DC for a conference (they live in Minnesota)so we got to show them around DC a little bit and took them to our favorite restuarant in DC (Meskerem) for some Ethiopian cuisine. It was great to reconnect with them.

Roman had some fun in really cool globe sprinkler sent down from Johns sister "Aunt Lynnie" in our back yard.




We got free tickets to a Joe Gibbs fair in Prince William County (Youth for Tomorrow)thanks to our good friends the Royers and they had monster trucks there which was pretty cool plus all kinds of fun rides for the boys.

Mother's Day

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh

These are the children who call me "mommy"....yes, I know how unbelievably lucky I am.

I never fully appreciated my own mom (and my mother-in-law) until I had kids. There is so much in life that I have learned from these little guys and am still learning about myself (I thought I was done after college)like how completely self absorbed I was-haha I had no idea! I am not really a sappy person by nature but since becoming a mom..well you know as the quote says above "motherhood is new" so watch out people....I may just cry my eyes out over absolutely nothing--ugh! anyway, I do feel like a NEW person as a mom and its a good and welcome change. Its a journey that I am glad I am on and I honestly dont remember what I did with my self before I had kids...seriously what did I do?!!

Hodge Podge

Here are some things that have happened over the past couple months...


To say we got a lot of snow this winter is probably the understatement of the century. The boys enjoyed riding their snow tubes down our makeshift track in the back yard and this was after a good amount had even melted away!!


The boys had fun going on our annual trek to the Car show...below they are being entertained by some really "homely looking birds". The boys however thought they were pretty cool though...except Roman needed some extra convincing....he was a bit frightened at first.

After our 2 weeks being snow bound John decided to take us all to Disney on Ice. The boys had a good time seeing all their favorite characters....and it was SO nice to get out of the house!!!

Romans favorite..."Buzz Light Ear" (he cant pronounce the "ya" sound yet)

Welcome to the Jungle.....

Roman turned 3 on December 27 and it only took us about a month to have a little party for him. Oh well, he still had fun and I think the other kids did too...so thats all that matters right?!

Here are some pictures from the Jungle party...

I love this picture, mostly because Roman did the thumbs up without being prompted and Ethan got a crazy face in the bottom right which I think is hysterical!

Getting ready to chow down on his monkey, the ears are already gone.

The Monkeys were definitely a favorite...I have to say these were so fun to make and SO EASY....just check out http://www.bettycrocker.com/baking if you are interested. The 3 year old all decked out with a chocolate mustache!


Cant believe my baby is 3!!

Another Romanism...

Roman: "He's paying him a butt"
Mommy: What did you say?
Roman: "He's paying him a BUTT" a little louder and more forcefull this time
Mommy: With confused look on her face, "Umm do you mean...pain in the butt?"
Roman: Excited that someone figured out what he is saying.."Yeah!!, he's paying him a butt!"
Nice!!

A Romanism

Mommy: "Roman, come here so mommy can fix your hair"
Roman: "Is it bwoken?!"

Christmas 2009

Christmas has come and gone and so has 2009...life seems to be going by way to fast. Here's some snap shots of our Christmas in Ashburn.Botanical gardens are quickly becoming a family tradition for us. We go every year to see the train expo and enjoy walking through all the different plant habitat rooms that they have there. This year we had to battle the snow to do it but it was so worth it. G&G Davis have been with us for this trek two years in a row! For all you political buffs I think I may have even caught sight of Kay Bailey Hutchenson while we there...(perhaps she needed a break from the madness happening inside the capital building which is located just a stones throw from the gardens)

It was fun to see Washington DC under a blanket of white...
The boys eagerly awaiting the chance to open their Christmas Eve gifts (another tradtion)
First they opened their new ornament...pretty much everything for these two is train related...so of course their ornaments are no different...
"Yay!!! new jammies!!"

Sporting their new monster truck jammies...

The boys had a wonderful Christmas...they enjoyed having Gramma and Grampa Davis with us to share in the day. They loved opening their gifts and it was fun to watch the joy on their faces and so far they still believe in Santa so alls well that ends well. Hope you all had a VERY Merry CHRISTmas too!