Is it really fall?

First off, anyone that knows what they're doing on this blogger thing needs to help me out. For some reason, i've lost my template thing and I cant change this boring background to any of those cutesy fall ones. Anyways, othat than that, whoever is in charge of the trescott page needs to let me in on the secret to posting on it b/c even though everyone else (Beck...) can figure out how to post on there...I cant.

Aside from all the technical stuff, we've been preparing for the change of the seasons. See pictures below...

Here we are trying on our winter "gear". Coats fit.....check!

Boots fit...check! Landon looks like he should be working on the corner LOL.

Peyton has been crawling all over the place. He'll be one next month but you think he'd be 2 1/2 just like his brothers. He wont eat baby food anymore - he has to eat just what they're eating. He wont play with baby toys like for his age, he's about as into Thomas The Train as the boys are. He even says "train" and has 2 of his own that he stands at the end table with both boys and pushes along. He's growing up so fast. I'm trying to figure out a place to have a b-day party for him so if anyone has any ideas of a nice indoor place for ALOT of kids, let me know or else, McDonalds it's going to be.

Looks like it's time to be picking up leaves. We've been doing our share. We've picked em up and toted them around in our dump trucks just to dump them all out in the end...Many many many miles have been put on these dump trucks.

After waiting the whole summer and trying to figure out where to hang Peytons Swing, we finally though - duh, hang it on the clothes hook for the clothes line. So we did. He loves it. If my camera battery woudlnt have died, i was definately going to get a video of him squealing!
And last but not least, today, mom was outside the door and Peyton was squealing at her from the inside - the video is kinda grainy but we have times of the day that all three boys are doing this...they're crazy! We need a play group to get us outta the house or something here....lol.

Wow that took awhile!

So it's been a few but with summer coming to a close we had to squeeze in all that outside time that we could. Aside from that, mommy got a new camera. (let me tell you the deal on this one...i'm so proud of myself. Okay, this camera retails for 299.99 at target. it was clearanced for 169.97 last week. I went in promptly when i saw the add. (the twins and I) I got there and there was only one left, the floor model. Well, here's me pushing two kiddo's in the cart, i'm on my cell phone arguing with rick (cause that's all he knows how to do i guess) and i'm trying to find this camera. They go back to find the papers and stuff and come back out with it. I asekd him if he could give me some type of a discount since it was the floor model and he said sure. He gave me 30% off of the clearanced price so i got the camera for 126.00. For a 300.00 camera!!!!!! Anyways, Here's some pics of what we've been doing.

We pressure washed the Deck....so the pictures are a little bit older but they're still pictures and they're still on here right?!

We got all dressed up with no place to go. Ha ha.... No really, i was out in belden and rememberd that Wednesday at the Salvation Army was 50% off day. So i went in there and found about 6 name brand shirts in perfectly good condition for the boys and only spend probably about 3.00 there. this was one of them. (If you went to Louisville and were in reg. math in highschool and had that one teacher that wore the same types of shirts ALL THE TIME - same shirt different color with the lines and designs up the front...yeap, it's that type of shirt.)

We went to our first and second and third football games. GO BLUE!!!! or as Landon says "Bue Go!" Yeah, check out these jackets...."I wanna play for Louisville"...now ya dont see "I wanna play for Westbranch" coats anywhere do ya? Didnt think so. :-) BTW, what was the score of the Louisville - Westbranch game? Anyone hear that?

We went to the constitution Day parade. We waved and yelled at the marching band, saw horses, lots of cars and a few people that we knew ( Our neighbor Kara Zwick was runner up in the constitution day queens court and Lauren Hohman was the Dairy Princess or something like that!) and we waited to see if Jeff (short fingers) was in it but low and behold, no footballs this year :-( . However we did see some really cool trucks!

We had a Cleveland Appointment on the 22nd of September. Everything went well, no more cancer as of right now and nothing new to treat. We were sent to the Cole Eye Center this time rather than the surgery center b/c they're two now so they dont have to be so close to the ICU. Here, they put stamps over their eyes to help the doctor know which eyes to check...

We've managed to become severely addicted to Thomas the Train. Thanks to my best friend Laurens son for that one. (Jenny, notice the shirt....and the look on Brendens face....) We've also managed to become sick as well so this was on Brendens "sick" day where we just layed on the floor and played with Thomas all day long.

Peyton has learned to drive...or not really but he likes to be pushed in his Radio Flyer car and wave bye bye as Landon pushes him down the hill in the backyard. It's safer to keep him on the deck and block the steps than to give them wide open spaces to push him around.

We went to the farm to play and see the Moo Cows. Great Uncle Bill is home from California to visit so we got to go to the barn with him. It was so much fun! This is Uncle Bill, Brenden, Landon, Pap and Peyton.

Mommy and Brenden...tired mommy b/c of 3 sick boys. UGH. where's that shirt when i need it.

Well that's about all. Until next time....

Grandpa's Nake Car

The Zoo...again...

So we went once again to the Zoo...we just cant get enough of the zoo... So we made the hour trek up to Cleveland to go to the Cleveland Zoo b/c the Akron Zoo doesnt have the rainforest and I wanted to go there. Anyways, we got to go to the "Touch" Exhibit with the sharks and stingrays. The boys got up quickly to see what was in the water. They were all about "petting" the stingrays until the first one swam by fast and slapped the wall with its....fin? and splashed Brenden in the face soaking him. Needless to say he wasnt happy about it. Peyton on the other hand loved the singrays...he liked spalshing in the water too.

After we left the stingray exhibit, we went to the Butterfly Gardens. It was so cool to see the butterflies just flying all around you. The boys kept going "bu-fflies - bu-fflies!" They were nice to look at but when one tried to land on Brenden he wasnt to thrilled about that.
They screached and tried to run away...from a butterfly. Ugh

I also wanted to show every one what Peyton learned to do....he's so proud of himself.

Another picture that i didnt post last time...

I thought this was totally cute, she acutally entered us into a contest....cute huh..they're the shirts from Twinsdays....

Just Incase you didnt see...

So i sent out an email about the movie that I made and posted on YOUTUBE but i'm not sure that everyone got it b/c I got a few returned emails. Anyways, I made this as an "awareness video" about Retinoblastoma (the cancer that the boys have). It's only 10 minutes long so if you havent seen it, check it out.

Now, i took the boys to Kiddie Kandids to get their pictures taken. Two hours later and a mommy with a headache, we got these beautiful pictures.

All the Boys (haha my three sons)

I so love barefeet pics - but they definately told the lady she had to smell their "stinky pigs".

Brenden

Baby P

Landon

So, i think they turned out good, i'll pass osme out later on when i get them printed off. Thanks for checkin in!

Twinsdays and stuck in the bathroom....

So...lets see, lots has went on! We went to TwinsDays in Twinsburg this past weekend...we walked in a parade with Peyton and the twins and were surrounded by approximately 1, 400+ SETS of twins...not people but sets. Crazy, everywhere you looked. Anyways, I made all of our shirts. The boys t-shirts said " Twingenuity (twin-ge-nu-i-ty) (n.) Inventive skill of combining the efforts of two toddlers in the pursuit of a common goal (i.e. candy, toys, room destruction, nap evasion, etc.) See also - twintelligence" and on the back, it said their names and had either 01 or 02 on it. The theme was sports so i tried to make them look like jerseys. Our (me, rick, mom and dads') shirts had Brenden, Landon and Peyton on the front and the back said "Mommy 23 Miracles" "Grandma 23 Miracles" and you get the point. Peytons shirt said "i'm a TGA Survivor " and the back said "and you thought you were tough" They were totally cute and sooo many people asked about where we got them from. Ha ha ha I made them!!!!! Anyways, the whole day was great and we got a pic taken of all of the twins there and the boys...

So let me share this with you - I guess welcome to toddler hood or....welcome to life with twins. The other night, about 3 weeks ago (i'm a little bit late downloading picutres) I woke up at about 4am. I heard someone talking outside of my door. Now keep in mind, my door is oposite the bathroom door. The boys door is beside mine and mom and dads is beside that one. So i listen for a minute and it's my dad....he sounds sort of upset, worried or frantic. So i walk out into the hallway. He's in a t-shirt....talking to the bathroom door. He's going "It's okay buddy, paps out here...can you talk to pap? Paps here...." and jiggling the door handle. I"m thinking "ugh, he's gone crazy..what is he doing. So i say "dad, what are you doing" and he tells me "Well, i got up to get in the shower before work and i knocked on the door like i normally do....and someone knocked back. Now i know that your mom is in bed and she wouldnt have knocked back anyways. I also know that you wouldnt have knocked back and Peyton couldnt be out of bed....so.....one of the twins is in the bathroom...and the door is locked." Yeap you guessed it, Brenden had locked himself in the bathroom at about 4am....or sooner, who knows...but this is what we found when we took the handle off of the door to get him out. Now, the lights were off as well and all he had was a nightlight....and the cat.

So....welcome to my life....lol. Anyways, it's late, past my bedtime and such so i'll try and post more tomorrow..i have some more cute pics from twinsdays.