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Happy Birthday Carmen!

Really, we are only a day late so it isn’t even that belated of a Birthday Wish!

Belated or just semi-belated, either way…. Happy Birthday :)  Hope you had a good one!

CHEERS!

tim is working. at the office. on a saturday.

that’s our saturday.

Tim is hosting video game night tonight. Tim will be in all his geeky glory and I will be hiding upstairs watching Veronica Mars. Ben and Carmen were kind enough to loan me their copies of the show a couple of weeks ago. I am on the 3rd season now. I can’t help it I am addicted. I want to be Veronica Mars.

Saturday morning Michael and I get the morning together to finger paint. It will be messy but fun. I am not sure what Tim and Patrick are doing, but I am guessing it will involve the wii.

We also plan on finishing staining the deck. I can’t wait to see how it will look and to get all our furniture off the lawn and back up on the deck! What we have done so far looks great.

Another weekend of projects. We are closing in on the outdoor projects (just in time for fall!) Then we get to start working inside, Yeah!!!

MICHAEL DONOVAN SHANNON TIME OUT!

That is all I could say when I came down stairs from putting Patrick down for his morning nap. Michael had taken a 4 pound bag of sugar (new except for the 3/4 cup needed for cookies last week) and DUMPED it all over the kitchen floor. He was sitting in the middle of the mound building what I can only imagine was some sort of sugar castle.

Sweet kid? I think not.

here are a few pics to help you get through the day. Love You.

He got it!

Michael is now calling himself Michael!

It sounds more like “MEEE-CAAAL!”but close enough.

He gets it. His name is Michael!

Yay for MEEE-CAAAL!

The week days have become vacation to Tim and I. It is nice to take a break from the deck and just hang out with the boys all day.

Michael is picking up on words left and right and is putting them together into 2-3 word phrases. He is still a tattle tail and has made a friend. The little girl across the street is just a couple months older than Michael and they play together almost every day. Together they are learning the concept of sharring.

Patrick is pulling up on everything now. He walks when holding your fingers and can crawl up the stairs with no problem. He is babbling and picking up new consenates all the time. He says Mama, Dada, Papa, Baba, and of course motor boats like a champ. He is so much fun to watch play.  He is discovering new things all the time. No wonder he sleeps all the time, every day is an adventure!

Patrick is now eating a lot more solids too. He eats buttered noddles. In fact, the other day he was eating buttered noodles and his hands and bottle got so slippery that he could hold the bottle any more. Everytime the bottle shot out of his hands he would start crying and get mad at me! He is so funny. When he is mad he scrunches his nose up just like his big brother. They both look so much like Beth when they scrunth their noses

The weather is in our favor (more in my favor than Tims. Tim would perfer rain so he could play video games all weekend) So we will be elbow deep in skin burning chemicals again.

If the weather holds, we WILL get the deck completly stripped this weekend.

CLAP OUR HANDS!

Patrick James clapped his hands for the first time today!

He is getting so big. Overnight he became an almost one year old

I’m sure many of you have noticed that it’s been a while since we’ve uploaded some new pictures.  Well our usual “busy” excuse isn’t the reason this time.  I won’t go into too much of the techno-detail that makes Meg roll her eyes, but essentially the photo gallery code we used for our pictures is currently broken, not allowing us to create any more galleries.

I’ve found a really nice replacement for it, but the downside is you will no longer be able to comment on each individual picture.  You can instead comment on the entire album.  A little bit different, but hopefully it will work alright.  Please let me know what you think, postive or negative.  The old pictures can still be found on our pictures page under archived pictures.

To make up for the setback, here are always adorable pictures of our boys.  I swear they get it from their mom.

Enjoy the rest of the pictures here, and remember to comment at the bottom!