Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Everywhere!

Before we ventured off to Stevie's Birthday Bash, we went to the annual Cal Poly Pumpkin Patch. It's only one weekend out of the year and it was our first year going. We met up with our friends Alonso, Vanessa (w/ baby bump), and Elian... Dominic and Elian had a blast running up and down the aisles of pumpkins.. Alyssa did her best to keep up... I look forward to next years event!

Shopping is Fun!

Here is a pic of the kids having fun as we shop for their cousin's gift! Don't they look cute!?!

Round TWO for Croup!

Alyssa is finally on the road of getting better.. her coughing has lessend and her Happy mood is back... WHEN low and behold Dom has fallen victim! On Friday, he hit his hand on the kitchen table before I left to work (6:30am) and didn't stop complaining/crying! So Ben calls me and is concerned at this point (8:30am).. I say just take him to school! And before you know it, Dom's school calls saying his been complaining and crying (9:30am). So Ben does a U-turn and picks him up... We decide to make him an appointment to the doc... He gets there and of course "NOTHING" is wrong.... He instead gets two shots! Ouch!
So now moving into the evening, he's running a fever... at first we thought it was the shots, but before long he's coughing/crying and sounding like a seal barking! Now Dom has Croup! The only problem is he got it to the 10th power! He was having trouble breathing, so there goes Ben back to the docotor with him. They ended up giving him a steroid shot on his Inner Thigh (ouch!)... It has helped and now he'll be back to school tomorrow! I hope this is the last of croup... ! I'm Beat!

My Little Helpers!

I love when the kids want to help clean the house.. Dom's new thing is washing the dishes for me before we put them in the dishwasher... isn't he the best helper! Alyssa likes being part of the group and is great at picking things up!


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Birthday Party Saturday!

Here's Henry Opening Gifts!

Happy Birthday to both my Sis-in-Law Susana (Oct. 12th) and her boy/my nephew Henry (Oct.13th)! He has now turned 7! Lucky number 7! We went to his Birthday Party (Mission to Mars theme) to help him mark this special day... Dom was not up to par... acting distant and not wanting to play... Alyssa was a ham and loving every minute... We were stuck in traffic and missed the whole Mars attack Kenny setup in his backyard... bummer!

It was a nice party! It's always nice spending time with family and enjoying good food! Henry got sooooo many Lego Sets, he's going to be busy for a while... and speaking of Legos.. maybe its been a while since I went to buy some, but I never knew they had Lego sets that cost 100bucks! Wow have they gone up in price through the years! ha ha... then again doesn't EVERYTHING... I still remember when I first met Ben and I would fill up my Civic with gas that cost 98cents.... boy I sure wish that would come back!

Here's a pic of my sis-in-law pretending to take notes on gifts... hee hee.... she claims she doesn't send Thank You cards but I got one already!... good job susana!

Happy 3rd Birthday Papas!

My lil boy is offically 3 years old today.. as of 6:24am that is! I know I've said this before.. but how does time pass so fast??? Amazing is all I can say!

Well to help celebrate his big day, I bought cupcakes for Ben to take to his classroom. His teacher had told us to leave our camera and she would take pics of when they sing and celebrate his bday. Ben said when he dropped him off, several of his little friends ran to him and were staring at his cupcakes...

When I picked him up, he was wearing this adorable construction paper hat was running around so proudly! It was so nice to see him so happy at school and feeling special!

We capped off the day with singing, a lot of phone calls with Bday wishes (even Toys R Us called), and playing outside with his buddy Lance.

Tantrums Anyone?

When Alyssa is sick, she lets everyone have it. She has croup and has been miserable! Dominic got sent home from school Monday because he threw up after lunch! What a Monday it has been! Ben told me that Dom didn't want to take a nap after he came home from school and even threw a french fry at him.. so he cried himself into his nap...
Then that evening, Alyssa was refusing to eat and instead threw a tantrum... She rolled herself under the table where Dom and I ignored her and before you know it.. she was sleeping... Whew!