growin' goins

Chase and updates

2009-05-27T07:21:00.000-07:00

that is a goofy face but i love it, and its from yesterday!

It's been a little crazy around here. The first two weeks were pretty hard, but now we've got it down. I took all four kids to BJ's yesterday! Chase was 6lbs. 15 oz. and 19 inches when he was born, little peanut. At five weeks he was 10lbs. 1 oz and 22 1/2 inches! Seans Grandma says I have cream not milk! He has so much hair he needs it cut already and he is smiling now!! Trent is so super sweet with him. He's such a rough and tough little guy we were a little worried, but no need. He loves to kiss his baby brother and is oh so soft with him. He did learn a few new things in the last few weeks. He can open all the doors in the house, lovely. Sean found out the hard way, he saw Trent outside sitting on the lawnmower while I was taking a shower! Kayla is being so helpful. Trent is really attached to his big sisters and lights up when Kayla gets home at 1130 from school. She loves her baby baby brother but confessed that she likes them more when they don't eat all the time! Its the hardest on her I think. Hailey fights with us to hold Chase. Her and Sean practically play tug of war with him, but I always win cause he's always hungry, I love nursing! She is doing well in karate, she has her yellow belt and is taking a test tonight. She can flip Sean! I'll have to record it to post when Ihave time again. Kayla cut my hair, we went fishing and had the parade. I know its a lot of pictures, but I don't want you to get cheated out of seeing them.

my pretty kitchen, growing belly and new ring!

2009-03-13T15:19:00.001-07:00

So, we painted the cabinets as shown in an older post. Now here are the counters. We also added a breakfast counter. I love love love it! It is so much more me and it just feels so good. Oh, the sink is granite and black and my new facet is so pretty and it has a built in soap dispenser! It was too shiny and bright to take a picture of it. Next up we have my big old belly. I made Sean take this for me last night so I'd have a belly shot. 34 weeks and 5 days! How very super exciting that Chase Cooper Goins will be here soon. You like the middle name? And my new ring! It is beautiful! I loved my original ring, but when you get engaged at 18, you lack the money and options of older people who wait. Now I have a very grown up very large ring that Sean just picked up today! I asked him if we could renew our vows with just the kids in Myrtle Beach so we'll see. Maybe in a few years. But, I love it! The kids are doing very well. Hailey has been doing karate and will be a yellow belt in a few weeks. Kayla finally decided to join something, ANYTHING and wants to do gymnastics. We're on a waiting list, go figure, but should start in 2 weeks. And Trent is finally calming almost. He's been super cuddly lately and although he is driving me crazy, I think it's more my hormones than him. He's happy when he's busy especially outside which is where he is now with Sean, Hailey, Kayla, Jada and Maggie. I love day light savings for that reason alone. I only have a few weeks till the new baby comes and I'm so excited. They want to induce labor at 39 weeks because of my rapid labors, but I'm still not sure. I kind of want my last one to go on his own terms, but I'm sure in 4 weeks I'll be screaming to take him out. I am really enjoying this pregnancy though. If I knew the fourth one would be so good I would have done it a long time ago!! Just kidding! So that is my life at the moment.

Kayla the American Idol

2009-03-03T09:30:00.000-08:00

Kayla loves to make up songs for us.

Then Sean is being Paula, the other guy aka Randy and Simon for her critic. Then a little BRIAN Seacrest. It was so cute! Make sure you watch the end, cause Trent makes his singing debut.

i am a sucky blogger

2009-02-22T08:25:00.000-08:00

I know I have not been blogging. It's a little crazy here. We painted the cabinets, put in under the counter lights, changed the light fixtures and picked out a counter yet to be put in. I say we, but really it was Sean because the smell was sickening. I have 8 weeks till my due date, yeah! Baby Chase is head down and is a crazy little monkey.

The stripped walls are the main bathroom. Hopefully the counters will be taken care of soon. Those yellow counters are a little much. The apron over my big belly is from Lowe's. We wen't there over the weekend to get stuff for the kitchen, and they were having a children's workshop so we got aprons, goggles and made jewelry boxes. Well I did it with the girls while Sean and Trent went shopping. It was cute. I know it's not a great belly shot, so I'll try and have someone take more of me. I'm always behind the camera. Today is laundry day for me so I need to get back to it. I'll try to keep up a little better. Really

2009-01-25T06:25:00.000-08:00

Winter does have it's moments of fun. We made a little place to sled in the back yard. It's tiny so even Trent can go down! Chocolate chip cookies and hot cocoa make it all that much better. I take Trent and Kayla out almost everyday after lunch, or just Trent before Kayla gets off the bus. It makes him sleepy and he takes a much better nap for me. And now that he's in his own bed, at least for naps and part of the night, we have to tire him out a little more. He's been going to bed around 8 and staying in his room till 1am. I have tried to keep him in there but he wakes up as soon as I leave. It's a work in progress. Anyway, I just wanted to upload pictures of my babies.

coco key water park vacation

2009-01-13T07:56:00.001-08:00

We had the weirdest trip ever. We get there, we play it's all good. We leave to have dinner, and Kayla and Trent both fall fast asleep in less than 5 minutes. So we order pizza and go back to the room. At 1:30 in the morning, Sean and I get woken up by the fire/evacuation alarm!!! I go check it out and a water main broke, but we don't have to leave. Ok, so I have the hardest time going back to sleep. So we get up the next day, dilly dally then head to the water park. It's all good. We had so much fun. You can see the picture of the girls going across the floating disks, so cute. Kayla was the smallest kid to go across, GO KAYLA! We go to get towels and there are none! The water main made it so they couldn't do all the laundry!!!! So we freeze back to the room so Trent can take a nap. It's 2:30 at this point. They haven't cleaned our room! So he sleeps for 2 hours while Sean and the girls go to the arcade and then we get up to go to dinner. We go to Friendly's and it's good and fast, until ice cream time. Trent is a little antcy, and the waiter forgets about the ice cream. It took 20 minutes to get our ice cream when it only took 10-15 for the food. Are you kidding? So we go back to the hotel, still no cleaning person has been there!! So we have no towels and neither does the waterpark. So we go to the pool instead. They have no towels either!!! So again we freeze back to the room. I'm starving again, pregnancy and all, so we order room service. The kids finally fall asleep by 10 and I toss and turn all night. I could not sleep good after that alarm going off the night before. So, our last day. Sean's glasses broke. And he is blind. He has his 2 year old ones, so he wears those. We get up and pack up and load up the car. Do express check out and head to the waterpark again. It wasn't as busy because we got there early. We get a good table and go play. We stop for lunch and are just finishing eating, when an employee comes over and tells us we have to evacuate!!! Are you kidding me? So we get out of there. The chlorine levels were way too high, nice. They are giving partial refunds for the day so we go to the front desk, where tons of people are waiting and mad and yikes. Trent has had enough. It's nap time by then. So we just leave before reaching the desk. They emailed me and gave us money back, $105, not bad and $100 off our next visit, if we go back. So we go to Salem, MA. It's such a cute little place. We go to the witch museum and that was a bad idea! They put you in a dark room and use red lights to show different scences from the Salem Witch Trials. Kayla and Trent are beside themselves, so we skip the second half, the meaning of the word witch and take off. We go to Kurt's mall to meet up with him and I force Sean to get new glasses at Lenscrafters. Of course our eye doctor is not open because it's a weekend, but they read his perscription off his sunglasses and get started on a new pair for him. His old ones were so bad he was getting a headache and couldn't read road signs, not good when driving home at night!! We see Kurt, have dinner, go to Build-A-Bear while we wait for Sean's glasses. Then we go to Kurt's apartment. It is cute and really comfy. It makes you feel at home. We leave there at 10pm. The kids pass out in the car, and as soon as we stop so I can pee yet again, I'm out too. Poor Sean! We get home just after midnight and man do I love my bed. We all sleep so good. The first few days back to school were a little hard. Still on vacation mode, we all slept till 8am and the girls have to get on the bus at 8:18. So I drove them. It's funny but we did have a good time. When we were playing at the waterpark, pool and arcade all was great. And we collected 1100 tickets, yeah, so we got lots of junkie little toys to take home, my favorite.

Christmas to New Years blah blah blah

2009-01-12T08:55:00.000-08:00

Christmas Eve at our house. It went well, we had lasagna, a meat, veggie and seafood kind. Very tasty. The kids had fun wrestling and opening presents. Although, Trent was mad that he couldn't just carry all the presents around. Opening them just isn't that fun when you're young. Mom even got all the kids matching pj's, dork! Then Christmas day was here with Sean's family. We had yummy glazed ham. I cooked way too much food but that's ok. Leftovers are good too. The kids got really good presents this year and were not spoiled too much. We got cash from a few family members for our Coco Key Water Park vacation. Battleship is a big hit here and the girls look so cute in their China silky clothes. Over all things couldn't have been better.

We have had such a good year. I can't wait to see how 2009 turns out. The girls made it to the ball drop, I barely did and we toasted with sparkling grape juice from wine glasses. We have baby Chase to look forward to, Sean finishing his apprenticeship, paying off the van! I really am the happiest I've ever been in my whole life. Things are just so good.

Getting our tree

2008-12-08T19:34:00.000-08:00

Sunday was cold and lightly snowing, the perfect tree picking day. The kids were all for it, then screamed "HOT COCOA" It was a little colder than we thought.

But we got the perfect tree and all is well in the world. I'll post some pictures of it lit tomorrow. After we decorated the tree and had hot cocoa, we went to the annual tree lighting in town. It was freezing by 6 and Trent wouldn't keep his gloves on. We didn 't last long before going into the church for more hot cocoa and cookies. We brought some cookies, since we have girl scouts in the house we were responsible.

Here's Trent singing with the High School Musical Sing It for Wii. He loves hearing himself sing too cute. And the other one, I'm not sure if he's taking them off or putting them on, it's been a struggle, but I think he finally gets that we don't pull on the tree!!!!!! Scary little man. Anyway, We're having a baby boy in a few months, yeah!! Two boys and two girls, how cool are we?

Today is also my birthday. I didn't have to change diapers or clean for the whole day! I picked up a little, but that's just because I couldn't stand the mess in the playroom until the kids got home from school. Sean even went grocery shopping with Trent, and I got to take a bath in the middle of the day!!!!! I got new slippers, a really cute sweater and a two new books. Then Kurt drove all the way here from Boston to see me and bring me the cutest leather box filled with the new coffee mugs I have been starting to collect. I don't need anymore now! That was so nice of him! Dad came over too with my gift of cash and hung out for a little while. Mom gave me my present early, a beautiful frame with pictures of my family in it. I feel pretty lucky today, but I'm tired from doing nothing. So goodnight for now crazy monkeys and happy birthday!!!!

Pictures for Christmas and Trent's 15 months even though he's now 16 months

2008-12-02T19:43:00.000-08:00

Here are some of the pictures Kurt took for us. Are my kids so cute or what? I know I'm supposed to
say that cause they are my kids, but wow they

are so cute. I hope this new baby is just as
cute. they have pretty high standards.
Anyway, enough braggy. I'm having a
crappy day. Nothing is going good.

Trent has cried more tonight then in his whole life put together but who can blame him. At least 2 molars are coming in soon I hope. I can feel them right under the skin, and the bottom gums are really swollen too. The poor kid is miserable. Then I couldn't pick up these lovely pictures at Walmart because Kurt takes too professional pictures and I need him to sign a release form. But he's going to do that for me tomorrow because he loves me so much. I felt so dumb at the store. I started to cry when she was telling me all this, so I just walked away. Ah, hormones are lovely things aren't they. Then I didn't realize it was the 2nd today, so when Hailey didn't get off the bus, I freaked out and called the school to see if she went to Girl Scouts on accident. Now they must think I'm really stupid. Just one of those days not to put in the record books. Everyone has to have them once in a while right? Life has been so good here for so long, it was bound to happen. Tomorrow is another day, as long as I can get some sleep. Tomorrow Mom is coming over for a cookie bake-a-thon. Motrin for Trent 45 minutes before we start and hopefully he'll cooperate. I love to bake, it always calms me so I'm very much looking forward to it, and the girls are very good cookie helpers. Hailey rocks at rolling dough, which I suck at, and Kayla makes the cutest little balls. I'm going to take a picture of our new and much improved bathroom for the next blog. I keep forgetting to take a picture of it. It's exciting. I'll try to do more this week, but with my new facebook it's hard to keep up.

Oh My Trent Try

2008-11-24T19:10:00.000-08:00

Over the weekend, Trent decided that he wanted to climb into the cabinet. He has been throwing my canned goods all over the house for a few months, but this time he had a reason. He needed more room so he could get inside it. Here are some super cute pictures. And as hoped for a belly shot. Just don't look up close. We had 3 extra kids that day and I don't know what the background will show, but a mess is an absolute. I have only gained 2 pounds, but as you can see my belly is growing very nicely. I had 2 dreams that is was a boy so far. I feel like I did with Trent's pregnancy, but we'll have to wait till Dec. 5th to find out! I can't wait to know. The baby is kicking a lot now and is getting stronger by the day. I seem to be enjoying this pregnancy a lot too. We'll see how I feel in March and April though, the end is always the worst part.

Back to my other baby Trent. The poor kid has a fever and cough and is miserable. He's only been really sick one other time. He had one ear infection at four months and the sniffles a few months ago, but he's been so healthy I took it for granted. It's all that good momma's milk. He's still nursing a few times a day. One to three depending on his mood and naps. I hope he weens himself, I would hate to do that to him, but he is going to be sixteen months on the 28th, so he can stop whenever he's ready. The bigger I get the harder it is to nurse him.

So I'm blogging at night because I'm babysitting a little girl Kayla's age on Monday and Tuesday and some Sunday's while her dad works out of state. She gets picked up at 11pm and if I don't blog I will fall asleep for sure. I have been falling asleep around 9 or 930 lately. I can't keep my eyes open! Don't know why right? We've been really busy with a house project too, but it's a surprise. We haven't told anybody yet. I can't wait to finish it, by Wednesday I really hope, then I can post pictures of it. It's very exciting, but exhausting. Sean is getting 3 days off a week again after this long holiday weekend and we are so excited. We've been missing him so much working all those hours. More excitment here, Kayla is doing some really awesome reading. She was the only one in her class that read the word HOLIDAY! She is such a book lover and it's so cool to see her bloom like that. She does it all by herself too, no pressure needed!!! And my Hailey who hasn't been liking reading for a while now, has been finishing chapter books at school in three days or less. That is amazing for her because she didn't like to read and because she doesn't get that much time during the day to just sit and read, it's only 15-20 minutes a day. We are so proud of her. If any of you have Junie B books or Mystery A to Z books that you are done with, we would love some. Ok, well I may have to take pictures tomorrow and post more to stay awake again so I better save some of my news for then.

First day of school and on

2008-11-18T18:48:00.000-08:00

School is going great for the girls. They are both doing really well and so far they like to go. AM kindergarten is a little much for Kayla some days, but I let her have down time after and then she's ok. I had conferences with both of their teachers and was so pleased. Here's them on their first day of school and second day, Kayla's first bus ride to school. I just can't believe Hailey's in second grade already and Kayla riding the bus was hard for me, but Trent laughed when I cried so it was kind of funny!

This is at the cemetary across the street. I like to take the kids there for some reason. I love this cemetary and always have. It's the first place Sean and I kissed actually. Strange to most people but not for us. It's peaceful there. Trent was a crazy monkey, running all over and climbing on every gravestone he could. The girls wanted to find people with names that they knew, not too many of those since it's a very old cemetary.

Then we come to our Halloween costumes. Mom had just finished all their costumes. So we tried them on! How cute are they?!

Dorothy, Toto and the Lion! I dressed as the scarecrow, but don't have any good pictures of all of us. Sean has been working 7 days a week leaving early in the morning and getting home just in time for dinner. He got here in time to throw food at him then go trick-or-treating. We went around the green with Kayla's friend and family. We were hoping to meet up with Hailey's friends but we pasted them on our way home. 6:30 just came too early for them, sucky! We had fun though. And Trent fell asleep in his stroller on the way home, he never does that, but it was a very busy day. I made three different kinds of supercute cookies for both the girls classes. I'm Kayla's room mom, so I had to be there for 9:30, set up, help with the party, and clean and only one other parent helped me clean up! One mom actually came late, brought more cookies and other stuff we didn't need, then was the first to leave. People like that irke me. When she called I asked her to help with one of the other holiday parties because we already had six parents coming! I guess that was not a good answer for "I have a name well known in Lebanon". That felt good to complain. So then I came home at 11:30 and had to be back by 1:40 for Hailey's parade and party. Then home to make dinner and breath then trick-or-treat from 6:30-8:15.

That's it for now. My computer gave me a hard time when trying to upload pictures. I got it to work this time. We'll see. I'm going to try to blog once a week from now on. I hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I do.

It's been so long heres a few highlights

2008-09-26T18:17:00.000-07:00

Hailey got extensions in her hair. WOW!!!

Kurt did that as a birthday present for her, they are in still but we cut them to the length of her hair now because it got all knotted up swimming. The girls had their birthday parties with their friends on Kayla's birthday and the day after. Kayla had 5 friends come over for the afternoon. That's her hitting the pinata so cute. Hailey had 4 friends sleepover the next night for hers. Kayla also had 2 friends sleepover that night, so we had a house full. It was so fun though. The kids friends are really sweet and there was no trouble, except 3 of the older girls were climbing the hall at 3 am!!!!!! I told them no breakfast if they didn't go to sleep right away. Crazy little monkeys. This last picture is at the beach. Trent loved the sand and we collected a ton of shells, only to find that most of them were moving and we didn't find out till I was driving on the highway!!!! YUCK!!!!!! So much has been going on since all these pictures, but I would be blogging till the sun comes up, if it ever does it's so rainy and nasty here. School is going well, that will be my next blog. I got two jobs recently so I really haven't had time to blog at all. I'm working nights at a spa down the road. It was going to be just one night a week and turned into full time. It's hard not having dinner with my babies, but it's a really nice place to work and only 7 minutes door to door. Can't beat that. Then, 3 mornings a week while the girls are at school, Trent and I go to a home daycare close by and I take over with the kids so the owner can get normal things done, laundry, exercise, doctor appointments, stuff like that. So far so good. But very very busy here. Sean's hours picked up right when I started working so we are passing each other on the way in and out. But everyone is happy and healthy and adjusting to me working for the most part. Thats a start on my re-entry to blog-dom. I'm going to sleep now.

Kurt- a statue in Hartford

2008-08-06T16:03:00.000-07:00

Monday before the doctor we went to Bushnell Park with a picnic lunch and saw Kurt as a statue. He was in white with white skin and he is so good and being still. Kayla was nervous at first and Trent kept giving him dirty looks, but they got over it. It was so cool to see.

Birthday parties galour!

2008-08-06T15:43:00.000-07:00

Well I read that my sweet little niece Rachel had 2 birthday parties in a week, and so did we! First on Mom's birthday I had my kids party for family. It went pretty well, the kids made out quite well on presents and everyone ate well I think. We had 6 cakes!! I made a Boston Creme Pie and Carrot Cake for Mom and John. Then a chocolate car cake for Trent (this one came out way better) funfetti cupcakes for Hailey, ice cream cake for Kay kay and my little brother in-laws girlfriend Lucy( she's a doll) made a castle cake pink with sparkles. Wow! We had chicken, pork loin and veggie burgers with all different salads, thank you Mom, Joanne and myself. The kids got the coolest toys. Hailey even said the other day, if we couldn't go to the park it would be okay because she had really cool birthday presents to play with. That is not like Hailey at all. Kurt also brought his face paint and painted our faces, mine too! They came out so cute!

So the following morning was Archers birthday. So we grabbed Dad and headed to Mass. We were so tired, but we had to get there on time too because they had their party planned first and I had to throw mine in the same weekend. We ate and play and Rob, Kurt and I played Rockband. It was so fun, but Rob had to play drums or guitar, Kurt on guitar or bass and me singing or we just plain sucked. Sean ended up falling asleep on the couch after Trent fell asleep on him while playing ball with the kids. What a psycho baby! Anyway, I didn't get enough good pictures at his party to post so I suck, but hopefully Rob will post them for us.

Trent turns one!

2008-08-06T15:31:00.000-07:00

So on the 28th Trent turned one! We went swimming at a friends house and headed home around 5 to start dinner and cake. Well Trent fell asleep on the way home and I was so happy so he would be rested and we were going to take him outside and cause trouble after the sugar high. He decided it was his birthday and he wanted to sleep, from 5pm till 5am. So we had the cake for him the following night. We attempted a car/truck thing just for fun. He looked at us with his hand over the cake with a "can I?" look on his face. He is so cute! This Monday he had his doctors appointment and is 25.5 lbs. and 32 1/4 inches. Not bad for 1 huh! Anyway, here he is on his day after birthday. The pictures came out of order, but you get the idea.

Boston Baby!

2008-07-23T16:07:00.001-07:00

So on Monday we took a trip to Boston with Kurt for the day. It was beautiful out. I've never ventured to Boston before so it was a whole new adventure for us. The kids ate ice cream and had smoothies at Quincy Market. And they got tattoos that last for two weeks as you see here. The shoes Trent is wearing are the new squeaky shoes I wrote about in the last post.
The kids were so good walking around for 6 hours. We brought a picnic lunch and sat by the water on the stone bench in one of the pictures. Before we left, we stopped and picked up Dunny's shown here. It was so fun. We really like Boston. Only one bum and one crazy guy preaching at a park. Next adventure is RI to the Flying Caroseul. I can't wait.

We would like to thank Kurt for going on adventures with us just about every week. We are just starting to experience the world and love going with him. Trent even laid down with him at the park!! Sean was a little jealous. And I have to say, Trent finally made it through a long car ride without crying!!!! GO BIGYN!!!!!!

The Park!

2008-07-22T19:44:00.003-07:00

So this is the park in Colchester. We went at 9:30, played, went on
the splash pad, played, had lunch, played, Trent took a nap,
played, went on the splash pad.
Then we went and got Grampa Bob and got ice cream. Then Mystic Village to walk around and got Trent Try some shoes.
They are the cutest shoes and he actually likes them! They squeak!

We then came home and changed to have dinner with Sean's family
and the kids were awesome! Sean's Grandfather was visiting from Florida for the week and it was his birthday. Very busy day, but well worth every second. My kids are great!!!!!!!! Tune in again soon for the day trip to Boston photos!!!!!

Air Museum

2008-07-22T19:23:00.001-07:00

A few weeks ago, the Air Museum had an Air and Space day along with the National Guard. Admission was free (our favorite price) and they had a shuttle service to the different events in the area. The girls got to make water rockets and shoot them off at the museum. We also went and made buttons and necklaces, got the girls faces painted and saw airplanes and helicopters. The airport is Sean's favorite place to go. So he was in his glory and we all had fun. This last picture is of us all dirty messing around after our hot and busy day. We had a lot of fun!

dad's birthday and mud pies

2008-07-07T08:07:00.000-07:00

I'm all dirty!

Yummy!

My pretty babies playing in the mud!

Look Momma I got rocks and mud!

Kayla put her face in the water!

Hailey's in full force with the boys!

Happy Birthday Dad!

Trent's learning to skateboard young!

Summer time

2008-07-07T07:54:00.001-07:00

Hailey received 10 patches and 3 pins, plus 3 prizes from Girl Scouts.

Mansfield Hollow Dam

We went with Kurt and he took these pictures. It' so pretty there.

Trent Try had his first hair cut

2008-05-19T08:18:00.001-07:00

BEFORE
DURING
AND AFTER
THIS IS HIS NEW FOHAWK HE CAN WEAR IT WITH GEL UP OR
DOWN LIKE A LITTLE MAN HE LOOKS LIKE
A DIFFERENT BABY IN ALL THESE PICTURES WEIRD

my little bruiser

2008-05-02T15:14:00.001-07:00

So, Trent had his 9 month doctors appointment today. I cannot believe he is that old already, yet physically he's a one year old. He weighs 22 lbs. 10 oz. and is 30 1/2 inches tall!!!!!! WOW! He is huge. And beautiful. He no longer eats baby food, but is chowing down on everything we eat, and he feeds himself already too. My little man. I took this picture two minutes ago. I tried to have them pose, but got a really cute action shot instead.

Washington, DC

2008-04-28T10:22:00.000-07:00

The White House

The Vietnam Wall

World War II Memorial. Reflecting Pool

Washington was interesting. Trent cried the whole way there, it was in the 80's then pouring and cold. We were lost and walking around in the heat and exhausted. Dinner never happened before 7 and we all know how we get when we're hungry!!!!

This picture is us at the zoo. Trent slept through all the cool stuff, but we saw pandas, elephants, hippos, zebras all cool stuff. This was our first day there.

This is day two. Our six plus miles of walking in 85 degree weather. But the kids did better than I expected. Did I mention the Pope was in DC at the same time as us, so were 15 different 8th grade classes. Yes, I do suck at time managment.

We also went to the Natural History Museum this day and Trent had his first caroseul ride. Yes I'm feeding him to a Hippo!

It was good to be away but I am very happy we are home.

2008-04-10T10:59:00.000-07:00

Spring has finally arrived and it is above 60!! We went to the park today and have been outside quite a bit. We are going to DC next Thursday through Monday and I cannot wait to get away for a few days. Check Trent out here with his new teeth. The top picture is the girls helping with the St. Pattys day cupcakes! Yummy.

This was a few weeks ago but wow how cute is he. He is getting into everything, and he tried to climb Hailey's dresser this morning, at eight months! He has been standing and moving along furniture for a month now and is crazy explorer baby. He's so happy I just love it.

The other picture is from Easter at Moms house. The kids are all huge! Mom picked out the girls dresses, and they look so pretty.

Hailey wrote me a note that said I was fat and she hated me. Nice. She is mini-me, scary! She's been sucking up to me ever sense saying how pretty I am. The joys of parenthood huh. They are doing really well and Kayla just grew a few inches. Her pants were showing off her ankles so it's time to move up a size again. She is so tall for a four year old. Well, Trent is driving Kayla crazy right now and I need to go outside and play in this 66 degree weather! Bye. And Kim, can't wait to go to the Statue of Liberty with you guys! The hotel there is a little out of price range, so we'll meet up with you on that Friday.

how cute are we

2008-03-12T16:29:00.001-07:00

This was vacation last month with fevers and stir-craziness we got creative. At least my make-up has some use!

Finally!!

2008-03-12T16:16:00.000-07:00

Ok, how lame am I! Very busy is another way that I like to put it. So last month held lots of fevers and colds and chaos. Hopefully this month will calm down soon too. But there is some excitement in the Goins house. First, Trent got his first tooth last Thursday!!! He bit me nursing for the first time today, fun fun. He had his first mohawk that was quite cute on him. Lets see, Hailey has been tired and cranky since vacation ended and Kayla has been VERY talkative lately. Her favortie is " Pretend you said 'Wow that was really cool'' and we have to say it. It's been exhausting. And my extra exciting news, Kim you'll be so proud-the unfinished bathroom is no longer a catch basin for things that have no place, but a LAUNDRY ROOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And after painting it brown, and getting started on the plumbing, which Sean has done by himself, my dryer broke. So I went out and bought a new washer and dryer, because I didn't want unmatching ones if they were going to be unstairs. What do you think? I'm not sure if you can tell, but I still need molding on the window and a few other things but since this project is over 15 years past it's start I'll take what I can get. They are the prettiest appliances I have ever seen, not to mention king sized capacity yeah!!!!!!!!!

The first week in Feb was over 40 degrees!!!!

2008-02-17T08:23:00.000-08:00

Trent went on the baby swing for the first time. We were very excited it was over 40 degrees, so we cleaned out our cars and played outside with the kids. He wasn't sure at first, but then he liked it! It's funny how Hailey didn't go on a swing till she was much older, Kayla was a little younger than Hailey and Trent is 6 months. The youngest ones get so much more excitement as babies.

Right now he has an ear infection and is not taking the medicine well at all. The girls said I should take it so he can get it in my milk. I wonder.... The other excitement we've been having is swimming! We bought a pool pass at a somewhat local hotel and have gone swimming 4 times just this week. Yesterday we were at the pool for 2 hours and I cannot believe how good Trent was. Hailey swims like a fish if she's wearing floaties, but is TERRIFIED if she isn't wearing them. Kayla, the one who was born in the water, will not attempt to swim at all. You have to hold her or she will stay on the stairs. I haven't gotten to take pictures yet, I was alone with the kids except the last time we went, but I will bring my camera next time and post some. I love the water!!!!!!! I feel like I'm on vacation every time we go, it recharges me. As I re-read this I realize how much I ramble and am very sorry. I think I need to get out more! Kurt is coming over this week and will get some grown-up time YEAH!

Hailey designed clothes for a barbie and ken wedding

2008-02-02T06:56:00.000-08:00

This is Hailey's design for Barbie and Ken's wedding. We framed it so we could get big bucks for it some day. I got her a bratz fashion designer kit and it should be coming in a few weeks, very exciting. Her first design is hidden away but it had boots, pants and a shirt all designed by Hailey. Then she found similar clothes of hers and wore them to school the next day. She is going to rule the world I tell you. And her first day of school outfit was too cute and perfect for her personality. Mom did buy her the outfit but there were stretch pants with it, and those are not an option for my children. Even if I liked them, my girls will not wear them!

Kayla has a yucky cold and don't laugh at her!

2008-02-02T06:46:00.000-08:00

So, Kayla does not like it when you laugh at her, even if she is being crazy and she knows it. She gets all offended and cries. The girl is a faucet. This picture was taken this morning right after she got up. Me and Hailey and Trent were looking at pictures of her posing and dressed up like a penguin. She loves the camera even though she's shy. She strikes a pose whenever possible (at home) She is the anti-me. She acts a lot like Kurt.

This is a few weeks ago when she was posing for the camera. Americas Next Top Model here she comes! Hailey's going to design the clothes and Kayla is going to model them. How cute is that. I know it's sideways but I haven't mastered the art of this process yet.

trent and sean

2008-02-02T06:37:00.000-08:00

Saturday morning sleeping in for Sean. Trent back asleep for his 9 am nap. The life of luxury the boys in this house have. Must be nice to sleep past 9! Granted all my kids are decent sleepers. Kayla has been known to sleep till 10 on non-school days. And Hailey went to PM kindergarten last year because we are not morning people. First grade put a damper on that though. Now Hailey is up at 7 every day. Good news though, Trent slept through the night again!! He was sleeping from 8 or 9 till 7 am then stopped. The last 2 nights we got no sleep because he is sick, and so am I so you can imagine the pleasantness in this house the last few days. But he did it again, nursed at 815 and slept till 10 after 7!!! Go Trent, and he is back asleep right now. This blog is a great way to take a picture or two every day!! Good thinking Kim.

Hailey is growing up too fast

2008-02-01T19:53:00.000-08:00

Hailey is only six but she seems so much older than that lately. She wants to be a fashion designer and she has got the attitude for a demanding reality. She's like me in so many ways it will be a struggle for us I think, but I'm in awe of her.

Kayla was a penguin

2008-02-01T19:49:00.000-08:00

An aquarium came to Kayla's nursery school and picked her to dress up like a penguin. She is so shy she didn't move a muscle the whole time, I was laughing so hard I almost cried.

Trent's Six Months

2008-02-01T19:39:00.000-08:00

Trent had his 6 month doctors appoinment today and is huge! 20 lbs. 8 oz. and 29 inches. My little man is a very big boy. He's amazing!