Dominick's Birthday

Today was Dominick's Birthday. We had plans to go out to Campers Hideaway at Lake Merwin for the weekend with some friends for some boating and jet skiing. However, the weather did not cooperate with us at all. It's been very rainy and on the cooler side (mid 60's).

So instead we got up this morning and went out to breakfast. Dominick choose Billygan's Roadhouse. Their food is always good and we had never eaten breakfast there so we decided to try it out. The breakfast was delicious and the service was awesome, like usual.

We went to Ikea to get a lamp for the kids playroom and found some other things for the house. We found a bistrio table that we really liked and then we found the exact table we picked out in the "as is" area with nothing wrong with it. We paid half as much as we would have had we not looked in the "as is" area. Plus it was already assembled for us. We were excited about that.

Dominick wanted to sit at home and watch a movie together as a family. He choose Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, I don't remember ever seeing it when I was younger. Trinity really enjoyed the movie and Nicholas fell asleep during the movie. We ate cinnabons while watching the movie. Cinnabons are so yummy!

For dinner we dropped the kids off to their Grandma CC's house and met some friends at Newport Bay. We all ate and talked. The food was so good. I had spicy sausage gumbo and crab cakes. Dominick had New England clam chowder and sliders with a yummy bell pepper mayonaise.

I think all in all Dominick had a good Birthday!

Nicholas' first day of school

Nicholas started preschool on Monday. He walked right in the classroom, hung his backpack up and said bye mom. It went so much smoother than I anticipated, which made me happy.


He said he got to use scissors carefully and the teacher showed him how to use the glue. He is excited about going on Tuesday because it will be Science day.

Fun Day with Mom

The kids and I found a really yummy Thai food place pretty close to our house. Trinity is always cheap at restaurants that have white rice because that is all she wants to eat. Nicholas and I had really good soup (Nicholas ate his and Trinity's), satay chicken w/peanut sauce, Pad Thai w/chicken and I had some wild jungle spicy curry (lots of bamboo shoots, carrots, green beans and egg plant in a very spicy sauce). All so YUMMY!


After lunch we went home and got Nicholas' bike (Trinity didn't want hers today) we all went for a walk to the park (school 2 blocks from our house). It was hot out by this time so we brought lemonade with us and found a little shade.


The kids and I had a running race from the little play area to the big play area and back again. I won but Trinity changed the spot we had to touch to win and didn't tell us what it was until she was touching it so she could win.

Pretty Fingernails

Dominick took Trinity to get her nails done today. She had them painted purple with flowers on them. She was so excited. The first thing she did when I got home from work today was show me her nails and tell me all about it.

My 4 year old

Nicholas is now 4 years old! He weighs 44-1/2 lbs and he is 3'9" tall. Which puts him in the 94th percentile for his weight and 100th percentile for his height. He is so big.

I have been watching his fluid intake for a while now and I was concerned about his drink soo much all the time. He is always thirsty and not just for juice and soda but water or whatever is there. I mentioned this to his Dr. She said it is a sign of being diabetic but she was not too concerned about it. She did have us go to the lab and get some tests done though just for my peace of mind. We should have the results in a few days. Nicholas is healthy and active so I am not too worried about the results.

Nicholas had a very fun birthday party. We had cake and ice cream and then all the kids played outside with water balloons and water guns. He had so much fun!

It's 1:47am ... I should be sleeping

I haven't posted in a while so I thought I would do a quick one this very early morning. We have been very busy with weddings, camping and other family fun stuff this summer I have not had time to post. I took a few pictures of Nicholas in his new Transformers hat he picked out at Target.

This first picture he was wearing the hat sideways because he was showing me the different ways you can wear a hat.

This second picture he was running towards me to see the pictures I had taken.

Can you believe my baby boy is going to be 4 on July 31st?? Where has the time gone?

July 3rd

On July 3rd we went hiking as a family. Dominick and I both had the day off. It was so nice outside and the waterfalls were awesome. The kids loved it and we got a bit of a workout too.


We forgot to pack extra clothes for the kids. Trinity cannot help but get wet when there is water near. She took her shoes and socks off to play in the water a little and ended up getting completely soaked. Nicholas got his shorts a little wet but they dried pretty quick.

4th of July we had a party at our house. We had tons of food to snack on. I forgot to take pictures this year so we just have to keep our memories in our heads. The kids stayed up late playing and watching the fireworks. We had a fun laid back weekend.