Happy Birthday Barry!

Dear Buddy,
Oh how I love you. You are the best little guy around...bar none. Yes you cry and you whine and you hit your sisters and you tell me no to everything and you won't eat anything healthy for you...but none of that matters cause you smile at me and you hug me and you giggle with me and you let me read to you all the time and you get excited over the simplest things and you are just the best cuddler ever.

Your Favorite things list as of now:
trains
cars 2 (the movie)
toy cars
your binky and blankee
chocolate milk
teebee (t.v. which is dora the explorer and go diego go)

You have the cutest little language right now. Everything starts with a h. For example:
Hunny = funny
hart = fart
hawry = sorry
hars = cars

But mostly you are just so polite. You tell me and everyone thank you and always follow it with our name - thank you mom or thank you bubba or thank you christine. You are very good at saying sorry when you do something wrong and you are always making sure everyone is ok if they fall or get hurt... You ok mom? or you love to tell me that you are ok when you fall...I ok Mom!

I love coming in in the morning to get you out of bed (yes, you still stay in bed unless I come get you and you love to sleep til 8 or so) I always here your little voice say "I wake mom" "it morning now?" It is really the cutest thing ever. I love you buddy and hope you stay this sweet forever.

Halloween Warner Style

We had a great Halloween this year. Of course, you saw that we actually decorated for it and it somehow made the whole thing a little more magical. Yes, I just said magical and was referring to Halloween. Our AWESOME friends, the Millers, put on a great Halloween party. And we were told that if we didn't dress up, then we could eat no food. Bummer, I had to dress up. My kids thought it was the best to have Mom and Dad dressed up with them. I have to admit, it was really fun. So food, games, and lots of good company made for the best Halloween party ever.

This is the only picture I could get of Annie, she was running to fast. Playing pin the smile on the pumpkin...thing she is a little off?
She was the most adorable strawberry ever. I just love that smile.
Same as Annie, running and playing to much to stop for a picture.
The top half of my pirate costume.
A little scary, I know. He just wanted to have hair for one night.

The mean and scary witch.Line up of most of the girls at the party! Funny how my kids just can't smile for a picture.

And what would Halloween be without the fantastic school parade. This was the first year for Annie and she loved it. Hallie ran by me so fast I couldn't get a picture without her being blurry or looking the other way. Oh well, it was fun just seeing them and being a part of their fun day.

Annie always seems to have 2 or 3 costumes every year. Here she is as the Winter Belle.

Annie's First surgery

Annie had what they call trigger finger. It is a very common thing in a lot of children but it is usually in the thumb. She had it on her left middle finger. We decided to get it taken care of while she was young and not wait for it to get worse. She was a champ and did so good. Tyler took her cause they had to be there at 6 am and we didn't want to wake all the kids. Plus, lets just admit that I am a wimp when it comes to things like that and probably would have passed out at some point.

They put her completely under anesthesia so all she remembers is playing games with dad and then them having her blow into a balloon! When she woke up she was a little out of it and was mad that she had a cast on her! Once she fully woke up she was the super champ again and we got to go home quickly after.

Her favorite part was that her bear "Lizzy" got a cast too and was able to stay with her the whole time. The Hospital was so good to her. They gave her polly pockets at the end for being so brave! She was thrilled. I think her fear of doctors might be over!