Aunt Carol Update

I don't know how much I am allowed to say, but my sister Carol is in the ARMY and is working her way back home from the land of sand!!!

Her counterparts have arrived, they will teach/train them for a few weeks and then start the trek back from overseas.

We can't wait to see you LLAMA!!

Love you,
Big Sis and the rest of the crew

We take our art time very seriously

What, you don't have your own tool box full of art supplies? Naked art is the only way to go, baby.

Little Smurf

note the handprint on her cheek

What the heck happened to the Skins???

I think we jinxed them yesterday with everyone being dressed up?!?!? :o(

The Taste of Georgetown

Saturday AM we got up and decided to get a bit crazy ;o)...we loaded up the bookbag full of snacks and drinks, grabbed the kids blankies and extra diapers...and headed out...to just do "something". Bruce had remembered that the Taste of Georgetown was going on over the weekend, and since that is one of our favorite places to go together...we decided to check it out.

What a fun day! Bruce's dad works security at the old Ulysses S. Grant house...this big old mansion with all kinds of neat stuff for the kids to check out, right in Georgetown...he happened to be working so we stopped by to surprise him, and ended up just parking there and walking past all of the pretty houses to get down to M Street.

Here are a bunch of pictures...this one, Chase is in full meltdown mode, because he didn't want to be in the stroller...he had already walked almost a mile (it seemed like!) and traffic was crazy...haha...look at him pouting!

Chase...still ticked off...Addy is starting to cooperate and look at the camera!
OK, the ladies man loosened up a bit once he was allowed to walk around...here he is, mid-spin, dancing with me to the "smooth jazz" that was playing.

Putting out the vibe, petting the dogs while Mommy was TRYING to do a wine tasting...the lines were LONGGGG
Miss Addy, enjoying her 3rd juice box for the day...don't judge us...she dumps most of it out anyway...and yes, she has a skirt on :o) Woo...look at those legs!
The pretty princess...I cropped the juice box out for this one :o) She HAD the cutest full pigtails that day, and we are trying so hard to get her bangs to grow out!!!
All and all we had a great day, great weather, great food and fun!! A bonus was that when we were done at the taste thing, the kids got to take a tour of the old house where Bruce's dad works security...Chase was so excited and loves "being snoopy" his words...he LOVES looking at houses...he counted all of the fireplaces that Santa Claus has to come down...there were like 10 in the house!! :o)

Weight Loss Post

Bruce has been hitting the gym really hard lately...he started a new job a few months back, and the guys he works with have been a great support system...instead of going out for lunch every day, they rock out at the gym instead. :o) He got his body comp done today...

I am SO proud to announce that he has lost 47 lbs since we started bootcamp in MAY!!! I've lost 25-30 lbs in the same time frame. I just told him that our goal together should be 100 lbs by Christmas.

Way to go Brucie!!!

PS: Check out Chase and Addy's crossed legs...goofballs

Princess Prissy Pants

Addy has turned into a little big girl OVERNIGHT I tell you!

I don't know why this shocks Bruce and I so much...maybe it's her size...at her 18 month checkup (that she just went to at 20 months...SUCKY MOM award right here!) she weighed in at 21lbs...she's only in the 5th percentile for weight, and 25th percentile for height and head circumference. Just for a little comparison (breaking out Chase's "stats") Chase was 21 lbs at 6 months...at 18 months he was 30 lbs and 95th percentile for everything...BEAST!

She is talking so much sooner and better than Chase did...I don't know if it's a girl thing or a second child thing...but homegirl can talk...in sentences.

All of a sudden at the park, Addy has no fear, walks up the steps to the slide herself, and then hurls herself down the slide as fast as she can. As soon as she gets to the bottom, she scoots off herself, and runs right back around to do it again. Maybe we babied Chase too much at that age? I don't know...it's just amazing to see how much more agile Addy is. Here are a few pictures from a walk around the lake and park this weekend...check out her "track suit"...she was stylin ;o)

Lookout below!!!
Addy LOVES animals and is obsessed with her "Chachis" (the horses and burrows that my mom takes care of) Chachi is the name of one of the burrows...Say hi to Chachi:but she likes to call them all that. She knows all of their names though, and says horse, etc...so I'm not sure why she's hung up on Chachis...it's cute though. This AM I took them up to the barn for a visit. Here she is peeking through the gate watching Chase help my mom

I love this picture of her
Here she is eating the piece of apple that was meant for her buddy :o)And here she is trying to feed it to one of them...she freaks out last minute and pulls away...we're working on that ;o)

My excuses for being so lame lately!!!

Holy cow...I haven't blogged since 9/10...so not like me! Wanna hear my top 5 excuses?? ;O)

5) The kids have been sick...Chase more than Addy...we finally got a referral to see an ENT (ear, nose and throat specialist) and Chase will more than likely have his Tonsils and Adenoids removed in the next few months...my poor little guy can hardly swallow. This means I've been out of the office ALOT for sick days, drs appts, etc...

4) Work is BUSY...which is really great. The foreclosure market is keeping me swamped. Real estate is a real challenge right now, and I know alot of my friends are in the same business, so you can appreciate how thankful I am to be able to "complain" that I am busy...SO busy in fact, that I hadn't been on myspace or facebook for almost 2 weeks now, and my blog reading is so ridiculously behind...I've only been reading my personal friends blogs and ignoring the 75+ other blogs that I normally would spend an hour a day reading...

3) I'm FINALLY getting to re-design our website at work...thank goodness! Our current one is just really out of date and lame...our new site should launch by Mid-November at the latest...yay!!!

2) The past few months life has been really bad/crazy, I am SO, SO happy to say things are back on track, AND better than ever.

1) I've been working out instead of taking my lunch break to read/blog. I haven't been able to do Michael's Bootcamp for the last 2 months, which I really miss, (BY THE WAY...please check out his blog, he's been doing a really great job at it!) and hope to start back up in November. In the meantime, I've been going downstairs to La Boxing to do their kickboxing classes a few days a week...nothing comes close to Michael's programs, but the kickboxing has been a good band-aid in the meantime

A GOOD ENOUGH BAND AID (combined with not eating/drinking like an IDIOT) THAT I AM WEARING PANTS TODAY THAT HAD A DRY CLEANING TAG ON THEM DATED

***2/18/04!!!***

That's only 6 months after Bruce and I got married and I didn't even know I was pregnant with Chase yet...I've been a fatty for almost 5 years now, and I'm NEVER going back. Boo-yah!!!

Just had to share, and let everyone know I'm still alive...I hope to be catching up with everyone soon!!