birthdays

 a few months ago rocco turned 4:

he didn't want his picture taken...after running through the splash pad he let me take it (but only if he could sit on the playground)

-he's still a turd...i mean stubborn :) but when he get's enough sleep he's better than i could have ever imagined.

-his best friend is tenley. he wakes up and runs to her almost every morning.

-he screams "mom, look at tenley! she's (fill in the blank) all by herself!" at least once a day.

-he loves loves LOVES iron man. he saw the avenger's with his papi and went dressed like this:

him and isaac were standing in line waiting for the movie (rocco had the mask pushed up on top of his head) and some teenagers were like, "dude, look at that kid. that's awesome." rocco turned and looked at them all serious and (standing super still, only moving his arm/hand) slid the mask down, covering his face and then put his arm back down and stood there like "yeah, that's right. i'm iron man." isaac said it was so freakin funny...isaac showed me how he did it and unfortunately writing it down doesn't sound as funny as seeing how it looked.

-he does understand spanish (uh hem, Lucas). just today he was watching diego and they were singing "correr." i started singing it too and rocco goes, "no, mom. you say correr. it means run. but diego doesn't say run, he says correr." oh, well excuse me.

-he learned how to swim all by himself...he just started doing it and every day (since we go to the pool almost every day) he get's better and better.

a few months ago seven turned 2:

-she still loves babies. anything that is little is a baby (baby dog, baby shirt, baby toothbrush...like the one in her hand in the picture...you get the idea

-she used to watch the documentary "babies" every night while laying in bed but we're slowing trying to ween the kids off of that bad habit. she still asks to watch it almost every night (and every morning).

-she thinks that when i tell her to smile she has to scrunch her face up so that her eyes disappear.

-she's the funniest one in our family. example, i make charts for the kids to put stickers on so that they can earn a reward. the latest reward was a shirt that they got to pick out at the store all by themselves. take a look at the shirt sev decided on:

she did have a "hello kitty" shirt in her hands but immediately dropped it and ran to this one when she saw it hanging on the rack.

this pic was taken after two weeks of trying really hard to be good and earn enough stickers to get their prize.

-she talks so much now. almost as much as rocco i'd say.

-she's really small (5th percentile in height and weight) but is super feisty. rocco almost always has a fresh scratch across his face.

-she loves tenley just as much as rocco...unfortunately, the feelings aren't mutual. :)

and last, but definitely not least, my ten ten turned 7 months...she's now 8 months but i've yet to take those pics:

-she's pretty much my favorite. ok, i've said that about all 3 of my kids but i really love this age (4 months to 18 months).

-she is so smart. more so than the other two were at this age. she says "mama" already and copies what you do and the sounds you make. she knows when she's being funny. i can't really describe it but she is smart. take my word for it.

(the pictures above she was laughing cause i told her "no. don't eat that." isaac took the wood chip out and she put another one in and was snickering at me like "haha. i did it again.")

-she has the fattest belly/arms/legs/cheeks in the world...which makes everyone comment.

-her smile is awesome.

-she has a booty...which is cool because i'm lacking one and so are rocco and seven. :)

-she saves me money cause she breast feeds like nobodies business.

good night y'all.