submarines...

Bruiser: I made a rocketship, Momma!
Bruiser points to his little pile of doo doo in the toilet.
Deb: Oh, wow! Go Bruiser!!!
Nick: Bruiser, don't you mean submarine?

stink eye...

three kids with six pink eyes between them. poor kiddos.

claire and me...

Oh, my beautiful girl! She tells me almost everyday how she thinks her eyes are about to turn green, like mine. How she wants to have hair as long as mine. Talk about making me feel like a million bucks. So amazing to me because she must have a deluded sense of beauty to want to have things just like me. I'd take her curly hair and blue eyes any day. I'm not being self deprecating, I just believe she is so beautiful. She woke me up this morning and I (in my semi-blind state) just saw these beautiful blue eyes and sweet shape of her face and knew exactly who she was. I love this girl. My heart fills when I think about her.

auto mechanics

Bruiser (Matthew): Dad, I go wif you?
Nick: Yeah, sure.
They go out to the garage to work on changing the oil on the car.
Bruiser: this is coo, Dad!
Nick: Will you give me the wrench, Bruiser?
Bruiser: Sure, Dad. Dis one?
He drags it over to Nick...
Nick: will you bring me the oil, Bruiser?
Bruiser: Sure, Dad...oooh, dis is heavy!
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Bruiser: This is so cool, Dad!!

sisters...

Claire LOVES her sister. This is how I recently found them one night after I put them both to bed.

My favorite part of this picture is that Claire has actually covered Rosi with her special "toesies" blanket.

bout time...posted by nick

Because if my father wrote this about me, I would die, so I'll just say that Nick had a very detailed reason of why my Rosi was smiling ;)

piano lessons...

Claire is practicing her piano!
She is just taking from me, but she's already doing a great job.

Love this kid.

getting bigger...

She already is holding her head up. Taken a 4 weeks and 2 days.

Look at that chin! Eyes aren't defined yet, but I'm very interested to see
what color they will be.

Claire wore this dress when she was a baby and there are 200 pics of her  in it.
Just passing some memories down to little Rosi.

2 week pics...

3 kiddos

My feet

Nick's ears

My nose

stretch!

A good friend, Heather, offered to take pics of my sweet girl.

from my sister marlies...

So ....this is how I remember it...
It was bedtime for the kids.  Mom had been busy all day and asked if she could put them to bed.  She had put Matthew on her bed to wait while she went into her office to put Claire down.  She asked me to go check on him and said " he is watching the game". I walked in and he was glued to the tv.  I tried to talk to him, but got no response until I asked him what he was watching....he looked at me and responded with a shrug and a matter of fact comment...the game:).  I thought this was so funny but never believed he was really watching "The Game" until I left and came back a few minutes later. He was still sitting in the exact same spot watching.  I could see him get excited as one particular team made baskets and dribble the ball.  That little two year old was really watching that game.... Funniest part.  I think he believes he was voting for the aggies because their uniform was red.  So darling!!!!,!

I remembered another one of the stories....
First morning he was with me I gave him his bath and as I was putting his shirt on, I realized I had accidentally gotten out one of Claire's shirts instead off his.  Because I had three other kids in the bath tub I put it on him with the thoughts that I would switch it later.   I quickly learned I had just put an Aggie shirt on their biggest fan!!!!
For the next thirty minutes he ran around the house pointing at his shirt yelling "Go Aggies"and throwing his fists in the air.
I didn't think much of it until after I tried to change his shirt.  As I was pulling it over his head, he looked up at me with those sweet baby blues...grabbed his shirt, and  in a whisper said, "Go Aggies".......To say the least, he wore it the rest of the day....who could say no to a fan like that?????