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Jack and Maya love to take cooking classes together. In this class they made cupcake ice cream cones! How fun! Maybe they will live out one of mommy's dreams and open a restaurant some day....

T.R.O.U.B.L.E

Oh man, are we in trouble. Raising three boys has it's inherent challenges but I am seriously not prepared for the "boy talk" and girl craziness! I k ow it's just the beginning...

At dinner tonight we were talking about Jack's day at kindergarten and out of the blue he says, "There is one hot girl on the bus. She is hot and smokey like a volcano." He then said that he and his friend Brody watch her get off the bus and call her "the hot girl"!

We. Are. In. Trouble.

Princess Mommy

Jack and Nana made Mommy a princess birthday cake. You can't get much sweeter (literally and figuratively)!!!

Finger (body) Paint!

Mommy thought the boys would have fun doing finger paint on the back deck. Little did she know, it would turn into body painting themselves and each other!

War paint...

Testing it out...

Getting daddy involved...

Daddy assisted in tagging each of them with their first initials!

Double fisting :)

Needless to say, the boys showered on the back deck that afternoon!

First Official Haircuts

The time finally came for Will and Henry's first official haircuts. Henry had a few small trims at home but we waited until both were ready for big boy haircuts like Jack to head to Pigtails and Crewcuts. You wouldn't be able to tell it from this photo but they were actually so excited!

Haircuts are serious business!

Busy watching Nemo!

Henry's finished product. So cute and he looks like such a little boy!

I made sure to tell the hairdresser not to cut too much from Will because I didn't want to lose his precious curls. They melt me every time I look at him.

We lost the mullet but kept the curls!!!

Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Birthday Oh My!

Jack's 5th birthday week was a doozy!!! We had all these great plans for a family party and a trip to Busch Gardens but all that was thwarted by Mother Nature. We should have know that the earthquake early in the week was a sign that the birthday extravaganza was not going to go off as planned. Hurricane Irene decided to head straight for Virginia Beach and we knew that we would have a very disappointed 5 year old if his birthday was canceled! So, Mommy tore off her work clothes to reveal her Super Mommy suit underneath and got to work rearranging the birthday plans on a few hours notice.

We decided that we were going to head out of town ahead of Irene because the thought of losing power with 3 small kids was almost more than Mommy could bare. This meant that the family dinner scheduled for Friday evening was getting pushed back to Thursday evening--a decision that was made at 10am on Thursday morning. The first call was to the bakery to beg and plead with them to make Jack's birthday cake ASAP so that we could it pick up that afternoon. Sugar Plum Bakery came through and it turned out AMAZING!!!

Luckily almost all of our family and friends were able to accommodate the last minute change and even though Mommy may have grown a few more gray hairs in the process, Jack had a blast!


Henry and Will were very interested in helping Jack open his gifts.

Jack received his iPod Touch and couldn't have been happier!

Dinosaur masks!!!

Nana and Papa gave all 3 boys a bounce house--the best gift ever!!!!

On Friday (Jack's actual birthday) we evacuated and it was definitely a birthday to remember!

Once we got to Charlottesville, we took the boys to the Bounce House to get some energy out. The babies were fearless...

Truth be told, Jack has a great birthday and didn't even know that things were stressful, to say the least!

Little Helper?

If Will were trying to help with the dishes or dinner that would be one thing but he was actually attempting to climbing into the sink...

Boys!