Storytime with a Twist

We've stumbled upon this awesome place here in Roswell that does a **free** storytime once a month. It's not just any storytime. It's a storytime that lets the kids act out the story. The story today was Boogie Knights. The premise of the story was the Knights are sleeping watching the castle while the "Halloween" characters were having a dance party in the basement. The Halloween characters consisted of ghosts, witches, wear-wolves, aliens, etc.

Hannah jumped up at the chance to be a knight in the story. Her role was to "sleep" on stage while the others were having a party. She did ok, but you could tell she really wanted to be on the party side. (who can blame her!). Reilly was chosen to be the alien. And a good alien, he was. He basically stood on stage, did what he was told and acted the part of the partying alien. One by one, the knights joined the party. Hannah was excited to join the partying Halloween characters! Here are a few photos from the storytime. I highly recommend it for any locals!

Reilly is in the back as the alien. Hannah is in the foreground as a Knight (dressed in a Viking hat!)

"How Do I Look?"

Reilly the Alien trying to keep his hat on!

...and it slips below his eyes.

After the Knights join the party, they do the Conga!

So Giddy to be on stage!

After the Boogie, they all go to sleep.

...but not Hannah!

Pumpkin Patch 2011

Today, we went for our annual photo shoot at the pumpkin patch. It's definitely more difficult to get pictures of 3 kids.

Check out Reilly's eye roll. That comes from the Chambers side.

Maybe if we hang him upside down, he'll have fun?!

That's better. Except Daddy decided to mock Reilly who is now smiling. Oh well!

Momma & Sullivan!

Sullivan was happy for half the time.

I love this candid of them. They really do love playing with each other.

Meanwhile, Sullivan is hanging out in the pumpkins!

We have to admit. After several not so good pics of Reilly, we bribed them with a doughnut. It worked for a little while, but then....

we decided maybe we'd like a "mean face" pumpkin picture.

We all left happy on our way to the doughnut store.

Sullivan- the best little baby. Ever.

Sullivan, thus far, has been a very easy baby. He hardly ever cries. Always Smiles. Always Giggles. Always laughs out loud when his brother and sister enter the room. He goes to sleep with nothing. No sassy. No blankie. You put him in his bed and he's out. Til morning. If I have to wake him up abruptly, he doesn't cry.

So it doesn't surprise me that without a peep, he has not 1--but 2 first teeth! Wahoo for Sullivan!

Hannah, the Entertainer

Hannah, now a Kindergartner, rides the bus pretty much everyday. We live in a very large neighborhood with a LOT of neighborhood kids on her bus. I found out the other day from another parent that Hannah has been singing - on the loud speaker- to the entire bus. Friday's song was "You Are My Sunshine"- a song I started singing to her when she was days old!

She will always be my sunshine! I love her independent, self-confident little spirit!

Vintage or Dated?

So "G" gave Stephanie an old hat that Andrew used to wear as a kid, in 1976, 34 years ago, with a slightly rusted metal fastener. Stephanie loves it, and thinks Sullivan looks great in it. Andrew thinks Sullivan looks like a girl in that hat and doesn't think Sullivan should be subjected to mental anguish this early in life. So the question becomes, is a 34 year old hand me down hat "vintage" or is it "dated"? Feel free to comment below.

One more...

Reilly pointing out a boat on the water.

Brother and Sister

We woke up in Augusta, GA this morning, Hannah's birthplace. Hannah, Reilly, and Daddy went out early and took a walk on the Augusta River Walk, and we saw a train up close! Here are a couple pictures from this morning.

Sullivan lounging around, on his tummy.

Click on the video to watch it full screen.

Sullivan and the new camera lens...

Sullivan has been working on his roll over skills. He can now roll from tummy to back pretty well, but he doesn't seem to do that well going the other way around. Daddy recently got a new camera lens that lets him do a little more creative work with the camera. So we worked together on a few pictures this afternoon (it was halftime of the football game). Here are a couple from halftime...

Reilly looks big today, Sullivan doesn't

Reilly looked really big today with his polo button down shirt! I imagine Sullivan thinks Reilly is really big too, since he has to look up to him from his car seat.

There are no words...

Usually when we post pictures of the kids, we can come up with something clever to say, however with this picture there are no words. Hannah came up from the basement looking like this and I knew this picture would show back up on her wedding day, whenever that may be.

Sullivan takes baby steps... Figuratively speaking

Sullivan is now sitting up with a little help from the Bumbo seat. He really seems to like it, but is not happy when you sit him in the seat facing away from the TV. Sullivan is the only of our three kids that cared at all about TV at his age.

Hannah is getting older...

Hannah is getting older and starting to look like a big girl! She is also is getting to be a really good model for when the family photographer gets new equipment! Here she was posing for our new lighting equipment. Hannah continues to be a great big sister and helps out a lot with her brothers. She also intentionally get under Reilly's skin just to mess with him.

A different perspective…

As a mother of 3 young children, I am realizing that the English language has a lot of instances of words that sound the same, but are spelled differently, and have totally different meanings.  I know there’s a technical term for these words, but I forget. 

So, a couple months ago, we were in the car and Reilly spots a red truck.  He emphatically tells me to look at the red truck.  I asked him if he knew what kind of truck it was.  Nope.  I told him it was a tow truck.  Oh, he says as if he knew all about tow trucks.

I asked him if he knew what tow trucks are used for.  Yeah, he says (still struggling with his “Rs”).  “It’s for when ya bwake ya toe, ya put it onna toe twuck.”

Sullivan loves rice cereal... Well at least the parents do.

Sullivan got his first taste of rice cereal last week, and he loved it. Can't you tell? Well, his parents love it, because he has been sleeping better ever since he started eating it!

Sullivan’s 4 month stats

Weight – 14 lbs 8 oz (44%)

Height – 24 3/4” (46%)

Head – 42.4cm (54%)

Scary how close he is to his brother’s stats!  He is 3/4 of an inch longer, his head is .1cm bigger, and he weighs EXACTLY the same at this age. 

Sullivan is a growing, happy, healthy baby boy.  He is a joy to have around.  You almost don’t even know he’s here (except when he’s hungry!).  He smiles at his brother and sister all.day.long!  I can tell he can’t wait to get down in the floor and play with them.  He will be starting rice cereal soon…. as soon as the photographer is ready!

I'm still here...

Yea, Sullivan has not made many appearances on the website lately. He has been laying around on the job, much like his father.

Sullivan’s Baptism

Mommy & Sullivan

Sweet Cousins Cecilia (4) and Hannah (6)

GodShane (Hannah’s Godfather) reading

Aunt Jillian (Hannah’s Godmother)

 

Father Murphy & Deacon Ed married us and baptized all 3 of our children! 

Daddy has this baptism thing down pat!

This picture makes me laugh.  Mommy had taken the pacifier out (for picture purposes).  Sullivan began to scream.  Father Murphy said “Put that thing back in.”  Ha!

Another Catholic!

 

The GodParents!

Sweet Picture of Mommy and Sullivan!

 

Hannah's first day of school...

You can't see it in this picture, but only one Chambers girl has tears in her eyes... Her name ends with "tephanie".