Hi Everyone We are Back! A lot has happened since the end of December so let's get started
January 1, 2009 - Christopher and Daniel
Well we are now 2 years old and can talk and count and spell. We just realized that we have been spelling MeMa (Grandma) and MeMe (Grammy) incorrectly. So from now we are going to spell them Mee-Ma and Mee-Me
Sunday, January 11, 2009 - Luke
Mommy and Daddy took my Bros to the gym and dropped me off at Mee-Ma and Pop-E's house. This was fine with me because I get to play with all the toys and eat snacks and get a lot of "alone" time.
Here I am getting ready for snacks and my reaction when Mee-Ma told me that my 1st birthday was in 4 days.
Thursday, January 11, 2009 - Jake
I guess you all have been following the weather this year, well we have been getting a lot of snow up here in Woburn.
Here I am getting ready to go out and face the harsh element. After a hard day of playing in the snow, there is nothing like, a warm robe, a nice drink and a good book.
Sunday, January 18, 2009 - Christopher
Mommy has gone back to work a couple of days per week and a couple of hours per day. During the week Mee-Me and Pop-Pop help mommy take care of us or watch us when Mommy goes to work. On the weekends Mee-Ma and Pop-E help Daddy when Mommy goes to work.
Here we are at Mee-Ma and Pop-E's in our red outfits- notice the matching shocks - we must be getting ready for Valentine's Day.
We are playing with Mee-Ma's old curlers - she must have gotten new ones for Christmas. Also notice that Mee-Ma still has her Santa(s) out
Saturday, February 7, 2009 - Daniel
Mommy worked again and we are at Mee-Ma's and Pop-E's to have breakfast and watch a Barney tape. Pop-E's TV makes a lot of noise for about 15 minutes after you turn it on and Christopher will not go into the family room until it stops - he keeps saying NO Noise, NO Noise.
Pop-E only has one small rocking chair so we take turns sitting it it. We also sit in a big rocker and an outdoor chair. We hope Pop-E get more small rockers for us - also a better TV would be nice
Pop-E is also trying to get a good picture of us - at least the 3 of us looking in the same direction
Sunday, February 8, 2009 - Christopher and Daniel
Finally, a day we can go out and just run around. We ran, played ball, got some hints from Uncle Scott and did some gardening.
We also went to Mee-Ma's school to see what her class room was like. - Check the hats!
Saturday, February 14, 2009 - Luke
Mee-Ma and Pop-E gave us stuffed animals for Valentine's day and Pop-E tried to get another group picture
Plus we had blueberry donuts from DD's
Sunday, February 21, 2009 - Jake
Mommy and Daddy are trying to get me to eat other and better foods. Notice how I separate the red and blue food. Guess which I won't eat! Wrong! I don't eat either, but I do know my colors
Sunday, February 21, 2009 - Daniel
Mommy and Daddy had a wedding to go to and they were going to stay over for at a hotel. Luke was at Mee-Me and Pop-Pop's and Mee-Ma and Pop-E were watching us at our house
Because it was a raining day all we did was hang out
Sunday, February 28, 2009 - Luke
How does Daddy and I look in our hats - mine is really Pop-E's.
Friday, January 16, 2009 - Luke
Well, I am now 1 year and 1 day and went to the doctor for my 12 month checkup - I weighted in at 21 pounds, 12 ounces and I am 20 1/4 inches tall.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - Daniel
We went for our 2 year checkup today. Christopher weighted in at 24 pound 9 ounces and 32.5 inches tall. I was 28 pounds and 34.5 inches tall
Monday, February 16, 2009 - Jake
I had my 15 month checkup today. I weighted in at 23 pounds, 10 ounces and I was 31 inches tall.
Saturday, March 7, 2009 - Luke
Another great day and we hit the park immediately. In fact this was a park/playground that we had not seem before. Of course we had to try the swings the climb bars, the slide, the dirt and just plan running around
Monday, March 9, 2009 - Daniel
Well folks, it looks like I am the one that is going to take after Daddy. We were in Mee-Me and Pop-Pop's bedroom looking at the new bathing suits that Mee-Me had brought when all of a sudden I got this urge to try to climb up on their big bed. Now you have to understand that they have a bed that is just as high as Mommy and Daddy's - which I can not climb up on. But looking at Mee-Me's I thought that it was just a little bit lower - low enough that I would be able to reach the top with a "super" human effort. Well you know what - I miscalculated and never got to the top before I did a roll off the side onto the floor. You know what - floors are hard even with rugs on them.
Anyway Mommy took me to the hospital and after x-rays, they realized that I had broken my RADIUS - right at the elbow. The doctor said she had not seem that type of break just from falling off a bed - I think that's what they told Daddy after he broke 2 wrists in basketball
Here I am in my soft cast - next week they will put a hard cast on.
Notice Luke in the background, just eating away
Tuesday March 10, 2009 - Daniel
Mee-Ma and Pop-E came over to see my cast and to find out how I was doing. Mommy was working and Daddy took the day off to watch us because he felt bad about my broken RADIUS.
We played in the basement because Daddy was afraid to let me go out and run around.
Daddy even read us books to try and stop me from running around in the basement - no way, I did not break my leg!
Saturday March 14, 2009 - Daniel
We are at Mee-Ma and Pop-E's house, I am still under raps until I get me hard cast on Monday
Here I am in my muscle man T shirt
Sunday, March 15, 2009 - Jake
Mommy and Daddy were at a wedding in Staten Island for the weekend and then were stopping at Mee-Ma and Pop-E's house. If you know my Daddy, his nose is not right - supposedly he did it by diving into a tub from the bathroom sink when he was a little boy. The problem was that there was no water in the tub.
Grammy was taking me for a walk and I was showing her how I could jump and skip. Somewhere between them I did a dive - talk about my Daddy - a sidewalk maybe harder than a tub without water. Do you thing I will now have a bump like Daddy
Monday March 16, 2009 - Christopher
Mommy and Mee-Me are took Daniel to the doctor's to get his hard cast put on. Pop-E was watching me and Pop-Pop was watching Luke. I convinced Pop-E to take me to the park, which is right near Pop-Pop house.
After we were at the park for a while Pop-Pop came over with Luke trailing behind him. We played for a while and them went to see a big truck that was dumping dirt on the baseball field.
We then went back to Pop-Pop's house for a drink and then we all header home to get lunch because Mommy, Mee-Me and Daniel were coming home.
The interesting thing that happened the day before was that Mommy and Daddy ask Daniel what color cast he wanted and he said PINK ( he must have seem Jake's Easter basket) - after we got Daddy off the floor, Daddy tried to convince him that blue or green were nice colors.
When they left for the doctor's this morning he was still saying pink
Any way we think that they did not have PINK - or else Mommy told them to hide the pink color
Daniel cry went they told him that did not have pink, but the Dunkin Donuts that Mommy and Mee-Me brought certainly made him forget colors.
Now that he has the hard case on, we will be back to our running, jumping and other daredevil events.
Saturday, March 20, 2009 - Luke
Back to Mee-Ma and Pop-e's for some breakfast and to check out the new rocking chair Pop-E brought for us. That makes 2 down and 1 to go. I am still learning to put my bottom on the rocker 1st
We are still looking for the new TV!
After a while we head home to watch Barney on out 42" flat screen TV
Thursday, April 16, 2009 - Jake
Do I have a story. Since tax season was over on the 15th, Daddy decided to take Thursday and Friday off - Mommy works on Thursday. Any way when I woke up on Thursday I was not myself and Daddy took my temperature and it was 101. Daddy called the doctor and we were off and running to the office. When we got there, the doctor checked my ears and throat and listen to my chest. The doctor could not find anything wrong so he decided to do a blood test. The results showed that my white blood cell count was 20,000 (normal number is 12,000) which indicates a possibility of an infection. Since the doctor could not find any sign of an infection, they decided to do a chest x-ray to check for pneumonia.
Now for all of you that have had a chest x-ray you know that you have to stand in front of the screen and raise you arms over you head. That is a little difficult for a 17 month old. So what they do is put you in a in a awful chest X-ray contraption - you sit on it and a tube closes around you so your arms are in the air above your head. It is sought of like the Rack in medieval times. Well the x-ray showed nothing. They gave me 2 shot of an antibiotic and told daddy to see how I was on Friday morning. On Friday morning, I still was not felling any better , so back to the doctor's we went. This time they decided to test my urine. Now if I know what they were up to, I would have drink water all night. Well of course you know that no one can wee-wee under pressure and neither can I - so the doctor decided to insert a Catheter to draw some urine. That did not work. So they send me home with a plastic bag tied around my p.......... Any way I am back to my old self and I do not plan on visiting any "witch" doctors for a long time.
You have heard stories from my cousins - Christopher, Daniel and Luke - about their experiences with doctors, but nothing compares to this.
When Daddy called Mee-Ma and Pop-E to tell them what was going on, they both said that a 101 fever for a baby was not "HIGH". The question that I keep thinking about is if Mee-Ma and Pop-E are right about the 101 temperature, maybe we are living in the 60s in Woburn , MA.
Saturday, April 4 - Christopher
Well after our experience with Santa in December, Mommy and Daddy thought they would see how we handled the Easter Bunny
Here we are next in line and have not decided whether to bolt or not. We finally decided to send Luke in 1st and if he was not eaten we would follow caustiously
Sunday, April 5 - Christopher
We went to Unami Park for a "Twins" group Easter egg hunt. Mommy had to work so Daddy, Mee-Ma and Pop-E took us. After we played for a while and ate some DD's and drank apple juice. Then it was time for the egg hunt. Luke was with Pop-E, Daniel was with Daddy and I was with Mee-Ma. The rules of the hunt was that you could only get 15 eggs each. Mee-Ma must be an expert in this game because she told me where the best hunting was and in minutes I had my 15 eggs. Daniel and Daddy did alright with about 10. Luke and Pop-E had a few problem because every time Luke found a egg, he had to open it to see what was inside - slow him down a bit, but he finished with 8.
One little boy only had 1 and Mee-Ma said to me that it would be nice if I gave him 1 or 2 of mine since I had some many. I thought it was a good idea and went over to him and gave him a couple of mine. He was very happy and so was his Mommy.
Mommy final came and we sat around opening the eggs and eating the candy.
Pop-E also tried to get some pictures of the 3 of us. I think we or he is getting better
Saturday, April 10 - Christopher
Well it final happened. Pop-E finally got the 3rd rocking chair for us and a 42" plasma TV for himself
Also notice what happens when I dress my self
Friday, April 17, 2009 - Luke
I had my 15 month checkup. I weighted in at 23 pounds 7 ounces and I am 31 1/2 inches tall.
Sunday, April 11 - Daniel
Busy morning - what with baking cupcakes, egg hunting and dancing the Mexican Hat Dance. Once before I help Mee-Ma make cupcakes (putting the holders in the pan) but this time I was actually telling Daddy and Christopher how to make them - of course Mee-Ma was feeding me ideas
Hopefully Daddy learned, so we can make them at home and surprise Mommy when she comes home from work.
Christopher, Daniel and Luke dancing.
Jake taking a bath
Christopher and Daniel's 1st dance lesson
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April 29, 2009 - Jake
Well you thought I had it rough a couple of weeks ago. Well this weekend I was sitting with Grampy and he was rubbing my head and felt something. Guess what it was! - a famous Woburn “TICK”
Another trip to the doctor’s with the tick in hand. After a blood test and examination of the tick it was decided that it was not a deer tick - probably because I have not had any close encounters with any deer recently.
June 9 2009 - Christopher
Pop-E was watching us today. When he got here he told us that he did not want any POOs until Mommy came home. Sometime later Daniel came into the room and said "Pop-E, POO". Pop-E asked him if it was big or little one and he said BIG. With the help of his 2 assistants (Luke and I) Pop-E changed his Grandson Poo for the 1st time
Pop-E said that he guessed his "streak" has been broken - now we will have a Poo every time he watches us. We are certainly going to try to make him "happy"!
We then decided to go for a stroller ride and it took Pop-E a 1/2 hour to get our shoes on because Daniel wanted shoes that did not fit him. Finally got one on and then could not find the other. Then we had to have a parade and some music before we finally got out and into the strollers.
June 11, 2009 - Daniel
My turn with Pop-E. I do not think Christopher and Luke are taking it well when it's my turn. They would not even say hello to Pop-E this morning.
We went to
The Westfield train station
Took an elevator ride - I liked it
Went to Mee-Ma classroom
Went to the pet store
And finally to Wendy's - gave McD's a break
And I had a "NO POO" day with Pop-E.
June 4, 2009 - Christopher
Well may turn with Pop-E again and here is what we did.
Went to the Westfield train station
Took a elevator. I was a little leary of being in a moving box
Went to the Pet Store and saw cats, ferrites, fish, rats, mice, hamster, Guinea pigs and a dog getting his hail cut
Went to McD's where it took me a hour to eat (double order of chicken nuggets and fries) because I was watching all the customer and workers. In fact I though one of the workers was a man because she had a baseball cap on.
July 5, 2009 - Luke
I do not know whether you are aware but the Bros and I have a "Rock" collection. We started it in Daddy's cooler but he finally needed it for beer and so Mommy brought us a plastic bucket.
We scourer the garden looking for rocks and then toss them in the bucket to get them clean. Well on this particle day I notice a strange looking rock and after some investigate I determined it was "Dino Poo". Real old stuff and the old guy was probably constipated
July 2, 2009 - Daniel
Would you believe it - Mee-Ma and Pop-E still have the stroller that Daddy use to ride in. Here I am in it and also a picture of Daddy.
May 5, 2009 - Jake
Here we are at Aunt Whit and Uncle Chris's house having a "JAM SESSION". Nobody knew that Daddy could sing or play a musical instrument - well he can't.
Here I am in my Baby Gap outfit with Mommy and Daddy. Check the hat - Mommy must have missed it
May 10, 2009 - Luke
Here are my BROs practicing for the Big Race at La Mars - you know the 24 hour race that Paul Newman use to race in.
Also a picture of us with the the main 3 women in our lives. And me demonstrating how to eat a cupcake
May 14, 2009 - Christopher
In order to help Mee-Me out while Mommy goes to work on Thursday, Pop-E is going to take one of us out each Thursday for about 3 hours. This will give Mee-Me some relief and give us some "alone" time.
Of course, since I am the oldest (and named after Pop-E), I got to go 1st.
We went to St Helen's to see the trucks. A big cement truck came over to where we were standing and everything was OK until it started to mix the cement. - I started to cry and my feet could not move fast enough to cover the 5 feet to where Pop-E was standing. - once the truck stop mixing, I settle down and looked at the other trucks, backhoes and dozers.
We then went to Tanaques park ( to see the ducks - they were not there) and Pop-E showed him how to drop rocks through the bridge grating to make splashes in the water.
I finally decided to play on the slides but Pop-E told me the slide was to wet. I looked at him, and Pop-E said "go for it". By the time I got to the bottom of the slide it was dry but I was soaking wet. I also told Pop-E that I did a "poo" on the way down. We walk back to the car - had to stop to throw more rocks off the bridge and then headed to Pop-E's house.
When we got to the house, Pop-E took my pants off and put them in the drier. He got all the equipment for a diaper change and I said no poo and I was right.
Pop-E asked what I wanted for lunch and I said pancakes. Pop-E said how about chicken and fries at McDonald's and I said yes. Once my pants were dried, I decided that I did not want to put them back on. Every time Pop-E said "let's put your pants on", I yelled NO and Pop-E yelled YES and he smiled. So I had mac & cheese, turkey, peaches and cheese crackers and watched a little Barney and played with the cars.
Finally Pop-E said it was time to go home and he put my pants on - I then said chicken and fries and Pop-E said next time. So I settled for cheese crackers in a cup
Pop-E has a problem zippering his jacket and he said that he always has a problem with zippers - after he got the jacked zippered, I said "YEAH" Pop-E and clapped.
Well Pop-E survived me. Will it be as easy next Thursday with Daniel and then Luke - Good Question!.
You probably realized there are no pictures for this event. That is because Pop-E took them on his cell phone and is still trying to download them to the computer.
May 11, 2009 - Christopher
Pop-E still trying to get the "Perfect" picture. Daniel also had his "ears" lowered.
May 16, 2009 - Christopher
Today is Mee-Ma’s 64th birthday.
We headed over for breakfast and when we got their I sang happy birthday to Mee-Ma
After breakfast watch a new Barney video Pop-E got for us. Mee-Ma had left with Mrs N to go on a house tour.
After a while daddy took us home for our naps. When we woke up Daniel, 1st and them me we saw Pop-E standing there. Because Mommy and Daddy went to a party in Pennsylvania. Since Luke’s door was still closed we thought he was still sleeping
Mee-Ma come over and the 4 of us decided to go to 5:30 mass. We were good in church because Mee-Ma said that if we were good we could have ice cream as a special treat and they have music and singing which we love. We gave the peace sign to some senior citizens and they were impress with how good we were.
We then want back to Mee-Ma’s for dinner – we had turkey, cinnamon bread with cream cheese, apple sauce and cheese cracker and chocolate milk. Then the special treat – ICE CREAM SANDWICHS. Mee-Ma's favorite.
Finally we went home to wait from mommy and daddy to come home. When mommy and daddy came home – we did not know it but they put Luke in his crib right away and then came in to say hello to us.
Finally we went to bed and Christopher and I said it was amazing that Luke sleep all day. Were we surprised when Luke told us the next morning that he was at the party in Pennsylvania.
May 21, 2009 - Daniel
My turn with Pop-E. He has decided to do the same thing each week with me and Luke that he did with Christopher. However, today he had his camera and got a picture of me with a steam roller and derrick.
Here I am with a rock getting ready to toss it over the bridge because with will not fit through the grate
I was also smarter than Christopher because I did not go on the wet slide and thus got to McDonalds for lunch.
May 28, 2009 - Luke
My turn with Pop-E. Of course we had to see the trucks, steam roller, backhoes, and bulldozers. We then went to Mee-Ma's school to see the baby chicks that were just born.
And of course the final stop was McD, or as Daniel calls it OLD McD.
May 30, 2009 - Jake
Heading back to New Jersey to see the relatives. It's been hot and humid in Woburn and I am expecting the same in Westfield/Fanwood.
We went to the park. Notice that Christopher and Daniel are being pushed on the swings while Luke and I are just sitting there.
Took a dip to cool off. and had the standard family picture taken.
May 31, 2009 - Jake
Here I am sitting in our car eating an apple - well maybe not eating - maybe holding it and getting ready to leave.
Christopher, Daniel and Luke told me on Saturday about Pop-E trying to always get the "Perfect" picture of the 3 of them. They told me to be prepare for the picture of the 4 of us. Since it did not happen on Saturday and we were ready to leave I figured I lucked out.
Guess who showed up. Right! Aunt Becky, Uncle Brian and the 3 cousins. And guess what Pop-E had in his hand - That's right his camera
Well here are the results. Also notice I am actually taking a bite of food. After the picture we headed home and after a while I noticed that Daddy still had Pop-E GPS - good thing they remember me!
June 7 2009 - Luke
Here we are taking care of the Bird bath at Mee-Ma and Pop-E's house.
Who is that behind the "FOSTER GRANT" sun glasses?
The BROs tried to make a break for "freedom" but Daddy tracked them down
June 13, 2009 - Daniel
Mommy and Daddy took us to Sesame Place in Pennsylvania today. Luke stayed with Mee-Me and PopPop because looking after 2 in a crowded park is hard enough for Mommy and Daddy - but 3 would have been impossible
Anyway we went and songs on the way, went on water slides, took dips in the pool and had our pictures taken with ???.
When it was time to leave Christopher fell asleep before Daddy turned the car on and I was asleep before he put the car in drive''
June 18 2009 - Luke
My turn with Pop-E. Since I was raining so hard, all we did was go to Mee-Ma and Pop-E's house to play games and eat.
June 27, 2009 - Luke
Here we are just hanging out with Daddy
July 4, 2009 - Daniel
Pop-E still trying for the "Perfect" picture.
July 16, 2009 - Christopher
Pop-E took me to the Post Office to mail cards I made for Daniel, Luke, Jake and myself. He let me put stamps on them and put them in the mail slot in the post office.
Then it was off to McD to meet Mee-Ma
July 9 2009 - Luke
Well after Pop-E took me to the see the trains and take an elevator ride, we went to the park where I got all wet. So back to see what clothes Mee-Ma had for me to wear. Notice the Astros sheet. - you know whose shirt it is - it is Daddy's cabbage patch doll's shirt. - Do you remember the size of those cabbage patch dolls
Maybe my 18th month numbers had something to do with it - 25.3 lbs and
32.25 inches
Also check out the fit of the Knicks hat - looks like my head needs to get bigger.
July 11, 2009 - Luke
Pop-E finally got us a pool for those hot summer days. The only problem is that it only fits one.
He is still trying to get that picture
July 17, 2009 - Jake
Sharing a brew (tea) with my gal - Megan
You think I got this belly from eating apples and ice cream. All these pictures with me with food is for "show". In fact I eat nothing (just like Daddy when he was my age) but I drink a lot of milk
Got a new sandbox. Here I am eating lunch (HA) with my cousin Trey. Do you notice anything missing from the sandbox - yep Mommy and Daddy forgot to buy sand
July 20, 2009 - Daniel
Mommy was going to the shore with Luke to a cousin's get together and Christopher and I were going to Turtle Back Zoo .The best thing we saw was the fountain of coins. Here we are counting just like Uncle Greg taught us.
August 2, 2009 - Daniel
Do you remember how long it took Pop-E to get a New TV well he finally got a bigger pool. All Daddy kept saying was "Don't Throw Water On Each Other" - what are pools, water and cups for?
August 8, 2009 - Christopher
Pop-E tries again
August 20, 2009 - Daniel
On the way over to pick me up, Pop-E passed the Westfield HS and saw that a Helicopter had landed. After he got me we went back to the field and they were letting kids climb into the helicopter - Certainly beats sitting at a trains station.
August 20, 2009 - Jake
Well the big weekend has finally arrived. Mee-Ma and Pop-E are on their way up to WOBURN. Mommy and Daddy and all my Worburn relatives are going to a wedding on Saturday and they are going to watch me. I was with Aunt Whit, Daddy was at work and Mommy was in Baltimore when they pulled into our drive way.
They called Daddy, who was on his way home, he stopped and let them in and then came and got me. When I came into the house I recognized them since Mommy and Daddy have been showing me their pictures so they did not scare me.
Mommy was not due home until Friday afternoon so we just hung out and had pizza for dinner (any way they did - as usually I did not eat anything)
August 21, 2009 - Jake
Friday morning came early and I went in to wake Mee-Ma and Pop-E up. Daddy decided to take take the day off so after a quick breakfast we were on our way to the Mall (no not to shop) but to let me play in a play area at the mall because it was to hot to play outside.
When we got to the mall I realized that they had just opend a new Dinsey Store and of cause I had to go see my friend "MICKEY". Mee-Ma and Pop-E brought me a Mickey Car
After a while we started home because Mommy was going to get home about 3pm after a flight from Baltimore and Daddy's friend Ryu was coming over to visit.
At about 1pm Mommy called to say the flight was delayed because of bad weather.
So I decided to go for a dip and play in my sand box (let me tell you, a wet bathing suit and sand do not mix well). I then did some stretching exerises.
Mommy called numerous time to say things were still delayed and she finally arrived home about 1:30am
August 22, 2009 - Jake
After some breakfast we went to the Children's Museum in Boston.
I played with Bubble Machines and saw a small bull dozer - but I did not want to go on it . I cried when Pop-E took me up on a high tower
