Remembering Grandma

Today, my Grandma would of turned 88! Wow......so hard to believe. There isn't a day that doesn't go by that she is not thought of. I miss her very much. I do know though that she is smiling down from heaven on us all and helping us through our journeys. So I'll take her hands resting on my shoulders and cherish my memories!

Conversations with Dylan

For those of you who have more than 1 child or if you have other siblings - you know what I mean by the "middle child". I was one. I have an older sister and a younger brother. I don't think I ever really felt like the "middle" child much. Although, my sister used to tell me I was adopted. However, there is a good age gap between me and my siblings. With my kids though, having 2 at once.....one is still older. Even if it's by a minute. So Dylan is technically my middle child.

When he was born I was very worried how I would be able to tend to him when I had so much to do with Cody. Dylan was pushed off a lot onto other family to feed him and I really do feel like I missed out on some bonding moments. Then when Tyler came along and started to get sick and require a couple surgeries for tubes/tonsils/adenoids.....Dylan was again "left out" from what he was beginning to think as one-on-one time. Even though when Cody or Tyler went to a doctor it wasn't really "fun".

So, Dylan has just recently (probably the past 6 months or so) has taken a liking to such TV shows as the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Military Channel, Infomercials, etc....anything dealing with "real life". Kind of cracks me up because he sits so still and just watches - really soaking it all in. Cause then they come back in conversations.

These are some I remember:

1. There was a commercial for some type of electronic eye lash curler. The object was supposed to put on mascara without clumping. One night, he tells me I should order it and my mascara won't clump. I thought he was crazy....till the next morning when I was putting mine on and darn it - the kid was right - it was clumping. It took a then 4 year old to tell me that.

2. Oh and his Dad is getting the Billy Mayes hamburger patty press. Dylan just thinks his Dad would "love it" and "has to have it". (we haven't ordered it yet)

3. Last night, I was sitting in the chair and after he got over his fit (he was mad cause I made him watch Idol), he came in and sat with me. I asked him if he still loved me and he said "mom, I'll always love you"!

4. He told me that I should be "thankful for not watching TV with him the other night". When I asked why, he told me it was because it was about machine guns (must of been military channel) and I would of been "scared". I am thinking bored would of been more like it.

5. This morning driving to school as the sun was beating on my windshield and I was realizing I need to run the wipers, he pipes up from the back seat and tells me that I should get new wipers for the van. He said he saw some on TV and they wouldn't scratch my windshield, would melt the snow away.....guess I need to find these.

6. When my brother was hear the other day - Dylan really wanted to hold baby Jack. So he did - but then quickly reminded everyone that he couldn't do it for long as he was "Santa and Santa was a busy man and needed to get back to work".

So these are just some of our conversations he tells me. He is usually very matter of factly about it all. He's becoming controlling over the remote and giving his Dad a run for his money. I love our little conversations and can't wait for the next one!

A few things

Nothing major to report. It's been sort of quite in the Luckey household. Yesterday I got to see my brother, Kristie and Jack for a little bit. They had come to NY due to a death in Kristie's family and stop by Bingo on their way home. That was nice. I was so glad to see Jack as we haven't seen him since Xmas. We however, will see him / them even more as we head to their house next weekend. Yeah! He's getting so big and really does remind me of Kevin as a baby. Dylan took right to him and held him but apparently it wasn't for to long as Dylan is "Santa Claus" and he had to get back to work cause Santa is busy! Ah...the imaginations of little kids! I love them! The boys have another birthday party this weekend. This will make the 4th weekend in a row of parties. We would have 5 but we will be out of town next weekend.

The boys have a winter break starting the 16th - and that week is going to be busy. Connor will have surgery on the 16th. I hate the thought of it. So we will get Karly for the night. He's not expected to stay over so that is good. Did I say I hate the thought of it - wish I was going to be their at the hospital. Then also on the 16th, Cody and Dylan have their 5 year check up. Last appointment got canceled due to snow. They will have shots to get them ready for school next year. Thankfully Brett will be able to go and I won't have to worry about making one go first while the other one watches and then try and convince the second one to get shots too! Then a few days later - they all are going to the dentist for a cleaning. Again, should be interesting. Tyler has never gone, well I take that back - he's gone once and we got nothing done as he would not cooperate. So we are going to see if maybe he will do it if his brothers do it. Time will tell.

For now, we are in the deep freeze - or atleast it seems that way. It's been so cold outside. I am officially ready for Spring. But according to the Groundhog we will have 6 more weeks of winter! Wonder if he's right?

Happy Super Bowl Sunday!

In the land of football world - today was a big day. It wasn't a HUGE day in our house as we are Bills fans..........but you have to watch the big game. Neither Brett nor I really cared who won but we were rooting for our numbers to be at the end of each quarter so we could win the office pools. That didn't happen either. But we went to a co-workers of mine house for a party and had a great time. Great food, good company, the boys were behaved....good time had by all!

The Steelers won.....we know several people that were very happy with that. So I'm happy for them! These however are my favorite football boys!

Some things.....

Never cease to amaze me. I had a really crappy day at work. I was out yesterday due to the snow and the fact that I had no sitter for the boys. I only got one call at home so that wasn't horrible. Today it seemed like the whole office fell apart. It's never fun when you walk in, go to your desk, find a note turned upside down on your chair and you read it and what you really want to do it walk back out the door. Instead I marched in my managers office and asked him WTF? Not those exact words but man I was ticked. It seems, somebody decided to leave me a note because they thought a travel policy wasn't followed. When in fact, I had nothing to do with it. And the darn person never even apologized for writing what they did. So that just spiraled my morning/day all in the wrong direction. All I heard today on different levels was how we need to watch money/save money/spend less/ the bad economy/etc..... While I agree I am sick of hearing it! It's funny though because the same person that couldn't say she was "sorry".....needed my help later and you would of thought she was my best friend! Whatever!

My 3 little boys seem to be coming down with some type of cold/cough. All our coughing up a storm and I really hope to just keep them healthy. The boys have a birthday party to go to this weekend and with Sunday being the super bowl we are going to a co-workers house for a party. Looking forward to that.

My brother called this morning with some bad news. Kristie grandfather passed away. Totally un-expected, a very unfortunate heart attack. I feel so bad for her and really hope she knows that we are all wrapping our arms around her during this time. I hope Jack can bring some peace to them all this weekend while they are going through a tough time. Please say a prayer for her and her family.

Tomorrow I get to go on a date - on a date with my husband. We are going to use an xmas gift and go out to dinner. I am really looking forward to it.

Birthday Party

Singing Happy Birthday to Cody!

Singing Happy Birthday to Dylan! Waiting in line for the bounce house. Dylan's SpongeBob Cake! Cody's Pokemon Cake! All the kids sitting to watch the movie! Group Shot! We ended up with 18! The birthday boys with SpongeBob! We had an absolute fantastic party. It was great to see so many of the boys school friends come out to celebrate their day with them. We ended up with 18 kids and they keep me on my toes. We had a small bounce house so that was tough. Had to limit it to 4 kids at a time. Kids HATE to wait in line. But they did do pretty good waiting. It was nice too as we could put it up and take it down as we wanted to. We watched 2 episodes of spongebob and I was shocked as all the kids sat down and actually watched the movie. It was funny too as one person laughed - they all laughed. It was very cute to watch actually. Then I got away with embarrising the boys. I showed the video of them (that I posted earlier) and they all laughed to at certain spots. The moms mostly cried. We sang happy birthday to Dylan first and then to Cody. We had yummy food. The kids lost interest really quick while the boys were opening presents. It just isn't much fun when they aren't the ones getting the presents. The boys had a great 5th birthday for sure!

Family Birthday Night

Tonight we celebrated with just the family. The boys had a great evening. They got lots of great gifts and seemed so very excited over everything. I actually think they were more excited over Birthday stuff than Xmas. Dylan cracked me up because everything he got was something he has "always wanted". To funny! Tyler gave them each a gift this year and the boys were so excited to get it and Tyler was so excited to "give" it. Then they both hugged him and that was adorable. Tyler had a little hard time understanding why he didn't get a present. But he did! :)

Here are a couple of my favorite pictures!

Singing "Happy Birthday"Eating their cupcakes and ice cream!My jammie boys! Everybody is holding a "new" toy!
Cody got a Bakugan Tiger. He was so excited.
Dylan on his new skateboard. Tanya thought she should help me reach my insurance deductible! :) Summer should be lots of fun.