The Woodruff 4

Happy Birthday to.....

2011-11-06T09:23:00.015-05:00

Collin Clinton Woodruff!!!! Born on November 9th, 2004 @ 5:53am. weighing 7lbs 8oz and 20.5 inches long!!!!! Collin is turning 7 years old, and is a first grader at the Hubbardston Center School! He weighs 48lbs and is 47 inches tall (or 3feet 9 inches)! He enjoys playing soccer, and video games and having playdates with his two best buddies Wyatt and James! and to Shane Thomas Woodruff!!! Born November 7th, 2009 @ 11:23 pm. Weighing 8lbs 3oz and 20.5 inches long!at the age of 2, Shane the baby of our family isn't such a baby any more. He is the first to say "I'm not a baby". Shane weighs in at 28lbs and is 33 inches tall. Shane is a ball of energy and always on the go and getting into trouble. Basically if he's not suppose to do it or touch it, he's gonna try to anyway and look cute doing it! He's become a little chatter box, and likes to sing songs. Especially the one about the monkey's in the tree! Shane's favorite toys are the imaginext ones that go to the batcave, and anything that has wheels!!! He loves fire trucks and police cars the most! Anyway, now that you are caught up on the boys....

Since their birthdays are so close together Mommy does a party for them together. So this sunday we had a small family party at our house. Here are some pics from the day!!!!

Mommy made Shane a Barn Yard cake. You might not be able to read the writting, but it says "Oink, Moo, Shane is 2!!!!"
Since Collin LOVES video games, and especially Mario, Mommy made him are REALLY cool Mario cake!
here he is sitting with it!Shane LOVED getting sung too!!! He was so excited! he tried hard to blow out the candles! Even though he won't admit it, Collin enjoyed being sung to as well!!!! Cheese!!!!Next was present time!!!! Here is Shane holding up his Hat set! Collin opening up some Beyblades! This was from us, so I (and Aiden) wanted to help Shane out! Shane said "Ooooh, Cool Cars". We got him cars 2 movie!So After the boys party, something else exciting happend...do you all remember me telling you about that freak snow storm we had last week..WELL, that snow storm ruin Halloween for us. Or so we thought. It actually just pushed it back. Mommy said that is called Postponed. Either way, what it meant was we got to go trick or treating after the boys party. SO, we all got in our costumes and headed out the door. But not before Mom snapped some pics. Here we all are!Mommy said we are like the messed up "A-team" I don't know what that means, but I think it has something to do with Aiden and I being super heros!!!!Shane got called MANY things through the night, Robin hood, an elf, Peter Pan..but as anyone can see...he was LINK from Zelda! I decided to stray away from my usual princess costumes and go for the VERY cool "WONDER WOMAN" I mean, check out the boots I got to wear. How cool!Aiden chose to be super man. He was a little frustrated he had to wear so much clothes under his costume, but Mommy said if you don't you'll be ice man instead.Collin was a very cool Vampire!!! You can't tell from this pic but he had the crazy teeth and all! at first Shane wasn't sure what to do. We had been practicing with him all week to say trick or treat, but he didn't really know what we meant till we were actually doing it. With in a few houses he got that he said "Trick or treat" and would get candy, and move on to the next house. At first he wanted to stay at each house and visit, but once he got that the more we moved the more candy he got he was ALL about it!After we were done trick or treating Mommy got us in our jammies and said we could stay up late. I heard her and Daddy saying something about keeping us up so we didn't get up to early because of the time change..but some of us were more tired than others...Aiden fell asleep with in minuets of sitting with daddy!

Well, that's it from us for this time. Once again a big HUGE happy birthday to My Biggest brother Collin and my littlest brother Shane. We all love you so much!

Apples and snow

2011-10-31T16:40:00.024-04:00

Hi everyone...Wow I can't believe how long it has been since Mommy let me get on here. In her defense our internet was acting out and we couldn't get the pics to upload..Anway here is what we have been up to the last few weeks. So 3 weeks ago Mommy and Daddy took us apple picking at the Red Apple Barn in Philipston MA. We had SOOO much fun. Here we are taking a Hayride.

4 little monkey's swinging from a tree....

Think we picked enough?

Just think of all the pies, apple pancakes, and Apple Crisps we can make!!!!

Mommy said she LOVEs this picture of us! Just hang'n out in the tree

Want to talk about a difference 3 weeks can make, Notice in the PREVIOUS pictures how we are in shortsleeves it was warm and gorgeous WELL Saturday (Oct 29th) the weather man said we had snow coming. Now we all (at least those of us that live in MA) know it can happen usually it's just a dusting in october and melts the next day..Well it started snowing around 1:30 on saturday and went ALL NIGHT till about 9am the next morning

Here is what we woke up to on Sunday morning!!!!! Notice how tall the snow pile is. Shane is standing RIGHT next to it!!!!

Collin RAN..... Then did a Belly flop into the snow!!!

Here is Shane's impression of Santa! Guess he was with mother nature and confussed what Holiday it was...

While the Boys played I was hard at work helping Mommy and Daddy clear the cars!

Since there was SOO much snow we decided to make a snow man! Mommy made the Base, and Collin Made the middle!

I Rolled out the Head

Aiden gave the snowman his arms!!!!

the finnished product!

Here I am with our snowman!!! It was so big it was even taller than Mommy!

Shane saw Mommy making a snow Angel so he thought he would give it a try too!!!!

After we got out of our wet snow gear Mommy put on nightmare before Christmas for us and we all snuggled and watched the movie and drank some warm cocoa!!!!!!! Yummy!!! Aiden was SOOO excited about it!

Don't mind my wild woman hair..remember I had JUST come in from playing in the snow.....

How cute is Shane's Shirt? Auntie Jocelyn and Uncle Rick gave it to him for his Birthday!!!! (No you didn't miss his birthday, they just gave it to him early since they have plans already on his Bday)

Collin was to enthralled with the movie to look up and smile... So that's all from the Woodruff house! Hopfully our internet will continue to coperate so we can keep up with our blog better!!!!

A VERY long over due update!!!!!!

2011-06-22T09:56:00.010-04:00

WOW!! It's been so long since we have updated our blog, and there is a VERY good reason for it. You know that cord that goes from Mommy's camera to the computer? I think Mommy called it a transfer cord. Well Aiden decided it was too long a few months back and well let's just say he shortened it for her. YUP cut it right in half. Boy Mommy was not happy. Anyway this mishap has caused all of the pics Mommy has taken to be STUCK in the camera. She just got a new cord and we are ready to roll.....So what have we been up to you may ask well let's go back to April where we left off. We had an AWESOME Easter and would you know the Easter bunny came to us. Here is what we looked like All dressed for Easter! May brought some new changes to our house too. Like Shane is now in a toddler bed!!! He had learned how to climb out of his crib so even though Mommy didn't WANT to she felt that she needed to convert Shane's crib so he couldn't get hurt..So at 18 months old Shane got a "big boy bed"And Kylie lost her FIRST TOOTH!!! it was very exciting for her. She would like me to share with you that the toothfairy brought her TEN whole dollars. Mommy thinks the tooth fairy must have forgotten to go to the bank and break down some bills. I think she must have gotten that much because Kylie is a VERY good tooth brusher.... That brings us to June, and really other than me finnishing up my first year of school (Which I will tell you about in a few days) Only 1 big thing happend here.....Aiden got a hair cut. Now he's had little trims here and there but NEVER a real bigboy hair cut.
Here he is just before Daddy starts.....And HERE is the finnished product. Doesn't he look SO grown up!

Well that's really all the MAJOR things. I'll be back in a few days to tell you all about how school ended for me, but for now here are our MOST RECENT pics!

Here's me, Collin. 6 years 7months old, after some water play at Papa's!Kylie 5 years 5 months playing on some swings!Aiden 3 years 5 months old with a icecream face
Shane 19 months old enjoying a nice ice cream cone~

Tonsils, Princess's and Potties!

2011-04-20T15:33:00.013-04:00

I know that the things in the title don't appear to go together, but in the Woodruff house they do. Well kind of. Let me explain how...You know how when you hear that someone is getting their tonsils out you hear people say "just think of all the icecream you can eat". Well we learned that while it may be true that you are ALLOWED to eat all the icecream you want, the truth is you just CAN'T cause you feel so miserable. At least that is how it happend for Collin. Let me back track for a second. So incase you don't know it's been a long winter for Collin. He had a few cases of strep in dec and Jan, but on March 1st Mommy took Collin to see our Dr cause he yet again had a sore throat. Like Mommy thought he had strep so 10 days of medicine was the deal. Only 10 days later he was still sick and not eating. Mommy took him back and they tried another 10 days of meds...well sure enough it didn't work and Collin ended up right back at the Dr's only this time the Dr said he needed to seen an ENT and our Dr called up his friend DR KIM and asked that Collin be seen right away. So Mommy took him a few hours later. Well next thing we know Mommy and Collin come home and are saying that Collin will need his tonsils out, and they are doing the operation in 2 weeks. From what Mommy said Dr Kim wanted to do it the NEXT DAY cause he was so bad, but they didn't have an opening. SO on April 5th after a month and 4days of having strep Collin had his tonsils out. He was so sick and in so much pain that ALL he could eat or drink was water, and Mommy tried EVERYTHING!!! Ice cream, Sherbert, Shorbet, pops, yogurt, pudding. You name it she tried it....nothing helped except for all the GET WELL cards he got....just look at them all. They definatly made Collin smile! It took 10 days before Collin could eat anything, and as of today he's finally eating. Although mommy said he is down to 38lbs (usually 53)

the saturday following Collin's surgery Kylie and I were playing on the deck when all of a sudden Mommy called us in. Daddy washed my face and changed my clothes and Mommy brought Kylie up stairs. She came back down in her Princess Belle dress and Mommy said "would you two like to go see a Disney on ice show?" Kylie was so excited she started jumping up and down and I thought sure. sounds good too me. We got there, got our tickets and walked around. Kylie was SOO excited to see Cinderella

and all of the princess dresses.While we were there Mommy got me a COOL King Triton swordand Kylie a twillie tinker bell thing.Finally it was time for the show to start
and I was LOVING it!!!!!

It was so much fun and a nice way to spend time just mommy Kylie and me!

And Finally and probablly the most exciting thing to happen here in the Woodruff house for a long time is...I can FINALLY use the Potty! That's right folks you heard it hear first on the Woodruff 4 blog! I am Potty trained. Actually I have been using the potty for a few weeks now, but I've been known to go and then give up a day or so later. But I finally decided that it was time to use the potty for good, and you know what I got now that I don't wear diapers...... A NEW BIKE!!!!!!

How cool is that? I guess Daddy decided that since I was saving him all this money in diapers he'd buy me a bike! If I knew I'd get a bike out of the deal I would have used the potty a lot sooner...well MAYBE! LOL! Well that is all the news from the Woodruff's.

Going to the Chapel.....

2011-04-04T13:00:00.017-04:00

cause Auntie Beth got MARRIED!!!! For those of you that might not know, my Auntie Beth and Uncle Matt got married and I got to be the flower girl. Collin, Mommy and Daddy where in the wedding too. Collin was the RingBearer, Daddy was the Best Man and Mommy was a bride's maid. Let me tell you, if you've never been in a wedding there are a LOT of things to do. One of which is getting your hair done!!! Mommy said my hair had to look extra pretty so we went to the salon and got it done!

Once Mommy and I had our hair done we headed over to Harrington Farms with Daddy and Collin!! Us girls got our VERY own room to get ready in...here I am checking myself out to make sure I look PERFECT!

Auntie Beth's Mommy Momma Wright looked so pretty!

Mommy even got her to show off her shoulders..whooo-hoo!!!!! Auntie Beth anxiously waited till it was just about time to get dressed...aside from me she was the one that had to look the most perfect! Not that it hard for her. She is beautiful just how she is!

Here's Mommy and I all ready to go!

Auntie Jocelyn looked amazing...she's so pretty! She was the other bride's maide

Auntie Beth's sister Jen was the Maide of Honor. Look how pretty she looked!

Finally it was time to get Auntie Beth ready. Jen and Auntie Jo helped get her in her dress

She's soooo excited! Here is the Father of the Bride getting his flower pinned on by our head waitress Sara!

Finally it was time to start!! Here is the Violinest!

and the beautiful fireplace where the ceramony took place.

Here COMES THE GROOM!!!! Look how handsome Uncle Matt looks!

The Mother of the Bride is simply glowing!

Fist up Auntie Jocelyn!

Next was mommy

Then the Ring Bearer's Collin and Jake who is Auntie Beth's nephew. how cute are they!

Finally it was MY TURN..the big moment I have been practicing! I worked so hard to make sure each flower petal was perfectly spaced! and remembered to look ahead and smile!

Then came Auntie Beth and her Daddy! She looked like an angel coming down the aisle!

Her smile was so big as she saw Uncle Matt!

Now it was time to start!

Finally the new MR. and MRS. MCNALLY!!!!!!!!!

after we walked back down the aisle we noticed the beautiful sunset...

Daddy and I posed for a quick picture,

and then all 4 of us! I think we look good, what do you think?

Now the real fun began!! The wedding party was announced! Mr. and Mrs. Wright!

Then Auntie Jocelyn and Dave (auntie beth's brother in law)

Mommy and Uncle Rick!

Then Daddy and Jen!

and Finally The BRIDE AND GROOM!!!!

They had their first dance, which was so much fun!!! It was a dance off....

and Auntie Beth WON!

Here is Auntie Beth and her sister enjoying a moment!

and the Whole Kostecki family!

Look how nice uncle Rick and Auntie Jocelyn look

This is what the celing looked like

Collin and I posed together for a picture

The Daddy daughter dance was so sweet.

and I danced with Uncle Rick, whom i LOVE

We even got Collin to dance with me!

Here's my daddy daughter dance Did you know at weddings if you clink your spoon on your glass the bride and groom kiss???? They do, and this is proof. Mommy really likes this picture!

Here is what Mommy's flowers looked like

Next was time for CAKE!!!!!

and then DANCING!!!!

Collin and Jake were break dancing!

What happend next in the night I don't really know cause Nana and Papa took me home, but here are more pics .....

Mommy said something about a garder, I don't know what it is but it was on Auntie's leg

Here they are 6 amazing friends

celebrating with a big jump!!!!

The wedding was so much fun, and we are so happy for Uncle Matt and Auntie Beth. We love you both so much...

Happy Birthday to......

2011-01-27T13:16:00.011-05:00

ME, and Aiden too!

This past weekend was Aiden and I's Birthday party. Actually, Saturday was my really real Birthday. I turned 5! How cool is that? Aiden's real Birthday wasn't until wed (the 26th) and he is now 3! So mommy invited our cousins and our friends over for some cake and icecream . Here are our friends Riley and Spencer waiting for us to start the party!

Finally time to sing Happy Birthday, I thought since Aiden is littler I would let him go first!

His Cake was a FIRETRUCK!!!! Mommy did a good job on it, it looked SO COOL!

YEAH!!! Aiden blew out his Candles!!!!!!

Shane waited patiently as Mommy got MY cake ready,

so did everyone else, although Memere "might" have encourgaged us to all bump our fists on the table and says "WE WANT CAKE"

Finally! It was time to sing Happy Birthday to me!

After everyone sang to me I blew out my candles, After all I AM 5 and blowing out candles is EASY for me!

I was so excited about how Pretty my cake looked!

I mean who wouldn't want a Barbie princess cake?!?!

Then it was time to eat cake. My cake was STRAWBERRY, and Aiden's was RedVelvet!

Shane wasted no time and dug right in!

Looks like Memere, Spencer and Aiden enjoyed THEIR pieces!

So did Riley and I!
Skyler, Kaydence and Collin dug right in to theirs!

Next it was time for PRESENTS!!!!! Ohhh, Littlest Pet Shops from Nana and Papa!

Aiden was up next! A FIRE TRUCK from Uncle Rick and Auntie Jocelyn!

Hmmm, this one is from Memere. I wonder what it is!

A Jewlery Box!!! So pretty!

Here is Aiden's present from Grandpa,

it was a really cute outfit that Nanny had picked up for him before she went to heaven!

My turn again! This time it was from the Baker family. Lots of fun stuff, but best of all a book with a beautiful ballet slipper necklace!

Aiden got the COOLEST Toy Story toys from Nana and Papa

and Puzzles and other fun things from the Bakers!

It was such a fun party!!!! After everyone went home Mommy made a yummy Burrito dinner then they gave us our presents from them. I got a movie. The Princess Frog and Aiden got the Joker house!!!! As you can see ALL the boys thought it was neat!

Here I am playing with my walking Fur Real Kitty that Nana and Papa gave me. It was so neat!!!

Our Party was so fun, I think I'm really gonna like being FIVE!

Christmas 2010

2010-12-30T13:08:00.020-05:00

HO-ho-ho! We hope that Santa was as good to all of you as he was to all of us. We were so excited on Christmas eve. Mommy and Daddy dressed Shane up like a little Santa. Mommy said that it was mine when I was Shane's age. I wonder if I looked as cute in it as he did?

Anyway, Christmas eve we left out Cookies and Eggnog for Santa. And put Carrots and water on our deck for his reindeer. Then we all snuggled together while Mommy ready "twas the night before Christmas" and Daddy read the story of Jesus's birth out of the bible to us. Christmas is after all about Jesus being born! In fact, as is tradition Mommy made a cake for Jesus....you 'may' notice that the cake doesn't look perfect. In all fairness to Mommy it did start of perfect!

Those marks on it where the frosting is missing is from Shane. He some how OPENED the fridge and well decided that the candycane in his and wasn't "sweet" enough and needed some frosting. LOL. I have to admit that I could Hardly sleep Christmas eve. I am CERTAIN that I heard Santa's jingle bells and even him come in to check if I was sleeping. Of corse being the smart guy that I am I quickly pretending to go to sleep so he wouldn't leave. It must have worked cause when we got up Christmas morning there were LOTS of presents under the tree from Santa...AND after checking if the reindeer had eaten their carrots I was 100% sure it was his bells I heard because.......

laying right there next to the bowl of water and the plate of Carrots was a BELL. Now that bell DEFINATLY wasn't there when we put the carrots out. Can you believe that Santa lost a bell at our house? Mommy said we will have to hold on to it till next year.... While Mommy and Daddy got their coffee we could hardly wait to open our presents.

Shane however DID enjoy playing with Santa's bell while he waited.

Finally it was time to open gifts. We all got so many great presents! I got some video games, a bumble bee (transformer) mask, Bakugan.....

Santa brought Kylie lots of girl stuff like a Lalaloopsy, barbies, and Dance Lessons. Yup Kylie is FINALLY gone get to take Ballet lessons! It's what she really asked for and was so sure Santa would be able to do it.

Aiden got lots of firetrucks and firetruck stuff since he LOVES them and wants to be a fire man when he grows up. He also got lots of Ironman things. One of his other favorites.

but I think one of the favorite toys that santa brought was the sid the science kid micro-phone. Here is Aiden and Shane checking it out. Santa must be a pretty smart guy, cause he brought Shane some Elmo toys. Incase you don't know Shane LOVES elmoHere is Aiden trying on his Ironman Mask...

and Kylie is excited about her new Ponyville set.

Oh my....what is this?

My BAKUGAN...It's awesome and HUGE!

Shane REALLy likes this rock and roll truck Santa brought him

Aiden even got a remote control firetruck!

See, I told you Shane loves Elmo!

Santa brought Aiden a really, real guitar. He loves it and couldn't wait to open it!

After we were all done opening our gifts and had a quick breakfast. Our traditional Banana Bread. We got dressed and headed over to Memere's and Pepere's where Carolanne, Auntie Rose, and Uncle Justin were also waiting for us. Before we did anything Memere wanted a picture of ALL her grandkids...let's just say its REALLY hard to get all 5 of us looking and smiling at the same time. This was the best shot...

Next it was PRESENT TIME!!!!

Pepere really liked watching Shane open his gifts

I got the COOLEST nerf gun. Even Uncle Justin thought it was really neat.

Hmmm, I wonder what is in this box?

A TEA SET!!!! Kylie was SO excited. It's a really real teaset. I think Kylie would have had a teaparty right then and there if Mommy let her.

Here is my FAVORITE big cousin Carolanne opening up some presents.

Shane got LOTS of snuggle time in with Uncle Justin.

A PILLOW PET! Kylie has always wanted one and was so excited to get one. Thanks Memere and Pepere

Aiden always looks so serious, but he had a great time too, and got lots of nice things

Isn't our baby brother Shane the cutest?

Here I am!

Memere and Pepere got Carolanne and Kylie Cheerleader outfits and Pom-poms here is Carolanne putting hers on Memere and giving her pink hair. She looks so silly.

Then we thought it would be silly to give Pepere a pom-pom butt!

Uh-oh Shane NO touching!

A women Pepere works with gave us all presents. Well she heard how much Kylie likes girly things and gave her this. She looks so cute.

After we were done at Memere and Pepere's house we had to move on to Nana and Papa's house where we were gonn have dinner! While the grownups where cleaning up from dinner we got to play with our cousins. Here is Shane rocking in a rocking chair

and Skyler was pretending a straw is a flute.

Papa brought down some silly elf hats for us all to wear

CHEESE!

Here is Skyler trying hers on

Aiden looked pretty silly in his

and if you thought getting 5 kids to all look and smile at the same time, try getting all 6 of us to look. again, this is the best one mommy could get.

Kylie put her hat on our great-grandpa (whom we call Grandpa). He looks awefully silly!

Can you believe there were even presents for us to open at Nana and Papa's. Mommy and Daddy gave Auntie Missy a picture of Hermie the Elf from Rudolph. I'm not really sure why but Mommy said it's been a joke for years and that Hermie gifts keep going back and forth. I don't get it, but Auntie Missy Sure thought it was funny!

Shane got a little toy that you can hammer. Don't worry though it's not a real hammer, just a toy.

and Kylie got a barbie. Actually LOTS of barbies.

Here are my cousin's Skyler and Kaydence! They LOVE when Mommy takes their pictures.

Wow, Aiden sure looks excited about something, I wonder what he got....

OHHHH and electric drum set. He is sure to LOVE this! He loves music
After we were all done opening gifts..which there were a TON of, it was time for dessert.

Auntie Missy got caught eating some icecream cake...I wonder if our new baby cousin in her belly liked it?

Shane got VERY messy eating his gingerbread cookie that Mommy made.

Aiden thought there were to many people so he went in the other room for a while to play by himself.

Nanny, Grandpa and Papa sure seemed to enjoy watching all us kids play!

After a very long day, it was time to go home and go to bed...we sure had a busy day. The next day Mommy had to go to the store to get some more of those 3 draws stackable draws to put all our new toys in so everything could be organized. While she was out she decided to get Kylie the outfit Kylie needs for Ballet. Kylie couldn't wait to try it on.

After Kylie tried her dance stuff on Mommy started putting toys away......

AND THIS ladies and Gentlemen is why it took Mommy 3 days to get things UNBOXEd and put away. We figured it out and by the time we got home Christmas night there was just shy of 200 gifts under our tree. 197 to be exact! And some say we are spoiled. LOL!

Well, that's our Christmas. We hope you ALL had a very good Christmas like we did and wish ALL of you a very Blessed New Year!

Guess what I can do......

2010-11-15T20:23:00.009-05:00

Hi everyone! It's me Shane. Now that I am 1 I thought it might be a good time for me to write all about the things I can do. First though I should tell you that I went to the Dr's the other day. Mommy said it was only because I was 1 and the Dr needed to see how big I was growing. Well of course I am big, have you seen me? At the Dr's they said I weighed in at 24lbs and am 30 inches tall which puts me in the 82% for weight and the 80% for height! Dr. Dombek was so impressed with how big and strong I was. While we were there Mommy told him all of the neat things I could do. Like ALL the words I have, and I have a lot (around 20 or so). I can even put together 2 words. Like "Hi Dada", "what's this?", and "all done". This REALLY impressed the Dr and he told Mommy that I am developmentally more 20 months old. I'm not sure what that means but Mommy said it means I am super smart! Anyway, those are all the things we couldn't show through pictures! Here is what else I can do!!!!

I can drink from a sippy cup.... and feed myself with a fork or spoon

I'm learning how to brush my teeth....and I can stack blocks 3-4 high! Then knock them down! That's my favorite part!I can color a masterpiece using crayonsand can stand big and tall!I can also climb the stairs! But I'm not suppose to, so lets keep this picture between you and me OK!
and...I CAN WALK!!!!!!!!!!

I can walk even better now than in this video...I was a little distracted by my big kids running about, but this at least gives you an example of how I do it.

What do you think, are you impressed!?! Anyway, that's basically all my tricks.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO.....

2010-11-08T13:56:00.025-05:00

Shane and ME!!!! So for those of you that don't know, Shane and I just celebrated our Birthday's. Shane turned 1 on November 7th and My REAL Birthday is tomorrow (Nov 9) and I'm turning 6. Since our birthdays are just two days apart Mommy decided that she was gonna do like she does with Kylie and Aidne and have a joint party. So Saturday (11/6) was our Big Party. Mommy had the house decorated nice and even painted into the windows for us...

Since it was a joint Party there were also TWO themes. Mine was Batman because that is what I asked for, and Shane's was Elmo since Shane Loves Elmo. Mommy created games to play...this was for Pin the mask on Batman ( I'll tell you more about that later)
and got a Pinata for the party too. I have to admit that I was a tad upset at first that it was ELMO, but Mommy said She couldn't find a Batman one and that it's Shane's Party too. Plus lets face it an Elmo Pinata is better than NO Pinata right?

Along with my cousin's and our family friends Mommy also let me invite 3 friends from school. Wyatt, James and Nick. Once everyone had arrived Mommy got things started by letting us decorate our own goodie bags. She got lots of stickers and crayons, and we got to do our brown bags anyway we wanted..here are some pics of us decorating.

Here is Hannah (Nick's sister), James, and Kaydence (who is looking away) busy decorating.

Carolanne and Aiden were hard at work.

So was Kylie and Skyler.

(L-R) Nick, Logan (Wyatt's brother), and Wyatt seemed to be enjoying making their bags.

After we were done decorating it was time for Pin the mask on Batman. We got blindfolded and had at it! I 'may' have peeked a tad....

Wyatt got his pretty dead on.

and Ke-ke did good too!~

Riley was a 'tad' off, but did a great job!

James got VERY close!

Skyler had a nice go at it.

and so did KaydenceI think Nick and James put theirs in the same place. and Carolanne was close to their's too!Aiden would have been dead on if it was pin the belt on Batman, but hey he did great!Here's what it looked like AFTER we all had a turn

Papa and Uncle Justin watched on,

And the other b-day boy Shane hung out with Tony!

Next Mommy got Shane all settled into his highchair

and then it was CAKE TIME!!!! Since it was Shane's first B-day he went first.

Mommy said to tell you that she was about to pass out as she was making Shane's cake (she forgot to eat and was VERY tired), so it's NOT her best work.

Shane really got a kick out of his cake and everyone singing to him

Next it was MY turn. I think Mommy did such a cool job on my cake!

Look at me blowing out 6 candles!!!!

Mmmm, let's eat CAKE and Icecream!

Since Shane had NEVER had cake before at first he wasn't sure what to do with it!

He picked it up and was thinking "are you sure about this"

Then took a bit. MMMMMM Yup he LOVED it!

I wonder who is giving Shane some Ice Cream!

Oh it was Nana! That was SO nice of her! Shane sure appreciated it!

Next it was PRESENT time. We decided since there were SO many kids we would only open My presents at the time..Shane didn't seem to care anyway

Once the presents were done it was on to PINATA! We ALL took turns pulling a string!

Mommy helped Spencer Reach

Once all the Pinata fun was done Mommy took a picture of me with my buddies. (l-r) Nick, James, Wyatt, and ME!!!

That was it for the party fun, so Mommy said I could take my Bakugans that I got for my B-day and we could ALL go play in my room...we had SOOOO much fun!

Once all my friends had gone home and it was all quiet again, Mommy broke out Shane's presents. Aiden who had been DYING to open a present helped him out a bit!

Well everyone, that's it from us. I am off to play with some of my new birthday toys!

Medals and Trick or Treat

2010-11-03T13:11:00.005-04:00

Hi everyone, so we had a pretty big weekend this past weekend. For starters Saturday was Kylie and I's LAST soccer game. It was super cold there, here is a cute picture of Shane all bundled up with his hat....Here we are saying "GOOD GAME" for the last time...

Then it was Medal time! Here is Kylie getting her medal from Coach Carrie

Then it was my turn!

Kylie was so excited to show her medal off

So was I!!!!!

Here we are posing together with our medals Sunday as you all know was Halloween and we got to go trick or treating! We were so excited about it! Kylie got to dress up as Belle, the princess from Beauty and the Beast!
Aiden was a fireman "Fireman Troy" to be specific. Those of you who don't know Fireman Troy is a fireman here in town and Aiden thinks he's the coolest. Aiden wants to be a real fireman someday!

I'm gonna let you all in on a secret, I was a Ninja....now I know Ninjas don't usually give up their real identity, but I figure my secret is safe with you!

And Shane, well he was the cutest little Lion you ever did see. He didn't really know what to expect seeing it was his first Halloween, but he did really well. He liked his costume, and had fun trick or treating for the most part!

Here we all are together! I think we all looked pretty good, what do you think?

Patriots and Firetrucks

2010-10-13T13:29:00.012-04:00

Hi everyone, it's me Aiden! I just noticed that it's been a VERY long time since my brother or sister updated you all on the "Woodruff clan". They said to tell you that it's because Collin has been busy with school, and they have BOTH been busy with soccer. Which I suppose is true. Anyway over the past few weeks 2 very exciting things happend. Well exciting to me anyway. The first was a few weeks ago (back in the end of Sept), the Woodruff's went to our Holy Grail....Gillette Stadium. Home of our beloved Patriots!

While we were there we got to see the actual field the Patriots play on, and play around on a piece of turf like the patriots play on. It was so cool.

After we played around on the turf, we got to go into the "Hall at Patriots Place."

It's basically a hall of fame for the Patriots. I was in my Glory getting to touch and play with all Tom's things. Although I will admit I was a tad bummed out when I asked the lady if Tom Brady was there for real and she told me no he was on a plane to New York. Even still, he must have known we were coming because he left his uniform there and the nice people said we could try it on...Here is Collin with Tom's helmet, pads and Jersey!Shane-shane tried on Faulks' Helmet!!! It was kinda big on him.Here I am with #12's Helmet. How cool do I look? Sign me up now mom, I'm gonna play some football!Of corse Daddy couldn't be left out, and he tried on Tom's gear too! Look how BIG all those players are...these are ACTUAL size mannequins of the patriots in a huddle. It was so cool, cause when you walk into the huddle you get to hear Brady making some play calls!Here is Kylie, Daddy, and Collin sitting on the patriots sideline bench!

Here is me and Daddy with 1 of the 3 superbowl trophy's that the patriots have won. You may notice there aren't many pics of me, but that's because I kept telling Mommy to leave me alone and no pics because I was to busy looking at everything.

The second thing that has happend that was SO exciting to me, is that last weekend (oct. 9)
I got to go to the Firestation. It was my most bestest day ever...and I told mommy that!

I really really want to be a fire fighter when I grow up so I was so excited when I heard that we were going to the firestation to see my firetrucks. Mommy said it was an open house and we all thought we were just gonna be able to LOOK at the trucks which I was very excited about. But boy did I get a surprise when we got there. My buddy fireman Troy said I could try them ALL out. I got to sit in EVERY truck, and even try on equipment. It was GREAT. I stayed there for 2 hours. I would have stayed even longer but Mommy said we had to go....Here are some pics from my visit to the fire station.

Here I am trying on my buddy Troy's boots, pants and Helmet. I know they are big now, but pretty soon they will fit right?

Collin tried on the helmet too, but he wasn't nearly as excited seeing he wants to be a police man when he grows up NOT a fireman....whatever!

There sure are alot of buttons on this truck!

See I even got to DRIVE!!!!

I let Collin have a turn too!

Hmmm, maybe if I shut the door and hide they won't find me and I can stay all day!

We even got to play in the ambulance.

Kylie got to pretend to be the patient and I had gloves to be the EMT!

I don't know who these other girls are, but we had fun playing with them in the ambulance. I think their Daddy's are firefighters though!

Collin got to "drive" the ambulance

Next it was Kylie's turn to be the nurse, and some one else was her helper and the patient.

So, that is what us Woodruff kids have been up to!

Labor Day weekend and More!

2010-09-14T13:49:00.010-04:00

With summer coming to an end and school in full swing us Woodruff kids are settling in to a nice "fall" routine...but we couldn't let summer go away with out one last HORRAY! So on labor day weekend we had a BBQ. Uncle Rick, Auntie Jocelyn, Uncle Matt and Auntie Beth all came over to help us say good bye to summer. Mommy said that really Labor day had something to do with workers, or something like that but I think it's just a good excuse to have a fire and roast Marshmallows. You know what, that is just what we did. Well first we grilled and hung out, then while the grown-ups where getting the fire going we all played in our yard. Here is Shane crawling around..he was having so much fun!

Our Neighbor Courtney who is a big kid (Mommy said she's 18) came out and played with us too.

Silly Uncle Rick though his stick was a butt poking stick, and he got Daddy!
Once the fire was going nicely it was my favorite time, time to ROAST MARSHMALLOWS!!! Check out the stick that Uncle Rick is using..he could roast 4 at a time. How cool!

With our Marshmallows we made S'Mores. Our favorite way to make them is with Peanut butter cups instead of chocolate bars. Mmmm, Kylie sure enjoyed hers.

and So did Aiden.

I was so excited about mine that I did a silly pose!

Even Shane got in on the Marshmallows goodness! Here he is having his first Marshmallows EVER.

After all us kids had ours Daddy and Uncle Rick made some S'mores of the grown-ups

Auntie Jocelyn had some wine with hers!

Then she snuggled up with us. Although honestly I think she just wanted to sit with us so we could keep her warm. Hehehe!

After that we had to go to bed. So I am not really sure what happened, but here are some pictures that were taken while I was snoozing.

Looks like Uncle Rick had a beer.

and boy did that fire get BIG!

Mommy said that fire was so hot and bright that she took this picture of Daddy and Uncle Rick with out her flash!

Auntie Beth looks like she was feeling all snuggly and having lots of fun sitting by the fire,

and Uncle Matt, well who knows what he was doing. He's always so silly.

In other news, Shane has learned how to stand all by himself in the last two weeks. He is so proud of himself. He loves it when we clap and say "YAY SHANE SHANE!" Oh and this is the new smile he does when he sees a camera. Such a ham bone.

So now that Shane can stand he also thinks he's pretty clever, Mommy was changing his diaper and he crawled away and stood up, and well this was the result!

So, because Mommy has NOTHING else to do while I am at school Kylie and Aiden convinced Mommy that they should do some easy bake oven cooking. Here is Kylie with her Easy Bake oven waiting for it to warm up

Aiden wanted to get in on the action too!

Time to add the flour

Kylie let Aiden add the oil

Now mixing, mixing

and spreading it in the pan

Even Aiden got to spread some in his pan

and NOW to put it in the oven, you have to be careful cause it's pretty HOT

Since I was at school while all this was happening I had no idea about it, but when I got home I found that Kylie had made me a easy bake oven "Brownie" Ummm, yeah they aren't so great

But Mommy says what can you expect when you cook with a lightbulb. Kylie on the other hand was thrilled with her results. I suppose that is all that matters.

and well, here is one more of Shane, just because he is so darn cute!

School Days and Patriots and Aiden's hair cut!

2010-09-01T12:16:00.007-04:00

Hi everyone, Sorry it's been so long since our last update. Time seems to be slipping away from us pretty fast. We've been very busy just soaking up our last few days of summer, and getting ready to settle into the fall...and anyone who knows us knows what Fall means in the Woodruff house. Football!!!!! To be even more exact PATRIOTS!!!!!!!! No member of the house is to young to participate in the football excitment. Here is Shane showing off his Pats Pride and homage to the great #12 Tom Brady!!!

I love this picture of my baby brother! He looks so cute with his 4 teeth, just smiling and standing like a big boy! Which reminds me, Shane is now crawling EVERY WHERE! and Pulling up on EVERYTHING! He is such a happy good baby. I love him so much! I promise to make mommy take some more pics and videos of Shane and his new tricks for you all to see!Here is Kylie and I in our patriots Shirts just relaxing and playing some games. Oh and don't mind that thing on my head, I have part of my batman costume on. It was to hot for the rest of the costume.Aiden has a patriots shirt too..here he is wearing it. Check out that mop of hair on his head! That was before he got his hair cut!Here Aiden is after getting his hair cut. Not a great picture, he wasn't in the mood. I will have Mommy take a better picture later!
So the Patriots aren't the only exciting thing happening in the Woodruff house, guess what else is going on, to me inparticular?!?! Give up? I STARTED KINDERGARTEN! I absolutly LOVE it! My teachers name is Mrs. Castriotta and she is SO NICE! Here are some pics Mommy took of me on my first day!

Here I am all ready to leave! Mommy said we "HAD" to get a pic by the door cause Memere always took a picture of her and Auntie Rose at the door on their first days! What ever, I just wanted to leave!

Here we go, out the door and ready to leave!

I live close enough to school that I get to walk to school!

I was so excited to get there that I RAN most of the way!

Here I am infront of my class room about to go in!!!

I found my cubby NO PROBLEM! Here I am hanging up my back pack and ready to start the day!!!
While I was at school Mommy and the kids carried on with their day as usual, Although while I was gone Shane learned how to drink out of a juice box! Mommy said he was so excited because it had ELMO on it, and as you learned in our last update, Shane LOVES elmo!When School got out we went right home and had an early dinner because not only was tuesday (8/31) my first day of school, but it was ALSO Kylie and I's first soccer practice. Kylie wants me to mention that she got PINK soccer socks. Oh and how she still won't wear shorts.....Any way here we are warming up with Coach Carrie (She was my soccer coach last year too). ALthough it didn't take much seeing it was already 97 degree's out. Oh and a little side note, I found a pic of Aiden and his new hair cut! I think it looks good, but mommy says she misses his curls!

Elmo and a fun mess

2010-07-15T17:52:00.007-04:00

Hi everyone, today was a day for fun mess, well for Shane anyway. Today Mommy broke out some paints. Here is Kylie deep in concentration. She wants me to say don't mind her bangs, She' growing them out and the fell out of the head band. I chose green...incase you don't know already it's my favorite!

Aiden settled for blue since we were out of Orange...that's his favorite!

Even Shane got to try finger painting for the first time! He seemed to like it!

Then again, Maybe NOT!

Don't ask how, but Aiden some how got a dot of black on his nose. No one was even using black..hmmmmm

After we painted and cleaned up mommy made dinner. Anyone care to guess what we had?

Oh and I TRIED to give Shane a bite of my ice pop. But he stole it right from my hand. That's ok, Mommy ended up getting me a new one.

So I am sure you are wondering were "Elmo" comes in to all this, well yesterday Mommy found Elmo in grouch land. She was telling me how it was my favorite when I was a baby and if I was grouchy she would put it on for me and I would calm down...I guess we use to watch it ALOT when I would get ear infections it was the only thing that made me happy. Anyway, we decided to put it on for old time sakes, and Shane....well see for yourself.

He LOVES Elmo. Don't mind him getting frustrated half way through, It was nap time and he gets frustrated some times now that he can pull up. He's not always sure how to get back down. LOL

family vacation

2010-07-11T12:30:00.043-04:00

Hi everyone some of you might have heard that we were on vacation this past week. That meant an entire 9 days with Daddy home. It was awesome. The first thing we did was on the 4th of July we went to Fitchburg for the parade

While we were there Daddy let us ALL pick a toy from the vendor.

Kylie chose a Dora ballon, and Aiden and I chose Swords although we forgot to take a picture of us with them.

Here we all are watching the parade!

Shane thought waving the flag around was so much fun..

Aiden LOVED watching ALL the fire trucks!

After the parade we went home for a BBQ with Uncle Matt and Auntie Beth. Of corse Mommy's battery for her camera had died so we got no pics. Monday and Tuesday we just hung out at the lake, and Wed. we all got up first thing in the morning loaded up and left for MAINE!!!!!! It was so AWESOME...we spent the entire day on Ogunquit beach, and spent the night in Kittery. Here are som pics of the beach.

Mommy and Daddy were sure to bring lots of food and drinks.

Mmmm Cherries!

Aiden dug himself a big hole and sat in it. He's so silly

Off to swim!

I found seaweed!

There's Mommy and Kylie swiming in the ocean!

Here are some video

On our way home from Maine Kylie had been telling us all about a place called yummies and saying how we had to go...Man am I glad she did. It was the most hugest candy store ever. We all chose giant loli-pops. Here is Kylie with her's It was so big it was bigger than Aiden's head. Where's Aiden?

Oh there he is! So, I was a little annoyed I thought it would be a good idea to do Loli-pop cheers. Guess what NOT a good idea, mine cracked and broke.

While we enjoyed our Loli-pops Shane drove the cars.

Then we went and practiced soccer since Kylie and I are gonna be playing soon.

Then it was time for dinner. Guess what, we even gave Shane some big people food...he had chicken and spanish rice

HE LOVED it!

Friday it was really hot again, so after we came home from doing groceries Daddy got out the hose and let us play around.

hahahaha I got Daddy GOOD!

We made a "Shower" for Shane.

After we got all dried off and had some dinner Daddy and Shane hung out in front of the fan

While we had Bannana split sundaes. YUMMY~

Saturday we went to a b-day party at Mulligans which is a mini golf place. It was for our friends Anthony and Izzy. You may remember that their daddy is Coach Tony our T-ball coach. Guess what, he had our trophy's!!! Here we are showing them off

Sunday was back to the lake and just relaxing. We sure did have a fun and busy week. I might as well enjoy the summer now cause i start school on August 31!

BBQ Fun with the Wright Family!!!!!!

2010-06-28T13:20:00.020-04:00

Hi everyone! Summer is here and to celebrate my family and I were invited to Auntie Beth's house. Well, her mommy and Daddy's house. Mr. and Mrs Wright asked Mommy and Daddy a while ago if we would all like to come over for a picinic, we were so excited when the day finally arrived and it was time to go. It was kind of a long ride for us because they live out in Southwick, but it was a nice ride. And to make it even nicer when we got their our Buddy Jake was waiting for us. He even brought over his log cabin and his playset for us to play with. Here is a picture of my buddy Jake. He is SO COOL!

This is Mr. Wright, he's Auntie Beth's Daddy and just about as nice as can be. He did alot of work to make the yard look nice. He sure did a BEAUTIFUL job!!!!
So, at the picnic there was LOTS to do. Play in Jake's Cabin

There were Guitars to play, We got to run and play ball
Climb,

Chase Auntie Beth.
We even got to meet Pop. Auntie Beth's grandfather. He showed us all his puzzles. Boy does he have alot of them...and a very cool system for getting them done. He told us all about it!
Ooooh, and eat! There was Lots and lots of yummy food. Especially the Ribs, those were AWESOME!

Here are some of the guys cooking...Jake's Daddy Dave (L), Jake's Uncle Andy (C) and Mr. Wright (L)
Even Shane had a nice place to play.

After we were done eating lots of yummy food and cookies and cupcakes that Mommy made Shane took a little nap and the grown ups played some games. Here is Auntie Beth and her sister Jen playing Badmiten

against Mr.Wright and Dave!

I don't know who won, but BOYS RULE...although Kylie says Girls rule! Here is Mr. Wright, Dave, and Jake's Aunt Wendy talking...I bet they are talking about how the boys won the game!!!

Mommy even got to sit down and do some "grown up talk" Here she is with Mr. Wright...boy she is making a silly face in this picture!
and just hang out with her Best Friend Auntie Beth and Jen..who is sooo sweet too!
While we were there poor Shane was just tucked in a corner and left alone...LOL! J/K. I don't think his feet touched the ground. He got lots of snuggles. Here is Jen holding Shane.

and Jakes' Meme Mrs. Kostecki.

Here is a nice picture of everyone having fun and just talking!
Here they are 3 of the sweetest ladies you'll meet. Mrs Wright, Auntie Beth, and Jen!!!! Aren't they all so pretty.
Auntie Beth looks like she was having a good time!

It started to get late, so Shane thought he would get a little cat nap in while he snuggled with Jen, and Mrs. Kostecki
While Shane rested Daddy and Uncle Matt played Badmiten.and Auntie Beth just relaxed!

The fun didn't stop when the sun went to bed...there are the grown ups playing with a big frisbieand I played my guitar!Uh-oh look out Auntie Beth kicked the ball hard.Kylie even put on a little show of her own.We really had a great time. Mommy and Daddy said that they felt so blessed to be able to spend a fun filled day with their best friends Uncle Matt and Auntie Beth.

As we got ready to go Mrs. Wright aka Momma Wright gave us all hugs, and thanked us for coming. Only it's US who THANK HER!!!! We had such a great time. Thank you so so much Momma Wright, and Mr. Wright too. You were so kind to us and made us feel so welcomed. Thanks for all the extra special gifts, time, and effort you put in to such a great day. We love you both!

A day at the lake

2010-06-20T12:46:00.007-04:00

Hi everyone! Well summer must finally be here, because on Saturday (the 19th of June)the lake FINALLY opened up. We were so excited when mommy and daddy got us in our suits. At first we thought that we were just gonna go in our big kiddie pool, we ran down the driveway and was very confused when we looked back and saw mommy had pales and shovels, and even more confused that there was NO water in our pool. Daddy said to hope in the van and that we were going to Comet pond! Yippee. It was a gorgeous out and the water was so nice! We all jumped right in!

Mommy said that she was so proud of us, and how well we could swim. Kylie and I could both ACTUALLY swim. Last year we tried to trick people by using our hands and pushing on the bottom, but not this year. And guess what.....I can even swim UNDER WATER!!!! How cool is that?

Oh, and you know what the best thing about the lake is, the kids there!!!!! I got to see my friend Jamie. We played soccer together last fall. He was there. We swam and built a "pond" of our own. Here we are working on it.

Kylie even helped

While Kylie and I worked on the "pond" with Jamie Daddy and Aiden went for a swim. He LOVED it

And Shane ate some sand. EWWWE!

He also went in the water. He really liked it. He was splashing and smiling!

I think Shane thought it was the Most AMAZING place ever! This was his first trip there after all!

After he was done swimming, Aiden played with Haa-nah. They were SO cute just digging in the sand and talking to each other. Haa-nah is the same age as Aiden, just a few days older than him.

After a while Kylie decided that she would rather go play with some girls out in the water.

and Aiden dug in the sand some more. He really likes the sand

Here's a quick video of me swimming under the water. Check it out. Keep in mind though this was towards the end of the day, and I was getting cold and tired so I didn't swim as long under water as I had been earlier in the day.

While I was doing that Kylie was trying to "Free Willy" we had just seen that movie a few days ago and she was THRILLED when a friend at the beach let her play with their toy killer whale.

After a fun day at the beach, Mommy and Daddy said it was time to go. We didn't want to but they said it was getting to be dinner time and we had to go. I think it was just an excuse, and they are getting old and were just tired. But Mommy insisted that wasn't the case and it was dinner time and that the beach was closing in 30 minuets anyway. Here is Shane in his Mickey Bathrobe/towel. He is so cute!

Here's Aiden and I running to the car....

and Kylie giving a final smile all wrapped up in her towel.

We really had a great time and can't wait till next time. Thankfully we just live down the road so we get to go ALL the time!

God Bless Shane

2010-06-17T17:07:00.021-04:00

Hi everyone, it's me Shane. Mommy said that since it was MY special day, that I could do the blog today. Oh and she also wanted me to tell you sorry so long between posts. She's trying to tell me that she's been busy with us four kids...but we all know she is just being lazy, OK maybe not...anyway this isn't about her. Some of you may already know this but I got Baptized on June 13th. Mommy and Daddy had been telling me this was gonna happen, and that it was them saying that they promise God that they will teach me all about him and how much he loves me. They also told me that Uncle Matt and Auntie Beth were gonna be my Godparents. This I wasn't really sure what it meant but figured it had to be something good since Auntie Beth (and uncle Matt too) is so Awesome! What I DIDN'T know is that it meant that they were gonna put me in a ridiculous outfit, ok, so the outfit it's self wasn't that bad. But that hat...yeah I just wasn't happy with it! Mommy said I looked sweet, but I think I looked like a dork. You be the judge!

Here I am wearing my outfit and the necklace Auntie Beth gave me. She told me that she wore it when she was baptized. So that makes it very special. Mommy was sure to tuck it into my outfit after this so I wouldn't be tempted to pull on it and break it. It probably was a good idea because I DO love to pull on necklaces and have already broke one of Mommy's.

Anyway, after Mommy and Daddy were done taking pictures of me we loaded up and went to church. It was busy so we sat in the back. Something we NEVER do. I like to sit up front so I can see what is going on..besides I like when we sit in our usual seat cause the ladies behind me think I'm cute and coo over me. So while we were in church I kept thinking, "what is mommy and daddy making such a big fuss for. This is church just like every other Sunday." Once Mass was over we didn't leave. I began to see lots of people from my family come in...at the time I thought they were just late for church..then Mommy said that it was time for my special day. We went up to the very front and my buddy Deacon Sal was waiting for us. Mommy told me that Father Bob had things to do so Deacon Sal was gonna baptize me. When we first started I sat with Uncle Matt..I was very curious about why all my family was sitting behind me.

Deacon Sal began talking about how very special of a day it was for me. This was FASCINATING. I sat very quietly so I could take it all in.

Next came the really different part, I was starting to see what made today so different. We went up to what Mommy said was the baptismal font..I thought it looked like a little bird bath.

After being rubbed with some oils, and saying some more prayers Momma layed me over the font and Deacon Sal dumped some water on me. Mommy later told me that it is holy water. It felt so good and I just smiled up at Deacon Sal.

Next was some more prayers....

and then Deacon Sal said "wear Christ" and Auntie Beth put a little cloth over me.

Next Deacon Sal said "Receive the light of Christ" So Uncle Matt lite a candle from the candle they lite at Easter time.

Well, I took it very literal that I was suppose to receive this lite, but uncle Matt wouldn't let me hold it.

Next Deacon Sal made mommy cry by saying a prayer over the mother. Mommy said she was feeling very emotional because I'm her last baby and this was the last time she was gonna have a baby baptized.

Then it was Daddy's turn, Deacon Sal said a nice blessing over him too!

Then everyone clapped and Mommy told me that was it I was Baptized.

Here I am after with Deacon Sal, and Mommy.

and now just Deacon Sal!!!

Here is a picture of my whole family! I know you are probably thinking "plus Matt and Beth" but you would be wrong, I love them SO MUCH they are defiantly my family. Mommy always says blood doesn't make family. I'm not sure what she means, but I do know that Uncle Matt and Auntie Beth are my family!!!!

I was so glad that Deacon Sal let Collin, Kylie, and Aiden be involved and right up there during my baptism. They defiantly thought it was cool too!

Here I am with My Godparents!!!!! Everyone was trying to get a picture so I think uncle Matt must have been looking some where else! I'll have to check with Memere and see how hers came out!

After the baptism we went home and had a party. Mommy was so busy getting food set up and entertaining that she forgot all about taking pictures, but I can tell you there was ALOT of food. To bad I don't have any teeth, cause I really wanted some cake. Mommy did how ever remember to take a picture of my cake. I think she did a great job.

and here is the side view of my cake!!!!

Anyway, that is all about how I got baptized. Thank you SO MUCH to those that came to celebrate with me. It made me feel so loved to know that so many people love me and that they were there to see me make my first step in the catholic church. I am so glad that God loves me and that Mommy and Daddy are telling me all about it!

Girls Weekend to Maine!

2010-05-19T13:14:00.061-04:00

This weekend Memere treated Mommy, Auntie Rose, Carolanne, and myself (and her of corse) to a girls weekend in Ogunquit Maine. Oh and since Mommy is still nursing Shane we took him too. We had such a wonderful time at the beach and shopping. Here are the pictures from our great weekend away!

Shane found the beach so relaxing he fell asleep.

We made Auntie Rosie race up from the water up to Memere...On your mark, get set GO!!!!!

Shane LOVED digging in the sand

and I had a great time building a sand castle. I am a princess after all, so I needed a castle!

Carolanne loved the feeling of her toes burried under the water and the sand!

After several hours at the beach Mommy, Memere and Auntie Rose decided that it was probably time to head to the hotel. Once we got there and all settled in I could hardly wait to get my swimsuit on and hit the pool. I am an AWESOME swimmer and wasn't afraid at all. Carolanne was pretty nervous, but soon found her brave bones and gave it a try with Auntie Rose's help.

Here I am getting ready to take off and swim. I love swimming all by myself.

Here I am with Mommy and Shane in the pool. Shane LOVED the water. I wonder if he'll be a good swimmer like me?!!!!

So while I was swimming around I noticed Mommy floating on her back. I thought it looked pretty cool and wanted to learn how to do it...turns out I could!

We even got to try out the hot tub! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh So relaxing. I think we should get one of these at home!
After Swimming we went back to our room, got changed and headed out to dinner

After that it was back to our room and straight to bed, which was fine with all of us since we were all exhausted from such a great day. We were up bright and early the next morning (5:30 AM) and hung around the hotel for a little bit. Then got showered and ready for the day. We went to....... for breakfast. It was so yummy!

After breakfast we went back to our room packed up our stuff and got ready for a day of shopping. A girl can't have a girls weekend with out SHOPPING! Here is what our room looked like!

Our first stop on the Shopping spree was to Perkins Cove. I had never been. It was so pretty with lots of neat little shops.

here is Shane and I on the Pier at Perkins Cove!

After some shopping in Perkins Cove we went for a beautiful walk on the Marginal Way. It was so nice and Mommy got some great pictures of us there. Here are some of them....

Carolanne LOVED throwing rocks into the ocean. I think she would have spent the whole day doing it if they had let her!

There was the neatest tree on the marginal way that we had to stop and take some pictures on.

Here's a picture of Mommy in the tree...Next was a shopping trip on the Main St. of Ogunquit, and of corse a stop at the Harbor Candy Shop!!!

After a busy day of shopping it was time to start heading home. We sure did have an amazing trip. Thank you so much Memere for the great time. We love you!

T-ball and sippy cups.

2010-04-30T21:48:00.012-04:00

It finally happend, Our FIRST T-ball game of the season. Really we should be on game 2, but our first game got rained out. Mommy says that's part of spring sports. Kylie and I were so excited, here are some Highlights from the game....Here's me Up to Bat.

Mommy had a hard time getting a good picture of Kylie up to bat because she is a left, so unless mommy went and stood in the middle of the field this was a good as it got.

After the whole team had their turn batting it was time to Take the field. At the start of the game I was on first base..that meant I had to be on the look out for the kids to throw the ball to me, then it was my job to throw the ball back to home plate!

I'm ready for action, and for that Ball to come to me!!!!!

Kylie on the other hand, seems to think that T-ball is a time to socialize and talk to the girl that comes to her base about her earings!

The ball came to Kylie, and instead of Throwing it to first base, she thought she would walk it over and Talk to her friend Izzy on the way.....ahhhh girls!!!!!

We both had a great time playing in our first game. We both can't wait till our next game!!!

In other Woodruff news, Since every time Shane sees someone drinking he smacks his lips, makes a sucking sound and reaches for the persons drink Mommy thought it might be time to try a sippy cup with Shane. He shocked us all when the second mommy gave him the cup he started drinking it. Here is Shane with his sippy cup for the first time. He's drinking very very watered down white grape juice. He LOVES it!

Carolanne and T-ball

2010-04-23T12:26:00.028-04:00

So since it was April Vacation, and it had been so LONG since we've gotten to see her. Mommy picked Carolanne up on Monday (4/19) to stay with us for a few nights. We were all so excited. As a special treat Mommy took us all to Wendy's and let us each get a frosty....

After our "Special treat" we went home and played for a while. We were all so excited to have Carolanne over. Later on Mommy called us all into the Kitchen and we made PIZZA. It was so much fun. Mommy put the dough onto the cooking sheet and we did the rest! Here is a video of us cooking...

After our Pizza we got in our Jammies and got ready to watch a movie and just snuggle. Here we all are!

The following day Mommy surprised us and packed a picnic lunch and took us all to the Barre Dam

After our picnic, since we were already in Barre Mommy took us to the Ruggles Lane Playground. This is Aiden's FAVORITE playground since it's all climbing things. I think Mommy just wanted us to get out some energy, but we didn't care we had a ball!

Then it was back home for dinner, bath and bed. We sure used up alot of energy and were tired!The next morning we got up and Mommy took us to the dino park in Leominster we we had another picnic with our friends the Baker's. Mommy forgot her camera though. Silly girl. Then it was time to bring Carolanne home. We were so sad, but Mommy said that Auntie Rose was really missing Carolanne and besides we already had plans for that evening. Daddy had been at a training and was coming home and, I'm not sure if you have all heard or not but Kylie and I are playing T-ball. And Wed (4/21) was our practice. Kylie wasn't originally signed up because when I played last year they said that you had to be 4 1/2 to play but when we got to my first practice we saw that Coach Tony's little girl was on the team and the same age as Kylie. So Mommy asked him about it and he said that he had extra shirts and an extra spot on his team and if it was OK with the head of Hubbardston Baseball it was ok with him if Kylie played. So we are on the same team. The Rietta Ranch team and guess what I am #1 and Kylie is #2...Mommy calls us thing one and thing 2. LOL! Anyway before practice on Tuesday Mommy and Daddy took us to the park to play. While we were there, Kylie learned to pump herself on the swing!!!!

Shane even got to go on a swing for the first time. He LOVED it!
After about 15 minuets of playing it was finally time for practice. Kylie was SO excited to be on the team. After we did our warm ups we practiced catching the ball from the bases. Here is Kylie watching what is going on And YES she really practiced in a Skirt. You know her she refuses to wear pants. Oh and No she doesn't have her glove on the wrong hand she's a lefty!!! Kylie wants me to give a special Thank You to Uncle Rick and Auntie Jocelyn who went all over the place looking for a PINK left handed glove!!!!!

Here I am practicing covering 3rd base...later I learned that I need to stand off the base not ON. I had forgotten that from last year.

Since I am player number 1, I got to be first up to bat

Ke-ke at bat!!!!

So, that was our week (4-19 - 4-25) in a nut shell. It was a pretty good week. We had lots of fun with Carolanne, and are BOTH loving T-ball. Before I go I have just one more picture to share. I couldn't help myself......

I know it doesn't have anything to do with ANYTHING I've been telling you about. But I thought it was just so cute. Shane taking a tubby in the kitchen sink. Doesn't it look like he's saying "WHAT? Doesn't everyone take a bath in the sink?" LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sharks and Puppy Love!

2010-04-13T18:02:00.018-04:00

On Saturday (4/10) when Daddy came home from work he said that he had a surprise for us. He told us that he had gotten tickets to go see the Worcester Sharks (A hockey team) and asked if we wanted to go see them. Of Corse we said yes, and were SO excited. We all had a great time, but I think that Aiden, yes Aiden liked it the best. He really seemed to get it and was watching what was going on like a hawk. He got when they would make a goal and would yell and scream. Truth be told Kylie and I did too, but not till after everyone else started to. Not Aiden though he would yell WITH the crowd. Here are some pictures from our FIRST Hockey game....

When the teams first came on the ice I thought that it was the start of the game, but Daddy said NO, it was just them warming up. I didn't get it at first cause I thought it was plenty warm in there. Then I remembered about warming up from T-ball and Soccer and 'got it' Here are the Sharks warming up.....

and the Providence Bruins!!!!!!!!!!!

Here we are coming back from watching the players warm up!

The girls and Shane were so excited about the Hockey game!

Mmmmmmmmmmmm, Snow Cones. So yummy!

Here is the shark that all the skaters come out of. IT's so neat!

Here are the "boys" enjoying the Hockey game

There was the coolest remote control plane in there. IT did some really neat tricks, and was dropping cards, but we didn't get one!

Who the heck can fall asleep at a LOUD hockey game, I'll tell you who....SHANE!!!! He fell asleep with 5 minuets left to the 3rd period and stayed asleep when the whole crowed started yelling and cheering because the Sharks won...and took the divisional title!

We LOVED our first Hockey Game experience...and can't wait till next season for our next game....Hmmmm, maybe the Bruins?!?!?!?!

"And the call it Puppy love..." Did you think we got a new puppy? Not at ALL. The other night after Bath Mommy had Shane all wrapped up in his Puppy towel, he looked so cute that we took a bunch of pictures. Here are a few!

Here he is after he was all dressed. He's such a good sitter now!!!! Oh and he must think those fingers are awefully YUMMY cause he's gotten them in his mouth ALL the time. Mommy says it's probably just because he's teething. I still think they must just taste good. Why else would he use his fingers instead of the teething rings?

Ke-ke Lou's Tutu!!!!!!

2010-04-13T17:46:00.005-04:00

I decided that since the boys get so much blog time, and since I am the only girl that I would commender the blog for a moment! For Christmas, Santa brought me the cutest Tu-tu ever. Turns out, Mommy's friend Stacey is the one that actually made it for me. Mommy said that the sewing elves must have been pretty busy and Santa heard that Stacey is a really good Tu-tu maker so he asked her to make me one. How cool!!!! Anyway, here are some pictures of me in my tu-tu~ Jumping UP~~

Landing from my big jump!

TA-DA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, that's all. Mommy did want me to tell all of you that if you are intrested in a cute tu-tu like this to let her know and she can put you in touch with her friend Stacy. She custom makes them and can do any color(s) and size that you want. She also does matching bows. I have two of them but forgot to put them in my hair

Sunny Days, Shane, and Town Egg hunts.....

2010-04-09T16:40:00.028-04:00

TOWN EGG HUNT

With all the excitement of Easter it's self, we forgot to tell you about the Easter Egg hunt we went on the day before Easter!!!!! The Town of Hubbardston puts on a Egg hunt every year. Mommy says it's set up really nice because the 2 + 3 year olds are on the playground which is fenced in, the 4 year olds and Kindergardners are on one part of the field and the bigger kids on yet another. Anyway. It was so much fun....but went really fast as boy were there alot of kids there and they picked up eggs FAST!!!!! Kylie and I went with Daddy on the field for 4 year olds and kindergardners, and Mommy and Aiden went to the play ground. Well, Mommy had the camera so we didn't get any pictures of US getting our eggs but here are a few of Aiden.

After the egg hunt the Easter Bunny was waiting to take pictures with him. Aiden and I wanted NOTHING to do with that. So we let Kylie and Shane go see him and tell him that we have all been good!

Since it was so nice out, after the egg hunt was done we decided to stay and play at the field. The playground was way to busy so we just took a walk and played in the big soccer/t-ball fields.

Kylie was taking a little 'break' and sitting on the bleachers.

Here's Shane..he really likes to hold hands and stand up!

Aiden was LOVING running all around!

SHANE

Can you believe our baby is already 5 months old? Yup! He turned 5 months on the 7th...he is getting so big, and starting to do lots of new things.

So far Shane can roll over both ways, he knows how to sit all by himself, he's loves to babble and can now say "HI" and we swear the other day he said both "momma and Dada". HE can also stand up when he is holding on to something. He isn't pulling himself up to stand yet, but if Mommy stands him up next to the coffee table or couch he will hold on and stand all by himself. Here are some pictures of him doing that!!!

Do you like his shade? Those are mine. I thought they would look cool on him. Especially in his redsox outfit!!!!

Every good "Boston Boy" knows that Red Sox rule and Yankee's drool!!!!!!!!

Anyway, Shane is such a sweet and happy baby. He is full of smiles and makes us all so happy. Oh yeah, did I mention that he now sleep in his crib too? No more baby bed for him!!!!!

SUNNY DAY

It was so nice and sunny out here on Wednesday (the 7th) it was 89 degrees and sunny so we took full advantage of it and spent the entire day outside. We helped Daddy wash his car....if that's what you want to call it "HELP"

I 'may' have gotten a little carried away with the hose and gotten a little wet.......

Aiden thought it was much more fun to SPLASH in the puddles then to help wash the car

and Shane did his usual supervising.

After a little bit Kylie got a little side tracked too and decided to have a "Fashion shoot" with Mommy. She's such a DIVA.

Once we were done "Helping" Daddy wash the car we played with the hose a little..here we are semi wet! But hey we had lots of fun!

Aiden was trying to take Shane for a walk....that boy is trouble!

While we were finishing up with Daddy, Mommy was inside busy doing something....little did we know that she was setting up a PICNIC lunch. Now we frequently eat lunch on our deck on our little picnic table, but this was a special treat..she brought down a sheet and we ALL ate lunch on the front yard.

Even Shane got to have lunch outside with us. Then he fell asleep in his carseat..isn't he a cutie!!!!

Here is Kylie and I being "Twins" now I know we aren't actual twins although Mommy calls us Irish twins. But people ask us all the time if we are twins and once in a while we like to dress alike and pretend that we are!!!!!

After our picnic Aiden decided that it was time to play golf...he is really good at it and LOVES to play...here he is practicing. Look out Tiger her comes Aiden!

Shhh, be very quiet he's concentrating!

He is RISEN!!!!!!!

2010-04-05T13:59:00.029-04:00

Happy Easter everyone! We hope that you all had a great Easter, we sure did!!!!!!! When we woke up in the morning we found that the Easter Bunny had come and left us lots of Eggs (50 to be exact) and our baskets. Now Kylie and I both knew all about the Easter bunny and what to expect, but for Aiden it was kind of new because he was only 1 last year and didn't remember. We were so excited and running around getting Eggs that Mommy could hardly get pictures...here's what she did get!!!!

The Easter Bunny Even hide our baskets. He was VERY tricky with Kylie's and ours this year. I guess he thought since we are older now that we would be better lookers too!

Kylie's was hidden *inside* her doll carriage, and because her bucket and the carriage are pink it wasn't very obvious!

Aiden's was hidden *UNDER* the time out chair. We thought that was a silly place!!!!

and mine was hidden in the silliest place of ALL. It was hanging *UP* on the plant hanger. I must have walked under there a dozen times before I noticed it!!!!!!! I was Cracking up when I found it.

I needed a little help from Daddy to reach it! The Easter Bunny didn't really hide Shane's basket, it was in his swing. But that's OK since Shane is kind of little to look for his basket. He was so excited about his bunny though, and enjoyed looking through everything in there!

After our egg hunt Mommy, Kylie and Shane got dressed and ready for Church. They are so good to have gone. I stayed home with Daddy and Aiden. Daddy thought it would be very busy in church and crowded and was afraid that Aiden wouldn't sit still well enough and since we KNEW the crying room in church would be full we stayed home. When Mommy got home she made a nice big ham dinner, and Auntie Beth and Uncle Matt came over to celebrate Easter with us. Kylie got to help with the Green Bean Casserol!We had such a great day with our family and Uncle Matt and Auntie Beth, who to all of us ARE our family!!!!!!! It was great enjoying a beautiful day, celebrating Jesus going to heaven for us. "Wow..he must really love us" (this is an actual quote from Collin when we were talking about the day)

Ok, so we kinda gave mommy a hard time getting a picture of all 4 of us!

Kylie and I dancing!!!!!

Auntie Beth and Uncle Matt brought us "baskets" too. Shane LOVED the Easter grass!!!!!

Memere and Pepere stopped by for a visit. Again Aiden didn't want to get his picture taken!They got me a bathrobe, I LOVE it!Kylie got a baking set and it came with a apron!

LOOK! A picture of Mommy! That hardly never happens!

Just because

2010-04-02T10:39:00.003-04:00

Just thought we would share this video of Shane jumping...because he is so cute!

Easter prep and Dino baby

2010-04-01T21:06:00.025-04:00

Right before Shane was born, Mommies friends from the November Newborn group...A group of women that met online when I (Collin) was in Mommies belly. Sent Mommy a package and in it was the cutest little dino outfit. Well it finally fits Shane. Here he is showing it and his sitting skill off. Check out the feet on it. HOW CUTE!!!!

Today (4/1) we got to dye some eggs. We had SO much fun coloring them and being creative!

Along with the regular old egg dying kit, Mommy also found these Q-tip things that work kinda like a paint brush..you just crack on end and Draw away..we thought these were SO COOL!

Here we are showing of our eggs!

You can't really tell from this picture, but Kylie made her egg have a face and hair! She's so girly even her egg had to be pink and "pretty"

Here's Shane and his very first Easter Egg!!!!!

After we had dinner Mommy helped us make some sugar cookies for Easter. She made the dough and rolled it out then we got to use the new cookie cutters she bought us!

Aiden really got into it, as you can see from all the flour on his shirt!

Next it was time to put sprinkles on them!

Shane was the acting supervisor!!!!!!!

After we were all done cleaning up from baking cookies we got in our Jammies and Mommy let us each have a cookie. They were so good!!!!

Since Mommy wouldn't let Shane have a cookie, he decided to eat his sock instead.......

He's such a silly boy!

Kiss us WE'RE IRISH!!!!!!

2010-03-17T14:28:00.019-04:00

Hi everyone, it's St. Patrick's Day, and since we are part Irish. We decided to celebrate and wear our green shirts to celebrate. I of corse didn't mind at all since I LOVE green the best. I don't need an excuse to wear a green shirt! So I don't know if you are aware of this, but we all have Irish names. And weather by design or coincidence we all pretty much 'fit our names. Personality wise that is!!!!
My name (Collin) is the Irish derivative or Nicholas and it means "SHY" which I can be around people I don't know!!!!

Kylie's name is Gaelic and it means "Pretty" don't tell her I said so, but it is the perfect choice for her. She is very pretty!!!!!!

Aiden's name is Celtic and it means - "Fiery Spirit" and as you all learned when it was his turn to star in the blog, that he DEFIANTLY does have a fiery spirit....

Shane his name is Celtic for "CALM" . He really is such a good and Happy Baby. Mommy thought about naming him Ian, but that meant wild and she though better not take the chance that he would take it literally like Aiden did. Besides we think he looks like a Shane!!!!!

I was NOT happy that Mommy took Shane away from me so Aiden could have a turn.

Since it is so nice outside today we decided to have a picnic outside.....

Once Shane was down for his nap this afternoon mommy made us a special St. Patrick's day treat....SHAMROCK SHAKES. Mmmmm they are so yummy!!!!!

Happy Saint Patrick's Day everyone!!!!!

sitting up and pierced ears!

2010-03-16T18:22:00.009-04:00

Something VERY exciting Happend to me this weekend. I got my ears pierced!!!!!!! After like a year of asking Mommy and Daddy, they finally gave in. Well Daddy that is. Mommy didn't have an issue with it. Mommy and Daddy kept telling me what to expect. They said two ladies would use a special ear piercer and say 1,2,3 and then there would be a pinch and it would probably hurt a bit. I think they are CRAZY it didn't hurt at all. I didn't even flinch! Here is the LAST picture of me with out "holes in my head" as Daddy would say.And "TA-DA" here I am with earings...you can't see them to good, but I assure you they are gorgeous!!!!! I love them.
Here is me and Mommy talking about getting my ears pierced once we got home. She got a good shot of them so you could see them!

Along with me getting me ears pierced, another exciting thing that happend this weekend is that Shane learned how to sit up ALL BY HIMSELF!!!! Isn't he smart? He's only 4 months old and already he can roll over and sit up. Mommy said that she wonders if he's gonna be an early walker like Aiden who was walking at 9 months. He's already taking after him in the being early doing things department! Here are some pics of him showing off his newest achievement.

he really likes his glow worm and his Dragon. Especially his dragon!!!!!

Guitar hero and rolling!

2010-03-13T10:09:00.004-05:00

Since we finally got a reliable internet connection we can NOW share some home videos' here are two....ENJOY

Here is Aiden playing 'guitar hero' with Dadd and us kids. He LOVES when we play, he gets out the guitar that santa got for him and, well as you'll see he really gets into it!!!!!!

Shane learned how to roll over, here he is showing off his new tallent!

A haircut and some solids!!!!!!!

2010-03-08T09:05:00.011-05:00

I can't believe we forgot to mention it, but Aiden got a big boy hair cut! He's had a trim before to get his hair out of his eyes, but this time he got his first REAL BIG BOY cut!!!! It happend while Mommy and Shane were still in the hospital, Daddy had to come home because Poor Memere was sick. So while he was home Daddy took Aiden since Mommy had planned on doing it that week anyway. Here is what Aiden looked like BEFORE his cut.........and here is Aiden after his hair cut!!! Doesn't he look so cute and grown!!!!

In other Woodruff family news...You guys are never gonna guess what....are you ready? Shane got to have some food. Now it wasn't big people food like I get to eat. It was baby cereal. Can you believe that he is finally big enough for it? At first he cried when Mommy and Daddy put him in his high chair, but as soon as Daddy gave him his first bite of food he was happy and LOVED it. Mommy couldn't get over how well he did and said that he must have been born to eat cause he knew what to do with the cereal right away. I stood by and watched incase Daddy needed my help!

After Mommy and Daddy were done feeding Shane, he still had a few more bites left so Kylie thought she would help out. She sure did a good job!!!!!

Mmmmmm that was good!!!!!
It was so nice to have our first dinner (where everyone ate) as a family of 6!!!!! I can't wait to see how Shane like Fruits and veggies. Mommy says that's a few months off so stay tuned!!!!!!!

A day in the life of a PRINCESS!!!!!!

2010-03-05T11:37:00.016-05:00

It's finally my turn!!!!!!!!! It's me Kylie! I'm now 4 years and getting to be such a big girl (according to Mommy and Daddy!) I'm very very girly and LOVE being the only girl of the family. It makes me very special and the only PRINCESS!!!

I'm very brave...I had to go to the eye dr's the other day to get my eyes examined and dilated, and I didn't cry and answered all the dr's questions.

Look!!!!!! I know how to zipper my zipper now. How smart am I!

I love to play!!!! With kitchen stuff, dolls, playdough, my easy bake cooking. Although Mommy says it is really called an Easy Bake OVEN.Here is me ridding my Horse..I would really love a real one someday

I LOVE playing with Barbies...she's got the best clothes and is just so much fun

Don't forget about Ponyville, it's still one of my very favorite things in the world!

After my bath I like when Mommy wraps my hair up in a towel!!!!!! See how grown I look.

I LOVE my snuggly bathrobe. It keeps me nice and warm after my bath

Ok off to bed, even a princess needs her beauty sleep!

A week in PICU

2010-03-03T19:35:00.008-05:00

I'm sure most of you have heard by now, but Shane decided that he would give his mommy and Daddy a big scare. It all started on saturday (2/20). The other kids had been sick, Aiden had broncitis and the biggest kids colds, well Shane started coughing a tad but nothing major. Sunday morning he woke up with a temp and when I gave him his bath I noticed that he was really working to breath and his chest was retracting. So I called our Pedi and took him straight into the ER in leominster. On my way I picked up Memere for support. Boy am I glad I did! We waited what seemed like forever for him to even be seen by the triage nurse and to be honest the only reason we got seen when we did is because the nurse came out to triage a patient in a wheel chair and noticed Shane having issues. There were several people ahead of him but she brought him right back. We were wisked right into the ER when they saw how sick he was. HE had a temp of 103.6, his heart rate was at 254, his Oxygen level was at 60% (it should be 100%) and he was taking 113 breaths per minuet. I don't think we were back in the ER more than 10 secounds before we were surrounded by dr's doing their thing trying to get an IV started, chest x-rays, and what not. One Dr started talking to me about a possible heart issue (which thank goodness wasn't the case). They tested him for RSV and it came back possitive, but because he was so sick they wanted him transported out to Worcester because they don't have a critical care unit for kids. SO Shane got his first (and hopfully last) ambulance ride!

Once we arrived at UMass Worcester we were brought into the ER were we were assed again. Matt met us there..and we found out that we were indeed going to be admited. We figured as much. We were brought to the regular Pedi floor were we spent about 6 hours before they decided that Shane was just to sick to stay on the regular floor and promptly moved us to the PICU. He needed to be placed on the highflow machine, which is oxygen pushed at a higher rate. on the regular floor he was 100% oxygen but only at 1 liter. On the highflow we started out at 70% oxygen but pushed at 7 liters. He was touch and go for the next few days and there were several times were he scared both Mommy and Daddy and the Dr's. Let's just say several Dr's said he was their "critical" patient. A few times he came close to being intabated, but thank god it didn't come down to that. He was hardly ever awake and because he was so sick he wasn't able to feed. Plus he had spiked a fever that they couldn't control. By wed they felt that he should have turned around, and when he hadn't and was only getting sicker they re-ordered a gambit of tests including another chest x-ray. Turns out he had bacteria in his blood and Phnemonia. Well, at this point Shane either had pulled out the IV in his head or it just blew. At either rate it was no longer in his head so they were desperatly trying to get an IV back in him. Thankfully a great nurse finally got one in him and they stared an anti-biotic. With in 12 hours we started to see him turn around. Thank goodness. They allowed him to start taking mommy's milk from a bottle. Friday we were finally able to nurse again and that evening we were taken off the high-flow and put on regular oxygen and moved to the step down unit. That night he pulled the oxygen out of his nose and although the oxygen was 'on' he was never getting any. His stats never dropped so Saturday first thing the took the mask off. He continued to do great and by lunch time we got to go home. Thank goodness it was the longest 6 days of our life.

Here is Shane finally home and hang'n out with his Dragon!!!! We were all so happy to have him home and be back to our big happy family. I don't think any of us have ever been so happy to see Shane smilling!

Thank-you to everyone who came to visit us, thought of us and prayed for us. A extra special Thank you's go out to Memere for taking such good care of the big kids, Missy (Baker) for thinking of us and bringing Mommy some clothes, snacks and Shane's now beloved dragon, Papa for visiting and bringing food. It sure was better than hospital food...and Auntie Jocelyn who visited every day even during her lunch breaks and on her day off! We love you all!

Staring COLLIN!!!!!!!!

2010-02-17T18:41:00.009-05:00

Hi everyone.....It's me Collin! It's finally my turn to tell you all about me, uninterupted. Which we all know in this house is a novelty in it's self. So let's see, what to tell you about me. You probably already know that I'm 5 and that I get to start kindergarden in the fall, which I am SO excited about. But what can I tell you that you might not know? Hmmm, well I lost another tooth the other day making it a grand total of 4 teeth! You may notice my lack of teeth in the front. I'm kind of the crazy guy of the family. Although some of you may think of me as shy and quiet, really when I'm comfortable I'm very silly and LOVE to make people laugh. I'm also kind of a love bug. I love to just snuggle with and be with Mommy and Daddy!

As you ALL know I'm the oldest of 4 kids and while I love all my siblings, I can't seem to get enough of SHANE! I mean I just adore him. I love how he smiles at me when he see's me and how I can get him to giggle. I can't wait till he's older when we can really play. Here is a picture of us snuggling in our jammies. Aren't we cute!?! Mommy says Shane looks just like me when I was his age..he's just Chubbier!

I'll do ANYTHING for a laugh...including putting this goofy hat on and make funny faces.

I really enjoy being out side, and as you may remember from entries earlier in the year I play both Soccer and T-ball. Mommy signed me up for T-ball again. It should start next month. I can't wait. So be on the look out for pics when that starts up. Obviously there is not much to do outside during the winter, but here is a picture of me enjoying the snow. I do LOVE playing in the snow!

for indoor activities I enjoy coloring, and can even write my name all by myself..and 'yes' some times I stick my tongue out while I color. What can I say it helps me concentrate. Much to Mommy's dismay, Daddy got me a nerf gun. It's so much fun and I LOVE shooting my nerf darts at the door.

One of my favorite things to do is to play video games with Daddy. Especially Mario for the Wii

All about Aiden

2010-02-08T15:42:00.020-05:00

Hey everyone, it's me Aiden Joseph. It's my turn to be the STAR of the blog. As most of you saw in the blog a few weeks ago I just turned two, Mommy says I'm really good at being two...I'll tell you all about me and you can decide for yourself if she's right!

So, for those of you that don't really know me that great, I'm kind of a serious guy. Although Mommy and Daddy seem to find me pretty funny. Let me assure you when I do things, I DO NOT do it to get attention, showboat or make people laugh. I do it because it's what I feel like doing and am in the moment. Like when I put this hat on, I wasn't trying to make Mommy laugh like Collin or Kylie might try and do..nope I saw it, had the urge to wear it and there you go. Why mommy was giggling is beyond me.

So along with kind of being the serious guy I'm also the one that, well lets just say I like to keep Mommy on her toes! I think it's lots of fun to get into things that I know may be a little naughty. Like climbing on the counters or standing on the arm of the couch so I can jump. Here are some pics of me caught in the action!

ready.......1.....2.....3.....

JUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmmm I wonder what I can get myself into up here.

Mmmmmmm DORITO'S!!!!!

So besides for making mommy crazy, some of my favorite things to do is play with cars..or anything that makes music. Here I am with my cool guitar that santa brought me. Can you see me having my own garage band someday or what?

Oh, and I've also decided that I might have a future in MMA. How old do you have to be a UFC fighter? I LOVE to 'fight' with Daddy and yes, as crazy as it sounds I do LOVE to watch the UFC fights. I watch closly and bob and weave like the do as I throw punches at the air

After a busy day of just being me is dinner then bath time. Here's me in my doggy towel. Woof I LOVE to brush my teeth, and make them all sparkly! Mommy helps me at first, then I get to finnish up!

After bath and snuggling is bed time. Mommy snuggles in the bed with me while Collin goes potty and we just talk. Once Collin comes in a climbs up into his bed we say our prayers..you know the typical "now I lay me down to sleep" followed by asking god to bless our family memebers. I know I told you about how I sleep in the bottom bunk and all, but last night (2/8) I was just to tired to wait for Mommy to put me to bed so I climbed off her lap, layed down on the living room floor and fell right to sleep.....

Shhhhh....good night!!!