family game night

After 7 years of marriage I caved into the "we need a video game" system theory. And now... I realize why I had waited 7 years and how another 5 would be appropriate!

It is sad when your 3yr old not only WANTS to play the video games....but can tell you how to do it! (see video clip below.)

But kudos to Daddy for finding age appropriate games for the trio... they love spending time with Daddy playing "cars" (mater is their fav) and "football" (go browns!)

future buckeye?

Thank you, Robertson Family, for teaching the trio the "buckeye" chant!!! They LOVE to sing the "hang-on-sloopy-sloopy-hang-on" song for The Ohio State Buckeye's.

thank you, VA friends!

Our good friends (Christa & Jan-Jan) from Harris Teeter in VA sent the trio Christmas gifts... and of course they had a blast opening the packages... (especially since they were wrapped in Thomas the Train & Tinkerbell wrapping paper!) The high-lights were the infamous Harris Teeter sugar cookies... a package for each Garcia child.

And yes... the tear Mary is shedding is because Mommy was going to open just 1 package of sugar cookies to share amongst the three... And yes.. I caved and opened all 3 packages so each child could have their "own" cookie from their "own" package. Am I a push-over or what?

Cleveland Winter

No... I'm not going to complain about how much time and energy it took to dress the trio for a trip outside to play in the snow... nor how long they actually lasted out there..... but let's just say we haven't gone outside again.

And sadly, the 1st snowfall yielded snow that wasn't fit for making a snowman...too powdery. If only the weather would warm up past the low 20's... perhaps we could build our own Frosty...

and I want more....

Am I crazy for going for #4??? And actually... I had tuned out most of this background noise as I was making dinner... but then realized that all of YOU would want to see what you were missing :)

baby g - update

Nope... no baby G yet.... hopefully soon!

the klumps

I guess we aren't that far off from the "klump" family in our household (they are the family in the movie "the nutty professor")

.... Yesterday, at the dinner table, Mary rips one off of her chair...
mom: who did that?
mary: me
mom: what do we say?
mary: scuze me
gabby: mom...i tooted too!
mom: oh really?
gabby: yes, it was a quiet one!

I guess reading about opposites in our book has paid off...we now know the difference between a quiet toot and a loud toot. Just wonderful.