Max at 4 months

Gabrielle LOVES Max. She smothers him with kisses-literally

The girls had so much fun and it was such a nice relaxing time for me with little Max

I love this picture because it shows kids in the perfect state: tired because they played hard all day, sun kissed skin, freshly bathed, sitting quietly engrossed in a show with bedtime in sight-aahhh summer

Newport in August

C



Newport Beach August 2009. My ideal family vacation.

Is anyone there???

I have been off the blogging bandwagon for some time now and I'm thinking of hopping back on. At this point there may be no one who even sees this, but I want it for journaling purposes. I'm not going to retrace the last 7 months so I will recap.

Max is 8 months old and so cute and precious. He is my only kid who lets me rock him in the cradling position and just chills and stares at me, the other 2 would never have stood for that, they'd be clawing and arching like crazy!

Cal is 3 1/2. I don't know how to describe him-unique, lover of all things technical (computers, phones, cameras) loves letters, hilarious, sensitive, loud-very loud. I love having conversations with him. His day pretty much consists of coming with me to the gym where he gets to play with his friends, playing the wii, anticipating Luke's safe return from work, and some fighting with Gabrielle (with some eating and playing mixed in).

Gabrielle started kindergarten this year at Oak Chan Elementary! She loves it. I keep waiting for the novelty to wear off, but it hasn't. I'll add more detail as I go-Welcome back!

Kids with Daddy in Newport ( pics Thx to Alexis Wiseman)

Pickin blueberries on Apple Hill (all pics taken by the talented Alexis Wiseman, my personal photographer)

Baby Max

Max Daniel Wiseman was born on May 22.  8lbs 7oz 20 in.  we're loving him!  Maybe I will start posting again!

The Nativity

Favorite cousins: Cal

Thanksgiving with the Wiseman's

Kid's discoveries

While I was posting on here Gabrielle noticed the baby bouncing around on the right and asked if the baby in my belly was naked. When I told her yes she couldn't believe it. Struck with pure giddyness she was laughing and wanting an explanation. She is worried about the baby's bum touching my belly. How would it be to learn new and interesting facts on a daily basis?

Mud fun!

Our backyard doesn't exactly drain well we've discovered-it makes for great mud play. Yes that is a pacifier in Cal's mouth. He doesn't usually have it during the day except for his nap and now I don't have to feel bad about it because a speech therapist told my sister that it's fine up until 3. So he will be hating life in about 6 months.

Weekend in Paso with Grandma Kathy

Halloween

New lip and lost tooth

This is from a year ago.  You can see how the lip hangs down so you see all her teeth and her gums and it's so wide.
Here it's still lopsided, but it no longer hangs down and it's not as wide.  Notice the missing tooth.  We were sitting on the couch and she hands me something and asks real casually, "What's this?"  "Um it looks like a tooth!  Wait let me see your mouth!"  Sure enough, it as her tooth!  We checked on line and discovered that some kids do lose their teeth as early as 4.  It's very weird because she suddenly looks so big!  She asked me if she was old now and I told her yes.  

This is Cal's new move he loves it.  

Fathers and sons and daughters

Well what's new? Not much, but I feel like I should write and not just post pictures. I'm ready for fall, but I need to relax seeing as how it's suppose to be 103 tomorrow. Gabrielle has been in preschool for a few weeks and really likes it. Cal is talking non stop and has so many opinions-it's rather annoying-what happened to the kid who goes with the flow? The kid who stays in the cart? The kid who is happy with whatever food I place in front of him? He is long gone, but he's still liberal with his hugs so I guess it's ok. Luke is taking the kids camping tomorrow with a friend and his kids. Gabrielle is so excited. I'm excited to have a quiet house, but I will be hanging out with my friend's tomorrow night and then on Saturday I'll be going to Time Out for Women with my friends. I should be quite rejuvenated by Sat night. Also I have turned over a new leaf and I have decided to start doing things differently. I had an epiphany this morning when Gabrielle came in and woke me up. I thought-ooogh I don't want to get up- then I thought-this is ridiculous Andrea do something different, clearly what you're doing now isn't working for you so change it. So insted of going downstairs in a fog and getting Gabrielle breakfast, then trying to fall back asleep on the couch before Cal wakes up, I went to my bathroom, washed my face with cold water and a lemon scrub, got dressed, went downstairs and drank some water and a emergenC. Then this afternoon instead of picking up the kitchen and family room and being too burned out to get to laundry and upstairs etc, I started upstairs. I feel like my brain needs switching up-who knows what I'll do tonight? It could be anything-I don't even know! WHOO I'm crazy!!!! My inspiration came from George Costanza. Do you recall the Seinfeld where george did everything opposite of what his instinct was and then everything started going right for him? Dang that was a good show.

I love this picture. They made these at the gym daycare. You can kind of see Gabrielle's smaller lip in this one. It looks great. I'm just waiting another week or 2 to post a good pic of it when the incision is healed even more. We're really happy with it especially because she is. She says, "I can't even believe it my lip is tiny!"

"NO BUGS!"

There was a fly in the house while cal was eating his breakfast and he was not happy about it. When he would see it he'd yell, "No bugs!" and cover his eyes.
Looking apprehensive, he'd peel his hands away from his eyes checking to see if it was safe, only to see it again.
He eventually just kept one hand up to shield his eyes from the horror that is a fly.