Baby Carlos

Maggie and Daddy decorating the X-mas tree! The star is from Sean's gram and the red hearts remind me of my Grandma who gave them to my mom in the 80's! Their a little old school but we love the memories that they remind us of and the new ones we will make as a family! Maggie put all the hearts in one spot. Too cute!

I thought I would get better at posting pics next to the right caption but I've tried and tried and get too frustrated. So I've decided that Sean will teach the kids about computers and Geography and I'll teach them to read!

Another year, another bet in our house! Someone is always betting at our house so this year it's who can lose the most weight between Tony and Josh! That's why Joe is eating leftover pie in front of them while their just staring! We love food at our house so it's a challenge to lose weight. They weighed in at Thanksgiving and they weigh in on X-mas Eve so they don't have to miss out on the yummy treats.

Here is Baby Carlos! This is how we would get stuff done around the house cause he cried so much. He's way better now since he turned 2 months. My back feels way better now!

Funny

Poor Roman and Lil' Sean! They have no idea what kind of older brother and sister they have!

Two funny things before I forget:

Papa was reading Maggie a book that I've read about 3x to her!

He kept making up the words instead of reading them. She corrected him a few times and finally said... "your not doing it right Papa! I'll just read it by myself".

Maggie in the car with Daddy listening to "Flogging Molly" "Black Eyed Peas" & "Pink"

M: "Dad, dad turn the music off! I need to talk to you"!
D: "Ok"
M: "Can we go to Superfranks"?
D: "Yep! Do you have any money to go?"
M: "No, I don't have any money but I have energy"!

Smiles & X-mas lights

Sean went all out this year with X-mas lights! I'll try and put a pic up! Maggie loves it but has trouble not touching everything! We pulled up to the house at night when the lights were on and she screamed cause she was so excited! "Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha (Kendra laugh from Girls Next Door) Look what Daddy did.... He blew up Santa on the motorcycle"





My little "handsome boy" is smiling! He's been smiling for a while but Becky finally caught a picture of him! Whenever I'd get the camera he would turn serious again! He is now sleeping through the night (just like Maggie at 2 months old). He's still in our room cause he talks from about 4:30 - 5:30 a.m. but then falls back asleep till 7 a.m. He's still fussy during the day and needs to be held a lot which makes it hard when someone yells "Wipe my booty mom". I've been using the baby bjorn a lot because he loves to be held and I have so much cleaning from Maggie AKA Hurricane Maggie!







This is a picture from our last day of pre-school! We had such a blast and Maggie got to take a lot of people with her to class (Daddy, Mommy, Nana, Nonna, and Papa). It's a parent volunteer class and we studied letters A-J.... Maggie can actually recognize some letters now (M, S, O, X, A, C, T, and a few more). She loves her computer game where she can press the letters as they show up on the screen. I ask her how to spell her name now and she says "Mggie" Pretty cute...

6:30 a.m. & potty training

This is what my room looks like at 6:30 a.m. You can see that Maggie is still half asleep but her little alarm clock goes off at 6:27 and she's in my room talking & talking & talking!!!!! Little Sean has been sleeping better at night. He sleeps about 3-4 hours and then another 2-3 hours! I'm thankful for the little sleep I get. Sean and I just saw the movie "The Blind Side" last night and it was such a good movie! What a great true story. The little boy was named Sean Jr. and they called him S.J. I thought it was cute!



Here is little Sean smiling a little bit. He's been smiling for a couple weeks and cooing but I can't capture it on camera!










Maggie and I made Gingerbread cookies and it was so much fun. She ate most of the sprinkles and picked out a special cookie for George, Becky, Vincey and Daniel! She couldn't wait to hand them out!









I was impressed with her rolling skills! I think it's the pull-ups she's been doing in the garage with her dad.











Here is her bed-head when she wakes up in the morning! Hilarious! She also has trouble opening her eyes since she wakes up before it's light out.

Last Wednesday she woke up and said "I want to wear big girl undies". So... I let her and she's now officially potty trained! We've had about 4 accidents since last week (just pee). But, I guess it's true that when their ready, they're ready!!
She'll be exactly 2 1/2 next week!!!! And little Sean will be 2 months!

Funny moment

Maggie and Daddy were having a conversation. Here's how it went!

M: Who is Mommy married to? Daddy?
D: Yep!
M: Who is Uncle Abel married to? Auntie Colie?
D: Yep!
M: Who is Uncle Tony married to? Auntie Erika?
D: Yep!
M: Who is Uncle Josh married to?
D: Nobody!
M: Nobody? We have to buy a mommy for him for Christmas!

Halloween

Here are the Big Sister, little brother shirts that their both about to grow out of. Thought I should get one picture of them in it. Little Sean is proving to be a little fighter. He fights sleep, getting changed, going in his car seat, bouncer and swing. He crys a lot and we have to hold him quite a bit. I forgot how hard the newborn stage is. Thank goodness for lots of help.






Here is my little pea in a pod. He was only in the costume for a couple minutes. He was swimming in it... but looked so cute. He is one month old today and just started smiling (a little bit). I haven't got a picture because most of the time he's crying.














Halloween shirts from Nana! Maggie's newest saying is telling Bailey (the dog) to "Focus". That's what her dad tells her when she doesn't listen to him or follow directions which is about 95% of the time.










Here is Super Dad with the Baby Bjorn and helping Mags with the wagon going to the pumpkin patch. What a good guy! If I didn't have him, I would go insane!










Maggie's 50's girl costume playing golf at a little Harvest Party! She loved playing the game because she got lots of candy. Somehow I got her 3 strands of hair to stay in a ponytail for a little bit!































On Halloween, little Normie Pie rolled over twice at my parents house. He lifts his head up really well and then rolls himself over. We were all pretty impressed. I think his big head and ears helped him a little bit. (top heavy)

lots of poo!

We are going to miss Nana! She flew in from Arizona and helped us for a couple weeks. We had dinners, laundry was done and our house was spotless. Not anymore! After one day our house looks like a tornado hit it. Come back Nana!









I would love to know if any moms of newborns have every experienced this. My mom-in-law was changing his diaper and went to put the new one on when projectial poo came flying out all over the wall! Do you see me cleaning it? Do you see where baby Sean is? That's how far away he was when the poo came flying out. He is definitly fitting in with our family already

Introducing....

Sean Norman Poole Jr. born on
October 1st at 12:42 p.m.
8 lbs. 1 oz. 20 in. long
and came out peeing, pooping, and screaming!
These pictures are out of order but oh well...
Maggie was super excited to meet her brother. First family picture of the 4 of us!






This is the permanent smile that she had whenever she came and visited. Big Sean was sitting on the chair with little Sean and Maggie was on the bed with me. She slowly stuck her butt out until she was sitting next to her brother. She could care less about her new toy and cried when she had to leave. Every time I talked to her on the phone she asked if she could come and see her baby brother.





Here is the healthy baby boy who is doing great. He lost weight but we can now take him home today.











Here is the day I had little Normie poo and I'm pretty sure he was ready to come out!!!!!

5 days to go

Here I am on September 20th and looking huge. This month has been going by a little slow but keeping myself busy has made it a little easier. Oct. 1st is my scheduled c-section which means 5 more days to go!!!!! No more heartburn, throwing up, peeing my pants (well... that still might be a prob), and just being uncomfortable (especially by my belly button).







My close friends and family through a little shower for me which was so nice. I love when we just get together and talk about old times. I love being so close to my friends and their mom's. We should get together more often just for the heck of it. Maggie loved helping me open her baby brother's presents. She has been talking about him for about 6 months now. I hope she's ready to actually meet him. My dad took her to Jamba Juice and she told some strangers that she would be changing his diapers. Too cute! Carrie made me the cutest diaper cake. I don't know how people have the patience to do those.

Family photos

Here is little grouchy pants as we tried to take some family pictures before little Sean gets here. She was a disaster. Her new routine is waking up about 4 times a night (wanting me to sing her a song, get her a kleenex, get daddy, and wake up to watch cartoons). She also likes to wake up at 6:30 and stand right in my face. We both haven't been getting too much sleep.




Thanks Becky for taking these pictures!!! I can't wait to frame them!!!!

Hanging out!

Our neice Alyssa came and stayed with us for a few days. Sean and his friend decided to take all these girls to the zoo. Age ranging from 1 - 14!!!

Here's a mini BBQ we had at our house and this table comes in hand for times like these. Too cute.

My 1st haircut

Here is Maggie's 1st haircut! She did pretty good and her mullett is now nice and even!

Tahoe & big girl bed

Boy, did we need a break.... We decided to do a last minute vacation/trip to Lake Tahoe. In my head, I thought it would be relaxing but little did I know...... Maggie and I were up most of the first night because according to Maggie "Daddy scares me" because of his snoring. Every weird noise would wake her up and she is just too small for the crib. Sean slept on the couch and Mags and I stayed up in bed till about 3 a.m. She was up at 7 a.m. Then she split her lip open so we had a discussion about stitches and decided she would be fine. Last but not least she got bit by hornets at our friends house on the way home. Awwww.. kids are awesome!

Now for the good part!!!! She loved Lake Tahoe and loves to swim with her floaty and jump in a lot. She also loves the sand! It turned out to be fun after all. Her favorite part was going up the stairs to our room and hearing her "echo" voice.

This is the 5th or 6th night that she has slept in her big girl bed. A few cries at night and some scary peeking in our room early in the morning (like Chucky). Some funny things she's been saying...

MJ: Can I give Bailey a treat?

Mom: Why?

MJ: Because I just love you.

Mom: OK

MJ: Can I see that? (a watch)

Uncle Joe: Sure, what time is it?

MJ: 3:30

25 months & 25 weeks

I got tired of seeing Jim Carrey on my blog in a bikini too! Here is the room that Sean has been working on. He had to replace installation (sp?), sheetrock, texture, paint etc. Here is where we started. There is an after picture somewhere and I'll update an after, after picture when all the furniture is in. Maggie and Lil' Sean will be sharing this room!!!! Well... that's the plan.

Here's me at 25 weeks but I'm now almost 28 weeks. 3 more months to go!!!!!!!

Here's the after picture with Sean flexing. You can't see but he also put in recessed lighting too.

Maggie learned how to pedal her trike about a month ago. She loves to ride down the street and look at the "park" that is all gone. Lot's of construction going on. So.... Maggie heard her dad asking our niece about someone being in the bathroom and "Are they taking a dump?" (exact words) About 20 minutes later Maggie asked where somebody was and I told her they were in the bathroom and will be right out. She looks right about me, very serious, and says "Are they taking a dump?" I thought I would pee my pants laughing.

big girl undies

My mom and dad came over and had Maggie try on her big girl undies. She sat on the potty twice and went pee the 2nd time. We were so happy. Of course, I've been too lazy to continue any training but I just bought some m&m's so we'll see.

Look! Pigtails.... she finally let me put them in! But Sean and I think she looks like Vera De Milo (the character Jim Carrey plays on In living color). I'll try and find a picture and attach it.