Sneaky Braxton

A couple of weeks ago Braxton was driving me crazy!!! He would get into the pantry every day, ALL DAY, and get himself food. Every time I would catch him I would put him in timeout, spank or flick him. (I swear I don't beat my kids!) No matter what I did I would punish him and talk to him, tell him not to do it and he says "OK, I wont". 5 seconds later he is in the pantry again! Damn kid! I now just have to laugh at it, he is a very persistent little boy and will do what is necessary to get what he wants.

Here he is watching T.V., just relaxing and eating his pretzels he got all by himself.

BUSTED! And then he gives them back. I will say it only happened that week and he does not do it anymore. (for now.)

A special message for our buddy Denise!

Water Fun

We went to Richmond to be with Anthony's parents for Mothers Day weekend. The weather was so nice so the boys wanted to play in the water. They did have their clothes on but got all wet, so that is why they are naked.

I think every kid has to have a picture like this.

The boys just enjoying lunch outside.

Yeah! Swimsuites!

The next day was just as warm so the boys got to play in the water for the second time. (We decided to put their swimsuits on this time.)

The water was so cold from the hose, but that didn't stop them from having fun.

Shot Gun

Anthony's Dad got this shot gun for Carmine. (I am going to keep it at Grandpas house for now, wink wink) Anthony was trying to show Carmine how to use it....

..But he got board with it and went back to blowing bubbles with Braxton.

Photo shoot with Carmine

Carmine being his goofy self.

Prego Dog

My Mother-In-Law's dog Dakota was pregnant while we were in Richmod over Mothers Day weekend. Her tummy was HUGE!

She looks so miserable!

I told Carmine that the dog has babies in her tummy and her said "she does, eww stinky!" He's funny. Anyways she ended up having 8 puppy's on Tuesday, they are so cute.

Drama Queen

Ok, so before I start I will address the color of the water. No it's not dirty, it's these crayola color tablets that color the water and red is the color the boys wanted.

Carmine got an owie on his toe from his bike the other day and was freaking out about it (you would have thought his foot got cut off) anyways so it was time for a bath one day and he did not want to get in because it would hurt his owie. I made him get in anyways and he put one foot in the tub and started to lower himself in the tub with one foot hanging over the tub. I was laughing so hard, where do kids learn this stuff?

This is the owie (if you can see it) that has been such a big ordeal in the Sutera household. It is finally healed, yet he still wants a band aid on it.

On to a different subject! This is the townhouse that we put on offer on over 2 months ago and have been waiting to hear back if we got it or not. (it's a short sell) We should be hearing something this week or next week if we got it or not, so keep your fingers crossed!!!!

Big Boy

This morning the boys were fighting over the 1 bike that we have for the both of them. Anthony witnessed this and decided to go out and buy Carmine his very first big boy bike!

The bike was too hard to ride in the house on the carpet and it has been raining for 4 days straight... (and will continue for another 4 days, yuck!)

So I took them out in the hall way to ride their bikes up and down the hall ways.

And they're off!!!!

Left Out

Braxton felt bad that he didn't get a bike. He thought Carmines big bike was way cooler than his little trike.

We thought we would give him a feel for the bike.

He loved that helmet and didn't want to take it off. (I guess that is a good thing) Daddy told him as soon as he learns to petal on his bike that he will get him his very own big bike!

Braxton

I had the camera out and for some reason the boys were very interested in having their pictures taken.

Fishy face....

This was his first attempt to do a fishy face.

Carmine

More fun with the camera.

I love the kisses!

Carmines fishy face.

I think this was his silly face.

5 kids!

This past weekend we went to my friend Heather's house up in Maryland. She has 3 kids that are close in age to my boys so needless to say they had a great time!

After breakfast we all decided to go our separate ways and we gave Anthony and Eric (Heathers husband) the 3 older kids to take with them to buy a riding lawn mower. That meant Heather and I took the 2 youngest with us. Dorky husbands thought they were getting the better end of the deal.Ha Ha! Heather and I enjoyed ourselves very much at the craft store with 1 child each. Thanks boys!

We all met up after our outings and had lunch. Look at all those kids! Good thing the place wasn't packed, there could have been some trouble.

Nygz, I accidentally deleted your comment while trying to defend myself. Yes, I was desperate for relief from three toddlers running in different directions, but that isn't sweat. It's the blue dye from the t-shirt design. (It does look like sweat, though)

Speaking of desperation...

Ready-Set-Go!

The boys were having races down the drive way.

This is Heathers oldest (Finn), he's 4 years old.

Poor Braxton had to ride the pink and purple bike. Good thing he is too young to notice he's on a girls bike. I'm surprised Anthony didn't say anything about it.

Dummies

Ok so I know the header is not a very nice thing to say about our husbands, but I promise that after you read this you will think the same thing. Ok, well first off as you can see from these pictures they are playing baseball with a little tykes toy. They missed the ball a lot!

Then they have this great idea to try to knock out a large branch out of a tree in their yard. They find a rock and tied a rope to it so they could throw the rock into the tree and pull the stick down. I wish that I was video taping this, It was so funny to watch. 1st attempt, they failed, 2,3,4,5th failed. So Anthonys like "Oh let me try, I can do it" So he gets all ready and Heather and I are like "oh he'll do it, he is a baseball player", Nope totally wrong. Anthony threw it.... it didn't go far and it hit a tree, but not the tree with the branch in it. On the way down the rock almost hits Eric and to top it all off, Anthony totally got a rope burn on his forearm where the rope wrapped around his arm! After many attempts and cherry blossom pedals everywhere, they got the branch down and a battle wound to show for it. Good job guys!