Fall pictures coming soon!

I plan on taking the kids out to the campground hopefully this weekend to get some nice fall pictures of them. We were out there last weekend and went on a hay ride and I know the perfect spot to take the kids pictures. It's right by the water with the beautiful colorful tree's in the background. I can't wait! I wanted to do it this weekend since it was gorgeous out, but the kids were seperated and we just didn't have the time. But I will definitely try to get it done this weekend and get them posted. I am also taking Markie and Ricky to a cider mill and meeting Lori there, so hopefully I will get some good fall pics there too, but I am not taking Ben or Charlotte, this trip is just for the older ones. So for now, just scroll down to see recent pics and updates on all the kiddos! Leave a comment and let me know you stopped by! Thanks for looking and reading! God Bless!!

Ricky

Ricky is doing good. He is getting the help he needs at school and is starting to do better in the learning department. He's had 2 spelling tests so far and got 100% on one and 83% on another and the 83% was due to me loosing the spelling list and not being able to go over the words with him, so he did that all on his own, which I thought was great! I have him read everynight and he has some struggles, but it's getting better. He listens real well. I hardly ever have to yell at him. Although today was the first time I seriously had to yell at him when I caught him trying to get the lit candle off the entertainment center because he said that Markie wanted the other candles to be lit. So I yelled at the both of them telling them that when they play with candles they can cause fires and when you have a fire, you loose your home, clothes, toys, everything. I think it sunk it, lol. Especially when toys are concerned. LOL. He gets to see Nick often. Every weekend since my mom has had Nick. We took all the kids to Chuck E Cheese and they had a blast. Ricky has gotten to see Anthony often too, just not as much as Nick. You can definitely tell he looks up to his older brothers. He gets to talk to his mom too. He never asks to call her though, so he doesn't talk to her as often as I would want to talk to my children if they weren't home. So when I can remember, I call his mom for him. He's learned to ride a bike, which he is super excited about. He just has a little hard time at getting started on it. He just can't seem to get that you have to make sure the peddle is on the top. But once he gets going he is flying. I have to remind him to slow down or else he's going to hurt himself bad if he falls. Here are some updated pics of him also:

Here's Ricky being goofy with the camera:

Here is another where he is taking pictures of himself, lol:Here he is camping, he was acting goofy for his brother who took the picture:And this is his first day of school picture (2nd grade). My battery died after this shot, so this is the best I got:

Charlotte

Charlotte is growing so fast! She is learning the ropes being the youngest child here. She has also learned to scream when some takes something from her or if she doesn't get her way. That child has some lungs on her! It's not the blood curdling scream you'd expect from a little sweet girl, but a screeching type scream which I think is even worse, lol. She's snatchy now too. She's learned that from Ben. She snatched his cookie from him one day and took off! Of course Ben threw a fit and I told him to go after it and then him and Charlotte had a screaming fest while they both pulled the cookie back and forth. Finally after I could take the screaming anymore, I intervened and made Charlotte give the cookie back since it was Ben's after all. And to my suprise when Ben pulled the cookie apart to eat the inside, he shared the other half with Charlotte and she went on her merely way. LOL. She is finally getting teeth. She has both her eye teeth in and has her two bottom ones coming in. I think her two front teeth are next to follow. Right now I call her "Miss Snaggletooth" since she just has those two eye teeth sticking out, lol. It's cute to see her smile. Here some recents of her:

I bought Charlotte this cute headband on Etsy and she will not keep it on. Here I am holding her hands down so I can get a picture and as you can see, she is pulling back, lol:

Ok, got a good decent one, but that lasted about 2 seconds and she ripped it off:Charlotte the thumbsucker #2. Oh boy!:Charlotte with cousin Nick. We were camping so she's got a big mosquito bite on her forehead and she's just wearing a diaper since it's so dirty out there, she's better off with no clothes on, lol:Cake anyone?:

Benjamin

Ben is being the booger he always is. He's our wild child and completely all boy! We were trying to potty train him since he is definitely ready, but we've just been so busy and haven't been home long enough to train him properly, so we are just waiting for some time off work to put him on potty training boot camp time! Next week Mark or I are suppose to get laid off for the week, so that is when one of us plans on training him. Boy will it be nice to only have one in diapers. It would be even better to have none in diapers, lol! Oh those days are coming and I can't wait!!!!! Ben is talking a lot more. Some of his sayings are "Right here" when asked "Where's Ben?" and "Ricky get up!!" when getting Ricky up for school, "Peekle" for "Pickle", "I'm wet" as in change my diaper now! and that's all I can think of for now. Oh and he says "I don't like it" when he has to eat something he doesn't like. He learned how to ride his bike too. With training wheels of course. I had him ride his bike up to the bus stop to get Markie and Ricky and he did pretty good, of course it took us forever to get up there, but he had fun and that's what really matters! Here's some recent pics:
Here is Ben sitting in a bin, playing in Markie and Charlotte's room:

Here is a dirty face Ben (as usual) look a little chinese in this picture with Markie's tights on his head, don't ask me why, lol.:Put 'em up buster! Ben loves to play with dad's power drill. I think he's going to take after daddy!:

Here he's playing in a rusty old wagon that Mark took apart so he can make a newer one. Ben was helping daddy with the building process:And here is the finished product. Pretty good, huh? Of course Ben had to try it out and he likes it!

Markie

Markie is doing good. She just had her 6th birthday and got lots of toys! It was such a nice fall day too. I just love fall! She is doing good in school. She has a few problems with math, but I think she's mainly just not paying attention. We'll be working on that! Since she is 6 now we are working on her thumbsucking habit. I am hoping she'll kick the habit at least during the day like when she's on the computer, watching TV, or riding in the car. I'll let her slide at night time since most of the time she's sleeping and can't help it. Here are a couple of recents of her:

This is her first day of school (1st grade):

And this is one of her friends from Kindergarten:

And here is a bad hair day picture, lol:
Here she is being goofy, as always, lol:And here is her 6th birthday party, just this past Sunday:

After much searching....

I am finally going to post pictures!!! I had to search all over the place for my USB cord, but I finally found it. So I am going to post some pictures along with updates on each of the kids. Thanks for looking!!

It's been awhile!

I have been so busy lately, I haven't had time to make any updates. Doesn't really matter anyways since nobody has visited since my last update, lol.

All is going good around here. The kids are getting along fine. Ricky has started school and is doing ok. He is cognitive impaired which means he has a hard time learning and thinking. It's pretty evident when I ask him questions like "What did you do in school today". He says he can never remember and he can't think of anything. Hopefully we can help him improve in that area. I've been working with him and Markie every night before bed on their writing, reading, and spelling. I am going to add Math in the mix pretty soon. I also need to add bible verses. I've been slacking on that and I don't like it! I have some first day of school pics that I will post soon, but not right now because I am just too lazy, lol. Plus I feel like I might be coming down with something. I sure hope not, but that seems to be the way it is lately. I was really hoping to get my lawn mowed since it hasn't been mowed in a couple of weeks (like 4, I think, lol). Thankfully it's not looking too shaggy yet. I really hope I don't some down with something. I had also planned on taking the kids to the back to school bash city hall was having tomorrow. It's free fun, and with 4 kids now, free is my middle name!!

I might also let Nick spend the night tomorrow again. He spent the night last week and really liked it here. He cried himself to sleep at my mom's because he wanted to come back here. He just likes having all the kids around. He's use to chaos and at my mom's he doesn't have that. He sees it here, lol. He is such a sweet heart. He called me twice this week. He told me the first time he called that he wanted me to pray for him to stop having nightmares and to pray for his mom because everytime he talks to her she complains about how sick she feels. He said he keeps praying to God and nothing changes and that he feels God isn't hearing him. I just wanted to give him a big hug. I reassured him that God does hear him, it's just that our prayers aren't always going to be answered the way we want them to because God knows better than we do. I told him that this might be God's way of letting him live up here and getting to know all of us. I didn't really want to tell him that God has him living up here so he can have a better life. He thinks his life was just fine down there. So I guess we'll just let him keep thinking that. Just show him a better life up here. Then the next day he called me back all excited to say that he didn't have any nightmares and when he talked to his mom, she said she was feeling better! I was so glad to hear that. And he was so happy. Then he said that when he goes to bed he is going to do 50 push-ups then he's going to pray. I thought that was cute and funny! He's a good kid, I hope he stays that way!!

Well, I guess that's all for now. I'll update soon (or at least I will try). I want to get some recent pics on here to, so I can share my cute kids with you all, lol. So take care, thanks for reading, and God Bless!!

Update on our new situation

Well, as I said in my last entry that I was going to trust in God that the last 2 boys got good homes...God has came through, just like I knew He would. My mom and Brother and SIL took in the last 2, so now they are all together, but living separately. I am so glad that all of us have them so they can stay in close contact with each other. We just got to spend the holiday weekend with all 4 boys and it was chaos, but it was great. Ricky was really excited to see his brothers and they all played together. There were a few mishaps, but we all got through them. It was nice.