what a lovely spring day

Today was a beautiful day. We've had a string of nice days where the weather's been in the mid-seventies. Today we decided to go outside to enjoy the fresh air after our youngest, Brian, got up from his nap. We were out there for perhaps an hour. Brian had shoes on for the first time. I don't think he was that thrilled with them. We don't wear shoes in the house, so Brian hasn't worn shoes till now. Alex had his bubble-blowing puppy toy he was playing with out there, blowing bubbles everywhere. I brought out a tricycle we bought for him last year, when his legs were too short to reach the pedals. Now he can reach them, but he wanted to just walk the tricycle with his feet, instead of using the pedals. With the spring weather just starting, we'll have tons more days where it will be fit to go out and enjoy it as a family. We plan on taking full advantage of those days. Maybe one of these lovely days we'll have ourselves a little picnic there on the front lawn. When the breeze blows, you can hear the wind chimes from our neighbor's house. It's nice to listen to at night. Last night was a bit breezy so they were dinging away.
Tonight's dinner, which you'll see on my wife's blog as the recipe of the week, was cheesy stuffed shells. It's large pasta shells, stuffed with mashed potatoes, ham, and sweet corn. Then the shells are topped with cheese sauce. This recipe was given to us by Jeanne's friend Gen. She has contributed another recipe to our repertoire that will probably also make it to recipe of the week called Pepperoni chicken.
Now that the kids are in bed, it's time to see what there is to do. Take care everyone, and happy reading.

The Wifey

My wife's name is JeanneMarie. I met her through a mutual friend back in early 2004. We spoke on the phone, and over the computer through emails and over MSN Messenger. We were married in Septerember of 2004. She currently works at a group home for the mentally retarded here in town. She seems to enjoy it, although there are plenty of mornings where she'll come home, very tired, and even, very stressed over what's happened during that night or morning. She works nightshift, which start at 10PM for her, and she finished up at 8AM. She has Friday through Sunday off, so it's during this time that we do stuff together, such as play with kids, doing housework, getting any shopping done that we need to, and watch movies on TV, just to name a few things.
She is a fantastic cook. She thoroughly enjoys cooking. If anyone reading this checks out her blog, I'm sure this will become quite obvious. We have two wonderful kids so far, and when it's all said and done, one day down the road of life we will have four kids total. we hope to move from this apartment into a house at some point, which will enable us to spread out a little more.
My wife loves the Harry Potter series, both the books and the movies. She also enjoy horror films like I do, but she also likes the romantic movies. She's a huge Beatles fan as well. She has all the albums, and has probably seen all the Beatles movies. The only one we have right now is Across The Universe. She likes the Saw movies. We have all five, but I've only seen one and two so far. She and her friend Gen, will be working on Jeanne getting her driver's license. This will be a huge help to us not having to rely on anyone to get us from point A to point B. Her grandma has been very helping in getting us where we need to go, but at the same time it will be nice to be able to just get up and go where we have to without having to check with anyone else's schedule.
That's all I'm going to write for now, but keep readin to learn more about my family and the funny things that go on here. Feel free to post your comments to these posts.

What about Brian!

I figured, since I've written something about Alex, I should put up a post talking about our other son, Brian. Brian is fourteen-months-old now. He can walk very well. Sometimes he'll crawl if he wants to get somewhere really fast, but for the majority of the time, he's walking everywhere. The days are fast approaching where he'll really start getting into things. When Alex learned to walk, and subsequently learned he can reach things he's never been able to reach before, he was getting into all sorts of things. The one thing Brian really loves to get into right now, is the garbage under the sink. He'll just open the door, stick his hand in, and pull out something nasty lol. He gets away with it more when I'm taking care of them during the weekdays, because my wife works the nightshift, so while she's asleep, I'm in charge. Brian also has eight teeth, and is working on more. He's got quite an appetite let me tell you! One night, he ate three whole plates of food. He eats jsut about everything we do. Brian can also drink out of a hard-spout sippy cup now. He's been doing it for a while. He'll even steal Alex's cup and drink out of that if Alex isn't paying attention. I think brian has the worst temper out of the two boys. Brian also likes to cuddle up to you more than Alex did. Both boys sleep through the whole night and are in a good mood when they wake up.
I think that's all for now, but rest assured, there will be more posts in regards to Alex and Brian in the future. Those boys are always doing something. You can tell me some interesting stories about your kids, or even someone else's kids. I'm sure there are plenty of amusing stories out there.

Getting hair washed

My wife and I are at a loss as to getting our son Alex's hair washed. Currently, we wet his hair a bit, then we put on the shampoo. This shampoo is tear-free by the way. After the shampoo is firmly in his hair, we rinse it out with water in a little plastic cup. It's fine when we pour the water over the back part of his head. When the water starts pouring down the front of his head however, that's when the battle begins. He starts crying and he rubs the shampoo into his eyes, which causes them to start hurting. He doesn't want to lay down in the bath. He doesn't want to hold a cloth over his eyes. We've tried getting him to tilt his head way back, and we've also tried to get him to squeeze his eyes very tightly. My wife Jeanne has suggested to him that we could use the detachable shower hose to wash the shampoo out, and he's fine in the beginning of that, until the water hits him in the face. We don't know of anything else to try to get this boy's hair washed! We've just had to muddle through with the plastic cup of water, because that's all he'll really tolerate. If anyone reading this has any suggestions at all, feel free to leave comments with ideas. We'll try anything within reason.