Husband Tag

I was husband tagged. I rarely do tags but thought I would give this one a try:

What is his name? Anthony Kent Austin
Nicknames? Tony, Toner, Gringo, his friends have nicknames for him that I refuse to post.
How long have you been married? 10 years
How long did you date? 8 months
How old is he? 32
Who eats more sweets? depends on what it is....me on candy but definitely him on donuts, pastries, chocolate and such.
Who said I love you first? He said it. But it was both of us talking about it leading up to it.
Who is taller? Tony a whole foot taller than me.
Who can sing better? Definitely Tony, have you checked out his music? (http://www.silentmonk.com/) He laughs at my attempts to sing along in the car
Who is smarter? Tony is more book smart than me but I think I'm more practical smart than him.
Who does the laundry? I always do.
Who pays the bills? I used to but hate it so luckily he does it now.
Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? I do. It's further away from the door.
Who mows the lawn? Our landlord. We both miss mowing my grandparents huge lawn.
Who cooks dinner? Me during the week, Tony on the weekends.
Who drives? He does if we are together. He hates my driving.
Who is more stubborn? Depends, we both have our moments.
Who kissed who first? He gave me a nice little kiss on the cheek.
Who asked who out first? He always asked me out when we were dating.
Who has more siblings? He does with 4 brothers and 1 sister.
Who wears the pants? I think we both equally wear them.
Kiegan just said, "that I mostly wear pants more because dad always wears shorts." You got to love a kids perspective.

The gerbil game

Jonah: Mom I want to play Gerbil
Me: Gerbil?
Jonah: Ya, you know the gerbil game.
Me: I don't know that game. How do you play?
Jonah: You know you spin it and get things.
Me: I have no idea what you are talking about. We don't have a spinning gerbil game.
Jonah: Mom, you know.....Gerbil, gerbil, gerbil, I made it out of clay, gerbil, gerbil, gerbil, my gerbil I will play.

4 month checkup

Belle's stats:
23 in. ......50%
12 lbs. 6 oz. .....75%
head 15 in. .....3%

Weekend with Than

Last weekend Tony's brother Than came to visit us. More like visit Tony but we got to enjoy him a little bit too. The Yankees and BYU were in town so they got to go to both games. They lost their voices, got sunburns, and the Yankees lost, but they had a blast together. It is really to bad we live on opposite coasts. We miss him and his family.
I love this pic of Than and Belle. So cute!

Belle's evaluation at Children's was great. She is doing everything she is suppose to be doing. We have a few little things to work on but she is doing so good. She is 4 months today! YEAH!!

Beautiful Belle

I took Belle to her first evaluation the other day. It was at this wonderful place called the Kindering Center. They have a fabulous program for infants and children with special needs. The evaluation was very interesting. They somehow assessed communication, motor, self-help, cognitive and social-emotional development. (I know, bizarre to be able to do this with a 3 1/2 month old) Nonetheless it was an eye opener. She is right where she is suppose to be on all of them except cognitive. They gave some suggestions on what we can be doing and we will be working with an occupational and physical therapist once a month. The best part.....they come to my house. This silly extra chromosome sure makes us look at things in a different light. She is truly our little miracle. We are all still as smitten with her as the day we brought her home. Next week she has a whole other evaluation at Childrens. It is an all day thing 10 to 4. She is a good sport and loves the attention so it shouldn't be to bad. We will see if they say anything different. I'll keep you posted.

First Day of School

The boys have been so excited to start school. I have to for my own reasons. Number one reason... to be back on a schedule. I admit, I'm a freaky schedule girl. It was so nice to have one today. I loved it. What I didn't love was watching my baby go to Kindergarten. I can't believe Tate is in the big K. Another thing to admit, I may have had a few tears as I walked home after dropping him off. I know not a big surprise, I cried with all my boys on their first day of school. But Tate still seems so little to me. It didn't phase any of them that it was the first day today. I am so proud of them. Here they are posing this morning. It looks like I caught them all praying. Monkey see, Monkey do.

But here are Tate's true feelings about today.

A Summer to Remember.....