WANTED: My kids' sense of fear....

If you have it, have seen it or find it, please send back to the Nances, Ohio, USA!

Seriously...this was all during THIS morning :) Thankfully the rest of the day proved to be more relaxed!

First we have Trouble T...

"Warlock, buddy I'm trying to free you...."

"Ah, this isn't working, how about I tell you a joke!"




Then we have Kimberlyn taking advantage of a break in the rain showers we had today and washing the roof of their play house! She said she needed to work to get money?? This stems from our allowance system...it used to be based off of behavior but has recently been changed to behavior is assumed and you must "pitch in" with household chores or you don't get your weekly allowance. How cute!




Last we have Trouble T---No, no I think he's earned the name "Dare Devil T"

"Fish watching is for the birds..."

"I think I'll climb up...."

"Wow, look what I see, this is great!" Please notice the yellow cap that you can see on the tank cover. This is the fish food Larry has "hidden" from Tommy as he LOVES taking it and placing it a way more sensible place in our home...only to be understood if you are ONE! He also can finagle the lid OFF and graciously shares it with anybody or anything that may enjoy playing in fish food!

Over all today went smoothly...we went out to breakfast to celebrate the kids' last day of school today. Was a nice time and Dad even joined us!
The kids came home and now Kaitlyn is having a sleepover with her friend, tomorrow Robby will have a friend stay the night...MUST keep things equal! hehehe!

It's officially summer here at our home!

P.S. I told you it got calmer....sweet Tommy boy playing with Mr. Potato Head IN his toy bin!

Remembering Mom...

and Grandma
Patricia Lavergne Emerson
February 14, 1948 to June 3, 2007

Trouble "T"

Tommy LOVES going into the pantry looking for trouble. Here we have him helping himself to cheerios. Then Emma decided she wanted a bite....the picture where he appears to be pointing at her was JUST after she TOOK his bite :) The last picture was after I said "get a bite" to snap a picture of him and he thought I wanted a bite and brought it to me! He's astinker and we adore him!



So I'm sure I have other fun stuff to share....and I like to do things in order, BUT this was this morning (after a messy breakfast- see his face and shirt)-


He got a weight check on Thursday when the girls and I headed to the doctor....turns out Kaitlyn and MOM had strep throat....boy those antibiotics are wonderful. We're all better now! At anyrate.... he's right at 21 1/2 pounds at 17 months old!!!

Peek-a-Boo!!!

This was from a few weeks ago...May 2nd to be exact!! Tommy was showing off his peek-a-booing skills for Grandpa N.


May 12th....at one of Kaitlyn's riding lessons...it's a good ole time for all the kids! Here's Kimberlyn looking cute with Sweetie. Fun thing about this picture is we have a picture of both of our moms when they were kids riding a pony similar in color to Sweetie...some day that will be fun for Kimberlyn to see.
Tommy comes for the horse treats...

Tommy sitting on Sweetie while we were grooming her....this is what we do to pass the time while Kaitlyn has her real lesson!

May 24th....Memorial Day weekend. We first went for Kaitlyn to have a make up lesson and Daddy played with different camera settings...here are some neat shots he ended up with.



Then after her lesson we headed to the Columbus Zoo for the afternoon. Here's a well overdue family picture for you...naturally Tommy couldn't look! He was more concerned with the walking manatee behind him!

Here we have Grace, I mean Kimberlyn....this was Mom applying Kimberlyn's third band-aid...a little while after this she found a boo-boo on her elbow from her crash at the play area! SHe had FOUR band-aids....I bet they thought we abused her :)

Here we have Mommy and Tommy playing....I was blowing him kisses and he was just intrigued.

Mommy surprised and excited that Daddy caught our fun with the camera!

On our way out we hit Jack's Landing...a new amusement ride section of the Zoo....TOTALLY FUN!!

Tommy's first real ride...he wasn't too impressed and wanted OUT!!

Larry, Kimberlyn, Robby and Kaitlyn on the roller coaster!

Tommy doing what he does best....looking absolutely adorable! Poor boy was so tired and he just rolled with the punches while we had fun on the rides!!

A week or two in picture review...

So we got this new camera and who were we kidding...we've taken pictures like crazy. We must have used up all our energy on taken pictures leaving no energy left over to POST pictures for you!!

Here's Kaitlyn after her very first piano lesson...April 9, 2008




Here we have some shots of Robby from a soccer game on April 26, 2008...this would be the field that took the life of our old camera :)





Here's me trying out the new camera at Kaitlyn's riding lesson...which happened to be her first time to CANTER alone....she was all on her own and did great. She had cantered in the past and on her previous riding lesson pony...but not alone :) April 28, 2008
Kaitlyn grooming Lacy.
Robby's favorite pass time...
Tommy admiring the bunny...
Tommy loves Bailey the dog...this dog never gets tired of fetching and is patiently awaiting Tommy's throw to actually "go" somewhere :>)
Kimberlyn all cute with a cat...no short suplly of farm animals here!
Walking....
Trotting...
and CANTERING!!!


So here we Kimberlyn all cute in a photo shoot with Dad....April 29, 2008




Grandpa Nance visits for one of the Nance's craziest weekends ever....May 2, 2008...we seriously had to leave two events EARLY to be at the next event on time! I scrapbooked all day on Saturday and they stayed home...the soccer game got rained out, they needed the rest for the next day!




Robby singing the National Anthem with his school choir the ShaLaLa's at the Dayton Dragon's baseball game on May 4, 2008! Notice finally an almost complete family picture with the new camera (Robby was waiting to sing), Kimberlyn being adorable on a huge baseball, and last Tommy and Mommy....we're here for the food :)








THEN we literally rushed to grab dinner and make it to church for the "Good News Cruise" Musical....
Robby had a speaking part, Kaitlyn opted to just be in the choir.