How many wishes can I have

Charlie at 6 mo.

I just wanted to give everyone a chance to see all Charlie's lil' faces.

At 6 mo. old I weigh in at 16lbs and 25 inches long.

I love chewing and drooling on everything.

I now babble and can say "da da"

I'm a picky eater, I only like rice cereal and milk.

Now that I'm sitting,

I'm the happiest when I'm sitting and playing

w/ my toys on the floor.

My sis' loves to play w/ me and make me laugh.

I'm hoping my sis' doesn't kill me w/ her love and kisses.

I love to pull my sis' hair, since I don't have any.

I still smile mostly at daddy

there's something I love about his face.

I love my mommy, daddy and sis( Alexa).

Redemption house

The church has marked off a 10 sq. mile part of Springfield, deciding that we will start working on that part of the city first. Our friends Scott and Anne have bought a multi-family house inside " The Zone" The house needs a lot of fixing and cleaning. They have been working on it daily. And have let us be a part of it. Anthony has been going over there and helping as much as he can. We have agreed that the work that we help out in will go toward our perrcentage of the house. And when it's all fixed up then we will move in and since the house is paid off the rent that we put in will go toward our percentage also. The percentage meaning that when they go to sell the house some time from now, the money and time we have put into the house will be added compared to them and we will get that percentage. The house mainly is so we can be in the area that we want to help through and w/ the church. We ask that all will pray for this area that we can clean it up and many lives will be changed. Also as we work to clean and fix it that we can do it safely and as soon as possible. Thank you. So here are the pictures of the beginning process and more will be added as work is done.

Forest Park

The family took another tour around Spriungfield, Ma. We found this huge park that is really close to our house.On half of it looks like what would be a golf course in Ca. w/ ponds, waterfalls, tails, a couple sites that would be beautiful to get married at. The other side is baseball fields , basketball courts, a rec. center, a playground which is right next to the zoo. It's not that big of a zoo but we still had fun. We go there quite often now. It's nice to just walk around and enjoy the beauty and watching the seaon changing right before your eyes.

Some more pictures of us enjoying the warm spring.

Alexa Reading to Charlie

It's cute when your 2 yr. old can memorize abiik you've read to her a thousand times. but it's even cuter when she can resite it to her 5mo. old lil' sister.

Cool things we've discovered

The last few days we've been trying to find fun things to do around the house. So we learned to get messy w/ out freaking out. Alexa discovered she likes to finger paint. Maybe she'll be an artist someday. When I told her it was clean up time she said, " No I'm working" boy was she working alright. By the time she was done there was paint all over her, the table and the four different colors were now one color...black. But instead of freaking out over the mess, like I usually would, I found it was more fun for both of us if we just had fun and worried about the mess later.

Second thing we've learned is fun is dress up. Alexa is completely happy if she's in any hat of Anthony's, a scarf, and her play shoes she got for Christmas. She like to walk around pretending she's going shopping. Her newest thing is that she wants a dog so she'll pretend that she's walking a dog. I wonder if it's some kind of hint.

Third thing we've discovered, during egg hunting was that nature can grow in very weird ways. There's a tree in our backyard that has grown through a fence.So there's a fence right through the middle of this tree. We thought it was pretty cool.

Easter 2008

This was probably the coldest Easter we've experienced. We did egg coloring like 5 days before Easter. Alexa was not very patient w/ waiting for the coloring to be done. But we survived. It's hard to do a egg hunt when it's 40 degrees outside. Honestly I think I got cold before Alexa or Anthony. This year we tried to explain what Easter is really about...Jesus but all she could say is " candy please" so maybe next year. We spent our Easter going to church, eating an early dinner, playing games, doing an egg hunt, and enjoying Alexa on a very extreme sugar high. Believe it or not we let her eat candy most of the day and then watched her run around like a chicken w/ its head cut off. Around 6:30pm she even started hitting herself and all we could do is laugh. Surprisingly she was good all day but then again she might have just been happy because she was getting sugar all day. I wanted to get the girls matching outfits, but Anthony wouldn't let me so the closest I got was matching colors. Over all we had a great day, most of it just trying to let Alexa run off the sugar. We even saw the bunny that lives in our backyard and Alexa and Anthony got to feed it carrots. What a cool thing to do on Easter.

Alexa's experiences

Since we've been here Alexa has experienced playing at the playground w/ snow and loosing her shoes in the snow. Along w/ playing in the snow she had to get use to wearing layers while running around. And if you know Alexa it's hard for her to keep layers on. we all seemed to be warm except our hands. In Mass. you can't wear cute gloves.

Second she learned how to make play dough. When it's cold outside you've got to find something to do. She actually didn't make a mess and when she was done we tried to color the play dough purple w/ food coloring but it came out military green. But she still plays w/ it.

Third she has experienced Dunkin Donut. Yep that's right there's only like two Starbucks in Mass. And there's Dunkin donuts like everywhere. Out here they love Dunkin Donuts like Ca. likes Starbucks. Alexa definitely loved the donuts.

Welcome to Mass.

We have arrived and are all ok. The girls and I arrived Tues. 3/4 at about 7pm. Anthony left Ca. 3/4 in the morning and got to Mass. Thurs. at 1:40am our time. Yes he only took 2 stops and got here in less than 3 days. He's crazy but at least he got here safe.

Where do I begin. Life here seems a lot different. Starting w/ the weather. We've been here 9 days and it hasn't snowed but there's still snow on the ground from a week and a half ago. Everyday looks sunny and warm but then you go outside and it's 30 degrees. Sounds weird huh? The houses here are very old, not everyone would agree w/ us but we think they're pretty. Very different than Ca. The roads have pot holes that you can't even imagine. We live in a multi-family home. Our doors are next to each other but our neighbors live above us and we live below. Our town is pretty small, yes smaller than where we are from. But it's homie. Here are pix off what's in our backyard. There aren't any fences so Alexa can run for miles.

Castle Park

The next place we went to was Castle Park in Riverside. You may be thinking like I did, " this isn't for kids", but we went and there are about 10 rides Alexa could go on plus miniature golf which wasn't fun for her all 18 holes, and arcades that she loved winning tickets to. We all had fun ( maybe not Charlie but she was good the whole day like always). And Alexa won a bunch of stuff from the arcades thanks to her dad and Uncle Calvin playing games.There are some rides that she had to ride by herself, which we thought she might be scared to do, but she actually was more excited to go w/out us:(

Last week in Ca.

For our last week in Ca. We decided to do all the Ca. things that we haven't done already. So here are our adventures. We went to the Scripps Aquarium. Which I recommend to anyone who has kids. It's just a bunch of aquariums w/ different fish.There was one fish who kept coming up to Alexa every time she would put her face on the glass. Alexa liked the shark the most. Then outside they have ponds where you can touch all the fish. Alexa loved holding the starfish. There's also ten pound lobster, which were HUGE, that you can see at 2pm when they feed them. Not only are the fish cool but there's also a beautiful view of the beach.