Lipani Family

So sorry to have been absent for a while. I was out of town last weekend and the week leading up to my trip was nuts. Maren was sick and then there was Will's stiches, my tire blow out and dead car battery (in the same day)! ANYWAY, I had a great trip and Michael had a great time with the kiddos. I intentionally left the camera home with him so he could take pics of the kids, but no such luck. Here are a few pics I stole from Mel's blog. They took the kids to DAC Kids where William had his birthday party. Michael needed to get out of the house for a bit and with the extra help from the Defuscos it was perfect. (These are Mel's captions from her blog)

Emily loves watching and following William. Thankfully, William does not mind....yet. He is actually very sweet with her. He takes her by the hand and leads her around, helping her when she needs it.

It was funny to watch the two of them together. William was leading Emily around by the hand and stopping to play with things along the way. As soon as Emily would try and play with whatever it was, he would take her by the hand and say "we have to go." AND she would just follow him and keep holding his hand! I need to get some pointers from him!

I had to post this one. Check out Emily's face. She has already perfected the look that every woman reserves for men. You know the one where you are secretly thinking "what were you thinking/doing?"

I brought Maren over to the toddler jumper, but she wasn't so sure about it. She had just woken up and was not so sure about me yet much less this strange place where I put her!

*So I get to this last picture and I study Maren's outfit and look at Michael and say, "You took her out in her PJ's?" He looks at me and says, "I didn't know that were pajamas. It was a shirt and shorts and besides, I thought she was cute as hell." Well, OK I guess I can't argue with that. I didn't think about laying clothes out for her. I forget that her outfits are a bit more complicated than Will's.

1. Will has quite a sweet tooth and part of it is our fault and the other part is his DNA. He had no shot given his Maw-Maw & I's knack for sweets. Not to mention I'm pretty sure his Nana found a way to put ice cream in his bottle. Tonight he decided he was done with dinner. I reminded him that once he got up we were done and no more snacks or desserts. We try to limit the number of nights he has a dessert after dinner. About 20 minutes later he realized that he was still hungry and begins to have a meltdown because I told him that it was too late. He continues to cry and carry on. I threaten to send him to bed and he sits sobbing on the bottom stair. At this point I've had enough and I'm about to send him upstairs when he completely stops and says, "Mommy, I'm done having this attitude."
Follow-up: I had saved his dinner and he decided he wanted to finish it. I warmed it up, he ate most of it and then asked for dessert. I put down a Kashi Oatmeal Dark Chocolate cookie and he took 2 bites and announced,"I'm all done. I'll leave this here for someone else." He made that statement because recently we fussed that he threw away 3 quarters of a banana. Michael eats bananas every morning so he told William, "Don't throw it away. Someone else may want to eat it." Not that we really wanted the mushy banana Will had manhandled, but it was a parenting moment! We gotta take 'em when we get 'em.

2. We have recently discoved a show called How It's Made on the Discovery channel. William sits and watches the whole thing with us. We have learned how they make bread, roof tiles, escalator hand rails, leather, boomerangs, etc. Tonight we had a bad storm and the satelitte went out so we put on one of our How It's Made that we have Tivo'd. We have 3 saved so we gave Will a choice by calling out what each show included. There was 3D Puzzles, CD's, Hearing Aids, Florescent Tubes and Toilets just to name a few. Care to guess what Will was most interested in seeing? Toilets, of course! I can't wait!