Eating something green

Here it is. Proof that Shiloh will not wither up and lose her teeth from scurvy or some other never-eats-her-vegetables disease. She actually consumed broccoli this week. Twice! And both time she actually asked for it! When the doctors tell you "just keep putting healthy food in front of her, eventually she'll eat it" they don't tell you that their theory takes 2 years to come to fruition
I told John and Lincoln that I was going to do one quick post of just that single picture of Shiloh to commemorate the happy event and this was their sad face (since I supposedly didn't want to post a picture of them too)


I have some great shots to post of our December happenings. I'll try to do another post this week!

Getting a good Christmas card photo

Yep. It's that time of year again. Don't think for a second that getting the Christmas shot is a happy, joyful, great tradition at our house. More like a cajoling, pleading, "it's so much fun to drive mom crazy" evening of chaos. First I had Lincoln get dressed in the clothes I wanted him to wear. That part went fine. Then after finishing putting the lights on our tree, and arranging the props I went to change Shiloh into her Christmas dress. Lincoln took that time to remove all his clothes and put on his current favorite outfit which consists of a too-small camo shirt, batman pajama pants and a homemade cape. And of course the ever-present sword. I made him go change again prompting a barage of tears. Even the spider man treats I bribed him with couldn't make him smile.

During the entire shoot Shiloh kept raising both her arms up above her head every time I put the camera up to my eye! I don't know when she discovered it was fun to torture me...
Oreos helped Lincoln's attitude and so did a quick costume change:

Then John came home and it suddenly became much easier to get Lincoln to smile.


More and more I'm noticing how much Lincoln wants to be just like his Daddy. Which means that the smiling-nicely-for-pictures days are over! I just know I'll never be able to get a family picture again without someone doing the bunny ears

September and October 2008

Here's my smiley 2 year old girl. These days we're working hard at potty training. Her favorite things are hauling her baby dolls around and covering them up with dishcloths and dirty laundry (aka blankets) and singing. Every night we sing 4 or 5 songs in bed before she goes to sleep including 'itsy spider' and 'twinkle star'. Soon I will post her singing the ABCs for you...


Here she is unhappily waiting for her turn to cut playdough with scissors. Why is that so fun?!?

John doesn't know either, but he sure is happy! Most likely because that's a picture of beer you can't quite see in the foreground :)

The battle between good and evil

John received a Kitchen Aid for his birthday (here it is making cookies for us!) which I am really enjoying. The kids are enjoying the gift too... These days Shiloh and Lincoln play together quite nicely in the evenings.

Lincoln 'reads' Shiloh books, Shiloh plays with her baby dolls and sometimes they just run around like crazy people.
It's nice that Shiloh doesn't require as much dedicated attention and it free me up to concentrate on other things. Such as waging WAR!!!!!!!!!!
Last night John and I had a Risk battle. I'm sorry to say that yesterday evil (John) prevailed, but tonight there is a rematch...

Back from Vacation

Yesterday was our first day back and work/preschool. At lunchtime the kids and I went by MickelDonals (as Lincoln calls it) for a treat. We took our picnic to the Peger street bridge. As we drove up we saw a huge congregation of ducks who swarmed our blue car as we emerged with our smelly french fries. We ran away!

We headed for the picnic tables where we could sit up high and be safe from the ducks. I had visions of them attacking us and stealing our food but luckily they lost interest and wandered into Pioneer Park. We enjoyed our health-free lunch and then headed off to school where the kids were excited to play with buddies.


Being back from vacation made me appreciate both how great John is at helping with the kids and how important it is to take a vacation every year!

Jersey Shore Vacation Part 2

After the initial rough landing we had a beautiful sunny time on Long Beach Island. We spent time at the beach every day playing in the water and building sand castles


We went to Fantasy Island and played carnival games one day

Ski ball was the best

and then back to the beach house to play with the toys we bought with the tickets we won


A time out for mini-golf and ice cream


then back to the beach






I'm sad that we're done with the beach but we have plenty of fun left. I love the multi-part vacation! Next is a few days at the Gythfeldts' house in Conneticut and one last Yankees game before they tear down Yankee Stadium.

Getting there is half the fun?

It's vacation time! We're heading off to the Jersey Shore for a week of sun and sand.

We should have been cleaning up the messy house 2 days before we left but instead we took time out for a Rock'M'Sock'M robots match and some stuffing our faces with cheerios.


Lincoln showed me his big muscles while we waited for our plane to leave

Superman was on our plane!


I sincerely hope that getting there is not half the fun. I'm hoping for more like 1/8th of the fun as airports are not fun places with preschoolers. On the plus side of getting there, Shiloh chose to throw up on John and not me during our descent into hurrican-y Newark! More sandy, sunny pictures later.

Happy Birthday John!

John turned 36 yesterday.

We here at Scherzerville know how blessed we are to enjoy his company every day. But we wanted to take this opportunity to share with the world (or at least the 4 of you that occassionally check out this blog - ha ha ha) some of his most excellent super-heroish qualities.

patient


fun!





tall


In addition to these qualities he also can:
* balance a spoon on almost any orifice when we go out to eat
* throw any of his 82 wiffle ball pitches on demand
* cook up a mean batch of chile
* clean the entire house in a single afternoon
* look good while doing all of the above








I love you John. Thanks for being you.

Cute August videos

Shiloh likes fudgesicles. She must also listen to the things I say because she mimics me when she holds conversations with herself

In case you couldn't understand what she was saying, here it is:
"No mess, Shiloh", "Sorry", "Big mess"
Lincoln is a helper. He insists on helping all the time. He did a great job helping John to paint our new picnic table

Lincoln's 4th Birthday

We got the Jumping Castle again for Lincoln's birthday this year and invited the whole neighborhood





This is what a gaggle of candy starved kids looks like when the Pinata breaks

John was in heaven as the grill was filled with food. He cooked us yummy sausages and chicken and corn


The Justice League stopped by for a photo op

Before I forced them to go to bed at 1130 pm!!!


Happy 4th to my Little Man

July sped by

We had all sorts of fun this month.




The Golden Days Parade was fun (although 2 kids high on sugar was less so)



Lincoln's birthday came and went and then before we knew it the fair was in town!
The army helicoptor he got to climb in was the hightlight for Lincoln


Shiloh wasn't sure about the choochoo train but she warmed up once they got going

and the big slide was definitely a hit

I am so OLD now. My heart was racing while we were on the ferris wheel (sad, I know)