we can can-can

check it out. Hope you like it. ;)robert

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Happy New Year!

welcome 2008!
I started off the new year with a bang. I was in bed asleep new years eve at 9:00. Yep you heard it 9:00. I was planning on being in Houston at a New Year's Eve party at Jen and Dave's but they decided to call it off a week prior due to Jen's high blood pressure. Good thing they did because they had ALTON JAMES on Dec. 31 around 5:5ish. Congrats yall!

The trip so far is going good. I have been busy making fleece hats and panchoes for everyone. Mom is getting ready to head out to the Philippines and the kids are having a blast.

Caroline is crawling and wants to walk like her brother and sister. Caroline loves to watch them run around and play.

Drew is trying to talk. Every now and then he gets going and you can understand more than Ah oh..Dada..Mama...Baby..Ball...light..cat and thank you. We are working on it.

Sammie is just talking away. The other day she was watching some talk show or criminal show like court tv or hard evedence and saw a jail. She comes up to Lola and says "just like time out for sammie and drew". Mom had no clue what she was talking about and I walk in the room and see there is something about the prison life....just like a very long time out for adults. I cracked up. Never thought about it that way.

She just learned the days of the week and askes everyday.....what day is it? CraZy little girl. At least she is learning.

That is all for now here in Texas. I will try and keep yall updated. The weather here is about 30 so much better than in Chicago 2. So glad to say....warm wishes from Texas!!!

Love ya,
:)Sesil

Merry Christmas from Texas

Wow... we made it to Texas. What a wild ride that was.
Now that we are all here we are all sick. Sammie started it all, she had a crazy cold and congestion, passed it to Andrew then the rest of us got it. Andrew got it so bad we had to go the doctor here in Texas and get antibiotics for him. So he is on medication and the rest of us are on over-the counter meds.

We have had a good time while here in Texas. We got to go out and hang\ out with our friends Heather and Daniel. It was good to hang out with them and catch up. Thanks yall.

I just wanted to wish everyone a great Christmas and a happy new year. Here is our holiday card to everyone! Love ya. (If you have not gotten your card in the mail I am still working on it. Just call me a slacker.)

Window paintings

Sunday Sammie was sick all day so we decided to keep the kids from school on Monday. So to keep them busy we painted the window. It was fun so here are the results….
Drew presents….”Corn”

Sammie presents….”pumpkin”


And I just wrapped everything up with “fall”


Here is the whole window



They just blob the paint on the window and I just went and added the circle and lines to Sammie’s picture and drew…I just added the other side of the corn for him. Caroline observed and supervised the painting of the window. She is a great supervisor. I think we will start painting the window once a month and see our creations grow. The kids love to paint on the window. They think it is fun. (At least this way we know that the window will be washed at least once a month. )

By the way... Sammie is fine, she just had a little stomach bug and she is as good as new now.
See yall soon.

SESIL

here are the pictures of the kids after we finished with the window. Proud little painters.

pirate pillages loot "aaarrrrrrrr!"

This pumpkin is NOT happy!
Another successful raid of loot and treasures!

The Devil made me eat 22 pieces of candy!

So off to the burbs for halloween, we took Moo, drew and sweet carolina out to Marie Amatos house to celebrate! As you can see Sammie was one cute little pirate, she would swing her arm and tell you "aaarrrr!". Drew is sporting his best devils costume , very scary! And sweet Carolina was a little pumpkin , but when she got too hot we took the pumpkin body off and she turned into a carrot stick. I'm pretty sure sammie and drews pediatrician and dentist would not have been happy about the evenings food choices....none were on the food pyramid unless the pryamid consisted of massive amounts of lollipops, chocolate , popcorn and an occasional starburst. The only thing they did not consume was pure sugar, which i'm sure they would have, had it been offered! Hope you all had a safe and fun Halloween!

circus

okay... blogger lost my original post. Too tired to re-post. I should have learned my lesson the last time this happened. Sorry. I will post again soon. Next time I will post with pictures.

Long story short....we went to the circus with Sammie and Drew.
:)Sesil

Circus

Last night Robert and I took Sammie and Drew to the circus. Sammie was excited and kept talking about the elephants, tigers and seeing JoJo(If some of you don't know Jo Jo is a clown on her TV show with Playhouse Disney and is her favorite cartoon) the ENTIRE way to the circus. We get there and get the tickets. We got general admition tickets so we found some seats and Robert was off to get the snacks and goodies. While waiting for the show to start they have elephant rides and pony rides for the kids to participate. We decided that was not something for us but the kids did like watching all the other kids riding the animals. Andrew kept waving a the elephants. Robert gets back with the goodies and the show finally starts.

The show started off with the Lion and Tigers. What amazing animals! Then there was this Romanian couple that did acrobatic maneuvers, while suspended high about the circus. Then there was an elephant that could balance and walk on this large cylendar thing. It was amazing. Then there were these ladies that would go up on the ropes and do their dancing and hanging from the ropes while the guys on the ground would swing the rope to make them spin. (do you know what i am talking about here?)

By that time Sammie was exausted and was ready to go home. so we packed up the kids and headed back to the house. I think we missed the majority of the show but the kids were just way tooo tired and I did not want to get to the point of them loosing thier minds because they were tired stage. We made it home by 9:30 and the kids just crashed. I think they had a good time, too bad we didn't get a chance to see the whole show. Maybe next year.

Update...

Where has the time gone.

We have been crazy busy. On the 23rd of September, Robert and I went with Jamie and Wade's family to the Cowboy vs. Bears game in Chicago. What a great time. We tailgated and then attended the game. Soooo much fun..... Jay (my buddy from Nacogdoches, TX) called while I was at the game. He said that I was on TV. TOOO COOL! Too bad I didn't Tivo it! About the same time Phylis said that Sammie pointed to the tv and said "Look there is mommy!" So I guess Sammie saw me too. Had a total blast! Thank you Donna Barns for finding the tickets.

Then the next day on the 24th of September, Andrew and Sammie started pre-school. It was a tough day for me because the both cried. But glad to say the crying stopped at the end of the week. They are both doing well at school. I will have to post the pictures. (okay... off to download some pictures)

This past weekend Laura and Van came to visit. We took everyone to Shaboygan, WI and went to Blue Harbor Resorts. Sammie and Van had a blast at the water park. Drew...was a little scared. Caroline had a little dunk in the water as well. I actually got to sit in the hot tub for the first time in a long time. (I am finally not pregnant.) So we all enjoyed the visit. Sammie is still talking about her Cousin Van and Aunt Laura. Thanks for coming down.

So off to download pictures. Enjoy. ;)SESIL

Pictures w/Dora

Sammie's Birthday Party.

We had Sammie's party on Sep 16th. Robert rented a moon walk and the kids loved jumping all day long. Sammie's third birthday was a hit! The weather was perfect! Here is a clip of all of us singing happy birthday to her. I will post more pictures too. :)SESIL

Dora - the moon walk we rented for the party



A funny picture to show how tall the moon walk was in the yard



Sammie jumping in the moon walk



Sammie saying hi to Daddy at the wall of the moon walk



Sammie pointing saying...you come in!

Happy Birthday Sammie!!

Happy Birthday Sammie....
Sammie and I made a cake last night and I finished decorating it for this morning. Sammie loved the cake, Party Hats and Balloons! I can not believe that she is three years old. Wow...how time flies by.

Hope you have a great day. sammie is having the best birthday. :)SESIL

Sweet Caroline....

Here are a few pictures of Sweet Caroline. I took these today. She is such a joy, laughing and loves watching the kids play. Thought I would share the pictures of Caroline with everyone.

Sammie's got a big girl bed.

Sammie sound asleep on her new bed.


I finally put her bed together. As you can see she loves her new Big Girl Bed. Now I just need to work on the pacifier and the diapers. hope all is well.

7 years...

Wow... Can not believe it has been seven years since Robert and I got married. How time flies by when we are having fun.

So for our anniversary we just went to oak st beach and played with the kids and had a great day. Here are some shots of Sammie and Drew.






I can not believe it is already August. Summer is just flying by.

It has been totally crazy at the Cratin household. With having three now I don't even know what day of the week it is. Most of our days are filled with playing in the sprinklers to keep cool and taking afternoon naps..the best part of the day.

Caroline is laughing out loud now. She totally digs her big brother. Sammie....well she still thinks she is the only child. They really are doing great. I am doing good as well. Just been keeping busy with my scrapbooking, knitting,crochet and trying to teach myself how to sew a quilt. So Okay....trying to do all this and keep up with three children. Just call me crazy.

Hope all is well out there with everyone. I will try and post soon. :)sesil

just a few things...

Here is a video of the kids. This is how we spend most of the day. PLAYING!!!

I wish.

So I do have a funny story to tell...
Everyday the ice cream truck comes through the neighborhood quite often. So one day Sammie asks if we can get ice cream from the truck. I keep telling her.."sorry Sammie Mommy doesn't have any money. We need money to get ice cream from the truck." so this went on for about three days. On the forth day she hears the ice cream truck and asks "Mommy, did you find money yet for the truck?" I had to laugh and tell her "no dear you have to tell your daddy to give mommy some money so we can get some ice cream." That night Robert comes home and Sammie immediately says "Daddy, go find money for mommy!" Not knowing what she was talking about I burst into laughter and explain to him what happened earlier that day. So she did ask her daddy to give/find me money for the ice cream truck. So now we always have a couple of bucks just in case the ice cream truck comes by.

Andrew and Caroline are doing great! Andrew is defiantly a little boy. Always banging things on the ground or throwing them across the room...that is Andrew. Caroline is starting to smile, she smiles at Drew but not to Sammie. We will see who will gang up on whom.

thought I would post to give everyone a good laugh. :)Sesil

Sammie our singer...

Okay... here is Sammie singing "Sweet Caroline" Enjoy. Sorry it is a little fuzzy on the video.
:)Sesil

This is what happens when.....

This is what happens when you dog sit and your son is just way too observant.

So this is how drew plays now after dog sitting for a friend of mine. Enjoy.

Sammie and her ABC's

Sammie can sing her ABC's check her out. And check drew eating a cryaon. enjoy. ;)SESIL

Summer Fun...

A few pictures in the backyard. Summer Fun.
Enjoy! :)SESIL