A Few Miscellaneous Pictures

Couch Time

Tummy Time

Sandwich Time

Christmas

The kids enjoyed the Christmas festivities this year, including decorating the tree,

visiting Santa,

baking cookies (and eating them, too!),

and posing for pictures.

Thanksgiving

We were blessed to spend Thanksgiving with John's side of the family.  Here is Grand Dad meeting William for the first time.

Grand Dad spent lots of time reading to the kiddos.  Here is is with Nicholas, Augustine, and Claire.

Grand Mom and Claire bonded as they read and colored.

We were even able to get outside for a little while and enjoy some sunshine!

The Aoun-Scivicque clan.

Grand Dad brought this awesome LEGO pirate ship that was John's when he was young. 

 

Nicholas and Claire had a great time carving pumpkins with Daddy.SS

Since Nicholas is not allowed to call his his little brother Billy, he decided that giving his pumpking that name was the next best thing.

 

Claire loves posing for the camera

And here is the final product.

 

Welcome Baby William!

 William Michael was born on October 5th at 7:10 a.m. 

He made such a fast entrance into this world that we were fortunate to make it to the hospital in time!

Nicholas was more than thrilled when he found out he had a little brother!

 Claire was just happy to have a real baby to hold.

 Here are big brother and sister taking a peak at William's full head of dark hair.

 Here is our new family of five.

 When we got home a few days later we discovered that William loved to sleep in his swing as long as it was NOT moving. 

 We spent lots of time holding William

 and cuddling him.

 Here are daddy and William having some guy time.

 I love spending quiet time in the evenings snuggling my little guy.

This is his favorite sleeping position.

Here's Nicholas on his first day of Kindergarten!  He loves school!

Thanks for the new bubbles, Miss Gretchen!

It's amazing how many shrieks and squeals of delight bubbles produce...

and how many hours of entertainment they provide.  I think we played outside all afternoon that day.

One hot afternoon the kids thought it would be fun to make their own forts.  Thankfully we kept all of our moving boxes, and here are the finished products. 

A Short Summer Get Away

 The kids and I took a last-minute trip to Michigan a few weeks ago.  We visited some friends who live close to the lake so that's where we spent the two days we were there.

They had lots of fun playing in the sand...

 but playing in the water was definitely their favorite thing to do.

 These four boys started hanging out when they were newborns and now they are all getting ready to start kindergarten!

 We ended our trip with a visit to my parent's before heading home.  Grandma got out the slip and slide, which was a big hit!