Christopher's 5th Birthday!!!

Christopher Jamar Sheler, Jr. was born on January 4th, 2006. Aunt PJ was in the delivery room with BobbiJo, Chris, and PJ and BobbiJo's mom trying to help out. Uncle Chad came up to the hospital later to join us in welcoming our newest nephew into the world.

On Sunday the 16th, we went down to Colorado Springs to celebrate the fact that he's been alive for five whole years! It's still amazing that it's been that long...it seems like it was just yesterday he was born!

Anyway, we got him a Star Wars mighty beanz carrier in the form of the Millennium Falcon with two mighty beanz of Chewbacca and Han Solo. It was sooo cool! After playing with the beanz, PJ has decided she wants some for herself! Ha ha!

Ready to open his gift

We couldn't find our scotch tape, so we had to use masking tape instead...ghetto-fabulous, we know!

Everyone was waiting with such anticipation!

What is it?!?!

He liked it!!!

We also got small gifts for the other kids as well. Connor got an Army doll, and Relena and Miko got an eyeshadow and lipstick set...Tori didn't mind not getting anything.

She's such a girl!

Miko dove right in!

Starting with putting on her lipstick!

Yeah, she's a pro!

Next came the eyeshadow...which went everywhere but on her eyelids! Ha!

Relena after doing up her face...

Miko with her face done up!

Tori enjoyed the bouncer that her Aunt BobbiJo brought out for her. We borrowed it from her and now Tori is enjoying it at home now, too!

Sake and Wrangler came along for the celebration...they played hard, then crashed in the hallway.

 

And, because of the pups, Connor wouldn't let his momma put him down until Chad took them for walks.

Later on, PJ took Relena in the bathroom to apply eyeshadow on both of them...they emerged with rainbow colored eyelids! Chad said they looked "80's glam-a-rific!"

Rainbow Power!!!

Trying to get a picture together to show our awesomeness!

You can barely see PJ's shadow...how sad!

Finally, we asked BobbiJo to take our family picture. She obliged, after she held Tori one last time - Tori was sooo tired at that point. Both girls and pups (and Chad) slept the whole two hour drive home. It was a wonderful time, and we wish we could do it more often!

Aunt BobbiJo with a very tired Tori

Happy but exhausted!

Happy Birthday, Christopher!!! We love you!!!

Busy Week!!!

It was a busy week, with no one day standing out enough to write about just it.

One day, Miko watched TV while eating her breakfast (she wanted a Pop-Tart that day). She stood on a crib mattress that she uses to bounce on. We wanted to get her a trampoline for Christmas (girl loves to bounce), but the funds weren't there for that kind of extravagant gift (maybe when she's older, we'll get her one of those big ones you put in the backyard!). PJ's best friend Ili had given us a crib when we were pregnant with Miko. The crib had some stripped screws and wobbled when we put it together, so we got a "mini" crib from a consignment shop to use. The crib Ili gave us sat out in our garage with Chad promising that he would glue the pieces together to make it more sturdy so Miko could use it...it really is a beautiful crib. Well, Chad never got around to fixing it, and Miko moved on to a big girl bed. Now Tori is using the little crib that Miko used. Anyway, we brought the mattress that came with Ili's crib inside so Miko could have something besides the couch to jump on. She loves it!

Another day, Miko and PJ decided to have a "craft" kind of day. PJ decided to make colored macaroni noodles. Miko got a small beaded purse for Christmas, and there's not a lot that will fit in it...although she did bend a puzzle piece enough to jam it in there. Ha ha! So, PJ made colored macaroni for her to put in there.

Miko, on the other hand, painted to her hearts content...by the time she was done, she needed a shower!

On another day, Tori decided to pose nice for the camera after she rolled over during tummy-time!

Then there was the day that PJ put Tori in the highchair while she was fixing dinner and Miko gave her a bunch of her favorite books and toys to look at and started pushing the chair around the kitchen. This was the result:

Now, during all this excitement with the girls, the furkids didn't want to be left out...namely our newest fur-son, Wrangler.

PJ will leave him out of his crate during nap times for a couple hours, and he usually does just fine. Well, one night we decided to see how he would do overnight with access to just the living room and kitchen. This is what we woke up to find:

Sake just wanted to get in the shot.

So, from now on it will be this:

 

At least until we feel we can try trusting him again! 

"I thought you had my back, Sake!"

Fun on 1-11-11!

Chad had to work...when he left, it was -10 degrees outside! We were tempted to grab some of Miko's bubbles and go outside and blow some to see if they would freeze, but neither one of us wanted to go out in that freezing cold. He did eventually head out to work and PJ felt bad for him.

PJ spent the day in our 70+ degree house with the girls. Miko wanted to sing and dance to The Wiggles (it's a group of four men from Australia that sing and dance for the kids...PJ actually loves them and has a small crush on Sam - the yellow Wiggle. Hee hee.) After doing that for a whole show, PJ was ready to do some sort of game. On our Netflix...Miko actually knows how to turn it on through our Wii and pick her own shows to watch. Usually it's Dora, Diego, or Blue's Clues. Lately it's been Fraggle Rock, Rug Rats, The Littles, Thomas and Friends, Pingu, or The Wiggles...and sometimes Barney. PJ tries to limit the amount of TV she gets, so she milks it and uses it as much as she can.

PJ sat Miko in her high chair (we got it out for Connor when BobbiJo stayed with us in October, but kept it out so Miko could do messy crafts in a more confined area), and gave her a dollop of shaving cream. Miko was thrilled! She was so gentle with it in the beginning. She even started making elephant sounds because it looked like it had a trunk.

Making elephant sounds

Carefully removing the "elephant trunk" - she was amazed watching it disappear when she rubbed her fingers!

Here she was counting...she can count to 5 most times perfectly!

She's an excited counter!

Starting to get into the texture of the shaving cream

It was fun watching her have fun!

While Miko was having fun with the shaving cream, Tori was having fun laying around watching things move.

And, what was she fascinated in? It was a Jeff Gordon mobile PJ's sister gave us when she was pregnant with Miko...everyone just knew we were gonna have a boy. PJ saved it in case we had a boy for our last kid. Well, since we were blessed with two girls, she broke it out anyway. Hey, girls can love NASCAR just as much as the guys do...look at PJ! Ha ha!

The coolest mobile ever!!!

 We finally got a family picture as well!