Jackson 33 months- July 2011

Dear Jackson-

You continue to be a sweet little guy but you certainly have a stubborn streak in you. You are very accommodating and at times you will play anything and you say "Oh, O.K. mommy". You are a happy boy but when you are not in a good mood watch out! You sometimes bite your brother and on more than one occasion have pushed him down to the ground for no apparent reason we are hoping that will subside in the coming months.

You enjoy having your cousin Katie here with you and every morning you get up and yell her name asking for her to come into your room. Katie has gone to stay with Uncle Adam and Uncle Dave but she will be back. When I told you that she wasn't here you started to really cry very loud. You also love looking for the pizza guy- outside everyone that walks by is the pizza guy!

Your new favorite toy is the red fire engine truck, you play with that truck for hours. You still like to pick out your own pajamas- usually only the shirt you pick up as you tend to wear what ever bottoms i pick out for you but you have to pick out the shirt.

All my love Jackson Reid. You are mommy's sun, moon and stars.
I love you with all of my heart-
Love Mommy

Shane 33 months- July 2011

Dear Shane-
We've had a good month and you continue to be a happy little guy. Your imagination is getting more vivid every day and you love to play by yourself but only for a short while as you immediately start to look for Jackson if he is not by your side. You continue to smile most of the time (that is when you are not crying). However you can cry at the drop of a hat.

We have had some visitors this month and that has just made your day. Auntie Kris and cousin Katie came out to Boston to say good bye to Auntie Ru and they stayed with us. You were sad that we couldn't see Auntie Ru anymore but delighted to see Auntie and Katie. Every morning when you get up you ask for Katie and the other day you looked through the key hole in her room and said "I see you".

During some of the days that you and your brother decided NOT to nap you have knocked over the chest of drawers in your room and we had another close call today. We have explored new parks in the area and had fun in the back yard. You have also started to fill in the word to certain sentences, my favorite is when I kiss you good night and I say that you Mommy's sun, moon and then you say stars.

I love you Shane Kilday with all of my heart.
-Mommy

A. Ru

This morning Auntie Ru passed. We will miss her and our trips to Bear Hill Nursing Home to visit her. While Shane and Jackson are very young and may not remember her, they brought such joy to Auntie Ru. We tried to go visit every Sunday and bring snowball visit in the library with the birds and have a wonderful day.

One of Auntie's favorite poems:

An Irish Blessing

May the road rise to meet you,

May the wind be always at your back,

May the sun shine warm upon your face,

May the rains fall soft upon your fields,

And, until we meet again,

May God hold you in the hollow of His Hand.

~A St. Patrick Blessing

Long before the boys were born Mommy and Daddy visited A. Ru on larch lane all of the time to eat supper in her pink kitchen and of course to play scrabble. The list goes on and on of how Auntie Ru impacted our lives, she was a very special lady to all of us and we will miss her dearly!

I wrote your name in the sand

but the ocean washed it away

I wrote your name in the sky

but the clouds blew it away
So I wrote your name in my heart

and thats where it shall stay.

~Author Unknown

Jackson calls flamingos- mangos
The boys went to a puppet show at the Watertown Mall! who would have thought but it was air conditioned and a lot of fun.

Twins

Two faces to wash, and four dirty hands
Two insentient voices, making demands
Twice as much crying, when things go wrong
The four eyes closing, with slumber song
Twice as many garments, blowing on the line
Two cherubs in the wagon, soaking up the sunshine
Work I do for twins, naturally comes double
But four arms to hug me, repays all the trouble
~Author unknown

Misc. weekend fun

This weekend was HOT! Saturday we just played in the yard with the slide and sprinkler and as much water as possible. Saturday night we went to the Sand Castle Building contest at Revere Beach- we prayed to the Godess Asphaltina for a parking space. The traffic was bad and the beach was very crowded, but, we did find a parking space. We walked through the crowds and the noise to see the giant sand castles, Jackson and Shane weren't very interested, they were more over whelmed with all of the people and the noise. We didn't even get a chance to build our own sand castle- we walked around, got a bite to eat and then headed home by 7pm- it was an adventure to say the least.

Sunday was our traditional visit Grandma and Grandpa day- the ATE everything in Grandma's fridge and played with their new Clifford the Big Red Dogs. Then we went to the playground and to lunch. all in all it was a great day!

How old are you?

Part of the Early Intervention group that Jackson and Shane go to is circle time. During circle time Fran asks the kids their name and how old they are. For a few weeks now Jackson and Shane have both been saying that they are six years old. This is better than being nine like they tell mommy. Well today, Shane told me that he was two and that Jackson was two as well!