So we had a little “dress-up” play today and Alice was a princess, Dominic was a skater boy and a teletubbie and Carlos was Mini-me! I was cracking up with the Carlos picture, I mean, you can’t get a kid to pose like that! It was fun to play and the kids love to see the pictures of themselves all dressed up. Still fighting the cough, had to give the little kids one of Dominc’s breathing treatments, which proved to be an ordeal. They ended up ok and it seemed to help with the cough a little. Had a great evening with my parents coming over for take-out Sawatdy Thai food (the best EVER) and then the boys got to play ponyboy and read stories with grandpa and grandma.

We’re headed to Hoquiam for the weekend to see Scott, Linda and the girls. It’s been awhile since we’ve been down there so the trip should be fun for all of us. Can’t wait to see how big Emma’s grown since we saw her last. We’ll post some pictures on the blog when we get some!

It’s all about football here at the Field-Bennett house! What a great game last night with FSU and Penn State with triple overtime! The Rose Bowl tonight (go Texas!) should be a good one, too. With the boys still fighting this cough, it’s nice to have an excuse to just kick back and cuddle with the kids. Carlos and Dominic both can say “football” and get excited when a game comes on.

I’m off here…have Finn coming for a few hours to play. Hope he won’t cry for 3 hours straight like last time! 🙂

Trey got his first official haircut yesterday and he looks SO handsome. It’s amazing how taking just a little hair off the top of his head has changed his looks so much, he’s much older looking now (yikes, he looks older than all the kids his age by a ton already) without the curls.

The boys all have this horrible cough and two are on antibiotics. Hoping this passes quickly, it’s no fun to be in a house full of sickies. Just have my fingers crossed that Dee and I can get though their sickness without coming down with it ourselves. Lots of Zicam and Vitamin C for sure!

New years resolutions are going strong so far…hoping that we can keep them. Dee wants to get organized and I want to have our house cleaner! So, I set up a schedule for housecleaning and instead of doing it all at once it’s broken down throughout the week. Last night’s cleaning the kitchen took forever since there was lots of clutter to get rid of. Hoping that it gets easier next week or this resolution will fail, since I’m not spending 2 hours every evening cleaning! Today’s laundry day and dusting the living room, should be easy when the kids are napping. The other piece to the puzzle is our “to do” list, which we made new years day and we are trying to accomplish 1 thing per day on that. They aren’t big things, but “replacing light bulbs” just doesn’t get done unless it’s on a list or we’re sitting in the dark.

Enough chat about housecleaning and clutter…I’m off to snuggle with my sick babies!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Didn’t think we’d see the New Year at the stroke of midnight, but some neighbors fireworks woke up Carlos just before 12pm and he was up for the next 3 hours. So, we tried to sleep through it but that just wasn’t in the cards. Carlos is officially moving back into the room with Dominic and Dee and I are eagerly awaiting a full night’s sleep!

Here’s the link you’ve all been waiting for…it’s the Field Family whole family picture at the Picture People. It was fun getting us all together to do this, and a picture I just love. My nephew, Luca, didn’t quite cooperate but that’s ok, we all have our moments and now his has been captured on film. It’s funny, too because he’s really a mellow guy and I was sure one of our boys would be screaming and crying in the photo. Enjoy! Hope the link works, the Picture People website is strange sometimes and acts up. http://www.picturepeople.com/viewsharedalbum.aspx?SharedPictureGroupID=362144&ShareKey=6f49f9f66b224b1eab4666ac2252d992

Had a great surprise visit from my friend Stephanie, her husband Dave and their son, Jacob last night. They were in town at her folk’s place and stopped in to say hi. It was great, Jacob is age-wise right between Dominic and Carlos so they all can play together. Carlos was being a twit, though, and didn’t want to share toys. Jacob was jazzed to be somewhere with lots of all new toys and Steph, Dave, Dee and I got to just hang out and chat while the boys played. It was really great!

Can’t believe the Seahawks lost to the Packers (yikes!), that was the first of many games we’ll be watching today inbetween doing some household organization. It feels good to have things done the first of the year, clean sheets and towels, clean bathroom and kitchen, toys organized, etc. That’s a goal for the new year…be organized! We’ll see if we can stick to that one, fingers are crossed.

Last post of 2005, seems like it’s not really the year’s end. Dee and I are planning to be boring and head to bed, maybe read our books (usually a paragraph if we’re lucky) and sleep through the ringing in of the New Year. Yes, the thought did cross our minds to wake the boys up for the Space Needle fireworks, but that was a fleeting thought as we might not get them right back to sleep! So, I’m Tivo-ing the Needle fireworks so we can see them in the morning. The boys will dig that for sure.

Tomorrow is for just “being” and we have big plans of watching football, doing Sudoku puzzles (our new craze) eating crockpot junk food chip dip and little smokies and hopefully having some friends drop in the hang out with us. All are welcome, we’ll be home!

Here’s to great happenings for 2006…we’ve got our fingers crossed for two adoptions and we can’t think of anything better than that! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL, may it be fabulous!