We went to Madison to celebrate Uncle Brian's 35th Birthday!

We had a wonderful visit in Madison with Nana, Papa, Uncle Brian, Kelly and cherub (sorry with the broken keyboard no capital c), and a surprise visit from Great Papa and Great Aunt Barbara!






On Saturday the rain came and Nana was kind enough to take the girls on a "rain walk". They all put on their rain coats and put up the umbreallas and went for a very breif walk since it was also very cold!





That evening we celebrated both Brian and Kelly's Birthday. We had a wonderful beef tenderloin for dinner and cherry cheesecake for dessert. After dinner it was on to the gifts!





Brian has been working so hard on installing his new patio, it is beautiful and almost complete, so we gave him a new bench for the patio. While we were getting it out of the car the first snowfall of the season we apon us. Sorry to say that Joseph missed his first snowfall as he was already in bed for the night, we did show him the snow that stuck in the moring.








In a surprise ending to the weekend Great Papa and Great Aunt Barbara stopped at Nana and Papa's house on their way from chicago (remember no cap. c) to Minnesota. We were able to talk them into staying for lunch and a nice but short visit.






A Very Happy Birthday to Uncle Brian, Joseph's Godfather, and good luck with the patio, can't wait to see it completed!

Joseph is getting so big!!

I was trying to get a picture of Joseph giving kisses. It was harder than I thought it would be to get him to give a kiss and then try to catch a picture of it!



Joseph is begining to get into the crawling position. He has not yet offically crawled but he is able to move a little bit on his belly (like an inch worm). The girls are very eager for him to begin crawling and run over to him any time he is in the position, I think he would also very much like to be able to move away from them at will! I will keep you posted!

FINALLY!!

I am sorry that it has been so long since I updated the blog. I am sorry to say that Grandma Tocco passed, it was a lovely service and there is some comfort in knowing that she has joined her husband. A HUGE thank you to Dad "Papa", he came in last Thursday and watced all 3 kids and put them to bed and then stayed over night and watched all 3 again so Bryan and I could both attend the service without distraction.
In other news, both of the girls are taking swimming lesson this fall. Every Saturday morning Bryan takes Olivia to her lesson and then Eileen, Joseph and I walk up to the pool, I trade Eileen for Olivia and the 3 of us walk home. The girls are loving the lessons, what kid doesn't adore the pool! I think they are also enjoying the one on one time with Daddy, with 3 kids it isn't often that you can get one parent for a whole 30 minutes without intruption!

Olivia Getting Ready!


Eileen during her lesson, we sat in the bleachers.

Olivia and Joesph wathing Eileen's lesson.

This Wednesday we had our first Halloween celebration! The MOMS group organized a Halloween party for all the kids, it was a blast! The girls had so much fun putting on their costumes, doing the activities and going trick or treating!

All 3 kids dressed up! Eileen is a dinosaur, Olivia is an eggplant, and Joseph is our little ghost.
Eileen and Olivia decorating cookies
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Eileen and Olivia trick or treating



The girls showing off their treat bags.

A side note please forgive the typing, Joseph spit up all over the keyboard the other day so some of the keys are not working. I have tocut and paste those letters in so sometimes I foget, I guess his spitting up is not that great!