Ainsley Marin is 18 weeks old!  She just had her 4 month doctor's visit yesterday and is doing great. She's at about the 100% for height and weight and is on track for all of her milestones.  She had four shots, two in each leg...ouch.  We moved her into her crib last night and she loves all the new room.  Her bassinet was getting very, very, small for her!  Rolling is few and far between, but she is sitting up for a minute or two on her own and when on her belly she really moves her legs like she's pushing to crawl.  She loves looking at books and grabs the pages like she's trying to turn them.  Of course, the baby face book is her favorite, as is the color book.  She's still drooling tons, but no sign of a first tooth yet.

Aidan Kane is 22 months old.  He just moved into a big boy full size bed and loves it like crazy.  Last night he rolled off of it twice and was in the middle of his bedroom floor.  Luckily, we just have the mattress on the ground for the next couple of days while he gets use to it.  We thought he'd wake up bright and early, but he slept in until about 8:30am, an hour longer than usual.  Although we typically don't allow toys upstairs, he's managed to smuggle a few of them to his new bed. His new favorite thing to snuggle is "scuba man!", a 12 inch plastic man in a scuba suit with a tank on his back (any influence from Daddy there??).  Although, since he flies scuba man around the house, we're not sure he knows the man should be under water.  He loves helicopters and airplanes--when he sees one he yells "Mommy, a aiplane, forafornia" (Mommy on airplane to California).

Kaelin Avery celebrated her 3rd birthday last week.  She got so many presents, new clothes and toys.  Her favorite was a stuffed unicorn (she named "rainbow purple") which Keeley picked out for her.  She just had her 3 year old check up and  is right on track.  The pediatrician was surprised though at how high she could jump (must be those gymnastics classes!).  She's in a really lovable stage and will just out of the blue come up to us and ask "Mommy, may I give you a kiss" and just say "I love you" for no reason at all. 

Keeley Shea is 4 years and 3 months old. She seems to have grown up so much the past couple of months. She's finally out of her phase of whining when she wants something or doesn't get her way. She's really become such a great big sister and role model for the rest of the gang.  Keeley still enjoys her regular gymnastics class at Arnold's Gymnastics Academy and Kaelin will be joining her there in a couple of months as soon as she's old enough.  Keeley said that white is her new favorite color because "white is for weddings" and "I'm going to marry Aidan, Ryan (her cousin) and Arthur (her friend in CA)" she then went on to say that she was in love with them all.  Mommy and Keeley have a mother/daughter tea on Friday at Keeley's school and next week she'll be learning about safety and visiting the local police station on her first school bus. 

Grandma and Grandpa visited us for week last week (see folder of pics) and got to celebrate Kaelin's birthday with us.  Unfortunately, we had a Nor'easter going through Massachusetts and it poured rain the whole time they were here, we played lots of indoor games, read lots of books, did lots of schoolwork and had some tea parties.  Grandma and Grandpa stayed in a hotel that had a heated pool and the kids loved swimming in it (now they are spoiled from the warm water and want the pool in our back yard to be heated).  We got everyone out at the same time, only once, for everyone's favorite food--Mexican.  Grandpa and Daddy built the kids a big sandbox, now we just need to decide where to put it (oh, and purchase hundreds of dollars worth of play sand!).  Daddy is still clearing out some woods in the back of the house, and trying to get our grass as green as all the neighbors....so we may wait until the yard is in better shape before deciding.  The gang loves all the puzzles, toys, books and clothes that Grandma and Grandpa brought, but a favorite is the puppet theatre as you can tell from the photos.

The weather has been beautiful the past few days and we've been outside a lot, on the swing set, riding toy cars and bikes, digging in the dirt, picking flowers, looking at worms and salamanders.  Spring is in the air!  Auntie Amy and cousin Natalia are coming to visit us in a couple weeks.  We're so excited to see them!

Upcoming birthdays & events include:

• April 25th Mommy's 36th Birthday
• June 13th Aidan's 2nd Birthday
• June 22nd Auntie Amy and Uncle Cary's Wedding Anniversary
• July 1st Nana's 64th Birthday