3 months

I took this myself. He looked so cute when I walked by the mirror.

He is doing so well. Already he is trying to roll over to get to toys laying next to him. He loves babbling and making noises at his brothers. His full body smiles are the best! We are just starting to see some of his personality come out. He is a very vocal baby reminding me more of Trey than Taatjes. I don't know if there is any room for another non-stop talker:)

Love

"If human love does not carry a man beyond himself, it is not love. If love is always discreet, always wise, always sensible and calculating, never carried beyond itself, it is not love at all. It may be affection, it may be warmth of feeling, but it has not the true nature of love in it. "
Oswald Chambers

Yeah for Cup Cakes

Taatjes is 2!!! He had such a great night. Dad brought home balloons for the birthday boy. We ate one of his favorite dinners, mac n' cheese w/hot dogs. Best of all he loved digging in to his dinosaur cup cakes. Taatjes ate the frosting off and put the dinosaurs back on the tops. He knows what the best part is. After all that he got to wrestle with Dad (no Trey) until bed time. He was in heaven on his special day. When we put him to bed he couldn't stop smiling and singing happy birthday to himself. It was fun to give him a special day full of attention he is not used to it. It helped that Trey did such a good job remebering it was Taatjes' special day. He even let Taatjes take 4 cars to bed instead of 1. (he said this was something special he could do for Taatjes.) These pictures are Taatjes to a "t", he is an easygoing happy little boy.

Look Who's 2!!!!

A few more things we did. The Golden Gate Bridge of course. No, we did not walk across it. Way to windy for Teague. Justin was thrilled to get to see the famous Lombard St. Yes we did walk all the way up from the bottom you can see in the picture then down again. Anyone would have killer calfs if they walked that daily. I am just glad he did not want to drive it. You heard a lot of screeching breaks all the way down. I can only imagine how often people who live in this city have their brakes changed. The guys in the next picture were fun. They acted like robots to some Snoop Dog music for money. They gave any kid who put money in their cans a sucker. I don't think they saw all the parents quickly grabbing the suckers away from their children, but nice touch. They stood out from all the other street corner acts. They had a huge crowd. I was impressed with how long they are able to hold one position. Again it was such a great time to get away and enjoy ourselves.

San Fransico

What a beautiful place. I loved San Fransico! The weather there is perfect. Winters do not get lower than the 50's and summers not much higher than the upper 70's. We had upper 60's the entire time we were there. What a great time to go with the snap in cold temps here in good old MI. Here is a preview of some of the things we did. The city (my legs are still hurting from all those hills), Nappa Valley (wine country), and we saw the Red Woods (awesome).
Here is the street I would want to live on if I lived in San Fransico. Right across from a beautiful park and a great view of the bay. Me standing in the middle of a burned out Red Wood tree. One of the vineyards we toured in the middle of Nappa Valley. It was hard to come home to below freezing temps but we are adjusting. It was great for Teague to get some sunlight and tons of fresh air. Oh I also discoverd Ghiredelli ice cream, yummy! I have a few more pics to post when I get them downloaded.

Rock'n It

Teague and Kingston Stefani kicking it via baby JaR blankets.
Check out www.babyjar.com for cool baby blankets and burpies.

Screaming

Screaming can all to often consume about 70% of my day. Here is a breakdown.
20% - screams of joy
20% - screams of I am not getting what I want and I'm letting you know this
10% - Trey vs. Taatjes
10% - Teague just needs to
10% - in my own head when I can't figure out how to overcome my screaming problem

I do love the screams of joy but the rest I could live without. But as we all know it is a package deal. For example - Trey playing with Mator (from the Cars movie) with squealing delight as he races him and says a few of his lines from the movie; until Taatjes decides to block his way and the delight turns to Trey vs. Taatjes followed by a slap from Trey to Taatjes, mom steps in and takes Mator for the bad choice by Trey, this is followed by the extreme screaming of not getting things the way he wants; which in turn wakes up Teague crying because he his hungryand leads me to the inner screaming of frustration. I am finding myself caught in this maddening cycle all to often. January can be one of those months.
Like all of you up North the snow is great when you can get outside and play in it...but I am looking forward to spring and letting my kids scream outside.

Snow Fun

Today was our first snow outing. It is the first time there has been enough snow to pull a sled. Not much, but enough to bring big smiles and giggles to the boys faces. I woke up extremely tired today but when I opened the blinds and saw the snow I knew we had to get out and enjoy the "fluffy goodness", another one of Trey's funny quotes. I ran and ran, pulled and pulled until noses were to red to go on. They had a blast and I am now wishing I could go back to bed!





Taatjes loved eating all the snow off his mittens. Trey just wanted me to pull him super fast. He has a need for speed with everything he does. Teague was fast asleep inside the warm house. If he only knew the fun he was missing.

He Has Some Style (all his own)

Trey insisted that he wear Dad's warm hat to school the other day.
It is backwards because... "the front had to much fur in my face". Yes we walked all the way into school like that.

Your Brothers Love You!

Not yet, but someday Teague will think his brothers are great! All to soon he will want to follow them around and have their attention instead of crying when they try to smother him with love. If you can see Taatjes is trying to hold Teague's hand to stop his crying, which is making it worse but very sweet of Taatjes to be concerned for him. They both do not like it when he is crying and are quick to tell me to get him, feed him, and change him. They keep me on the ball.
Here are a few more pictures of Teague.

One more picture of these 2 little monkeys.

...But, This is Real Life

Life with 3! This all happend in the 20 minutes I spent feeding Teague. The tissue paper was in fornt of me...what could I do but to watch since any threat could not be backed up. I heard the basketball hoop and the toys all fall over but they were not followed by any cries so I knew I woukld have to deal with them later.
Just a few pictures to fill people in on how we are doing handling our 3 adorable boys. Thank goodness for them they are adorable after all this mess! Another funny thing is the soap in the bathroom is rapidly disappearing and I hear the water constantly running during feedings. This is followed by Taatjes yelling"bubbles, bubbles". Oh well at least they are keeping clean!

Is'nt That Sweet...

More...

Brothers

Taatjes and Teague. Taatjes loves that he is a big brother now! He did such a good job staying completely still for the picture. It is another one of Antie Lisa's amazing pictures! More to come.

Teague Arrives!

Well...he's finally here!! Teague J Belgiano was born on Monday (11-27) at 4:04pm. He was a whopping 9 lbs. 7 oz. and 23 inches long! He is completely his own character, not following the family mold of redheads. He has light brown hair (for now) and a totally different look than the one that Trey and Taajtes both had. He is quite the sleeper, except for midnight to 6am....

We are thrilled he's here, but not nearly as thrilled as his big brothers - they haven't left his side yet. They are completely enamoured with taking care of him, holding him, why he sleeps so much, giving him all their blankets, why he has a "purple belly button", and when he will get teeth. Did we mentioned they like to poke him?

We are excited to see how this little man grows into his own.

Love This!

Trey can be found often down in Taatjes' bed when Dad goes back in to re-tuck. We thought Taatjes would be the one climbing up to Trey's bed, but, this is not the case. Now Taatjes has a twin size and Trey has found this more comfortable; now he is in Taatjes' bed in the mornings as well.

Big Brother for Sale

Trey and Taatjes played for hours with the bubble wrap from this box. They jumped on and roled over it until every last bubble had popped. Trey got in the box and told me he would like to be sent in the mail:( He said he would only cost 3$...if there are any takers let me know!
Another funny thing Trey said the other day...it was snowing and he asked me why the clouds were falling apart. He made me laugh, I love how he thinks of things in ways I do not anymore. These boys are a blast!

Trick or Treat

Dad took the boys around to a few of the neighbors houses for some treats! Trey loved it and Taatjes had no hesitation putting his pumpkin right up for the people to fill with candy.
Trey was a race car driver and Taatjes the hand me down puppy.

They wasted no time digging in to their spoils!

Pumpkin Time

The sun was shining right in their eyes as you can see from Taatjes' face^.

The boys had a blast at the orchard we went to for pumpkin picking. Taatjes spent most of his time falling down in the mushy pumpkins and dirt, but, he loved every minute of it. He wanted to put every pumpkin he touched into the wagon. Feeding the goats was a big hit as well. Taatjes found all the corn along the ground to feed to the goats who would have rather eaten his hat. He would turn around to look at us and the goats would begin to nibble on his head. Trey found a pumpkin "just the right size for him" and was very excited to go home and "roast the seeds." He learned about roasting the seeds at preschool. (Which we never ended up doing but did take all the guts out - messy!!!) They have been having a lot of fun this fall with apple picking, pumpkin picking, and leaf pile jumping! They are outdoors boys already...as long as they're bundled up they will play outside for hours.