It Begins

From Drop Box

Secret Ingredient

Joe: What are the ingredients in peanut butter?
Me: For the kind we buy? Peanuts and salt.
Joe: That sounds quick to make, we should try to make some.
Me: We did one time but it came out really dry. It didn't really work.
Joe: Oh... Maybe there's a secret ingredient.

Note to self... Must check on Matthew sooner when I hear him saying "whack whack whack"

Me: These aren't for breaking.
Matthew (in Italian accent): Whyyyyyyy? I baking. I wanza bake it.

Danny 7 Months

Why?

Matthew: Why cookies away Mom? Why? Iwanzomemore.

Danny Goes For, And Gets, The Cord

I'm a Rock-a-Na

In Which Danny Finds Avocados Surprising

Chris's Calming Bedtime Routine

Danny's first time in a swing

rite of nasal passage

In the five years that we've had kids, we've managed to avoid a visit to the ER. Matthew broke our streak today, when he put a dried black bean out of reach up his nose. It took suction to get it out. The doctor put it in this handy keepsake specimen cup.

Halloween with a Snowy Owl, a Great Horned Owl and a Barn Owl

Fall Walk 10/2009

Places Where Danny is No Longer Safe

1. Under the baby gym, where Matthew likes to literally smother him with love:



2. In the bumbo seat, where last week, I put him in, walked away, and when I came back, he was on the floor:



3. In the bouncyseat, where today, I found him stuck, dangling off the side with the top of his head touching the ground:

Joe Sings Waldorf

Dinner Laughs

He knows and insult when he hears one

Dad to Matthew: You look like a hobo.
Matthew: NO! Not oboe!

Attachment Brothering

 

Danny Laughs

Channeling Daddy

When Chris got home from work on Monday, he picked Matthew up and Matthew put both his hands around Chris' face and petted him, whispering "Hi Daddy... Hi Daddy... Hi Daddy" A few days later, Matthew came out of the bedroom wearing Chris' shirt, "Gook! Daddy!" Then he closed his eyes and petted his own face. I think he was imagining himself reunited with Chris.

Puppet Show

All Better

fall day

Danny's Summer

Mattie's Summer

NY Oct 2009

That Does Sound Bun...

"Mommie, ta deer. Won doe deer. Dat bun?" = Mommie, I saw some deer. Those deer were running. Isn't that fun?

Kindergarten Drop Off

Me: Can I have a kiss goodbye?
Joe: **kiss**
Matthew(arms outstretched, lips puckered): BYE DOE!!!
Joe looks down at Matthew, who's face is covered with a mixture of peanut butter and snot.
Joe: NO WAY.
Me: Just give him a kiss on the head
Joe: **kiss**
Matthew: Bye Doe.
Joe: Bye Mattie.

pancakes with syrup

Mom, picking up Mattie's fork: Woah, that's a sticky fork.

Mattie: Gicky bork?

Matthew Speak

Va Va Voo = I Love You.
Gekgus Mime Mom-mom = Breakfast time Mama
Gook! Two ningers mom, basberries = Look! I have two raspberries in my fingers
Kay juss met = Okay, just a minute

The Burner Was Left On

Shooing the kids away from the gas grill...
Mom: "You guys, step inside so you don't breath it in."
Joe: "What is it? Is it sleeping gas? Cause if it's not sleeping gas, I want to check it out."

Danny Rolled Over

Joseph, Daniel and Schoolbus

Woman to Matthew: "what's your name?"
Matthew: "Goolbus."

Joe Dug a Hole at Kindergarten Today

Re: School

"I'm so excited to go to school today. Sometimes when I'm so excited, my stomach tickles me."

Potentially Boring Video, Unless You LOVE Babies (Karl)

Baby Danny can Hold Up His Head

Danny and Mom

drawings

Merry Go Round (Extremely Cute Photos Contained Within)

In Which Joe Turns 5

Outside

Happy Bath, Also

Blueberry Picking

"Run"

List of necessary equipment:
1. Running shoes
2. Stroller
3. Snack for 2
4. Bjorn
5. Water for 3
6. Plastic bags
7. Dog leash
8. Joe's bike
9. Joe's helmet (note: will take 15 minutes to find.)
10. Pacifier
11. Baby blanket
12. Sunshade
13. Cell phone
14. Car keys (still in ignition from last night.)

Series of events:
1. Run
2. Pick up dog poop
3. Run
4. Pick up dog poop
5. Run
6. Stop for snack, throw away dog poop
7. Run
8. Stop to look at deer
9. Run
10. Stop to nurse hungry baby
10a. Clean spit-up
11. Run
12. Stop to put crying baby in bjorn
13. Walk
14. Stop at water fountain
15. Walk
16. Stop to put sleeping baby back in stroller and release toddler from stroller
17. Walk
18. Stop to fight with toddler about getting back in stroller
19. Run
20. Arrive at car: unpack stroller, get dog in car, buckle toddler, buckle baby, put stroller in trunk, put bike on bike rack, distribute water.
21. Drive home

Happy Bath

note to self...

word to remember: HuNORmous, as in "that hawk is hu-normous"

Moe=No Doe=Jo Bop=Stop

Joe: Mattie, get off, I have to go.

Mattie (on toilet): moe.

Joe: Mattie! I really have to go!

Mattie: Moe Doe!

Joe: MATTIE!

Mattie: BOP DOE!

Joe walks away. There's 30 seconds of quite.

Mattie, hopping down from toilet: Ur turn Doe.

Swimming

Letter to Nana and Grampa (transcribed by me)

Nana and Grampa,
How are you? It's very uncomplicated, I'm missing Minneapolis. And I really miss you. I feel sad that I'm really missing my friends. I'm cutting this letter in half for Nico and you.

Love,
Joe Borger.

Good Morning

More Family Photos

Little Danny

Pictures Joe Took

Air Show

Evening Walk

At the Park

Boys in New Chair

Self Portraits with Danny

Tee Ball

More of The Boys

Family Photo Summer 2009

Strawberry and Pea Pickin'

Danny's early smiling

Mattie with his Baby

Danny and Mattie

Brotherly Love (except for real this time)

This morning I had to abandon Danny on the floor so I could race to the bathroom to comfort Joe, who had just slipped and had fallen on the slippery floor. I could hear Danny crying in the living room and then I heard Mattie, "Uh oh. Kine" (Uh oh, Crying) Then Danny stopped crying and when I got back to the living room, as you can see above, Mattie had put a toy down for Danny to look at and covered him up with his blankie. So sweet.

The Boys

Brotherly Love

Joe: Don't let Matthew get near these cars. He could put them in his mouth and choke on them... And that would hurt them.

No, Joe! STOP!

Mo, Do! BOP!

Recent Happy Quotes from Joe

1. "They have good birds here"
2. "I like living in the countryside"

Recent Sad Quotes from Joe

1. "I feel sad for no reason"
2. "I miss everything I know"
3. "You are the only cat I have here" (to the neighbor's cat, Skittles.)
4. "Those kids are RUDE" (they really were.)

Bike Ride

http://sharing.theflip.com/session/8c327af531f9913f93bef3a3c764d184/video/4607434

Ready... GO!/Dada, WATCH!

New Drawings

Last Week's Injury Count

Last week has been particularly rough for Matthew as evidenced by the following...
1. Bilateral knee skins, TWICE
2. Face scrape from falling on gravel
3. Fingers smashed between two metal chairs
4. Bee sting to right hand, TWICE

Towel From Dryer = Calm Clean Baby

Why We Sold our Baby Swing... in a Series of Photos

Danny, 1 Month Old, a Very Serious Baby

Additional Swinging in MI

Dexter-Ann Arbor Run

Swinging in Michigan

Oldschool Phonebooth Pics

Joe's first written sentence...

Translation: Trapped in exorbit.... What?
(Superman is trapped in some sort of orbit and this is apparently surprising to him.)

Bedtime after a long day of Graduatin'

It's Official

So, I missed the actual moment when they put the hood thingy on because
Matthew was sitting in my lap, but at least you can hear them announce it.

Dr Borger (for real this time)

Here are the proud kiddos of the new Chris Borger, MD.

Welcome Daniel Yates Borger

Danny

4/27/09, 11:03 AM
7 pounds, 3 oz
20 inches

Matthew meets Daniel

Big Brothers

Matthew in Grand's Garden

Matthew's Vocabulary

(Word=Translation)

Bup=Up

Dow=Down

Gookie=Cookie

Moe=No

Boe=Moe

Boe=Any dog

Wa-ee=Water

Guck=Truck

Gar=Car

Us=Bus

Day-ti=Blankie

Aboot=Shoe

Deez=Cheese

Familiar with the following animal sounds...

Cardinal

Crow

Bluejay

Owl

Cow

Horse

Cat

Pig

???

Joe: This snow is getting on my mustache!!

Matthew's First Sentence

Matthew: (going upstairs) Dada. Dada?
Me: No, Dada went to work. He went bye bye.
Matthew: Dada.
Me: Dada's not here, but you have Mama!

(here it is... first sentence...)

Matthew: Nooo, mo Dada.

Translation: You suck, Mom. I want more Dada.

Michigan

Today:
Joe: I know you guys get frustrated when I cry when I have to leave Asa's house, so I'm not going to cry about Asa when we move to Michigan.

Woah.

Joe: I don't think I want to wear superheroish clothes anymore, I just want to wear big boy clothes.

PORK FIGHT!!!

Mom: How was Chrissie's?
Joe: Good. We had a pork fight.
Mom: What?
Joe: A PORK FIGHT.
Dad: What do you mean?
Joe: Everyone was throwing porks at each other.
Dad: I don't believe you.
Joe: It's true!
Dad: I don't believe that Chrissie would let you throw pork at each other.
Mom: What do you mean porks?
Joe: You know, those wine bottle-plugger-things.
Mom: OH! CORKS.
Joe: Yeah, I mean corks.
Dad: Now do you see why I didn't believe you?

Goodbye feet, see you in May

You can just barely see them.

Squeeeeze

Joe: Mom, do you know what I sometimes feel like doing? Squeezing Matthew's head because it is so soft. So I just squeeze my muscles.

Lollipop Dance

Boing! Boing! Boing! Boing!

Danger Baby

Big Brother

Man: Joe, are you excited to have another baby in your family?
Joe: Yeah, 'cause our other baby is getting old.

Crabby Pants

Joe: "I don't want the things that I don't like to be near me."

"Fancy"

We were getting ready for a funeral and I knew Joe was going to need a warning that he wasn't going to be able to wear a costume...
Me: Joe, you aren't going to be able to wear a costume to this.
Joe: Why?
Me: Because you have to wear fancy clothes to things like this.
Joe: But I DO look fancy.

And it was true, he did look very fancy in his leggings with underpants over and a cape safety-pinned on, just not the kind of fancy we were going for.

S-E-N-A-H

Joe (from the bathroom): Mom, what does S-E-N-A-H spell?
Me: That doesn't spell anything.
Joe: Well, it's written on my underwear.

2/6/09

We have 10 minutes to leave the house and be on time to work/daycare... and all Joe's "superheroish clothes" are dirty...
Mom: Joe, can you just wear regular clothes today?
Joe (eyes welling up with tears): Mom, it's really important to me that when I go to Chrissie's I AM a superhero.

Conversation with Chrissie

Chrissie sometimes takes the kids to a food shelf at a local church and last time they peeked their heads in and looked around at the pews etc...

Joe: I've never been in a church before except one time when I went to a funeral. I was really quiet at the funeral and so I got an airplane as a prize.
Chrissie: Wow!
Joe: Well, it was just a toy airplane.

We haven't left the house today...

Dr Borger

Sledding on MLK day

1/12/2009

Today's Sled Ride

From sled ride

2009... what we've done so far

Matthew Tries to Figure out Remote Control-- Frustrating for Joe

From Winter 2008-2009 NOTE ROBIN COSTUME