Em's field trip to the pumpkin patch & Convo's in the Van 2..

Emma was so excited to go to the Pumpkin Patch with her classmates today!  Good thing it stopped raining today otherwise it would've gotten cancelled.  When I picked her up (30 mins late btw! mommy fail right there.) she said, "It was sooooooo fun! and it was fun to go on the hay ride!"  She toured the patch with her bff, his dad and another little boy from the morning class.  Each student got to pick their own pumpkins and Emma named her pumpkin, Cutie!  She plans to decorate it when daddy is home from work tomorrow.  She said, "I love to surprise daddy!"

After I picked up Jeremiah from school, we stopped at Toys R Us to look for a costume for the school's Saints Parade on Friday.  He keeps changing his mind on what he wants to be.  First he said a cook, then it was St. Michael, then a scientist, now he wants to be a fisherman.  I forget which saint that is, but luckily, both grandpa's like to fish so maybe he can just borrow a fishing pole. lol.  Thank God we don't need to spend any money on his costume! We didn't leave empty handed though.  We picked up a couple Angry Bird erasers for Jeremiah and Emma in the gumball machine for 50 cents each :)  Jeremiah opened his on the way home and asked me, "Why is a lot of things in America made in China?" He caught me off guard and I didn't really have the energy to answer after almost 2 hours in the toy store, so I just told him that was a good question! I'll save that question for daddy to answer :)

convo's in the van are the best

convo on our way home from school today...

Em: mommy, ms bertha has a new book called 'Jonah & The Big Fish'

me: oh really? what is it about?

Em: Jonah gets eaten by a whale

me: what?! is he ok?

Em: ya, he got out because he prayed to God.

J: oh I remember that story Em.  mommy! today is the feast of St. Jude & someone else, but I forgot who.

me: oh! i didn't know that.  What did St. Jude do?

J: he had a FEAST!

starting over

so it's been a long loooong time since I last posted on my blog.  I decided to update some stuff on my blog to make it more relevant to how our family is now.  I changed the name from the jen's plus 2 mainly for the fact that now we have 3 kids.  the jen's plus 3 didn't really sound right to me so I picked "family hugs" since it's a thing that our little family of 5 like to do when we're all together.  I really love our family hugs especially since our kids are usually the ones to initiate them.

I named this post 'starting over' cause i'm gonna try to post more on here than my fb... i've said this before & i think i've tried this like 3 times already! haha, but hey, 3rd times the charm right? on my fb page, i often post little stories about our kids and funny things they say, but then i feel like some people get tired of hearing about stuff i post.  I really do it for personal reasons anyway (I tend to forget stuff & I wanna remember things my kids say cause it's usually hilarious).

so a little update on our family life.. our 3rd child, Nico, just turned 1 on Oct 19.  He is such a happy baby and sooo easy going.  I don't know if it's because he's the 3rd child and we're pros (yah right!) but it seems like all his milestones are coming so easy! (knock on wood)  He started sleeping through the night at 2-3 months old, sat on his own around 5-6 months, took his first steps around 9 months and started really walking at 10 months. Now he's practically running all over the house! haha.  Jeremiah is now 7 and in 1st grade and Emma is 5 and in preschool.  They are doing extremely well in school and love it. Well, Jeremiah likes it, but Emma loves it. I'm so amazed at how well they learn and how much they retain in their little brains!  To daddy's excitement, J & Em watched Star Wars this past year and have come to love it.  They often hum the songs and/or say lines from the movies.  For like a month we watched Star Wars episode IV every day.  They would never let me watch the next episodes so I would have to watch them when they went to sleep (& yes, I never watched Star Wars episode IV till this year.  I think I watched episode 3 in the movie theater, but I didn't really get it till this year. lol)  Anyway, this leads me to our new dog.  He was born on June 3rd this year to my sister's dog and Jenner surprisingly and finally said yes to the kids many requests of getting a dog!  We got him during the peak of kids Star Wars craze so they wanted to name him Jedi.  He's a cutie patootie, but sometimes his chewing on the furniture & pooping/peeing on my rugs makes me wanna ring his neck! haha.

till the next post! hopefully that'll be sometime this year :)