Everything is Always Changing

So here is just a quick update with the Buckley clan. Marissa will be getting a visit from the tooth fairy soon because she has her first loose tooth. Seems like just yesterday she was getting her baby teeth. She also got her first report card about a week ago. She's making progress in all of her subjects. Roman is getting bigger and smarter every day. Just yesterday John went into the kitchen to find that Roman had gotten a box of cereal down from the top shelf of one of the cabinets and was eating out of the box. His vocabulary has quickly grown. He attempts to say almost everything you ask him to and gets it right most of the time. He's also saying short sentences like "thank you, mom" "yes, please" and my favorite "daddy poo poo in the potty". He's learning how to say the name of the things that he wants instead of pointing and yelling. Shamus is also getting really big, he was 15.2 lbs at his four month check-up last month so it should be interesting to see how big he will be at the six month check-up. For as small as he was at birth (compared to his big brother and sister) he is quickly catching up. He is rolling over with great ease and gets around pretty quickly that way. He is quickly approaching the crawling stage. He can already get up on his hands and knees and rock back and forth. So it looks like he'll be crawling by Christmas! He is also, like John mentioned before, eating rice cereal which is giving us longer periods of sleep at night, but he still gets up to eat in the middle of the night just like his big brother! He won't be sleeping through the night for a while but I'm OK with that. He smiles and giggles a lot now and coos a lot also. John and I will be going to Cleveland this weekend for a wedding. We're really looking forward to have some time away from the kids and just be us. It should be a lot of fun. This will be the longest I've been away from either of the boys so it should be some really good R&R for me, but by the time Sunday rolls around I know I'll be ready to see my boys! I guess thats all a day in the life. Enjoy some of the Halloween pictures of the kids.