Day One - Philly, Harding-Wheeler style!

Apparently H-W style means beginning at 6 a.m. SO we got to the hotel at 8:45 last night after a realatively easy drive with the exception of Ellie screaming for no reason for 45 minutes- checked in - got the kids a snack and started getting ready for bed. At 1 a.m. Molly and Ellie were the only H-W children asleep. Finally we got everyone in only to have Lizzie wake up at 4 and chuck toys at Ellie until she also woke up. Got her back to sleep until Ellie woke for good at 6 a.m.

Some pictures to tide you over!

It takes a really long time for me to upload pictures on this computer but my parents convinced me to blog anyways! When your fans want pictures - how can you deny them? So I have no Halloween pictures yet - too many to upload and hoping to get my laptop back before I leave for Nashville on Tuesday! These are just fun - Mommy pictures - as Molly calls them. The correct defintiion of that is best explained by my daughter who says that "My mommy takes pictures at the weirdest times - like she just looks over and says that we are the cutest thing ever and she needs to get a picture of us - even if we are in our underwear or look really bad that time. Sometimes she takes pictures when we are sleeping - even if we have drool in our mouth - eww!" I love my Molly-girl!

We lucked out this weekend because Patrick was at a football game and Karla had some things to do so we got to hang with Abby, Katie and Tyler! My nieces and nephew ar the easiest, most wonderful kids I have ever experienced. They just go with the flow - eat what I give them, play what the kids want to play and humor the babies with lots of attention! I love having them with us - sometimes I wish that we could hide so that Auntie couldn't take them back!

Thank you again to Papa for letting me use his computer to keep blogging - what would we do without our Papa!

Annie with the sun shining on her her beautiful baby face!
My Molly girl loving the warm fall day!

MY handsome boy playing football with Mommy. He was not thrilled that Daddy was incapacitated but he made do with me.

Sweet Katie with those big blue eyes - what a beauty! She loved spending some time with Annie but Uncle BOb was the real hit!

Our sweet girl - I love that smile!

Abby was leaving our house to go to Irish Step Dancing and had to get into her Halloween costume. She was the most beautiful Snowflake princess I have ever seen!

My goddaughter - the most beautiful princess!

Annie can not get enough of Tyler - she adores him - always has! Since the day she was born Annie has wanted to be with Tyler whenever possible.

My beautiful baby girl literally stopping to smell the roses!

Annie loving on Tyler!

I was going to post this adorable video of Katie talking to Abby and Molly yesterday but I uploaded it for 2 hours and finally gave up when it was still not done.

Bob and I just got back from a nice dinner out thanks to Auntie Meg who came and babysat for the chickies so that we could go out. Come to think of it we used a gift card that Auntie Meg got me for my birthday, too, so she really rocks!

And finally - the biggest news - Molly got the Citizen of the Month Award at school this month! She is so proud of herself and so are Bob and I - she works very hard and takes being kind and helpful very seriously. Miss Kelly is certainly bringing out the best in Molly - she loves school and everything that goes along with it - it is so exciting to see her so enthusiastic and motivated to do well. So that's enough for tonight! GNM - ILY!

Using Papa's computer for blogging!

Hi Everyone,

The computer is on the fritz - where did that saying come from? Anyways - Papa loaned me his laptop to avoid the loud protests of aunties in need of pictures but I have no way to edit, rotate or post pictures in less than 4 minutes per 5 pictures so what you see is the best I could do!

The girls love to get in one crib when they wake up and play for a while. The only problem is I have trouble getting them out later on!

Annie Bananie and her cute little piggies in her dress up shoes! Too cute!


Lizzie and Ellie like the kitchen almost as mush as Annie!

Molly was showing Annie some Irish Step Dancing moves but she refused to take off her high heel dress up shoes so you can imagine how well she did. Either way I love to watch my daughters dance - together, alone, in class or when they think no one is watching - there is such joy in their dancing!

Molly girl working on her Slip Jig and her hand placement - pretty darm good if you ask me!

Annie found a comfy spot!

Daddy looks so happy that you would never know it was the middle of the night!

Love those gorgeous fingers!

Peter taking care of Lizzie for us - he loves to snuggle with her!

Such a great big brother!

Ellie getting the hand of eating cereal!

Lizzie's favorite food - PIZZA!

Tubby time - look at that big round face - I could just eat it up!

Our girl learned how to walk - 10 steps!

Annie in overalls - so cute!

Mommy and her babies - everyone but Lizzie looks happy to be there!

Annie feeding her baby!

Very hard to appreciate this way but I can not figure out how to rotate it on my father's computer! Either way - our girl's first steps! GNM - ILY!