Kieran

Oh my Kier boy is a joy. I love being able to stay home during the days with him. He comes up with something new everyday and is constantly making me laugh. His favorite word is Cool, he has been pooping on the potty all by himself the last few weeks and once in a while he will pee on it too!

Yesterday was an especially cute Kieran day. We were walking out the door to take Marra to school and he tells me he has to poop, I told him that he was just going to have to go in his pants because we didn't have time to sit him on the potty and get Marra to school on time (Kieran is a 15 minute sitter if you know what I mean). The whole way to and from school he kept saying "sorry mama" because he pooped his pants, poor baby.
A little after we got home from taking Marra I presented him with new slippers, Cool. After I helped him get them on I started to walk away from him to go do something else, he came running up to me and gave my legs a huge hug.
I had something to do in the afternoon so Kieran and Aislin were going over to my friend Christine's house until Scott could get them. Christine also watches a little boy named Jack. I told Kieran he was going to play with Jack (who he's met before), he was so excited. I didn't want him crying for Christine when I left so I kept talking to him through out the afternoon before we left. He said "play Jack" and I said "Yes but mommy can't stay. You're not going to cry are you?" Kieran says "Bye Mamma", ok, I think, lets hope this goes well.
Kieran then disappears upstairs to his bedroom for a while. I heard him coming down the steps, then running through the dinning room, he jumped through to the living room and yells "Ahrge" he had dressed up like a pirate and wanted to go to play with Jack looking like a pirate.
We got to Christine's and I unbuckled Kieran from the car, while I was getting Aislin out Kier crawls out of the van and says "Bye Mamma" and starts up Christine's steps. He had never been to Christine's house and although he spent a lot of time with her when he was a baby I'm sure he didn't really remember her, but he wasn't going to cry because he was going to play with Jack, he didn't need me, it's one of those bitter sweet moments.

Pirate Kieran
Kieran played so hard yesterday that around 8 he crashed on the living room floor

Wedding Bliss

Scott's cousin Alisha got married this past weekend to her long time honey Dax. It was a beautiful outdoor ceremony and we had tons of fun at the reception! We got to spend some time with Scott's brother Kevin and his family, Alexa wasn't real sure how to take Marra and Kieran (they have only met twice before this weekend).

Between holding Aislin, dancing with Marra, and chasing Kieran I had time to take a few pics, unfortunatly I realized while looking at the pictures after the wedding we did not get any of the happy couple.

But here are some that I did get

Cheese

Kevin, Alexa, Erinn

Alexa didn't like sitting by Kieran

Especially when he tried to kiss her

Kier Boy

Marra Shae

Alexa

Alexa didn't really like standing with Marra either

All the Mizikar grandkids

Kieran Scott, Marra Shae, Aislin Kaiti

Aww Dadda

Daddy and Lini

Pretty girl (thanks for the dress Emma)

Kid Craziness

Scott and I both have pretty large extended families, all though I am only one of three kids and Scott is only one of two kids our parents have lots of siblings, so that makes for lots of cousins and it seems like we all have our kids with in months of each other.

Now this is not a complete list of the kids in the family, I am not including any of the Mizikar extended side, it seems like there are 50 million Mizikars and we don't see them as much as we see the other three branches of our family, I'm not saying they aren't important or that they are unloved, it's just I don't have their info and as I said we don't see them much.

I am going to use Marra as our starting point:
Marra Shae born 1-17
just two months before Marra was born Scott cousin Eddie's son was born
Edward Frank 11-7
In the same year as Marra the following three boys were born
Joseph David 3-27 my cousin Mike's son
Elijah James 4-8 my sister Bre's son
Alex Michael 5-10 Scott's cousin Marty's son

Marra, Edward, Joseph, Elijah, and Alex were all first borns!


One year later my aunt Barb had her third child:
Brandon Christopher 6-20, Brandon is the younger brother of Cara Louise 5-9 (who happens to have been born around the same time as two of my other cousins Madeline Nan 6-2 and Noah James 7-31) and Evan Patrick 6-6 (who happens to have been born around the same time as my cousin Tim's daughter Neiva). Brandon was also born around the same time as my cousin Tim's youngest son Owen (unfortunately I was unable to chase down Neiva, Maive, or Owen's exact birthdays)


One year later we had another baby boom:
Ethan Aragorn 1-28, my brother Jer's first
Everett James 3-18, Scott's cousin Eddie's second
Isaiah Joseph 5-17, my sister Bre's second

The next year saw an even bigger baby boom:
Jacob Thomas 3-22, my cousin Mike's second
Bailee Marie Mae 6-29, Scott's cousin Ashlee's first
Racheal Ann 7-16, Scott's cousin Brian's first born (he has an older step son)
Alanna Moiraine 8-30, my brother Jer's second
Ryan John 10-15, Scott's cousin Marty's second
Zachary Holmes 12-24, Scott's cousin Mike's first

Just some interesting facts about the above, 4 of the 6 babies born that year were in Scott's mom's family, 3 of those 4 were all from Scott's mom's brother's sons, 2 of those 3 came from a set of twin brothers. Racheal is the younger sister of James Caleb 11-21 born around the same time as my cousin Tim's second daughter Maive.

Are you getting all of this?

The next year there were only two babies born
Elliot Jayce 4-3 Scott's cousin Eddie's third
Josiah Adam 12-19 my sister Bre's third

Both Elliot and Jo-Jo are the third of three brothers

The next calendar year brought 5 new babies:
Brandon Mathew 3-1, Scott's cousin Brian's third
Emma Grace 4-12, my cousin Mark's first
Aviendha Elise 4-14, my brother Jer's third
Kieran Scott 5-11, our second
Alexa Belle 11-11, Scott's brother Kevin's first

My brother, sister, and I all had babies with in 6 months of eachother.


I guess we all decided to take a break in 2007 because there were no new babies born in 2007.

But 2008 has been chalked full of them:
Payton Lynn 5-26, Scott's cousin Ashlee's second
Aislin Kaiti 6-28, our third
Benjamin Laird 7-2, Scott's cousin Mike's second
Kyle Martin 8-21, Scott's cousin Marty's third
Baby Boy T sometime in December, my sister Bre's fourth

Aislin is the only one in this group that has a sibling of the opposite sex, Payton has big sister Bailee, Benjamin has big bro Zack, Kyle has big brothers Alex and Ryan, and baby boy T will be the fourth boy for Bre (Elijah, Isaiah, and Jo-Jo).
Aislin and Benjamin had due dates only days apart and were both supposed to be delivered by scheduled c-section only days apart with Benjamin being born on July 2 and Aislin being born on July 3, but Aislin decided she wanted to be born before Benjamin. And once again twins Mike and Marty had sons only months apart.

I don't want anyone to feel left out so I will mention the fact that my cousin John has four kids that are all older, Jocelyn (who was born months apart from my cousin Kyle), Hillary, Natalie, and Aaron. And Scott's cousin Terri has two girls not listed, Eden Genivieve and Amber Danielle (who was born right in between my cousins Noah and Evan)

Who knows what the future holds for more babies, but I have a feeling there will be more, heck Scott's cousin Alisha is getting married this weekend!

But out of all these kids no two were born on the same day, even in a different year. There are also no birthdays in Feb. or Sept.

Crazy!

Kennywood

Saturday was Pappy Jim's company picnic at Kennywood. We had so much fun!
Thanks Pappy and Mama Lou!!

Cartwheel - a - thon

Marra will be taking part in a cartwheel-a-thon on the morning of September 13th. The gymnastics center Scott and I coach for and Marra takes lessons from is celebrating National Gymnastics day by raising money for the Downs Syndrome Center of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and the Special Olympics.

Marra will see how many cartwheels she can do in a minute to help support a cause that is near and dear to our hearts, Scott and I started a special needs cheerleading team, the Super Heroes, last year at the gym, please feel free to check out the gym's web site for some pics and info on this team, www.gymsportathleticcenter.com.

Please help us raise money for this wonderful cause by pledging to sponsor Marra for every cartwheel she can do in a minute, or you can donate a flat rate. You can e-mail me with your pledges before Sept. 13th and we will then be collecting money to be handed in by Sept. 21st.

You're help is greatly appreciated!

Too Cute not to share

Aislin

Kieran and Jo-Jo