Overheard at church today

Vinnie: Why did the baby Jesus die? ... And why did Dr. Seuss die?

Joey: Jesus died on a cross. Dr Seuss just got old.

American Idol, here we come!!

Joey's green belt

Joey had testing for his green belt in karate last night. I was at work so didn't see it, but I heard he did great!

Big brother Zach doing the honors in the belt tying ceremony

I hear horse jockeys get paid well

So this is Christopher's growth chart. He puts the "tini" in Contini. Yes, I know we are a short family, but this is even tiny for our kids. The bottom graph is weight, the top is height.

While he is not winning any contests in either category (unless smallest wins), his weight is a bit worse. The crazy thing to me is that he eats. All the time. Joey was also small ( but not like this), but he hardly ate anything. We used to say he was living on air alone. But Christopher eats. But he also has diarrhea and pretty much has since he started solids at 6 months. So we saw a GI doctor last week. We collected about 10 different stool samples (I use the term "we" loosely, as it was Peter who got stuck with the poop collecting! Blech!) and the poor guy had blood drawn 3 different times (First place couldn't get it, second place got some, but called us back a week later becuase they did not have enough). So far everything is normal, but we don't have the food allergy tests back, and that is what I most suspect. I waffle between wanting everything to be normal, but then just accept we have this ridiculously tiny kid, to wanting there to be something wrong so we can fix it!! Sigh... I will post an update when I have one.

Our morning joke

Vincent: Mom, why did Tigger look into the toilet?

Me: Uh, Why Vin?

Vincent: He was looking for Pooh!

This is why we are willing to pay $3.80/gal for regular...

Temperatures this weekend were in the 80's so Pete fired up the jacuzzi! The pool was about 65 deg, but that didn't stop the kids from jumping in. Brr...

My 4 boys with their friends Kyle and Dustin

No wonder I am so tired...

Our April calender so far this month. It will only get more packed as the month goes on. I would call this a typical month at the Contini household!

Yep...

I dropped him on his forehead today at Zach's baseball game. In my defense he was thrashing about like a mad-man. Not one of my better mommy moments.

Our future lawyer...

Zachary tried to get his brothers to sign this before wrestling with him. His hideously bad handwriting makes a future as a physician a close second.

I'M IN!!!!!

I am so excited I could scream!! Today I was notified that I was chosen for the Womens San Francisco Marathon this October!! I have had my heart set on doing this marathon for a few months now. I was very disappointed to then find out that they were going to be doing a random lottery this year because last year it sold out in 3 days. I was so nervous waiting for the results, I thought I was going to throw up!! Woo Hoo!! I am in!! The only downer was finding out that my friend Kathy in Illinois did not get in. She is one of my internet friends and I was excited that we were going to get a chance to meet. Peter says we can go to Chicago next year for their marathon. Let's see how I do on this one!