WOW I didn't see that coming!!!

How about McCain pulling that one out of his butt?! I must say I don't know much about her but I am pretty excited about being an American right now and about this election race. Talk about an historical 24 Hours. Obama accepts the nomination on the anniversary of Martin Luther's great speech and Wam Bam here comes McCain with the announcement. Wow, my jaw is on the floor. I spent the morning listing/watching cnn trying to learn more about Palin. All this said my vote is still for Obama/Biden but I am excited about this race. About my boys, Luke's snaggle tooth is still hanging on. It has threatened to fall out for the past week but it is a fighter and is camped out in the middle/top of his mouth. I think he is being really careful with it so it doesn't bleed I will keep you updated as to when the tooth falls out and the tooth fairy delivers the cash. Matthew is still very adamant on going doodoo in his pants. He does pretty well with going pee pee on the potty but he thinks adults should clean up the doo doo out of his pants. He goes back and forth between pullups and big boy pants and he doo doos in both. I spend alot of time trying to get my bathroom to stop smelling like a NY subway since Matthew has been spraying it down. We stay supportive and offer bribes of cookies and skittles when he is successful.

big birthday weekend

The boys went to 2 birthday parties this weekend. Ethan's Transformer party on Saturday and Sasha's roller skate party on Sunday. Luke tried hard to skate. He held on tight to the edge around the whole rink. Matthew kept occupied in a big play area. We spent 3 hours at the skating rink. We had a lot of rain yesterday and today, we need it, so no one is complaining. It could put a damper on Luke's first soccer practice which is supposed to be tomorrow evening. I returned from Paris Saturday evening. I must have brought the rain back with me because it rained while I was in Paris as well. I made the best of it however because I spent my day at the Louvre. It was a wonderful experience. I saw the infamous Mona Lisa. I took the trains in Paris and I only got turned around one time, I found my way around pretty easily. I did get stabbed in the foot by an umbrella by a french woman. Mark is still working hard and we are still juggling our schedules. I work on the weekends but I will be able to see most of Luke's soccer games on Saturday mornings. I am still working on getting some photos up.

New site will try to post weekly Aug 20 2008

Hi welcome to the Lamparella blog. Mark and I travel weekly and both Matthew and Luke are in school so we are a busy family but we will try to update you regularly. Please visit here to see what we are up to. I will try to put up pictures but bear with me because I am new to the computer world and find it challenging to download and upload. I go to Paris France tomorrow for the 3rd time tomorrow. I have fallen in love with Paris this summer. The people have not spit on me and have not been rude to me but I am a pretty independent tourist and am pretty good with a mapbut everyone I have come in contact with has been hospitible. Mark has had a pretty busy summer and starting a busy fall. He has lost a few employees which means he is taken on more responsibility than he already does which mean he is taken on 130 % of workload instead of his usual 110%. Luke and Matthew are doing well at school. Luke started kindergarten Aug 4th. He has had homework, and classwork and is doing very well. He will start one extra activity which will be soccer. He has some good friend in the neighborhood Gavin and Xavier (twins), he slept at their home two weeks ago and they stayed over last weekend. We decided that to have a kindergarten boys night last friday so we had another boy, Ethan and the twins over with some pizza and costumes and had a night of it. Matthew even had a great time. Matthew is potty training which is code for pissing up all the bathrooms. Kidding. He is doing pretty well, we bribe him with skittles so you know he is anxious to get on the potty often. Well I'll get back to you soon with some photos.