My crazies

Me: Boys in about 10 minutes it's time to get all soaped up. (they are in the bathtub)

Logan: awwww....but mom, soap makes me crazy!!

Yeah. That's what makes you crazy.

One of Carter's new favorite sayings: aw, nuts! And one of his favorite things to do is shake his head back & forth real fast...now that is some crazy!

Hi Baby Ryan

I was having dinner with some fabulous ladies I used to work with last night and we all take turns catching each other up on our lives. While I was discussing my boys I was glad that I can still say that they play so well together. Never all the time, but definitely most of the time. But I have to say that towards Ryan they have never, not once (knock on wood) had any ill will towards him. When they see him, they out on these sweet, angelic, baby voices and say 'Hi, baby Ryan'. It really is very sweet. If he fusses, they bring him a you or try to entertain him. I sure hope this continues, though I know there will come a time when they will all be rough & rumble little men. :).

Here are some random pics from this morning. Play & school (Logan concentrating on cutting straight & Carter coloring....with his left hand. I haven't noticed this much before; we'll see where it takes us).

Oh and yes....I do remind the boys the his name is Ryan....not baby Ryan. :)

Pictures & planes

Today the boys played wonderfully together while I started our picture organization. We have over 45,000 photos. Scary. The thing is , there are many duplicates or just not-so-great pictures.

I decided to start with Logan's birth....that 'a when the craziness of pictures happened. I spent an hour & 20ish minutes and deleted 971 pictures!!!!! Can you believe it?!? And that was only November & December of 2008. It was Logan's birth, thanksgiving, Christmas, his baptism & new year....so a lot going on. It felt great to get that little bit decluttered.

In other news, I am working on several cutsie things for Carter's 3rd birthday party. I'm drawing airplanes, making signs & planning food/games. I sooo love planning parties - all of it!

A boy & his dog

Logan loves Buddy and all, but Carter....Carter loves that crazy dog! As I've sat here feeding Ryan, Carter has entertained Buddy with a flashing light ( to which buddy goes nutso)....but it sent Carter into a fit of giggles....so cute to hear!

A fun visit

January 2, 2013
Today my mom, sister & nephews, TJ & Michael came up for a visit. After Ryan went down for a nap, TJ & Michael babysat/played with Logan & Carter while we went to a local antique/jewelery/boutique type store. A half hour visit quickly turned into an hour.... My mom, sis & I had so much fun checking this stuff out...and trying things on. When we left we all bought a pair of sunglasses, Dawn & I each bought a fashion hat and I bought the boys a nightstand for their room ( the true reason for the visit).

We brought it home and Logan 'helped' TJ & Michael bring the nightstand up the stairs. Logan was all 'okay, that's it; be careful'. It was very cute. Papa then showed up and hung out for a bit.

It was a lovely visit....we can't wait for their summer break to do it more often....and for Grandma to retire!

Happy New Year

January 1, 2013
We rang in the new year with John's you get brother, Andy, Brittany & my niece Myella. To prep the boys & I made new year hats, noise makers and a cake. We had fun doing it and we all looked soooo good!

The kids stayed up till 10 & all fell asleep nicely. Ryan woke up for a brief hello & a picture. We chatted thru the evening and noticed at 11:58 that midnight was close. We got champagne in glasses, hats on, noisemakers ready & grapes prepped to eat (a fun tradition to eat 12 grapes within the 10-second countdown).....by 12:05. So we did our own countdown, ate the grapes....Andy & Brittany were incredibly fast....all 12 down while I was on number 5.

We went to bed & woke up with a lovely breakfast. Stayed for a bit, then headed home. It was a great way to bring in the new year!

Will post more....

I recently inherited a few of my Papa's journals (my moms dad). He journaled everyday for SO many years. I'll ask my mom when he started. Anywho, reading through some of them gave me a renewed energy. Even if my post if just a picture or a couple sentences, I will do it. It is so nice to look back & see what he was thinking.

So here goes nothin...let's see how close to daily I can get....

Family Party

We recently attended an Ugly Christmas Sweater Party at one of our friends houses. I hadn't had time to locate a cheap ugly sweater for each of us, so I threw the boys in cheap Dollar Tree ties & a tie we got John a couple years ago....and myself in my jingle bell necklace & homemade garland present earrings. :). We didn't win any prizes, L & C weren't in festive colors & I had zero time to do my hair ( due to a delayed appt for Ryan earlier that day), but as a whole we did look kinda cute & I sure do love my family! :). Naturally in the picture, Carter had already stripped off his tie. My friend also took a cute picture of Ryan. Even though you can't see his entire face, I love the picture!

Exercise

Logan is obsessed with jeans, so every so often I 'make ' him wear 'swishy' pants. These are actually nylon, but as I discussed with my friend the other day, I will call any comfy pants, swishy pants.

Any who, today was one of our swishy pants days. He then started stretching himself across both beds. I asked him what he was doing. He said he was exercising since he was wearing his exercise pants. :). Too cute! Here are some pics if his 'moves'.

Frosty the Snowman

This week we are discussing snow & winter items.....despite it being 60 degrees out. :)

Today we made a marshmallow snowman. After all was done, Logan told me that it needed a flower on his hat. I looked around wondering where he saw this, then remembered that we watched Frosty's Wedding on tv last night....and sure enough Frosty & Crystal Snowman had flowers on their hats. So we pulled out a perfect foam sticker to make Frosty complete. :)

Two of my little monkeys

After a bath with some new jammies! They also helped comb each others hair. So cute. :)

Little Pilgrims

We are on to a thanksgiving theme....to kick it off we made pilgrim hats today! I am babysitting two little cuties today and they became pilgrims as well!

Logan's 4th Birthday Party

Recently we celebrated Logan's 4th birthday. After several ideas were tossed around, he settled excitedly on a dinosaur party! I made several trips to a couple Dollar Tree stores (love that store) and attempted to get creative with my decor to make it awesome. I also made some trips to Home Depot for sand for the dinosaur dig. It was very fun. We had a jungle-like theme of green streamers & balloons...dino footprints leading up to the party, mini dinos all over, cute dino signs on our food and their favors were sand buckets...then they had to 'dig' through sand or rice to find their treasures. Here are some pictures from his super fun day!

Helping

I am trying to teach Carter how to undress/dress himself. He 'tries' and gives up somewhat quickly. Today he was pulling his pajama top, which is buttons. I was trying to explain not to pull and I asked Logan to help him. This is a pic of Logan showing Carter how to unbutton his shirt. So cute. I love them. :)

Ryan

I just love, love, love this picture for whatever reason & decided it was definitely post worthy.

I love this baby....