Jingle Bells

Playmates

Connor & Isaac really have fun playing with each other these days. They love to copy each other & then laugh uncontrolably. The other night, Connor started saying "Wee Wee Wee" then slapping his knees. Isaac thought it was hilarious, so they both kept doing it over & over. They seriously crack me up.

Isaac is in love...

with everything.

About 2 weeks ago, Isaac started saying "I Love You." At first, it was just to me. I'd be laying on the couch & he would come lay on me & say, "I love you" over and over until I had to tell him to stop. Then he started saying it to Daddy.

This weekend is when he crossed the line into insanity. He started grabbing his blanket & snuggling it while saying, "I love you, blanket."

This morning, in the bath, he was playing with a Thomas the Train toy...a train named Salty. The next thing I heard coming from the tub was, "I love you, Salty." And Salty isn't even his favorite...

He's a little nutty.

Cautiously Optimistic

In a recent blog, I indicated that we might be switching the boys from cribs to toddler beds soon. We did it this weekend.

On Saturday afternoon, while the boys napped, Ryan and I assembled the toddler beds. After they woke up, we disassembled the cribs and moved the toddler beds into their room. Connor was distraught to see that his crib was no longer an option. He is pretty sensitive to change.

By Saturday evening, they both had played on their beds enough to think they were pretty cool. Ryan put them to bed while I was out fulfilling a church commitment. They both went to bed without so much as a peep! They slept through the night with no problem and even let us sleep in a little later this morning.

My darling sleeping boys on their first night in the new beds. (We have a pretty amazing flash!)


I was fully prepared for this to be a very difficult fight. I've heard countless stories of toddlers who were still awake 3 hours after bedtime, toddlers who were in & out of bed a billion times, and toddlers who tore their room to shreds. We had none of that. In fact, tonight is their second night in beds & it was just as easy as last night.

We have not done naps in the new big boy beds yet, but we will on Tuesday when I'm home for the Veterans Day holiday. Hopefully it will go equally well.

I'll probably curse myself by saying this, but never in a million years would I have guessed it would be this easy.

Chicken Anyone?

Last night I made a whole chicken for dinner. I put it on the cutting board to rest before we cut it & Isaac decided he couldn't wait.

Synchronized Swimming - Mormon Style

My sister sent me the link to this & I thought it was hysterical. Just thought I'd share a little silliness today.

Two Little Monkeys (a.k.a. Halloween 2008)

The Best Toys

The best toys are the simplest ones. I actually got some things done yesterday, thanks to this box and these laundry baskets.

Super Letters

Connor was playing on the floor the other night when I heard him start saying, "eye" over and over. I thought maybe something was wrong with his eye, so I asked him to come over to me. When he came over, he had a little toy in his hand (a construction barricade), that looks like the letter "I" when turned upside down. We sing the alphabet all the time & we try to reinforce letters when they watch Super Why on PBS, but I had no idea any of it had sunk in! We discovered that he can also consistently identify "O" and "R".

How did this happen?

I don't know how I got so lucky, but I just have to brag on my amazing husband for a minute.

Ryan works so hard at his "real" job, then comes home & helps me with the boys. On the weekends, he is usually working on the house. The current project is custom building the vanity (cabinets) for our master bathroom in which he already built a custom tile shower.

He actually enjoys being in the kitchen. He makes dinner at least once or twice a week. He bakes bread from scratch. Last night he made eclairs. And they were heavenly. All day I've been thinking about the rest of them sitting in the fridge.

He empties the dishwasher, cleans up after he cooks, and helps keep the house clean in general.

He even takes me out on a date every now & then.

Seriously, could it get any better?