not happy

I think the boys will laugh at this picture one day.  This is sometimes what life looks like in our household.  Okay.  There are actually days when it feels like moments like this exist every ten minutes.  This picture was taken today.  Here the boys are having a really hard time getting up from their nap.  You would have thought we told them the Easter Bunny wasn't real!

Mary

easter

This is a picture of our little family on Easter morning.  We had a very nice Easter.  We kept it fairly low key.  We are a total breakfast family so whenever it is possible to celebrate with breakfast foods that is exactly what we do.  We invited my parents over for an Easter breakfast spread of yummy deliciousness.  We had French toast, scrambled eggs, sausage, muffins, and pineapple. Yum!  I even contributed to the spread with some fantastic muffins that I found on Pinterest.  And I encourage you to head to your kitchen and make a batch!!  Now! Okay.  I got off topic.  We put an Easter bunny in our front yard this year.  The boys have become obsessed with the little critter.  It’s gone as far as I am required to go downstairs at night and go outside (rain or shine or snow) and give the bunny rabbit a kiss goodnight while the boys observe from the nursery window.  Sigh.  So needless to say we wanted to incorporate the bunny rabbit into our Easter celebration.  So after breakfast Kara and I put the Easter Baskets outside next to the bunny rabbit.  The bunny rabbit is in our front yard.  So we then made a trail of Easter eggs from the back door to the front door.  The boys then had to follow the Easter eggs to their baskets.  We gave them buckets to put the eggs.  I really didn’t know what the boys would do but let me tell you it only took a second for the light bulb to go off and for little legs to start scurrying across the back yard for those Easter eggs.  Alex was picking them up at lightning speed while Jakob would try to stop and savor the moment.  It was cute.  By the time we got to the front yard Alex had realized the Easter eggs contained jelly beans and he quickly became distracted with removing all the jelly beans from his plastic eggs.  Jakob on the other hand had discovered his Easter basket and was under the impression that he had to remove the contents from his Easter basket and deposit them into his bucket.  I can see how that conclusion was made.  A logical little fellow indeed.  It was cute.  We let the boys play outside for a bit with their new Easter goodies before we went inside to conclude our celebration.  Our weather was gorgeous this year!  We could not have asked for a better day.  And in case you are wondering the boys each consumed about 54 jelly beans and then proceeded to have a major sugar crash about 2 hours later.  The candy is packed away until next year!!

Mary

bubbles

Another picture of Alex.  This was at bath tonight.

The speech therapist is trying to get Alex more familiar with the shapes you have to make with your mouth in order to get different sounds.  Jakob is starting to get the idea and says, "Hoo" and "shoes" on a regular basis.  To practice this we are trying to teach the boys how to blow bubbles.  The original suggestion was "teach the boys how to blow bubbles in their milk" .... Um?  No thank you.  So I changed it up a bit and made it a bath game.  We just have to be careful that water isn't getting sucked through the straw.  Yuck!  They had a blast watching me blow bubbles but were not able to make any bubbles tonight.  I guess practice makes perfect though.  My guess is tomorrow they will transfer this skill to their sippy cups! Sigh.

Mary

something new

I'm going to try something new with the blog.  I just don't have time to sit down and write long posts any more.  Plus by the time I sit down to write my mind draws a blank.  But I know I'm going to regret not continuing to document our crazy little boys.  We take so many pictures that I thought it would be a good idea to just post a picture as often as possible and tell the story behind that picture.  I'll be able to share so much about the boys just by doing this.  So here we go ...

I took this picture of Kara and Alex over the weekend.  Our weather was gorgeous and so the boys spent a lot of time outdoors.  It is absolutely their favorite place at the moment.  The boys are fairly good about listening to us outside and even though our backyard is not fenced-in the boys seem to stay close to us.  We Kara is putting in some raised garden beds in the backyard.  I'm SO EXCITED.  She has done a ton of reading and we even have some tomatoes sprouting in our bedroom right now just waiting to be transferred to the garden in about a month.  So Kara had been outside filling the beds with dirt and of course the boys were "helping" although I think more dirt ended up on theirs heads and in their finger nails.  The boys were obsessed with carrying these big rocks we have by our shed and throwing them into the garden beds.  And Jakob even ended up with skinned knees and a bruised shin.  Such a boy.  Our little Alex is addicted to water.  I swear the boy is a camel.  We even have friends who now comment on how much water Alex consumes in a day.  And of course as a result we have to change pants at least 2x a day because we didn't do a diaper change in time.  It is bizarre.  But the thing is Kara is exactly the same way.  Kara slugs down so much water each day.  I swear I would live in the bathroom.  She carries around a big water bottle all day and I think it gets filled at least five times.  So anyhow this is a picture of my loves on a water break.  I absolutely love it.

Mary