Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Oh Boy!

It's been a few weeks since an update...life gets busy sometimes:) Over the past few weeks we've had lots of Max-away-time, lots of snow, and lots of fun! Here's our January update.

The boys had a blast at their friend's Anabel's birthday party!


Tucker sorta learned what it means when something dies...Bye Bye Tu-Tu-Squirmy:(

Max was gone for a week and a half...with a weekend home in between so we had lots of quality time together:)


We needed to practice appropriate jumping...not that this totally is. But Tucker was jumping in Brayden's crib one morning and right after I told him to stop, he flipped head first out the side of it and landed with his head stuck in a basket on the floor. He was fine, it was funny, but we don't need to repeat it.  Brayden wanted to follow suit a couple weeks later...he was jumping on a little kid IKEA chair and as I was telling him to stop (in the middle of changing a Tucker poop), he flipped off the side backwards also.  Crazy boys...or really Clumsy boys!

 Celebrating Poppy's birthday!

Brayden enjoying the snow:)


On Max's second trip, he got stuck coming home because of the snow storm. We went to my parents for a little distraction and change of scenery. Tucker loves to jump off the bed and have my mom and dad chase him and bury him under the bed.

Brayden is a funny and squarely little boy. He, like Tucker, gets into everything! This is one of his cute mellow moments:)

 Max really wanted the boys to get haircuts...Brayden screamed through most of his so he didn't get much cut, but they still look cute:)

 We went to the library with William and Sarah! The Fairfield library is awesome and has a huge children's floor...and a built in exercise class when I have to chase two kids around in opposite directions! I was sweating! I was so thankful for this one room where they were confined...we milked that for as long as we could!


 We have had a very cold January with a few warmer days sprinkled in. We have tried our best to take advantage of ALL of them! Brayden had croup twice in a couple weeks-right before and then after Christmas.  We were so sick of being stuck in the house that he was going crazy when he finally got outside...and apparently wanted to go under the shed for some strange reason?!?!

Another built in fitness class is the Bounce place I took both boys to with my friend and her son. I definitely lost Tucker a few times.  Thankfully he's pretty self sufficient there and is a great climber so he can do all the stuff.

Brayden on the other hand, was more interested in attacking the video games...

For as erratic and crazy as Tucker can be at times, he is also very particular...kinda like Max. If he spills on the table, he likes to clean it up-or have someone clean it up, and he enjoys lining things up. If something has "a place" he wants it to always find its way back there. And so, I give you, the truck line up!

The boys get a long much of the time, and the fight part of the time, and they actually love on each other the rest of the time. These cute moments are so dear to me!

These pictures are all out of order, but anyways, Max got stuck in Nashville, as mentioned above, and the district I work in rarely cancels school. So Wednesday morning I had to get up super early, shovel the driveway before the kids got up, and then get ready for work (thankfully there was a delay). I was a little proud of my multi-tasking:) I took a super lame picture of my shoveling work for Max! I'm well aware of the lameness of this all:)

When Max finally got home, the boys were so happy to see him!

These moments of play together are getting less and less rare. I love it!

This weirdo his houdini when he sleeps! Found him like this on multiple occasions!

Hungry??

We took a family trip to the Maritime Center! Both kids loved it!









Brayden is such a cutie! He is certainly a fiery red-head but he's also the cute and cuddly one:)


One of Tucker's friends from school had a little birthday party for all of the kids in his class. It was fun to see them all interact!


Brayden doesn't have a ton of friends his age that we play with, but Willa is one of them:) She is so cute and laughs at everything and I was amazed at how well they played with each other.

On one of the nice days this week we went for a walk and when we came back, this big hawk was in our front tree! Tucker keeps calling it a mohawk, which is so stinking cute. And when the Super Bowl was on and people were talking about the Seahawks, he kept telling people that the Seahawk was in our front yard!

Tucker typically takes 2-3 hour naps. But lately, he's been boycotting a couple naps per week. Last Saturday I went up to get him and I found him like this-asleep under the covers at the end of his bed. What a nut!

Before the two snow storms this week we had a bit of snow left to play with-enough for Addie and Sienna to have a snowball fight with Max!




This kid wanted to ride the scooter...a few more years for that buddy!


Even though they got killed, we were big Bronco fans!

Brayden woke up with the stomach bug Monday morning...poor little guy threw up 8 times in 5 hours:( We tried to quarantine him once he felt better...but he was one snuggly and sleepy guy all morning. Thankfully he's better!


And there you have January/beginning of February!!

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

DD came home!!

Well this is a delayed post since she has come and gone by now, but I still wanted to get it up:)
D surprised most of our family with her arrival home for Christmas break. She genuinely wasn't planning on coming home because she had such a short break this year and my parents are going out this Spring to visit her, but we couldn't let that happen:) Max and I and my parents knew she was coming home and she planned to surprise Tucker and Brayden and my brother when she got back form the airport. I decided to surprise her with Tucker at the airport-she couldn't be the one with all of the surprises! 
We had a blast spending two great weeks with her and were so sad to see her go again, but we are always excited to see what God has in store for her while she's there.

Up early to head to the airport! Thankfully he's oblivious and never asked where we were going. He was OK knowing that we were going in the car with Nama and Papa!

I can't upload the video of when she saw him, it's adorable and there were tears, so these pictures will have to do!

When we got back to my parents house and Chris got home, he was so surprised that he dropped his whole coffee mug! Brayden was having no problem snuggling with DD again!

We were supposed to go to the city one day and see the tree, etc. but it was pouring so we went to  breakfast at Chip's and bowling instead. Tucker had never been bowling and the first time he rolled the ball down he did it so fast I didn't get to help the ball along. The ball rolled SOOOO slooooowwwwlllyy down the lane and when it made it half way down, it rolled back!



Of course this was a special day so after he begged to try all the arcade games, we let him and he got this great toy...


DD Cuddles


We also went to a model train show in Fairfield. It was really cute and very fun and we were all having a great time...until about 2 minutes after I said that we should probably go because my kids were 2 minutes away from breaking something...and that's when Tucker grabbed one of the trains off the track. The front half was separated from the back and the front half was still going but partially falling off. As I was trying to get it back on, the front two cars came apart. Then my sister said another one of the cars came off. It literally was a train wreck. I just walked up to the front counter, said sorry and we left. Thankfully they weren't broken, just derailed. Ooops!!



They had this cool little tree house part and kids experience. Tucker had fun shooting the cannons, and of course that's D's favorite part too!



Our favorite breakfast place downtown just opened again so we all went out to breakfast. These two have such a cute relationship!

D got the boys jerseys and shorts from TZ and Tucker really wanted to wear his jersey to the New Year's Eve party we went too.

My brother and his girlfriend got the whole family dinner out at our favorite Habachi place and we had such a fun time, and the best chef we've had in a while!

The boys found the stash of prayer magnets we have and decorated.

 A couple nights before she left, we had a sleep over, and it snowed a bunch, so clearly she insisted that we all make snow angels. Not the kids, they were asleep. Lots of crazy antics not documented but we made some seriously good snow angels!

 The next day she built the tallest Zabadoo tower we've ever had. It took two tries because the kids knocked the first one down near completion. They were excited to actually be allowed to demolish the second one.


We are so thankful for the time we got to spend with you D, and we're so grateful for FaceTime and we can't wait until June!!!