Boo!

Since we don't have pictures of the boys yet I thought I would put up some pictures from last year. Caleb fell asleep as we walked the neighborhood. I can't believe how much they have grown and how chubby they were. We are off to spend the weekend in Lufkin. We will post pictures of the boys in this years outfits as soon as we return.

On The Mend

It has been a rough couple of days. Saturday we decided to take the boys to walk around Old Town Spring since they wanted nothing to do with being in the house. They liked walking around and seemed to feel a little better towards the end of the day. On our way home, Matt started to feel sick. Sure enough, he had caught what the boys had and was MISERABLE. I took the boys on a walk so Matt could get some rest before bath time. I didn't go to work sunday so I could stay and help Matt. He was feeling a little better, but still not full strength and we still had two sick babies. Monday he was all better but the boys were still under the weather. Late Monday, I finally got what was going around. Matt had to stay at home Tuesday and help while I recovered. Today is a much better day and everyone seems to be recovering. It is our first day since Friday someone didn't throw up!!!

Broken Feel Good

The boys did not have a great Friday. We woke up to the boys STILL ASLEEP. That never happens. At 7:30, (officially the latest they have ever slept) I went in to check on them and both babies had gotten sick at some point during the night. I woke up Caleb and got him changed and cleaned up and was about to wake up Cooper when I heard the front door open. Daddy had forgotten his cell phone , so he got to help clean up Cooper. The rest of the day was a series of costume changes and sick babies. They got sick in the high chairs, the car, the parking lot...pretty much everywhere.

Finally that afternoon I think they are better so I load them up to stop by and see A-maw and Roota before heading on out to get Pedialite. Poor Caleb gets sick on the way so I just stop by so the girls can help me with the boys while I clean them up and put them in the absolute last clean outfit. I called everyone I knew to see if they had any pedialite so that I didn't have to take them in public, but no one could help.

We decided to go to Walmart to pick up some crackers and pedialite so that I can buy them an outfit if they get sick in the store. I was really excited about Walmart because I wanted to find the boys a Halloween shirt and I had heard about the Garanimal line of clothes for toddlers all week long from the women at work and Karen. I found the Garanimals table and was ready to dig in when I realized that if they were going to get sick it would be when I decide to dilly dally and shop for clothes. I was very sad to to walk away because I knew there would not be two of whatever I wanted when I made it back. So I head on back to the house and decide to stop by the mailbox. I was so excited to see a big box from Aunt Ann!!! I opened it in the car and COULD NOT BELIEVE IT!! It was stuffed with Halloween shirts and Garanimals Clothes!!!

Clothes were not the only surprise in Ann's Halloween Bag of Goodies! We got some really neat Sesame Street DVDs that will go perfect on our trip to Fredericksburg even if it will be after Halloween by that point. Aunt Ann is one our favorites. We can barely get through one round of clothes and toys before she is sending another! We have lots of errands to run today so it only made sense to put them in their new Halloween outfits and show them off to everyone!

A Day at The Park!

Now that both boys are walking, it is a lot of fun to take them to the park!!! We usually meet Cindy and Wyatt there and the boys have a great time! If Daddy gets home early, the first thing he wants to do is go to the park!!

15 Months!!!

I can't believe the boys are 15 months old!!! Here are a couple of pictures of the last couple of months!!! I couldn't fix the order, so they are all messed up!

Googley Eyes....

What a day!! It rained ALL DAY LONG. There is nothing worse than a rainy day. Not teething, fever, vomit, poo problems....nothing. The boys are used to going somewhere a couple of times a day. The mall playland, Kroger, Subway, Chickfila, Children's museum.. we go somewhere all afternoon almost every day. They were fine for the first half of the day because Grayson came over to play, but shortly after that it got pretty hard to keep them happy.

Then I dug through the "BOO" basket that the neighbors dropped off last night for something that didn't look like a choking hazard and came up with the googley eys. They were pretty entertained by the googley eyes for a while.

When that wore off, I let them do what they have been dying to do for months. Play with (destroy) the pantry. I figured daddy would rather come home to a happy mommy than a clean house. Or at least I hope so , because that's pretty much been my theory for the past 15 months.

They had a really good time with that and then it was time for dinner. They got pretty fussy towards the end of dinner, so I busted out the absolute last resort. It's been so long since we have had to use it that I could not locate the DVD for a long time. We never watch TV because they won't sit still at all, so I had to have a plan B.

After that, we busted out their new favorite toy- THE KITCHEN. It was put away earlier in the day because they love to climb on top of it and stand up. Matt adjusted the height to Preschool height, and they seemed to enjoy that even more. I love the way Cooper squats to play.

One of their favorite parts of the kitchen is the cell phone. They hold it up to their ear and talk and talk and talk. I have no idea where they learned this from.

Side note on the kitchen- When I went to pick it up, the women checking us out said, " Oh, you must have an older daughter." Me- "No." Nosy lady that can't take a hint "Oh, so this is a gift for a friend of yours that has a daughter." Me- "NO" Her- "Oh my, most people don't have the nerve to buy their sons a kitchen." What do you even say to that? Toys R Us is now on my list with Walmart.

Sorry for the long post...So much is going on with them. They are learning to sign more..The can sign milk, more, eat and sometimes poo, but they don't know what the poo sign means. They just think it is funny.

Tomorrow we will find out if Cooper needs another helmet. We meet the surgeon in the morning and then head on out to the helmet doctor in the afternoon. We think there are 3 ways it could go...

1. His head looks amazing and he doesn't need another helmet.

2. His head looks just ok, but we think another helmet will do some good.

3. His head looks just ok, but there is nothing more we can do.

Ugh. Let's hope and pray for Option #1. We would like to send these kids to college one day and insurance has already denied any helmets post post surgical.