Random Photos and Stories

 Long overdue updates on the boys!  They are turning out to be SO different!!!

CONNOR

Likes: mommy, attention, mac and cheese, animals, talking, and shooting things.

Dislikes: tuna, chocolate, being dirty, clothes (keeping them on), pooping and going to bed

So Connor's new fad is calling everything Genius!  Like people said 'rad' then 'awesome' then 'cool' and 'legit'... Connor says Genius.  'That's so Genius Mom!!' :)  Oh me oh my...  He's a trend setter and too cool for school that's for sure! :)

Since Connor was a baby I would always tell him I loved him and hold my hand up with the sign language symbol for 'I love you', he would try to do it back but his fingers always looked mangled and uncoordinated.  So a couple weeks ago I told him I loved him and signed it to him and he tried for a second to sign it back, looking frustrated and confused.  Then his face lit up and he said "I love you TOO!" and held up two fingers :)  He's a good little problem solver!  Way to think outside the box Connor!

 We were on a very very long roadtrip from NC to FL, I was sick as can be, Vale was puking in his car seat and well it was just plain awful.  Toby was going ballistic when we got food on the road... I was so frustrated and said 'Toby if you don't stop I'm gonna throw you out the window".  Well Connor didn't like that at all, he got very upset and said "NO! Don't throw Toby out the window!!  He would get scared and be all alone and LOST!!!"  I apologized and told him I didn't really mean it.  Two hours later Toby was freaking out in the back seat and Connor said to him "Toby if you don't settle down mommy is gonna throw you out the window!!!"  Sigh... great...

Connor's thing for the past... I don't know 3 months has been pretending to be an animal.  Anything from a lion, tiger, bear, or polar bear... it must have claws and be ferocious! Sometimes he's a nice tiger but sometimes he's a mean tiger and wants to fight with you (aka wrestle around and claw at each other).  But recently he's been hunting!  He'll walk around with a fake gun and hunt for the lions or whatever is 'dangerous' in our house.  He tells me not to be scared because he will protect me and Vale. :)  OH and warthogs have been the recent danger... I commonly hear 'Mommy!  There are 4 warthogs in the hall!  I will shoot them!!!' :)

VALE

 Likes: daddy, gold fish crackers, chocolate, going to bed, toby, using a fork, being dirty and the stairs

Dislikes: hotdogs, getting his diaper changed, pooping, being told 'no', and baby gates.

Vale is really developing a personality... and strong will... :)  He doesn't get that from me sooo... must be from dad... ;-)

Speaking of dad... this kid ADORES his father!  When Jimmy has to leave to go to work or school he starts bawling and goes over to him holding his arms up.  Recently he's starting saying, 'don't go!! don't go!!'  Talk about tear your heart out!!! 

He is a helper and is understanding SOOO much!  We ask him to get something or put something away and he does it happily, which we are very grateful for.  He likes to help us load and unload the dishwasher... trainin' him young I tell ya! :)

He is very happy go lucky and laid back at this point in his life.  He's just happy to be involved.  He's NOT happy when he's strapped in, can't get down or is restricted somehow.  He is a little climber!!!  I found him a couple weeks ago on the BACK of the couch!  Yeah... he had pulled the duplo's box over to another box, made stairs to climb up on the arm of the couch so he could get to the back of the couch.  I see stitches in our future... pray. :)

This little guy is a stunner! :)  His blue eyes are adorable and his hair is a wild, but fashionable, mess!  He will go to anyone... and I mean that.  He's the reason that church nursery's need to have pagers or identifiers for parents to pick up kids.  I was standing at the front desk of the gym and some lady came up and said he was cute and Vale just leaned right into her, arms out.  She held him for about 5 minutes and he was happy as could be.  Sigh...

He is a little runner!  He books it everywhere!  I suppose he has to keep up with Connor but it's incredible how fast he is!  And he's not like Connor in that he wants to be where I am.  He could care less if I'm in the room, which means a lot more covert messes!  He emptied a ton of dirt out of a plant at my parent's house onto the floor... oops!  He likes to play in the toilet water, regardless of if it is empty or not... yuck!