Reach to the sky!!

I consider myself (for the most part) to be a pretty good mom. I spend as much time as I can playing with them, I'm firm when I must me - which is a lot with toddler boys - and I take them to church and Sunday School every week. But I had to stop and review what I've been doing wrong when Tj was swiinging on his swing set and said to me, "Mom, I'm going to swing so high I'm going to kick God in the butt". Hhhmmm....What would God think of that? I like to think that he got as good a chuckle out of it as I did.

Looking back at my previous posts, I realize that It's been a while since I posted some recent pics and videos of the kids. Obviously, I find it much more entertaining to pick on my husband....can you blame me? But really, I should at least give a brief update on those two little boys who have an amazing way of making me want to hug them and strangle them at the same time.

TJ constantly surprises me with how much he knows (if you ask him he knows everything). There is a reason kids are called "sponges". He absorbs everything we do and say and can repeat it at any given moment - whether you want him to or not. There's definitely no pulling a fast one on this kid, you tell him we'll go to the pool later on the weekend - and Saturday morning he's putting on his swim suit before breakfast. My plan this summer was to teach him to ride a bike without training wheels - I figured it would be a good summer activity and it might take him that long to get the hang of it. So we took the training wheels off the bike and ran beside him holding on just like you're supposed to. Only TJ had other plans in mind. He soon was going faster than I could run and took off on his own. He stopped and looked at me like "so what was so hard about that?" I posted a video below of him doing one of his "tricks" which is really just graceful falling - but I promise you he was ok.


Chris was my "easy" baby. He never fussed much, he went right to sleep in his crib, and started sleeping through the night by 6 weeks. I thought I had it made - until he reached toddler-hood. I often wonder what an 18 month old has to be so angry about? Mostly he just wants what he wants when he wants it. And if he doesn't get it - the arms start flailing, the head gets thrown back and the screaming starts. Whoo- I now realize I was pretty lucky with TJ being so layed back. But of course he's also incredibly adorable and extremely funny. He has whole conversations with you without you being able to understand one word. He's also extremely happy...most of the time. He wakes up in crib and is smiling, sometimes talking away to the the stuff animals. TJ and I - who are not so happy at 7am - are completely baffled by this behavior. There is no doubt that Chris will be the comedian of our family.

So here's some videos and pictures....

New Playground in Backyard....Thanks Grandma Sue & Papa Pete!





TJ's Big Jump Chris' Big Jump

TJ's "Trick"

Tom's Birthday

I can no longer complain about Tom' budlight obsession....I've totally given him a free pass to collect a much stuff as he likes! What other wife do you know that would turn their garage into a Budlight shrine for her husband's birthday. I figured if he's going to keep collecting stuff, he might as well have a nice place to show it off.....not in the house!