The New Place

I am getting some "pressure" we will call it from my Northern relatives for some pictures of the new house.  So here they are...

The boys took a very short swim in the pool yesterday.  So pumped for more swimming to come.

 These are the shelves in the playroom.  One of many Mimi and Mommy projects.

 LOVE the way these turned out.  A creative way to display our library of books.  The little cheeky smile ain't so bad either:)

                                                   More playroom

 Got this idea from Pinterest.  This is above our sofa in the living room.

This piece was my mom's.  We replaced the glass doors with wood painted with chalkboard paint.

                                     Another shot of the living room.

                   This is the office.  LOVE IT.  Funky junk we like to call it.  FYI my Mom MADE the desk from scratch.  Amazing, yes?

 This piece was pink with red under it.  Took some time but we got it done.  It was worth all of the effort.

This is our dining room table.  Was my mom's to begin with.  We painted and chipped the legs.  

We have gotten through a lot of projects but we still have lots more to go.  I will continue to update.  I promise:)

Easter!

We dressed the boys up for church and before we left I attempted to take a few pics.  I know, they aren't great but I was trying to get us all out the door without Michael which is hectic enough without adding things like belts and dress jackets into the mix.  I did my best.   

We offered to host Easter this year at our new place.  It's easier sometimes to have things at our place instead of dragging all three boys out of the house.  I think we had at least 25 people.  Maybe more.  It was a blast.  The boys did an Easter egg hunt which quite sufficiently replenished my dwindling candy supply.   In true form, Auntie Steph took some great pictures.  They make the ones I took look particularly sad but I, once again, am so thankful she snapped these ones for us.  

So Overdue

Oh goodness. I know I am in trouble with my relatives for this one. I haven't posted anything since January. I knew it had been a long time but...Janurary. Yikes. First thing is first. I have to post some new pictures. Everyone knows how much can change merely in how they look in a few months when you have a 4 year old, a 2 year old, and a 10 month old. So I will start there and then share a few of my favorite things they have done or said lately.

Here are the three handsome devils. We got them all looking at the camera and smiling which is a miracle in and of itself.

Oliver:

Michael asked him the other day, "What did you learn at school?" He said, "I don't remember. Wait. Yeah I do. Jesus." A few seconds passed. "Actually bugs. I learned about bugs." We both laughed.

I had a particularly enjoyable conversation with him the other day on our way to church.

He said, "When I grow up I want to a Daddy. "

Me: "That's good. You will be a great Daddy. You will have to get married first. do you want to get married?"

Him: "Yes." A pause. "Actually when I grow up I wan to work. I wan to sell stuff, I want to work at Costco."

Me: "Okay. That's good too."

Him "Actually I want to be a golf instructor."

Wesley:

Wesley has recently mastered peeing in the potty, Not pooping. No he still prefers to poop in his pull up. He also enjoys attempting to dress himself. Sometimes he decides he needs to change for no particular reason and will announce, "I need to change my pants." And then marches to his room to change. The other day however he informed me, "I need to change. My shirt has germs from the softball game." I thought this was hilarious.

I should also mention that he sometimes he forgets to put all parts of his clothes on. The other night at bible study Kaleb and Oliver were dressing up as super heroes and he decided to join in. He dissapeared for a little while and then showed up at the patio door (everyone is outside at this point visiting before study starts) wearing NOTHING but a super hero cape and a batman mask. He said, "Arrgh Mateys."

Crosby:

His favorite thing lately is to blow raspberries and then wait for you to do it back. Then he does it back and so on and so on.

He also enjoys taking his bath in the kitchen sink and especially loves throwing toys out of the bath onto the floor. I say, "uh oh," he giggles, and then we do it all again.

Loves. Loves his brothers. Wants to do what they do and play with whatever toy they have. They don't always love this. But he just watches them.

Disneyland 2012

We gave the boys a trip to Disneyland for Christmas this year and we decided it would be best to go sometime other than summer and march break, the only times we had previously gone. January is Disneyland's lowest attended month so although we knew we were taking a risk with the weather (and yes it did rain for ALL of the morning one of the days we were there) it was SO nice to not have to manage the crowds. The longest we waited for any ride was 15 minutes and most of the rides we pretty much just walked on with no wait time at all. Here are a few pics...

They didn't do their typical Jedi Training Academy show because attendance was so low but the boys did get a special meet and greet with the gang.
Oliver chatting up the female Jedi




This was taken the morning it rained. We braved it with our rain jackets and ponchos. It was still fun but I think the boys wondered what we were doing running around in the rain. Neither of them were a huge fan of being wet and cold and well, I can't really blame them.
Handsome dudes.





Doing his sad face. He did remind us on this trip with several tantrums that he is still only 2 years old.
He managed to put on his happy face when he saw his favorite Disney characters- Lighting McQueen and Mater.

We're MOVING...down the street:)

So I do have some excuse for my pathetic attempt lately to keep the blog updated. We are moving...in three weeks to be exact. No, no, not out of town just about two miles (if that) from where we are now. Into a house that will hold our rapidly growing family and NO I AM NOT PREGNANT for those of you will read those words "growing family" and make that assumption. We made the very best of our wonderful little 1500 square foot house and it has been very good to us. BUT it's time to move on. And we couldn't be more in love with our new house. As long as everything closes the way it should we will take possession on February 16th! Here are a few pics:

Three Brothers

I totally forget to post this in our Christmas section. Marsha snapped this one on Christmas Eve while we were out doing the show. SO CUTE!! I will cherish this one forever. FYI- Crosby is wearing Michael's PJ's from his first Christmas!

Crosby Update

Well, I suppose you can tell he's our third. I look back at our posts when we just had Oliver and every single thing he did that was even remotely interesting or exciting (or not as the case may be) I posted. Poor littlest man doesn't get quite the same level of attention. Good news is, we love him just as much as the other two:) So here is a long overdue Crosby update:

At 6 month old he weighed 18 lbs. (60 percentile)

Now at almost 8 months he has nearly six teeth. Two on the bottom (those ones came in first right around 6 months) and there has been a steady of teeth ever since. He will have four on the top once the last one pushes through sometime in the next day or so (hopefully, fingers crossed)

He is crawling (started right around 7 months old)

He is sitting up all by himself (somewhere between 6 and 7 months)

He can now army crawl, sit up, then crawl some more

Likes to try and pick up puffs or cheerios on his own and is getting better mastery over his cute chubby little fingers

LOVES to clap his hands. Especially when his brothers or anyone is singing to him

Can babble with the best of them. Has the da da sound as well as bubba and ma ma. Not sure if he is calling us by name yet but pretty soon.

He is FREAKISHLY strong. Seriously. He knows he has two older brothers and he will be ready to take the both on before we know it

Other than that he gets cuter EVERY DAY!!!

Always watching his brothers...

Don't you want to squeeze those cheeks?