Fun in the Sun

It has finally been warm enough to play outside during the day. Tyler has been itching to get outside for the past couple of weeks. Last week we had one day when it was really warm and Tyler would not come inside - he even took his dinner outside and had a picnic with Jimmy on his picnic table.



The ground was still a little bit wet, so I didn't really want Jason crawling around on it, so we stuck him in the swimming pool and gave him toys. He thought it was the greatest thing ever!

Silly Boys

Here are a few random pictures of the boys over the last couple of weeks.


Jason finally likes the jumper - and it is even more fun when Tyler swings him!


Tyler in his silky jammies he got from Grandpa.


I am not sure if Jimmy or Tyler got Jason dressed!


Tyler in his other silky jammies. Just the other day Tyler told me that he only wears his silky jammies on Wednesday.


Tyler singing for Jason with his keyboard and microphone he got for his birthday. Jason also likes to get a hold of that microphone!

Snow, snow and more snow

Here are a few pictures of all of the snow that we have had. It is starting to melt now, thankfully. The piles next to the mailbox were as high as the mailbox and there was about two feet in the yard. We have a bench in the front yard that is almost completely covered. Tyler loved eating the icicles. It has been a crazy winter!

Happy Birthday Grandma

We celebrated my mom's birthday this weekend with presents, cake and ice cream. Of course, Tyler had to help her blow out the candles. My parents also watched the kids for us so that we could enjoy a fun Valentine's date with three other couples.

Happy Birthday Tyler

Tyler turned 3 on February 3rd! My parents and sister and brother-in-law came for the weekend. Tyler was very excited to help Grandma decorate his Mickey Mouse cake. He was also very excited when he woke up and saw all of the presents that were for him!

Tyler got lots of fun presents, and a few essentials. He got a keyboard, fishing game, silky pj's, new bedding and a car seat. After presents, we had cake and ice cream. Jason went nuts over the ice cream. Aunt Courtney was feeding him and he sure had a temper when she did not feed him fast enough!

Later in the afternoon we all went bowling. It was a fun day. Thanks everyone that was here to make Tyler's day so special! I can't believe that he is already three!! He is so much fun and keeps us on our toes! He is my little helper around the house and like to things, "all my own." (all by my self) He is also a good big brother and already likes to wrestle with Jason.

Krispy Kreme

We went on a little field trip last week to Krispy Kreme. We got a tour of how they make the doughnuts, the kids got hats and coloring pages and we got a free sample - yum! It was a lot of fun, and I am sure that the Mom's enjoyed it more than the kids.

Tyler only licked the glaze off the doughnut and Jason just wanted to squish it between his fingers and laugh! We had a great time.

Tyler watching the doughnuts cooking



Vanessa & Matthew


Ethan




Jason & Levi (they are 2 weeks apart)



Jason went to town on the doughnut. I wish my camera had sound because it was hilarious to listen to him.

Sippy cups, malls and other fun things!

It feels like a month since I have posted anything, but really it has only been two weeks! We haven't been up to a whole lot - just trying to keep busy in this cold weather. Tyler has become a Mall rat and wants to go play on the toys and get ice cream just about every day. I tried to take my camera the other day and Tyler told me I didn't need it.




We have been experimenting with lots of finger foods this week and Jason had his first taste of pizza tonight, and LOVED it! He will still eat baby food as long as he has some 'real' food to play with on his tray.

Tyler has been doing chores around the house - like the dishes and vacuuming with his new vacuum.

Jason finally learned out to drink out of a sippy cup! I had been giving him water and juice in it and he didn't ever really care too much about it. I put milk in it today, and what do you know, he can drink from it, and LOVES it!! I was beginning to wonder if I was going to have him weaned off the bottle by a year, but it looks like we just made a huge step in the right direction :-)

Tyler has also been dressing himself every morning - and is very proud of it! He wants to wear shorts every day (several of which are his pajama shorts) and he found the drawer where I keep all of his clothes that are too small, so he wants to wear those all the time. I don't mind the shorts as long as we are at home. I don't know why I buy this kid new clothes!

Puddin' Paint

We made edible finger paints today and the boys just loved it. They started out a little timid, but then it got crazy and we ended up giving Jason a bath he was such a mess!





Nice and neat - using only one finger to paint


Yumm, this is good stuff!


Here let me help you!


Notice the little red spec on Jason's ear! At this point it reminded me of the food fights in Hook!


Very intense!


Now we are having real fun!


It was all over at this point - forget the paper - the counter works much better!





All clean :-)