2 months old. I still have my blue eyes..maybe i'll keep them

I'm 2!!

OTD had his birthday on Sunday. He had fun unwrapping presents and the best part was the CAKE!



seconds? please?

Fun in the snow

Ready....


set.....
GO!!!!

snowy days

this is what we woke up to this morning..and yes ATD still had school!

Parade

Saturday morning out little town held its annual Christmas parade and the cub scouts got to be in it. It was in the 40's, so the temp wasn't too bad, but the wind was blowing 35-40 miles per hour. Luckily the parade only lasted 10min or so. I have decided you can't to anything in Kansas without the Wizard of Oz being in it and this includes the Christmas parade.

COLD

One of the reasons we moved to Kansas was for the 4 seasons and to have a little bit of snow in the winter. Yesterday we got 2 seasons in one day. At 8am it was 58 degrees. Not too bad for December. By 10am it was in the 20's. Yes, it dropped 25 degrees in an hour and a half! By the time I went to bed it was 8 degrees and a windchill of -15. It dropped 50 degrees in one day. All the windows that had condensation on them have iced over. It snowed a little last night and may snow another 2-4 in by Tuesday night. I think it is time to go warm up my coffee cup.

French Kissing

Today ATD informed me that when you like a girl a whole lot you get married and french kiss. I asked him what "french kissing" was and he said "the boy puts his tongue in the girls mouth." I don't think I knew what french kissing was in 2nd grade! I told him that sounded gross and he should talk to his daddy to see if that is true :) The teen years are going to be fun around here!

3 boys all dressed up...

I wish we could have gotten a picture. Last night we went to have the boys pictures made. I left very disappointed :( OTD refused to sit or stand still. Terrible two's are so fun! (I keep telling myself that, maybe I'll believe it soon) We left without buying any pictures and now I'm bummed. I don't know why i thought getting 3 boys to sit still and smile (or not cry) was going to be easy. I feel like we wasted the whole night....

Let it snow...

It has snowed the last 3 mornings! It looks so pretty to wake up and everything be white. We got the boys dressed and out to play in it before it melted. It snowed alot last year, but OTD was too little to remember. He enjoyed it this time...

snowball fights!papa made me a snowman and put it on my table...

that means i should eat it..right?

Fun with nana and papa

For those who know papa, this is papa without a beard. Good thing he flew with nana because I would not have known him. I have only seen him without a beard one other time and Iwas in high school! Wow I was just trying to figure how many years ago that was. More than I want to count. I can't believe I'm that old!

Christmas came early..part 2

he got the hang of unwrapping presents!



we have had a lot of concerts since this was opened

both big boys got batman jammies...

Christmas came early..

After Thanksgiving dinner we put up our Christmas tree and the boys got to open presents from nana and papa. It was great to have some help with the kids while putting the Christmas stuff up. OTD was a great help. He spent the first 3o minutes tiring to blow out the Christmas lights. he has now spent part of each day bringing me ornaments. Pretty soon there will be nothing but lights at the bottom of the tree. ATD had fun hanging his 10 "baby first Christmas" ornaments. ETD slept through the whole thing.

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving here in Kansas. This year Tom's parents game to visit. It was their first trip to Kansas. The weather was great. It was warm enough to play outside the first 2 days and then snowed the last day! We all had fun cooking Thanksgiving dinner together. Tom handled the turkey, stuffing, and eggs. Papa handled the yummy cranberry salad and potatoes. Nana and I handled the other sides. Here are a few pictures...

ultrasound

ETD's ultrsound was normal. They said everything looks fine and about 1 in 15 babies have a dimple like his. Thanks for the thoughts and prayers.

Weigh in and ultrsound

ETD had his 4 week appointment yesterday. He is now 7 # 14 oz. and he grew an inch. I guess he is eating enough :)

I noticed a sacral dimple (dimple right above his bottom) a few weeks ago and didn't really think that much about it. I see them all the time in premies and we don't treat them unless they are deep and you can't see if it is closed. ETD's looked closed and nothing was said at either of his 2 other appointments (with Drs) So yesterday i asked the nurse practitioner about it. She had finished her assessment, but took him back from me and took another look. Yes he has a dimple (duh) and now we have to have an ultrasound. She said they ultrasound all babies with sacral dimples to make sure the spinal cord is closed. While i think everything is fine, a little something to worry about until Friday.

ETD is 3 weeks already

notice OTD's toes

I can not believe he is already 3 weeks old. I had his weight checked on Wed and he is back to his birth weight. I guess he is getting enough. He has been sleeping 4-6 hours at night and eating every 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours during the day. Much better then OTD...he ate every 2 1/2 to 3 hours around the clock...for a year! I tired to get some pictures of just the baby, but the older 2 could not stand not being in the pictures. So here is ETD and some of the big boys too...

Halloween 2008

This year we went to the church for a "Fall Festival". They had games for the kids. ATD got his face painted. We tried to get OTD 's face painted, but he would not sit still. Maybe next year...