So here is just pictures of our daily life caught on my iphone! haha
After starting to potty train yet again... we decided to let Ethan just run around without any underwear or diaper! It seemed to work the best! So this was a common site around our house for a while! haha
Good thing his shirt is long enough to cover his bum! :-)
My three amazing boys just cuddling on the couch watching a movie!
This might just remind me of myself when I was little. I didnt do this often when I was little but I do have a picture of my sister and I with underwear on our heads! So I guess the apple doesnt fall far from the tree! haha
What a silly kid!! haha
Wyatt is just a sweet heart!! Love his sweet little face!
After being able to be spiderman for Halloween Ethan wanted to wear his spiderman mask while riding bikes!
Enjoying being outside on our short bike ride!
Wyatt is like a little puppy! He will put toys in his mouth and carry them around with him just like a dog! haha What a silly kid!
Wyatt loves Ethans spiderman toy almost as much as Ethan does! Must be that it talks and lights up! haha
The sweet face that I get to come into after nap times! :-) Oh how I love this little munchkin!
Ethan got this SWEET glow in the dark sword and going potty in the toilet 4 times. Each time he does a big potty in the toilet he gets a quarter to put in his jar piggy bank and after he gets 4 he can buy a toy. I had previously boughten toys and so he would just pay me back for them as he is able to get them. He was pretty stoked when he picked out this sword!
What a stud in the vest that Aunt TT and Q got for him!
Brotherly love. Ethan sat in the corner and held Wyatt close and said "mom take a picture of us" :-) So I ran into the other room to grab my phone and was lucky that they stayed in roughly the same position!
We have a ton of empty boxes in our master and while I was getting ready one day Ethan decided to climb into one of them! haha Good thing he is like a monkey and did not fall and hurt himself!
Ice cream lover! :-)
We went to Chick fil a one evening for FHE to get me and the kids out of the house. Oh how I love chick fil a! I could probably go there every week if I did not control myself! haha
I love watching the boys play together. This doesnt last very long but when it does it is so fun to watch! :-)
Wyatt is our little lizard tongue! He would stick out his tongue as if saying ok Im ready for some more! haha Silly boy!
Chillen on the couch again!
Ethan likes to do silly things and then tell me to take a picture! haha He is way too used to getting his pictures taken! haha But, I dont mind!
Watching "How to train your dragon" as a family with popcorn! The boys sure do love popcorn!
Went to story time for the first time being here in Fort Collins. It was way smaller and different than the one in AZ but it was still fun. I figured we might as well try it out since we were already at the library. So we made a little outing of it we hit up the library then..
Got a smoothie at panera bread (for free since we have a gift card.. Oh YA!!)
Love my boys!!
Then on the way back to our car it was super windy. We had to park in a different parking lot because the parking lot at the library was so packed. Of coarse when we first were walking around it felt great. Then the wind picked up and Ethan didnt have a sweatshirt! So I gave him mine to wear as we walked back to the car. It was just a tad big on him! :-)
You would think we still lived in AZ with how much my boys like to run around half naked! haha
Ethan opened a book and told me it was his computer. He then started pretend typing on it. haha Love their imaginations!
While Ethan was supposed to be taking a nap he ends up doing this.... Yes emptied the entire Q-tip box out in his bedroom! Oh kids!! My Q-tips are not the same anymore!
Fell asleep while having quiet time in his room! So sweet!
Love these boys so much!!
Then we went to target the other day and tried on some christmas hats in the dollar section! Then went and got little trees to decorate Brandon's office and to put up in Ethans room. Those pictures will be in a few weeks. After we get it all done.
For FHE this past monday night we went and got ice cream and Pioneer icecream and then noticed that there were some christmas lights up so we went and looked at them for a minute! Oh how I LOVE Christmas and everything that comes with it!!
Now for just some details on the boys!!
first Ethan:
Ethan has gotten to the Why phase and sometimes it drives me crazy! haha So between the "What you say" and "Why" sometimes the only thing I can say is "Stop saying that" haha He is just growing up super fast! He is loving his Joy School and I think wishes that it was everyday! He still has a major temper. He gets so mad and screams and throws things and smacks and everything. Time out does not really work anymore. When we put him in timeout he screams at us (mainly me) and then throws books or toys or his night light at the door. If I put him on the stairs and lock the gate he gets mad and screams at me and goes bazurk on the gate and then goes down the stairs to find shoes to throw at the gate!! WOW!! Yes he can be a banchy!! I have actually just discovered spanking!! Oh yes that is right! I LOVE spanking!! Ok maybe not LOVE but it is the one thing that actually works lately. Before I had kids I was all for spanking. I mean I was spanked when I was little and I turned out fine (twitch twitch);-) Then I had kids and I thought I dont know if I feel right about spanking. Plus when Ethan was little tapping his hands after he did something wrong did nothing for him. He would just do the same thing again while starring at us. So I thought that spanking would be a no go.. until recently!! After soooo..... many hours of torment with Ethans tantrums over the last who knows how long. I decided to try it out. It worked like a charm!! The first time I spanked him was a few weeks ago. I was just threatening Ethan that I would do it. He then egged me on saying that he was throwing stuff and that I should spank him. So I did! I pulled his pants down and gave him a good swat on the bum. He cried and I put him in his room. I could hear him saying owie and crying on his bed. So after a few minutes I went in to talk to him. I sat on his bed and held him and told him that I dont want to have to spank him but when time out doesnt work and he is throwing things against the doors and walls and being naughty then I have to resort to spanking. I told him I loved him very much and he said he "Love you too" through his little sobs. Then I gave him a kiss and then he was a complete ANGEL for like an hour or so! It was bliss!! Then a few days later I had to do it again. I warned him that if he did the thing he was doing that I would spank him. Then after he did it I would spank him and send him to his room. But after each time he turns into an angel. He told me one, "mommy, remember when you spanked my bum." I said "yes, did you like that?" to which he responded, "no, I dont want you to do it again." So I told him , "then dont throw things at the walls and throw tantrums like that." He say "ya" in a very cheery voice! haha He is such a sweet kid when he wants to be. And although I can go on and on about how he drives me crazy, I LOVE that little boy with all my heart!! He has been all about telling us that he loves us at random times of the day and I LOVE it when he does. It is so sweet to hear that when you really are not sure how he feels sometimes! Especially when he is screaming "I DONT LIKE MOMMY!! Only Daddy." haha He LOVE making Wyatt laugh and enjoys rough housing with him even though he gets in trouble for being too rough sometimes. He has so much energy and it has been hard to be in basically apartment living. He has been telling everyone lately that we are moving into a big house with a big backyard! haha So I think it is safe to say he is pretty excited about moving into our house! He is such a goof ball and has such a creative imagination. He likes to build "bird castles" with his legos which is really just a made up bird that we build. And anytime there is something that is pointy or he builts some straight tower he always says that it is a temple! haha He is such a smart kid and it is funny to watch him as he thinks about things. Such as when he is being naughty and I tell him if he throws that again then he is getting a spanking. He then stands there and you can just see his little mind thinking about how he doest want a spanking so does he really want to throw that toy again? haha He is doing so great with potty training lately. I think it has been about a week of no accidents during the day. We have gone many places with him wearing underwear and he has not had an accident while awake for at least a week now. We are on the road to no diapers for Ethan. He has made it through a few nap times with underwear on until yesterday. He wet the bed during nap time. When he came out and his pants were wet I was all uh oh you peed in your bed while sleeping and he got very defensive saying that he didnt (He does not like to have accidents! It all started when he wet himself during the day a few weeks ago. He ran into the bathroom and when I went to check on him he screamed at me to get out as I saw that he was trying to wipe his pants clean with toilet paper. I tried to console him saying that accidents happen but he didnt want anything to do with me. He was SO embarassed. Brandon finally talked him down. But anyways so he does not like having accidents.) So I had to talk to him and just tell him that it was ok. That he is not used to controlling it when he is sleeping. So after almost a compelte melt down he understood and I cleaned his sheets. But then last night he must have taken his diaper off before going to bed because at almost 1 in the morning he came in our room saying that he had spilled water on the bed. I was so tired and I told him just to go back to bed. He said he couldnt because he spilt water on his bed and that I needed to clean it up. So I told him to go back to his room and I would come look. As we was walking away I looked at him and noticed that his diaper was missing. Lo and behold he had a huge wet circle on his bed. After explaining that it was not water but that it was pee and thats why he needs to keep his diaper on at night still he was about to cry saying that it was just water not pee. So Brandon and I had to talk him down again about the fact that he can't control it yet while he is sleeping and that is why we put diapers on him. So we put a towel of the wet spot to hold off till morning (we dont have any other sheets for his bed) and he went back to sleep! Oh the joys of potty training. I am just so glad that he is doing to good during the day. Well I think that is about it for now.
Next up is Wyatt:
Wyatt is growing up too fast!! He is walking everywhere and trying to climb onto everything. He loves to jabber which consists of a lot of lalas and nanans and other jibberish inbetween. He loves the feeling of his tongue, he is always moving it all over the place. He also loves to say "uh Oh" and he has begun to do an over dramatic laugh when he is trying to be funny. For example the other day we were at our friends house for dinner and he was really upset and when he came over to me crying I picked him up and asked if he wanted a bite of cake. He stopped crying instantly which made us all laugh. As soon as he noticed that we were laughing because of him he started to laugh. Not like a normal this is funny laugh but almost like a your guys think Im funny and Im going to laugh to make you laugh more kind of thing. Or a courtesy kind of laugh! It is so funny! He also tries to copy Ethan a lot! Although he does not say many words yet except for the "uh Ohs" and what sounds like "ya" he sure does understand a lot. I told him to go get his water the other night and he walked away from me and went to where his sippy cup was on the floor and picked it up and drank it. He really likes to try to talk to us. The other day he walked up to Bandon and got close to his face and started gabbing on about something, and then walked away. haha He also was telling a girl behind us at the zoo about the lepard that he saw. He kept pointing at it and then looking behind at the girl and jabbering. It was so cute!! When he is tired and or wanting something he will come up to me and grab me around the legs and yell into my legs!! haha It is so funny and he does it all the time! I really kind of like it because he is so cute when he does it! He is not half the gagger that Ethan was and I think thats probably why he didnt spit up as much when he was a baby. However, there were some perks to Ethans insane gagging. I never had to pound the heck out of Ethan to get something out that he was choking on. He practically got it out himself everytime. I would walk over to pound his back and all I would have to do is a little tap and his gagging relfex would do the rest and shoot it out of his throat. Wyatt on the other hand seems to have a chocking scare once a week. Each time is it me having to hold him almost upside down and slam his back once or twice really hard until it comes out. He has turned colors a couple of times and I HATE IT!! It scares me everytime. Everytime it happens I worry that it will be the one time that I can't pound it out of him. It also always seems to happen when we are eating out. Maybe he is trying to tell me something! haha That has been one hard thing with Wyatt. I still dont feel like I can leave him alone for very long while he is eating because I am afraid of him chocking while I am not in the room! Not fun! He has also gotten to the throwing food stage! Oh how that drives me crazy!! When he does not want anymore of something he just starts chucking it off his tray! The only parts that I dont really like about this stage! haha He has developed some new dance moves. He used to just move his arms up and down but now he does the almost run in place dancing! SO Stinking CUTE!! He loves to play on little jungle gyms things. Which is one reason that I LOVE indoor playgrounds like at Chick fil a and Mcdonalds. It makes it so much easier to keep track of Wyatt. Wyatt is also not a big juice fan. He would rather have milk or water, I always try to give him some juice when I give Ethan some thinking he would enjoy it but he only drinks a little bit and then is done. So sometimes I will give the rest to Ethan in a cup and refil Wyatts with water, which he then goes to town on! haha Silly boy! Wyatt has also started to fold his arms when we say prayers. It is so cute... All we have to say is that it is prayer time and he folds his arms and he has started to bow his head too. It looks like he is closing his eyes while he does it. So stinking cute!! He is also super observative, he just soaks in everything that anyone does and wants to do it. He will watch us unplug or plug the vacuum in and he then wants to do it himself. He LOVE stairs. He does not get the chance to climb up and downs stairs that often yet because the only stairs that we have in our condo is in the entrance and we have it gated off. So when we move into our house I will have to work with him on it. He has climbed on and off of the couch so I dont think he will have too much problem with them but we will see. He also LOVES the Vacuum. Everytime that I go to vacuum he freaks out and comes running for it. Its like he wants to ride on it! haha Such a funny kid! Wyatt has also been trying to transition to only 1 nap each day. He was doing great at taking two 2 hour naps each day. It was great!! Then all of a sudden he didnt want to take his morning nap. He would wait until noon and sometimes even close to 2 before he would take a nap. Although, when he did that he would take about a 4 hour nap, which was also awesome!! So I dont know, it is nice to have them taking 2 naps but at the same time I also have Ethan to take care of and when Wyatt is taking 2 naps it makes it hard to go anywhere during the day! So it is a bitter sweet thing to have him get rid of his morning nap. Although just this past week he has started wanting his morning nap again! So I think he is not sure what he wants to do with naps. Either way I am fine with it as long as he is a happy boy! :-) Well I think that is about it for now.
I sure do love my boys!!
