Birds, Bikes, Bean and Robots......

The boys and I have been busy spending time outside and enjoying the sunshine. We had a great Easter with my family and we're looking forward to a very fun summer. We have a lot of fun things planned.

Just a quick update:

Alex has been doing fantastic at preschool, he's all ready for Kindergarten and will start in either July or August. (He's on year-round.) He's become a pro at riding his bike-with training wheels and he loves to be outside running around.

Andy is growing up so fast! He calls himself "a big boy" now because he's almost all potty trained. He is still ALL about Thomas the Train and Cars. He drives his little car around the backyard and chases Alex around.

Here are some newer pictures that show what we've been up to lately.
The first are from Easter Sunday. Alex wrote the names on the place cards. All you have to do now is spell the name and he'll write it for you. He's getting so smart. We had a little Easter egg hunt, which the boys loved. Andy loves to give 3's and 4's to Uncle Tom. (instead of 5's)



















As is typical in the spring, birds are all over the outside of our house making nests and hatching eggs. This year has been no exception. We've gotten ourselves a little dove that has made a nest right in the rain gutter in front of our front door. She sits there and looks at everyone that comes and goes from the house and occasionally gets scared off when someone is too loud. Her name is Annie. The boys love to say hi to her. (Andy in his little baby voice-which is very very cute.)



Alex has been attempting to build robots out of all sorts of things lately. This was one attempt with various kitchen items. I thought it was pretty cute and had to share it.


This was a fun trip to the park the other day. We have a small park a little ways from our house that the boys and I visit often. This time, Alex wanted to ride his bike. So we took a picnic in the wagon and Alex pedaled his way over for lunch. It was a lot of fun.






The boys have discovered that they share a love for Rowan Atkinson's character Mr. Bean. We watch episodes of his show whenever the boys want a good laugh. Uncle Tom has lots of fun Bean-related memorabilia that he has been nice enough to share with the boys. They both LOVE the teddy bear and fight over who gets to hold it next. They also figured out how to do the Mr. Bean dance. I took some video of them doing it at the park the other day and had to share it.

Funny Pictures

We came across this great website where you can insert your pictures into celebrity and movie pictures. The boys got the biggest kick out of it. These are a few that we came up with:

Andy as Big Chris from Rory The Racing Car:

Create your own FACEinHOLE


Alex as Spiderman with the lovely Mary Jane:

Create your own FACEinHOLE

Andy and his trains

For some time now, we've wondered just how many trains Andy actually has. We decided to line them all up and see. I believe we're missing a few, but here you get the general idea of his collection. We have video of him going through and naming them all that I'll put up later. Alex insisted on taking a few pictures, so he took some of these.

Christmas, New Years, A Wedding and a Partridge in a Pear Tree

Hi everyone!

We hope you had a wonderful holiday season. I'm sorry that I haven't gotten a chance to update this lately. With Christmas and Caitie and Rob's wedding, things have been a little hectic. Now it's started to slow down but we've caught a cold too! At least it's an excuse to take it easy.

I have lots of pictures to share with everyone. So here we go:

We didn't get a lot of pictures on Christmas but Uncle Rob caught a few for us and we'll get those from him after the honeymoon.

Here are a few of the boys playing in the snow a few days before Christmas. We've gotten lots of white stuff and they love it!







Here's a few funny ones of Molly sleeping on the boys' big stuffed doggy named Fetch. She loves to snuggle up on anything soft, especially him.



New Years was a lot of fun. We had everyone over to play with the Wii that the boys got for Christmas and to start getting things ready for the wedding. The boys had a great time showing everyone how to use the Wii.



Uncle Tom and Alex playing the Wii.

Grandma Mindi and Grandma Mary sugaring grapes for the wedding.

Auntie Ace and Andy watching Alex play the Wii.

Uncle Rob and Aunt Caitie playing.

Andy helping Uncle Tom play the racing game.

Uncle Rob and his funny hat.



Cousin Hadyn came into town with Aunt Jenny for the wedding. The three of the boys together was like Alvin and the Chipmunks. One of the nights he was here, the boys decided to play dress-up. This was the result:

They are so cute together.

Here are a few pictures from the wedding. We'll be getting more in the next few weeks. These were just some taken with our home camera. Alex was the ring bearer and Andy was kind of my usher. He didn't want to leave my side so he stayed with me down the aisle, in the pictures and later on the dance floor. Andy decided that he had to have two of his toy trains with him at all times so during the ceremony, I had stuck them in my pocket. About half way through the vows, he decided he was bored and wanted them out so I had to grab them out of my pocket and hand them over. Everyone got a big kick out of it.
It was a fun day though and the boys were very very good. I did Andy's hair all spikey because he wanted to look like Louis from Meet the Robinsons. He actually turned out looking like the little boy on Jerry Maguire. It was very very cute. We'll put more pictures us as we get them.












Thank you to everyone who made our Christmas and New Years so wonderful. With the wonderful presents, cards and everything else, we really had a great holiday season. Congratulations to the newlyweds and we love you all!

Hmmmm

Well I was planning on setting this blog to private viewing only, so that only the people I invited could see it. But it turns out that if you don't have a Google or Gmail account, you have to sign up for one or you won't be able to see the blog after 30 days. I'm not sure that's the best course of action considering many of our family and friends don't have Google or Gmail accounts. I'll think about it for a few days and let you all know. If anyone has an opinion, please let me know.

Thank you everyone!

Just a quick note.....

I am going to set the blog to the "Invitation Only" setting soon. That just means that not everyone will be able to view it, only our friends and family. If I don't have your current email address, please let me know what it is so that I can make sure you'll still be able to view the blog.
Basically how it works (I think) is it will ask you for your email address when you want to view the blog. It will also send you an email when I invite you so that you can view the blog directly that way. It'll keep random people from seeing any of our information and pictures.

Thank you everyone!

The New Kitty

The boys and I decided to get a new kitten last weekend. A few months ago, Nellie, our sweet kitty for almost 19 years, had to be put to sleep. She was getting old and not doing very well. Since then we've wanted to get a new pet. Papa really wants a doggy but because they boys still have a little fear of them, I thought we'd start small with a kitty. This is Molly and she's a little over 2 months old. The boys absolutely love her and have a blast playing around with her. She's very active but loves to be held and cuddled too. At night she likes to go in and hang out with the boys while they fall asleep and she loves laying on Alex's bed. She greets us with a purrrr and rubs against the boys' legs. We decided on Molly because I wanted a kitty named Holly. (after Audrey Hepburn's character in Breakfast at Tiffany's- "Cat" just doesn't seem to work) After talking it over with the boys, Andy said, "How about Molly, like the train." Alex liked it too so Molly it is. Here she is:






Since Molly likes to climb up in the windowsill, Alex thought he would give it a shot too. Here he is and here's a few pictures of Andy as well.






We are planning on going to see Santa this week sometime and go downtown to check out the lights as well. The boys are SOOO excited for Christmas. If they had their way, their Christmas lists would be at least a mile long.