Mouth, Ears, Nose and Belly-Button

"Ethan, where is your mouth?"

"Where is your ear?"
"Your nose?"

"Your belly button?" Disregard the mis-matched outfit.

You are so smart!!!!!

Noah Has Pre-School Graduation Pictures Tomorrow and Mommy Needs Therapy!

Everything has been going as smoothly as possible with a 17-month old, little bit loud/wild/rowdy/ADORABLE, and a preschooler! Until tonight. Mommy is having a breakdown. I was going over Noah's checklist for preschool this week and making my shopping list:

1. Kite for kite day. Check.
2. Pictures for graduation slide show. Check.
3. Tomorrow is cap and gown pictures for graduation. Check.
4. Oh my gosh my child is GRADUATING. REALITY CHECK.

Noah: "What's wrong, mama?" Mama: "You are starting kindergarden this fall." Noah: "I don't want to go to kindergarden." Mama: "I don't want you to go to kindergarden." Whoops! Did I say that out loud? So much for encouraging words...oh well.

So, tonight's blog I am posting several pictures of MY BABY.

7 weeks:

1 year:

2 years:

Where has the time gone? Why is this so upsetting for me? This cannot have anything to do with the fact that I am turning 30 in 1 week, right?

Ethan's Newest Trick...

We are so proud!

Lions and Tigers and Bears...Oh My!

Today Noah and I loaded up and picked Missy, Taylor and Trinity up and headed to the Memphis zoo! The weather was sunny and 65 and absolutely perfect for our day!

Noah could hardly see for his hat!

All of us-minus our photographer, Taylor!
Trinity and Noah checking out the pandas.

Noah posing in the barn. Notice his purple monkey? He picked his prize out first thing and wore it around his neck all day! If you are wondering what his monkey's name is, it is "Purpley".

Taylor, Noah and Trinity. Not 2 seconds after this picture was taken, Noah slid right off on to the ground. Takes after his mommy. Daddy is so proud.

Why are pandas just so cute!!??

And elephants are so ugly and strange looking?

The kids loved the polar bears and penguins.

Waiting for the polar bears to swim by...

We had a great time today. Minus 2 falls. Just a couple of scrapes, but otherwise fine! We are pooped!

p.s. Ethan stayed home with his granny. Mommy didn't think the zoo was the place for this 17-month old today! Here's a quick picture of him showing off his medals...he won 1st place in the pole vault today...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNCLE DAVID(A)!

We hope you have an awesome birthday! And we can't wait to see the girls - and you and Trina - Tuesday! Have a great day! We love you!!!

Another Sweet Boy

Ethan is much louder and more mischevious than his older brother. There is never a dull moment with this child and his squeal can conquer an entire restaurant. I love that 1 year old!

Such a Sweet Kid

Noah insists on going to bed in pajama pants and no shirt. "Just like Daddy." Notice the picture he is holding? He is such a sweet kid! I love that 4 year old!

Where Noah leads...Ethan will follow...

Every Friday is full of the same activities. For mommy they include cleaning, laundry and chasing boys. For Noah and Ethan it is just another day for playing. However, Ethan has started following Noah everywhere. He always wants to be beside him, no matter what he is doing. Here are a few examples: In the chair sharing snacks.

The good thing is that Noah does not seem to mind it at all! He often refers to Ethan as "puffy cheeks" and if Ethan is somewhere else in the house, Noah will holler, "Puffy Cheeks! Where are you?" and here comes Ethan! Noah asks only 45 times a day when Daddy will be home. He is very much a daddy's boy and always wants Daddy to hurry home so he can scare him from his hiding place and then they can wrestle. Ethan has started joining in the fun...
Lunch time, yes in pajamas, and Ethan insists on sitting at the table not in his booster seat, but beside his brother...And finally Daddy is home and wrestling/chasing/madness continues!

Ahh....Fridays...it doesn't get much better than this!

My Two Sweeties...

Finally, everyone seems to have gotten over ear infections/head colds. Except for mommy. I actually got a sinus coctail shot today for the first time in my life!

Here are a few pictures of the boys over the past couple days. I have noticed that lately they are playing very well together. Especially with cars.

Ethan is such a happy boy! He is always in to something and always has a mischevious grin on his face!
Noah is always ready to 'pose' for the camera!

Such sweet boys....play together so well~most of the time!

Just Hanging Around...

Not much to report this week! Here are a couple of pics of the boys! Noah had preschool pictures today. I cannot believe he is going to be 5 in 3 months. He was worried about the other kids watching him while he was getting his picture made! He worries about the funniest things! I dressed him in a button down and khaki cargo pants and put jeans and tennis shoes in his back pack...but, he never changed, because he was afraid he would have to in front of the other kids and he "didn't want them to see his underwear!" How funny! I am not working on Fridays and I have absolutely LOVED another day at home with the kids! I cannot get over how old they are now and how fast time is flying by! It is supposed to be in the 70s here for the next couple of days, so I am really looking forward to spending lots of time this week end playing outside!

Finally...a REAL snow day!

We got 8 inches of snow this week end!!!! Noah and Ethan were with Poppa and Nanna during the storm Saturday night, but we got them Sunday afternoon with plenty of time to play in the snow! Ethan will hopefully get to play in the snow next year.

Mommy, looking like Larry, or my brother Darrell, or my other brother Darrell attempting a snow man.

Here is Noah chasing Mommy with a snow ball.

Larry and Noah.

Daddy and Noah playing with our attempted snow man and Max.

My snow angel.

Max's pen.

Our view from the front porch. Beautiful!