Been SO busy!

We have had so much going on with school starting, and traveling out of town for things, I've had no time for my blog! Also, the time I WOULD normally blog (between 10pm-1am), I've been sleeping. YES, this night owl is turning into a sleep lover! Why you ask? Well.. a picture is worth 1,000 words..

YEP! We are PREGNANT with baby number 3!!

And we are stoked about it. :)

The boys were funny about it at first. Ay wants a little girl, that's all he had to say about it. Caleb said he'd rather have a boat, but the next day he warmed up to the idea.. LOL. We are *hoping* for a girl, but just praying for a healthy baby most of all!

Here are Some funny things the boys have said lately, and over the summer that I never wrote on here:

Caleb when referring to Ayden: "this kid!"

On the way to church one time Caleb brought up the fact that not everyone chooses to go to church. And we explained why to him, and he said, "well there aren't enough seats in Heaven for everybody, are there?" LOL it was cute. And in the same conversation he said "Jesus died for our sins, didn't He?" Love hearing that from him!

We talked about the food they'll have in Heaven, that it'll be way better than here on Earth and he said...

"There will be watermelon, & cucumber... mmmm watermelon's my favorite! Oh, and even pizza!!"

We went fishing quite a bit during the summer, and sometimes Caleb would real in a stick. He decided that everytime he did that, he actually was catching "fish sticks!" LOL

I say to Caleb, are you my little baby? He says "no, I’m a big boy."  I say, but why can’t you be my little boy? And he says, "because mom I’m growing." And I say, why do you have to grow? It’ll make mommy sad if you grow. He says, "Mom I just have to grow so I can drive!”

Ayden says the funniest things too. Just listening to him converse and watching his facial expressions while doing so is soooo cute.

One day I called Ayden a silly boy and he said "You're a silly mommy girl!" :)

Ay was playing with my purse while we were waiting for food at Olive Garden one night, and I said are you a little girl? And he replied, No, I'm a boy, I drive a truck! (true southern boy)

One of Ayden's favorite books is "No David!". I need to get it on video one time, because he's so hilarious reading it. He has some great expression.

Ayden's very interested in the new baby growing in my belly. He touched my belly the other day and said he wanted a little dirl (girl). It was soooo sweet.

I just love my baby boys!!

Blog post on the first few weeks of school coming soon! :)

Cell phone camera madness & sillies!

Here's my monthly post featuring the moments I never have my camera for, but don't want to miss!

Like when your kids take all the toys from the basket you just organized and put them on the top bunk..

and they smile because they know how much you still love them.

Like my sleeping kiddos! They were awesome travelers for us on the trip to Texas!

And silly hats from gas stations!

And my cutie falling asleep with ice cream still in his hand. :)

So adorable.

The boys were at my parents backyard feeling the water in the pool. They can not WAIT

to go swimming in there again!!

Caleb will say, "Is it warm enough yet? When's the pool gonna be warm?"

Here's how it is when we visit my parents church back in Slidell..

They sure love to hug on Pops!

My daredevil little man in the toy room at my parents house. He's so crazy!

One of the ladies from church gave Ay this Mickey Mouse pillow case, he carried it everywhere the next day and was laying on it on the floor. It was so cute.

And one day last week we had pancakes, and had 2 left over. Well..I left the syrup on the table and Ayden decided to pour it all over the remaining pancakes. :)

Just in case anyone wanted another, you know?

This was just last Thursday! The boys first day of wearing shorts outside!

I was so excited LOL. We all went to get a new pair of flip flops this day too.

On the way to tour the school Caleb will be going to for KINDERGARTEN, (Ugh, really? Already?)

he said to me, "I can't go to big school, I don't have time!!"

It was so cute and so funny. Oh, and I'm SO not ready for this. Sadface for momma.

Ayden's being so cute lately. He is literally repeating EVERYTHING

Caleb says. It's so hilarious.

When he sees Darryl leave for work he'll come up to me and say,

"Daddy, door to work!" Then when anyone comes to the house

and then leaves, he HAS to have hugs and kisses from them

It's SO super sweet.

Ayden knows the ABC song, and can count to ten. He's so cute when he does it too!

Oh, and the other day, when we had friends here, Caleb had said something to Darryl,

and Darryl said something back, and Caleb said, "Daddy we don't know anything because

we are kids!" LOL SO funny.

I know there are more, but that's all I can remember for now! Thankfully I have these written memories in my little red book too, so I won't ever forget! :)

Packing, cleaning, & away we go!

We are leaving tomorrow for a trip to Texas! We are excited about getting away for awhile and just enjoying being together as a family.. While I've been getting ready, the boys have been entertaining themselves well... :)

hahaha

And yes..this is on the top bunk of the bed, and shortly after I cleaned and arranged all those toys the way they should, but never stay..

Anyway, I must showoff the new hit around lunch time now. It's a sandwich cutter that cuts their sandwiches into little dinos! They LOVE it.

Aaand..my birthday is tomorrow! My hubby's been so sweet and brought me something special home everyday of the week!!

What a sweet man. :)

I LOVE Orchids!

Well I'm off to bed, and excited for the trip and becoming another year older. What a gift. :)

Camera phone madness! & silly stuff..

Have you ever had those moments where your kid(s) is/are doing something, and you don't have your camera right by you, but your phone is there?! That's me! I have a big, nice camera that I use most of the time, but it's not usually in reach for the spur of the moment. And then I have a little point & shoot that I stick in my purse or take videos with, but my iPhone has a camera on it, that isn't amazing quality, but it gets the job done for those times where you just want to remember that very moment! Kind of like this...

or this..

And yes.. even this!

With all the projects and everything, I've gotten behind on posting about what the boys have been saying/doing. We've had an extremely busy couple of weeks, and they are only seem to be getting busier. So I'm catchin' up!

For the past few weeks I've been doing a Beth Moore Bible study with our church, it's amazing, I must add. But anyway, I usually do the homework right when I lay Ayden down, and while Caleb is calming down and having his quiet time on the couch. I've found that he actually falls asleep more often than not when I'm sitting with him, and it's sweet time too. :) Anyway, he had his magna doodle during his quiet time the other day, and drew a picture. He said, "Mommy, look! I drew Jesus walking on the water!" Soo very cute.

We also recently got haircuts. From his first haircut to about 3.5, Caleb screamed during haircuts. It was horrible. He finally outgrew that after realizing the clippers won't hurt him if he actually sat still! But anyway, our other little man, Ayden, he's a piece of cake, and then some. :) He actually LAUGHS during his haircuts! It's so adorable. He's ticklish there and just giggles away. I don't think he's ever actually cried during a haircut. He's too cute.

Now everytime we go into a store, Caleb has to bring his quarters (one for him and his brother) for GUMBALLS! They love love love gumballs.

Recently we had a bit of the stomach flu hit our home hard! Luckily Darryl & I didn't get it, but the poor little guys of the house did. They were so cuddly and so calm, but I missed their spunkiness! They definitely made up for it the next day though..

Poor Ay fell asleep sitting up..

Caleb's first season of t-ball is coming up soon!! We are so excited for it!! We went to Target a couple of days ago to pick out a bat, glove, and ball.

And you know Ayden had to get some gear too! He was pretty excited.. :)

The boys have been saying some really funny things lately, I however keep forgetting to write them all down! Epic fail for Momma! I do remember that Caleb called a camel a hump horse, which was pretty funny I thought! Ayden is making sentences like no man's business, and it is so exciting to hear! He has a CUUUUTE voice and adorable smile that's hard to say no to. Yet, I still have to do it. ;)

Lastly, yesterday was a BEAUTIFUL day! It got up to the 60's and was so nice, so we decided to go to the reservoir and feed the ducks and have a picnic before Daddy had to head to work. I went to grab my point and shoot camera, but the battery was dead. I wasn't going to bring my big camera because I just didn't feel like it, so camera phone to the rescue! LOL We had a ton of fun.

The boys "climbed" a tree..

We had a picnic, even Dixie was in on it!

Speaking of Dixie, she saw the ducks and jumped in and swam for the first time!

It. was. hilarious.

They fed ducks and geese..

And gathered pine cones for a fire! Yay for camera phones because it works when you have nothing else with you! ;)

Time for some funnies..

As I said in the hutch post, we were gone this past week to our hometown. The boys & I left at the beginning of the week, and Darryl joined us for the weekend. We had a great time! I got to get my hair done, spend some time with my parents and Darryl's family, and friends at church! It was nice to see everyone again. The boys stayed busy and were not happy in the least to be coming back home. While we were there, alot of funny things were said by Mr. Caleb.

Mimi had asked what his friends name was from church where we live now. Caleb replied, "Skywar." (Skylar, LOL) Then Juji was in the same room and said, "is she pretty?" And Caleb said, " yeah, she's gorgeous!" Hahahaha What a man is he!! It was so cute I had to call my friend Marybeth (Skylar's momma) and tell her about it. Too sweet.

Also while we were there, Caleb developed a new found love for quarters and gumballs. Juji's boyfriend Justin would bribe Caleb to call me and Juji "chunky monkeys" and in exchange he got a quarter! Needless to say, he had quite a few quarters when we left. I mean, so what if Julie and I like a little popcorn here and there? ;) See..we're cute! haha

Both boys had such a good time, and were never bored. They made fires, made popcorn, ate like crazy, got spoiled, made messes, played games, did crafts, and most of all, made memories with their family in LA! Wish I had more pics from this, but I misplaced my point and shoot in the middle of the week, and found it right before we left! Oh well.. Poor Ayden was sick a good bit of the time, but he's such a trooper. And ever so sweet. Aunt Juji's been watching a newborn for the past couple of weeks, and when she was laying in the pack n play in the dining room he just stood there and watched her. He is such a little lovie!! So adorable.

Another funny thing happened. We were all talking in the kitchen one night right after Darryl had gotten in, and Ayden had this Woody toy from Toy Story in his hand. Well all of the sudden we see THIS!

He went right into the pot of boiling tea! LOL Knew Woody was serious about his southerness.

And man oh man..how about them Saints!!! Here's Nan and Mimi at the party for the big playoff game. And what an awesome game it was!

So thankful to live so close, and be able to make these memories!!

What happens when you mix an innocent fireman toy..

..with a crazy, curious, daring little 2 year old? A clogged toilet! Yep, because Ayden couldn't just choose a straight toy, he had to choose one with legs that twist and turn. LOL The toilet wouldn't even flush after the toy went down, it filled all the way up and even overflowed! I'm just lucky that Caleb saw it happen or we wouldn't have known to go in there for it. And of course this happens the same day one of my friends was stopping by for the night with her 2 year old as they were traveling to Alabama! LOL Darryl had to actually take the toilet out of the ground and get it. It was insane and really gross, but we didn't have to pay for a plumber! :) So nice to have a handyman around the house! I even got him a Christmas ornament that says plumber on it after this happened. hahaha

Anyway, never a dull moment here!

Funnies

Caleb and Ayden were watching Veggie Tales Gideon the other night while I was doing the dishes and Daddy was working late. At the end of the movie, it talked about how God makes no mistakes. When Caleb heard that, he looked at me and said, "Mama, why doesn't God make steak? He should make steak!" LOL So funny

Translations of Ayden words

momkey=monkey

ha da ha da ha di da=hot dog hot dog hot diggety dog

buhbed=bunkbed

papake=pancake

Every word he says is soooo cute. He repeats everything Caleb says now, and it's adorable to hear him try to say all of the words.

We have had a crazy couple of weeks with Thanksgiving and recuperating from Thanksgiving. LOL We had 11 adults and 7 kids here for Thanksgiving, but it was a blast!! I love seeing all of the little cousins playing together. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We put our Christmas decor up the weekend after Tday and it's seemed like it's taken a whole week to complete it! We bought a 9ft tree without lights, and decided to get clear and multicolored lights to put on it. So we do that, and then Dixie decided to eat the wire thats wrapped around the tree to plug lights in. So Darryl had to re-strand that and then when we get ALL of the lights up, the clear ones go out at the top! We had bought the constant on for the multicolored, but of course, not the clear! Lesson learned! Next year we'll be buying clear constant on lights! :)

I've also been looking for stocking holders. I really wanted to have one for each of us that goes with our personalities. Instead, we ended up buying a 4 pack from Kohls that is cute but not perfect! So that'll do for now, even if I have to be a reindeer (it's a set of Santa's sleigh pulling reindeer, LOL) Yes, nonsense I know, but I think about the weirdest things!

Well I'm off to finish some laundry. I'm 20 minutes away from school time with Caleb and I have SO much laundry to do! Tis' the life of a mommy & wife! Always busy, never a dull moment! :)

Friday funnies...or make that Wednesday?

I had originally started writing this last Friday, but I never had time to finish it (hence the title) because I'm constantly doing something around the house. LOL So, I'm finally going to finish it now!

Over the past couple of weeks, I've been writing down the funny/cute things the boys say because I don't always have time or remember to blog when they say them. I do however have time to write them down in a notebook that I'm sure I'll treasure when they are older. So without further ado...

10-28-09-- Caleb got in trouble for doing something he wasn't supposed to be doing, but didn't know that I was looking. When I went into his room, I was talking to him about the fact that even though I am not always there to see what he does, that God is everywhere and he can see everything that Caleb does, the good and the bad. Caleb was shocked (even though I've told him these things before) and he says, "Well Mommy, does God have big eyes?" Haha so cute.

10-29-09-- Caleb, and I quote,"Mickey is a butthead". Uhh. Don't ask.

That day I was also getting onto Caleb, and had squatted down to his level to get onto him. While I'm in the middle of that, he looks straight at me without smiling, and says "You have GREEN eyes!!" Was he even listening? haha

That night I was telling Darryl the chores Caleb does around the house. I was saying how he takes out the big pieces of trash (milk cartons, Juice bottles) to the trashcan in the backyard, brushes his teeth, gets dressed, and makes his bed. Right then Caleb piped in and said, "And I nap too!" Geez I wish that chore carried into adulthood! ;)

Ayden's funny words lately are as follows: "Paaaah" (Pops) That word has been around for awhile, I've just never blogged about how cute it sounds when he says it. "Nain Nain" (Nan Nan) "Caaahmo"- Cosmo, "Ixiiieee"- (Dixie), Miiimiii (Mimi) Payeaah (Pa J), swaaaang (swing), struuck (truck) waah (wet) pee potty all done! and last but not least "Baaahblle" (Bible). He's so cute.

11-4-09 Our electricity randomly went out for about 4 hours. When it finally came back on Caleb was so happy, and he gave me some amazing words of advice. He said, "You see Mommy, you just gotta have patience, and the lights will come back one!" LOL What a smart little boy. I so needed to hear that that day too.

11-5-09 Ayden was playing with their diner that they have and acting like he was brewing coffee. I went in there to play with him and asked him to pour me a cup of his freshly brewed coffee. He does that , but then quickly grabs the cup and says"Paaah" (Pops) I guess that cup was reserved for Pops! :)

I wrote these down in my little book so I'd remember them, and I'm glad I did because I'm just now getting to blogging about it days and weeks later! LOL It's been so busy around here, but very good! I'll be blogging soon about all the fall festivities that recently took place, there's been alot and it's been so fun.

Troublesome Tuesdays!

I thought I'd continue on in our Troublesome Tuesdays from last week. Truth is, the boys get in to something every day, and they make messes every day, but I don't have time to blog about it so just one day of the week I'll catch it all up for you! :)

This particular incedent happened today on a Tuesday! I had made the boys lunch. We recently got these litte stool chairs to put on the other side of the counter by the sink where there's extra space to eat a snack or just hang out right there. I don't have a pic of it up yet, but here's the sink and you'll see the extra counter space.

And here's the desk where I'm at right now typing this. Yes, I do think it's a rather lovely spot. :)

I don't know about you, but when I go to a friends house we always end up hanging out in the kitchen and talking there, probably because that's where a majority of the cooking/cleaning goes down. So anyway, back to the original picture...

Curious Boys. Eating lunch. On stools. Near sink. Uh oh.

Ayden had about finished his lunch and was on the stool nearest the sprayer. I walked to the room for literally 5 seconds to put a few clothes away and I hear the slightest spraying sound. It was as if someone was using the sprayer on the sink to...

Oh no he did NOT just do that. Yep, yep he did.

He turned on the sprayer and aimed at my freshly painted red kitchen wall and went for it! The floor was soaked. (thankfully it's cement!) My walls were soaked. Ayden was dry. And smiling. Stinker.

All I want to know is, how is he so cute even when being punished? Ahhh. Sweet, curious, mischeivous, little Ayden.

Caleb's bedtime prayer

So back in Germany, Caleb would usually pray before bedtime, but we'd just tell him what to say and so on. Well since being back in the States, when I was living at my parents house it was so late by the time the boys got to bed, I just tucked them in and said go to sleep. LOL Well anyway, now we're back to routine and so Caleb prayed last night and this is how it went..

"Dear Jesus thank you for the food. Please protect Pops & Nan while they are traveling. Pray for Daddy as he's working with the airplanes at the airport, and pray for Mommy as she fixes us food. In Jesus name, Amen."

Isn't that so cute?! I got a kick out of what I get recognition for, but it's true, these boogers eat like 10 times a day! hahaha. Anyway, just thought I'd share! :)

Crazy boy!

And this is what happens when I turn my back for 5 seconds to get milk out of the fridge..just couldn't wait for me to pour him a bowl of Rice Krispies. Right after he did it, he took a handful and shoved them in his mouth and said yummmmmyyyy. hahaha

20 Euro Cents..

So 2 weeks ago tonight, we had a totally scary thing happen with Ayden. I had laid him down to change his diaper when I noticed him fiddling around with something in his mouth. When he opened it I saw that it was a coin, so I freaked out and lifted him up and tried to swoop it out but I was too late. He started choking, which was like the worst minute of my life but finally got it down. He gagged a few more times after that on the way to the ER, but when we got there he was fine. We got an xray about an hour later and the coin was definitely there, but bigger than we thought! We were thinking it was a penny but I wasn't sure because I didn't get a good look. Anyway, this whole time throughout these 2 weeks I've had to check every poopy diaper for coinc and found nothing. I started freaking out because I was scared it'd gotten lodged or something, but alas, it was found in his diaper tonight and it was 20 euro cents, which is like the size of a nickel! LOL I'll take a pic soon but just had to share! I'm glad we got through our first choking experience!

A Caleb funny..

So Caleb is a pretty hilarious little boy. He has SUCH a funny personality if you really sit and talk with him.. So anyway, the other day Darryl was holding Cosmo (our yorkie) and he was playing with him and telling Cosmo how he needed a bath. Well then Caleb says, oh yes Daddy Cosmo needs a bath..you be the Cosmo man, and I'll be the bath man. LOL! You had to hear him say it, but man it was so cute! He has said some really other funny things the last couple of days but I didn't write them down and I already forgot! Ugh. Isn't that the point of blogging? SO I will remember? Geez. Well anyway, I'll try to keep up more with funny sayings from the boys!

Caleb's first basketball game!

So Caleb had his first game tonight, and needless to say, it was interesting. He kind of just stood there. LOL He gets so embarrassed in front of people, but he IS only 3 so we'll take what we can get. He looked so cute out there though!



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Caleb's first basketball practice!

Yep, Caleb's playing basketball this year! It's pretty cute. We went to his first practice last night and it was so interesting. The goal is way too high for him to be able to make it in, so he ends up throwing it and hitting kids in the back of the head with the ball. LOL But it's fun for him to get out and run and be with other kids. He & Daddy love getting to practice early and warming up!

Tongues & trouble..

Ayden has a newfound love for sticking out his tongue. It's SO cute when he does it, he always smiles at the same time! I love it.

Then as you see as the header on this blog, the pic of the boys getting into the pancake mix! That was today, crazy boys. They are never bored, that's for sure! They are too funny.