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! :)

My little red book.

A year ago in February, I was celebrating my 23rd birthday with amazing friends in Germany. I was about to say goodbye to those amazing friends and move back Stateside after 4.5 years of living in Germany. One of my friends, Angela, gave me this little red notebook to fill however I pleased. It is so special to me because it came from her. Because I am blessed to know the beautiful person she is, and so honored to call her my friend. She is such an inspiration to me as a mom, student, wife, friend, Christian. EVERYTHING. She's one of those amazing people you don't meet every day. I didn't quite know how I'd fill the book. I knew I didn't really have time to journal, though I love to write. Well, a couple of months ago I was thinking about the blog, and worried about how it could all of the sudden crash and I'd be left with none of those memories on paper, and that somehow, somewhere, I should be jotting down these things that the boys say and do so I'll always have them no matter what. That's when I remembered about the little red book. I had it with me on the plane back Stateside from Germany, it stayed with me at my parents house for 6 months before we moved here, and it was in a basket in the car with me when I closed on the house here in Mississippi. I knew it would be a special notebook, just wasn't sure how it'd be used. So, it's my memory book of the boys. It holds all the special sayings, new words from Ayden, and just all the little memories that I never want to forget. Thanks Angela for the special notebook! I'll always think of you and your wonderful family when I look at it, and I'll always cherish it!!

Speaking of the notebook, I have a few things to share since I'm a bit behind on that.

Funny things from Caleb for December:

"Ayden put the balloon in the water and made a sudsy mess!"

"I'm nervous and serious so I can't take a nap. It's just what happens to me.."

"Mommy, I'm almost as tall as you." Me laughing: "I know Caleb, you are!" Caleb: : I just keep getting huger and huger, like 2 huges!" :)

Ayden's recents:

He repeats EVERYTHING now. I can say anything and he'll say it too. It's so awesome to hear. Here are some of his most often used words right now though..

"maaah" (pants) "shoe ahh, yocks ahh" (shoes off, socks off) "weebra" (zeebra), rey apple (red apple) "dink plea!" (drink please) "Hi Yahmi!" (Hi Mommy)-- this one he says especially sweet. I love hearing him!! He says Mommy when just saying mommy, but when he puts the word Hi in front of it, I'm Yahmi! :) Love it.

And an especially memorable conversation happened with Caleb and I two days ago. He always comes into my room in the mornings when he wakes up and lays with me a bit. Sometimes we talk and sometimes we don't. I just listen to what he has to say with his morning wisdom.. (I'm not a morning person, haha) Anyway, he was just laying there and he said, "Momma, we don't want to go to Hell." and I said, "You're right bub we don't." and he said, "we want to go to Heaven." And I said "yes we do, and we can because why?" and he said "Jesus died on the cross so we could go to Heaven." SO sweet. I love that he's understanding it. I love that he's thinking about it without us pushing him at all, and I just love that he's eager to learn at such a young age. I just love my babies. :)

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.

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!