Roll it!

Here are some very cute videos I had to share. Please excuse my singing in this one. I was encouraging J to sing Bibbiti Bobbiti Boo. He gets gun-shy when the video camera comes out. Roll it!

And some background for this video. The boys like to put things on their head and sing "Happy Birthday to you...." (I guess they are pretending it is a birthday hat) Here is W after dinner being crazy and putting the place mat on his head and growling "Hap-pee-Birth-day.." and I thought it was so funny how he walks out of the room in this clip:

And here is J using his cute voice telling me about the gum drops we picked up on our walk. Not candy gum drops. Real gum drops. OK.....so I just looked it up online to see if that is what they are really called. And I was wrong...they are a fruit nicknamed "gumballs". Gum drop Gum ball..close enough =)

And finally, one of the boys being silly. I was looking for a recipe...I couldn't find it anywhere....so they started to telling me what THEY thought happened to the recipe (and when I ask them what we should have for dinner...J said "rice krispies" and then "quesadillas")*it is hard to hear:

ScAtTeRbraiN

Scatterbrain things I have been doing lately (all of which I will blame on sleep deprivation):

-Arrived at zoo...after unloading kids and getting all gear out of van, couldn't find keys. Looked everywhere. Friend finally noticed keys in ignition.

-Drove with my van in 2nd and didn't even notice until friend pointed it out to me.

-Wore a white shirt all day in public without noticing a big stain in the middle of it until the very end of the day.

-Left my mini van side door open for six hours. The side facing a main road. With my purse inside. And no, all of you wondering where I live, you cannot have my address.

There are more I am certain...I just can't recall them right now.

Horse or T Rex?

Wow...I just noticed that this is my 200th post! Shouldn't I win a prize or something? =) Here is a funny story from this weekend.

The stables near our house had an open house on Sunday that included pony AND horse rides, displays, concessions, carriage rides, etc. How fun is THAT?! At least I thought so. I had visions in my head of the boys getting pony rides and being so excited and getting some special pictures. Wellnotsomuch.

I parked the van on the side of the road and we started across the dirt road toward a large area with lots of little buildings. There were no visible horses at the time...and we have driven on the road before because the boys always want to see the "horsies". As soon as we get across the road J starts getting upset and saying "I want to go that way!" He was pointing further down the road that we were parked on. I thought he was just being stubborn and told him we needed to go the way we were going which led to the main arena. He stands his ground and as we are arguing W starts screaming and takes off running as fast as he can towards the van. I am wondering what is going on when J starts crying more and bolts too! I turn around and down another little dirt road comes a horse walking with his owner. They weren't even very close and you would have thought it was a T Rex or something instead of a sweet horse. I couldn't help laugh because there reaction was hysterical and they both had each other all fired up.

They were at the van saying "I want to get in the van!" "I want to go HOME!" Luckily our friends showed up then and took W (who was much more calm and rational) while I could stay back with J and talk to him enough to calm him down. They watched our little friends Bo and Rylee take horse rides but J never got out of the stroller and W was pretty firm about "just watch" when we asked him if he wanted to get on a horse or ride a horse.

Here is a fun picture of Bo on a horse and I didn't even see the horse heading after my camera while I was taking the picture:

And here is Jason and Julee soothing W (still wearing his name tag from church) while their kiddos are in the background riding horses. I am standing by J in the stroller still trying to convince them that the horses are OK:

Julee got W to pet the horse:

They both calmed down enough to be around the horses though. I got to help brush a horse and clean its horse shoe which was so cool. The lady taught me how to run my hand down the back of its leg, squeeze at the certain spot and the horse just popped its foot right up. And she just felt like velvet. If I wasn't in a dress from church I would have taken W's horse ride.

This is the horse (I think Nya was her name) I got to help groom and you can see the boys keeping a close eye on her since she is behind them:

As we were leaving, another owner walked by us with her horse (named Krispy Kreme) and she stopped and asked if the boys wanted to see her horse. J just pulled his stroller canopy all the way down trying to hide. It was quite funny.

JuSt OnE sMiLe

We were picnicking outside today so I took some random pics of the boys. Here are their "smiles" and "cheese" poses.....

J:

Grumpy and Happy?

Trying to smile bigger:

BIGGER!

More silliness:

They are quite animated little fellows.

Today we were sitting out in the driveway and I asked W if he wanted to go to the store. He said: "No, I want to stay home with J, and mommy, and W, and the dump truck, and the tricycle, and mommy's coffee." (everyone and thing that was on the driveway at that moment)

9:20 p.m.

I was counting on the boys having a great night of sleep last night since they finally napped yesterday (after seven straight days of no naps)...and they tend to sleep well after they take naps. I was watching American Idol and folding laundry and I could hear them messing around and laughing in their room. Obviously doing anything but sleeping. A little after 9 p.m. I went down the hall to put laundry in our room and I noticed the boys light was on. Uh oh.

I peeked in and saw W asleep in his bed...

...then peeked over J's bed to see it empty and him on the floor:

Half under the bed and with the rocking chair almost on top of him. So I turned out the light, moved the rocking chair, and took another picture (of course).

He almost has his hands behind his head (like he sleeps in the car)...and as I was leaving I saw the air purifier unplugged and under the light switch. Guess they decided they weren't ready to sleep when I put them in their room. Our little vampires who don't require much (or at times) any sleep.

Counting Sheep.

So W woke up screaming loudly at 5 a.m. and I got him and pulled him into bed with me for about 45 good minutes of sleep until J woke up screaming so I got him and just got up...W continued to sleep for another full hour-the lucky dog.

Swim Like a Shark

The boys are having fun in their swim lessons. They prefer just gliding in the water rather than kicking and swimming but that will come. They are worlds better than me about holding their breath underwater...I still can't do that!

Their Wed class is smaller and quieter...today there were only four boys (and at times just J and W) so I tried to get some pictures.

Coach Andrea brought out the noodles at one point and the boys quickly got into trouble bc they were swinging them around and lifting them high in the air and saying "rocket ship!" She is very patient with them but I noticed the noodles disappeared pretty quickly (such smart coaches)! Here is Coach Andrea...they like her lots and it is funny to hear them say her name...

Noodles...or rocketships?

W's turn to float on his back (and kick) while holding the noodle on his chest...not sure what he is doing here but it makes for a funny picture:

Their favorite part was walking on this "boat-like" contraption at the end...they are supposed to run or walk and jump off...then swim to the edge of the pool. J went first so I missed him the first time bc I was walking down from the balcony....here is J's second jump:

And play-by-play of W's take 2:

Here I am!