deer

For some reason I'm having trouble uploading photos today.  Hmmm...  Will have to try again later.

Today's a perfect grilled cheese & tomato soup day!  Too bad the boys ate most of my sandwich.

For those of you who haven't heard, Mike hit a deer Friday morning.  Came out of nowhere, Mike didn't even have a chance to hit the brakes.  He's fine, truck is not.  And here's the real kicker, Mike just reduced the insurance coverage on his truck in January!  He's trying to see how much fixing he can do himself - spent some time on it Saturday and made headway, I'm not sure exactly where things are at.  We certainly weren't planning on this expense, but already in our 7 short years of marriage God has clearly provided for us numerous times, so we're trying to just trust Him and move on.  Can't change the past so might as well do what you gotta do and keep going!

Saturday evening we had a birthday party for my dad and got to hear about his trip to Russia.  So neat!  I'm ready to take a big trip somewhere...  :)  The boys didn't have a whole lot of patience for looking at pictures, so we didn't get to see the whole slideshow, but what we did get to see was really neat.  Of course the boys had fun playing with their cousins, that's neat to watch.  Maybe the age difference will be too much, but I can see Nathan, Boden, and Caleb becoming a little trio.  I saw the three of them together and Caleb was all about hanging with the big boys.  Logan had fun sitting on Jason's lap while Jason read him a book.  So cute.

A couple weeks ago we were noticing that when Caleb's in an exersaucer he can get it rocking so far that he's almost tipped over.  Yesterday I was talking with a friend and she was mentioning that her nephew (at 10 months old) can climb out of his exersaucer.  Well, today the boys were in their exersaucers for a bit and Logan started crying, I went to look and Caleb had his exersaucer completely on its side almost on top of Logan and I think Caleb was hitting Logan or something.  My best guess is that I had them too close and Caleb was able to grab onto Logan's exersaucer to get his tipped over.  I have a pic, but you know, can't upload for some reason.

Also, last week Caleb started figuring out how to fold up the mattress in the playpen when he's in there.  Sigh.  I guess I have no good way to contain him!  I really can't even leave them alone in the playroom for even 30 seconds either - the second I'm gone they go behind the chair to bang the lamp on the wall, pull out their pop-up tunnel, get into the trash, etc.  My twin mom friends say it gets better...

And at the same time, they are SO cute, and SO much fun!  I just love how Caleb gives me kisses now, how Logan gets a silly look on his face when I pretend he's my baby, how Caleb flexes his muscles and growls just like Mike, how they both love to sit on my lap and look at books, and the list goes on.  :)