ketchup

I'm trying to remember all the things I've forgotten to write about...  I'll think of things throughout the day, but when I actually get a chance to sit down at the computer I forget.  So, let's see...

A couple weeks ago we went to a Whitecaps baseball game with Mike's brother and sister-in-law.  We had great seats, and really the nicest day weather-wise compared to the surrounding days.  Being so early in the season it wasn't crowded at all, and we were in a good spot to ALMOST catch foul balls.  Which just meant that I had to actually pay attention to the game so that I didn't get nailed with a ball...  :)

A few days later on my birthday I got the date night that I had been counting on the week before when I was surprised with a party.  :)  It was kind of funny though, dinner went a little faster than expected, and then we had to try to kill some time so we didn't get home too early - what would the babysitter think if we weren't even gone two hours and it wasn't even the boys' bedtime yet??  It was not a nice night out, otherwise we would have enjoyed taking a walk or something.  We drove out to the lake, sat in the car for awhile (wish we had our books to read with us!) and then went home.  Still a little early, but at least slightly more respectable.  :)

The next day I got to see my sister and my niece for just a bit!  My niece is on her church's quiz team, which just happens to compete against our church (and I'm not sure how many others), and there was a tournament at our church that day.  My sister and niece travelled out with their church (thankfully they have a nice coach bus) the day before and headed back partway later that day.  Anyways, it was really neat to see my niece quiz.  These kids memorize a TON of scripture and can answer all sorts of questions.  It's very impressive!

This past Saturday I gave the boys their first haircuts!  I've done scissor trimming before, but this was the first time with the clippers.  Caleb was first and he was right at home in the barber chair.  The kid cracks me up.  I can totally see him at the baber shop catching up on the latest town news.  He pretty much sat still and I was happy with how his hair turned out.  Logan on the other hand kept turning his head and wouldn't hold still.  He cried just a little bit.  His hair isn't perfect, but it could be worse!  And Mike reassured me by saying that the barber tells him the only difference between a good haircut and a bad haircut is a couple days. 

Sunday we had a wonderful Easter service at church.  Between the young people and adults, vocalists and instrumentalists, we are blessed to have so many talented musicians.  We had a nice dinner with Mike's family and enjoyed the time together.  We stayed well into what should have been the boys' naptime, then they did not sleep well once we got home.  And after the evening church service we ended up going over to our friends' house, so the boys stayed up kinda late.  I think they had so much fun playing that they were too busy to get cranky, but they did start to meltdown by the end.  And they did sleep in this morning.  Nice! 

Caleb has a few molars coming in.  He's really gotten into climbing lately.  Great.  He's very good about picking up the toys he throws out of the playpen.  :)  I think it's so neat that they can follow directions now - not just to boss them around, but it's fascinating to know that their brains are actually processing what I'm saying and that they can follow my instructions.  Caleb is definitely the leader at this point.  It will be interesting to see if it always stays that way.  He started saying "doggie" a week or so ago.  I think he's also saying "down" (he leaves off the 'n').  He says it when I say we're going down the stairs.  Which is another thing they've learned recently - we finally put a little more effort into teaching them to go down the stairs.  For the most part they do very well.  They are not good enough to be trusted unsupervised, though. 

Recently, Logan got his wearable blanket thing off during naptime.  I REALLY hope he doesn't figure out how to get everything else off, too.  I was a little surprised that he did it first, because I've seen evidence that Caleb has been working on his zippers, but hasn't gotten anything completely off.  Logan also says "down" (leaving off the 'n').  And, he and Caleb both shake their head 'no' to pretty much anything you ask them.  We have had one balloon from my birthday party that's hung on a long time, and Logan has had so much fun with it.  "Ball, ball, ball" is all we've heard for a couple weeks now.  :)

Can't remember what other tidbits I was going to share, but this is quite a bit!

playtime

Here's a clip of the boys having fun playing together.  Also notice, this was a day that I didn't have onesies on them, and that's definitely something they take note of.

my little monkeys

I've been wanting to get a clip of the boys making their monkey sounds.  This isn't the best, but you get a taste.  This is actually me going in to get them in the morning.  What cracks me up is that they BOTH are super cute making their noises, but they are very different as well.

another surprise

This time a good one.  A great one!  My dear, sweet husband threw me a surprise birthday party on Saturday.  I thought we were going out for a date night, but he had a party planned instead!  And, I am really impressed at how he pulled it off.  I only thought it was a little odd that we were dropping the kids off at my parent's for the evening (we wouldn't normally do that for a date night), but other than that he did nothing suspicious whatsoever.  I love hearing about the details afterwards - all the phone calls and coordinating that he managed to keep quiet about.  And, don't worry, I didn't lose my date night, we're still going out on my birthday, Friday.  :)

So, every day I kept thinking the boys were getting better from their bug,  But then, every day something would happen.  Be forewarned, this might get gross for a minute...  On Friday Caleb had terrible diarrhea.  It was straight out of the diaper, down the leg, super smelly diarrhea.  I almost lost it.  But then I would have had to clean that up, too.  I did three full clothing changes on him within one hour.  I almost ran out of clean clothes!  He did not have much of an appetite.  All this time Logan's acting fine.  They seemed to improve throughout the day, but when I got them up Saturday morning I knew Caleb was not right.  Poor thing was pale and just wanted to sit by me.  He threw up even though he didn't really having anything to throw up...  Then, Logan threw up at breakfast.  What in the world??  Ugh.  And of course Mike had to work Saturday morning.  I'm worried our date night is in jeopardy, and of course now I know he was worried about the party!  They improved alot throughout the day, Caleb started eating more than he had all week and Logan was acting fine.  So, Saturday evening everything went off without a hitch.  They probably weren't really contagious anymore, but we kept them somewhat separated from the other kids just in case.  Sunday was incident free and the boys were back to full health.

We have had some great weather and we are just loving playing outside.  The boys have a little playhouse that keeps them busy for a bit, and they ride their tractors some.  They enjoy it if the dogs are out, but I don't have them out all the time with us, it's just too much.  Sadie is very needy for attention, and she's not always aware of herself when she turns around, so she can easily knock a little boy over.  Today we made our first ever trip to the park, and they had more outside playtime after lunch.  Now that we're playing outside I can definitely see that we'll be going through clothes faster, especially their jeans!  And once it's hot enough for shorts we're going to be dealing with some scraped knees for sure.

By the way, after the cart incident at the store last week, this week I had to run to Wal-Mart and so I put them in a stroller (actually two separate ones that hook together).  Worked better as far as safety is concerned, but you can't get much that way.  Actually, I was unable to get the gallon of 2% I needed because there was no way I was going to be able to carry it and steer the stroller.  So now I've been using the boys' whole milk.  Yum.

no surprise

Went in to get the boys this morning and Logan had gotten sick.  Who knows when, it was all over.  I'm glad I put the sheets under the cribs to make clean-up easier!  Both boys had toast, applesauce, and water for breakfast and did fine with it.  They've been a little clingy and cranky this morning (they both actually sat on my lap for probably 20 minutes and watched a video, that is NOT normal), but I just let them have a snack and that seems to have helped.  I did have one not so nice diaper change with Caleb, but hopefully that doesn't take too long to remedy once he's eating totally normal again...  Hopefully this is just a quick little bug that is on it's way out already!

surprise

I had a surprise this afternoon, and not a good one!  Went to get the boys up from nap and Caleb had thrown up in his crib.  Wow, was not expecting that at all!  I had no suspiscions of any sickness.  I let him have water and toast for supper, and he didn't keep it down.  :(  He wasn't totally acting himself this evening, he did some playing, but was also fairly clingy to me (which meant Logan was too, out of jealously...).  He has a slight fever and looks a little pale.  He's been somewhat restless since going to bed.  I already checked on him once to make sure he didn't throw up (I put sheets on the floor under both cribs to help make clean-up easier in case someone leans over the edge to empty their stomach...).  I suppose this means Logan will be getting sick as well, if it's gonna happen let's hurry up and get it over with! 

bad

"Bad Mom of the Day" award goes to.....me!  Remember awhile back when I told about Caleb falling out of the grocery cart, but with ninja-like movements I caught him before he hit the ground?  I was not quite so quick on my feet today.  :(  We just HAD to get out of the house today, we're going nuts over here.  So, we went to Target.  I was standing in an aisle, looking at something, and next thing I know Logan just flips right over the end of the cart.  Thankfully he landed on his back, not head first.  He must have bit his lip because he was bleeding, but after a few minutes of crying he seemed fine.