old lists

Just pasting the boys' "word lists" below so I have them on record.  They're old and I stopped keeping up on them quite some time ago, but I want to make sure I don't lose that info!

A couple of my favorites lately are "pa-ly-ly" (butterfly), and "hockeh-hockeh" (helicoptor).  Can't seem to master those words, but Logan has no problem saying "Gitchigoomie".  :)

Caleb’s Words:

Mama

Daddy

bi (bike)

tree

no (nose)

Papa

eye

hi

la lu (love you)

baby

nigh nigh

choo choo

doggie

da (yes)

hello

me-me (amen)

ba-oo (dog)

car

uh-oh

no-no

bye-bye

Logan’s Words:

Daddy

Mama

coggee (coffee)

eye

baby

 choo choo

tree

Papa

nigh nigh

doggie

da (that)

hello

meh meh (amen)

ca (car)

ball

hi

uh-oh

bye-bye

magic

Mike likes doing magic tricks for 2-yr-olds, they're easy to fool.  :)  Here Caleb tries to follow in his father's footsteps and make a cracker disappear...

random

Nursery is painted.  Finally.  Had trouble getting the last little bit done, but did it last night.  Now to hang ceiling fan, get furniture in there, decide how to decorate, etc...

The boys, especially Logan, love having Mike tell them stories, and ask him for them often (Logan asks for specific stories).  Probably the most popular one is Grandpa Krol and the bear.  :)  I love it when Mike finishes a story and Logan says, "One more!" Or sometimes, when he's asking for a specific story he ends up telling the story himself, and very excitedly.  :)  "Grandpa Krol and the bear, up a tree, shoots it, fall down, boom!  Dogs eat bear..."

This morning I was out running errands by myself and when I came home the boys were 'helping' Mike outside and came running up very excited telling me about a duck, flying, in the house.  I was like, "Yeah, right." but looked over at Mike, and sure enough, they were telling me a true story!  They had been hauling boxes out of the basement and had the cellar doors open for awhile, and a duck got in the house!!  So crazy.  We've had a bird in the house before, but a duck is pretty random.  We see them fly overhead sometimes, of course, but they never hang out around here.  Anyways, it took the bit (with the boys yelling and excited the whole time), but Mike was able to catch it.  All three of them were pretty excited to tell me all about it.  :)

This morning at breakfast the boys were at the table and Mike and I were in the kitchen.  We were being affectionate (completely appropriate!) and Caleb says, "Daddy likes Mommy!"  :)

I just love having conversations with the boys and hearing their conversations the more they talk.  Today for just a bit Logan was playing in the playroom and Caleb was in the living room playing.  Logan calls out, "Baca!  Baca!" (He still calls Caleb that most of the time.), and Caleb's response was, "I busy.  I busy."

There are so many things they say that I wish I could capture on camera because I know I'm not going to remember everything and how cute it sounds in their little boy voices!

shower

A couple evenings ago we had a quick, random rain shower while playing outside.  (The cloud appeared to only be over our house, I'm not even sure if Mike & Emily got wet at all!)  Anyways, the boys got a kick out of it.

34 weeks

We're moving right along.  34 week doctor appointment the other day.  Some of the best news - I'll be done with my blood thinner injections in a couple weeks!!!  Sooooooooooo sick of them (they're not pleasant, they bruise, they're just a hassle, etc.), but, of course, I'll do whatever it takes for this little guy's health.  Once I'm done with the blood thinner I'll have to have Non Stress Tests to make sure everything's okay, so that means some extra appointments, but that's nothing new for us.  :)

Bedtime is still going rough with the boys.  Very frustrating.  Today I tried completely skipping nap/quiet time, and not only can I barely make it through the day like that, we only gained maybe 45 minutes at bedtime.  I was so exhausted by afternoon/evening today - no downtime and this heat doesn't help!

pics

 Enjoying the nice weather.

 "I have a stick!"

 Playing in the dirt.  (Yes, I still have fall clean-up to do...)

 Mr. Potato Head's glasses.

 At the park on Saturday.

 Kite flying at my Dad's birthday party.

 Mike managing the kids.  :)

 My Dad takes his turn flying the kite.

 33 1/2 weeks.

 Nursery primed and ready for me to decide on paint.  (And as of this post, the room is ALMOST done!)

 All 3 of my boys enjoying the hot weather on the first day of spring.  :)

 Caleb and Logan played awesome with the water.  Over an hour and a half - no whining, fighting, being naughty, etc.  Just a few buckets and a running hydrant and we're all set!

Watering my flowers.

roller coaster

Oh, the roller coaster ride of having two toddlers!  After being so pleased with their behavior the other day at our twin playdate, a few nights later I was ready to pull my hair out and it hasn't gotten much better.  :)  After three weeks of doing well in their beds, they are now not doing very well at all.  Last week I even had to call Mike at basketball because I was so frustrated, and even though I didn't ask him to, he was nice enough to leave early and come home.  :)  Just gotta keep telling myself, "This is just a phase, we'll get through this....This is just a phase, we'll get through this..."

Despite bedtime struggles and some extra attitude from Logan lately, we had lots of fun lately.  This unseasonably warm weather has been great.  Both boys love to play outside and get DIRTY.  I have never seen the bath water so dirty...  And, the amount of laundry is just as bad as when they were babies and spitting up all the time.  :)

Friday night we took the boys to open swim at Zeeland Rec.  We had a great time!  It's so interesting to see the differences between Logan and Caleb in the water.  Logan is fine being in a lifejacket and swimming around on his own.  Caleb has to hold on tight.  They did have a floaty thing that Caleb was happy to sit on for awhile and play with cups in the water.  They both enjoyed going down the slide into the pool.  When catching them Mike would let them go underwater just a bit and they both handled it fine, but it seemed to bother Logan less.  Logan flirted with the lifeguard a little bit when she was helping him up the slide.  :)  At this point Logan is more of a water rat, but at least Caleb doesn't put up a fuss about going in the water - he's just not as comfortable with it.

Saturday was a busy day getting things done at home.  We did go to the park for a bit in the morning as well.  One of the big things that got done was the primer in the nursery.  Yay!!!  Since we're going over wallpaper it's an oil-based primer, and my doctor said that I shouldn't do that so Mike had to do it himself.  (My doctor says very few things are off-limits, so when he does, I listen...)  But, I can do the painting myself, so it's all fair.  :)

Saturday night was a little surprise party for my Dad's 65th birthday.  We all managed to pull of the surprise, had a good meal, and then the kids got to run around outside for a while.  (In shorts.  In the middle of March.  Crazy!)  It was perfect for flying a kite, so Mike brought ours over and did that for a while.  Didn't load my pics onto the computer yet...  The boys always have fun playing with their cousins, and Caleb and Jason especially played nice flying the kite.

Yesterday I took the boys to a park and then over to visit Mike at work.  They were out doing field work, planting onions.  After we got home they ate their lunch outside - went okay sitting on a blanket, but I really want to get a kid-sized picnic table!

Today it's supposed to get to 85 degrees.  We need to run a couple errands, and then hit another park!