I've been sending a lot of pictures to Brian lately using my phone (since he's not around to see the day to day stuff the boys do). I thought it would be fun to put them all into a post. I've also been meaning to write down some of the milestones and cute things the guys have done lately as well. Therefore, I give you: RRRRRandom post!


Stuff Logan has said:

1.
me = in kitchen
him = on couch
Logan "hey mom?!"
me "what honey?"
Logan "how's book club going these days?"
UH?! <-- me
me "um...good honey...I'm not really reading the next book yet though...I have to track it down" Logan "are you still reading Twilight"
(laughter) <-- me

That was the text of an email I sent to two of my also-Twilight-obsessed friends.

2.
One night we were having dinner at my friend Kristina's house. She is a super fun mom (super!) and was letting the kids run around all over her couch, throw the cushions on the floor and have an all-out party. Logan said, "Hey Miss Kristina...how about some music to go along with all this fun we're having?!" She thought that was the best! (so did I!)

3.
Yesterday we were running errands and Logan said, "mommy...my heart is happy because I'm happy and I'm happy because you make me happy". He can be so incredibly loving and sweet!! He often says to me "ok mommy.....let's see that happy face!!" <-- if I'm cranky. It's like he steps up when Brian is out of town to love on me :)

4.
We've been listening to music together while we lay in his bed at night (instead of rocking in his chair...yes....we rock our 4 year old). Anyway, we lay and cuddle for a couple of songs and, again, he tells me all sorts of things like "you're the best mommy in the world". Tonight he asked me, "mommy...am I the best 4-year-old in the house?" <-- no offence to anyone else, but I DID tell him that he is the best 4-year-old in the universe ;)

5.
This one isn't something Logan said, but we're just so proud. Our man who didn't ever want to go to classes is doing GREAT at swim class. Unfortunately, I could only get him in on Saturday mornings which puts a kink in family time, but Brian has been taking him and making it a special outing. Brian is also so cute...he took notes on his iphone for me about what they did last week...what a good daddy!


Stuff Aiden is doing:

I must honestly say that I am having a VERY VERY difficult time with Aiden these days. He is argumentative about everything and throws temper tantrums not on an hourly basis, but almost every 15 to 20 minutes (any time I have to say no...which is often for a child who constantly asks for things he can't have....like marsh mellows at bedtime!) I have started REALLY trying not to say no at all and, instead, I'll just say "of course you can have a marsh mellow....tomorrow" <-- he's on to my game and throws a tantrum anyway. boooooo. I feel like we went through the trenches with Logan and I'm sure that Aiden will come out OK. I just pray and pray that God can give me more patience with him until that time.

1.
One night we thought he was sleeping, but I peeked into his room and he was sitting naked on his bed. He said "mommy....I did peeps in my bed" (translation: I took off all my cloths and peed on my big boy bed....and, I later discovered, on the floor)

2.
Another time, during naps, he got out of his bed and crawled behind his chair (which he does often). I found him sleeping on the floor back there. I pulled the chair out, covered him with blankets and put a pillow under his head.

3.
Yesterday we went to a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese. Instead of using coins to play this basketball game, he climbed in (it was this big shoe....see pics below), threw the balls out, climbed down, found the balls and threw them back in. He did this several times. I tried to stop him, but it was pretty funny.

4.
Potty training: see future post! Currently, he is PERFECT at using the potty only if he's completely naked. As soon as you put any sort of underwear, pants or ANYTHING on him, he suddenly just doesn't bother. Yesterday, he went through 3 pairs of pants and then 3 more pairs of underwear in under an hour (I am NOT kidding). He must only let some pee go each time because GEEZ....who needs to go 6 times an hour?!!!

Stuff Brady is doing:

1.
He usually wakes up once during the night and will go straight back to bed if we give him a bottle of water. I take one to bed with me, put it on my nightstand and trot it in there sometime between 12 and 3am. He will also wake up early (5:30 or so) and drink his milk in his bed then go back to sleep until 8 or later. Gosh...if only Logan was like that as a baby!! He used to get up at 5:30 every day! If Brady was my only, I would be SO lazy sleeping in all the time! :) Also....Aiden constantly sneaks in there even though we tell him not to so that he can wake up his little brother. The other morning, I saw that Aiden's door was open when Logan came to wake us up, but I couldn't find A ANYWHERE. Bray's door was closed, but I went into his room after combing the downstairs and waking Brian in a panic. Aiden was JUMPING around in Bray's crib (this was 6:30). We removed Aiden, closed the door and didn't hear from the baby again until after 8! Can you believe it?! A child going back to sleep for over an hour and a 1/2 after his brother jumps all over him? Crazy.

2.
When you ask Bray a question, he will often say "ummm" as if he's thinking. We have now realized that this is how he says "yes"!

3.
It's hard to understand, but Bray will now point at stuff and say "mine!"

4.
The other day, Brady was in the kitchen while Brian and I were making dinner. He pointed at the fruit bowl and said, what I thought was "ball pl". Brian recognized that he was trying to say "apple".

5.
When you ask Bray what a sheep says, he responds with "baaaa". When you ask him what a cow says, he responds with "baaaaa". hahaha. His favorite is still "qack qack qack" for a duck. That kid loves his ducks....and footballs too. I'm thinking he may be like Aiden and the basketballs, but with footballs!!

6.
He gives AWESOME kisses!!! He will grab your face, move it so that he can get to your mouth and just lay one on you. My favorite thing is that he makes a smacking noise with his mouth after he's done. He will kiss anyone....even strange babies at his open gym class!

7.
If I'm wearing flip-flops and carrying Brady, he'll make a click click noise with his tongue to mimic the sound of my shoes.


8.
I love the way he runs. He kicks his legs out, wiggles his body from side to side and laughs frantically while waving his arms above his head

9.
Yesterday, he found the base to our stomp rocket...carried it around while he looked for a rocket, found one and put it on the hose part, and then stomped on the pump. He is a very advanced "player"! He SO wants to be a big boy. He gets fussy if we don't let him sit with the big kids and he now climbs up the ladder on our big playset and goes down the slide like a pro. I'm both worried and relieved. I thought this summer was going to be hard since he would want to climb all that stuff and wouldn't be able to. Well....he wants to and he can...

Pictures!!

This is one I took with my phone (it's hard to see). It's Brady sleeping. I snuck in to check on him one morning and had my phone in my pocket....thought Daddy would like to see the sweetness.

This is a picture I took and sent to Brian with the message "missing you!" Those are eggs that I tried to cook on our new Big City Slider Station. I think I did something wrong (ya think?!) Brian's always turn out perfectly!

I found this after our first session at Sears. I let Logan play with my phone when it wasn't his turn and he was apparently taking pictures with it!
I took this of the boys sitting on the fountain at the mall after pictures on the second day. Brady tried to wade in. They LOVE that thing!

Last Thursday, I picked Logan up from preschool and all the kids were standing in a line outside with these great hats on. They are learning the letters M and X so they had a Mexican party day! They made these "dancing sticks", wore the hats, ate chips & salsa for their snack and played games with the 4-year old class. Awesome! (it all looks even better with the sunglasses on!)

Here is an example of Brady wanting to sit with the big kids. We had some friends from down the street drop in for dinner on Saturday night. Brady was ANGRY that I would even think about putting him in a booster seat as opposed to the kids' picnic table. He does a great job too! He is just as good as Logan and Aiden at feeding himself!

Here is the picture I took with my phone of Aiden climbing into this "big shoe" basketball game at Chuck E Cheese. The ball is a blur in the picture as he drops it out.

Here are the boys at the "chomp chomp" machine counting their tickets. Strangely, we had EXACTLY 300 tickets so each of them got 100! How awesome is that?! Like the bright green shirts? Again...easy to spot in a crowd plus Brady even has a balloon tied to his pants since he was so tiny between all the giant game machines.

More total randomness: Look in the left corner window above the door. A bird is building a nest up there. Brian thought we should knock it down, but the boys were totally jazzed about having a bird's nest and I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to peek in without hurting the birds (I'm thinking we can periodically put up a ladder and help them climb up there to look in). I took this picture from the top of the front stairs.

I pushed a chair over, held the camera up and snapped a shot of the inside. I think it's just amazing how birds put their nests together! I tried to get a picture of the bird inside because it's a beautiful silhouette, but every time she saw me walking towards the door, she would fly away.