WELCOME FALL

God has brought us another wonderful Fall. Thank goodness. I am so done with the heat. The trees in our backyard actually turn colors other than green for at least THREE DAYS before all the leaves fall off. And when they do its time for major fun!! Mommy gets out the rake and Ethan goes to town jumping and throwing all the leaves. Hours, literally, of fun!

Ethan loves our slide and calls it the "Wee" since he says "WEEEE" all the way down. He has learned to climb WAY too early (he first started when I was bedrest- lovely!). And as you can see he doesnt care who is on the slide- he just slides down and laughs the whole time.

Tyler is such a chill baby- UNTIL HE ISN'T. He certainly knows what he wants and want it EXACTLY when he wants it. However, mommy and daddy still haven't figured out exactly what it is he wants and sometimes it is a long guessing game. But this precious boy is certainly worth every second.

Halloween

 

In case I haven't said it before I LOVE Halloween. And I am praying that my boys find the love that I have. This year they are still too young to get it- or enjoy things like face paint. With Ethan hating to wear hats and HATING facepaint I was good to get a tshirt on him. =)

 

I had a friend pick up a Baylor football shirt from the bookstore and dressed Tyler up as a football. They were too cute. On the day of Halloween the boys were INSANE and Bryan was at work- but I was determined to do some sort of celebration. Luckily my sister  came over to help get the boys ready and we headed to my grandmas and my parents house. That was all they could handle!

 

 

 

This year we got to go to our first Trunk or Treat- which I still think is NOT AS FUN as trick or treating. But Ethan LOVED riding the pony and seeing all the costumes. But of course we spent most of the time on the playground since his class isn't allowed on the big playground during school.

 

Holidays are important to me- a day to set apart to really celebrate. I pray the boys find as much joy in these days as I do.

 

In the meantime I am trying to find something to celebrate EVERYDAY! Little victories, new words, learning to feed ourselves with a spoon, good naptimes... everyday a celebration!

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My favorite

Halloween is my favorite holiday. It's PERFECT- full of candy, dress up and no family drama. NOTHING BETTER!! Oh yes and PUMPKINS! LOADS OF PUMPKINS! Donna and I took the boys to the Arboretum for some fall pictures. I wanted to get pictures of BOTH of them, however Tyler napped the entire time, so it ended up being a morning of chasing a toddler around and begging him to sit still long enough to take his picture. =) What a fun day.

 

Newborn Pictures

 

Life is funny sometimes- okay- a lot of time. God has plans for all of us that are never MY plans. Newborn pictures are super important and special to me, and so when our photographer got the flu and couldn't take the pictures I was devastated. So, I asked around, PANICKED, and then my mom reminded me that our sweet friend Donna takes amazing pictures of the boys, and we should ask her.

WHAT A BLESSING! It was the best day. We headed out to her house to play, take pictures, and spend time with one of our favorite couples. Here are some of my favorites (since I cant put up all 400 of them. =)

sweet boy

"someone hold me..." "someone let me go!"

 

Tyler with his life verse... so sweet

 

I love both the posed and the natural look. This time is going to go by WAY TOO FAST. There are days already when Ethan pulls his hand away from me wanting to do something BY MYSELF and I realize how quickly its going to be when he can do EVERYTHING by himself.

caught red handed

love this face... always so serious

 As I watch the time slip away I have been spending more time on my knees in prayer. Often times, however, I dont have the right words or words at all when I pray. I just picture my boys and all I can ask is that God soften their hearts and give them souls that LONG after Him. At the end of the day I just want me boys to be madly in love with God.

if i could i would kiss on him all day

I am not always going to be there to kiss the boo boos away... and if their hearts long after  Christ than they will find hope and comfort in a loving and gracious father.

i hope they still little as long possible!

you want to kiss this face too dont you?

We are blessed- beyond words. On days when both are crying or screaming (or both) and my back hurts, and I still have work to do, and I havent eaten all day, I stop and remind myself what GIFTS these 2 are. They are simply on loan to me.. and I take that responsibly seriously and hope that God will continue to direct our hearts as parents so that our boys will walk with us as try to seek out God.

Haircut

Well I have one more notch in the "lessons learned" list of mommyhood. Ethan's hair has been so cute with the curls. but slowly the curls are starting to get out of control and some parts had gone straight.. it was becoming a mess. I didnt want to cut the curls so I just "trimmed" it a little bit. Well Ethan went to bed that night and when he woke up - IT WAS A HOT MESS! I dont know what I was thinking. So we headed to Cool Cuts to get it fixed. Bryan and the hairdresser were both  said "OH DEAR!"

He did really well- Blues Clues on the tv and on the ipod so we were good. I cried the entire way home because he looked so big!

Tyler won't get his hair cut till he's 12!!

God knew

God certainly knew that I was meant to be a mom of 2 boys. I love every day. Even in the midst of crazy days when both boys are screaming, there are dishes in sink, there is spilled milk on the floor and both boys need to be changed- i wouldnt change a think.

These days we are getting out and enjoying as many free/cheap things there are to do in DFW.


 Boys at the Arboretum

We have hit the Arboretum, the aquarium, the pool and the Galleria playplace.

Right now I am cherishing Friday and Saturday nights when E goes to bed. We got so much one-on-one time with Ethan, and its far more difficult with the second child. So weekend nights Bryan and I spend sweet time w just Tyler. The sweetest moments are watching B&T

Favortie Part of the Arborteum- the spiting toads

Pool with Ms Caroline

Two Tys- my two favorite Tys for sure

Ethans favorite part of the Aquarium- himself

Quick Updates

Life gets so hectic and I don't want to forget a thing. So here's the latest on the boys:
Ethan is 16 months and I think this is my favorite stage so far. He's learning a new word every day. Tonight's word "bathtub" and in the last week he learned "bye" "mine" "hot"and "yes." . For the most part however he will just grunt or scream for things.

The boy wants to be on the Iphone or Ipad all day!! He will sit on the big boy chair at the kitchen table and play for thirty straight minutes.

Suddenly he is ALL boy: he rubs around screaming, laughs at his body functions, makes boy noises and shoces food in his mouth. But, althoufh he is typically very rough, he is gentle and sweet with Tyler. I hope he's always like that.

Tyler
Tyler is 5 weeks old and I live this stafe too. His sweet little baby brain is growing so fast. He is loving tummy time for about 5 minutes and has great neck strength. He's eating all day and sleeping really well at night.

Bryan and I are loving our weekends with them too. We spend all Friday and Saturday just loving on them.