Bath time

My boys LOVE taking baths! I love it too since I can sit in the bathroom and do my Sudoku puzzles or something as equally useless. I also take way too many pictures while they're in the bath because they're so darn cute! Here's some cute bath pics...

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I was supposed to work and though I've been working every other Thanksgiving for the last 7 1/2 years, it still is a bummer to have to work a holiday. At about 5am that morning though, work called to say I could just be on call for the day instead of coming in. Yeah!!! I called Adam's mom who was supposed to come over and watch the boys while Adam went duck hunting and went back to sleep. At about 6:30 work called again to say I could just have the day off, no on-call business. I was so happy to stay home with my family on Thanksgiving day!

We went over to Adam's parents just after noon. My Grandpa Johnson came too since my parents were in Hawaii (poor guys) and we spent the afternoon grazing on snacks, awaiting the big meal! It was worth the wait! We had way too much food as usual and stuffed ourselves silly. Keith and Michelle came over for pie after they ate dinner with her family and we all sat around looking at the ads, wondering if we should get up at 5am to do some shopping. It was a fun thought, but the bed eventually won the battle and Adam and I hit a few stores after 10am!

Overall it was a successful day and we have soooooooo much to be thankful for!

Fun with friends!

It's so much fun to have friends to play with! Cole just loves it when he gets to have friends over, go to their houses or meet up somewhere to play! We had the pleasure of watching our friends Tyler and Mel's little girl, Katelyn, for the day a couple weeks ago. She is such a doll and it gave me a little glimpse into what having a girl is like! (I even fixed her hair after her nap!) We had lots of fun and the boys love her!

We also got to go to Rafiki last week with my friend Brenda and her girls Rylie and Ella. Rafiki is an indoor play place with everything you could imagine from dress up clothes to a huge jungle gym with slides, etc. We like the couches the moms can sit on and watch their kids play! Rylie is 4 and Ella is 1 1/2 so they are great ages for our kids. We had such fun and can't wait to go back!

The best playmates though are siblings! We're getting closer to the stage of the boys being able to play together and it's really fun to watch. Mason laughs at Cole and Cole tickles and tackles Mason. I pray for them to to always love each other and have a life long friendship!

The Cowboy and Mr. Incredible

Here are the Halloween pictures I've been meaning to post for the last 2 weeks! The boys were so much fun to get dressed up and we had a fun evening of trick-or-treating. Cole was Mr. Incredible, muscles included:-) As soon as he put the costume on, he showed us how he could run so much faster! Mason was a little cowboy, handed down from his big brother. He probably won't have a ton of original costumes over the next few years because he'll have all the gently used costumes to choose from! I tried to get into the spirit a little too with a cowgirl outfit. Cole asked Adam what he was going to dress up as and Adam said, "A Daddy." Cole looked at him like, "You've gotta be kidding, that's the most boring thing ever!" Before trick-or-treating at a few houses in our neighborhood, we made stops at the grandparents houses, as well as Keith and Michelle's to see their little monkey, Gage. At my parents we met up with Jenny and Chad's little dragon, Troy, who was very cute too:) Besides getting a boatload of candy for ringing people's doorbells (Cole couldn't believe his luck!), he loved opening the door and handing out candy at our house. It was a fun Halloween!

Pumpkin Carving!

Happy Halloween!

I mentioned in the last post that we had done some pumpkin carving with some of our friends the other night. I realized I left out the pictures of that. We had such a fun time with the Childers and Martinez families and got some pretty creative pumpkins out of the bunch!

Catching up...

I've slacked on posting lately. Nothing big has been going on, just busy life in general. We've had some trips to the zoo, have been doing some fall baking (yummy), visited Chuck E. Cheese's because Cole filled out his staying in his own bed at night chart, and had friends over the other night for some pumpkin carving. Other than that, work, home, boys, errands, dinner, play, clean, etc. Life as usual!

Mason has started walking! He took his first steps last month (at 9 months) and now is able to walk quite a few step between Adam and I and actually steady himself during. He is still pretty wobbly and doesn't have the whole plop on you bum if you feel like you're gonna fall down yet. I'm afraid we're going to have some pretty blue goose-eggs like we did with Cole. He refuses to crawl or to spend any good amount of time on his stomach. I guess that's what we get for using his walker so much... he just loves it! He is also eating mostly real food instead of baby food. He will take the baby food out of his mouth and throw it or smoosh it rather than just eating it! He loves fruit, like every baby I'm sure, and does pretty well with veggies and pasta too. He also growls a lot which scares the life out of his little cousin Gage. We need to work on his people skills!

Cole is a very imaginative, creative 3 year old. He loves to play hide n' seek, read books, wrestle, help me cook, build forts and empty every toy bin in his room to find 1 little toy! He is learning the balance between play fighting and really hurting someone, at mt expense at times. He loves to help feed Mason and push his walker around the kitchen while Mason laughs. He is into airplanes and cars and trucks and any sport - especially football. And apparently he now reads while he goes to the bathroom... Bugle magazine of course:-)

Uncle Neil

Just had to give a shout out to Uncle Neil (Adam's youngest brother). My boys adore him and he's such a good uncle... after all, he is only 16! He stayed the night at our house the other night and played with Cole and read the boys books. He even got his first babysitting experience when Adam had to run a quick errand and left the boys with him. Good thing there weren't any poopie diapers or I think they would have been left until Adam got home!