Friday, January 14, 2011

Finally some pictures!

Boys watching a movie in our bed in the bedroom that is now Magooly's room.


I love this little picture strip. Took this back in August or September. I had it on our fridge for a long time and it kept getting pulled down by the kiddos so I decided I should take a picture of it and put it in our computer to preserve it.

My little climber. He climbs up into his highchair now when he's hungry. 

Our favorite family movie right now, can you guess what it is?

My pretty hair :(

I love these girls. For our girls night they threw me a surprise Pink party! Pink strawberry punch (yum) and cupcakes, cake pops. Crystal got me the Save the Tatas shirt and I LOVE IT! And they got me this pink mailbox full of strips of paper that have uplifting thoughts on them so when I get down I can pull one out and read it and feel better. Thank you so much girls, you are all so sweet and I really look forward to our girl nights together.


Update on the boys:
McBean says "I don't want it!" All the time. I told him it was time to go nigh-night and he said "nigh-nigh I don't want!"  He also says:
Milk
Bennett
Gramma
juice
dog
hello
hi
bye
push
shoe
blanky
Thomas, sounds like "mas'
Ready, set, go!
Please
Share
Mine
Thank you
Oh No!
and if he's hungry, every thing is "apple" yet if I give him an apple, he just chews it up and spits it out all over the places. He'll do this to the whole apple. So ye be warned if you do give him one. :)

He still pulls his little knees up when you pick him up and hold him on your front like he did when he was newborn, you know the froggy pose? And rests his head on your chest. I love it. He's still so little, makes me feel like he's younger than he is.
He gets embarrassed. If he starts dancing to some music and you say something about it he'll furrow his brow and say "No!" and hold his hand out to you to stop.
When he's up set he'll hold his hands up to his eyes and head like "all is lost", so cute.
He loves to wrestle with Magooly and then get him in trouble for being too rough.
Loves Thomas, comes running when he hears his whistle.

Magooly is learning his letters. I went on a mommy/son date with him and we ate lunch at McDonalds. We were looking at that little paper in the tray with all the nutritional information on it. Don't read it by the way, will make you sick. And he could name almost all the letters I pointed at. We went to Kmart and he picked out some jammies for me and then we went to the library and played his made up game of chess that he loves to play every time we go but I can't because I have to chase C around.

So that's a bit of what's been up.

1 comment:

  1. The similarities between our youngest two are amazing! Silas says most of the same words and also still pulls his knees up whenever I pick him up. When he is hungry he climbs into his booster and says booster,eat and milk over and over again. He LOVES Thomas and is never without a Thomas book or train in his hands! So cute! I love your mommy/son date story and I really need to do that more often!

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