Snow Babies

Well, it's officially winter because we had our token snow fall for the season. Peyton was so excited for snow that he wore his snow hat the entire time a church. Just in case. It was a beautiful, quiet snow and just enough to cover the ground and make tracks. It's melting so fast I think most people would miss it if they slept in too long. My kids don't have this problem. Some of these pictures are from last night when it was still snowing and the others are from this morning. I'll let you guess which are which. ;)

Caleb didn't like to look up at the snow. I got several of these type shots.

Mama and Caleb's footprints.
Both contemplating whether to risk the ditch or not. Luckily Mama made the decision for them.
Caleb and Peyton's snow outfits.

Peyton's Next superhero Outfit

So this is Peyton's newest superhero creation. I guess it's Batman take II. Where did that wonderful Batman cape come from, you might ask. Well, I had it all along and had neglected it until one night I realized that I was not going to beat this Batman/superhero thing. This might have coincided with the fact that I most of my kitchen towels were disappearing as they were pressed into superhero service. Can I say superhero one more time? superhero. Ok enough.

SO I converted Peyton's drawer (yes, his one drawer) into a costume trunk and the kid went a bit crazy. He only wore that particular combination once, so I'm glad I got the pics! He's gone for the easier route of clothes or pajamas or just underwear, but always the cape.

Who's that caped crusader?

It's Peyton!

Winter footprint project

I love doing footprint projects. Here's one of our newer creations.

How cute are these little tootsies? Caleb's is the smaller one. ;)

My superheros!

Peyton is very much into batman. So much. This replaced his unhealthy addiction to Captain America. :) I'd compare the cartoon shows, but wouldn't want to bore you. Anyway with Captain America there was the shield. With Batman we have capes and bater-rangs (something like that) ours is a 20 foot string with a carabiner and a coat hanger attached. What a lucky child he is. :) Anyway, like all mothers in the past, I impressed my dish towels into service as superhero capes and these worked well; however, Peyton didn't like Caleb having the same size cape, so we then had to use a napkin. Then Peyton discovered his pillowcase made a much bigger cape than any towel and we were set. So here we are playing in the yard being the amazing mismatched superheros that we are. If only you could imagine the kids just running around and around in the yard, fighting those imaginary bad guys, with little winter hats just a bobbing.

Peyton and Caleb have a picnic

So most days when I give the kids a snack it's same ol' same ol', but once in a blue moon they surprise me. Take this day for example. As you can see in the picture they are having a picnic. And not just any kind of picnic. They upturned all of their toy containers and placed their sippy cups and snack bowls on it and were sitting on the drawers of others. You might also notice they both have their own cell phone's at their place setting. So adorable. I don't know who started the idea but it was precious and they were having a wonderful time of it. Andy and I have been working together and praying that they will be not just brothers but friends. Friends who can play together and depend on one another. Mostly is it dark and at times ferocious. Then there are these rare moments and they are lasting longer and coming faster and I see the light dawning. It's beautiful.

PS Peyton is wearing his batman cape. It's his favorite.

Peyton playing with Andy

I pull out the tunnel during rainy days so it's still fun and fresh every time. The kids love chasing each other in it... or running around in it... or pulling each other in it. One of the best times they had was when Andy got home and decided to play in it too.

What a minute, who's little feet are those?



And a little face. It's Peyton!



I think they both had fun. :)

Peyton and Caleb's New Year

Most awesome hat ever! I think Caleb likes it too.

Those kids had so much fun.

2010 flashback

What is a blog without pictures? Am I right? I could try to tell you the cute stories that go on hour to hour; however a picture can say its 1000 words better than I ever could write. So that being said all stories and blog posts have been suspended till the time I could remove the pictures from my picture taking devices. That's when it gets complicated. I got a new computer and it's apparently overwhelmed two of my cameras and then my phone software works only on a PC. So to get my phone pics to internet here's the process: take picture, move to card, insert into a bigger card, give to Andy, he downloads to his computer, it then is held captive until I pry it from his hands (very hard to do) and email myself the pictures.

So without further ado I give you late 2010 via photos:

First, Caleb had a ball. This is an old school play pen. It lasted longer than you'd think.

Then it snowed. Nothing stops us from playing with our trucks.

We had lots of tickle fights.

Oh and there was the one time when Caleb got horribly sick. While waiting for the doctor's office to open I alternated cuddling and taking pictures of the sweetest baby in the world.

More to come on our trip to South Carolina for Christmas! hehee eventually we'll catch up to present day. ;)

TTFN

Peyton and Caleb's Easter 2011

So, I feel this Easter has been dragging on... and on. Not that I mind. I like the holiday; however we haven't done a formal Andy, Jae, Peyton, and Caleb Easter. I was a good mom last year and stocked up on the Target after Easter sales in anticipation of this year's Easter. Baskets? Check. Eggs? check. Easter grass that I will still find two weeks from now? Check. Cute age-appropriate toys for both boys? Check. Candy (groan)? Check. Now I'm waiting for a good time to pull it all out and celebrate. It's three days later, Jesus could rise from the dead AGAIN and we have yet to do Easter. We did have a delicious lunch at my parents and had an egg hunt there. I managed to get them to sit still long enough for some pictures:


This was the first attempt. Not bad. I wanted another just in case I could get Caleb smiling.

This is what I got after 4 more pictures. Yes, I'm done now, dad.

The horse was the biggest hit at the party (in my guestimation)*.Here Peyton is trying to fix it with dad's tools.
*Others might have differing opinions.

Happy Easter (... three days later), everyone!

Caleb turns one!

I'm pretty sure just a couple days ago he was this:

But lately he's more like this: