Updating

Life has been so busy that I have had no time to update our family blog!  So this is going to be a real basic way of updating everyone. 

APRIL

In April I started my current job of blogging/writing articles.  It is a good job and I get to work from home, so that is very nice.  Aaron finished the Winter semester and started the Spring semester.  This month marked our one year from graduating!  Tucker started all of his therapies.  He loves going to them because he gets to play with new toys and get out of the house.  Ethan started sitting up with a little support in April as well.  We also took a mini vacation to West Yellowstone.

MAY

Tucker started Toddler Lab, which is like a preschool for children 18-35 months.  He loved it.  The first few days were a little hard on him, but after that he loved it.  Ethan started sitting up on his own, but his balance was still shaky.  He also turned 6 months.  Aaron and I were doing the same things, school and work.  He got a job on campus in the security department as a dispatcher.  I started feeling like a soccer mom, but more like therapy mom because of the many appointments that Tucker had.  The weather started getting nice enough to spend more time outside, so we would go to the duck park or the Porter Park.

 

JUNE

June is a very busy month for our family.  Aaron and I celebrated our birthdays and became one year older.  Ethan had his first taste of baby food which was peaches.  Tucker was still doing three different therapies and Toddler Lab.  My family (Mom, Dad, Josh, and John) came to visit us.  We also celebrated Aaron's Dad's (Mark "Grandpa") birthday.  At the BBQ party we had a surprise visit from Aaron's sister Megan.  Lots of family time in June and it was fun.

 

March

Well, I am obviously running a month behind in my postings.  I went back to work in the month of March, so life has been pretty crazy.  I was delivering papers at 3 in the morning 30 minutes away from home.  Needless to say, that job only lasted a month.

I went back to work because Aaron had to quit his early morning cleaning job.  He was falling asleep in class and his grades were reflecting it.

Tucker is growing like crazy! He is finally using more and more words. He is so smart too.  Unfortunately for mom, Tucker has great problem solving skills.  He discovered in March that he could open the bottom cabinets and climb up onto the counters to his snacks.  By the way, we use to have child safety locks on all of the bottom cabinets, but he ripped them out!  I got sick of him climbing up, so I put the gate up to the kitchen. By the way, the gate has to be really tight because he can pull it hard enough to move it.  It also has to be high or he will reach over and pull the lever to collapse the gate!  I'm telling you I have one smart boy.  So I thought I had successfully kicked him out of the kitchen, but I was wrong.  There is a little "window" whole from the kitchen to the dinning room.  The whole is even with the counters.  Tucker had pushed a dinning chair to the whole and climbed into the kitchen to his snacks! He is one motivated little turd.

Ethan had rolled over in March.  I don't think he did it intentionally, but he did it with control.  It was exciting none the less.  He had his first taste of baby cereal too.  He loved it for about two weeks.  He still drools and wants to eat what we are having, so we will give him baby cereal.  It only lasts about 5 minutes before he starts screaming because he wants to suck.  Silly little boy!

4 Month Comparison

Tucker

Ethan

3 Month Comparison

Tucker at 3 months...

        Ethan at 3 months...

Ethan's Infant pictures

                                            

Loads of Pictures!

Look at these cute cute boys!  I'm so lucky!  I have a beautiful blue eyed baby boy and a gorgeous brown eyed boy.  I can see so much of their father in them.  I sure am blessed. Being a mother is one of the most challenging and greatest callings in life.  I love it!

Both of these pictures were taken on the same day. My boys just were really tired and slept in really funny positions.  Ethan is half way on his side and arching his back at the same time.  Tucker decided to move his pillow in the middle of his bed.  Tucker's feet are at the head board and he decided to take two cars into bed.  I don't know how children sleep in the positions they do.

 

During the winter, life can get really boring.  Since I have young children we are usually stuck inside, but we always try to keep busy.  Tucker likes to paint so we do that once in a while.  This time I decided to take a picture of Tucker painting, but during mid-shot he told me "NO!" Apparently he didn't want his picture taken.  Once in a while when I get Ethan down for a nap Tucker and I will go outside.  Aaron has taught Tucker how to throw snowballs at me!  I must say that Tucker has mastered it.  Another thing that Tucker likes to do is to take the icicles off the car and throw them into piles of snow because they sink.

We also do a lot of wrestling in our house.  Ethan is still too little to wrestle, so we just love on him. :)  Tucker on the other hand, he is crazily strong!  

We also like to cook.  Tucker even likes to help.  In this specific picture we made a New Orleans shrimp dish.  It was YUMMY!

At the beginning of the picture Ethan liked being held by Tucker, but then Tucker let Ethan slip so Ethan fussed.  Just a funny observation, both boys are wearing pjs that are the same color of their eyes.

We had a family outing this week and took Tucker bowling for the first time.  Tucker really liked the ball hitting the pins, but he didn't like sharing turns.  I think he also had a hard time focusing because of the loud music.  I think we are going to wait till he is three before we take him again.