My Big Boys!

Can you believe that Sam is almost 2 and a half and that Calvin is 6 months old?! It is crazy how fast time flies. Sam is such a smart little boy. He loves to read. He and daddy go and pick out new books at the library every few days and Sam loves to sit and read them. In fact some mornings it is the first thing he wants to do. He is also learning his ABC's and can tell you a few of the letters and what they say. He has moved up to a big boy bed and seems to be doing well with it... He was climbing back into the crib so we ended up turning the crib around backwards so that it is to high for him to climb. He also thinks that if he tells me that the letters above the beds are different then that is who's bed it is. He will point to the "Calvin" letters and tell me that they are "S,A,M,D,O,ABC's... See mama... Sam's bed!" It is pretty funny. He can sing pretty much anything and everything. We can hear him in bed singing songs from "Les Miserable" to "Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam". He loves to go onto Youtube and find all kinds of songs to watch. Some of his favorites are the songs from Madagascar.... We are pretty sick of "I like to move it, move it" but it is a hoot to see him singing and dancing to it. Sam pretty much is better at working the computer that Brad and I combined and loves to pull up the blog to see pictures of his Papa and goes on my facebook to leave notes to all. Sam has learned how to count to 10 and we are now working on getting up to 20. It is crazy how much he learns and remembers every day! We have been potty training Sam off and on for the last month but we have been really working on it this past week. I'm happy to say that Sam has been diaper free for 3 days now and hasn't peed on the floor in those 3 days. We did have one accident when we were out at the store but those are to be expected. He was just on his little potty seat but now that he has learned that he can pee standing up he is really into going on the big potty! I'm so glad that he has taken to it so fast and well! I can't believe how many less diapers I have to change now and how much longer the box is lasting!
Calvin is growing like a weed! I just packed up all of the little baby clothes and I couldn't believe how tiny they look compared to him. He was weighed just this last week and is at 16 lbs. He is such a happy little guy. He talks all day long and thinks that Sam is the funniest guy around. They will just sit and laugh at each other for most of the day. He is rolling over and pretty much rolls anywhere he would want to be.... like if he sees a piece of paper on the floor. He will roll over all of his toys that are around him to get to that paper! It is always so funny what kids love to play with. He is able to sit alone for almost a minute now and will sit for a few more with pillows around him. He isn't crawling yet but he seems to be getting closer to it every day. He really wants to chase after Sam so I don't think it will be much longer! This last week has been a long one for poor baby Calvin... He has always been a really congested sounding baby and this last week it has been bad. We have been to the Dr office 3 times already and head out again tomorrow. He is getting a breathing treatment every 4-6 hrs but they don't really seem to be helping a lot. He also had to get some chest x-rays done but they came back clean so no risk of pneumonia. I hope that we will be able to find out what is wrong and that we will get it all fixed up. It doesn't seem to get his spirits down at all and he is very happy and smiley to everyone!
Our camera is dead so I have had to resort back to Ol' Crappy that seems to be pretty indestructible but for every good picture there are about 10 craptastic ones so it really gets on my nerves to say the least but here are a few of the nice pictures of the boys!

Soft Baby Skin

From the time that Sam was pretty much born his arms and legs looked like this

It was so sad. We tried all different kinds of things with very little improvement. He would scratch until he was bleeding and then more. People would ask if he his legs were burnt but even through it all Sam was a happy little guy and very rarely was upset by it. When we went in for his 2 year check we asked his Dr about it. He sent us home with a cream for his legs and a priscription of Bleach baths (1/4C of bleach for a half full tub 2-4 times a week) and wet pajamas... Yep WET PAJAMAS... like I soak the arms and legs of his pj's before bed and then put them on him and send him off to bed..... Well we left the office a little skeptical to say the least but fast forward a few weeks and....... TADA!!! NEW SKIN!! You would never know that just a month ago his legs looked like they did. We are so happy!!! in fact I even go a week between clipping his nails now instead of every other day like it was before! Yeah new skin!!!

Very Sad

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A very sad and photo free me!!!


Calvin's formula spilled all over my diaper bag and killed our camera.... I'm now very, very sad!!

June!

So June flew by! On the 3rd Brad and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary. We went up to Snoqualie Falls and got out of the car to see them (we have driven up to them quite a few times because it is a really pretty drive and we go on drives when we want to talk) but we hadn't ever gotten out to go and see them, see we thought that it was a big long hike (it so wasn't) and we aren't really the hiking type... We were so happy that we went! It was so much better then I though it would be... We even did the half mile hike down to the lower view point and even survived the hike back up the hill...um mountain?!

Image from here

After we went out for supper and it was really nice to not have to cut someones food up or rock a crying baby with half my meal left! Thank you Bev for watching the boys! Some times I can't believe that we have been married for 3 years... They have been very busy! I love Brad so much! Three down forever more to go.... And I can't wait!
The next week I decided to have an adventure..... I took the boys over the mountains and through the woods to Granmas house. It was Calvin's first long road trip and my first long drive outnumbered. I got the car all packed up and we headed out at 5:30 am. I thought that the boys would sleep the whole way but like most well laid plans they didn't... Sam was awake for all but 30 mins of the 3 hr drive and Calvin was awake for the last hour. There was a 10 mile stretch were we all cried but it was about 20 miles before we got to mom's so we just stuck it out. We had a lot of fun visiting. It was the first time mom got to see Calvin and she loved it and so did he! Sam loved going out in the garden with Papa and loved picking strawberries. Sam loves to spend time with his Papa and now will pull up the pictures from our trip and point out Papa.

Sam and Papa watering the garden

Sam loves water

Papa and Sam chased Mommy and Granma... I got this pic right before I ran for it!Sam was trying to get more water

We had a lot of fun bumming around the Tri-Cities and it made me want to move there so much! I love the small town feel there and how friendly everyone is over there. I think that it would be a great environment for our children to grow up in. We went to the park and to the river and had lots of fun in the sun. (our first day there we went to a BBQ and the kids there wanted to know why he was so white... I told them that we didn't have as much sun where we lived... After I told mom and she said "well he almost glows in the sun he is so white!" I'm proud to say when we left he wasn't quite so pastie) There was movies in the park one night and we went. Before the movie they had music and fun for everyone. They had a Bounce House for the kids and I took Sam in. He had a blast! At first I thought that he would be scared but he just went in and stood his ground. Even with kids twice his size. In fact he loved it so much that when his turn was over I had to go into the bouncy house to get him out! Once it got dark the movie started. We watched Madagascar 2. Sam LOVED it... He sings "Move it, move it" all the time and even goes on youtube to watch it ALL THE TIME!!!Calvin loves to chill out in his Moby carrier

While we were there I decided to introduce Calvin to the world of food in the form of baby rice cereal...well more like baby gruel but you know... It took him a few weeks to really get the whole swallow thing down but now he is up to two meals a day and we are going to start adding in some of the good stuff this week... fruit and veggie puree.

Here it comes

First bite in

Not so sure

After his first meal... Not so messy but you can see why we call him a baby Lemar

We had lots of fun visiting and all to soon we were heading home. We got home in time for Brad's birthday and Father's Day. It was nice to be home and Daddy had missed his boys and they had missed him! What a fun and crazy summer and that was just the start of it!!! Lots more fun to come!

What Can I Say?!

Okay... So yeah... I bet you already guessed that I suck at keeping up on my blog..... When I started this blog I thought that it would be great.... I could do my journal with pictures and I could share it with everyone.... I guess I should have know that this would be harder for me then I first thought... I have a whole box full of half filled journals that tend to span no longer then 6 months... But from now on I will TRY to keep up on here more... I think that part of it is that my days are so much the same most of the time that I don't see how anyone else would want to hear about it but I will try to keep up more... I mean I will only be a crazy young mother with little ones for so long (after that I will be a crazy old mother... or just plain crazy... who knows!) and one day I will look back and wish I had noted the sweet little things my family did once upon a time... So here is me starting fresh!! Wish me luck!

Sam is 2!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday was Sam's 2nd birthday! Where has the time gone?! We started the morning off with his wake-up picture(we don't like the flash much!!)

After Sam woke up we headed over to the Martin's house so that I could make the cake... I saw this idea on bakerella and had to go with it!


Can you guess what they are yet??

Looking more like it...


TaDa... aren't they the cutest thing?!

We have a lot of "Bibbits" in our house from Sam's quilt that my mom made him to his potty chair so I couldn't resist!!

Once Daddy got off work we got the party started! Sam got loads of gifts and wanted to say Thank You to everyone! When he opened his gifts we told him to go say thank you and instead he brought the gift back over to who it was from waiting for them to open it so he could play with it! He did pretty well but we did have a few melt downs due to the fact that he didn't have a nap.

We sang happy birthday and he cried the whole time but once it was all done he sure did like eating his "bibbits" and so did daddy!!

Happy Birthday my big little man!!!

I'm a Quarter!

On the 14th I turned the big 25... yep I'm a quarter! It was a nice day! It started out the best way for me. Brad had the day off so I got to sleep in! Somehow he even kept Sam in the living room so I didn't have any knocking and crying outside my door! Once I got up and had a nice long shower(again without knocking and crying... How did he do it?) I got to open my gifts! I got The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and a new work out that I have wanted from the time I saw the first infomercial! Here are my gifts with Brads wrap job
See how happy we all are...

Except Calvin... He got to tired and fell asleep.


After present time we dropped the boys off at grandmas and we headed out on a date! We went to Bellevue for my favorite...Sushi!
We love this place!! Yes Brad is doing a very bad Asian face.... He is so bad!!!!!


They have a little conveyor belt that the food rides on and we just pick up whatever looks good!
We ate like pigs and had a nice stack of plates at the end. After food we went to the mall and just walked around. It was nice to just be out and about without the boys! We went back to get the boys and had cake. I had lots of calls from all of my family from far away and it was nice to chat with the ones that I talked to! It was really nice and I had lots of fun!