Back to Reality!

Cousins Jake and Luke

The graduate, grandparents, and Luke snuck in there

Seth and his new cousin Penny. He wanted to hold her a lot, haha.





Obviously I've been on a blogging hiatus. We've had a long month full of visits to and from family. We started by going to my brother, Kevin's, graduation from Parker Chiropractic College. It was so fun to visit with them and to celebrate all his hard work. Then my parents came down to visit us and my mom drove back to AZ with the boys and me. Dave flew out to spend a few days after his finals were over and then we drove back home. Spending 20ish hours in the car each way sure makes me realize how far away our families are and that makes me sad. But, thankfully now that we are finally readjusting to our life at home we do love it here and we have lots of great friends here. Our biggest news lately is that David got an internship that he is really excited about. He has to commute about 2 hours each way, but it's only 3 days a week so I think we'll all manage. I can't say what's he doing on an open blog like this and we may have to become private soon if he continues down this career path. Anyway, life is good and we're back on-line.

(Occassional) Daily Ten

- I woke up with the boys this morning and let David sleep in, so we went and got Shipley's Do-Nuts in our jammies and brought them home. I am a little ashamed to say that our little family finished off a dozen of those delicious goodies in a matter of hours.
- David cleaned up the house last night so I was able to wake up to a clean house . . . which sadly rarely happens.
- Have I mentioned that I have an awesome husband. I love him.
- The boys and I went to music makers (a weekly music class for toddlers) and Seth is starting to sing the songs. It was adorable!
- I babysat my friend's little girls and all the kids played so well together.
- The weather was amazing so we spent the majority of the day outside.
- Seth took a 3 hour nap! Which means I took a nap!
- The boys followed David around the yard with their lawn mowers while he mowed. It was so cute.
- We washed both cars.
- We did a little family photo shoot in the bluebonnets. Spring is so beautiful and I love all the Texas wildflowers!

Spring Break

This is a long time coming, but we had a really fun Spring Break. We went to San Antonio for 3 days and although it was quite crowded with everyone on break it was a lot of fun. Poor Luke was in the middle of a terrible cold (which Seth and I later got) with a fever, runny nose and terrible cough, but he was a trooper and had a great time anyway. We went to the zoo, a children's theme park called Kiddie Park, and the River Walk. We decided not to go to the Children's museum because I didn't want to spread Luke's germs on everything, but I hear it's awesome. The boys did pretty well and the drive wasn't too bad (if you can handle Seth's screaming, haha). It's a place I'm sure will visit again in the future.

Ramblings

This is really about nothing in particular and I hope I can actually write something because Luke is sleeping about 4 feet away from me and I don't want to wake him. At least he has a blanket over his head so the light from the computer shouldn't bother him. I finally decided that Seth is getting too big and mobile to sleep in our beat down pack n play (in the bathroom) any longer. So, he has been moved to the crib, which has been Luke's bed and Luke has been moved onto a toddler mattress until his bed is ready. David built it and it's in the process of getting painted. The boys do NOT do well in the same room at night. They constantly wake each other and they both end up in tears at least once in the middle of the night and then they wake up extra early in the morning. Because I like to sleep, something I haven't had much of since Seth was born, we put Luke in the office . . . so far so good. It may become his permanent bedroom.

The boys and I have been fighting a nasty, nasty cold this week. I haven't felt this sick in a long time, but I'm on the mend and the boys are much better too. Seth got into the bag of cough drops (the good Halls Breezers kind) and was in heaven with two in his mouth and a fist full in his hands when I found him. He was quite put out when I took them all away.

I think it's fun when I see random things that make me laugh. Today while we were out in the front yard a woman was walking by with a stroller. Silly me, I assumed there was a baby in it. It turned out to be 3 very small dogs, each wearing a little outfit. It just made me laugh. But, I'm glad she has them.

I have more Luke quotes:
Yesterday I was telling David that I had several canker sores in my mouth because I've been sick and Luke said:

"Is a sore kinda like a dinosaur?"

David was flipping through channels and Wheel of Fortune was on:

Luke: "What is that prophet doing that is talking to those people?" (Referring to the host) Apparently men in suits are prophets

I was telling Luke about family names and who belongs to what family. We are the 'J' family, Addy (cousin) is in the "T" family, "J" is in the Roach family:

Luke: "Is Roach kinda like a Cock Roach?"

Here are some recent pictures because that's more fun. You're a trooper if you read my ramblings.

This is How I Roll

Seth found D's wedding ring, watch, and back scratcher. He insisted on wearing them for quite a while, even during snack. This kid cracks me up.

Conversations with a 3 Year Old

Luke makes us laugh constantly with the things he says. I want to be sure and record some of them before I forget!

Luke sang really loud during all the songs in church yesterday. No matter the song he belted 'I Need Thee Every Hour' and he was very proud of himself. Later that night he said:

Luke: I sang really loud in church. I sang so loud that everyone could hear me. I sang so loud that the prophets could hear me!

Me: Who are the prophets?

Luke: They bring us the bread and water
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We've had a few 'difficult' days. With so much sickness and cabin fever there has been a bit of tension. Luke has had a really hard time sharing and David was getting especially frustrated so finally this happened:

David: Should I just throw all your cars in the garbage?

Luke: No, Daddy! Let's throw you in the garbage!

A while later after he calmed down:

Luke: Daddy, I'm sorry that I wanted to throw you in the garbage.
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Me: Okay, it's time to go to the grocery store.

Luke: We don't need to go to the grocery store. We already have food. We need to go to Toys R Us and get cars.
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Me: Who is your favorite Car? (from the movie, Cars)

Luke: Flo

Me: Why do you like Flo?

Luke: She's cute (a little shyly)

Where's my mommy?

So, yet again David and Luke have the stomach flu (Seth is just getting over it). Thank goodness I haven't had it, but I am so sick and tired of everyone at our house being sick and tired. We really love living here, but it's times like this that I wish we had some family nearby to rely on for support. The house is in possibly it's worst condition ever and I just can't gather the strength to take care of it. I just want a little vacation from being a mommy and to have my mommy take care of me. But, these two little rascals are worth everything and I wouldn't trade them for the world.