What to do with myself?

Ohhhh my!!!
My two sweet little boys are in the bedroom with door shut because they want it shut playing together well probably demolishing the room, Neither one has a sticht of clothing on both just wearing their diapers, playing with cars and stuffed animals. Wow!!! I never thought that this moment would come so early. The joys and giggles coming over the monitor well and actually a sob or two from Isaac so maybe mommy is going to have to go rescue Snicklefritz sooner than later =-) It is very cute though two diapered little boys standing together playing with their cars conversing in their own made up language that works just for them. Usually if I am at the computer they are at the gate fussing and complaining and trying to come to mommy. Part of me wants to go join in with my little people to watch them giggle and play and another part of me is wondering what I can I get done while they are playing happily and then there is this part of me that is sitting here in great fear wondering what major mess I am going to come upon when I open the bedroom door. Because with James there will be one. This Mommy knows!!! So maybe I can squeeze in a quiet time, or work on some dishes or even sit here and play a game of Jungle Jewels but I know as soon as I start something the magic will end and they both will be standing at the door banging to be let out of the prision they locked themselves in. Now if I could only get the cat to leave me alone!!!

Food

It truly amazes me that I can have two children from the exact same parents. I ate pretty much the exact same things during both pregnancies but one child is a total snob when it comes to food a very VERY picky eater and if he decides that for some reason it isn't good enough for his consumption he will spit it out. In fact if during mid chew he sees something that would be better he will spit out whatever it is he is chewing and go in for whatever it was he spotted that MUST be better. Getting this child to eat anything can be very difficult and he has a few staples that he will eat. Chicken nuggets, fruit of any kind and cheese and thats about it. Now my other child you would think he had at some point been starved as he will eat whatever you put in front of him even if he doesn't like it. Which can make for some very comical faces but he will keep on eating. But this is also the child who if he sees his food or his bottle will get sooooo very excited bouncing up and down and kicking his legs it is very cute to watch!!

My Boys

I figured I would post two seperate posts.
Snicklefritz is getting so big!!! He has recently realized that crawling is a great way to get around and has a blast following his big brother and mommy around the house. He has quickly gone from just crawling to now pulling himself up and letting go so I have no doubt that he will be walking very soon. Watch out mommy!!! He is my snuggle bug, he loves his blankie and after being away from it for a while will pick it up and rub it on his face making all sorts of happy noises. =-) Brian said just the other day that Isaac had found a dirty blankie on the other side of the gate from him and he sat there in front of the gate crying for his blankie. He gets excited to see his blankie and his bottle too bouncing up and down and squealing in delight. Although he feels he doesn't get enough to eat and must supplement his food with anything paper that he can get his hands on. Which made Christmas OH sooo much fun!!!! Isaacs favorite song is Twinkle Twinkle Little star esspecially when mommy sings it!! and he loves to watch Winnie the Pooh and will sit motionless for a very long time watching pooh!

Funky Winkerbean is as busy as ever getting into whatever he can. He has a thing about having every last toy on the floor and will open every tub or container and dump it on the floor just so it is out. Which makes for ohhh so much fun for mommy every night. Since we moved Isaac into the nursery with James (over Christmas break), James has decided that he no longer needs to stay in his crib but should join his baby brother in his crib and or demolish the bedroom for entertainment. Now rather than waking up screaming he gets up and wakes his brother then plays for a while and when he gets board with that I hear a knock knock knock on the door and a MOOOOOMMMMMYYYYY!!! and if he does not get a response from mommy it becomes DAAAAADDDDYYYYYY!!!!
It is sooo much fun to watch the two of them interact with one another James can be sooo loving and kind and the very next min not nice at all but Isaac is finding his voice and has no issue with screaming his frustration if Brother will not give him the toy he wants or takes his toy from him.

Life

I have been enformed that I need to update my blog........and being here now and seeing the last time I posted was Oct 09 I realize that yes I need to update but life has been crazy as anyone with two little boys knows. Trick or Treating with my two dears was hilarious we also carved pumpkins with the cousins in Oct another fun time and very very messy. Thanksgiving was eventful. My Father in law was taken to the ER and my boys and I spent the night on Grandma Andrews couch waiting for daddy to come and get us. Which he finally did at 5 in the morning, so much for going shopping at the crack of dawn on Black Friday. But that was the beginning of a crazy month... my fil was admitted and spent the next 2 weeks in the hospital where they finally decided that he had cancer and it was terminal and he was sent home. Brian spent the entire month going from work to the hospital and then his parents home to our house where he would shower and be back to work again. I don't know how he managed and then Christmas eve his dad passed away. So Christmas was not at all what I had expected or planned for. Then January came and went and here we have arrive in Feburary.
Happy Valentines Day its belated of course but I do send out lots of love to you all
James and I made Valentines for the Grandmas and great grandmas and Grandpas out of foam hearts and instead of glitter we used sticky foam hearts to decorate them they were very cute!!!

My Sweet husband managed to supprise me this year he bought me long stem roses and a $25 gift card to Starbucks! Such a sweetie!!!

Shopping for Halloween costumes

Times have seriously changed since I was a kid!! I don't remember ever really shopping for a costume, But then again my mother was very creative and an exellent seamstress!!! If only I had half her tallent I wouldn't have had to go through this whole debackle nor would I have had to pay $20 for a piece of cheap foam and some other very cheap material. As my husband so sweetly informed me that to James it was worth the $20 dollars.

We, on Sat, were invited to go with Grandma Andrews, Aunty Kathleen, Uncle Charlie and Cousins Mackenzie, Trenton, and baby Logan to go shopping for costumes for James and Isaac. I had been to Target and Wal Mart and had a general idea of what I was intending to dress them up as. Little did I know that my 18 mos old child would have a very STRONG opinion about what he wanted to be. I should have figured!! Because he has an opinion on everything else in his world why not the halloween costume!
For those of you who have never taken a small child shopping for a halloween costume, well actually shopping for anything, doing so on a 20 min nap is not a good idea and then you add to that 5 other people who are sooo excited to be shopping for your first costume ever, and it truly is too much for one small person to handle. We had a total melt down in the middle of the store REFUSED to let anyone touch us let alone look at us. lol Ohhh and for those of you who think I am refering to Isaac you would be wrong he slept through most of this ordeal and the rest of the time sat in his car seat happily listening to his big brother freak out!!
I finally convinced James that he, mommy, and Isaac would all go over to Target and we would buy James and Isaac monkey costumes. I am thinking this is great I will have two very cute adoreable cuddly monkeys. The pictures will be so cute. We get to Target and my child see's a train costume, We now no longer like the idea of beeing a Monkey, Heaven forbid I even mention the word monkey to my child He WANTS to be a "T" By this point in the shopping trip I didn't care. We bought the costumes and came home. When we got home I realized the train costume that we purchased was not Thomas the Tank engine like I thought but "James" from the Thomas the Tank engine series. So James will be "James" and Isaac will be one darling little monkey!
When I showed Brian the boys costumes Brian looked at James's and said you PAID $20 for this!!! I informed him that I had told him I wasn't happy with paying that much. LOL

Up Mama UP!!!

I was cleaning house till late at night. I had just snuggled down for a long nap. I think I had been in bed a total of 5 min, and I do mean 5 min, at 130am when I heard over the monitor a sweet little voice Moma!.!.!.! MoMa!.!.!.! Up Mama UP!!! James very rarely wakes and calls out usually when he wakes up he is screaming but not this time. Screaming is eaiser to ignore than the sweet little voice calling for Mama. After calling for me a couple more times that sweet little voice started to cry a sad lonely cry and Mama had to come to the rescue. Being that he had fallen asleep in the car he was still fully dressed, So in the dark I changed him out of his clothes into his Jammies with a fresh diaper. We curled up in my rocking chair with his blankie and I sang, I hummed and sang some more and we rocked and hummed. James laid their quietly rolling this way and that trying to find a comfy situation and I continued to rock and sing. At one point I looked at him to see if he was asleep and he was looking at me so sweet and innocent I had to smile. James smiled the sweetest smile back. At about 3 I moved into his bedroom trying to lay him down but he quickly woke back up for 30 min I sat in the chair in his room watching him hoping he would go back to sleep only to see those little eyes opened wide. At 330 I left telling him I was going to the bathroom and I would be back, I took a shower well partly because I needed one and partly in hopes the water would lull him to sleep which it did until.......... I had snuggled myself down but this time I sent in the reinforcements =-)

I have arrived!!!

I or should I say we have arrived because as every mother knows once you become a mother you are no longer a lone individual you always have someone or something hanging on you!!!
But back to us arriving...... We have now come up in the techno world as you all can clearly see we have a BLOG!!!!! I figure that I can send this addy to my family and friends who live miles upon miles away and they can read about the many adventures of ?!?!?!? Is it me? or maybe the adventures of James and Isaac??? I don't know we shall see so if you are ready Buckle up and get ready for a crazy wild ride known as my life!!