Bath and Books

It looks like a little three ring circus most of the time in our house and the bathtub is no exception.  The boys look like the clown skit where they jump into a tiny bucket of water.  Putting all three of them in a standard size tub makes you realize how small that actually is.  They are bumping elbows, sitting on each other and throwing toys out to make room for Easton.  He no longer will sit in the bath seat.  He just climbs out of it and wants to walk around in the bathtub and climb the walls.  You would think the splashing of the water would be enough but NO…he has to be on the move these days.  It has happened already.  He will always be our families baby but he does not want to act like that.  He wants to hang with the big boys!

A tackle hug.

 

One playing, one being silly and one walking. 

 

Daddy will be home tomorrow from Vegas to read us more stories like this which was taken the night before he left. 

They are very excited Daddy ;)

 

Yesterday Liz and the kids came over for a lunch play date.  You know the kind where the kids barely eat lunch because they are so excited about playing.  That kind!

 

It was a little play date for Liz and I too.  We have both become such busy women lately that we had to make a point to catch up!

We decided to celebrate our second year of Project Life and swap books while we oooh’d and ahhh’d at our pictures and each others creativity. 

The kids played outside and then enjoyed popsicles on a fabulous 85 degree day. 

The sign of a good day is being all dirty!

These boys have a lot of good days around here with the dirt to show for it! My house must have a lot of good days too! I have a happy house (wink)!

Oh, do you know….

The muffin man, the muffin man, the muffin man.

 

Oh, do you know the muffin man who lives on Longleaf Drive?

He climbs on chairs and breaks into boxes

 

all to get his hands on some muffins.

 

Cinnamon must be very tasty because he was very hasty.

He ate two jumbo muffins all in one sitting.

Two in each hand, “now that’s double fisting!”

Oh, do you know the muffin man, the muffin man, the muffin man?

Oh, do you know the muffin man who likes…

his applesauce too!

** Muffin Man. I just don’t know what to do with YOU! **

Photobombed!

Lately we have just been staying busy with school and work.  When you do that you know what comes next.  Letting off some steam….making time to play……reconnecting as a family and chilling with friends. 

Good thing Aunt Britty and Uncle Ry sent the boys these totally rock star stealth laser tag guns to help with some playing.  Daddy even loves to join in on the fun.  They hide behind anything and put their built in shields on that are on the gun.  Once they are hit 10 or 25 times depending on what it is set to then the gun shuts down.  A computerized women says  “game over, you lost!” The boys love them because of all the lights and sounds and of course it is a way Bradley can identify if he won or not over Gavin or Daddy.  Were not in the competitive phase or anything…yeah right!

 

 

Easton helping Daddy unpack.  I think we want him to stay a while!

Aunt Tab reading them books.  Good thing someone does!

 

Bradley took this of Gavin.  He caught a moment. 

This is today.  Wow.  I am updating on the day.  It happens from time to time.  Sophia came over after school and they had a movie date to watch Ice Age and eat popcorn together.  I’m sorry but this makes me fast forward to high school when Brad couldn’t drive and we were dating and his mom ( Mimi) use to pick me up and bring me over for movies on the couch dates.  They almost look like little teenagers here.  Sophia has a big pillow under her so she isn’t really a giant compared to Bradley who is sunk down some too. 

 

The rest are from today too.  The boys running around after nap time.  Gavin is mid blissful screaming and Easton is well….mid giraffe?! He must have been hungry.

Today got even better! I was in my room and Bradley ran in and said “Mom, you won’t believe what Gavin did!” That statement normally freaks me out and had me jumping right up like it usually does.  I found this.  He had taken every large, medium and small pillow he could get his hands on.  Threw them down the flight of stairs to make himself a landing pile. 

 

He got Air! And a naked hiney! Hehe!

Saving the best for last.  My four Hero’s! They are the wind beneath my wings!

 

The boys all wanted to play superhero with Daddy tonight so that is exactly what he did! You don’t have to ask this guy twice to play with his boys. 

These four Hero’s and I would like to give one last shout out for the day to a very deserving MIMI.  Happy BIRTHDAY Mimi/Momma! We love you! xoxox

Easton at 14 months Dr. Seuss style!

** In honor of Dr. Seuss’s Birthday today we made up a sticker story to go along with our not so incredible photo shoot.  The pictures are random and not the best so it needed some sprucing up. What better way to do that than mommy being corny like she does best.  It certainly is not better than everyone’s favorite children’s author but why not, I’ll give it a shot.  I am finally getting around to doing this since he turned 14 months on February 16th.  It just so happens to be Dr. Seuss's Birthday and we do enjoy him in our house.  Mommy may appreciate him more than the boys still yet. It's a childhood thing! **

 
We are so lucky that you are you!  Here is what you and the sticker did do….

On your belly it didn’t last a moment.  You kept taking it off to throw it.
Let’s see, time for plan B.
We tried it on your back but you walked away from that.

What about your leg we thought? That will do the tricky but you thought it was much too sticky!

You put it on the chair but it didn’t work there. 

I moved it to the wall but that wasn’t the place for it at all.
 
With a different shirt we thought this must work. 
We turned on our thinkers and put the sticker on the wicker! 
It made your eyes POP and my heart went Flip Flop!
 
Then you crawled away but we certainly weren’t done for the day. 
You took some more pictures like a champ when we put it on the lamp.

We put it on a frame but that was much to lame and such a shame, so……

We got it in our heads to eat our very first popsicle instead!
 
Now that’s our story and it was fun, just like how it has been being one!
By the way the popsicle was oh so yum!
There really isn’t many new things to report of the growing sort. 
Since last month you have started giving kisses a lot.
You make the “mwah” noise with it and we never want you to stop. 
Hopefully we can add new things to the list, we think….wink, wink, when we report on fifteen months after March sixteenth!