Overheard: Bert & Ernie

Tayv was talking to me about how big his stuffed animals are. This is about how it went:
"Bradley's too big to cuddle with. Actually, he's ok for me but not for adults. Cause he's as tall as me & Eli. And Tosh, Kenzie, & Kye. So, me, Tosh, Kenzie, & Kye. But Kye's as old as um....(thinks for a minute)... Bert. Actually, not Bert. But he IS as big as Ernie. And Bert & Ernie are old as Goliath. But Goliath is mean and Bert & Ernie are nice."
In all fairness though, I couldn't think of anybody the same age as Kye either.

Ramblings...

I think that's a word. I will warn you right off the bat, I really have nothing important to say tonight-I just need to write. So feel free to close this window now if you want. Oh, and if you do read, please don't judge. I'm SO stinkin' tired so there is no creativity and the shortest, stupidest sentences you'll probably ever read.
-We're basically done with Christmas shopping. Feels SO good. We did most of it on Black Friday. I went for 48 hours with less than an hour of sleep but it was so worth it. My plan is to just enjoy the holidays now with my boys. Both Nate and I remember various years when we had smaller Christmases. We both like that we can remember those and recognize that there is nothing wrong with that. So being that we bought a new house and had a baby (our babies tend to be as expensive as adopting-hoping the next ones will lower our average significantly) this year, we decided we'd have a small Christmas. So I shopped the sales. Turns out now it's not so small-at least for Tayv it's not. I have no idea what to get Tahnyon-he doesn't need anything.
-Tayvin is pretty good at addition and subtraction. Today we started working on division. They're simple problems, mind you. But division none-the-less. He's growing up on me way too quickly. Breaks my heart whenever I think about it.
-Tahnyon is such a fun, happy kid. He had a little bit of a rough start-like most babies. But now he's basically always happy if he's slept and ate. Especially if someone is talking or playing with him. I had him laughing for like 10 minutes tonight. He's ticklish now. Love my boys. Oh, and he's been sleeping 8 hrs straight during the night. If I didn't already love him, I'd love him for that.
-Poor Nate. For 3 or 4 months he worked 10-12 hour days-in addition to the hour and a half commute. They finally got someone hired to help him out. He got fired last week. So now my sweet husband is back to working 6 days a week. But we are hoping the position he's waiting for will be opening by March. He was offered a couple positions in Denver but we decided to wait it out here-poor guy.
-It's been too cold to run here-at least for wimpy old me. But we're still planning on running a half-marathon this summer. Mostly though, I just NEED to dance. Oh how I miss it.

Pictures soon!

You had to be there...

I realize that some of these don't sound quite as cute as they are, guess ya just had to be there!

-While I was at Michaels last night, Nate & Tayv built a christmas tree out of legos. He told me this morning while holding a blue lego, "This is my lego christmas tree. And when I don't want to watch it anymore, I just turn it off with my blue muh-rote."

-"Mommy, have you ever seen such a beautiful noodle?"

Sneaky Boy

I think Tahnyon is going to be my sneaky little boy. This morning at about 6, after feeding him, I put Tahn in his crib to go to sleep. He was being so quiet so I went in to make sure he was sleeping before I headed to the basement to work on a few crafts. He was wide awake and smiled as if to say, "You caught me! I was being so quiet too!" So I tried to put his binky back in his mouth so he could go to sleep. Apparently, as soon as he found his hands, he figured out that if he blocked his mouth, (yes- like a boxer) I couldn't put the binky in and thus, could not expect him to go to sleep.
Of course, I couldn't resist his smile so we played for an hour. Just can't get enough of this sweet, sweet boy!

That's right-I'm sure smart!

Tayvin to mommy: "You're sure really smart I guess!"
(Since daddy's not here to compare me to!)


Tayvin playing with some nesting Santas: "Geeze, I sure love all these santas. But the problem is, there's just too many!"

Journal

You'll have to excuse me, this has become my journal so the posts may get slightly less interesting... (is that possible?)

Upside down

Tayvin has been trying to wake up for a little while from his nap. He was on his bed and I was downstairs when I heard a big thump. I went upstairs and found him kinda asleep on the floor. I asked him if he fell off the bed or if he jumped. His answer? "I think I just jumped off my bed with my head upside down." The glass is definitely half full for this little dude!

Insane

This is one of the gifts Tayvin is getting for Christmas...

And this is what our floor already looks like because of that blasted play-doh...

(Of course, the picture doesn't quite do it justice.)

I always knew motherhood would drive me insane, I just thought it would take

more than 3 years and two kids.

Pray for me.

Overheard...

At Breakfast...
Tayvin: "Daddy, we don't watch TV while we're eating! You're following Satan."
Nate: "It's ok buddy."
Tayvin: "It's ok to follow Satan?"
Nate: "Um-no. It's ok-I won't watch TV during dinner."

Pumpkin Land

I will never catch up, but of course, I'll try anyway...
We went to Pumpkin Land with our ward's playgroup a couple weeks before Halloween. It's a nursery that turns everything into "Pumpkin Land" after Harvest. It was a blast-and super cheap!

I hate when people don't control their kids and they get in my pictures... huge pumpkins, huh?Tayv and our neighbors' little girl, Bradlie. Tayv wanted a little sister so badly-it worked out perfect that he has her...I just let Tayv choose which way we turned each time-he loved having so much control. They posted jokes all throughout the maze-this is the only one I remember... "Q: What does a kiss from a vampire feel like? A: Unless it's Edward, it's a pain in the neck." Yup, it actually said that!This is my absolute favorite one, he was so happy to be able to jump as hard as he wanted...Tahn slept the whole time. Towards the end I felt guilty that he wasn't in any of the pictures so I opened the stroller to take a few. He didn't like the light waking him up-

the kid cracks me up...

I know, I know-we're definitely due for some pictures. I've been so frustrated lately. When I had Tayv, I would take pictures of him all day long. Well, let's just say, Tahn is being neglected in the picture department. I do try-but usually as soon as I start Tayv needs me for something or I've missed the window and it's lunch or nap time. But I did a few photo shoots the other day in order to get some pics of Tayv in his blessing tux (only a week late.) So stay tuned.

The Meanest Mom

This lady cracks me up-check this one out!

The Thief in the Night

So stinkin' funny

The baby was upstairs in his room asleep, I'm downstairs, woke him up laughing so hard!

Reminds me of my brother and a friends husband, Corey...

Are you sure you want a girl, Nate?

Tahn had a rough night last night, resulting in him not being able to sleep on his own. And since I can't locate my sling, I can't do much while holding him. Thus, I've been wasting time on the computer today. Anyway, I found this video and thought it was hillarious. I don't see our girls being any different. So I have to ask, Nate and Tayv, are you sure you want a little girl next?
And for some reason, I'm having a hard time embedding the video so I'll just have to post the link...
Here

An incredible life

In the midst of diapers, nursing, a million failed attempts to clean, book reading, play-dough, laundry, and so many other things that mean I'm a mom of two; I can't help but wonder what my life would be like without ALL my boys. But it doesn't take long to figure out that it would be boring, unfulfilling, and lonely. I can't believe how blessed I've been and what an incredible life I have.

Here's one of the newest reasons...

And just for the record, even though you can barely see it, I think his little baby acne embarrasses Nate but I still think he's adorable. (Of course, Nate does too.)