8 months old can you believe it!

Every time I do these post I think about how much the boys have done in one month and everything seems INSANE. Maybe it is.... who knows.

Will is wearing a size 4 in diapers and a 9-12 month in cloths although he wears 12 months a lot.

Will is a happy baby. Until its time to go to sleep then he screams like a crazy person.

He started to say "up" and "da"

He loves his brother! and thinks hes so funny

Playing with his favorite toy

This is a face Will does a lot! Cheeks and cheeks

 He loves the lights and pulling the fan strings

He also loves to swing!

 He can pull himself to standing on this toy. He also walks around it!

 First watermelon of the season or ever

 Getting everywhere

 Waving at me! He learned how to wave this month!

Thinks all food is his and will crawl to get it. 

 Just a cutie

 Smiles with his WHOLE face

 Thinks all drinks are his

 He stands so well. He lets go and can stand for a good 15-20 seconds

 Another cute smile

 Is Army crawling everywhere, but has regular crawled a few times for a few "steps"

has cute baby lips.

Basically cannot handle the cuteness

Another day ridiculous enough to have its own post

1 week ago...


Michael woke me up this morning to tell me that I needed to take Brock in to the doctor. His face, had a weird rash and it changed. Saturday he looked like he had a scratch on his cheek, Sunday it looked like big bites, Monday it got bigger and redder. We put some steroid cream on it and gave him Benadryl.  This morning it looked blistery. Michael last year got a fungal infection from bug bites. That's what we were worried about.

The boys were so fussy just refusing to eat and not wanting to play. Yesterday we had a BBQ and their naps were messed up. And Brock was a little drowsy from taking Benadryl. 

I got an appointment for 11. 

10:00 I got a call to ask if I could wait til 12:20. I said yes knowing it would be a long morning. Brock decided to feed Will Doritos when I went to the bathroom...

Will took a 30 minute nap instead of his normal 45- an hour nap. 

Brock didn't want anything or anyone and said No more then any word. 

We went to play outside and all Brock wanted to do was play in the car. Which was fine because I wanted to clean it a bit. 

Finally it was time for the appointment and we headed out.It was so packed I had to park at a store next to it. I went to get the boys out only to realize that Brock had dumped the entire sm bag of nutty butter mini cookies on Will and Will really liked them. He was covered and sticky but smelled so good.  I had a long wait trying, Finally she came in looked at it, felt it, and said: "poison ivy." Wrote us a steroid cream prescription and sent us home. 

We didn't get home til almost 2. I was hoping both boys would go to sleep. It was a lot of work they both cried a lot. I couldn't decide what kid to try and get to sleep first. Brock actually climbed into bed himself. I got Will to sleep and went to get Brock. He was just playing on his bed. I did my normal sleep routine. Didn't work. An hour went by... I tried to be patient. Needless to say he didn't take a nap and Will took a short nap. 

I headed to the store, I needed to get Brock meds and a thing for my lesson Sunday. Brock was a maniac, he took off and started throwing things off the shelves. When I grabbed his hand, he bit me. There was a long wait and Will started freaking out. I left almost in tears, so frustrated. Brock has never acted like that. I let Brock help me carry out the bag. When we got to the car I couldn't find my keys. Brock took off and threw the bag of stuff in a puddle and stomped on it. 

By the time I got home I was muddy sweaty and frustrated. Will was crying and Brock was covered in mud. I turned on the TV for the boys got them food and took a breather.
 I made bath tub paints stuck them in the tub and let them play. Luckily they enjoyed it, I mean really loved it! Great way to end the day, Michael came home and helped give the boys a bath. Brock got in trouble for dumping bubbles and water on Will. But they where ready for bed anyways. I took a couple pictures of plants outside. And compared them and texted a few friends to see what they thought. Sure enough we have poison ivy in our yard! 

Long day, luckily it's a new day tomorrow.

Michael's Summer Break

Michael got a good few weeks off after the end of his 3rd year before he started his 4th year. It was almost all of May.  We didn't travel anywhere because we are trying to save the money for moving at the end of August, but we had a lot of fun! We tried new restaurants, hung out with friends went to so many parks and other places around town. We grilled and I mean we grilled a lot! Our favorite neighbor told us if we bought briquettes we could use her grill. So we did! We played outside nearly everyday that it wasn't stormy. Which wasn't a lot! Of course we took some fun pictures!

Botanical gardens a few times:

Overton park

Shelby farms

Picnic at Shelby farms

Flying a kite!

This picture sums up our time at home....

 Checking out pets mart!

 Caribbean skewers and Thai Chicken Satay (new Thai recipe perfected)

 Brock loved them!

 Will Sad the food is all gone....

 Another trolley picture

 our little artist Brock...

                                                                                                 ok it was Michael

We had a great time with Dad at home.... So sad that hes going to be gone for about 10-11 hours a day now. :(