Funny Faces

Lover boys (& girls)

 

 Here are all of our Valentine's...can you feel the love?!?

Oshyn to Beau 

Cruz to Beau 

Oshyn to me and Gma Annie

 Cruz to the fam (kind of funny when you look at the card to him from us...)

 To Cruz from Mommy & Daddy--The SAME!

To Tyce from Mommy & Daddy

 To Oshyn from Mommy & Daddy

To Gma Annie from boys

The spread.  Pink spaghetti, not pink broccoli, some sparkling pink lemonade with some fancy cups, and strawberries, raspberries and blueberries with whipped cream for dessert.

We love to do up the little holidays with the boys.  I think they may think its okay too. 

Confused

It is the middle of February, but the weather has been so fabulous and warm that the trees think it's SPRING!  I love blossoms.

Sharing seats & Lately-isms

Tyce-isms:
I don't want a sticker! (when we enter story time at the library or the dr. office--both always offer stickers b/c most kids like them)  If by chance one makes it on the top of his hand, we may as well have given him a shot in the same place because he complains about it hurting for hours and CRIES his eyes out.  We avoid stickers.

Oshyn's school?
Tyce's swimming? (when we drive by familiar places)

I happy to see you! (to any of us when he sees us and when he's playing cars--this is what they say to each other :)

What's up dude? (when we least expect it--we can't help but laugh b/c we don't know where this one came from)

Jesus Christ was born? (he loves Bony M's "Mary's Boy Child", but says this at random times...

What's in your mouth?  Jesus Christ was born.

What do you want for breakfast? Eggs, toast, Jesus Christ was born.)

Brother Kerr is coming to town. (to the tune of Santa Claus is coming to town...???)

Going in na church? (anytime we look nice he asks us this)

Tyce always has a song in his head and walks around the house singing something almost all day.

Cruz-isms:

It's "soggy" outside today. (Foggy :)

Socks that are connected to your pants...those are called tights!

'Party Rock' has a nice beat...a COOL beat!

Cruz is very proud and honored to have a CTR ring. C=Choose, T=The, R=Right.  He received it from his Primary teacher and has been making really good choices when he wears it.  I should have gotten one sooner!

Oshyn-isms:

The goal for the year for O is to think of others first.  He has demonstrated this in ways recently without any prompts, which has been really neat.  At school they receive "otter bucks" for good behavior, getting work done, etc.  Occasionally they can cash them in at the "Otter store".  One day he came home and had bought Tyce a book with cars and Cruz a Star Wars bobble head.  I asked him what he bought for himself and he said, "Nothing".  I assumed he just didn't see anything he liked, but O told me that he didn't have any otter bucks left after he bought Cruz and Tyce their presents.  Wow.  

He's worn his contact for up to 12 hours!!  and isn't struggling with them anymore!  Yay!

The boys are obsessed with "jinxing" each other...

Cruz: Jinx!! You owe me a coconut!

Oshyn: Do I have to go all the way back to my homeland??

For about a week straight I was asked to sing the National Anthem, so the big boys could start playing baseball in the backyard.  Cruz used the tramp for his ball return net and Oshyn used the rebounder.  Good stuff.

 The "Worker Guys"

Running Partners

Tyce and I are good running jogging/walking partners these days.  He spends some time in the stroller and some time stretching his legs out and running as fast as he can.  I'm amazed at how far he can really go and laugh out loud when he tries to pull out the pouty, woe-is-me moments.  He is a cutie and occasionally asks me to get him (aka run over him with the stroller).  I love my mini exercise buddy!

The Tramp

I love this tramp and all 3 static-haired boys inside!  Oh how thankful am I that they are all safe from the hot lava because of their stepping stones.

Porta-caged animals

The good times you can have when you flip your brother's bed over and start acting ferocious.

Date Night

Cruz and I had a fun little outing on Friday night.  The rules were to hold hands whenever possible and have lots of fun.  Topics of conversation went about like this...Cruz is most excited about kindergarten because he gets to learn a whole lot more than preschool (Oshyn tells him about the Jesus Christ was born song).  He is most excited that when our baby is born he'll be bigger than two brothers.  He wants to be a motorcycle guy when he grows up--a police motorcycle, so he can help all kinds of people.

I'm 110% sure that Cruz picked this "ice cream store" because of what you see in the background.  He made sure to bring quarters along.  I deemed it a success when we left, holding hands--of course, and Cruz said, "That was soooooo fun!"  It's the little things. :)

Numbers on the Back

I just finished ironing some leftover numbers on random t-shirts because shirts without numbers in this house are hardly shirts at all (and definitely NOT cool).  Cruz likes the big digits!

January?

I'm not complaining one bit...just a bit dumbfounded at the marvelous weather we're having.  Hopefully this doesn't mean rain, fog and cold all summer!  We are enjoying the sunshine daily!

Mr. Smarty Underpants

Tyce is officially a part of the "big boy" club.  He rocks his new underpants & sings Potty Power.  I'd have to say either I was expecting it to be WAY worse or he has been pretty easy.  We went hard out for the 3 days and he got it.  I'm still reminding him and we've had a few mishaps, but all in all, he is a CHAMP.  No more diapers for me! (at least for a few months)

Testosterone

 Oh yeah--we got it over here at our house.  A lot of it.  So much that Baby #4 couldn't help but join the crowd...he's A BOY!  Oh man is he a cute one.  I love ultrasounds and I can't get over how much better & clearer they have gotten in the last 8 years.  He was a good little picture taker and did just what the tech wanted.  He showed off his calves, spine and even waved to us! (I swear!!)

I can't help but want little man to come out so we can all hold him.  The boys were dotting over him during the entire ultrasound, "OHHH!  He is SOOO cute!!!  Isn't he the CUTEST?!?"  Then when the ultrasound tech printed out the pictures they started kissing them and fighting over who got to hold them.  My heart just gets a kazillion times bigger with this type of love going around.