First

Handsome guys
(the one day of the school year that they don't wear basketball shorts--sans picture day :)

Mr. Funny Face himself

Ready to go!

Because this is cool to do

The first day of school came quickly this year. As long as the boys start in July, I might always feel this way.  The boys asked me if I thought it was fun to have my birthday on the second day of school when I was a kid.  They were blown away when I told them I NEVER had school on my birthday.

Almost there! I love living close enough to run/ride.

Locking up with the other 10 bikes (I swear there were hundreds of bikes when I went to elementary school!  Ten is a good day here.)

Oshyn started 3rd grade, so he knew the drill.  We briefly met his teacher and said goodbye to him on the blacktop.  Then we were off to the BIG K!!

We took some pictures and then realized that a kid that we see at the park often was in his class and "my friend" Leilani from our old house was also in his class.  Cruz was pumped to know a few kids since no one from preschool was going to Woodbridge. (He has always been really concerned about the friend thing & was distraught when he found out none of his preschool friends would be going to kindergarten with him).   For the first week or two he would point to kids around school in the morning (or when school got out) and tell me, "See that boy/girl?  He's/She's my friend" or after saying hello to someone, "I just made a new friend".

Big Kindergardener and the brother that wants to be one!

He is so cute.  I want to eat him up.  Oh....and he can't WAIT to have homework!! (Don't worry we documented that for sure!) 

Catch-up-isms

Wow!  Does time fly when you're having fun?!
I have some major "Catch-up-isms" to post on here...

Kai has been pretty quiet & isn't talking--yet!  Seriously, he's the nicest, sweetest, most chill baby on the planet.  Thank you very much Heavenly Father!  He's starting to coo and sometimes smile (either in his sleep or at the ceiling--looking at the angels watching over us).  I want to smother him with hugs and kisses, but try to refrain from tackling him--since "he's so little!" as Tyce says.

Tyce is a nut job.  I mean that in the most loving, motherly way.  He reminds me of a mini Eddie Haskell charmer.  I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to sell give him to the zoo just about every other day, but I'd also be lying if I said I didn't adore him and the crazy chaos he brings.  He runs his mouth nonstop and if I daze out for a minute, he stops and says, "You not talking?"  Tyce has been using the word 'actually' a lot.  He puts it at the end of sentences, so it sounds hilarious, to us at least.  "No, I want some water...actually."  Tyce jumps off everything and is very excited and passionate with every movement (which makes me a little nervous at times with a newborn, but its working out).  After months of setting my alarm to wake him up in the night to go to the bathroom, something has clicked and he now wakes on his own--great timing with Kainoa here now.  Tyce says, "Can I hold you?" when he wants to be held and when you hold him, he will hug you and pat your back.

Cruz is a technology & lego-a-holic.  If he wants me to look up something on the computer, ie. hats, he'll say, "Just go to hats.com".  Anything you want, just add a .com to it and you'll find it in his mind.  One day he also asked, "How do you spell dot com?"  He is obsessed with playing games on my phone when he's allowed and tried to convince me to let him borrow it when he went to Seattle with Beau.  When I told him we didn't have another phone and I wanted to be able to talk to people while they were gone he said, "You can just Skype everyone".  Ha!
All of the legos he got for his birthday he sat down (that day) and put every single one together, with very little help, if any.  He amazes me and luckily is getting more patient with himself.  Most of the time he has patience with others, but when Pop Pop came here for his birthday and they were walking the nature trail at Lodi Lake, Pop Pop pushed his buttons good!  There is a little lake on the trail called, "Pig's Lake" and Pop Pop kept talking about the Pigs in Pig's Lake.  Cruz knows there aren't any pigs in there, but Pop Pop was relentlessly mentioning the pigs.  Cruz told him finally, "If you say it again, I'm going to punch you in the face!!"  Patience out the window! :)
He is in love with Kai (as are all of the boys) and when he first came home and had the stump from the umbilical cord on his belly button, Cruz kept calling it Kai's "vocal cord" instead of "umbilical cord".


Oshyn is Joe Cool.  He is definitely eight.  He wears shades, checks himself out in the mirror--because he looks good!, and poses for pictures---ALWAYS flashing a peace sign or thumbs up and if someone is in the picture with him, he'll give them bunny ears.  He works hard at everything until he gets it just right, is a numbers guy, and is really good at anything athletic (don't tell him I said that--he's got confidence coming out his ears :)  When he gets an idea in his head he'll make it happen--ie. the homemade zip-line that appeared in our backyard after seeing Madagascar 3 (the trapeze didn't quite work out).  Oshyn loves his brothers and drives them crazy--all in a matter of 5 minutes.  He came up with a funny math game that he plays with Tyce
(Tyce always answers--TWO!)
Oshyn: What's 1+1?
Tyce: 2
Oshyn: What's 10-8?
Tyce: 2
Oshyn: What's 1824-1822?
Tyce: 2
Oshyn: What's 1000506-1000504?
Tyce: 2
Oshyn: Wow Tyce!!  You're sooo smart!!

 I'm sure there'll be more -isms soon!  Gotta love life with kiddos.

Speedo

Kai had his first dip in the pool this hot day in July.  He sported a speedo and pulled it off quite well.

He hung out like this was nothing new and did what he does best.  Chilled.  Not a day or night goes by that I don't thank Heavenly Father for sending me this sweet baby when he did.  Kainoa is a charmer.

Happy 7/11 7-Eleven!

I have successfully converted my children to a deep love for cold slurpees.

Are you ready for some

FOOTBALL?!?

We seem to be, at any given moment, at this house!

Sparklers and Sun/Moonroof

We had a great 4th.  The boys made it home safely from Seattle, I picked up a shlew of sparklers and we drove a block or two from our house, opened up the sunroof and watched the fireworks.  And of course, we had our infamous flag cake to top it off.  Forever my favorite holiday.

Sea-a-doe

About 2 weeks after Kai was born, Beau took the "big boys" on a road trip up to Seattle (said Sea-aaah-doe by the littles).

They went to see their oldest cousin, Ian, play in an all-star football game, before he headed off to BYU for college.

Ian also received his Eagle Scout award on Sunday.  Ian, along with his brother Zach, is probably the best example of a wonderful young man for all of these boys (and girl) to look up to.  We are so thankful for both of them.

About 2 years ago, we had our last road trip up to Washington.  We stopped at the Portland temple for a stretch and took a picture of the boys.  Beau snapped a picture this time around too...my have they grown!  Oshyn has the same head tilt and everything--just less baby teeth.

They had a great male bonding trip and I missed them like crazy!!

Kainoa Beau Nobmann

June 14, 2012 @ 11pm

7 lbs. 10 oz of awesomeness

Experiencing this kind of miracle NEVER gets old--we adore him. 

FIVE

Cruz turned the BIG F-I-V-E on June 5th...which made it his GOLDEN BIRTHDAY!

We celebrated on his special day with some of his preschool buddies, having a Lego party.

Would you believe me if I told you "we forgot" (read "I forgot") to have everyone sing 'Happy Birthday' & have Cruz blow out the candles?  Yep.  In the hustle and bustle of it all, I cut the cake for everyone and handed it out...then Beau reminded me that we didn't sing 'Happy Birthday' or even light candles.  So, we stopped right then and there, shoved some candles in the already-cut-cake and belted out an extra fabulous 'Happy Birthday' song.  Cruz could have cared less and was probably pumped because he got a second helping of cake!

The Birthday Boy and his entourage.  (Owen, Cameron, and John).  I love five year olds.  They were all super sweet, fun, and excited about everything.

Later on in the evening, we gave him our gifts in this fancy wrapping job.  In our family, when its your golden birthday you get as many presents as your b-day (i.e. Cruz was 5 on the 5th, so he got 5 presents.)  He was stoked to find a skateboard, Cars jet, Zem shoes, $5 bill, and a guitar wallet.

Summer begins!

I decided to have a purpose for summer vacation...meaning that everyday wouldn't just be an all day free-for-all, but that each day we would plan one thing to do (one thing isn't as overwhelming when you're 9+ months pregnant).  These are the categories and every week, Monday-Friday, we assign them to the day we're going to do them.  

*Make something 

*What's cooking 

*Somewhere fun 

*Time to read (library day) 

*Be thoughtful (service)  

It has worked really well, thanks to Pinterest, and has given the boys something different to look forward to each day.  

Here is a picture journal of our first week!

Shoe tying kindergardener

Now that Cruz can tie his shoes, he's allowed to go to kindergarden! 

(Daddy's have their own special way to motivate :)

Soon

This baby boy is coming soon...really soon.  I'm sure not hiding it either with this "big, fat, sexy belly" (as my boys refer to it).  Today a guy at the store looked at me and said, "Whoa!  You are WAY pregnant!"  Why, yes I am sir.  I have about 18 days to go, but who's counting??  I can't wait to hold this little guy.

Lil' Graduate

Cruz on his last day of Preschool (at Grace)

At Impact Sports on his Preschool Party day with his buddies 

Cruz and Soph rockin' out 

Miss Patty

The pressies for the wonderful teachers.  

Funny thing about these is that I was going to have Cruz write what he liked about each teacher.  I asked him so we could write it down on a scratch paper.  For each teacher he said, "Now--which one is that again?  The one with the short hair or the long hair?"  Cruz has had these same teachers for TWO years and didn't even know their names!!  I was dying.  When we saw them at the party Tyce said he wanted to show Miss Patty his paper.  Cruz asked me, "How does he already know their names?"

These ladies are sweethearts and I am so thankful that I will be able to spend the next 5 years with more kids in their preschool.

As for Cruz...onto KINDERGARDEN!!

My name is Tyce

Some -isms for the month:

The kid loves cheese crisps aka quesadillas and calls them "creez pists".

He is recently really obsessed with Beau and when he leaves or if he's gotten hurt he says, "I want my Daddy!"  Sooooo cute.  He's also been known to call Beau at work and ask him, "You wanna come over?" Tyce also says, "Realllllly Dad!"

To me, he talks all day long about just about everything on his little mind and occasionally has lines like, "I'm a BIG kid, that's why Mom!"

He gives cheap shots to Cruz, hitting him for no apparent reason.  Luckily I remember Cruz doing the same to Oshyn, so I am envisioning a time when it no longer happens.  As for now, I put him in the crib for his "time out" and tell him that it makes Mommy sad, Daddy sad, Heavenly Father sad, and Jesus sad when he hits Cruz.  When I go into get him and ask him why he is in the crib he has said to me (more than once), "I hit Jesus?!" with his innocent happy voice.  He doesn't get it, but is an -ism to remember. 

A gamer.  He likes to play games on our phones or on Oshyn's "iPat".  It amazes me what he can find and do without any help. 

He is our snuggler.  We have never had a kid that can climb into bed with us in the morning and get lost in the sheets and fall back asleep.  Its kinda fun.

A cheeseball to the core.  Tyce is always wanting to do something or say something that makes you laugh...and if you do, he'll say or do it 5 million more times.

Mr. Boots.  Everyone knows him for his cowboys boots.  He wears them with just about everything, including basketball shorts.  I love them and am excited that I have another little man that gets to wear them next.

Always up for a good time.  He is a friendly dude and will converse with anyone about anything from ages 1-101 (I'm lying, he talks to babies too!)

What a fun-lovin' crazy we have on our hands.  His vocabulary and way of talking/acting just get more and more grown up daily.  Tyce is a terrific two year old (with occasional terrible two tendencies which make him the real deal).  We love our Tyce!