My boys

Getting ready for Date Knight at Truett's!

 Making cake pops in our new cake pop maker that Evan just had to have! They were delicious and we had fun!

Evan doing his "homework" like Cohen

He's just a pure delight!

Easter 2012

Dressed up nice for Easter.

 Coloring Eggs--I have been telling the boys about it all week to get them excited about it. I have been calling it "paint eggs" whenever I mention it. We are getting ready and my mom was coming over to help so I told Cohen "Go call Nana and tell her we are about to dye." Evan falls to the floor screaming "Help!" and I ask him what wrong. He's crying, "what's wrong, why are we about to die?"

Traditional Easter breakfast: Easter Bunny pancakes!

Egg Hunt.

Evan's in a big boy bed!

This is old news, but I am way behind so I am catching up. We moved Evan to a big boy bed! We got Cohen a new bed and he moved upstairs to his own room. It is still 1/2 playroom, but we are working on getting him settled in to a "cool" room! Here's Evan in his big boy bed!

Just eating dinner.....

We decided to go out and grab some dinner tonight. After a stressful day and an unexpected change in evening plans we couldn't decide what to cook and didn't really have the fixin's for anything we wanted. We thought we would go grab Mexican, our fall back plan most weeks! On the way, all the boys were SCREAMING about this, that or the other....roll the window up, no roll it down, not that much, I'm cold, roll the windows back up, I'm hungry, he's touching me.....you get the point, right?

Anyway, we derailed the crazy train, AKA Mini-van, and decided for something closer and faster--Wendy's. Although not what I was wanting, it was pretty good. Well, the food....NOT THE COMPANY!!!!

Here is how it all went down:

1. Upon walking in Evan climbs the rails in the line and hollers "I love this playground."

2. The man behind the counter just stares at us.

3. He finally asks what we want.

4. We take forever to figure it out..."I want cheeseburger, no I want chicken." "I want fries and apples." "You can only have one or the other." "Ok, fries."

5. Place order.

6. "NO I WANT APPLES!"
7. Man calls on speaker to cancel fries and puts apples in bag.

8. Fill up the little white things with ketchup.

9. The "helper" drops two of them.

10. Get more ketchup.

11. While waiting at table for food, Cohen pretends to be Spiderman and climbs up the back of the booth and acts like he is stuck to the wall. YES!!! The seven year old who is supposed to know how to act.

12. He gets the evil eye and gets down.

13. An army man walks in and all three boys give him and official army salute.

14. Food arrives.

15. There are fries instead of apples. Crying begins.

16. Go back to line and exchange apples for fries.

17. Begin to eat.

18. Jeremy and I try to have a conversation since children are busy eating.

19. We hear laughing and Coop has blown bubbles all in his milk and they are spilling out of the milk bottle all down his chin and into his lap.

20. Clean up bubbles.

21. Finish eating and decide we want Frosties.
22. While Jeremy is ordering dessert I gather up the trash. While throwing trash away Evan begins to run up and down the booth yelling, "I love this binch, I love this binch" (keep in mind the n is silent and his "bench" sounds more like a bad word.)

23. Cohen, yes the SEVEN YEAR OLD, climbs OVER the back of the "binch" and gets spoons. Still pretending to be Spiderman, I guess????

24. Jeremy and I are MORTIFIED of our eating experience. We head to the door with our heads hanging....I know the people still in the restaurant gave a standing ovation when we left!

Needless to say, I will be keeping stock in frozen pizzas for the next time our dinner plans get changed!!!!!

Life with boys!

We were on our way to take Cohen to his game tonight. Evan and Cooper love this because it's the only time I let them eat lots of junk and play in the dirt. I KNOW!!!! Totally unlike me, but.......it's the only way I can watch Cohen play. We were turning in the park and Evan points to the sign and says, "there it is mommy, I see it. Right there!" I said, "I know baby. I see it. I know you love the ballpark!" He replies, "no, mommy, my booger! It's right there on my finger!"

Sound familiar? Yes, I posted about a booger incident with Cooper not too long ago! Seems we always talk about boogers around here!

Cooper pooped in his pants today. I asked him if he went stinky. He said, "yes, I went stinky and you're gonna eat it!" Seriously?

Please tell me this is just normal boys stuff?

We're still here...

I know! It's been almost 2 months since my last post. 2 months! I have no real excuse except that I am addicted to Pinterest and Words With Friends. Every time I get on the computer I play on those two things and by the time I realize it...it's time for bed. I promise I will start doing better....well, maybe!

Anyway, things have been going full speed ahead as usual around here. The boys are doing great!

We signed Evan up for Pre-K for next year which I can not believe! Seriously, where has 4 years gone? :( He is really a joy to be around lately. He has the biggest heart and is so passionate about everything. He LOVES his big brother and does everything he can to be like Cohen. He likes to play video games like his Bubba and is becoming addicted to our iPhone! We have purchased several games for him (educational ones of course) and he is doing so well with them. He finally settled down and learned his shapes and colors and is now interested in letters, numbers and words! YAY! He is one smart booger! One tiny booger that is......so tiny! He barely eats enough for a flea and is just so petite. Cooper is actually beginning to pass him in size! He does have a BIG belly though and loves to play Pop the Pig----he pushes out his belly and has someone poke it and say "POP"!

See.....

Cohen is still excelling in school. Everything just comes so easy and natural for him. He just needs one lesson on it and he's got it. He reads like nobody's business and remembers everything! It really blows my mind and I see and hear kids read all day! We just finished up basketball and will start baseball practice this weekend. We are on the Indians this year and I am so excited about it. It is an amazing group of Christian people who really give back to the community and I can't wait to be part of it!

Cooper.....Well, Cooper is now TWO! Everything he says and does screams "TWO YEAR OLD HERE". I asked him the other day, "where is my sweet boy" and he pointed across the room to Evan. I said "are you my sweet Coop?" He said, "no, I two!" Yep, he's got that right. What a little spit fire he as become. He will just look at you and do what he knows is wrong! You know like that kid who holds his finger 1 millimeter from the object and says "I'm not touching it" just to annoy you? That's Cooper right now! I know my sweet, sweet boy is still in there, he's just covered up with a two year old right now! He does slip up sometimes and enthrall us with his super sweetness. He has such and imagination and we love to watch him play. He cooks, cuts hair, grills, and plays "baby". And man can he clean. He is the best cleaner ever. And he doesn't stop. He will clean all day. He loves to vacuum, dust, and wipe the floors. Before you ask....yes, I let him. I let him clean as much as he wants!

So that's what we are up to right now!

I promise...I'll be back before 2 more months!