Valentine's Day (2-14-11)

Ryan was working late which meant I got to pick up the kids. There is nothing like the yells of "mommy!" from Cash and baby crawling at lightening speed to get to me. When we got home Cash wanted me to carry him, a sure sign he was tired. I left him at the bottom of the stairs and went back to the car to get baby. I found him asleep on the stairs 1 minute later.

Cash had his first Valentine exchange today and loved going through his bag and pulling out the candy. After his snooze, Cash got things ready for Dad by decorating cookies and we baked our heart shaped pizza.

You gotta love the frosting on the side of his mouth!

Hey, what are you doing back there?

One Size Fits All - apparently :) (2-11-11)

It was a S-A-D day and Ryan needed to leave when I got home. He told me he had a cute pic of Cash sleeping and Ryan playing so I checked it out.

I didn't think much of the tummy hanging out at this point, but after watching Cash play a few games of tennis and dance around I knew something wasn't quite right. I tried to look at the tag inside his shirt, which took an hour because he kept running from me, and sure enough it read 12 months! You see, I bought matching Cars outfits for the boys at Christmas, Cash was wearing the right pants, but Baby Ryan's shirt.

I thought Ryan had done it on purpose to be funny, but when I checked with him he seemed pretty shocked Cash actually fit into it.


That night we told Cash he could stay up a little later than brother and watch a movie. He had never seen   The Jungle Book, but we had read the book many times. He loved the movie and halfway through took off all his clothes because he was going to be like Mowgli, he even asked for orange underwear!

The Early Bird Gets The Smiles (2-10-11)

Oh the sound of baby slowly grabbing at the rail on the top of the crib, pulling himself up. Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 tries because he is still sleepy. But once he makes it to that standing position, game over and mommy has to get up. This morning was extra early, 4:45 to be exact, but the following pics show it was all worth it!

Ahhh makes it all worthwhile!

TKO (2-9-11)

When we got the Wii a few years ago Cash wasn't ready to play, now you would think he'd been playing since the day he was born. He likes to win and even chooses to have himself cloned so that his 4 person tennis match is against himself, all 3 of hims. Then when he wins he jumps up and down and celebrates, the crack up, the split screen shows him winning on the left and him losing on the right head hung down! Too funny. Now his favorite game is boxing, although we have to remind him boxing is for the Wii and not for......people.

It's all fun and games.......until someone gets hurt! (2-8-11)

I was very excited to find out that Cash gets to hand out Valentines this year at pre-school. We took a family trip to Target and crossed our fingers that the popcorn we bought Cash to keep him inside the cart wouldn't evoke a protest from Baby Ryan who kept turning around and staring him down as Cash munched away. We also took some money Grandpa had given him so he could pick out a toy. I was on a mission to buy some items for the pre-school fundraiser and left the boys for a few minutes. When I returned Cash was wielding a green Light Saber and no one got within 10 feet of our cart. I asked him if that was the toy he planned to buy and he enthusiastically answered "yes!" I leaned over and whispered to Dad that he already had one Grandma had sent our way and I had to hide it in his closet for reasons that likely do not need to be explained. So, I went to work, albeit in vain. I pulled out all the stops, or should I say toys. But, not even the Buzz Lightyear foam arrow shooter would do the trick, the Light Saber was coming home.

Boys love swords! We didn't need to keep swords away because anything in our house can be a sword (or a drum I have found as well). About a week ago after playing swords (willingly) with kitchen utensils I was accidentally, repeatedly, whacked in the arm. It was then I added "no swords" to the list of "Let's play that with Daddy" games.

So.....later tonight

Dad was okay to, but game over! Baby worked on perfecting his two handed drinking skills. It's the only way he gets juice. 

Nighttime Routine (2-7-11)

When Cash was born I already had a library of children's books, and we started a ritual of reading to him every night before bed when he was a few months old. His library has increased exponentially and I can't seem to part with a book unless it is falling apart. As a huge reading buff sometimes I think I enjoy that nightly routine more than he does. Right now some favorites are the No David books, Blue Kangaroo, and Skippy Jon Jones. Sometimes when he wants to stall he takes a LONG time picking out his books for the night.

Baby loves a few books too, but his favorite part of the nighttime routine is his bath. He tries all night to get to the stairs and climb up them. When it is bath time we let him climb up and he heads straight for the bath.

What a ham!

Cash and the Wailers! (2-7-11)

Today was a fantastic day at Grandma's house. Uncle Tim and Aunt Heather came over and Uncle Tim brought his guitar! We had thought we would have Cash play the violin along with Tim, but Cash was mesmerized by the guitar and wouldn't give it up. Tim was gracious enough to let Cash play with it for a while.

Finally Cash played a while on the violin. Baby Ryan was supposed to accompany on the piano but he had to take a nap.

Baby and Grandma getting some outside time. Ryan is always watching his big brother!

Cash practiced hitting balls and one he hit so hard it went over the roof!