Bonk/Big Bed

These two things happened today....

Rocking chair

When Wynn reads in the rocking chair he touches his mouth between each page (mimicking grown ups who lick their fingers to turn the page) and says, "by Mo Willems" no matter who the author is.

First and last day of Kindergarten

"I love my Wynnie"

Wynn is sick so tonight Oly took an avocado skin from dinner to make him a little ship with a sailor and a note saying , "I love my Wynnie."

Sometimes she really surprises us! 

Alternative Trampoline Use

One Of These Things.....

Is not like the other.....

Wynn and I went to Oly's school to help in the library and he plopped right down with the big kids when it was time for a story!

Muddy Buns

Girl Knows How To Turn It On For The Camera

Laughing In The Tub

These two, in the tub.  When they bathe together they're either laughing hysterically, or not-so-secretly trying to down one another.

Woofy!

Wynn: "Woofy! I no take you on walk, I a driver. I gotta go work!"

The kids favorite game to play together is "Dog" where they tie things around each others necks to go on pretend walks and then I yell at them to stop because they're going to strangle each other but they don't listen and have tons of fun. Today Wynn did not have time for it. So they decided to build a hideout instead.

Wynnie says....

"Mama, the chocolate all gone. I miss it."

Floflympia?

Oly has gotten into Harry Potter pretty deep and she keeps making up new stories that she'll write for HP book 8 when she grows up!  Here's one idea that she's hashing out:

Eat The Squash.

Here's a sneaky video I took of Oly, who is refusing to eat a bite of butternut squash.  It's 2 minutes of pure childhood. Not the instagram kind of childhood- where the kid is playing quietly with reclaimed wooden blocks- I mean the real childhood where kids are bratty and ungrateful.

"I Drivin' That Way!"

Papa Scared The Jeezers Outta Me

First Nail Polish

"Oh! I pretty, like Superman!"

Papa's Home!

Spring? Don't want to jinx it!

Read

The Snow Of 2014/15

We're so glad that this snow is over, because this winter had so little snow that was fun. It was a lot of icy rain and when it was snowing, the wind chill was -10 and little kids can't do that. But our very last snowfall was many inches, "warm", fluffy and the absolute best snowman snow that I've ever felt. Kids had a blast:

Winter sown seeds freezing and thawing and freezing and thawing and getting ready to burst open for spring!

This guy refuses to wear mittens in the snow, so I held him down .....stay with me here...... Put mittens on him and then duct taped bread bags over his mittens and forced him into his snow suit so he couldn't get them off. Brilliant! Finally the kid could play outside for a decent amount of time. Cause and effect, he doesn't have that yet. He's cute though.

This is how much it snowed at the top of the driveway by the time I shoveled it down to the bottom.

This is another side to snow days. This picture was taken before ten a.m. And I texted it to Tim with the info, "I just made myself an Irish coffee." 

Tap.

Oly girl was born to tap dance.  Just look:

Oh Gooness.

"Oh Gooness! (Goodness) Wynnie bwoo!"

(He's using little color tablets we use for fun sometimes to color the bath water) 

First Mud Cake In The New House

Garden Planning

Oly's helping with planning the garden. 

Olys Fun Sayl

Kitchen Windowsill

Pretty Hair

(This is from weeks ago, it didn't publish originally)

It takes months to beg her to try a new hairstyle on her, but when I do she always loves it. 

Sick Day

Clean Kids

Beige

Tears

Sobbing first thing in the morning because there's no chocolate cake. 

Now She's Asleep Too

She said she was so hungry and bored there wasn't anything else to do.

Mr No-Nap is sleepy at 4:30

Bawentime's Day 2015

Remember this video??  It's so seared into my memory that I can not say Valentine's with a V any more.  Only B.  We just made 15 valentine's day cards for Oly's Kindergarten class, and I bought 30 bucks worth of summer fruit to cut up (I had to follow their list!) and take to school so the kids can make kababs to dip in yogurt.  Hopefully they can stuff their bellies with healthy fiber before chomping on the candy hearts and chocolate bars.  Fat chance.

Honey

W: "Timmy is Papa Guy."

H: "Right! And what's Mama's name?"

W: "Honey."

Blog Revamp

Friends and Family, Hello!
If you're die-hard readers you may have noticed that this blog has gotten incredibly lame in the last....6 months or so.  Sheesh, I didn't realize it's been that long.  Tim and I have been talking since before Wynn's birth about how this blog has to change to better fit our family and our needs.  At first it was just because we now had 2 monsters and there wasn't as much time for post planning, post photographing, post writing, and post posting.  But since then it has morphed, for several different reasons.

Having Wynn has been the best.  We love him so much, and as a second baby the love is exactly the same and at the same time completely different from our first baby (that'd be Oly.)  We don't love each person differently, it's more like we've felt different forms of blissful love with each creature that has come into our home.  The way we experience each milestone is different.  I used to stare at -and videotape- Oly building a tower with blocks.  For a very long time.  Watch her stack blocks. That is what I would do.  And now Wynnie is stacking blocks like a champ- and not just that but purposefully building roads through the living room with his blocks and taking his play tools and pretending to saw them apart so they'll make a better road and then driving his cars on them- but I do not stare at him or videotape him.  What he is doing is no less precious and I appreciate it no less, but I know now that staring at him build with blocks will not make time go slower, nor will I soak it in more if I sit and stare.  In fact, if I say, "Wow! Beely! What a great road!" And then go about my business, he'll be just as fulfilled (maybe more?) as Oly was.  I hope that one day, when Wynn reads the blog and notices how many more posts there are of Baby Oly, he will understand that we were way more busy experiencing him than photographing him- and that he's content.

Another reason the blog is lame is because our MacBook broke and we got a new, fancy, touch screen, incredibly cheap computer that is freaking garbage.  I hate it with a passion, it makes blogging much more difficult.  We are working to replace it ASAP.  We have already replaced our cell phones with iPhones and it has already helped getting posts up.

A very recent problem that we've had is the death of my mother.  She passed in early November, as all of you know, and it's a wonderful thing that she is not feeling that horrible pain and exhaustion that she had been living with for so many years.  But since her passing I have realized that when I wrote a post, I was envisioning her as the reader while I wrote.  I know a lot of the people we love read this, and (we're grateful that anyone wants to know about our little family life!) but when I formatted the photos and text, I envisioned her reading it because I knew that she was a knowledgeable reader and was completely entranced by everything the kids did.  That kind of worship will really motivate you to write something clear and/or witty.  So since November, I have repeatedly thought to myself, "I should post all these pictures and write something!  Oh, that reminds me that Mom is gone, she would have loved this so much.....nevermind I'll have another gin."

And so here we are.  With many, many months of pictures to post, and disappointed readers all over the damn continent.  So let me finish this post with a positive statement!

We promise to post many more pictures, but we're going to change the purpose a little.  Before we tried to write a story with each picture, to explain everything so every reader understood where we were, what we were doing, and why it was special etc.  Now our focus will be on documenting our kids for us.  Not posting what was necessarily adorable or photographic- but what we want to make sure to remember forever.  (Like that time when Wynn pooped on the rug and then Josie ate it!)  Yeah, like that.  So if anyone has any questions about anything they see or read, please post in the comments.  Or just scroll and enjoy our blonde monsters.

Thanks everyone, we love you guys so much.
H

Train tracks "Kain Kacks"

Wynn is 2!