Around my Yard

Why hello my beautiful lovely...

ahhh my favorite tree...the thing is huge. I will have to try to get a picture of the whole thing. And it smells wonderful!

I found a couple other things lying around the yard...

Family portrait :)

This particular day when he was drawing us, this was not the first one he made. He drew us all a few times and every time he drew me he would narrate what he was doing.
"Big head for mom," he would say every time he drew me.
"Why do I always have a really big head?" I ask.
"Cuz you do, mom."
Looks like it's time to start the good ole diet again!

16 weeks old

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You know you played good and hard when...

My garden and flowers!

Did I mention our house came with a yard? Chalked full of fun things to find and learn about! A new installment called...
Around My Yard Thursdays!

Some things I found today...

Since I am not super smart when it comes to flowers I might need help. Anyone know the purple flower?

HAPPY EARTH DAY!

These are the days.

Caleb put James to bed and helped him through his nightly routine. A little while later I hear some tinkering noises coming from the room we call Ada's room. At this time the room is filled with all of the stuff belonging to the house and Caleb's grandparents before we moved in. I walk into this room very quietly as to not make my appearance known. I stand there for a good couple minutes watching this little boy in red Lightning McQueen pajamas, sitting on his knees with a small box on the floor in front of him. He carefully pulls out all of the contents of the box examining each item carefully before setting it in a pile along side his folded legs. The pile consists mostly of collector U.S. State spoons and other miscellaneous utensils.

"Finding anything good?" I say standing about two feet away from him.

"Hi!" He says surprised.

"We can't be in here playing with this stuff, it's not ours. You need to go back to bed little mister."

"You read book me?"

"Dad already read you a bunch of books and it's getting late. I will lay with you for a little bit though.

"Thank you mom." He says sweetly.

We jump up into his bed and I try cuddling him and he removes my arm from him since it is getting in the way of lining his four cars up.

I start really looking at him and realize what a cute age he is at. He is such a smart, sweet (most of the time) boy. What a great age.

"James, I want you to stay this size forever. I don't want you to get any bigger... EVER!" Do you really have to get older?" While saying this I feel tears making their way to the corner of my eyes.

"Yes. Get bigger. Get bigger bigger bigger. I want bigger bigger muscles." As he says this he starts to get teary, as if I am saying he can't get bigger.

This makes me more teary. Realizing how, I am sure most moms feel though out their child's childhood, an ever going battle of mom wanting kid to stay little forever and the kid wanting to grow up way to fast.

"No, you will get bigger - really bigger!"

"Oh OK, thanks mom. Play with your hair?"

I unravel my hair out the messy bun that lay rested on the top of my head and roll over with my back facing him. He starts twisting my hair with his fingers. I start blubbering like a flipping baby. To top it off as he plays with my hair, he starts singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. I mean, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

I mean seriously, I can't allow him to get bigger bigger when he is so stinking cute, and does things like this.

These are the days.

I just hope I am lucky enough to be able to say those words through out the rest of my life.

15 weeks old

He has how many?

I am sure there is more, these are just the ones we found :

His birthday is coming up and for all of you who are looking for ideas...I am thinking he is pretty good on cars!

It's so nice to have a yard!

Who likes to play out side? Raise your hand! Oh! ME ME ME ME ME!!!!!

We have been having some super fab weather! This spring has been so mild. Just some random MN trivia: This past March was the first ever in history to not have any snow the whole month!

The things you find

I haven't really talked much about our move. We moved in to the house that Caleb's grandpa lived and his dad grew up. Everything was still in the house when we moved in. We are still

trying to figure out what to do with everything and I think a garage sale is in our near future. Anyways, it is kind of fun to move into a house that is full of stuff, aside from the hassle of cleaning it all, you can find some fun things. Or in my case, some cool things to take pictures of. I took these pics in the basement. I was doing some laundry and the lighting and such caught my eye. I guess that is the eye of a photographer.<- Caleb thinks I am a huge dork for just writing that LOL!

These pictures are straight out of camera, with no editing. It's probably just me, but I thought it kinda looked cool.

stick craft

Last week James and I gathered some sticks from the yard to do a little craft project.

I glued them together to make letters and James did a really good job painting each one.

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windows

We have a lot of windows in our new home and this is how I will often find James.

just a couple pics

Stinker

James didn't know this picture was being taken. I snuck up on him. He found his little stool somewhere in the house, now that he discovered it he uses it a lot to get into all sorts of trouble. He drug his stool into the bathroom and decided he needed to brush his teeth. I don't really like him playing in the water, but seriously, how do you yell at a kid who is brushing his teeth. You don't. You just hope he doesn't make a mess, and continues with a routine of 2-3 times a day.

14 weeks old

Boys

We had a couple cute boys hanging out with us one day last week.
Notice: I am standing smack dab in the center of the TV. That doesn't seem to phase either of them.

The Baby Benny!

It all makes sense.

You find out you are pregnant and you immediately try to imagine what this being, growing inside of you, is going to look like. Is it going to look like me? Oh, he/she will definitely have tons of dark hair and dark eyes. I did. You almost come up with a picture in your head of what they will look like. They are born. Wow, they don't look anything like you imagined. Except for the second, in my case looked EXACTLY like the first at birth. As they grow and you see their faces change a little here and there. It all makes sense. Of course we would make babies that look like this. What else would they look like?