OUTDOOR PLAY

I LOVE my little guy so much!!! He is a blast to be around.

TERISSA

Nathan & Brooke's niece is staying with us for a few weeks. We have been enjoying every second of it. Today they decided to put on a show. I got the camera and got a shot of the girls singing twinkle twinkle little star. I just love how they have their little hands. We will miss her greatly when she goes.

THE KITCHEN

Well, we finally decided to re-do, the no good, terrible, disgusting, ugly, &**@@%**, floors (can you tell how I felt about them)! So being the intelligent person, I decided that we should paint our kitchen cabinets also. Get two things done at once, right??? Wrong! Never do two huge projects at the same time. Our house was a disaster. Not that it is always "clean" , but let me just say disaster one more time. We decided to hire out both grandmas to help us get some kind of control. My mom, came to paint (brooke helped also), and Aaron's mom watched the kids. It took us about two weeks, but we are pretty much done.

What did you find in your nose today???

I was wondering if IT was going to happen. Nathan never did IT, and Brooke is already two, so I thought we were way past IT. What is IT you might ask??? IT is sticking something up your nose that does not belong there! So here is the story...
My mom and I went to a friends open house today. There were no children allowed, so I brought playdough for them to use while they waited in the car. My mom and I took turns going in, while the other waited in the car with the kiddos. Both of them did great! When we were driving home I noticed something bright orange hanging out of Brooke's nose. I told her to take the playdough out of her nose. "I did" she replies. So I left it alone. When we got home I pulled some of it out only to find more of it stuck WAY up there. Come on, why oh why would you want to stick playdough that far up your nose??? To wrap it up, after much picking, poking and pulling I got most of it out (not all). And we had a long talk, about 30 seconds (remember she is two) about why we don't stick "stuff" up our noses.

MY FUNNY 2 YEAR OLD

Oh the things that come out of my precious two year olds mouth... I could write a book with them. Today we picked Aaron up for lunch and she kept telling me she wanted to go on the alligator. I am pretty good at "Brooke" translating, but what in the world is an alligator? It turns out it was the elevator (duh) LOL.
She is doing her poops in the potty now (sorry if this is to much information), every time she gets off she tells me what her poop is. Today she said she pooped santa clause. Nathan even had to come look at this one. To my surprise he agreed with her! While all of this two year old chatter is going on, I also have many 4 year old happenings also. Today at Target Nathan fell in the middle of the aisle, and yelled "mom I hurt my balls". Yep, right there in front of everyone. What can you do but laugh in a situation like that :)
That's it for now, I AM going to be posting more every week.

OUTSIDE PLAY

Playing outside is one of our favorite things to do during the day. We try to get outside in the morning for a walk, which usually ends up with some one scrapping a knee and several bugs picked up along the way. We also really enjoy playing in the back yard. Brooke has recently gotten her first tea set. We took it out with us for a trial run. As you can see in the pictures, Brooke is not the only one who enjoyed it! Nathan really enjoyed it as well. He would talk in his best accent and say "gentlemen, would you like some more tea?" I am still not sure why he was calling us gentleman, but it made perfect since to him and Brooke.

Since it was such a nice day we decided to blow up the new pool we bought. It took FOREVER to fill it up with air. By the time we were finished it was dark outside. The kids were so tired of waiting to swim that they jumped in before the water had filled it up! They did however have a blast even with only two inches of water :) You can tell how much they love swimming by the joy on their faces.

It has been a busy, busy, busy week and weekend! My sister and her family are here from Brazil. She has a baby who is one. Her and Brooke have gotten to be really good friends. They are leaving on Tuesday, we will be sad to seem them go. I have taken a lot of pictures this week, I hope to post them tomorrow.
We went to the living desert today. It was HOT! Nathan's favorite animals were the fish, and Brooke's were the frogs (Grammy influenced her vote) lol. We had a great time!
Aaron is on a business to Tulsa this week. He will be back Wednesday night. When I was putting Nathan to bed tonight, he asked me if daddy would be home when we woke up. I know he is really missing him, and so am I!
That's it for now, I hope to post pictures tomorrow.