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Thursday, April 30, 2009

New Stroller

I finally took the plunge, and after MUCH consideration and research, decided on the Joovy Caboose Ultralight in sage green. My lovely friend Shannon reassures me that it's not a drab olivey sage, but a nice light bright green...but also NOT neon! Here's the link to the Joovy website if you want to look at the one we chose. It's the sage, and if you click on the "sage" picture on the bottom of the page, it'll show it to you from all different angles. Here's the link: http://www.joovy.com/pages/pd_cabooseultralight.php

I'm hoping we'll like it, and the color, and everything. I'm also hoping it will get here before we leave on our trip...if we get to go on our trip...sigh...stupid Air Force people, with too many jobs to do, so we have no clue if we're getting leave approved or not! But hopefully we'll know soon...since we REALLY need to get tickets! Poor AJ is so stressed about it!

Anyway, that's it for now. I'll try to post some pictures soon.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Pictures

OK, these are mostly from before AJ left, but some from this week.

All my boys!

Daddy with his newest addition...he looks like a pro, doncha think??

Hi, Josh!
Arranging his chair and stool exactly right...
...to hold his brother!!
He really does seem to like to hold his Sam...
I really love this picture, it totally melts my heart!!
Yay for brothers!
The past two nights when I go to bed and check on Josh, this is what I've found:
Last night he wasn't even using his pillows, just on the floor on his pony!

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Sam is three weeks old today...

And AJ's been gone for almost a week of that! And we're ALL STILL ALIVE!! Some of us are slightly less sane than is usual, but at least he's going to come home to the same number of people/dogs that he left! It's been a closer call than I had thought it'd be...mostly b/c of Sam deciding that night time is for screaming/fussing, not for sleeping, and since I can't just sleep when he sleeps during the day, b/c of Josh, I have been experiencing the sleep deprivation issue that's normal with new babies, but it's a new experience...Josh was a really good sleeper and really good at going to sleep on his own, not needing me to hold him. Sam wants to be held or cuddled up next to someone in bed to sleep...not so bad if you're not also chasing a two year old boy!

Anyway, enough whining...but if anyone has any advice as to how to get Sam to sleep in his bed without me standing over it, holding his binky with one hand and rocking the cradle with the other, PLEASE post your suggestion or email it!!

OK, so I'm gonna post pix soon...hopefully today. Maybe right now, as soon as I get clothes for Josh, and breakfast for us, and then I need to feed Sam...sigh...it just never seems to end...

OK, so that's all for now...just thought I'd whine a little...thanks for reading (if you're still with me!).

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Easter Sunday afternoon

OK, these are adorable pix of the boys mostly...my friend took some family ones of us at USC (after church service), but she hasn't sent them my way yet. So these are pretty much only the boys. Just so ya know.

Josh and Sam in their Easter outfits...I really love this one, even though you can't see either of their faces! Just love the pose...
Josh telling Sam to "SHHHH!"...he does this frequently when Sam cries!
Cheese!! Bribing a two year old with treats to smile for some pics with his baby brother seems to work for us!
Sweet big brother
Taking care of his Sam
Sam in Josh's Bunny ears...I couldn't resist!

More Sam in a basket pix
The table with our Easter dinner...notice Josh's plate is Easter bunnies, and his cup is an Easter egg (from his Easter party at Anne-Marie's house).
Pretty table
Josh waiting for us to be ready so he could eat!

And one of Josh at Sydney's house that I forgot to put on the last post...it was too cute to leave out. He'd started running towards the pond and got almost all the way there before we noticed...I don't THINK he'd have actually gone in the water, but we caught him, and this is him running back to us! SO CUTE! He looks so BOY in this picture! I love it...and him!!

OK, that's all for now. Gotta run, I hear Sam squeaking from upstairs...plus it's past my bedtime!

Easter Morning

OK, again, sooo many cute pix, so I decided to split Sunday up into two separate posts, as well. So here's the morning.

I actually got both boys up and dressed and fed before we did Easter baskets...yay! Made for cute pics, anyway.

Sam in the outfit that we actually gave to Cousin Josiah before he was born, so it's a hand-me-down, but just barely...I think he only got to wear it maybe once or twice? Not too sure, but I'm so happy we had it, b/c it looked so cute for his Easter morning outfit! Thanks, Missy, for letting us have/borrow summery clothes!
Josh posing with the Easter loot...I think I'd asked him where Daddy was, so he pointed at the camera...
Oh, you just want me to smile? Why didn't you say so??
Sleepy Sam, with his Easter stuff...he still has no clue it exists, of course, but I couldn't leave him out!
Josh pointing out Charlie Brown, Linus, and Snoopy on the front of the Easter Beagle movie he received from us. He LOVES it!! And he knows most of the characters' names now!
Yes, he had to have a Snoopy Easter card, too...so obsessed! He liked this, though...obviously!
This was from Aunt Missy, Uncle Nate, and Cousin Josiah...thanks!!
The slinky from Great Mamaw...wow, does he love playing with that thing!!
The ears were also from Great Mamaw...we had fun with those! And by we, I mean Mommy and the camera!
Josh giving Gus his Easter present
carrying around the bag.
I put Sam in a big basket I had, and he looked sooo cute!!

Happy Sam...
...either mad or yawning Sam...it's hard to tell the difference sometimes in pictures!
Yes, Josh wore his goggles (came with his leaf blower toy) to hunt eggs with Sydney...too funny!
The goggles ended up around his neck most of the time...examining an egg for its contents. Josh and Sydney only wanted to pick up the plastic eggs, b/c they knew there were treats in them...refused to pick up the hard boiled kind!
Cute kids, hunting eggs
adorable!
I love it...they both would walk past 20 eggs for one that they'd spotted and have no clue they'd missed any!
We had some time to sit and visit after the eggs were all found. Josh wanted to hold his brother...
Sheree refereeing the Sam holding
Josh didn't want to hold Sam till he noticed Sydney holding him...Sydney's practicing for her baby sister's arrival this summer, and she's pretty good! Hopefully she likes her sister as much as she likes Sam!
Play time!
Sam's awake! Look at those little toes!!
Stay tuned for lunch through time for church that evening.

Monday, April 13, 2009

Easter: Part 1

Also known as the day before Easter...
These loaded backwards, b/c I was nursing Sam when I loaded them on here, and didn't pay attention to the putting them in the other way part...so you'll just have to deal, b/c I'm not rearranging them!!

OK, here's Daddy holding a Sam and dyeing eggs at the same time...how talented is he??
Josh being silly while waiting on an egg to come out
Mommy and Josh concentrating on the very serious business of dyeing the eggs. Actually, I think I was peeling stickers off the sheet for him to stick on his egg...he did so, then promptly peeled them back off!
Josh NOT looking at nor smiling for the camera...he was refusing to have his picture taken! He's getting more "two" by the day!!
Coloring an egg...that's a crayon in his hand...this was at the beginning of the egg dyeing process before he got too grumpy.
Smiling for the camera...again, before he got grumpy.
OK, we need some explanation before the next set of pix. Sat. morning our community had an Easter fling at the park with food, a bouncy castle, the Easter bunny, and egg hunts set up for different age groups. Josh was SOO excited to hunt eggs! He did really well, too, even shared some of his eggs with Sydney, who was there, but decided she HAD to go potty right as the hunt started, and then when she came back and there were no more eggs, she was pretty upset, of course. So Josh shared...and I really mean he handed her eggs, not that we took them out of the basket for him! He's such a nice generous little boy!
Anyway, as I said, the Easter Bunny was there, and it was at the park, so there was a lot of playing and stuff, plus pix with the EB. Josh had SOOO much fun! Sam did really well, too...and was greatly admired while he was there!
Afterwards, we decided to stop at Sonic for some lunch, while I fed Sam in the car, and then headed to Target, Cost Plus World Market, and Petsmart. We had fun there, too!! Although, World Market's not where I would want to take a two year old boy by myself EVER!! There was an incident of some broken glass bottles of some exotic kind of Japanese drink, but for a miracle, it wasn't the fault of any of our group!!
Anyway, after we got home, it was so late, and Josh was so wired, we decided to just let him stay up and play, but AJ fell asleep on the couch and Sam fell asleep in his swing (for the first time! He doesn't yet love the swing...), and so there are pix of everyone but me sleeping (though Josh isn't really asleep, just resting on his blankets...). Anyway that evening after dinner is when we dyed eggs. It was a good, but very long and full day!!

So, the dog napping...no this is NOT his pillow, just happened to be on the floor, and he took the opportunity to sleep on it. It was too funny!
Josh resting on the stairs. He brought out his nite nite, and lay down...then he popped back up, said, "I need music," and pulled out his octopus out and pulled it so it was playing its music, and lay back down. So cute!
Sam sleeping
Daddy sleeping
Sam and the Easter Bunny!

Josh loved the Easter Bunny! He was following him all morning! He went and held his hands (paws???) and jumped with him at one point...VERY CUTE! He loved everything about this holiday, I must say!
There's a smile!

OK, there was this little green patch of grass, and I thought maybe we could get a couple of cute shots of the boys, so we tried...here are a couple of results...Josh NOT smiling...
Josh NOT smiling again...but holding an egg.
Look at my eggs!
"Hunting" eggs...this was for the twos and under...not too difficult, no hidden eggs, just scattered over the grass.
Waiting to go pick up eggs...he didn't want to wait!
OK, so that was Saturday...I'll post Easter pics next. There were too many to do all in one post...at least for my patience, and probably everyone else's, too!