Park Day

I went to the park today with some people in our ward. It was a lot of fun. The only thing that is hard is that I worry about Ethan up on the toys. I worry that he will just happen to fall over right by the edge and fall off. You have to understand that he just randomly falls over. One time he was just sitting there on the ground and just fell over. It was really funny. How do you fall over when you are already sitting? Leave it to Ethan. But anyways, so I worry about that when he is up on the toys. Luckily nothing has ever happened but today he did have a little spill. He was sitting on the bench right next to me and fell backwards. It scared me so I screamed a little bit and that got everybody's attention. Fortunately I was able to catch him before he hit his head. He started crying anyways though because it scared him. He immediately wanted his blanket but I told him that we didn't have it but I could hold him. Then he started calling for "Daddy!" It was cute. Everybody got a kick out of that.

Then there's Bradley. This ward has tons of girls in it. I think there are like two boys his age and like at least 6, if not more, girls his age and tons a little bit younger and older. So, at the park today he was up on the slide sitting next to this little girl, Emily. Her mom noticed that they were up there just laughing and laughing. So I watched them for a minute and then realized that Bradley was shoveling sand in is mouth to make little Emily laugh. I guess he learned the joy of being the source of a little girls laughter. I went up to him and asked him what he was doing and he said, "Me eating sand!" I told him not to because it was yucky and he said, "Me funny!" It was cute and very funny.

Wonderful Boys

It can definitely be very challenging raising these two boys but there are times that it is just so nice. Today Ethan was very tired and just crying a lot so I went in to lay him down for a nap. His bedtime routine is to rock him in the rocking chair and sing a couple songs to him and then lay him down with his two blankets. So, I went in there and rocked him and sang to him. I decided to sing him more songs than I normally do because he was super tired and I figured he would fall asleep in my arms, which I find very cute :). I was in there singing to him and when Bradley is still up a lot of times he will come in and sit on the ottoman and help me sing to him. He did that today. While we were singing Ethan fell asleep. I turned the chair towards Bradley and Bradley's face lit up and he whispered, "AH, Ethan sleeping." It was sweet. So, I went and laid Ethan down on his bed and Bradley crawled up there and gave Ethan a bunch of kisses and whispered, "Night, night Ethan" and Ethan just rolled over and fell back to sleep. They are so sweet. It is so nice when they are sweet to each other like that. It makes it all worth it. I love my boys!

(Old pic but still very cute!)

Presidents Day

Kyle had today off so we decided to go up to Flagstaff to play in the snow. It was so much fun. We don't really have snow clothes and thought it would be a waist of money to buy some (even though we did spend like 2 hours searching for gloves for the kids and never found any, that would have been worth it) so we did what I did as a kid, garbage bags on our feet and try not to fall.

Bradley and his garbage bags. (by the way you may feel totally stupid but it totally works, at least until they start ripping.)

Ethan

Bradley, Kyle and Ethan at the beginning when we are all dry.

Ethan, Me and Bradley.

Kyle brought our boogy board just incase we couldn't find a sled to buy luckily because we couldn't. It was a lot of fun. I never went down our steep steep hill but the Bradley and Kyle sure had a lot of fun. It was fun to watch.

Bradley would go down and then climb up the hill (which was actually very small) all by himself and Kyle would come down and bring the boogy board back up for him then send him down again. Bradley had so much fun. I was a little nervous because last season he did not like the snow at all. But he really liked it this time. We told him that he could eat the snow and he just got a kick out of that. He would climb a little up the hill then stop and stick some snow in his mouth then continue climbing. It was cute.

Ethan didn't do as well as Bradley. He did do better than Bradley last year but he still ended up sitting on my lap most of the time because Kyle sent him down by himself and he ended up falling in the snow face first. He didn't like that so much. He did end up trying it again and liked it but then at the very end when we were walking back to our car Kyle was pulling to boys on the boogy board it tipped and Bradley and Ethan both fell in the snow face first with Bradley on top of Ethan consequently Kyle ended up holding both the boys the rest of the way while I held the boogy board.

Bradley did so good holding on to Ethan after he fell. We had a lot of fun.

Happy Valentines Day

Kyle and I went out the day before Valentines Day. It was so much fun. Kyle planned it and suprised me. It was so nice. He just had me arrange babysitting with Michelle. We went to Farellis Cinema Supper Club. It was really neat. It is a resturant and a movie theater combined. They served us all our meals and then started the movie. We watched P.S. I Love You. It was different than what we normally do. I liked it.

Breathing Treatments!

First Kyle had bronchitis then the boys both had really bad coughs (mainly Ethan) and they had to do breathing treatments. It was terrible. Ethan did okay at first but then he really had a hard time with it. He would just sit there and cry and we would try to hold it in front of his nose and mouth. I felt really bad for him. He had to do it twice a day. Bradley only had to do it once a day. He did great. He would just sit there and hold it.

Super Bowl

Ryan, Kyle's brother, invited us over to his house to watch the Super Bowl but all of us were sick so instead Kyle decided to make a bunch of yummy food and watch it with his boys (and me :) ). It was a lot of fun. The boys had a ton of fun. We basically ate and then played with the boys on the floor with the game going in the background.

Look at how happy they look (Kyle included:) )

All the yummy food.