Blogging via iPhone

I just downloaded the blogpress iPhone app in hopes that it will allow me to keep up with my blog better. It may not be fancy and may be full of typos but it's better than nothing.

There has been an Hand foot mouth epidemic in Logans class at school. He is one of two boys that haven't gotten it. I'm scared he is going to come down with it though. He's been "off" all day today. I saw him on the daycare webcam just laying around most of the day. He's been laying around most of the evening too. It's made for some nice cuddle time though. He's usually so active and won't sit still long enough to cuddle. I hope he doesn't come down with anything.

Brenden gave me some good cuddle time too. If you have an iPhone you should definitely get the sock puppet app. It is hilarious . It let's you make a little puppet show and it changes your voice to a silly puppet voice. It had me in tears laughing so hard and so was Brenden. It made his voice sound like he inhaled helium. So much fun!

Hopefully the blog app will make it easy to do quick little updates as this blog is really more of an online baby journal for me. 3 months from now I wont remember my silly night making puppet shows with my little buddy.











- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Fun and full of LIFE!

I love this kid!! He lights up my life every day. He is so full of life and silliness and wonder and enthusiasm. Sure he's got his typical 3 yr old moments (a-hem ...whining!) but most of the time he is all smiles and silliness and the best little 3 year old friend a mama could have. I'm so lucky :)

We went to Montana a few weeks ago to visit Sean's family. We took the kids to the park early one morning and saw there was a splash park there. We didn't have a swimsuit so we just let Brenden run through the water in his underwear. He had a BLAST. I took so many photos and I couldn't pick any just one as my favorite because they all show a different silly emotion or expression on his face. He was laughing and squealing the whole time he played. He used to be so afraid of water and loud things (like splash pads) and now he's so brave and silly.

He's still surprises me by how smart he is. He's sounding out small words in his books now and he screams and cheers when he figures the word out. I need to get him a few early reader books just to continue to work with him on his reading. One day he says to me "banana.. b.. a...n... a...n...a" and I said where did you learn to spell banana? he says calmly "word world" -- who says TV is bad for kids?! lol. Between LeapFrog, Your baby can read, and Word world - Brenden has this whole reading/phonics/letters thing figured out. His teachers at school say they have to instruct him to wait until he's called on or else he'll answer all of the questions and not give any of the other kids a chance. They were saying this as a compliment, of course.

He loves to play with my iPhone, and frankly can navigate around on it just as well, if not better than I can. He's still a picky eater and pushes boundaries like any preschooler would. He likes to ride his tricycle, play baseball, kick soccer balls, play in the sand box, and of course reinact scenes from "Splashing" (Wipeout).

Logan is doing great and is also getting big and smart just like his brother. His teachers say he's their junior teacher. He tells the teachers what to do, he tells the kids what to do, he tells me what to do lol. Today I was trying to take a picture of Brenden in his pool and I stood on a chair to try to get an overhead shot and I was quickly told by Logan "mama! get down! no stand chair!" We went to a Wiggles concert a few weeks ago. My boys L-O-V-E the Wiggles. It was a 20th anniversary for them and they had this cake prop that had whipped cream on top. Throughout the show Anthony would get hit (in silly ways) by the cake in the face. EVERY time, Logan would BAWL and cry. The first time I had no clue why he was suddenly crying but then he kept saying "Anthony's NOSE! Anthony's NOSE... Whaaaaaaaaaa" It was so sad and pitiful and HILARIOUS. To this day he goes around telling people how Captain hit Anthony's nose with a white cake. But now he says its silly because we had to have a LONG talk with him about how Anthony's nose was not hurt, and the cake was silly and he could laugh instead of cry about it. Its funny because when my brother Joe was little, he too would cry if he saw someone get hit in the face with a cream pie. It lead to a very strange phobia of cream pies. It was always something we thought was just a funny Joe thing, and here is my Logan having the same reaction to seeing a cream pie face. :)

Happy Birthday Gramma!

Zoo, Kitty, and baby birds!

We've had a lot going on with animals around our house lately. The first animal adventure came almost 2 weeks ago when our 3 month old baby Rockie ran off the deck and went venturing in the bushes and came back with a bleeding eye. I took her to the emergency vet and turns out she is a HE (whoops) and they determined the cause of bleeding to be a copperhead snake bite. Copperheads are pretty regular in this area. They are not aggressive unless provoked but you can imagine a curious little kitten would definitely provoke a snake. A lot of vet bills later Rockie is making a great recovery. Its likely her vision will be partially if not fully lost in that eye but we have to give it time to heal to know for sure. He's a trooper, you would never know anything was wrong with him (as he is on the computer desk now attacking everything he can find to play with).

Every year we ALWAYS get birds building a nest in the corner of the front porch covering. We try hard to prevent it (because you can see the mess behind the birds that it makes) but its inevitable, the birds LOVE this spot. Yesterday I happened to notice 3 baby birds staring me down and decided to take advantage of the opportunity to photo shoot a few baby birds at close range. Its hard to tell here but there is a 3rd bird behind the two in front. I'm glad I took the photo yesterday as today they are gone.

Then we ventured out to the Asheboro Zoo. I love this place. Its so cheap considering how large of a zoo it is. You can pack your own lunch and make a day of it. This year Brenden was REALLY into all of the animals. Logan was definitely engaged too but Brenden had a BLAST.

Here they are posing on an armadillo statue. We asked Brenden if he could hold onto Logan, so he grabbed him by his head... and Logan still attempts to smile for the camera. Love those silly boys! 

Here is Brenden posing on the elephant statue. He was more interested in this than the real live elephants :)

They had a few of these little mist blowers throughout the zoo. I love how Brenden is so interested in the big kids and being like them.

Logan passed out right around his usual nap time and got a good long nap in the stroller. He was in love with that juice bottle and wouldn't let us take it away from him. He wasn't drinking it, he just had to hold it.

This polar bear was the life of the party! This adorable creature would jump up and splash in his pool.. swim front and backwards, would toss his ball in the air and catch it. Brenden would just ooooh and aaaaah and clap his hands and say that polar bear is 'weally coowl!'

It was a fun zoo day but it was HOT. We came home and it was actually cooler at our house (the zoo is usually cooler because its further away from the city). The kids enjoyed getting some play time outside.

And of course to all of the dad's out there Happy Father's Day!!!

Not a whole lot to update on the boys since last time. Brenden is learning so many things. He likes to say words and figure out what letters they start with. I like how he initiates these things all on his own. He'll say mmmmmm-milk... milk starts with m? and I tell him yes and he gets so excited. He continues to make us laugh with his silly 3 yr old thinking. Yesterday he heard a song on his dvd about counting from 1 to 10 and he said "1 to 10... that's silly, its 1 2 3 not 1 2 10!" Lol.

I had a parent/ teacher meeting with Logan's teacher and she was bragging on how smart he was and how he was picking up language way above his age level. She said he was drawing on a magnedoodle and the shape looked like a crescent and he took it to the teacher and said "nana" (banana) she said that was really higher thinking than most 1 yr olds can comprehend.. drawing abstract objects and associating them with 3-D objects. He still loves to eat. I was told today during lunch he ate all of his pizza and then started scavenging off of his classmates plates.

They are getting so big, so fast. Its impossible to believe that Logan will be 2 soon. Didn't he just turn 1? Gosh I wish I could slow this whole childhood thing down!

Lovin' my iphone

 I love using the photoshop, instagram, hipstamatic and camera + apps on iphone. It makes it easy for taking photographs anywhere I go. I will try to make it a habit to do a little iphone photo dump since its so easy!

All about Logan

I figured I spent close to 2 years letting Brenden be the star of my blog before Logan came along and since then Logan has always co-starred with Brenden in my blog. Today I decided to just do a photo tribute to Logan.

Logan is so different from Brenden. He is tough and wild and 100% boy. He's not into hugging and cuddling unless he's sick or really tired. He is the kind of kid that will scrape his knees and keep on playing without a single tear. He loves to destroy things, make messes, get into mischief, and to be really loud. He does the exact opposite of everything you ask of him and thinks its funny. He's very energetic and happy (unless he's not getting his own way). He loves to eat, ride on his daddy's shoulders, play in his pool, play with kitty, and LOVES to swing.

Here he is shoving a stick in his mouth (and laughing) after I specifically told him not to.

He's got this awesome curly hair that he strokes when he's sleepy like its his security blanket.

"Logan, don't put that chalk in your mouth!"

A rare moment of niceness with the kitty before he picks her up by her paw/fur/tail...

Why is there never any sand in the sandbox???

He loves doing silly things, hearing silly noises.. anything "sthilly" as he calls it.

A classic "silly" face.

Love my Logie!

Rockie

After a lot of tought, we decided it was time to get the kids a pet... well and maybe *I* wanted a pet too! I decided on a cat since the boys are still very young and take up so much of my time.  I thought a puppy would be more responsibility than I could take on. I asked Brenden what he wanted to name the kitty and he said "rock" so we settled on Rockie instead. According to Brenden, her full name is "Kitty Rockie Pray." The boys love her, but I'm having a tough time teaching Logan to be gentle to the kitty. He likes to pick her up by her fur and then gets mad when she bites. He says "Kitty, NOT NICE!"

Here is a picture from Brenden's collection of Easter eggs from the church hunt.

The boys are really into playing out in the front yard every day after school and all weekend long. They like to ride in their toy cars and tricycles. They love to explore the yard, collect flowers and sticks, and go on long walks in their wagon.

We went to the NC transportation museum and took a few pictures of the kids posing in one of those silly billboard things.

Brenden is such a great kid. Yesterday he got a smiley face at school because he said thank you all day long. Glad some of the manners we are teaching him are sticking. He's crazy about my iphone. He likes to play the coloring apps and immedciately wants to take it from me when he sees it in my hands.

Logan is just a silly little boy. He's such a great talker and says the funniest things all of the time. He continues to eat us out of house and home. He'll finish his dinner and look to Sean and I and say "bite, bite!" wanting to eat our food too. Its so funny to have one son who hates to eat and one who we have to hide the food from lol. Just shows that some kids are just born picky eaters.