two guys, two gals, and their parents

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Mason's boobies

Monday night we were finishing up with dinner when Mason stood up on his chair, unzipped his pajamas, exposed his chest, and declared "LOOK AT MY BIG BOOBIES!!!"

Normally when Mason stands up in his chair we firmly ask him to sit down but this time we were to busy laughing hysterically.

Does anyone elses' kids do this kind of thing? or is it just Mason who is crazy?

Crystyne

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Cooper's hair was getting to be over his ears and the back of it was over the collar of his shirt. So I decdided that it was getting too long. I really wanted to wait to give him his first haircut closer to his first birthday, but I didn't want him to look like a poor white trash baby.

I stood him up next to the bath tub and gave him somehting to hold on to. He did really well, he didn't cry or even fuss. Mason really enjoyed watching and helping.

Before

During

After

I know you can't see much of a difference, but there is a slight difference though.

Crystyne

Friday, June 6, 2008

And then there was a first floor...

Wow it is amazing what has been done in the last week! It is beginning to look like a real house! Jeff and I are getting more and more excited the more our house takes shape. Last night we met with our realtor and picked out the exterior colors of the house as well as the inside wall color, and the stain we want on all the trim work inside. The main exterior color is called "clay"(it is a shade of medium tan, the cedar shake color is called "cabin" (it is a dark brown just like a cabin), and the trim work is ivory.

I would like to apoligize for the big smear on all the pictures, there must have been a smuge on the lens of our camera, but you can still see the majority of the picture.

Front of the house

Back of the house

Inside of the garage, I am standing in front of the entry into the house (from the garage of course), when you walk in you are right in the pantry and the door to the half bath in on your left. The kitchen is in the far right corner of the picture, with the informal dinning room to the left of the kitchen, and the family room to the leftt of that.

Looking in at the living room and formal dinning room. The family room is in the far right corner of the picute. You can't see it very well because of that wonderful smuge on the lens.

Living room and formal dinning room again from inside the family room.

I hope you enjoyed the "tour" of the first floor of our home. Was I a good tour guide or what? And I hope you understood the layout of the house (a little) and were able to picture it with walls.
Hopefully we will have walls soon so you don't have to use your imagination as much.

Well untill next week when we will possibly have the second floor to take a tour of.

Crystyne

Friday, May 30, 2008

And then there was a crawl space...

We now have a crawl space! and a big hole in front of the house (hence the big pile of dirt and the caution tape). I looked down in the hole, there were a few wires being run into the crawl space.

Crystyne

Power struggle

I would love to blog every cute little thing Mason and Cooper do but I know this is unrealistic for me, so I figured I would blog once a month to let everyone know what has gone on in our family for that month.

Mason is nearing three years old, and I thought he would be potty trained by now, or at least well on his way. I was so wrong, so far he will just sit on the toilet for a minute or two and then be done. But in the middle of April he did the deed on the toilet for the first time ever, and boy was it a GREAT BIG deed.

April 15, 2008

Mason not only peed but he also pooped in the toilet for the first time! I was so excited! Mason called both his Papas and Grandmas to tell them the great news. I thought that if we made a big deal about it, it would be smooth sailing from then on out. Yeah right! He hasn't wanted anything to do with potty training ever sense.

I don't want to hear from anyone that you think it was nasty that I took a picture of Mason with his first poop. This is a big deal in a child's life (well maybe more so in the parents life) but all the same I wanted Mason to have something to remember this by. And YES I will be scrapbooking this big event in his life.

May 24, 2008

Two "boob toob" watchers, just like their Daddy.

Can you see the resemblance?

May 24, 2008

Cooper is starting to thin out. He is still very chubby, but not nearly as chubby as he was even one month ago. Cooper turned nine months old on May 12th. He had his nine month check up. He weighed 25lbs. So, over the last three months he has only gained 1lb, but has gotten much taller. He is wearing 18-24 month clothes, if I want to put him in some jeans he has to wear 2T. We joke that he is dressed up when he gets to wear jeans because all he can really fit in is loose sweat pants.

May 26, 2008

Cooper began crawling this month. He does sort of an army crawl. He slides across the floor, putting one hand in front of the other while kicking his legs. He can get pretty far and fast this way. Cooper has not crawled anywhere on his hands and knees yet, but is beginning to get his knees under himself. Cooper also started pulling himself up to a standing position (with the help of furniture of course). It is just so crazy how quickly they grow.

May 26, 2008

May 28, 2008
Mason and Cooper in their matching "digging jamies" as Mason calls them. (The pajamas have bulldozers and backhoes on them)

May 29, 2008
Last night Jeff was out playing racket ball with a friend of ours. It was Mason's bed time and like he sometimes does, he was testing me. I put him in bed and he decided he did not want to stay in bed. After the second or third time getting out of bed I told him that if he got out of bed again I was going to put him back in bed and shut his door. So like the curious little boy that he is, he got out of bed again, so I keep good on my promise and I put him in his bed and shut his door. Of course he immediately began crying, ran to his door, opened it, and ran into the living room. I again took him back to bed and shut his door. This time about five minutes passed when I realized it was quiet in the house. I walked to the hallway and this is what I found.

I guess he just wanted his door open...
I wonder what he was thinking as he laid down in his door way. Probably "I'll show her" or "look who's going to win this power struggle" I guess we will never know, but it was pretty funny.

I hope you have enjoyed seeing how much our boys are growing! I know I do.
Until next month I hope everyone is doing well and have a great June.

Of course I will be posting pictures of the progress of the construction of our house every week for everyone to see. (if we make it up to Five Mile to take a picture)

Sunday, May 25, 2008

A sure foundation

MAY 24, 2008

This week construction began on our new house. As you can see from these pictures the suport walls took shape. Our house will not have a basement, but instead will have a crawl space. From what we understand there is a water table under Five Mile Praire. The county will not allow builders to dig down within so many feet of the water table.