TALKING NON STOP

 The lady in charge at Chick-fil-a asked me the other day if my boys talk much at home, since they are so quiet when we go there. My answer was YES! They talk NON STOP at home.

IAN - "I love my Family" as he gave me a kiss on the cheek
Me - "who is your family"
Ian - "Daddy, Levi and you mommy"


While we were sitting at the dinner table, eating, Ian looked out the kitchen window and saw our cat.

Ian - "Look Kaden is eating himself, that's funny"   (Kaden was licking his paws)

Me - "did you have a good nap?"
Levi - "YEP"

Levi - after he hit the ball off of the tee "YA BABY!"

Ian - "Daddy, how is your day going at work?"  Ian usually calls Matt several times a day to ask him this question.
Matt - "????"  I'm not sure what his answer always is...but I know it put a smile on Ian's face!




We decided to have Ian's speech evaluated last Friday.  Although, he does have a hard time getting all of his sounds correct when saying certain words like scissors, helicopter, and yet. They believe that with time he will correct it on his own. They were impressed with his vocabulary and said they we could have him evaluated again after he turns four if we feel like it is needed.

Friday Night Fun!

 

No, we do not have dirt bikes (at least not yet, I think after tonight Matt will be looking into getting one!)
We meet up with some guys that work for Matt and they let him take the boys for rides. They had a blast! It was hard to tell who was enjoying it more..the boys or Matt!!

Brothers...buddies...best friends!

LEVI

Riding a bike!

Sitting with Diesel

Smiley face french fry! YUMMY!

Running!

FREEZING in the changing room after his swim lesson.

Sitting with the Chick-fil-a cow!

He is getting ready to take his painted cars to the car wash (also known as the bath tub!)

IAN

Painting at Mimi's house!

Helping Mimi at the office!

I forget what this face was for...but it is cute!

Smiley face french fry anyone?

Blowing bubbles on the front porch

Playing at his cousins birthday party

He loved his swim lessons last week!

Finally, he is not scared to sit on the cows lap...though..he still doesn't look that thrilled about it!

Painting some cars...before he takes them in the bath tub (also known as the car wash)

What have we been up too?

• The boys and I traveled to PA for a week to celebrate my nephew's first birthday
• Slowly working on the inside of our house
• A lot of "RHM" 
• Working out - depending on the day - P90X, Insanity, or Walking and 30 Day Shred
• Swim lessions
• Changing from winter clothes to summer clothes every other day!
• Watching the last season of 24 on DVD's
• Planning our vacation/ 10 year anniversary!

My BIG HELPERS

Ian & Levi are really into helping me around the house.  Though, it may take me a little longer to get the choirs done, I love...that they love helping me..so even if it does take longer I'm going to take advantage of all of their HELP!

LAUNDRY

We head to my bedroom and pull out the laundry basket.  Ian & Levi push the basket down the hall and into the bathroom where our washer and dryer are located. They help me through the dirty clothes into the washer, I add the detergent, turn the knob to the correct cycle and then depending on who's turn it is Ian or Levi will pull out the button to turn it on! Once the clothes are washed, I pull the clean clothes out of the washer and they throw them into the dryer, they add a dryer sheet and push in the button to turn it on.  When they hear the buzzer go off - they know it is time to get the clothes out of the dryer and help me carry it all to the couch.  After I have all of the laundry folded (and refolded if the boys happen to knock over a pile)...Ian helps me carry the folded stacks back to our rooms! He even puts his clothes away all by himself!

CLEANING WINDOW

Ian & Levi each get their own paper towel and once I spray the windows they go to work wiping off the "BLUE" water!

VACUUMING

When I tell them it is time to vacuum...Ian opens the door to the closet, so that I can get the vacuum out.  Then they go into the den and pick up their toys off of the floor!  They help me unwind the cord so that I can plug it in and then fight over who gets to turn it on!!  Then they run around in front of me laughing and asking me to get their toes!  After the floor is all clean...Ian rushes over to help me dump out the dirt filled basket, helps me wind the cord back up and then opens the door to the closet again to help me put it away!

SWEEPING

"DO NOT STEP IN THE DIRT PILE" - I'm sure that is one thing the boys will remember me saying.  It doesn't matter what the boys are doing, what they are playing with or what they are watching, it seems like as soon as I get a pile of dirt swept together....they decide that it is time to run through the kitchen!  Once I get it all the dirt piled together again..Ian likes to hold the dust pan to help me clean it up!

TRASH
They each grab a trash can out of the bathrooms and dump them into the large trash can in the kitchen.

PACKING DADDY'S LUNCH

Every evening, Ian grabs Matt's lunch box and together the boys add all of Matt's lunch for the next day!

 Then Ian puts the lunch pail in the refrigerator!

I LOVE MY BIG HELPERS!!