yoooooo hoo

Hello?!?! Anyone there?!?!
I have been so bad about blogging I feel
guilty even stalking my normal bloggy haunts.

So I better get back to it.

updates.

Chris is skinny.

Seriously skinny.

He'll weigh less than me soon.

He makes me happy (despite my previous statement).

He plays basketball everyday of the week.

He watches the worst TV shows that put me right to sleep.

"Ancient Aliens", anyone?

He works really hard so he can take good care of us.

I'm lucky he's mine.

The kids are lucky he's their's.

Love, love, love.

Appreciate, appreciate, appreciate.

I took my first sewing class with my new sewing machine,

had my first mammogram (super fun!) and

have read these

Books (I go on kicks).

You should read them all.

(The Hunger Games trilogy, The Millenium Trilogy

and the Sookie Stackhouse series)

Will is obsessed with jeans...everyday or

there is a complete meltdown.
He got dropped off at a school friend's house

to play for the first time.

He's in love (really) with his swim teacher, Hailee.

He makes HUGE piles of everything he can find

for example...

and makes up names for what they are

(like "mom, look! I made a dimmin schnammin shnitzin").

They're a parents worst nightmare of a fort.

And awesome to clean up.
Charlie is getting long and skinny.

He is in that lovely phase where he spends

3/4 of his day screaming "anhhhh, anhh"

and pointing until he gets what he wants.

Talk already.

He's still obsessed with his (now filthy despite the wash)

stuffed animals and his binky.

He's super serious about eating.

He prefers cookies and candy.

He understands that time outs are not cool.

He likes to sword fight with his brother

and climb like a monkey.

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone!

xoxoxo.

wwf style.

monkey

monkey see.

monkey do.

There's a little goomba at our house

who loves to copy, copy, copy his cool big bro.

costumes recommended

before and after

Pretty happy with his tent pole as a sword

held in place by his belt loop

and

the letter t (that is supposed to be part of

Charlie's initials on his door)

that happens to have a loop-de-loop at the end

(tucked into the cuff of his sleeve to

hide the cross on the t)

as his hook.

The real dang deal.

This was the theme of our Christmas

(and now our life).

He put the costume on Christmas morning

and never took it off.

If there was only some way to know which

ONE

of the millions of presents is the one they

will actually use and we could buy just that.

I could have spent $23 on this getup

and bought myself a new wardrobe.

Yes, he has a pillow between his legs,

a piece of the rug gripper thing as his blanket,

his sword in hand

and his cape (which his Noni made)hood on.

We woke him up to see if he wanted to change

or go to bed and it was an adamant no.

But at 2 am he got too hot.

stop growing, please.

somber sisters saddle up with Santa

We got to the Santa line EARLY

and he was already there.

They had him all to themselves

for as long as they wanted

and this....

is all the emotion they could muster.

They sat there Just.Like.That for

5 minutes while we jumped around like a bunch

of idiots trying to get them to crack a grin.

They never even turned their hard little heads

in his direction.

He should have brought coal.