Monkeys

Tuesday mornings the boys and I all head to church for my bible study. This morning I woke up a little late (surprise, surprise) and so I got the boys up so they could eat breakfast as I was drying my hair. Once I walked back into the kitchen, this is what I found...

Yes, Jack crawled out of his highchair and onto Blake's tray. He then proceeded to eat Blake's breakfast off the tray. As soon as I saw this I debated with myself to get him off immediately or run and get the camera. You can see which one I chose. I know it is terrible but I had to get documentation of this little event to show his daddy. Guess who will be strapped into his highchair from now on?

Side note:

Now that Jack is a walker he has moved to the 'walkers' room at church while Blake had to stay behind in the 'crawlers' room. Last Tuesday was the first time for this change and Blake didn't do too well, either did I. Jack, on the other hand, had a blast! Blake cried a good chunk of the time looking for his brother. The same thing happened on Sunday and then again today. The lady told me today that he didn't cry but would get tears in his eyes while looking for Jack. That is almost worse!! Garrett keeps telling me that this is good for him and I agree but had no idea it would be so hard. Come on Blake, start walking soon!!!

Ok, back to the monkeys. When we got back from church today the boys decided they would climb up on the green rocking chair in the living room. They have never done this before. They loved the fact that the chair rocked and they kept trying to get it going. Please excuse my pink breast cancer blanket on the chair, it totally doesn't match but is so warm and cozy (not that I need it right now in this 100+ degree weather).

What is it with the boys putting their faces into soft, plush things?

Jack is diggin' the chair.

Blake is not diggin' his brother sitting on top of him.

Blake is pretty proud of himself.

Once again, putting their faces in a blanket.

Here is the problem with their new climbing skills, they can now more easily reach things they shouldn't touch.

I knew to expect the boys to start climbing one day but I expected to build up to it, I didn't think it would all happen in one day!!

Cabinets, drawers and hampers...oh my!!

Lately the boys are REALLY in to opening every drawer and cabinet in the house. We do have the 'dangerous' cabinets kid-proofed but all others are free reign...so they think.

We have been working really hard on teaching the boys not to get into every cabinet and drawer and have taught them to close them. We can now say "close the cabinet" and they will do it. It is not a reaction we get 100% of the time but they are getting much better. Jack is even starting to put things back before closing the cabinets/drawers. They love that we cheer when they do close the doors so sometimes they will continually open and close them just to hear our reaction.


Jack is totally into socks right now. If you look carefully he has a pair of socks stuck in his mouth. More than once I have had to dig pairs of socks out of the diaper pail because, once again, that is a fun thing to open and close. Yuck!!

Here is Jack with his socks and his completely soaked shirt from his drool. Teeth, please hurry up and come all in!!

Some of you may know that I suffer from a slight case of OCD. So, having my Tupperware cabinet completely destroyed doesn't settle well with me. Here is what it looks like after my little munchkins have been in it. However, this is a very light case of destruction, it is usually much worse than this.

This morning, as I was cleaning up the breakfast dishes, the boys made their way into our room. The closet door was open and they found our hamper. They also LOVE emptying my bathroom drawers. Here is Blake with my pajama shorts around his neck digging for his favorite tube of my face cleaner.

And he found it!

Here is Jack with a handful of my jammies looking at his reflection in the shower door.

Don't let the cute faces disguise the mischief they are up to.

Look at this mess!! Also take note that Blake has now jammed himself between the tub and drawer.

Blake has crawled into our room and realized he has shorts around his neck and wants them off.

Peek-a-boo!!

Jack thinks it looks like fun to wear shorts on his head.

The clothes are now boring and it is on to emptying more drawers.

Jack walked into the bedroom and noticed that the armour door was open so he felt the need to close it.

Blake also felt the need to close the other door.

And now he is praising himself for a job well done.

After I stripped the bed to wash sheets the boys had a blast playing in the sheets and pillows. Here they are each with a remote control. They love to body slam into the sheets and pillows.

As you can imagine I am exhausted at the end of every day chasing these two cute maniacs around. Even though it is so tiring and can be frustrating I love every minute of it!!

Another first haircut

I know I said that when Jack needed a haircut I would take the boys to the lady who cut my hair for the first time, well I lied. Just like Blake, he just needed a little cut in the back and around the ears. When they need a cut all over we will head on over to Miss Gogi.

Once again we borrowed the scissors from Kedra and this time I was the one doing the cutting. Jack was not a happy camper during the process but in the end he looks as cute as ever and like a big boy.


I was looking at the picture on the top of my blog that was taken 1/1/10 and neither boy really had any hair and now here we are 8 months later and both of my babies have had their first haircuts. :( Whey are they growing up so fast?!

Here is a 'before' picture of Jack. It looks a little crazy because the boys were outside playing with their new water table.

He's not quite sure what he is in for.

About to make the first cut.

He was distracted, at first, by the items on the counter.

My baby now looks like a big boy!

A lake and a snake

This past weekend we headed up to Lake Conroe with friends. My in-laws were nice enough to keep the boys for the entire weekend. It was great to just be an adult for a few days but I did miss those handsome boys like crazy. I found the closer we got to Garrett's folk's house on Sunday the more excited and anxious I was getting to see them.

I got up to the lake on Friday morning first, put away all the groceries for the weekend, made myself a chilled beverage and headed out to the pool. I got to lay out and read for a couple of hours before our first guests arrived. The guys played golf and the girls layed out the majority of Friday.

After the babies that were there went to bed on Friday evening, the girls all poured a cocktail and headed out to the pool. Georgia was the first one out the door, screamed and then slammed the door shut. The reason being is because this was sitting right outside the back door on the patio.

Yes, that is a HUGE snake lounging on the patio and napping in Jake's pool float. I am standing in the living room taking this picture. Melissa is practically in tears and I think Seth had to go change his pants. Apparently neither one of these two are fans of snakes...really though, who is?!

Garrett was no where to be found because he was already headed to the garage to get a tool to move and kill the snake. Let me point out that he did not put on any shoes and I was freakin' out that the snake would bite his toes. Here are Garrett and Sam, being the manly men they are, and killing the snake.

Garrett is headed over to the lake to give the snake a burial at sea.

Late Saturday morning the neighbor's kids were outside in their yard and Andy heard them talking about a snake in the water. We thought the snake would sink and the fish would eat it, we were wrong. The snake was floating towards the neighbors boat house. So Garrett fished it out of the water and we were able to look at it closer.

We also measured it and it was 6 feet long! My skin crawls just thinking about this snake. YUCK!!

We did manage to take the boat out on Saturday and I had some fun on the tube. I will say that I jumped off the boat onto the tube and instead of flipping off of it I motioned for Garrett to stop the boat and then he pulled me in. I hadn't quite gotten the image of the snake out of my head and couldn't bring myself to swim with any friends he may have.

Thanks Sam for getting these cool pictures.

Garrett was doing a great job of driving the boat and tossing and turning me all over the place.

I am still sore!

All in all we had a great weekend and are so thankful for the wonderful friends we have to share in weekends like this one!