Bubbers in his big boy bed!

Lynden is such a big boy now. He sleeps in his big boy bed in Spencer's room. He only goes in his room for toys. He has been in the big bed for about a month, I am just now getting around to blogging it. He did really great the first two days - 2 naps & 2 night times - I layed him down and he never got up. I was so proud of him so of course I started bragging like crazy. Well, as luck would have it, he literally got up about 7 times the 3rd night at bedtime. I had totally ginxed it. But, I kept putting him back in the bed and he has done great every since....well, for the most part. He does sleep better than ever but if he wakes up, he usually winds up in our bed - usually early morning. I am ok with that. He is so sweet, they both are. Spencer still asks to sleep in our bed sometimes and I usually let. He is so sweet to snuggle with. I know these days will end so why not enjoy those precious snuggles while I can.

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More Just Because pictures!

My two little monkeys.

No words needed!

Spencer is my little angel.

What a poser.

To the Dentist

Spencer had a dentist appointment in Fayetteville the other day and I wanted to post how cool the Dr.'s office was. It is totally Nemo"ed" out! I love it.

There are some of the seats in the waiting room.

Everything in this fish tank is alive. I could have watched it for hours. It had fish in there exactly like all the fish in the tank on Finding Nemo, plus Marlin and Dory. It was so darn cool.

A bunch of the character hang from the ceiling.

I love taking my kids places that really make the kids enjoy visiting and actually having things for them to play with besides just a book or a lego.

AR Children's Hospital

Spencer had an appointment at Children's Monday. They have a huge fenced in area in the front of the main hospital with all these cool toys and pretty waterfalls. The inside waiting room is really cool too, we just didn't play in there. Great photo opportunities.

The other half of this train was inside...too cool!

Spencer loved getting his picture taken with the dinosaur.

Okay, there is a small chance I got carried away with pictures of Spencer on this rock, poor kid.

Lynden was scared when I put him up on the rock. That really wrecked my scrapbook idea. It was very hard to catch him. I think he ran non stop the entire hour we were out there (as you may be able to tell in the 3rd picture down). It was really exciting for them... ok... and us... ok... me.

This was shaping up to be a good chance for a really nice picture when right after I snapped, Spencer for some reason threw up all over his shorts. All we could figure was that he was car sick from the ride over but I don't know. Anyway, hints the next picture. We took Spencer in to eat lunch in his underwear. I dared someone to say something to me.

Starting to get a wee bit sleepy.

Just Catching Up Pictures




Lynden has started B lining straight to the poke berries when we go outside. He smashes and rubs all over him as many of them as he can before I get to him. I wanted to get a picture because it is pretty cute. He tries to feed them to the cats.



Spencer is our full fledged tree climber now. He used to enjoy it but then I think he got bored with it. Apparently he loves it again. He is so handsome.



Lynden loves to fill up the cab of his truck with our rock bed rocks. He can get a good 50 or so in there. Once it is full then he will push it around everywhere. Sometime it is too heavy for him to turn it around and he gets so stinkin mad. I'm telling you - patience is not one of his strong points.



This rock was too big for the cab so he put it in the back. He was well pleased with himself.



NO, to answer your question, they could not be any more precious.

Lynden's 2nd Birthday!



Lynden's birthday was a complete success. Michael spent almost all night the night before making his cake. This is a tradition in our family now. We love making our kids birthday cakes. I do what I can to help but Micheal does such a great job and it is special to him. I am very thankful for that. This saves us lots of money and gives our kids awesome birthday cakes. All along we were going to do a car or truck, something Wiggles related, then changed our minds at the last minute. Bob turned out so good.

It was a very nice day and the kids had a good time and plenty of room to run around. I like to consider myself one that often takes the time to stop and smell the roses but I will tell you....birthday parties stress me out for a number of reasons. I am ready to get the cake & gifts out of the way and just let the kids enjoy themselves.

We did have a good time. We also brought several boxes of cereal and the kids got to feed the ducks. They loved this part, I think they all paniced and thought the cereal was going to be disappear. This part went pretty quick.

Lynden and Papa

He just could not help himself. It was really cute.

I love it when little kids point with their little bitty fingers. It is so cute to me.

Lynden and his four wheeler from Nana and Papa. He has ride on toys outside so we decided to keep this inside with winter coming up. If Lynden so much as hears one of the sounds going off on it, he knows that Spencer is on it and flips out. He starts yelling "NO" or "MINEA" or just starts screaming. He does not like Spencer touching it at all. He is not the biggest sharing kid there is out there.

I will post more pictures once we get them off the cam-corder. Thankfully, Judy let us borrow her camera since ours is on it's deathbed. These pictures were still on her memory card. Score! Anyway, of course I have taken a ton of pictures since borrowing this a week ago and I will get those posted soon also. Hope everyone is doing well. We love you.

My camera is messed up so I have not blogged in a couple weeks. But I still wanted to list a few things the boys have been doing so I would not forget. I will post some older pictures of them.

This was Spencer's 3rd birthday. He could not have been any prouder of his new guitar.

There 3 pictures are of Spencer around 4 months or so!

He was about 3 1/2 here. Just a cutie pic.

Spencer was in therapy recently. He & his therapist were playing a game called peanut butter & jelly. When she asked Spencer what it was, she said "peanut butter & jj" , so he would finish it & he said "peanut butter & Jesus". I could not have been any prouder of him than I was in that moment. Priceless! I didn't get to hear it for myself but I still so proud.



Lynden is really into saying "where'd it go?". He says it all the time. Even when you are sitting right next to him playing cars, he will cover his up or put it under his shirt, then ask "Where'd it go?" Then he gets it out & is so excited & says "there is!" It is too cute. This morning he got a flat truck magnet off of Mom's fridge. He was standing it up like he was driving it, then he turned it over & layed it down on the table black side up & said "Where'd it go?" It is so adorable. Anyway, he loves our bed. Last night, I was picking up his room & he ran to where I was at & said "where'd it go?" & I said "I don't know, where'd it go?". Then he ran across the hall into my room & said "the BED!" as if he had found it. It was so cute. He has also started saying "What's at?" I love it!

The other day Michael was looking at a book with Lynden & he was asking him what the colors of these boxes were. When he pointed to the red, Lynden said "MER", that's right as in Murray from the Wiggles. When he asked about the purple, it was "JEFF", the yellow box was "GRE" (Greg) & the blue was "NEE" (Anthony). It was so darn cute.

Lynden at around 9 months.

Lynden's first Valentine's Day. Daddy got him this bear. He loved it. He loved & still loves stuffed animals. He will just lay on them & kiss them & hug & squeeze & say ahhhh.