Friday Night Fun!

Riley and I enjoyed ourselves last night with a good old playdough party. We made some very creative playdough figures, and Riley really enjoyed teaching me how to play playdough! I was amazed at his insight and strong-will, I never knew there was a right way to play with playdough.



Meanwhile out in the living room Taylor was rocking out, enjoying his toys!


Okay big guy, what happened to your clothes!?!?!?!?!?!

The new man on campus

That's right, Tay is officially a student!!! Taylor enrolled in the Little Tykes class through Centennial School District. Taylor is the new kid at school and not one bit modest!!


Here is Tay waving to all the ladies on his new set of wheels.


The one major challenge for Taylor is going to be trying to make it through an 90 minute class with no snack!! I broke the news to the big guy and this is the look I got.......

Spiderman tees and trains, trains, trains

Matt picked out two matching vintage Spiderman t-shirts for the boys at Baby Gap. They loved their new t-shirts. While I was at the YMCA running, Matt set up a huge train track in our kitchen. I came home to see that the boys were playing trains together! This has been Riley's dream since Taylor was born. Taylor mostly just watched Riley and clapped but would occasionally get involved and try to rip out the tracks. Riley was instructing Taylor on how to correctly play trains, and was actually being a pretty good instructor. It's hard to believe the Holidays have come and past another year, tomorrow back to school and work:(

Christmas Memories

Happy New Year! We are sending prayers and positive thoughts to all of our friends and family. We wish you the very best in the next year. Riley started off the New Year by saying goodbye to his crib. He now sleeps in a twin size bed, and is so proud of himself for taking this step. Riley is still in love with Thomas the Train and has expanded his collection to hundreds of Thomas toys and trains. Riley loves to count, read books, and run. Riley is struggling with saying "bye bye" to his nook and diapers, which are two goals high on my priority list.

Tay is still eating non-stop and continues to practice his walking. He has started to talk non-stop, and even says momma! Most recently Taylor has decided that it is pretty funny to go poop in the tub. The minute I put him in the water, he starts grunting really loud. Taylor loves to play with Riley and watches his every move. Our big guy is in the 90 percentile for weight, and 75 percentile for height. His hair is coming in thick and is a really pretty blonde (wink,wink!)

Merry Christmas!

We hope everybody had a wonderful Christmas. We enjoyed spending time with family and catching up. The boys were spoiled by Santa and are thrilled with all there new "prizes." I got a new camera, and tonight was my first opportunity to use it. We took the boys to the Eagles nest and I was able to experiment with my new camera. I still have to read about all the special features but I was amazed at the clarity of the pictures. Thank you to my parents, we will use the camera a lot!

Spring Training

Tay is warming up his arm, getting ready for spring training.

The boys

I am so blessed to have three wonderful boys in my life! They bring me joy and happiness everyday.


Due to the freezing cold weather of beautiful Minnesota, the boys have spent a lot of time at home this week. So what better way to pass time? Lets see who can pull off the wall hanging in the living room. The boys have teamed up, to successfully pull the wall hanging off of the wall and onto the ground twice. I caught Taylor ( 9 months old) trying to pull it off again.......

Not so fast big guy!

Here are my two angels showing some brotherly love.

Two and a half and cool

Riley has started to tell me what he wants to wear in the morning. One morning I grabbed the closest pair of jeans and put them on him. He stood up and promptly told me, "No Mom, I'm not wearing these!" Well okay then! Most of his outfits he picks out match, so there is a relief. Yesterday I was giving Riley a bath and singing a dorky song, and he looks at me and says, "Knock it off Mom!" as he rolled his eyes. It is clear that I am no longer COOL, I never thought I would be the dorky mom!

GO VIKES!

Dance partays!

Riley just loves to dance, and so we have made it an daily event to hold some pretty rockin dance parties. Auntie Kellie came into town to visit, and Riley and Kellie shared their unbelievable moves. Riley just adores spending time with Kellie, they are two goofballs together! Taylor decided he was sick of watching and clapping so he busted out a few moves himself. Tay can stand on his own and is very close to walking! Riley and Taylor have begun to enjoy each others company, and Riley asks often, " Mom Can Tay come and play trains please?" Taylor of course doesn't get the whole playing trains idea, instead he just tries to eat the trains, and thus that begins a big brotherly fight. My two monkeys have been such a joy to watch and I am so thankful they are my little guys! A special thanks to Aunt Kellie and Aunt Nikki and Christine, who helped me get through this last month!! Also a special thanks to Grandma Tammy, Grandma Jackie and GaGa for keeping the boys so happy, when I was exhausted!
Here is a sample of Kell's and Ry's new moves.......


Here is Tay rockin out...



And Gaga and Tay practicing the MN. Song!