tinky titty

Well, the batteries are charged, but I forgot to take pictures. Oh, well.

We had a wonderful weekend at Grandma and Grandpa's celebrating Grandpa's birthday. Kaeleb and Brennan love their G&G sooooo much. The Robinson's came too, so we had even MORE fun!!

Some funny memories we made included Brenny and the cat terrorizing each other. Bren followed Squeakers around trying to pull his tail and the cat got his revenge by jumping out of the laundry room and startling Bren. He screamed like a girl and then cried for several minutes, "Titty cared Me!!"

Once when Brenny had a stinky diaper I asked him if he needed his bum changed. He said "No. Titty tinky." MmmHmmm. Blame it on the cat-- nice try.

Kaeleb's favorite part of the weekend was playing video games with Grandpa. We got Gpa Lego Indiana Jones for his b-day. It is Kaeleb's favorite game at the moment and Gpa loves Indiana Jones, so we thought it would be fun for them. He stayed up until 11:30 playing with him-- pretty late for a small fry.

It was nice to be with family, talking & laughing, doing yoga with the girls, going to the movies, and talking about all the books we are reading. We love our families.

We are sorry we didn't have time to see more of our friends, although we were glad we got to see Burke and Heidi's new house-- we totally love it!! And we were happy to see Dan and Dee there. We love you guys all so much. I am still amazed... 8 years ago the six of us went to Mexico and slept in the same bed. (Don't ask-- it was so humid and only one bedroom in the condo had a swamp cooler. I'm not saying it was comfy, it was simply necessary.) Now the six of us have 9 kids collectively. It is fun to watch us grow and wonderful to still feel the same friendship that time and distance can't touch. Hopefully we can get together with everyone over the 4th of July.

Some news on the homefront....

Brennan is now sleeping in a big boy bed. A few weeks ago we thought he might sleep more comfortably in it and hopefully not want to be in OUR bed quite so much-- it has worked, by the way, for the most part. He looks very cute in it and feels quite proud. We have a little railing up to catch him from falling. He gets out of bed every morning and comes to find me, which is a nice change from screaming "Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!" Usually he smashes open the office door (which is where the exercise equipment is and therefore, me) and demands a "baby bottle, couch".

Kaeleb is taking tumbling this summer and LOVES it. I asked him to choose between several sports and it was the winner hands down. He is a natural flipper, flopper, jumper and tumbler. We have a little routine we practice every day. The gym he goes to is great. It's called Barefoot Gymnastics and they have everything a budding tumbler could need from trampolines to rings, parallel bars, balance beams and more. The idea was to give him something to do during the summer, but I think we will keep going through the school year because he likes it so well.

Kaeleb is trying really hard to read. Grandma gave me some more easy readers to help him learn. He has worked so hard to write his lower case letters and I am proud of him. That was the hardest part of preschool for him, so he is rockin'.

Thanks for enduring my stories, this is my only journal now, as I am lucky to get enough alone time for a blog... and I want to preserve all the good stuff in my life. Especially since motherhood has robbed me of my short-term memory and the long may be next.