Little Biker

Brandon learned to ride a two wheeler yesterday and is quite proud of himself, and we are of him too! He is only three! He is really excited about being able to ride with all the big boys in the neighborhood now. Here are a couple of little videos, I had to run next to him because I was afraid he would crash and not want to ride again. This is not something we have been "working on" at all. He wouldn't ever really ride his bike with the training wheels on it so yesterday he told me to take them off. I was thinking, this will be short lived. I told him that if he was going to do this that he would have to peddle really fast for it to work. He is a good listener when he wants to be cause he just took off. I was a little surprised. Only a little just cause I knew he had good balance and athleticism but he's so little and young I guess. The only reason I have time to be writing this right now is because he was so awnrey(no idea how to spell that) that I had to put him to bed at 3:30 or I din't know if either of us would make it through the rest of the day...and Ethan is sleeping.

T-Ball and Tiny Teeth

So we are just keeping up here in Redmond. I am about done with the cold and rainy/snowy weather. Spring is not warm here and winter lasts forever!!! Or is it just worse everywhere this year? Luckily our garage serves as a great play room. The kids can ride bikes all day out there which is nice. They come in to eat and that is about it! I guess to go to the bathroom too.

Ethan is growing up really fast, he has all four top teeth now and looks so funny when he smiles cause they aren't all the way in yet. Plus, he likes to pull his jaw to the right constantly and makes it look like he has a crossbite. He is such a funny little man. He thinks that Tyler and Brandon are really funny, they can entertain him better than anyone. He is at that stage where he will crawl up to my legs and hold on for dear life and I can't really go anyehere? It's mostly when I am in the kitchen trying to make others happy and not him! It's kind of hard but I am trying to enjoy him no matter how annoying he can get. He really isn't very annoying but he does scream when he is mad which my other boys did not do at least until they were 2.

Tyler has started T-Ball and really likes it so that is cute. Brandon is not on the team but believes that he is and calls his regular shoes his T-ball shoes. That is just fine with me, he is so funny. Brian is the coach but has tons of help from about 4 other dads so it isn't too stressful. Not that T-ball would be I guess. The boys also are in to helping Brian cut wood for my vinyl signs out in the garage. Tyler is a little more I think.

We went to Cannon Beach over Spring Break so here are some pictures from that. It was pretty cold and sometimes rainy but we still got out in between a lot of swimming and water basketball. Luckily Carla and Cathryn and John (Morgan, her boyfriend) came so that made it really easy with the kids. Carla basically took Ethan so that I could play basketball with Brian and Cathryn and John and Cathryn and I won EVERYTIME. We played very fairly as well, abided by most rules...only a FEW bruises, it was really fun. Tyler can swim and Brandon swims by himself with floaties so it was great! They just swam around watching.

Bathing Hunks

Boys are just so funny. Everything lately has been about "tooting" which I mean, I would love nothing more for them to stop doing but seriously, I have all boys. They also like to play that they are always in Hot Lava. They are always laughing and playing funny games. Brandon consistantly hops on one foot ever since the doctor asked him if was able to at his three year check up and Tyler is always trying to organize some game that has ever changing rules by the second. Brandon can never "follow the rules" but then I don't think that I could either. Brandon is always asking the why questions that come with being three. "Why I am a kid mom?" Why Tyler is at school?" "Why Dad is at work?" "Why Ethan can't walk and talk?" It never really ends. It's great mostly.

Ethan has been teething like crazy lately so some days last week and this weekend I thought I was going to run and hide because the whining can really get to me. Today, however, has been so nice that I even have time to update the old blog! He has finally slipped back into happy baby mode. He is actually interested in sitting on the floor, playing and crawling. He sure looks cute now when he smiles you can kind of see the top two that he has cut and the next two that are almost through. NIGHTMMARE. But I think we might be past it for a time thank goodness. He is also doing some really cute clapping and playing patty cake which is very exciting you know for a 7 month old critter.

I am trying hard to do as much vinyl signs as I can to keep the side business going. If you haven't checked out that blog the link is www.thoughtfuldecor.blogspot.com it is also on the side of this blog. Let me know if you would like any orders!!!

Well, I am excited for some warm weather to come our way soon. I am about done with all the hail, wind and snow!!!

Cousin Boys

We are in Portland for the week and today we took the three boy cousins all born between August and November 2007 to Kiddie Kandids for pictures. It was pretty cute. We did this 5 years ago with Tyler, Kyle and Jacob and the new picture looks almost identical. This is Ethan (7 months) our son, Heath (4 months) Andy and Mari's son, and Isaiah (5 months) Casey and Angela's son. They are so cute.

Springtime

I haven't really wanted to update the blog because I don't have a whole lot that is exciting to report! The weather is getting warmer and I am excited for the daylight savings. I have always enjoyed being able to stay outside longer when it stays light. The boys are doing well, funny as ever. Especially Brandon. He and Tyler (one team) are playing hide and seek right now with Brian and Ethan (they are on the other team together). I have to say that I am grateful for the fact that none of us have gotten sick this winter like almost all other people that I know. Ethan has gotten two teeth and he is really smilely so it's cute to see them almost all the way in now. He is a crazy crawling little spider monkey. He scales walls, furniture, everything. He falls over a lot too wich is sad. He has a few brusies from it. Brandon tries to protect him from falling....last night Ethan was standing at the coffee table and took the 3rd tumble for the night and so Brandon stood him back up and held onto his hand. After that got boring for him (20 seconds later) he decided that he would just put a DVD case on his hand to protect him and weigh his hand down so that he wouldn't fall again. Let's just say, it wasn't really fool proof.

Something new every day...

So here are Tyler and Brandon in Ethan's clothes....and Brandon in his "sthnow clothes"....it was hilarious. He and Tyler went out into the snow 15 mniutes before church on sunday. It's too bad it had just started to pile up and we had to be faithful and go to church!

Brandon Sleeping....Ethan Crawling???

I walked into the room this afternoon to find that Brandon was a bit tired! He is sporting his newest racing gear that wears while he rides his dirt bike. Also, here is Ethan showing you his latest moves.