Happy Birthday Daddy!

On Dec 8th Brad turned 31!
The boys sang Happy Birthday to him then cheered for him :)

The boys wouldn't let daddy blow out his own candles so we had to keep relighting them to let the birthday man have a chance at his own wish!!

Grandpa Dan and his helper

I love that my boys get to grow up knowing about and experiencing the farm!

Snow Day!!!!

~The snow has begun and the boys are loving it~

You can see the snow in the air, it was coming down pretty hard
Oh, and that's Brad's new-gently used run around in pick-upMaking snow angels and yes those are pumpkins
The snow came not too many days after Thanksgiving

Even in a snow storm they can be sweet to each other!

Camera

I got a really GREAT deal on a new camera from my sister and have been practicing with it. These pics are a little fuzzy but no fear, the photography gets better as I post more photos!!

One red head in a red barn
Two red heads in a red barn

One cute little girl in a red barn

This is Mia our niece~Brad's brother's little girl

Preschool

During preschool Grady's teacher was talking to the kids about how the T and the H when standing next to each other, they stick out their tongues when being said. Like in Thursday and throw. She had the kids practicing TH words telling them the letters were naughty and that's why they stick their tongues out. Grady couldn't wrap his little mind around it and needed to justify it and said 'He knew why the T and H were naughty, it's because they must be a bunch of females!" No idea where that answer came from but he had all adults in the room laughing out loud!

Grady is a kid who totally gets adult humor. He's very smart whited and acts much older than his age. It's hard for some people to believe he's only 4 years old, makes me proud in most situations!

Big Boy Bed

We moved Bryce to a big boy bed last Sunday night. I thought it would be stressful for all of us so I have been dragging my feet. Boy was I wrong! He slept in it with no problem at all not waking up once during the night. We are almost a week in and he still is sleeping in it like he's been doing it all his life. Its cute because in the mornings when he was in his crib he would yell out "mama, get me" and had to wait for me to come upstairs to get him out. Now he is in his bed and can clearly get out himself but will still sit in his bed and call out to me to 'come get him' every morning! I love it! We put a bed rail on the side of his bed and perhaps he thinks that 'keeps him in' like the side of the crib. Either way, I'm just glad it works and the transition was so smooth! Yay to big boy beds and 2 big boys in our house :) I love being their mama!!

Potty Training

We are trying very hard to teach Bryce to go pee pee in the potty but he is just not having it. Regardless we put our best foot forward and try each night before bath and bed. Last night I had him on the potty trying to convince him to push in many different ways to make it happen. He usually will look at me and make a "pssss" noise with his mouth and say "all done" though nothing happens...So while we were in the process I said 'push Brycie like this" and I grunted and closed my eyes to emphasize it a bit more. When I opened my eyes to see if he was doing it he was grabbing his private part, stretching it out making a 'hisssss' noise and said "look mommy, snake!" I couldn't help but laugh! Our potty session for the evening had come to an end!

The Check

I walked out of the bathroom the other day to have Bryce immediately meet me. He goosed me asking "mommy, you poopy" I about fell over I was laughing so hard! I looked down at him and again he goosed me asking the same question with a very serious look on his face! I think I check his little diaper butt a bit too often :)