Long time no Post

We've been meaning to post for quite a while but really life has been quiet with not much significantly different going on.

But a few things of note recently.

First, Da is now into the third trimester. We're still looking at a late delivery for "He Who Has Not Yet Been Named." We had names for Ben and Simon by this point, we have a few options but nothing is jumping out like their names did.

Second, Da just got a new vehicle. Unlike me she was more than happy to go used, we ended up with a 2006 Chrysler Town and Country Mini-van. (Picture soon) We didn't go looking specifically for any make. We had a price range and a couple preferred manufactures. Let me heartily recommend CarMax in Sandy for buying Used cars. We were in and out in less than two hours, and that was with looking over their stock of mini-vans, deciding we liked this one better than a couple a year newer, and Da taking it for a test drive. I've never been through such a quick purchase process at a dealership for new or used, not even when I paid in cash for my truck was it this quick.

The boys are both cute, growing and learning. Ben is partially potty trained, he usually tells us in time to avoid accidents. Simon is learning and using new words almost daily, and sometimes rather complex work combinations are dropped so quickly we have to pause to make sure we heard what we thought we did. On vocab, Ben is also learning more, he's currently working on adding pronouns to his speech which makes prayer time interesting. Where before we could prompt him with "Bless me to sleep well." And he'd repeat it, now he says "Bless you to sleep well." So he understands first and second person and uses them correctly even when we don't.

The boys are both starting to play together a lot more. Just the other day I came down the stairs to seem them working together to carry a larger item across the family room. The funniest part was they were both grunting and commenting like it was heavy yet I've seen each of them individually carry that item around. I tried to get it on video but they were done by the time I got back down there with the camera.

Otherwise things are going good.
Hopefully I'll post again soon and include pictures.
Happy Valentines Day

Dirk

One Toy to rule them all

     Or at least keep the boys from even noticing anything else.  Here we are Sunday night and their stockings are mostly untouched except for the stuff we've pulled out (quiet games for church and their movies). Why?

     Because of the TRAIN!!!!

     Not that all has been peaceful, Ben of course is free to play with whichever train he chooses but heaven forbid Simon to touch his train. And nobody, not even daddy is allowed to reconfigure his train, it must always be structured the same.

     But his first waking words each morning since christmas have been "Play Trains?"

Next April

We'll have three little boys running this place.

A Giggle

Did you know Cheerios can do double duty as a monocle?

Sumpin' to Say

Hey Everybody!

Somebody has sumpin' to say.

Four Years and Counting

On to Eternity!!!

I go walkin... After Naptime...

So I was sitting at home afterwork, reading the paper, and I glance over to see Simon trying to stand and walk on his own.

I pulled out my new phone and here is what I got.


I was resting the phone on the couch to try and hide it from him, that's the cause of the wierd sounds towards the beginning.