Keeping our sanity

Dear Laurie Berkner...I might owe you my next child or a million dollars or something. When our kids are screaming in the car, over tired, or just sick of being in the house, the Laurie Berkner Band comes to our rescue. The Rocketship Run CD was their first love, but now we've added other Laurie Berkner Band CDs to our collection and watch the videos on YouTube quite regularly.

Today around 5:30 was one of those times. Meltdown averted with Laurie on YouTube. And, yes, we have a computer hooked up to our television...we are one of those families. What can I say--Netflicks is a wonderful thing.

In other news, Liam now refuses to have any food than involves bread cut into pieces. From PB&J and toasted cheese to hamburgers and dinner rolls, don't even think about picking up a knife. And I'm pretty sure we're giving him a complex because Chris and I laugh at him eating throughout the entire meal. It's just so darn cute!

Not so fun in the snow

Since the sun was FINALLY shining for a bit today, we thought we'd bundle the boys up and take them out into the snow. Either the snow was too deep for a 1- and 2-year-old or we bundled them up a little too much. Regardless, they were not fans.

Layla, on the other hand, had tons of fun.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Lots of pennies

Ok, I try to just blog mostly about the boys. After all, it IS the point of the blog. BUT, just this once, I need to show you a project we did at work.

After I had Quinn, I traded in the long hours and long commute to work part-time at Real Art Design Group in downtown Dayton. And while I was sad to leave friends at Hobsons, this was possibly one of the best decisions I've made. Everyone at Real Art is insanely talented and creative; they never stop amazing me.

Anyway, last week we finished this project for the Chicago Auto Show. Made of pennies. Thousands of pennies. It was tons of fun and turned out even better than we expected.

Grocery store = bad idea

Ok, we could take our kids to Toys R Us, and they wouldn't ask for one thing. Maybe it's because they don't really watch tv with commercials yet...who knows. BUT take them to the grocery store, they want it all. And by all, I mean fruits and vegetables and cereal.

Today we had the worst idea ever of taking them to the grocery store on a Sunday afternoon before dinner. We realized the error of our ways as soon as we arrived, but figured we'd get some stuff since we were already there.

Liam freaks out over the avocados, I give him one, and he holds it the rest of the time we're there. Quinn melts down by the apples, I give him one, and he holds it the rest of the time. Mind you, Liam thinks he has an apple like Quinn, so he's yelling "apple" the entire time we shop. And this is our trip to the store.

So, we get home, they still want apples (but, of course, not cut up), so we figure what the heck. And this is how much they ate.

Oh the drama.

Saturday morning fun

Grandma and Grandpa hooked Quinn and Liam up with a membership to the Boonshoft Museum for Christmas, so we tested it out yesterday morning.

You might remember pictures from our trip in, oh, maybe May, but the boys enjoyed it a little more this time because they could do more.

Looking forward to many more visits.

Friends!

A few of Chris' friends--who we don't see that often--were in town a few weeks ago, so we got together so they could see everyone's kids too. It was tons of fun, but keeping the kids still for a picture wasn't as easy as we hoped.

Christmas pictures

The boys had lots of fun Christmas morning. We didn't buy a ton and quickly saw that we still bought too much. They opened a few favorite presents, and we lost them after that.

And, yes, they will hate us for dressing them in matching pajamas when we look back at these photos 15 years from now.

Also, please note that Liam could have cared less about the presents Christmas morning and really only focused on getting a graham cracker.