Toilets are fun

It seems as though we are revisiting the toilet facination! Over the past week I have found many random objects in our toilet, including, but not limited to:

my hair brush

Andrew's brush

a gazelle

a school bus

toothbrushes

balls, etc.

Sometimes I hear the toilet seat go up and catch him with his hands splashing around and the biggest grin on his face. He knows it pushes my buttons! Well, today I spent $98.44 having Roto Rooter dislodge an orange dinosaur from my toilet! I informed Andrew this amount will be deducted from allowences yet to come.

Here is our mischevious little guy sporting his jams he picked out all by himself- yes, he's wearing his swim trunks!

President Hinckley

I've been writing a blog post in my head for the last few days, and had full intentions of posting it last night; however, with the news of President Hinckley's death my funny post will wait for another day.

This morning I turned on the morning news to see what would be reported about the death of our beloved prophet, Gordon B. Hinckley. I probably shouldn't have been surprise that his passing was only mentioned with the headlines, overshadowed by reports of the red carpet and politics, but it broke my heart.

We have known him as our prophet for 13 years, but he has given his life in service to his Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and to the members of their church. He did this with love, hard work, testimony, enthusiasm, wit, humor, tenderness, and always a smile. Just listening to him, I wanted to be a better person. I am so grateful for his life and example. I am saddened he is gone and will miss hearing him speak and feeling his amazing spirit, yet I smile imagining the reunion with the love of his life, Marjorie.

All tuckered out!

I can't resist posting this picture of my darling husband! This is Mike's second attempt at reading a book since Tanner and Reid were born (he lasted almost two pages!). His first attempt ended in the same manner, with an additional dropped highlighter, which unfortunately ruined a pair of my pants that were on the bed!
Also, Mike is religious about putting lotion on his hands daily to prevent the classic cracking and chapping created by a Midwest winter. He missed a day of lotion and now he's paying for it. In an effort to not have his hands amputated, he's covered them in Aquaphor and then put socks on to save the comforter! I'm so in love with this man!

All dressed up

Church can get a little hairy with these three little guys. It's a good thing they're so darn cute and we love them so much! Actually, today was a pretty good day and all three behaved themselves for the most part. By the end of Relief Society I had a group of women standing over Tanner and Reid oohing and awing at their cuteness!

Home Sweet Home

Since having Tanner and Reid, we stay home much more than we used to. I'm sure you can imagine why. The days can sometimes get long and it is nice to get out, but I have to admit that I love being in my home with my little guys! Our home is small, but so perfect for our little family and we really have made it ours. I'm still in the process of making our nursery look like a nursery, but it will come together soon enough. Here are a few happenings of our home in the last two days...

I couldn't find Andrew yesterday afternoon and I finally discovered him under Tanner and Reid's crib playing in the exersaucer (where it is currently broken down and stored).

My sister, Rachael, gave us her Bumbo over the Christmas holidays and my boys love it! It's so fun to see them sitting up like big boys. Here's Reid enjoying a little Bumbo time. This morning Andrew got ahold of my rubber gloves. He even grabbed a scrubber and started scrubbing the floor. Funny kiddo!

Not pictured: Tanner sleeping all over the house in random places because he can and will, and sometimes Reid needs to cry it out.

Last week I sat down in our big chair in our front room to do some reading and I realized that the first time I sat in that chair in that room I was expecting Andrew. My house was clean, orderly, and quiet. I was big and pregnant and full of anticipation. I look at my front room now and there are two baskets of laundry that need to be folded, two baby chairs, a Cozy Coupe car, and a toy box. My house is always in the process of being cleaned, it is no longer quiet, and sometimes I just have to get out...but I love it!

Happy Birthday Andrew!

We celebrated Andrew's 2nd birthday this last week and we can hardly believe that our baby is two!! We started the day with a pancake breakfast made by dad. Andrew found his candle on the counter and carried it around all morning. Then we opened gifts! Andrew loved his T-ball set from grandma and grandpa C.!
Andrew was supposed to get the Thomas the Train set for Christmas, but it arrived two days too late, so we saved it for his birthday. Daddy helped him set it up and we've had fun afternoons driving his trains.
Here is Andrew's real birthday gift! We really debated getting the Cozy Coupe car, but I think we'll get lots of mileage out of it with all three of our boys. He already loves driving it around the house. I can't wait for it to get warm so he can take it outside too!
We had cake and ice cream with two families in our ward, the Teuschers and Carters. Of course his cake had to be a ball, what else would it be?
Unfortunately, Andrew has had a relapse with his hitting and he clobbered every kid in the nursery on his birthday- it broke my heart. We worked with him a lot this last week and he had a much more successful nursery experience (so did the other kiddos!). Here's to being two!!Happy birthday to our sweet boy!