Ace's first haircut

I waited and waited until everyone told me that it was time...Ace needed a haircut! This made me so sad for some reason. I guess its just knowing that your baby is not a baby anymore, he is growing up so fast! Jamie has been wanting to cut his hair for a couple of months now and finally I gave in and let him cut it BUT made him promise to only cut enough to get it out of his eyes.

Good "gwob" Daddy! :)

Then.....Caleb decided that he needed another hair cut so he found some scissors and started cutting his bangs...OFF!

Good thing you are so cute because it's going to take a while for that to grow back! :)

Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!

Last weekend both of the boys were in a musical at their daycare based on the Dr. Seuss book, Hooray for Diffendoofer Day. Caleb was a duck and Ace was a frog.

They both did a great job! We kept asking Caleb for weeks if he would sing some of his songs for us and he just told us that we would have to wait and see. It was worth the wait....they were so cute!

We were a little concerned if they would have stage fright but they didn't. Caleb sang all of his songs and did a little dance with his class. Once we got there the teachers put the finishing touches on their costumes. When I saw that all the ducks had a big feather tail I knew that Caleb was not going to like that. He thinks that he is too cool for that stuff. Sure enough when the ducks got up to sing Caleb was the only one without a tail. :)

Ace did not throw tantrums or run around on stage so he did great too! He did have to sit in his teacher's lap the whole program but that's okay. We were just worried about him trying to get all the attention. After the program was over his teacher told me that she kept promising him ice cream....it worked!

Boys, you continue to make Mommy and Daddy so proud! We love you!

Thank you Uncle Jeff, Chandler, Mammie, Nanna and Nat for coming to support them!

A day at the Fire Station

Caleb is really into playing fireman right now and most of the time we have to call him "fireman Caleb". Jamie loaded up the boys one morning and took them to our local Fire Department. I was not able to go with them but I continue to hear all about it...it is all Caleb is talking about. Fireman Jay was so nice and gave them all a tour of the fire department and let Caleb sit in the truck. Caleb just thought this was the coolest thing ever! He gave the boys each a hat and coloring books. As Jamie and the boys were leaving the fire department got a call so they got to see all the firemen suit up and take off in the trucks with lights, sirens and all. Thanks fireman Jay for letting Caleb take a tour and thank you Jamie for being such a good Daddy!

Easter 2009

Easter was a lot of fun this year! We started with an Easter egg hunt on Saturday that our subdivision has for the kids every year. We got to see the Easter bunny and the boys found LOTS of eggs. Ace was so funny with the Easter bunny..he was just in aww over him. He kept touching him, pushing him, trying to hold his hand and then he realized he had a tail! He kept grabbing his tail and pulling on it. We are very thankful that it was a nice Easter bunny!

On Sunday the boys were so excited to wake up to see if the Easter bunny came to our house and of course he did. After church we came home and had another egg hunt with our neighbor next door, Cade. They all had so much fun and I think we will have enough candy to last until next Easter.

Famiy Devotional

I thought this was just too cute not to post
We try and have a family devotional every night before bed. Most the time we read Bible stories out of Caleb's Bible but this night we were getting ready for our devotional and he comes running in asking if he could read to us. We were thrilled and could not wait to hear his stories.....

Thank you God for our sweet Caleb.

Our future meteorologist

Our sweet boys alerting all the neighbors and birds that a storm is coming......

A day at the mall

Last week we went to Cool Springs mall for a little shopping. We used to go all the time when Caleb was little just to walk around and let him play in the play area but we never do it anymore. Now that we have Ace too it seems like more trouble than it's worth to go in public places because they want to run around EVERYWHERE and pick up EVERYTHING off of shelves and all this leads to tantrums and ahhh....I am worn out just thinking about it!

I was always one of those people who saw kids acting up in grocery stores and promised that MY kids would NEVER act like that. I am sorry to all of those Mom's out there that I thought you just could not control your kids. I literally do not take the boys anywhere anymore , especially by myself. I am now one of those Mom's that other people are talking about. Don't get me wrong, our boys are very good boys but there is something about public places that bring out the tantrums.

We felt brave last weekend and thought we would give it another try and it ended up just like all the other times. We might try it again in a year....maybe.

As soon as we walked into the mall the boys just were overwhelmed....it was so funny. Ace had never seen a mannequin before and he was so excited! He ran up to all of them as fast as he could screaming "man, man". I guess that would be strange to him....I wonder what he thought they were?? I had to catch it all on video because it was just too funny not to share.

Boys, we promise to try and get you out more often......