Christmas 2007 in Rochester at the Riders

Pictures at Thomas and Nathan's grandparent's house. The third little boy is their cousin Noah who you can tell they are very impressed with.

A couple of cute tidbits on Nathan:
Several weeks ago now, he started to cover his ears if anyone did anything really loud exclaiming all the while "my ears! my ears!" At first I was a little concerned as I thought it really was bothering his ears then I realized it was his little joke because he has no problem being the loudest of all. Of course, we all do it when he is being noisy. From there it went to other aspects like my eyes! my eyes! The boys senses of humor are starting to bloom.

Nathan is incredibly helpful. When I'm sewing, he gets down under the machine and stands on the pedal to get it moving. He gets right off when I tell him enough. So it really is helpful. The other day we emptied the basket of winter gear to find some mittens. I came back into the room to find Nathan busily putting everything back into the basket without being told. Actually as I type this I can hear him emptying the dishwasher. He has everything almost out with all the like things stacked together. I love it! The help around here, though short, is incredibly cute!

A quick video of Thomas helping John launch his rocket.

A few cute sayings:

I usually ask the boys if they slept well when they get up in the morning and now Thomas is beating me to it by announcing "I slept well". He does this pretty near every morning now.

I also tell the boys when they get hurt, you're okay! In other words stop crying, you are going to live. Last week, Thomas was taking me to show me something and he tripped. He came up crying and looked at me. He said before I could "I'm okay!" then he got up blinking away his tears. Generally speaking, they are pretty sturdy little boys.

Thomas' new expression is "sure!". Instead of yup or yes, he agrees to things with a cute little "sure". Little copy cats. I know I say sure. I also say "nice!" when they get something to work which I just noticed Thomas saying last night when he was helping me with dinner.

Nathan is not as far along in his speech or maybe his speech is a little slurred so I have problems understanding him. He repeats what has been said like I'll say the dog is outside and he'll look at me and say the dog is outside, right mommy?

Another new thing this fall and winter is that with colds I get Mommy, my nose is running! I'm trying to at least get them to get a tissue but so far all I get is a runny little nose under my elbow! It definitely annoys them to have runny noses.

We've started another session of ice skating now through March. They definitely seem to enjoy it although the coach they've had from the start is moving on to nursing school so we hope the new coach will be as good.

Today's fun!

Nathan-on-the-trumpet - Get Video Code

Jenny-sledding - Get Video Code

Though I try to only post interesting details about my sons, I couldn't resist uploading the sledding video. No, I don't usually sled in a skirt....I was ready to go shopping with the girls.