Seating arrangements

The other night Weston was trying to figure out how to talk Daddy into letting him sit in the recliner.  Unfortunately after a long day of work, Daddy wouldn't budge, so Wes had to come up with his own version.

Tyge too has been looking for a good place to rest his tush, and I don't think the toy bin was doing much for him. 

Grandma to the rescue!  Two large boxes showed up at the door today.  Birthday presents that came early, but in my opinion they came just in time....perfect solution to our "lack of kid friendly seating" problem. 

Glad I stopped on the way home today to rent some movies too, because life can't get much better than this for these two kids.  Fish sticks and mac & cheese for dinner, warm bath, fuzzy jammies, comfy chairs and Cars 2 on the TV!

Can't think of a good title for this post....

....just some random pics of the boys.

"What mess?"

"another picture mom?"

"Oreo, what Oreo?"

Ride'em Cowboy!

Ready for bed....got my sousha, water and cow pillow.

Yummy Olives!

Loving the new bunk beds....so much he couldn't wait for me to put sheets on the top bunk.

Halloween

Ok, so it's been 12 days, I guess I better post some Halloween pictures and tell you about the night.  It started out with some pre-trick or treating pizza.  

And then we were off....one of our first stops was to see our friend Monica.  Then we did looped around the block.  About 3/4 of the way into it Weston was tired out and wanted to go home.  Probably because for the first half of the night he ran to each door. 

 And the winner is......

 .....Giraffe costume!  I really thought he was going to be a turtle until I realized that you couldn't put him in his car seat or stroller with a big shell on his back.

And did you figure out what Weston's costume was?  He was a fly fisherman...here he is with his pole that he refused to touch until the next morning (when he then didn't want to put down).  He also refused pictures all night, so that's why other than a couple action shots, I have nothing but pictures of his hands trying to cover the lens.

Halloween Preview

After an entire week of having sick kids, I've never been so happy to see solid poop in their diapers. Yes, I said it, solid poop!  Hard enough having one sick kiddo, but two at the same time, plus a sick husband!!!  Four days of little sleep, cleaning up vomit, loads and loads of laundry....lets just say I'm exhausted!  One afternoon when I was changing the sheets on one of the beds I threw the comforter on the floor, and for a few moments I got a glimpse of normalcy.  Both boys had a ball rolling around on it, playing peek a boo, etc.  Who knew it would be that entertaining?  But it only last a few minutes, because soon what little energy they had was zapped and they were both needed a rest.

 Today is Friday and Halloween is just three days away.  I'm sewing part of Weston's costume and was trying to convince him to put it on to size it.  But he wanted no part of it.  In an effort to convince him costumes were fun, I tried one out on Tyge since I'm still debating what he should be....turtle (costume handed down from his cousin Reese) or Giraffe (costume handed down from his brother).  I have to say, he does make a pretty cute turtle. 

We also made and decorated cookies....because what better thing for a sick kid to do than eat cookies?  Weston cut all of them out for me, including "footballs for Daddy" and "Dinosaur's for Jay".  The dinosaurs for Jay threw me off a little....but then I remembered that we were over there last week and he must have saw Jay's dinosaur Halloween costume hanging in the living room.  I was able to frost most of the cookies while he napped, but he got up just in time to help me finish them.   

Yesterday the boys received Halloween cards from Aunt Tracy, Uncle David and cousin Matthew....Weston's with cut out glasses.  Only got him to put them on for a quick picture because he thinks they are better suited for Flo (poor dog). 

Hopefully in a few days we will convince Weston to finally put his costume on (I'll admit that we will likely bribe him with candy) and I'll have lots more pictures to share.

Cows, Cows and More Cows

One of our favorite parts of each day is helping checking cows. Moving, feeding, vaccinating or just checking on them...Weston will tell you all about it.  Tyge is getting in on the action now too.  He was pretty content watching them run through the chute the other day.  But soon he started walking down the fence line to check out the ones we already turned back out.

Both kiddos really enjoy riding the four wheeler out to the feeder by the pond.  Weston will yell "here cows", and thinks it's pretty great when they try and eat out of the trailer. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weston tells us all the time that he "gotta go check Jacob's cows".  Usually that's followed by "and see Madison and Stephie", he thinks since we are there he needs to play with the girls too.  Right now we own a bull with a neighbor, and one of our momma cows is out in that pasture as well.  Even in a group of black cows Weston can pick the bull out of the herd "that one is Bif".  The rest are all "Jacob's cows", regardless of who's cows are actually out there.  If they are at Jacob's house, they are his and don't try and tell him any different...apparently my 3 year old knows it all!

Follow up to last week's Wordless Wednesday...

Not just spoons anymore!

Wordless Wednesday