The dangerous book for boys

I have not read that book yet (or read it to the boys), but I think I should. Especially since I'm 99% sure that number 3 is also a male. I think we'll start our own edition.

1. Attach a rope to a swingset (this provided a good hour of fun)...

Sorry about the orientation. Fixing that is beyond my technical capabilities tonight. :)

Christmas fun

We had a great Christmas weekend around here. Pete, Caroline and Aaron's aunt Suzanne all came down to help us celebrate. It was great having the company. It made the weekend so festive. Thanks guys!!

Christmas Eve beach trip...
Christmas eve luminaries with our house in the background...Christmas Day:

Never knew you could get so excited by Toy Story soap...
One happy boy...Feeding ducks (some of the weirdest ducks I've even seen)...
Christmas dinner spread (those are my new plates :) )...
Attempt at a family pic (the boys were being impossible, but they looked so cute)...Belly shot (36 wks!!)...We had such a nice weekend, but everyone was exhausted today. The weather was pretty miserable too. It actually snowed here today, and here I thought I wasn't going to get to see snow this year. It didn't stick, but we did see some flurries throughout the afternoon. To get out of the house, we took the boys to see Yogi Bear this afternoon. It was a good outing, but that is definitely a kids movie.

We have absolutely no plans the rest of the week save my weekly OB appt. I'm really looking to taking it easy. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend!!!

Xmas party

Aaron and I went to his practice's Christmas party last night. It was really a good time. It was held at the Toucan Cafe. The food was amazing. Aaron had a portabella pasta dish and I had a black and blue Ribeye. Yum Yum.

All dressed up...
It was a grown up affair, so the boys stayed home with our favorite babysitter, Jeannie. She's really great with the boys. She said they did great, but about 35 minutes after she put them down, she went to check on them and both boys were in the middle of the room with their books spread out all around them. She threatened being put on Santa's naughty list and then they went right to sleep. ;)

Speaking of the naughty list, Waylon has been on an absolute tear lately. The terrible 2's are definitely in full affect. The other day I thought he was doing pretty good when he only got 2 time outs for the day. He has been the time out king, pinching and hitting a lot. Poor Byron. Yesterday I overheard Byron telling Waylon that he should be good because he doesn't want to get on Santa's naughty list. He even said, "You want to get presents don't you?" It was really cute.

Holiday program

Byron had his holiday program at the preschool today. It was chaos, but very cute. He dressed up as a shephard (seen here with best bud, Haku)...The first part of the program the entire preschool was up front in a huge manger scene. I had the hardest time getting any pics of B boy. He was either behind someone or turned around the entire time. I got tons of pictures of the backs of peoples heads. Here Byron is facing backwards and to the right of the little boy in the brown.
After that each class did their own song or rhyme. Here Byron is with his class. His shephards robe was starting to fall off at this point.
Goofing with his friend Sean afterwards...
Cuteness...
Here's a horrible video of Byron's class doing their thing ( I think I focused on the back of the audience instead of Byron :( )...

In case you missed it the rhyme was...

Way up high on the Christmas tree
Two little candy canes winked at me
I shook that tree as hard as I could
Down came the candy canes, mmm mmm good!

On another note, Paula Dean was at the program. I think her grandson must go to the same preschool. I tried not to stare too hard. My first Paula Dean sighting. :)

New arrivial!

The table I mean, not the baby. Still 6 weeks to go with the baby.

We got our new dining room table today!! I'm so excited. It's an older table, but the chairs are new. Ta daa...Here's some close ups. The chairs (which are really comfy even without cushioning. That was one of my requirements, no upholstery. They're stained to match the mahogany in the inlay)...
The top (plus some of my belly, it's always in the way lately. The inlay is mahogany with a black stripe around each side)...
The legs...
It also has 2 huge leaves. It's a little over 100 in long with both of them in. That's much bigger than our dining room. The boys and I headed to Home Goods (one of my fav new stores) this afternoon to get some place mats and napkins for Christmas dinner. Can't wait!

Weekend projects

We had a nice relaxing weekend with nothing to do. We did head over to the Duttenhaver's for dinner on Friday, but that was our sole obligation this weekend. It was either too cold or rainy to do much outside, so we tinkered around the house.

Byron got a new haircut with his dad. He's cuddling on the couch with Piper (who's head you can barely see here)..
I FINALLY hung up some pictures...
Laya graduated from her obedience classes (no, she's still not that obedient)...
I worked on putting together the nursery a bit and found a bunch of stuff we need to get before #3 arrives (not much survives after use by 2 baby boys)...
The new bedding (I LOVE the colors)...This week is pretty busy. There's a lot we need to take care of before Christmas. We did find a costume for Byron's Christmas program and a dress for me for Aaron's Christmas party today so I'm feeling pretty productive. Byron's dressing up as a shepherd (wearing a white fluffy robe which I get to use after he's done). I'm dressing up as a huge pregnant lady (wearing a black dress that I should still be able to use after baby #3 arrives. That is once I'm able to go anywhere which requires a little black dress again, probably in 2012).

Tree

The tree is up...
We put it up last week when the Duttenhaver's visited one night. I've just been too sick to blog about it lately. Right now it is the only thing in our dining room. That should change in two weeks. We're planning on getting our new dining table the week before Christmas.

The boys have already broken several (many!) of the ornaments and been given multiple time outs for playing with the lights/ornaments. The love the tree, to death (literally). I don't think the tree will make it past this Christmas.

Milestones

Waylon hit a big milestone this weekend. He stopped sleeping in his crib! He's actually only done this twice so far. We went out Saturday afternoon and picked up a twin bed and some very cool Toy Story sheets and blankies for him. Waylon was asking for Buzz even before we hit the store. That kid doesn't have a huge vocabulary yet, but he sure knows what we're talking about.

Aaron disassembled the crib and moved it over to the nursery and then set up his new bed. The boys room now looks like this..Ready for bed...
The first night went pretty well. Much better than I expected, actually. He got up once right after we put him down and then cried out a couple times between 8 and 1, but settled down on his own. At 1 he really woke up and went over to Byron's bed. Byron told me he wanted to get in bed with him but he said no. I went in at that point and put him back to bed. Way kept saying "no nap" but settled down pretty quickly. That was it, until 5:20 this morning. He's been getting up really early since we got back from Thanksgiving. I'm hoping that will change soon. I do not function well before 6 am.

The nap today went really well. We'll see what tonight brings. Wish us luck!

So Proud

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Thanksgiving weekend

We had a great time in Southern Illinois (or So Ill) last week. It was really nice to see Aaron's family and hang out with some friends again.

The trip down was great. We had a 2 hr layover in Dallas, but I LOVE that airport. They have a kids area in each terminal. The boys had a great time playing around. We are going to try and fly through there from now on.
Waylon giving some poor little girl the hand...We got there before anyone else, so we had a few days of calm. We went to 2 movies and enjoyed the nice weather. Aaron and I were all prepared to freeze our tushies off, but it was actually really nice the first half of the week. The boys got to play in Poppa Pete's yard a bunch. Aaron and I went to see Due Date on our own (Date night!!) but it wasn't good, at all really. However, we took the boys to see MasterMind...
It was great, both for the adults and the kids. Waylon actually sat transfixed through the whole thing and was dancing to I'm Bad by MJ on the way out (one of the cutest things ever to happen in So Ill).

Thanksgiving itself was great. It was Aaron's immediate family plus Pete's girlfriend, Alisha, and his Aunt Suzanne. The dinner was wonderful and for some reason both the boys had the best manners ever during the entire dinner. That has NEVER happened before. Aaron and I still are wondering how to repeat it. Usually dinner is just a series of "don't (insert some bad action here), and eat your dinner".

Byron supervising the preparations....
The table all loaded down...That is the extent of the pictures I took. I came down with a bad cold the day after. The trip home wasn't anything to write about either. I think it's best if we all just forget that. The boys were great, but we were an hr and 1/2 later getting in than planned and we had a 3 hr layover already scheduled in there. It was a LONG day. But, we're all home now. It felt great to get back to Savannah and our puppies.