Rub a dub dub, two boys in a tub!!!

After Tristan's first ziti experience, it was definitely bath time.




pre-bath


happy to play in the tub!


Michael covering Tristan in bubbles


he had just finished crawling in the tub and is therefore covered in bubbles


Michael decided to help mommy clean Tristan off

Tristan's first real "boo boo" he fell face forward onto the concrete when we were outside playing yesterday. Poor lil guy. he's doing well though and only a small layer of skin came off and its scabbed up already.


you can kind of see Michael's lump under his eye in these pictures and his new haircut!

update on the kiddos


Michael

• says "please" and "thank you" consistently
• shuts the door when he leaves his room in the morning after he wakes up
• now says "Thomas" (which sounds like "ah-mas" for Thomas the Tank Engine
• has a chalazion. I need to call a pediatric opthamologist about it since he's had it for about a month now and with home treatment is not going away.
• can walk up the stairs unassisted not holding on to anything

Tristan

• climbs the stairs, he made it halfway up our staircase this weekend!
• crawls everywhere and is getting faster every day
• pulls up on everything, even the trash can
• has occasionally let go and stood holding onto nothing
• has 5 teeth (top middle two, bottom middle two, and the one to the right of the bottom middle) and is working on 3 more teeth
• he's finally found his happy side, so I don't spend most of my day holding him anymore
  

so I'm pregnant. I've know now for a little over a week. Still in shock, but working on figuring out what we need to do before our third little one arrives. I'm due November 21st, the day before Thanksgiving, so that'll make the holidays fun. BUT...one good thing is, another tax deduction next year!!

we need to:

• move somewhere larger. we're already cramped in our 644 sq ft apartment with two kids
• get a larger car. we're talking about trading in the Buick for a *gasp* van or selling the truck and getting a used van.
• figure out storage space depending on where we move, because I now need to keep all these various baby items I was planning on selling and need somewhere to store them when Tristan's done with them.

ps- if you haven't checked the knitting blog lately, there are some new pictures posted!

pictures!!

first the socks and then my hat I finished last night.


now the boys!

A month into the new year, an update on my goals for the year.

I have had two Mom's Nights Out with our local stay at home mom's group. definitely much needed. they're trying to do it every other week or so. lately we've just been hitting local Applebee's after 9pm for their half price appetizers. we get a bunch and split them.

I have also complete a pair of knitted socks. my first socks ever. I'm so proud of them since they came out really well (will share pictures tomorrow). I finally bit the bullet and bought some double pointed needles (DPN's) and attempted socks. I'm in love with DPN's now and my next project is going to be a hat. I feel that now that I've finished a pair of socks I can knit anything!

In January, Michael learned some new words:

• boo
• meow (now whenever he sees a cat, he says meow...over and over and over and over)
• eye
• nose
• mommy!!! (finally!!! he has always said baby and daddy, but never mommy til now)
• moo
• cup

For Tristan, he's been spending more and more time on his hands and knees. mostly when he gets mad at me because I'm not holding him. but as of yesterday he is now pulling up on furniture and standing! yikes! he's definitely more interested in pulling up than crawling.

In other news...Josh went on his first business trip to Wisconsin for 4 days last week It was rather successful, but it was nice to have him home. we went to his company's end of the year party last Friday night and had a blast. definitely nice to meet people he'd been talking about.

I do have pictures to share, but will have to post them tomorrow. I'm off to bed as the munchkins haven't been allowing me much sleep at all *yawn*.

Happy New Year!!

Generally with a new year comes resolutions. I never make them, because inevitably something happens and it doesn't work out. So this year I have decided to make a few goals:

1. spend more time for myself- either knitting, crocheting or reading, goal of at least a half hour a day
2. have a girls night out once a month so I can connect with other women, which seldom happens currently
3. eat healthier. avoid eating out if possible and to cook healthy food for my family
4. start playing the piano again
5. get involved in some sort of sport, whether it be intramural soccer or church softball

Also with the new year comes our anniversary. Josh and I have now been married 4 years as of January 1, 2007. craziness. It feels like forever, but yet it also feels like it went by so quickly.

Hope you all have a fantastic 2007!

Almost Christmas and I've purchased exactly one gift (not including Josh's gift for his work gift exchange). This is typical of me waiting til the last minute, but we won't be doing much more gift buying due to finances, but that doesn't matter too much to me. I'm not big on presents anyway.

We got our Christmas cards in the mail yesterday, just a few for relatives that really don't get to see the kids. Got those addressed and mailed out last night. This is the first year I've done cards and I think I'll try to do it every year.

I cut Michael's hair last night, first time I've done it solely by myself. It didn't turn out too bad, but of course their are those bad patches cause he moved. Oh well, thankfully his hair grows quickly!!

I have an abcessed tooth which hurts like the dickens. We don't have any insurance until after January 1, so waiting for that to get it fixed. In the meantime, I suffer. Some days it hurts, some days it doesn't. The thing that kills the most is when one of the boys unknowlingly whacks their head against this particular cheek and hits my abcess. OUCH!!!

We now have our itty bitty Christmas tree up, along with some lights around our window and door on the inside. mostly because the lights burnt out in the light fixture in our dining area and we just keep forgetting to buy new light bulbs. ooops! but at least it looks pretty, right?