more snow pics

Here's a few cold weather pics of Ethan, Caleb and our friend Jolie

More Snow...

turn your volume up if you want narration


Here's Caleb playing in the snow on our balcony

It's snowing...

that's right, it's only the beginning of October and the snow has already begun. I went out last night and it was snowing a little, but when we woke up this morning, there was a light blanket of snow everywhere. It snowed constantly all day and we are supposed to get 9 more inches tomorrow. Here are a few pics that Jon took before he headed to work this morning:

the back of our apartment complex

Jon's jeep


Some trees outback

Caleb got a hand-me-down snow suit from some friends tonight, so we'll post some pics of him playing in the snow tomorrow.

The Latest

Boy, Ethan is growing up fast. He is mastering so many new skills. He's got the army crawl down, will rock like crazy on his hands and knees (seriously the fastest rocking you've ever seen), and will crawl a few steps at a time before giving in to the army crawl again. He likes to sit on the floor between my legs and use my body to pull himself up to standing. He's also mastered the "ma ma" sounds, and will "call" me when he wakes up from his naps, and mimic me when I say it to him....so cute!! I will post some pics soon, I promise.

He's also so big that he now wears the same size diaper as Caleb - who is two and a half!!! what the heck?!?!? Kind of nice to just have to keep one size of diapers on hand though....makes it easy to pack a diaper bag :)

Caleb is very into singing these days. Last night he serenaded us with his own medley of "If you're happy and you know it", "Head, shoulders, knees and toes", and the ABC's - all combined to make one very unique song that Jon and I were required to participate in. I love this age!

Dying to sleep

So any mom out there definitely knows what I'm talking about. You finally get to the point where your kids sleep through the night consistently, then SURPRISE!! They decide they don't like sleeping anymore. We were on a good roll. Ethan had been sleeping through the night a good 9-11 hours for about a month. Then he had to go ahead and get some new skills (up on hands and knees and rocking like crazy). He wakes up about every 2 hrs now. Whenever I go in his room he is rocking, and he's got this look on his face like "Hi mom! Look at me!". He's just so darn cute, but it's driving me crazy. He did this for 3 weeks, then slept through the night 2 nights in a row - I hoped we were back on track.......no such luck. He's back to being up every 2 hrs. I'm mentally at the point where I'm ready to just let him fuss/cry it out, but the poor guy has a major cold and can barely breathe now, so that's not going to happen......

.....I tried napping today while he napped, but of course I laid in bed for an hour without falling asleep. As soon as I started dosing off what do you know? the boy has awakened yet again. He's sleeping now but of course I'm too tired to sleep.

Monkey's nap time

I walked in on possibly the cutest thing I've ever seen the other day. Caleb was putting his 2 monkey's down for a nap. He read them a story, sang them " Jesus Loves Me", "Mary had a Little Lamb (the widdle wam song)" and "Jesus Loves the Little Children"...our bedtime routine, then he leaned over and kissed them each good night. Of course by the time I got the camera out he was finished. But I did catch part of the encore performance the next day. I missed his version of Jonah and the Big Fish, which was actually quite good. But I did turn the camera on in time for his rendition of David and Goliath (just in case you don't speak 2 year old and are wondering what is going on).....I tried to flip the video but it didn't take...so sorry, you'll have to crank your neck....

And here's Caleb doing his version of "Jesus Loves Me" and then trying to kiss someone out there goodnight.....man I love this kid more and more everyday!!

Ethan loves his brother....

Ethan's newest skill is lunging forward from sitting position to grab a toy. So I was trying to catch that on video. But then Caleb walks into the room....check out how excited Ethan gets when he sees him... please ignore my fat legs at the end :)