One of my Top 10...

Sleeping babies! That is one of my top 10 FAVORITE things. There is nothing better, except maybe a freshly bathed sleeping baby. Oh, they are so sweet and peaceful. Just watching my babies sleep makes me feel more peace also. I love to look at their delicate eyelids and their itsy bitsy profile that I sometimes can't help from touching! I absolutely love the funny positions that they somehow find, and it's fantastic when they wake up happy and refreshed. 

My little guys are champion sleepers and I am so thankful. I've learned a lot from the book Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth. Healthy sleep is such a key factor in our over all well being that I am trying to give them a gift of good sleep habits from an early age. So that they can learn and grow at their full potential. It's required some work and I'm sure it won't always be this easy, but I am glad that this is one of our goals. 

This is Caleb sleeping during his morning nap. I think he has now officially outgrown the desire to be swaddled while he sleeps. He also started to really like rubbing that silky blue blanket on is face while he goes to sleep. It's adorable.


Then there's Asher. He is a fantastic sleeper, but the last few mornings he has had a little surprise for us when we go in to get him in the morning. His favorite blanky has a REALLY big rip in it now, but it's just made him love it more. Now he finds the huge hole and sticks his whole arm in. The problem is that through the night it gets all twisted around his wrist and is pretty stuck by morning. Pretty hilarious as you can see from the pictures!

Caleb and Lincoln...

About three weeks apart in age and both as awesome as can be! I think they will be buddies. Thanks for letting us come the other day. We had a great time!

Caleb bit me...

Well, Asher was trying to share his snacks with Caleb. I told him that Caleb is still too little to eat fish crackers, but Asher still kept pretending to feed them to him. Caleb doesn't have any teeth so it wasn't hurting Asher at all, but after we saw these pictures it reminded us of the hilarious "Charlie bit my finger" video. Enjoy.

Brothers...

Caleb likes Asher's blanket, Bah-Bah, but it's the one things that Asher REALLY doesn't like to share.

Asher was having his snack on the couch and I put Caleb next to him. I went to go get the camera and when I turned back around they were holding hands!

I just really love how much the boys are interacting these days! 

Smile...

Ashy is getting good at making silly faces!

Caleb's sweet skills...

Pablo! Tyrone! TASHA!!

These pictures make me happy. I love seeing Asher having fun being a little artist! Justin printed him some pictures of the characters from The Backyardigans, our favorite kid show. He did a great job coloring them. He loves them so much he even had to take Tasha to bed with him that night.

Little brothers are the best...

Asher is great at helping Caleb when he is sad.

But he really likes to play silly games and make his little brother laugh!

"Stickies"

Asher's great aunt gave him lots of stickers aka "stickies" and he has found some pretty fun things to do with them. His favorite of which is to stick them all over Caleb. I though it was pretty smart because the first time he was putting one on Caleb I asked him "which one goes on Caleb?" and he said "Guido Baby." Guido is the smallest car in the Movie CARS and Caleb is the smallest baby in our family so we thought it fit pretty well.
He also put them on his fingers and said that he had "Bandaid owies!"

Some fun pictures...

I got to take some family pictures for our friends a few weeks ago. It was great to have such pretty people to photograph! Brynlee was not in the mood to hold still but she is sure adorable! Thanks guys!

Slide adventures part II

Here are some I took last weekend. Doing anything with daddy is way more fun!

Slide adventures part I

Justin took some fun pictures of Asher the other week out on the playground. He is getting pretty good at the big slide!

Climbing up...

getting into position...

the action shot!

New pals...

Asher and his great Aunt Nancy! We got to visit her during the Thanksgiving weekend and had such a wonderful time!! Asher took to her right away and the two of them had a lot of fun. I was so happy to see that he felt comfortable with her so quickly. Aunt Nancy, thanks for all the thoughtfulness towards Asher last weekend. It really meant a lot to me.

This was at a really great park with Aunt Nancy and some of our friends. It's a good day for a little boy when mom and dad let you just lay down in the sand box.

So sweet.

Caleb update...

Caleb is almost four months old. Holy smokes!! He is just the sweetest little guy. You can always count on him for a smile. He is laughing now too. He loves to watch his older brother. (Side note: the boys wear the same size diapers. Funny huh.) Asher calls him "Calem" so it's become his nickname. He still loves to be swaddled up tight and takes wonderful naps during the day. He is getting pretty good at sleeping at night too. He only woke up once last night. He makes silly faces and giggles and is almost rolling all the way to him tummy. I love this age. He is really sharing his personality with us now!

Mama likes to snuggle the yummy smelling babies after baths!

Maybe I'm wrong, but I see a little devil in those eyes!

Okay, so one morning I was playing with Caleb and giving him kisses. Then I held him to my check so he could give me kisses. He started to suck on me and it made me laugh. We went about our morning and it wasn't until after I put him down for a nap that I realized he had given me a hicky!

One of Caleb's silly faces.

Asher update...

Asher is learning and growing everyday! He surprises us all the time. He is really starting to love Caleb and includes him in things (family prayers, gets him his blanket so he won't be sad, and when he and I were driving home I said "Lets go see daddy" and Asher said "and Calem!") Asher is trying to be more independent (which is not always a smooth process) so we have some tantrums and hitting, but he understands the naughty corner and is learning how to make good choices and let us know what he needs. He is 20 months old today!! He makes my life so wonderful!

This is Asher's new sunday outfit. I think he is so handsome so I wanted to get a picture of him. He was very sad that I was taking the picture before I got him a drink of water.
Asher and his friend Adam. They had the time of their lives throwing every little toy they could find into the kitchen and then picking them all up and doing it again. Boys!

Asher now says "Cheese!" when I ask him to smile.

Asher in the huge pile of fall leaves. He didn't love it...

He wants to be just like Daddy!