Funny Kids

Well, yesterday was my due date and it doesn't look like this baby is ever going to come. Needless to say being over the due date doesn't put mommy in the best mood. Yesterday was a rough day and I was expecting the same today but my kids have been cracking me up all day.

The boys made "bunkbeds" on the stairs. Brayden was fake snoring and Matthew kept telling him that they couldn't go to sleep until they said their prayers so he was helping Brayden say his prayers. It was sweet.


We made cookies a few days ago, it was an adventure.



And today we decorated them. Matthew takes his work very seriously.

Brayden takes his eating very seriously.

Matthew also drew me a picture today. This is me with the baby in my tummy still (at least he has me smiling and he doesn't think I am a mean grumpy mom yet)

And then on the back he drew a picture of me with the baby out of my tummy. He then told me that we need to hang it on the door so everyone will know when the baby comes out! So if you come by just look for the sign! At this point I don't think that it will ever change but I am scheduled to be induced on Wednesday hopefully I don't have to wait that long but my kids are a little stubborn and tend to do things on their own.

4 going on 13

Matthew found my old Walkman the other day, it was buried under my bed and I forgot that I even had it. His first reaction was, "what the heck is this mom?" He knows how to work the ipod but this apparently looked like a foreign object.

This was Matthew for the rest of the day. I only have a few cassette tapes, a Garth Brooks, a mixed tape, and a church tape. Anytime I asked him to do anything he would tell me that he couldn't because he was listening to his music! Apparently he is turning into a teenager already.

And of course Brayden has to try out everything that Matthew does.

Here are some other things that have been going on:

Brotherly love! Matthew loves to play games on my computer and Brayden loves to just sit and watch him. It sure is nice when they are getting along :)

Here is another toy ad that Matthew cut out that he says he needs for Christmas. But this time he sat down and wrote his name for the first time ever! He has been trying to write his name for a while but he usually looses interest after the first few letters! I was so excited for him! And now he has been writing his name on everything (ok mostly just toy ads but it is a start, right?)

Nate and I went out on a date the other night to Outback and I had some left over steak that I was trying to eat for lunch the next day. But I didn't get to eat much because I had 2 little helpers!

Thanksgiving

This was the first year we have ever stayed home for Thanksgiving and the first year I have ever had to cook the whole dinner by myself. I was a little nervous but it wasn't too bad! I wish I would have taken a picture of the turkey cause it looked awesome! My brother did come up to spend the weekend with us and the boys love their Uncle Ryan. Uncle Ryan even downloaded fart noises to his phone(yes, I guess there really is an app for that!) and the boys thought that was the the funniest thing ever and may I add just what you want to hear while eating turkey. Oh well, I guess it is a boy thing because Ryan thought it was pretty funny too!

Matthew and Brayden enjoyed having Uncle Ryan help with the Christmas tree. Brayden followed him around saying, "Come on Ryan come on" Then would grab his hand and drag him back to the tree to help some more :)

I didn't do a great job of getting the placing the star on the tree shot this year as you can't even see Brayden in the pic. Oh well, this is the boys favorite part!

It was a nice weekend full of football and gassy noises but fun was had by all!

Christmastime at Disneyland

Well, this was our last hurrah before the baby comes. We went to Disneyland (of course!) the 13th & 14th of November(I know the post is a little late). It was so fun! Disneyland sure goes all out for Christmas and it was fun to get into the Christmas spirit! Here are some highlights:

The massive tree on main street. Not that you can tell from this picture as the lady took it up close but trust me it is pretty big!

Here we are waiting for the fireworks to start. We were standing in the street and this nice man asked me if I wanted to sit down on his bench for a little while since I was pregnant. It was so nice! I started talking to his wife and come to find out they live in Ucon, Idaho (just outside Idaho Falls). Small world (no pun intended)! We keep talking and come to find out some of her girls were in my mother-in-law's class at school. Even smaller world! Anyway, it was nice of him to let a poor pregnant woman sit down for a few minutes, I guess there are still considerate people in the world :)

Admiring the lights of small world.

We ate at this little BBQ place at the park and they have live music. This singing cowboy was walking around and singing and Matthew insisted that he needed to talk to him. And show him his picture! He sure isn't shy any more!

We also went to Santa's village and Matthew jumped right up on Santa's lap before this he has always been very afraid of Santa. Matthew told Santa that he needed more trains, tracks and cargo's for Christmas and that Santa needed to bring some for his Brayden brother too. Brayden wouldn't go too close to Santa, only close enough to grab a candy cane.

Matthew also decided that he isn't scared of the characters anymore and gave each one a big hug! It was pretty cute. Brayden was a different story and kept a safe distance!

3 out of the 4 looking, not bad! At least everyone was smiling!




Does this one really need a caption?

Brayden waiting for the Christmas parade to start. We had been walking around the stores just for something to do to kill time. Brayden broke this lollipop and I would have felt to guilty putting it back so I bought it. Talk about a rip off! And of course you can't buy something for one kid and not the other. $6.50 for 2 lollipops really? Oh well at least it kept them quiet while we waited for the parade to start!