Michael has discovered Nutella and loves eating a "chocolate samwich" everyday. Of course, "pasghetti" is still a staple, too. He also loves playing with his warthog and "niceroscerous". I've been teaching him how to play the piano, so he can play a "C-scale" with both hands, as well as "There was a Catepillar" to the tune of "99 bottles of ...." He does require rewards, so he's working towards earning a "Chesso Bernouli" (from Cars 2). He loves writing his letters and numbers and can count up to 100! I'm so proud of him :-). My mom, a former science teacher, has also taught him how to build a double helix with a little model she has, which he knows is a DNA ladder!
Both boys also loving jumping on Mommy & Daddy's bed. Michael assigns all of us an animal. He's usually a zebra or buffalo! Nathan just loves crashing face-forward onto the bed.
I've been training for my first 5K with my friend Elizabeth Valdes. Considering the fact that I've never run more than 10 minutes at a time in my entire life, this is a pretty big deal for me. Of course, it took 28 minutes to run 2.4 miles - I guess I won't be at goal for the race (30 minutes to run 5K), but that's ok - I'll keep exercising and maybe next time I'll be fitter and faster.
Of course, I say that, but we'll be trying for a baby girl in about a month! I think Michael & Nathan would really love a baby sister :-). Well, Michael certainly. We took him to visit his baby cousin Abigail after she was born. The boy loooved her and wanted to hold her all weekend long.
Even when he refused to take a nap on Day #2, he still desparately wanted to hold her that he endured the exhaustion and insisted on holding her.
On the drive up to Austin, I managed to get a few pictures of the boys in bluebonnets. Of course, this has only made me want a faster, nicer camera and learn how to do some "real" photography. In my spare time, eh?
Oh, and by the way, here's the Noah's Ark Baby Blanket I made for Abigail. It took me a solid month of crochetting 2 hours a night! And even though I didn't have a pattern for the Ark, animals, clowd, or sun/rainbow, and just free-handed it, I was really happy with how it all turned out. Now, why can't I find some more time to crochet a fun blanket for my own sons?!?
Eric and I finally got a Costco membership today! We're very excited about it. I think the 2 gallons of milk that we go through per week, plus the gas, will pay for our membership in less than half a year! Woohoo! :-)
My last pictures today are to celebrate the cuteness of my sweet sons!
Here they chase each other in circles and end in hugs!
Nathan thought it was pretty fun to wear this grapefruit skin on his head.
And if it fell off, he'd request it back on.
A favorite new toy: Empty Plastic Boxes!
Yes, I think my sons are adorable!
