Cute and Naughty

Last time I blogged, I heard Dexy get quiet. I was almost finished with my last post, so I just finished up before coming down. It wasn't very long, but when I came down I found Dexy sitting on the kitchen counter. He had pulled over a chair, climbed up, turned the water on, plugged the sink, and was having a grand old time making lake kitchenanooga. He's so cute and so cheeky!

One day Dexy hauled all of his pillows, blankets, and friends into my room and up onto my bed. Then he climbed up and got himself comfy and called for me. I came in to find him so adorably snuggled on my bed, that when he asked to watch a show I just couldn't resist.

He had pulled his blankets up over him when I brought in his drink that he had so politely asked for. He's just so precious!

Wiped! We didn't really even do anything all that tiring this day, but for some reason they were both just flopped all over. Ollie fell asleep like that!

Dexy wanted to wrestle. Ollie, not so much this time around.

The boys were being quiet so I went to see what they were up to. They weren't anywhere in the house. I found them here, sitting on top of the car!

And Dexy was even pants-less! See?!? Cute and naughty.

Oliver's First Day of Preschool

Oliver's first day of preschool was on August 29th. He was so excited to be going back. He got to go last year, but only for a month or so. This is his first real year. I was happy to have him going back, too! He attends Monday through Thursday, 11:20-1:20. Here we are on our way there. Yay!

Dexy was all chill! He likes his brother going to preschool as well. We get some nice, quiet, Mommy/Dexy time.

Ollie with his teacher, Ms. Kat. He seems to really like her. But he was too distracted for the first picture.

Oh, there he is!! We're so proud of our big boy. He is growing up very much. And crazy FYI: when I typed in this title, he looked at it and said, "did you type Oliver's first day of preschool?" What?!? Why yes! Yes I did! I have no idea how he knew that because I didn't say anything before or while I was typing it. His only clue could have been the pictures, and that's still pretty genius if you ask me!

Last Week's Dinner Menu

It was kind of an off week for me.
(Cristina's hilarious joke. Laughed so hard!)

The Boys' New Fetish

Colored Eggs!!!
Whatever gets them to eat breakfast, right?!

How We Spent our Summer

The "blue waterslide' was a big hit this summer! We bought a summer pass at Sand Hallow Aquatic Center for all 4 of us for only $100. It was well worth it!



Storytime at the library on Friday mornings. Love love love! We'd meet Cristina and kids there and then almost always followed that up with....



...the splashpad! Another fabulous activity!



The last activity of choice, our usual fall back, was to play in Cristina's backyard. If we needed an activity it was usually one of these 4. What a fun way to spend our summer!

FYI - I made these gifs at gifninja.com I'm very excited about them!

Dexy Talking

Dexy is becoming such a talker! I love hearing him try to say EVERYTHING!
I don't know what 'monnanotto' means. Ollie's a goof!

We call underwear "chonies" because someone on Brian's mission called them that. And one day when Dexy and Jude were here doing good pottying, I randomly called them a "chonie hero." Then Brian picked it up later and started singing chonie hero to tune of "Jukebox Hero." The boys love it now!! Dexy even tries to sing it and it's so precious. He's just doing such good talking. It makes me so happy!

Catching up with Brian's Past

Brian's Madrigals partner and some of their other friends from the group were all going to be in or around St. George on the same weekend, so they decided to all get together and catch up. We met at the splashpad to let the kids play while the grown-ups chatted. I must admit, I did tons more playing than chatting. I figured Brian knew them better and needed to talk more than I did. Brian's partner is named Melanie and her little girl, Lydia, was so cute! She was shy at first, but when I reached out to her, she decided that we could be best friends! Ollie knew a cute girl when he saw one and wanted to hold her hand and come play with us. They were being so precious. We played for a while before heading back to our house for homemade pizza, salad, cantalope, and dessert pizza.

The kids played really well together. And it was fun to get to know some of Brian's buddies better. We only snapped a couple of pictures and all the kids sat relatively still and we actually got pictures. We were impressed. Oh and see? Lydia decided that she needed to sit on my lap. I feel so special! This was Melanie and her husband and 2 little girls, Brian and I and our 2 boys, Nina and her little boy and baby girl (her husband couldn't make it) and Meredith and her husband and little girl and baby boy. Fun!

Ollie and Lydia had one last chance to play as her family started to head out. They were closing each other in this outside door and calling it their cage. I'm pretty sure Ollie came up with this idea! It was nice to have a get together!