Updates on the boys!

I try not to go longer than a week with out posting... I do have some pictures on my camera from last week because it was American Education Week and B got to dress up for school each day for different themes... but my camera is at home and I've been slacking about uploading... partially b/c I guess I'm just slacking and partially b/c we now have a very mobile and busy baby! Yes, right after I posted that C wasn't crawling crawling yet he decided to surprise us! Last Tuesday evening B and I were sitting on the couch going over his papers from the day and Corbin was sitting on the floor playing toys... all at once I saw movement and B and I look up and C had thrown his toy across the floor (not uncommon- he loves to throw things!) and he is crawling- yes crawling to get it! B starts jumping up and down- soooo excited- screaming, "My brother can crawl, my brother can crawl"!! It was so sweet. The first couple days he would just crawl around whatever room we were in, but now he has figured out he can get everywhere and likes to explore :) I'm currently trying to figure out where to put the Christmas tree that he won't pull it down on himself b/c he gets up on his knees and pulls EVERYTHING down! He is def. keeping us busier these days. My favorite place to sit and do things (tutu making, computer, reading, etc) was on the floor- haha! No more sitting on the floor to do anything for me anymore b/c I have a little boy that wants right in the middle of it all! I love watching him do new things, but it also makes me sad that he has taken this next step of independence! His 5th tooth (eye tooth on top) is about to pop through. I'd say sometime this week it will. You can see white and it's just right under the gum. I looked in B's babybook and C was about a month older when he got his first tooth (but if you factor in that he was a month early it's about the same), but B didn't get his 5th tooth until he was 11 months. I also checked their weights and B was 20lbs 6oz at 9 months and C is 21 lbs 10oz- so not a huge difference. B was 29 in. long and C is 30. So they are pretty similar in size (although C just seems huge to me!). C still says three words- bubba, momma, and dada, but the one he says the most (all the time) is bubba! Brycen of course LOVES this! ha! B has figured out how to carry C around to get him wherever he wants to go. He's really careful with him and half drags him b/c he only weighs about 15 lbs less! haha! Brycen plays C's little toys with him and loves to help give him his snacks (cheerios or bananas). Oh yes, Thursday night we had family pictures done w/ my parents for my mom's Christmas cards and so my brother was home for the evening from school (we so miss him!) and we went out to eat at a bbq place in town. C thinks he has to eat when we eat so Ryan let him lick a pickle... he LOVED it. He wanted to bite them off, but we just let him chew on them. He ate/chewed 2 of them (big ones) until they were mush! They were pretty sour pickles too!


B has started basketball for this year. His first game is this coming Sunday. Ryan is coaching him. Brycen says he loves it... it's just so funny b/c he is not agressive at all. He def. won't be accused of being a ball hog ;) I love watching him play, but I hate that they play on Sundays. That's normally our day to be together- the 4 of us, but this kind of interrupts our day! It goes through January so I guess we'll live :). He is doing so well in school and we get midterms at the end of this week. Watching his reading skills improve is amazing to me! He wasn't very confident at first, but now everywhere we go he is trying to sound words out and read whatever he can. They have 3 reading series' in Kindergarten and he will be starting in the 2nd one today. They bring home a book and practice it for 2 days. They take it back to school and are tested on it (they read it and then have 3 comprehension questions). Today he will be tested on his last book in the first series. He's so pumped b/c he says the 2nd series has bigger words ;). I also bought the first four Boxcar Children book set and have been reading in those to him each night. We're on book 2 and he loves to try and read words in these too. I was kind of tired of reading story books all the time and I remember loving all the Boxcar Children books and thought B might enjoy the deeper story lines in them as well- sure enough- he does! And Ryan likes to listen too :) I love that family time before we put him to bed each night. Ryan has been working at the house and/or at work pretty late each night, but I can always count on story time :) C goes to bed at 7:30 each night and although I miss him and wish he would stay up a little later he is tired and wants to be put down- it's also a good thing too b/c B gets that one on one time. This is when he reads his reading series book and does whatever homework (if any) he has. He and I normally play a game or two of Yahtzee (last night it was Candyland) or some other game (but Yahtzee is my favorite). haha! He says, "Momma, you ALWAYS want to play Yahtzee"!

Brycen also had to pull his first card at school last week! It was for not putting his name on his paper! He was really upset at school when he had to pull it and he cried! His teacher spoke w/ him and told him it was okay and there wasn't a need to cry! When I picked him up that day he said, "Mom- I have baddd news" I was like, "Oh no, what happened" and B said, "I had to pull a card". I went on to ask him what it was for and when he told me it was for not having his name on his paper I could help but smile to myself. If that's the worst he does all year to get a card pulled I'll be happy! :)


The house is still coming along... Ryan got all the can lights installed this wk/end! My dad is on vacation hunting this week, but hopefully next he can get all our wire pulled into the house. The next steps are getting the garage doors up and insulation so we can get some heat in there so Ryan doesn't freeze out there working! The siding is really coming along and I just keep forgetting to take my camara out there to take pictures... I really need to do that!


If you have made it this far- kudos to you- I mainly wanted to do this update so I'd have it for my blog book (I've been working on my first years of blogging ('07-'08). I'm combining those two years b/c in '07 I only had a handful of posts! I'm excited about this work week b/c I only work today and tomorrow and then I'm off the next 5 days w/ my boys! What a treat!