Usually everytime I take Kenden to preschool. Tate wants to hold his papers that we pick up out of his cubby. I usually don't give him the things kenden's made or colored. Just the handouts for upcoming events. After we dropped kenden off, Tate and I went by the beauty supply house. I usually leave the boys in the car when I go in cause they terrorize the store. (Don't worry, i can see them the whole time i'm in there). Well today when I got back into the car. Tate says to me "I wip". He was very sad. I thought he was saying that he was wet. So I asked him if he wet his pants. He said "No, I wip" Finally, I figured out he was saying rip not wet. So I asked him "you ripped?" He said "Ya, I wip tenden's papore." (translated: I ripped Kenden's paper.) Then he started to pout. It was so cute (not that he was pouting) I assured him that it was ok and kenden wouldn't be upset. He was ok after that.

Pumkin Patch

Last friday we went to the Shady Oaks pumkin patch in Cottage Grove with Kenden's preschool class. The boys had so much fun. They had a little hay maze, and some animals. We went on a tractor ride out to the pumkin patch and the boys picked out there pumkins. Tate found one pretty easy. Kenden got a little sidetracked cause he saw some cows and he wanted to pet them. When I finally got him focused on finding a pumkin, every pumkin he picked up he didn't like cause it was too dirty. We found one tho!!! After we got back from picking out pumkins. The kids had popcorn, apple cider, and an ice cream cone.

Somebody HELP me!

Please tell me there is other children out there that do this kind of stuff. Tate has been on a rampage, just one thing after another. He is driving me crazy!

These are just a few of the things he's done lately!

Remember the shapes he drew all over my floor? Well this is his newest art. Acrylic paint smeared all over my bedroom floor! How he got ahold of this stuff, I do not know. There is nothing too high or hidden well enough for Tate. Except maybe the attic or the rafters in the garage. Hmmmm.... He probably could still figure out a way.Apparantly while smearing on the floor, he decided to do a little face painting.His feet needed some color too.

Okay now this is from Tate climbing on the counter getting into the medicine cabinet. He dumped childrens tylenol out (I thought those bottles were supposed to be childproof) and some vitamins, a bunch of fishfood. Looks like he tried to stir it together with some spoons. I don't know what he planned on doing with those dvds and that phone charger. This picture really dosn't do any justice, cause this was only a part of the counter. It was really smeared all over the kitchen and like with everything else Tate had to put it all over his face.

And, you might be thinking..........Where in the heck is his mom, when this is going on? Well, I was probably cleaning up another one of his messes. In this case, I was cleaning up all the clothes he had emptied out of his dresser drawers and closet.

Yes, Your Majesty!

Kenden wouldn't leave the new puppy alone. I told him to go put her down on the floor in the living room. His reply was "Yes, your majesty" He put her down and said "Is that okay? Your majesty" I think he learned that from Cinderella.

Can you draw your shapes?

I was mopping the floor earlier and when I finished the living room, I moved on to the back of the house. When I came back out to the living room I found Tate practicing his shapes on my nice clean floor with his brown color crown. I'm talking all over.

Heres a couple of them.

For a 2yr old, i'd have to say he's pretty dang good at his circles and triangles.

Our New Addition.

We got a new addition to our family this last weekend! Meet our new puppy Ruby! She's a miniature silver dapple dachsund. I got her for Eric as an early birthday present. His birthday is on the 30th. I really didn't think we needed another animal, but Eric had been wanting a puppy like her for awhile. So I got her for him. So now we have 2 big dogs, 2 little dogs, 4 fish, and 1 cat. It's a real zoo over here!!!

For some reason Ruby really likes Tate. She rides with him almost everytime we go somewhere.

So I haven't really posted anything in awhile. It's been crazy around here! Kenden was sick last week. It was miserable. He thinks he's dying when he's sick. He still has a little runny nose. For the most part he's feeling pretty good.


Now Tate is sick, aaah! He's not as mean as Kenden was. But he has trouble sleeping. I've had like no sleep. The other night somehow, that little escape artist figured out a way to get out of his bed (remeber the contraption we had made, to keep him in there. There's a post about it) We would hear him screaming "Mom, get me out. I want out" over and over then you'd hear a thud, silence, the light switch, then the door open. He waits a few seconds just peeking out the door, before he comes tromping out and into our room. I would have to get up, put him back in his bed. Tye down the sheet. I kept tying it down tighter and tighter. That little turd kept getting out. This went on til about 5:30 AM, when eric finally went and got another piece of plywood, put it across the entire top of the crib. He isn't able to get out now. We were able to get an hr and a half of sleep in before we had to get up and ready for work. That day was rough.




Here's a couple pictures of my poor sick lil boys.

I just thought that this was cute! I was putting Kenden to sleep the other night and I told him he was handsome. He said "Yeah, I'm weally handsome, weally weally handsome."