Fall Fun-or not so

Since Max has come so far in the past 12 months (now he actually likes the leaves), I thought a picture of the boys in the leaves would be so cute. As you can tell from his expression, he is saying, "You want to take a PICTURE of me sitting in the leaves...no thanks!"

"And Atticus has to sit in my lap...no thanks!"

"Atticus laying in the leaves...ahh, much better."

"In fact, I think I'll have a little fun with this situation."

Atticus

Max loves to answer the phone. We usually end up racing to the phone when it rings so that I can answer it before he picks it up....except for the call that came in on Friday. I saw that it was a telemarketer calling, so I watched Max run to our bedroom to answer the phone and decided not to stop him this time. Perhaps the telemarketer would take our number off their list after a few minutes of talking to Max. After about 15 seconds, I heard him start screaming. The poor guy climbed up on our bed to answer the phone and decided to go ahead and grab the super attractive and appealing bright light bulb on the lamp that had been on all day. He burned his finger! It appears to be only a 2nd degree burn, but at our follow-up visit tomorrow, we'll know for sure. The worst part of all is that no matter how hard we try to work the bandage around his thumb-he still can't quite get the thumb in his mouth...which is making for some long nights for him. Poor guy. It is so sad, but at least it is just one finger. It could be worse-two whole hands like his friend Cooper. Now, I really felt bad for him, and thank goodness, his hands are all healed now.

Bath time

The boys always get a little extra water when dad gives them a bath.

Atticus started rice cereal.

By the 3rd day, he loved it.

Look who found his thumb!

Supporting a couple of our favorite teams...

and both teams are doing pretty good!

The last 8 days

Traveling on a 4 hour airplane flight with two little boys, two car seats, one suitcase weighing 49.5 pounds (half a pound shy of having to pay the $50.00 over-limit fee), one carry-on, one double stroller and NO HUSBAND........very exhausting.Getting to see TONS of family....making the trip seem a little more worth it.

Taking the boys to see the ocean for the first time.....pretty awesome.

Coming home to a beautiful finished (by my husband) basement......TOTALLY WORTH IT!

Before and After Basement Pictures

Before we even bought the house, and after all the hard work!

I'm holding my head up pretty good.

I just can't get enough pictures of this cute little dimple.

I found my feet!

Today, I wanted to wear Dad's hat for our outing to the store.

Oh the fun we have waiting on mom to finish posting pictures on the blog.

Look close...someone has ANOTHER black eye.

If Atticus could talk, we would hear, "my hero".

I'm cross-eyed.

No I'm not!

Atticus had his first experience in the exersaucer, and he loves it! Max doesn't know what to do with Atticus in it, so he usually just runs around it and then gets in it himself when we take Atticus out. Atticus LOVES LOVES LOVES for Max to look at him. So, he just stares up at Max (with all this love in his eyes) while Max runs in circles around the exersaucer.

Notice the background...we are almost finished with the basement.

Someone asked me where Atticus' open-mouth smile came from. Well, I am happy to say that apparently I HAVE contributed something to my 2 kids that look just like their dad!

Max loves to get in Atticus's crib and point to the letters above it. Although, he only has the "t" and the "a" down, he still likes to point to the other letters and pretend like he is saying the correct letter.

Atticus smiles ALL the time these days.