Our waiting room

Alexander has been going to the Marcus Center for ABA therapy for a couple of weeks now. Luckily Jacob loves car rides and usually takes a good nap in his car seat. When he wakes up this is what our time looks like.

Big Boys

My kids always look so much older after a haircut. 

Kevin actually cut their hair a couple of weeks ago but I've been majorly slacking in the picture taking department and I just took these tonight. I'll try to remember to bring my camera along on our adventures next week and put together some sort of real update on our lives of late.

Ta-ta for now!

Before January Passes

As I found myself grumbling that none of the blogs I follow seem to be updated today, it suddenly struck me that I haven't updated this blog a single time in 2013. So perhaps I shouldn't grumble that I don't have any blog posts with which to entertain myself and, here's a wild idea, put something out there to be seen. What a concept.

Here are the first pictures I've taken of my children since the beginning of January. The boys both need haircuts... 

Maybe we'll get that done before January passes, too.

Gideon and the "Jahcobs"

My nephew Gideon officially calls all his uncles "Errett" and all his cousins "Jahcob." Because he's cute like that.

Sharing the iPad. (sort of)

Make shift sheet hammock. (Held by obliging uncles and Gaga.)

Christmas Card Shoot 2012

I bought 2 chocolate advent calendars from Aldi and decided to sacrifice them for the possibility of a messy/cute photo op. I showed the boys how to open the doors and how to get the candy out, and stood back hoping they would go to town and share some chocolate covered smiles of glee with the camera. Of course, nothing ever quite goes as planned. Alexander was fixated on keeping all the little doors closed! They both mostly wanted to get up and play with the lights we had set up to try for pictures without the flash. And since I'm still really a camera n00b, not using the flash made for much grainier photos than I would have preferred. But here are some of the best ones we got. Can't really go wrong with cuteness of this caliber, even if I've given up on getting them to look at the camera. :-)

Zoo with Papa

My dad came to visit for a 3-day weekend. Alexander had school Friday morning but that afternoon we were able to make a trip to the Zoo.  

Baby Elephant Statue. Alexander just can't get enough of those statues.

Jacob looking cute while refusing to look at the panda right behind him.

Again.

Papa spotting the little man in a climb.

Here is Alexander actually expressing mild interest in the animals for once. Most of the animals at the zoo don't move very much and since you can't even climb on them like you can on those awesomely fabulous statues, they hold little fascination for my logical boy.

(The penguin hats are a Christmas Card "Costume" attempt. One of these days I will get a picture of my sons dressed cute and looking at the camera at the same time. I swear it!)

We found out adults ride free with a paying child (under 42") on the zoo train. I totally didn't know that before or I would have taken the boys a long time ago. 

Alexander l.o.v.e.s. trains.

Halloween (1.5 Weeks Late)

We were sick the week of Halloween so I wasn't able to get any pictures of the boys in their costumes the day of (although we did Trick or Treat for about 30 mins just in our cul de sac.) So, a couple days later I dressed them back up and went for a visit/photo session with Grandpa. May I just say, I've got me some cute kids!

Baby Dinosaur

Alexander THOMAS the Tank Engine