Friday, December 30, 2011

Christmas Day

On Christmas morning we woke Nicholas up at about 6:15 because Tyler couldn't wait any longer and because we figured we needed to get started if we were going to make it on time to 9am church. Nicholas usually needs a little bit of time before he is willing to socialize, but we figured the excitement of presents would override any grumpiness. He got distracted by a gift he had opened the night before though, on his way to the tree and so since we were trying to usher him to the new presents he thought we weren't going to let him play with Thomas train. You'll see his reaction. Eventually though we got the reaction we were hoping to see, it just took about 3 presents to get there!





Here are some other pictures from the day as well.



This is the face he made when I said "Smile!!"


After church both boys were so tired that they fell asleep on the couch! It's normal for Tyler, but Nicholas never does that! :)





Thursday, December 29, 2011

Christmas Eve

This year Christmas Eve was chore day. I did more chores than I had done in the last month. That's not saying I did a lot... my contribution was pathetic really. But I did stuff. :) Nicholas and Tyler cleaned up the back yard. Nicholas had so much fun "helping" Daddy rake and shovel. You can tell how hard he's working by how much his tongue sticks out!











Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Tractor!!

We stopped by Tyler's work today and Nicholas "helped." He was in 2 year old heaven!

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Terrible Twos

I recognize and appreciate the fact that I have one of the best behaved two year olds in the world. I know we are so lucky. Every once in a while though we are reminded that he is a pretty normal two year old. Sometimes he gets an attitude, i know he sometimes pushes in nursery, and goes into all out war mode when someone tries to take his toy away. Today we sort of bonded over one of the worst tantrums I have ever seen him throw. Definitely in the top two.
For this kind of meltdown there are a lot of factors that come together and create little baby chaos, and today had a lot of those factors. But they were masked by the fact that he was with his best friend and his mom, so I was taken a bit off my guard. And of course the melt down came when I tried to pry him away from his best friend and his mom so that we could go home and take our respective naps. It started with the normal protests and turned to screams and hitting. I tried to talk him through it but he was having none of that. So, I dragged him out to the car kicking and screaming, without shoes on, and let him calm down in the car while I went back for my purse and both our shoes.
When I got back to the car though, he was still crying! This totally surprised me, he should have calmed down by then but instead he was crying out for "Lyndsey! Jakey! No night night! Lyndsey! Jakey!..." So I gave him kisses and explained again that we were going home so he could sleep and rest his little body, and when he woke up everything would be better." he sniffled an "ok" and we drove home. During the drive though, he would randomly start to cry again and kept sniffling, so I thought maybe talking to Daddy would help. We called Tyler and I handed Nicholas the phone so they could talk man to man-cub. Tyler asked him why he was sad and he said "Lyndsey... Jakey... Mommy... Night night..." there you go, the whole explanation in 5 words. It calmed him down though and helped enough to keep the sniffles at bay so I could get him home and into bed. Whew!
But before he went to bed we had some snuggles and some kisses, and I think he had forgiven me. Which shouldn't really be my main concern but I love my little boy and am glad that he was willing to forgive and forget after such apparent trauma. <3

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Christmas Ornaments

This year when I was decorating our tree, I was enjoying some of the ornaments we've collected since we've been married. Some were gifts to each other, some were gifts from friends. Some were passed down from our family's trees, and some were found on our family adventures. All of them tell a little bit about who we are. Here is just a little sampling:

Friday, December 2, 2011

Shenanigans

This is mostly just a picture dump, but there are some fun ones! We went to the park today, which is one of my favorite things about the winter time in this area. It's cool enough that we don't get sweaty and gross, but warm enough that we don't freeze our fingers off. It's not as cold as it will get, but it's never too cold for the park. :)




The other day we had spaghetti for dinner. I LOVE SPAGHETTI! My son didn't inherit Tyler's or my love for olives, but he sure does love spaghetti. Don't judge me for using paper bowls, I don't do dishes these days. :P




And... one last thing. I've mentioned the bug thing before, but this is the final project:
ew.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

The Surprise!

So a few weeks ago, I went to the doctor for an early visit. Usually he wouldn't meet with me until this month, but because of some other stuff he wanted to meet with me early. Since I was only 6 weeks along, I didn't know if he would do an ultrasound, which is what he normally does on the first visit, so Tyler didn't get off work to come with me.
I got there and he told me he would be doing the ultrasound because at 6 weeks we should be able to see a heartbeat. I was really excited! So, this doctor is great, and you can tell he loves his job. As he was doing the ultrasound he looked around a bit, and then zoomed in on the baby. I could immediately see the heartbeat fluttering, and was so happy! So, he explained a little bit more of what we were seeing. He took a picture, and then moved around some more and said, "And here is the other baby, and it's heartbeat!" He was so sneaky!!!
So, of course I was in shock and he had a hard time taking a picture of the 2nd baby because I was laughing too frequently in sort of a "are you serious?!" kind of way. But, eventually he took that picture and then zoomed out so we could see both babies right next to each other and took a picture of that.

He could tell I wasn't going to be absorbing much information after that news, so he just said that we would talk a lot more about twins later.

I walked out of the doctor's office and to my car in shock, and sort of on the edge of tears from information overload. When I got to the car, I tried to hold it together and called Tyler on the phone. Now, he loves to joke, and through our whole first pregnancy he kept insisting there was a second baby hiding in my belly that we just couldn't see. He's always joking about having twins or some crazy number of babies. So, I told him on the phone that I had gotten an ultrasound that day, and he said, "Are there three in there?" (LOL!) I said, "No, just two."
He said, "wait, really?"
"Uh, huh."
"Are you joking?"
"No."
"Wait, I'm confused. Are you serious or joking?"
"I'm serious."
Now, to his credit part of his confusion was that by this time I was crying and kind of hard to understand.
So, then he said, "Well, I'm excited!!!"
And that stopped my crying.
So, I stopped by his work and showed him the ultrasound and we were excited together! Then, we just wanted to tell everyone!


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