Plain Days...

We went down to visit the inlaws yesterday to celebrate my hubby's 29th bday (Happy Birthday Chris!) and it was nice. We had my father in law pick up a train table for Lucas that we found on Craigslist super cheap and he played with that most of the day.

And I spent my time taking pictures of my little chunky boy :)

Can you blame me?? :)

With these two cuties taking up pretty much all of my time once I get out of work everyday, I can't help but feel like I have lost myself. My personality doesn't shine through any more. I need to remind myself that not only am I a mother and a wife, but I am an artist, a friend, an individual. I have just recently come upon the blog world and it has been amazingly inspirational. Like I said before, I am an artist. Art was my world before my family. It's what I went to school for and what I wanted to be when I grew up. I have lost that. But exploring this world of blogging I have stumbled across the MANY crafter blogs and artists blogs and I cannot help but sit online at night for hours and read and collect ideas and be inspired. It is my goal to find myself little by little, begining with the artist within. Now only to find the time :) I hope to get creative and share my adventures here. I hope you don't mind :)

Look at these faces!! Lucas is now a little over two and is getting much better with his words. He started talking later than most (just like he started walking later...) and is begining to really pick up everything we are saying. It's funny because he has always been 'slower' with his milestones than most kids, but he is smart as anything!! He already knows his alphabet, the order and the visual letters, he can count to 15 and he knows his colors already. And he has known all of this for months!! So I may just have a genius on my hands :) (considering Albert Einstein had some speech issues early on, I don't really worry... LOL)

And then there is that ADORABLE little chunk, Ethan. Oh how I wish I could just eat his pudgy cheeks!! He has been a chunk since birth, born at 11lb 12oz and now around 16 or so at 3 months. (How come the chunk is so much cuter on him than on me?!?) He, completely the opposite of his brother, has already started cooing and talking away to us all. It's totally wild to think that he was just born three months ago and far he has already developed.

And the two of them as brothers just melts my heart. Luke runs around calling him his Brover and is always kissing and hugging him. I can't even begin to put into words how lucky we are to have them. They are amazing....

Warmth...

It is so nice here today! Made it easy to get up and outta bed this morning, but also made it a lot more difficult to come into work :) I am quite jealous on days like to day of my husband who is home with the kids during the day and works at night. Throw some shorts on those boys and head outside for the day....must be nice!! I find myself irritated that I have to work with two little boys at home, but at the same time I am also thankful for it. Irritated that I get home after a long day at work and am left with only 2 hours before the boys go down for the night. Irritated that I can't take them outside on gorgeous days and watch them play at the park or in the sand box. But thankful that I have adult interaction. Thankful that when I go to work every morning I know that my husband is there taking care and loving up on them while I can't. And thankful that I have a job. That we are making money and staying afloat. It's hard to see so many families losing everything with the loss of a job. It has happened to us before, but not with the kids around, thank God!

Such a little boy

Thanks to my mother, or as Lucas calls her, 'Ammy', Luke has discovered his immense love for 'Thomas the Train'. It's really cute and kinda wild that he is such a little boy and totally knows what he likes. He will sit by himself and line his trains up and play for hours on end. I don't really see the appeal, but boy does he love him some Thomas!! I have to say it is quite nice to have a distraction for him at times when we are taking care of Ethan and it is so fun to watch him. And of course, as his parents, Chris and I want to buy every little Thomas item we see. So much so that I am pretty sure you can consider our entire home to be in a complete train theme. It is so worth it though, to see everytime he unwraps a new toy or outfit with his favorite guy on it, the excitement on his face. Sometimes we even get a squeal ;) and he is starting to say "Cooooool" He is growing up WAY too fast.

Two little monkeys

Chris and I count our blessings every day to have the boys. No matter how many times I have to wash the crayon off the walls (and washer and stove and floors...) or how many times we have to watch 'Thomas the Train', we thank God every day for every single second we have with them.

It's a bummer that we don't have all of our family close enough to enjoy all those small moments with us and since I am so photo obsessed I thought it might be nice to start this blog to show 'em off! :)

Easter Sunday I got to dress them up and can't even get over this picture!