Last summer

In an attempt to update the blog, I typed half a post and saved it, intending to come back to it later. When pulling it up to finish it, I came across another unfinished blog - from Aug 2012. Oops. So here is a blast from our past...

Logan found a roll of wrapping paper under my bed the other day, and brought it all the way downstairs. I saw it, and briefly objected, since they always crinkle the paper up when they play with it, but I was in the middle of something and so let him play for a minute before confiscating it. He walks in to the kitchen a minute later and hands me the roll. “I wapped da pay-pa!” It took me a minute to realize that he wasn’t just handing me the roll of wrapping paper – he had actually wrapped paper. He had unrolled the wrapping paper, laid flat multiple sheets of paper (8 ½ x 11, taken from my “to be filed” pile) and rolled them up into the roll of wrapping paper.  He was very proud.

Our Eggplant…The boys keep looking in vain to find the eggs that it must grow sooner or later. It is a miniature white eggplant, so that makes it all very confusing.

The boys’ favorite song for the last month or so is Michael Jackson’s “She’s out of My Life.” They also feel the need to remind me every time we listen to it that Michael Jackson is a boy but he just has a high voice. He’s not a girl. 

They are in their “question everything” stage (does that ever end??).  

It does, by the way, but only partially. Last summer, the boys' favorite word was "WHY?" and they would use it repeatedly. There is a bit more depth to their questions now. Logan will sometimes come up with an elaborate scenario for something, usually when we're in the car and I can't hear all that he's saying the first time, and then end it with "Could that really happen, in real life?" Uh...Yes? I think the last one was regarding a lone construction sawhorse thing blinking on the side of the road, and the reason it was
there.

 

Another mini weez

I ended my last post with "a lot of things can happen in a year" knowing something that most everyone (hopefully) knows by now. We are expecting our next little addition to our family on Sept 9th, though at the time of the last post we had waited a bit to tell everyone the news. Jovie Michelle Wiesner is expected on September 9th, so for those of you smarty pants calculators out there, that means, as of today, I've officially made it 4 days longer in this pregnancy than my last one. Woo Hoo! New records are cool.
Unfortunately, now I'm in uncharted preggo land, and I think the day I hit 35 (since I was already on weeks of "bed rest" with the boys by this point and am very much not now), my body has started to retaliate by giving me all the crappy parts of this "magical journey" that I got to skip last time. Enter the swelling feet, peeing an ounce every hour at night and all. Groan...Evan asks, "are you going to be able to make it another month?" Probably not. I love our "new yellow house" (as the boys still call it) but there is no AC upstairs and I gotta tell you - I'm feeling the heat! Wish me luck fellow readers, that I can hold out (since I have a lot of choice and all!)

As other things go, the boys are doing great and amaze me every day with the little things they say and remember. They are going to be great big brothers, since they give sissy hugs and kisses on my belly all the time and (especially Logan) get very excited when there is a new baby for them to goggle over. They are 4, however, so I think that no matter how cute she comes out, she will still take a back seat to the important things like Transformers and Dinosaur Train.

Speaking of Dinosaur Train, here are a few things about my growing boys that are worth documenting (to me):

- Carter's favorite song (for quite a few months now) is "Big Rock Candy Mountain" from the Oh Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack. Not the cute kids version, mind you, the one that sings about "cigarette trees" and a lake of whiskey.  Not sure when the switch from "hey I like this song" and the "mom will you sing big rock candy mountain" EVERY NIGHT came, but since I only knew the words to the one on the album, that was the one I sung. Bad mom. Thanks to Aunt Ellie, he even knows that there is a repeat button on the car radio and has requested (mostly unsuccessfully) to hear it 21 times. (His favorite number). Every once and a while, Logan will request it at night (or that I sit in between their beds so he can hear better), but usually not.

-Both boys are still getting speech therapy, and are doing well. They are working on different things, but they are doing ok. Carter is very hesitant to try something until he’s got it down (a habit in everything, from walking to talking to sports), so it makes practicing very tricky. He will shut down and refuse to try something if he gets a hint what you’re trying to make him do. Logan is willing to try anything and so has progressed a bit faster (even if he get the wrong sound sometimes). We’ve got s’s and f’s all over the house!

A result of this fear of doing it wrong is that (in my opinion), Carter is nervous when he greets new people because he’s tired of people saying “what?” So instead, he greets people (family and strangers alike) with “WAA – WAA!” It’s very embarrassing. It’s his favorite word, though, and uses it as his standard answer to most questions. He has even ordered “waa waa milk” once when we were out to eat (much to the waitress’s momentary confusion). Still working on that one.

-Legos are the biggest hit most days, and Logan is determined to build a “Lego World!” He actually wants us to build it for him by constructing all of the different sets he got for Christmas, but alas him mom and dad don’t have the same motivation he does. Carter likes to break things up, so that makes it a bit tricky, too.

-For a while, the boys were pretty set on their fav colors, and insisted on getting things in those colors. Carter was yellow and Logan’s was red and blue. Not much insisting lately, (like in the past 6 months come to think of it), but I wanted to get that documented anyway.

I’m sure my next post won’t be for a while, since I’ll be a bit busy in the next month or two, but I will post again.