Aaron's 1st Haircut

Yesterday afternoon we took the boys for haircuts. The millionth for Caleb (or something like that) and the FIRST for Aaron! I've been holding off on getting Aaron's hair cut because they loose some of that baby look when those first cuts are made, but it needed to be done. 

Caleb is a pro with hair cuts by now. He watched Cars and drove his yellow car while brother watched and then played with the train table during Aaron's turn. 

Happy watching brother!

The BEFORE shot!

Driving

What's she doing?

The second video is my favorite! He tried standing like that the whole way through his hair cut! 

Mohawk!

Around 3/4 of the way through, Aaron did start getting fussy, but I think he was just tired of sitting still! He did a great job through most of the cut though! 

After we were done, we headed to Chick-Fil-A for an early dinner and some play time. 

Handsome guy with his hair cut and dimples : )

Caleb looks so much older when he gets his haircut! My sweet boy : )

Aaron's first time to explore the play area. When we finished eating, no one was in the playroom, so we felt safe letting Aaron play too!

Caleb climbed up to the top for the first time yesterday! He always wanted to, but his legs wouldn't quite reach each step! Way to go buddy! 

Bath Time!

How stinkin' cute are these bath buddies!?!

We just started letting the boys take their bath together and they LOVE it! They splash each other and laugh like crazy! I love these boys : )

Mommy's Troublemaker/Daddy's Helper

Just a little glimpse into our world! All of these videos are from this afternoon : )

Aaron decided he needed to help "clean" by dumping all his bibs on the floor. He was VERY proud of himself! 

Later on, Jonathan was working on a project and Caleb decided to get his tools and help too!

(By the end of this video, you can see him really hammering the nails! Such a cute helper!)

I love that Caleb is getting old enough to help Daddy with little jobs and he's so proud of himself! As for Aaron...well, he's just getting to that explorative age and I guess that means Mommy needs to find somewhere else to keep the bibs!

Aunt Laura's Birthday

Yesterday was Aunt Laura's birthday! Happy Birthday, Aunt Laura! 

We had planned to get together at 4:30 for a simple pizza dinner to celebrate her birthday. Little did we know that a STRONG thunderstorm would come through right as we were trying to get going! We luckily made it over without getting too wet. Poor Laura and Drew had to stop under an overpass to avoid hail while they drove up from their day trip to Galveston. Their car escaped unharmed, but we know several people that will be replacing windshields! Thank goodness the storm passed quickly and we were able to get on with the birthday celebration! 

Grandma and Aaron hanging out while we waited for Laura and Drew. 

Caleb with his favorite Grandma toy...the popcorn popper! 

Our fancy birthday dinner...Papa John's pizza! 

We didn't make Aunt Laura blow out 26 candles...we gave her 2 cupcakes with 6 candles instead : )

The Birthday Girl

Aunt Laura and Uncle Drew with the boys! 

We enjoyed our pizza and cupcakes and then Aunt Laura wanted to watch a movie she had rented. We watched the first part of Hop before it was time to get the boys home and into bed. Thankfully all the rain had stopped by then and it was a quick drive home.

We hope Aunt Laura had a great time hanging out with the boys on her birthday!

Happy 26th Aunt Laura! 

Aaron: 9 months old!

I'm over a week late on Aaron's 9 month update...but better late than never! 

Aaron is a ball of energy! He's constantly moving from one thing to another and rarely stays with one thing for more than a few minutes. 

 He now has four teeth...two on top and two on bottom. They came in the same week he turned 8 months. He doesn't like to show them off though, so I have yet to get a picture of those chompers!

 He has been pulling up and cruising pretty much since he started crawling. During the last week he started occasionally walking with his walking toy. He gets super excited when he starts to get moving!

 I have to keep my eyes on him since he moves so fast! He's constantly into Caleb's things so I stay on my toes trying to keep things out of his reach that he shouldn't have!

 He's generally a pretty happy guy, especially when he's got lots of toys to play with. Every once in a while he gets into a "hold me" mood, but brother is pretty good at getting him distracted with toys!

 Eating continues to be an adventure with this little man! He still refuses to let me feed him, so we're slowly finding foods that he can eat for himself. He prefers his Gerber snacky foods, yogurt melts and cheerios, but I can get a few pieces of chicken nugget (tiny pieces!), peas and teeny carrot pieces in him every once in a while. He still takes 6-8 ounces of formula every 3 hours.

Aaron had his 9 month check up last week. I was surprised to find out that his growth has slowed significantly. He's still bigger than Caleb was at this age, but dropped a lot in the percentiles. Since he's hitting all of his milestones on time or early, his doctor isn't concerned by this change. He's still gaining and getting taller, just not as fast as he was before he turned 6 months old.

Weight: 17 lbs 8 oz (5th percentile)

Height: 27 1/4 inches (13th percentile)

I was really surprised by how small the percentiles say he is since he's been in 9-12 month clothes for over a month. But overall Aaron is a happy, crazy, active boy and I'm not concerned about how he's growing or developing.

I love my crazy boy! He certainly keeps me on my toes!

Things Caleb Says...

I keep a container at the bottom of the pantry with snacks for Caleb. It typically contains fruit snacks and baggies with snack size portions of pretzels, goldfish, pirate booty, and various cracker type snacks. I hadn't gotten around to filling it lately, so any time Caleb wanted a snack I was having to go help him find something.

I went to the store yesterday and refilled his container while he was napping. After he woke up, he asked for a snack and I told him to go check the pantry.

He opened the door and exclaimed (in his super cute, high pitched, 2 year old voice) "Oh, you went to the grocery store!"

He was crazy excited to find a snack! It's cute how small things can make a big difference to a 2 1/2 year old!

Outside!

Our weather was BEAUTIFUL last week! It was warm and bright with a light breeze...perfect for playing outside! 

One evening, we were playing outside and Jonathan turned on the sprinkler for a bit. We very suddenly decided to let Caleb have some fun running through it . (His first run through a sprinkler!) I'm not typically into spontaneity...planning is more my style...but I enjoyed our impromptu fun! 

On Saturday, we joined our small group for a bbq. It was another gorgeous day so we spent a lot of time outside. We've really enjoyed our small group. We're fortunate that all our kids are close in age, so having them play together is a blast! 

Getting ready for a pinata!

Caleb suddenly turned shy and needed help from Mommy to hit the pinata.

Candy!

Playing in the car : )

Aaron had a lot of fun in the swing!

Cheese!

Jonathan had a lot of fun with the kids...he's so natural with young kids! 

I hope our weather holds at these great temps for a while! I know summer will bring on the heat, but I'll enjoy mornings in the 60s and highs in the 80s as long as they'll stick around!

Happy Easter!

What a wonderful Easter! This is the first year Caleb has been old enough to be excited about Easter and I loved every minute of it! He dyed Easter eggs at school this week and had an Easter egg hunt with his class. I think those things put him in the Easter spirit and he's been excited about today ever since. 

When he woke up this morning, he noticed that the Easter Bunny had visited. Instead of candy and lots of little toys, we opted to give each boy one toy, one stuffed animal, and then one toy to share. Aaron is too young to really appreciate his new toys, but Caleb played with his and Aaron's plenty today! 

Checking out what the Easter bunny brought this morning. 

 We quickly checked out what the Easter bunny brought and then got breakfast and left for church. After an amazing service we ran back home to get ready for family to join us for lunch.

Everyone around the table for an Easter meal...both of the boys were even there!

After lunch came time for an Easter egg hunt!

So many adults and just 2 little egg hunters!

Caleb was a pro!

Aaron even got himself an Easter egg : )

The four of us after a successful Easter egg hunt!

After our egg hunt, Caleb went down for a nap and the adults hung out for a while. 

Grandma loved on Aaron for a while.

Mal, GG, Derrill and Pops played a round of Wahoo. 

Grandma gave the big boy his bottle. 

Papa took a nap.

And after Aaron's bottle, Grandma got him to take a nap too...he was so tired!

Everyone left after the Wahoo game ended and we relaxed until the boys woke up. The rest of our afternoon was spent playing with new toys. 

Caleb playing with his new play-dough set. He loves the rolling pins and stampers! 

Testing Aaron's bubble machine, a success! 

By the end of the day we were all partied out!

By the end of the day there were eggs and toys everywhere....a sign of a very good day!

I loved spending Easter with Jonathan and our two sweet boys. It was such a genuinely wonderful day!