This morning, I decided we would have a low key day at home since we are all trying to fight off a cold. Silly Texas weather. Just make up your mind! 
Anyway, I was doing my daily check of Pinterest and saw some cute craft ideas, so I decided that would be fun to do with the boys. Anyone who knows me, knows I am NOT a craft person. I am certainly not a craft person who will do the crafts for my kids. I mean, I told them what color to put where and showed them how to do the glue, but then it was all theirs. It amazingly bought some great time for me to unload and reload the dishwasher and to take out the trash, so mission accomplished. Or maybe not since it took me even longer to clean up all the glue off the table!:) 
Last week, the boys had "fair day" at school. Sadly, we were not provided with fair tickets, and honestly I wouldn't have taken them that day anyway! So I came up with the idea to head to the Arboretum, to visit the new children's garden. In August I think, Adam's mom sent me an email about it, and said she thought it would be fun for the boys! So we got it on our calendars, and set forth! They only have two entry times, 9 and 1. So of course because of naptime, she picked 9! We had to get up early, to swing by her house to pick her up, but we made it with time to spare! 
It was perfect timing, because I wanted to take the boys to the famous pumpkins there, because we had never been! What we learned later, was we should have hit those up before heading to the children's Garden. WE were early for the garden, so the boys just played around and looked at some of the pumpkins around there. Graham was really interested in moving them. Luckily, his muscles were not big enough to lift most of them, seeing as I'm sure that is frowned upon!
The children's Garden opened, and I would venture to guess that we were the first ones in there! Overall, the boys had a great time, but my personal opinion was that it was maybe a little old for them. It was a lot of reading information, and things that they , I felt were to little to really grasp. It was beautiful though, and they had a great time looking at everything. But Dylan really just wanted to "play." They did have one little area that they could play in. It had a house, sand box, some large ants they could climb on. It was funny, almost everyone that had a kid in there asked their kid to stay out of the sand box. I'm really not sure why places even put them in. Such a mess!
After the new part, we headed to the already crowded pumpkin patch, where I had to lie to my kids to get them to look at the camera. I told them if they smiled Spider Man would come see them. Oops. But I did get some good pictures ( after I do some face changing in photoshop) so, over all it was a great day. The weather turned out to be beautiful, though we all started in jackets. 
I promise this will be the last dinosaur post for a while!:) A couple of weeks ago, we were fortunate enough to have Daddy stay home with us on a Friday. It was a beautiful day, and I felt like we should take advantage and do something outside. Last year I had heard about an exhibit at the Heard Museum in McKinney. They had huge animated dinosaurs. We missed it. Lucky for us, it's back and we got to go with Daddy!
I'll be honest, I'm glad we didn't' have to pay to get in , thanks to our Perot Museum membership. It was a little disappointing. I thought that it would be cooler than it was. Dylan loved it, Graham was pretty scared of the dinosaurs, and refused to get out of his stroller until we had finished looking at the dinosaurs, and were playing in the old tree houses. They also had a small animal section with some deer, and a small butterfly house. Again, the boys loved those parts! We were only there for about an hour and saw all there was to see. 
As a busy birthday week comes to a close, I can say that we have all almost caught up on all of our sleep. It was a busy, fun filled weekend, and start to the week as we celebrated Graham's second birthday! Graham celebrated his actual birthday with sleeping until 9 am. I think he was tired from all his activity!
A few months ago, I decided dinosaurs would be the theme. It was easy, cheap and well, Graham had a blast. I purchased some goodies from Oriental trading for goodie bags and décor, and I was just about done. I took an idea off of pinterest to have dino footprints in our entry, which I think I forgot to take a picture of. We had a sandwich "bar" if you will, lots of cold cuts, a couple different breads, cheese, and sauce. Along with fruit and dip, chips, and veggies with ranch dip. I ordered a chocolate cake, so I made some vanilla cupcakes to go along with it. I'll have to post that recipe, I must say, they were a hit! 
Graham was gifted with lots of new and cool toys, amazingly this year yet again, not duplicates or repeats of years past. Against my better judgment, almost all have been opened already, because he was so excited to play with them all. 
He did it. Graham went and turned two on us today. It's hard to believe really. It has been such a fast year. Adam and I were talking about it last night. Time really does go a warp speed when you have kids.
He has become such a little boy. He talks, has his own opinions, like and dislikes. A few weeks/ maybe months ago, I thought for sure he was entering the "terrible two's" he was cranky, mad for no reason, and just kind of a turd. Luckily, he grew out of that quickly, and this last month or so has really been a joy. He listens , as much as a two year old does, loves his brother, plays, and generally has a good temperament. I think it comes from school. He has to listen and follow directions there, so it moves on to home.  |
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His speech is amazing, I guess he is probably your typical toddler on that front, but because of Dylan, he seems amazing. He will repeat anything we say. He can express to us exactly what he wants, and if we don't understand he takes us to it. His favorite song is currently the ABC's. I have an app on my Ipad that has the song and he will literally listen to it for 45 min back to back. Thus, he knows the song, and is really adorable when he sings it.  |
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He is a much better eater than his brother, thought you wouldn't know it looking at him. He was also blessed with Adam's metabolism. He got my good looks, but Adam's skinny!;) He eats things that I am amazed with. He loves black olives, salad ( sometimes) broccoli, and pickled beets. He of course won't eat a grilled cheese, or lunch meat, and just about every lunch is chicken nuggets,pizza,hot dog, corny dog, or a PB and J at school. Oh well. He is growing. I'm not sure how tall he is, but he weighs 24.5 lbs on a good day. 
I can't believe two years have passed since welcoming him into our lives. He fit so wonderfully, and I know that Dylan is happy he has a little brother to " potet" as he says. I can't wait to see what this year holds for us, as he becomes a big brother himself. I'll be honest, I'm a little scared! I love watching him grown and learn new things every day!  |
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