E and his love of TP

I'm serious- you turn for 1 minute with this guy and he's into something. Tonight, it was after his bath. Everett was out of the tub and dried off, so I stepped into his room to get his diaper and PJs ready. What did I find when I came back into the bathroom (literally 10 feet away)? My little Everett had unrolled all the toilet paper while Big Bro just sat there and laughed about the whole deal.

I do always have my IPhone playing on Pandora's Toddler Folk Songs (I highly recommend!) station during bath/PJ time, so I was able to easily grab it and take a video. The funny thing, though, is that after I finished recording and went to clean up the mess, I noticed that a large area of the toilet paper had a large, wet, yellow area in it. Yes, Everett must have thought that large mass of toilet paper made for a nice diaper. I laughed, but was very thankful that he peed in the toilet paper rather than on the floor!

Oh, Everett Everett Everett....

This little boy is into everything. If there's a drawer, door, or cabinet to be opened, he'll be right there. The other day Everett was playing in his room while I put some toys away in Anderson's room. While he was only out of my sight for about 3 minutes, this is what I walked back into his room to see: Yes, he had opened his pajama drawer and emptied it out piece by piece and then thought it looked like the perfect place to crawl inside. So, I got him out, cleaned it all up. A few minutes later, he's at it again, only now we're in the middle drawer: The next day, I caught him in action again! This time it was the kitchen cabinet. Those towels just HAD to come out! Luckily, what I have not captured on film is Everett's favorite place to "get into". The toilet. Yes, he's fascinated. I've found him with those little hands inside a few times now. (With a potty-trained 3 year old, we can't put one of those fancy toilet locks on the potty!) He also LOVES toilet paper! Pulling it, tearing it, eating it, dragging it. So, the bathroom doors in our house are now closed at all times. Anderson has sweetly started echoing what he must hear often throughout the day: "No no, Baby."

At Least We Know His Head is Safe!

Anderson has taken to wearing his Lightening McQueen helmet quite often- most often when he's not riding his scooter. I think he feels like it's a super-cool hat!

At the park- actually a pretty handy place to be wearing a helmet!

Out to dinner- here we looked like the crazy parents who let their child dress themselves. What you don't see is that he's also wearing his bright yellow crocs and a shirt with a large piece of broccoli on it. Quite the sight!

St. Patrick's Day Fun

Grammy with her two Charmers

Anderson & Brody hitting the slides
Anderson on the hunt for gold left by the leprechaun
He collected quite the sweet stash!
Cupcakes!

Everett & Grammy

Brothers swinging

My happy cutie pie!

My handsome big boy!

Everett loves the swing!

Outside Dinner

Last weekend the weather on Sunday was beautiful! We decided it would be nice to fire up the grill and have our dinner outside. Both boys loved this, of course.

Here's Everett having his first go at a bowl of applesauce all on his own. No Mommy or Daddy trying to feed him with a spoon and keep things neat = a big messy bowl of fun!





I have NO pictures of a messy Anderson eating because he did not/does not like to be messy or have his hands messy. So, this was cute to see Everett just go after the applesauce.

Anderson got to have his first popsicle of the season. He was happily eating it when we suddenly heard him exclaim that "it's bleeding!" Of course, we had to explain that it was melting and then quickly clean his hands off for the reason just mentioned above. He wanted to take his shirt off so it wouldn't get dirty.



And of course....then he got cold.

Allison Van Neumann

Last Thursday night I went with a few girlfriends to an art studio where an instructor walks you step-by-step through the process of completing a painting. Everyone in attendance completes the same painting and the atmosphere is fun and laid-back. We all had a wonderful time.

The painting of the night was based on Van Gogh's Iris. Here's the masterpiece that Van Gogh created:

Here is the instructor's interpretation that we were all copying:

My finished product:


We are still trying to decide where to hang this lovely new art addition. The leading location at the moment is the toilet room in our master bathroom! ;)