Recent stuff...

It seems like it's been a long time since I've done a normal post (whatever that is)...so anyway here are some things that have been going on around here...

Aunt Kelli has been staying with us and it is so nice to have her here. We all love it! Especially Ashton and Gunnar. They beg me to go in and wake her up each morning. I try to hold them off till 9:00. She is so helpful with them and with everything else we have going on all the time.

Ashton has been in gymnastics for about 6 weeks now. He goes once a week for an hour and loves every minute of it. I have yet to get any good pictures of him doing it, but I'll keep trying.

It's so fun to see him getting so excited about it!
It will be intersting to see if he likes soccer and T-Ball as much...

The other day he looked so cute dressed for school, I had to take a bunch of pictures of him. Honestly 95 % of the time we see him in his various pairs of pajamas, so it's refreshing (and surprising) to see him in cute clothes! He literally gets dressed 5 minutes before we have to go somewhere (not very willingly!) and then before I can blink when we get home, he's back into his pajamas! I don't think Lars ever sees him in clothes except for church or if we go out to eat on the weekends! Love the pajamas Ashton, but you sure did look handsome this day in your clothes ;)

Gunnar on the other hand just wants to be naked!

He has learned so much earlier than Ashton did how to get undressed! And he just wants to stay that way. He's been taking his diaper off and going into the bathroom and throwing it in the garbage, getting up on the potty and peeing lots of times this week. I guess I should be excited and really start working with him, but I'm just not ready for potty training again yet! He seems too little to me still, but I know I should try. He's doing really well, but I have a feeling he is going to be so much harder than Ashton. He is one stubborn little guy!

He will be 2 on Sunday and boy is he acting like a 2 year old!

Here is one of his latest injuries...

(he looks like a little piggy..haha!) Not nearly as bad as Ashton's split chin, but it was a good little cut. Aunt Kelli the nurse advised us that it wasn't bad enough to go in for stitches. And it's healing up really good now.

He sure does keep us laughing all day... The other night while Lars was out of town fishing, we had Brianne and the boys over for dinner. I just grilled some hotdogs (yes I figured out how to use the grill...okay the neighbor helped me, but I did it!) Anyway Gunnar ate all of his and then I hear him asking me for

"more hot-diggity-dog Mommy." He cracks me up!

I love all of the cute funny things he is saying right now and the way he talks. I love it when he comes up to me and says "What you dooney (doing) Mommy?" And I think it's so funny that he calls Grandma "Glamma". She says it's because she's so glamorous :). Aunt Kelli is Aunt Telli.

He still most of the time calls Ashton Aggie, but a few weeks ago he actually called him Ashton and I have to admit it kind of made me sad!

Which reminds me, we got Ashton all registered for kindergarten last week. He did great on the little readiness test and they said he is all ready to go. This week he (on his own) has started sounding out words and gets so excited when he gets one right! Hard to believe he will be starting to read!

Oh and I guess I never posted pictures of Gunnar's new crib tent... That has been heaven by the way. It really just gives me peace of mind that he's not going to hurt himself trying to get out! And after the initial loving it, then hating being in it (realizing that he couldn't get out)...he doesn't mind it at all. Money well-spent!

And I can't forget these pictures from St. Patrick's Day. Ashton's little friend Jace called that morning wanting to know if Ashton wanted to get his hair spray-painted green with him for school. They had some extra green spray paint left over from Halloween...well Ashton's favorite color is green, so he was totally excited for me to do it. And I think it turned out so cute! His teachers loved it too!

Gunnar was napping when I did it, but when we went and picked him up from school, he took one look at Ashton's hair and said "I want green hair!", so I sprayed a little on his when we got home......but then he wouldn't cooperate for any pictures.

Other than that we have had a few nice days, so they boys have already been enjoying the swings and sandbox and I think they'd prefer to be outside all day.Gunnar has learned how to blow bubbles and ride his little scooter he got for Christmas... Too bad it's winter-ish again today.

I'm praying for nice weather this weekend so that on Sunday we can possibly move Gunnar's birthday party outside.

Here's the invitation I made for it...
I guess that's all for now!