Chaos Is A Friend of Mine

Happy Valentine's Day

We had a great Valentine's Day at our house. The boys made me "the biggest Valentine EVER". They also gave me baked heart shaped sugar cookies that they baked with Travis. Apparently they did this Sunday morning while I was sleeping off a cold. I didn't hear or smell anything!

West saw these nesting owls at Urban Outfitters last month and fell in love with them. I'm not really sure why. He talked about them all the time and was desperately trying to save up his tokens to buy them. We went ahead and gave them to him for his Valentine's Day present. He was thrilled! He played with them the rest of the night and tucked them in to his bed by wrapping them up in a burp cloth.

Cash loved his LilKinz bluejay. He named him Blues.

After gifts, it was time to eat our heart-shaped pizza. Yum!

We wrapped up the night with some very serious Webkinz playing.

Halloween

Our Halloween weekend did not start off as planned. Around 10pm on Saturday night, Cash got out of bed and called to me from the top of the stairs, "Mommy, I have something to tell you." and then he barfed all over the staircase. Nice. Then at midnight, West ran into our bedroom screaming and covered in his own puke. Very nice.

The next morning, which was Halloween, the boys were both still a little shaky and each threw up at least one more time. They took a long nap in the afternoon and seemed to be feeling better. We decided to go ahead and try to go trick or treating. As soon as Cash finished putting his costume on, he barfed all over it and Travis's shoes. I quickly threw the costume in the wash and instructed Cash not to eat or drink anything else. After the costume was dry we went out to a few houses. Cash wanted to carry his puke bucket with him but I vetoed that idea. Although a knight carrying a bucket of puke would have been pretty scary!

I wish I could post pictures of the babies. You'll just have to trust me when I tell you that they were the cutest babies ever! Cute-Bomb was Winnie the Pooh and Chief was a peapod. They were adorable trick or treating in the double stroller.

Pumpkin Carving

This year the boys drew the faces they wanted on their pumpkins on a piece of paper and then Travis traced them onto the pumpkins and cut them out.

West is trying to make a scary face like his pumpkin but I think he actually looks more constipated than scary:

The finished results (Cash designed the first two and West designed the last one):

 

Happy Mother's Day

Today was a great day. Travis cooked a wonderful shrimp dinner and his sister made a great chocolate caramel cake for dessert. My baby brother even brought a salad and bread! I love this chalice necklace that Travis gave me. Travis designed this chalice for our church a couple of years ago.

We continued our annual photo shoot tradition and the boys held up their end by acting like maniacs yet again. Here are links to our 2008 and 2009 shoots.

On to 2010!

First West wanted a picture of just him and Mommy. This is the smile he makes when he's trying to be super sweet:

 

Then it was time to get Cash in the pictures as well. West's tongue is blue because he put blue food coloring in his apple juice.

 

 

 

Before this one was taken I said, "Last one guys. Let's put on our best smiles.":

Fishing With Granddad

Travis and the boys went fishing with Granddad at the neighborhood lake. They (Daddy) caught three fish. When they brought them back to the house to cook, I looked at them swimming in the cooler and made the mistake of muttering something about how it was a shame we had to kill them. West heard me and had a complete meltdown, sobbing about how we couldn't kill his friends the fish. Meanwhile, Cash - my budding sociopath - was dancing around the kitchen singing about how he couldn't wait to eat them after we killed them. This did not help West calm down. I finally sent Travis and West and the cooler with two of the fish in it back to the lake. While they were setting those fish free, Granddad cleaned and cooked the remaining fish for Cash. It ended up to be about four bites. Cash loved it and luckily had eaten it up by the time Travis and West got back home.

Safety first when fishing - always wear a helmet!

Indiana Egg Hunt

Granddad and MaMaw had an egg hunt for Cash, West and their cousin Lorelai in their backyard. The kids all had a blast and the boys loved getting to play with Loralai again.

Fun In Granddad's Wood Shop

Cash and West LOVE to build things out of wood and are always asking Daddy to help them build things. One of the fun things about Granddad and MaMaw's house is that Granddad has a full blown wood shop in his garage. Before we got to Indiana, Granddad made a log truck kit for each boy. Then he helped the boys put them together while we were there.

 

 

 

Whenever the boys get two of something that is exactly the same, Cash is always concerned about "how will we tell whose is whose?" I try to tell him we don't need to tell whose is whose because the two things are EXACTLY THE SAME. That doesn't work for him. In the case of these log trucks, he taped a piece of paper to his truck with his name on it. Then he cut several strips of paper, wrote his name on each of them and then wrapped every single one of his logs with one of the strips and secured it with tape.

The Science Center

These photos from The Science Center in St. Louis crack me up because it looks like the boys are being chased by ferocious dinosaurs and are completely oblivious to their dire situation. This dinosaur exhibit is coming to Union Station on May 1 so we'll get to see it again!

 

This dinosaur is about to bite Cash's head off - Look out Cash!
 

Run for your lives boys!

 

West isn't afraid to stand up to the giant beast.

The Magic House

The boys had a blast at The Magic House in St. Louis. Cash said his favorite part was the giant three story beanstalk:

 

 

West said his favorite part was the auto-repair shop:

 

 

Here's a few more pictures of the fun things the boys did:

 

 

 

Valentine's Day Wrap-Up

On Valentine's Day we continued our tradition of consuming as many heart-shaped foods as we could think of. The day started with heart-shaped pancakes, lunch was heart-shaped sandwiches and dinner was heart-shaped pizza.

 

The boys got T-Rex hats from Travis and I. Travis bought me a super cute sleeve for my Kindle:

 

The boys made cards with candy on them for Travis: