Bryce & Brennon

I made this painting to go with Andrew's new camping room!

Mr. Brennon, I just realized that I have not posted an update about you in a while, so here goes....

You are now able to tell us what sounds a cow, lion, puppy dog, cat, dinosaur, pig, and rooster say.  Of course your rooster and pig impressions are hillarious but the others are right on!  When asked what a duck says however, you say so proudly, "DUCK!"  You're on the right track with that one anyway!

You have started to really like to play with your brother's Thomas the trains.  Thank goodness b/c he's not into them anymore and we have a TON!

You can say a large variety of words...when you want to of course!  These are a few of the words that you say most often:  up pea (up please), tea (you like to drink tea), juice, mo (more), two (you hold your fingers up like your counting and just say two over and over), mama, daddy, and by for Bryce (guess that's a hard one), bye bye, yeah (you answer question with yeah instead of yes), no, hey, book, puppy, movie, di - saaauu (means dinosaur),  ni ni (for night night), MOMMY (when you really want my attention), duck, baby, Bri Bri, Nana, Papa, Mimi,... I know there are more but I can't really remember them all right now

You have started grabbing my hand an pulling me to the things you want, example: to the table if you want to eat, to the tv if you want to watch something...

You are still a great eater...will basically eat anything

size 5 diaper, about 29 pounds, don't know how tall, and not too big of a head! :)  We will go to the doctor next week and get all the stats~!

You can wear 24 months - 2T clothes. - size 5 - 6 shoe

You are such a climber.  Last night you fell off my bed head first and one of your teeth was loose an bleeding...horrible

I love you so much!

Nana and Papa got the boys a new play set and stayed this weekend to put it together!  Josh and Dewayne worked on it for a very long time!  When it was all put together the boys loved it though..it was well worth it!  Bryce brought his hammer and shovel out to help them.  Brennon (as you can see in a couple of pics) was VERY upset that he couldn't go out and help.  But it was really cold and his nose is runny enough!  Thanks Nana and Papa! I'm sure I will have a hard time keeping them off of it!

Bryce was so excited to see the sleet and snow today!  He asked if he could open his presents since it looked like Christmas...I convinced him it wasn't Christmas just because it was snowing!! I took pictures of the beautiful winter weather!

Brennon decided to take a bath with Bryce tonight....with his clothes on.  I went into the bathroom to find Bren laid out in the tub in his pajamas...and ugg boots!  The water was brown from the boots but he was so pleased with himself...oh well!

I went down to Atlanta to make all my girls beautiful for Christmas ( I went to do some hair!) and Josh took off for a couple of days to keep the boys.  I am sure they were well entertained with sugar and TV for the most part but on Friday he took them to Hot Springs to the Mid-America Science Museum.  He thought that they had dinosaur skeletons but they did not!  Never the less they seemed to have had a great time!  I made him take pictures for me!  So here are some of the pics that Josh took while they were at the museum.  I really appreciate you Josh!

Bri Bri graduated this Saturday!  We were so proud of her!  I went in Abigail's room when she woke up and she immediately sat up in the bed and said, "My Mommy's grduating today!"  She was so proud it was precious!!!  Congratulations Bri!

We went to see Santa at the mall while we were in Texarkana.  Bryce sat in his lap for such a long time and told him everything he wanted!  Brennon wasn't sure about it so I wasn't going to make him if he didn't want to.  But after seeing Bryce in Santa's lap for so long he started saying "Me" and leaning toward Santa.  So I put him in Santa's lap and he LOST IT!  I turned to the lady and said...."take the picture, Hurry!"  So as soon as she shot the picture I snatched him up, gave him a sucker and he was all better!  But it made for a cute picture!

Merry Christmas everyone!  We will be gone through the holidays so I will post some pictures of all the events next week!  We hope that everyone has a safe and eventful holiday...and don't forget to pause and remember the reason for the season!  Bryce says, "Happy Birthday, Jesus!"

We had such a blessed Christmas this year full of family, friends, and lots of toys!!!  We traveled all over the world...but it was worth it!  First, we had Nana and Papa over to our house to experience Santa's arrival...he came to our house early on Christmas Eve Eve....so we woke up the 24th and he had left lots of presents under our tree!  That afternoon we headed to Atlanta, TX.  We had Christmas with the Milams and it was such a joy as usual!  Then Christmas morning we went to Mimi and Papa Don's house to open even more presents!  At lunch we headed to Linden, TX to celebrate with the Eaves family.  Bryce had a blast playing with his cousin Tucker!  Papaw and Mimi Shay showered the boys with even more gifts - one of which is Bryce's favorite.  Friday we made it to Daisy, AR to celebrate with Nana and Papa and all of the aunts and uncles.  Brennon really enjoyed seeing Chuchi and Uncle Steel's puppies!  Overall it was just such a great Christmas holiday.  We unfortunately had to miss the Howard family Christmas which I was looking so forward to, but next year I will make sure they plan it around my schedule! ;) Just Joking!  We are glad to have been blessed with such a wonderful family.  We love and appreciate every one of you.  p.s. I am putting captions on the pictures so read and enjoy!

My sweet Brennon had such a rough day today!  First, he fell down and poked his mouth with a toothbrush that Bryce had given him (note to self: put toothbrushes out of reach).  Then I gave him a bath and while I was out of the room, Bryce poured almost an entire bottle of bath bubbles ontop of his head.  It got all into his eyes and he was crying and rubbing his eyes (second note to self: put bubbles out of reach).  After all of the chaos I put him down for a nap and he woke up screaming.  And didn't stop for a couple of hours, so I called the doc and decided to bring him in and make sure he was ok...between all of the things that had happened to him in such a short period I didn't know what was wrong with him!  So the doctor took a good long look at him and there was no damage from the earlier incidents, but he did discover an ear infection and red throat!  Bless his little heart, he just had a bad day!  He is on antibiotics and tomorrow will hopefully bring a much better day for my little baby!