Bloody Monday

Halloween is coming ... this morning I was taking Logan to Mother's Day out. I was putting Shane in the stroller when Logan said, "Mom, what's this?"? I looked over to find him with blood everywhere. He had picked his nose so much he had blood all over his face and hands. Of course the wipes I keep in the car in case of ER had been left open and were all dried up. I explained to him what happened and showed him in the mirror. My hope was it would encourage him to STOP picking his nose. His reply was "I am all bloody, I am all bloody!" With a Yippee tone!! Guess blood has nothing on him! A hunter for sure but perhaps Doc, nurse, vet or dentist in the making!

Bye Bye Veggies

Time to winterize the garden. Basically, pull it all out. Tim is leaving some tomatoes for now and I am going to try and freeze some basil.

This is funny ... Moxie will stick her big nose inside the garden as far as she can to get a tasty treat. She often gets a cucumber and then takes it across the yard and eats it.

Now that Shane is crawling he wants to go go go !!! Here he is picking the grass and checking out the watermelons.

Here is Logan helping Dad (eating the cherry tomatoes!).
Goodbye veggies! I hope the frogs all have a place to go!!!!!

Stormin

We have been getting cooler weather and a few rain showers. It is nice to get the rain but all of our allergies are revving up. Tim and Logan love to race outside when the rain subsides and skip through the puddles.


Taking a break ...


Logan in his diaper and Shane in his jammies ... what the neighbors must think. Oh -- we have neighbors now!

The Curtain Call

A shout out to Ang for the brand of this terrible do. Logan once again got his "little boy" haircut that I will now refer to has the curtain cut. How do I get them to cut it differently??? Oh and the marks on his face are from mosquito bites. UGH!! We have been swarmed.

Building Blocks

Whenever I get out something for Shane Logan also has to check it out. If I give Shane dry Cheerios to much Logan also wants some. You know the story. Here I got out some blocks for Shane to check out. I turned around to find Logan silently building houses. This was neat. He hasnt played with blocks in a long time and to be honest I don't remember him building houses unless we were building alongside with him encouraging him to. The age of two brings a lot!!

Breakfast Guests

This week we had two different breakfast guests. I missed the photo opp of the first guest. Sorry to disappoint. If you have seen one ginormous black beetle you have seen them all. Here is Logan introducing our next guest.



The kid like bugs.

Go Big Blue

It was a blue kind of day but only in clothing color. I got Logan to wear his overalls!!
Shane is so fun to take photos of. He doesn't mind at all and he has such a big smile that just makes me smile.

Someday I will get the perfect shot of Logan wrapping his arms around Shane. This is just such a cute pose. The challenge is that is really excites Shane to be so close to Logan. He really just wants to check him out and mess with him. That doesn't please Logan. Ahhh brothers!
Oh gosh isn't it precious? Here Logan just looks so pleased to be holding his brother. I love it.

Door Jamming!

Today I read half a magazine (a short one!) while Shane jammed on the door jam. You know the saying ..."you buy them loads of toys and they play more with the box". There could just be a musical bone in this cute chubalub body.

How many picture of this can I take you might be asking ...

Stretch
And feet up on the wall. Gotta chill after all.

Shane is 9 mos Old Today!!

Shane is 9 mos old today!!! Can you believe it? Now that he is sleeping through the night I would really like him to slow down on the growing thing. I like the chubalub phase!!! You will most often see Shane with his big awesome grin. Otherwise he may just be yelling at me.

I have decided that I need to get back into my Mamarazzi groove because the next thing I know Shane won't be a baby anymore. This won't be a hard task as you know how much I love to take photos. The hard part will be blogging them. Here is an action shot of baby jabber.

Shane isn't very far from crawling. We have seen him take a few crawls forward but he mainly just scoots backwards. He actually has some really great athletic skills. He will lay, then sit, then scoot backwards, then lay, roll and stretch for what he wants. he will then repeat this process till he is all ove the roo. It is interesting to watch. It is almost like he is going in circles. He gets really frustrated in the crawl position and really wants something. He rocks back and forth and ends up on his belly. I personally am in NO hurry. Oh the cords I need to wrap up, the cupboards Ugh, the furniture he may decided to try and pull over. Oooohhhh the fun!

Around Town

While a small town definitely has its upside there are also many downs. This is highlarious -- here is the sign announcing the Clovis farmers market. Of course we were looking forward to going and getting as much tasty fruits and vegggies as possible (until the garden was producing). It says Saturday at 8am, so we headed out just before 9am.

Here is the Clovis Farmer's Market in full swing!! It's a one man show. We went by the following weekend and this same nice man was there and he had a friend. TWO people selling some veggies out of their pick ups! The conclusion I have made is DO NOT rush to get two young children dressed and fed to go to the Farmer's Market.

Here is an upside ... Clovis has it's own MATER!!!!! If you don't know who Mater is, come visit! Logan would love to teach you all about Mater.

Logan loves trains thus we often seek them out. Lucky or us they have a decent size depot here and we often see and hear trains.

Just in interesting yard sculpture.

Trying Our Thumbs At Fruit

This year Tim decided to plant some fruit. So far we have many watermelons (11) and cantaloupe!

Here is a shot of a few of them together. Stand by for a report on how tasty they are.

Moxie wanted in the shot.

Logan's First Fishing Trip

For the 4th of July weekend Tim rented a fishing boat. He, Logan and Papa went out the first day. Logan was the BIG FISHERMAN and caught the ONLY fish. He caught three fish total and they ended up being the biggest fish caught all weekend.

Someday when he is a pro bass fisherman we will have this photo of the first bass he caught.
Here he is keeping his eye on the fish. Soooo cute.
All tuckered out. In order to go fishing he missed his nap. Here Dad makes a good pillow.

Mom went out on the boat another day. Here is a photo to document she does exist. This was on the 4th of July. Mom had to go to show Logan how Lakes are also for swimming! Mom was the only person to swim in the lake all weekend.

Just the boys out fishing. Well, maybe I shouldn't say that. After all Shane wasn't there. Sadly this wasn't Shane's first fishing or boating trip. It was an hour and a half drive and although we got lucky with an overcast day it was very sunny with no shade. Shane is very WHITE. Or as others like to sat "fair skinned". Something tells me Shane would have only enjoyed this adventure for maybe 5 minutes. This would have been a real joy for Mom so Shane stayed home.

Monkeyin' Around

Here are my 3 monkies at play. This was just this week in case you are wondering ...

Logan hammed it up for me and I got some funny shots. he recently got his hair cut as well. To me it looks silly cut straight across but I am just glad he got it cut and didnt cry!!


Shane also enjoys the swing! Now the fun of taking turns begins. Age 6 mos and 2 yrs old.
Here is where Tim tries to kick me.

Shane is 6 months old!

Shane had his 6 mo ck up. He weighed in at 17.5 lbs, is 26 inches and had a large head. In comparison to Logan at this age he was 1 lb heavier, 1.5 inches shorter and the SAME size head. He will be practicing sitting and rolling this month. He loves to eat his rice cereal and applesauce. So far he was not fond of sweet potatoes but we will keep trying. Next up will likely be peas. I will post some photos of his sweet potato experience soon. Shane went for his first swim two days ago. It was a shocker. He wasn't quite ready for the cool water.

Green Thumbs

Some garden updates. Here Tim planted some rose bushes. There is a girl in the squadron who wanted these rose bushes out of her garden. She said if Tim would dig them up, he could have them. We thought it would be nice to have some grown plants in the new yard. They looked fantastc until they went into shock from the transplant. We hope they will come back!!! Logan LOVES them. He enjoys picking the flowers and walking all around the bushes. Tim will tells him to watch out they are sharp and Logan tells him, "no, no hurt".

Here are the veggies a growing. So far we have enjoyed radishes, spinach, potatoes and onions.


What is that?! Mice!! We found mice making a home in our bbq grill!!! So Tim proceeded to catch them. They were babies so he was able to catch two of them. We went out to Wal-Mart and got a little plastic cage and let Logan keep them. Yes, that is right, we let him keep them. We didnt let him touch them as we dont know what disease they might carry but they were fun to watch. Moxie loved it. sadly they only lasted a few short days. Yes, we fed them and gave them water but when you have a labrador jumping at you etc you are likely to freak out.

Whenever Tim mows Logan mows. This time he has a Popsicle and learned it was hard to eat his popsicle and mow.
Here he is watching Tim mow and eating his popsicle. On the web the photo is so small it ia hard to see.
I potted some flowers. They are growing nicely. I got creative and did a mixture that I am hoping will bloom down the pot a bit.
Another day of mowing...
Mowing is hard work!