Flying Barrel Of Monkeys

I don’t know if we’ll ever be able to top this year’s costume for MonkeyBoy.
He’s become slightly obsessed with a fan mashup video on YouTube that combines Thomas the Tank Engine and Transformers. He’s been saying that he wants to be “OpThomas Prime” for Halloween for over a month now, so it was up [...]

We made an afternoon trip to the Pumpkin Patch today. Neither was very interested in having his picture taken. The big one wanted to run around and the little one wanted to eat leaves.

Happy Independence Day!

We had a fun-filled Easter weekend. The boys are asleep and I’m about to head to bed myself.
First up, I made a Peep wreath at crafting night.

MonkeyBoy had his first experience dyeing Easter Eggs. He tried to bite into them shell and all, and then happily ate a shelled one until he got [...]

We went to visit the Easter Bunny today and then the boys participated in an Easter Egg hunt. MonkeyBoyToo scored one egg while MonkeyBoy found a dozen or so. Hunts at this age consist of a roped off area where eggs are scattered all over the ground and the kids start searching on [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day!

MonkeyBoyToo was baptized the Sunday after Christmas since most of the family was here for the holiday. He wore the same Christening gown that MonkeyBoy wore at his baptism – my mom and I made it out of fabric cut from the train of my wedding dress.
Since it was the holiday season, I couldn’t [...]

Looking forward to many more years of matching jammies…

Last night we went on our annual trek to the tree farm to chop down our Christmas tree. Every year I try (and fail) to get a picture of MonkeyBoy in front of their tree ruler. I have wanted to have his picture there each year and thought it would be fun to [...]