Theif

While shopping at Joanns, Trey happened to see some Buzz Lightyear fabric. An enormous meltdown occured, I let him hold the bag of fabric while we were shopping. Of course we had to give it back to the cashier as we were leaving, so the meltdown started again.

Meanwhile, Joanns makes you walk past what feels like a mile of candy to get to the cash register. So Beck is begging for every piece of candy he sees. He finally settles on the Rolo's as his candy of choice. I told him to put it back and I hurried and paid for my things and tried to get out of there as fast as possible. I don't enjoy the stares from people thinking "Can't you get your kid to be quiet?" It doesn't help that Tate and Trey were blessed with a loud boisterous voice.

We had to get some things from Babies R Us which was in the same shopping area. As we started to walk I noticed Beck had the Rolo's in his hand.

Me: Why did you take the Rolos after I told you no?
Beck: Because I want to eat them

I don't think his 3 year old mind comprehends stealing, but we had to take the walk of shame back in and hand it to the cashier.

Just another manic Monday...

I don't know what happens at your family night, but this is what happened at ours

This is Trey and sadly this giant goose egg  had it's picture taken after we iced it for about 10 minutes.It's hard to tell from the picture but it really looked like he had a golf ball in there.

Beck was chasing Trey and so Trey was watching Beck and not where he was running and ran right into the corner of the wall. I'm so happy he didn't crack his head open! He only cried for the 20 seconds that it took from the wall to get to me.

The kids were supposed to go to bed right after the lesson, but since he hit his head really hard I worried about putting him straight to bed. So all three children got to stay up an hour later. Ironically our lesson was on how to be reverent.

Parenting 101

A couple days ago it was a little stinky in the kids' room, I changed the diapers, disposed of them and cracked their window open. Nothing about what I did was abnormal. In fact this happens multiple times a day. I then went about my morning chores and while I was sweeping Beck came running in the kitchen yelling "The twins are gone!!" Instantly I knew they had gone out the window. Thankfully it was a ground floor window.

Beck and I ran outside. I was wearing what I had slept in with my scary Medusa hair. If our neighbors didn't think we were crazy before, they do now.We caught up to the twins quickly, long before they made it out to the road.

I now know I can never open windows. I feel it should be noted that I would never open a window that would injure my children to fall out of. I'm far to paranoid for that. I just didn't think they would be able to climb on their dresser, push the window open the rest of the way and pop out the screen. I clearly under estimated what evil geniuses they are.

Summertime Fun

I LOVE MY BOYS!

Lunch Time

I never buy chips, so the twins have only had them on a few occasions. The other day Randy had a left over bag from lunch at Utah. So I thought I would be nice and let the twins eat it with their lunch. Not to my surprise, shortly after starting lunch they starting yelling "more!"

They had eaten all the chips and not touched their PB&J or their strawberries. It took about 20 minutes to convince them that the chips were really all gone and the food that was left was all they were going to get. Not only was this day special because they got chips, but I also let them eat lunch while watching Spongebob and sitting on their Buzz Lightyear chairs and table. Not a bad day for the twins...

Butter Knife Sword Fight

The twins, especially Tate, loves to sword fight. They are all boy. Anything that can possibly be used as a sword does. Lately they have been getting out the butter knives and using those. I caught the twins the other day doing this.

Tate would point his butter knife at Trey and yell "You!" then Trey would point his butter knife at Tate and yell "You!" They were doing this over and over again. It was hysterical.

As soon as I pulled out my phone for pictures and recording they wouldn't do it anymore.  Swords are the only thing Trey will put Buzz down for. But as you can see he wasn't very far away.

Two

I have been getting a lot of cute things about twins lately. I have gotten two that I absolutely love. I will get the other one posted soon. Here is one that sums up everyday of my life:

Two to wash, there's two to dry, there's two who argue, there's two who cry. One's in the mud having a ball, the other holds a crayon, and marked the wall. Some days seem endless, my patience grows thin. Why did God choose me to be a mother of twins? The answer comes clear at the end of each day, as I tuck them in bed and to myself I say... There's two to kiss, there's two to hug; and best of all, two to love