Baby Powder Bombs and War Paint

Bet that title intrigues anyone reading this blog. Let me begin, so I am making dinner,holding the baby and trying to keep Will out of trouble all at the same time, ( I know the making dinner part is hard to believe) every mom can remember doing this, and all of the sudden William disappears. (Yes, I called him William) when I came out into the living room and discovered this.........

This is a picture of my black leather chair after my darling 2 year old son found a new bottle of baby powder and decided to blow it up inside my living room. He dumped the entire bottle in the living room. All I could do was laugh, since he was having so much fun playing with the powder. Hopefully some day when he has childen he can look at this and know where I am coming from.

The next great adventure in the life of the Simmons household happened this weekend while it was raining. My efforts of trying to be a cool mom backfired when I thought I would introduce fingerpainting to Will. Everything was going great until he threw the cup of paint on the floor. (Not the worst part,that is coming) I grabbed this trying to avoid a bigger mess when Will stands up on the chair wipes the paint on his face, takes his hands and slaps them on his face, one on each side, Im thinking, nothing a bath cant fix, when Will jumps down off the chair and runs over to Wyatt who is in the jumperoo and slaps the sides of his face too and smears paint all over his face. And then he proceeds to run into the bedroom before I caught him and threw him in the tub. After this I assess the situation and see how badly Wyatt has been "marked". This is what I find.... ( being a photographer I cant help but take pictures of all this great,funny stuff happening in this house)

All I can say is that it is never boring around this house,Will makes sure of that. It sure makes good stories!!!! For those of you with younger children, this is what you get to look forward too!!!! For those of you who have already had children this age, stop laughing. I have to say that with most of William's "adventures" I have laughed about it in the moment knowing that other mom's have gone thorugh this and are going to laugh when they hear about how he drives me crazy. But he will grow up and I will miss these little things that he does and I need some good blackmail for his graduation or something.

Wyatt is doing great he is getting bigger and bigger everyday, he is also plotting his sweet revenge against his older brother for when he becomes bigger than him. We tend to have pluggie wars, with Will usually winning until Mom or Dad steps in. He is such a happy smiley baby, he has started eating baby food now and loves it. He especially like green beans and pears, and he sure is a little piggie. He is rolling over and playing with his feet all the time, I think that he has inherited Auntie Laura's infamous "monkey toes". He loves to watch his big brother until Will does something to him. I just can't believe that he is almost 6 months old already, it is amazing how time flies.

This is my son eating his snack like the dog, he didnt want dog food this time.

Here are some more pictures from the past few weeks...Enjoy

Post more soon

Such big boys

We have some pretty big boys around this house lately, snce last weekend Will has learned some new words, and put his shoes on all by himself, Wyatt has learned how to rollover from back to front and decided that sweet potatoes and green beans are really good to eat.

Im going to try and post a video of Wyatt laughing on here, it was taken with my cell phone so Im sure that the quality will be sorta yucky but you might get the just of it. I am also posting some new pictures of our week here, Will has decided that he has to help when feeding Wyatt and give him 5 bites then Will has to have one too. It is cute to see Will so interested however, not so much to see him eating baby food.

This will be a short post I will try to post more again soon.

Once a week...Yeah right

I know that I mentioned something about trying to post on here once a week, yeah right, I think that I'll be lucky to get on here once a month!! Today is May 2nd and this is what we woke up to this morning...

I believe that we recieved about 8 inches of snow and the wind was blowing causing some pretty big drifts. This was the first time that Will has been able to go out and actually play in the snow, we havent had this much snow since he was born, (that I can remember) so we dressed him up to go out and play...

He loved it outside and cried when he had to come inside. He loves it outside and always wants to be out. So much that he usually crawls out of the dog door and runs around the back yard a couple of times a day. Im sure that the neighbors think we are great parents.

He is talking alot more and was really cute this morning when I opened the door to show him what it looked like outside he quit smiling and said plain as day "Dang it's cold", it was the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. He has really gotten into watching Ratatouille lately and maybe he will learn how to cook next. He is getting so big and he is usually a lot of fun,however he does pay us back every now and thenby not listening very well, but I guess that is to be expected from a 2 year old.

Wyatt is doing very well, I weighed him about a week or so ago and he was at 12lbs. 12 oz so he is growing like a weed. He has certainly discovered his voice and let's us know when he is not happy. He is also working on rolling over, he gets so close but cant quite get rolled over because of his arm. It is pretty cute to watch!!!!

Here are some recent pics of the kids:

Will post some more soon