Memories

LD: "Look Gav, that is a picture of they day you were born and I first met you. Dad, Mom, and me went to the hospital and picked you out!"

Frequently Mispronounced Words

Gavin: "We having biscuits and graybee!"

Liam: "We're having pizza? With potato sauce?"

Both: guitar is "Qatar."

Game Night

As they're getting ready for their bath ...

Gav: Let's play "Naked Boys"!

Me: How do you play that?

Liam: We run around and don't sit on anything with our bare butts. 

Easter at the Zoo

It's a beautiful day and we had no plans. Brookfield Zoo is open 365 days a year so we decided to take advantage of a day when there were sure to be no crowds (because I'm nothing if not a misanthrope).

Then we came home and this happened:

Easter Shenanigans

Feeding his chocolate bunny a chocolate carrot:

Quote of the Day

Liam: Mama, are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Me: Um, I don't know. 

Liam: I'm thinking of when the guy on the phone told Woody to put away that monkey. 

Me: That's definitely not what I was thinking. 

Quote of the Day

Liam: "PB and J" is how you say peanut butter and jelly in Spanish. 

This never gets old. Like, ever.

Reading Brown Bear from Ashley Young on Vimeo.

'Twas the Night Before Kindergarten

Liam's kindergarten teacher gave him some sweet dreams confetti to sprinkle under his pillow in case he is nervous the night before his first day. 

I would say he's more excited than nervous!

Gavin Knows His ABCs ... Mostly

The best part is the LMNO. You can kind of hear it on this video.




ABCs ... sort of from Ashley Young on Vimeo.

Boys in Blackhawks

It took a lot of pictures to get this one that is still only semi-focused. 

Procuring Pumpkins

The annual trip to Sonny Acres was this morning. This is our fifth year going with kids and it took us that long to figure out that they rent wagons for the highway-robbery price of a dollar. We don't have to juggle two kids, two pumpkins, and our sanity. 

The best part, though, was that we finally, finally got LD to agree to ride on a ride. The spinning apples (think Tilt A Whirl) won him over and he agreed without too much begging or reassuring from us. I was worried that once he was on, he would get nervous (past experience), but he loved it and even used the green wheel to spin the apple faster. Win! 

D and I are pretty sure we will never have to talk Gav into these rides. 

Art Installment

Liam D

Pencil on Ceramic, Porcelain, and Wood

August 2013

An observation

This is the line of thought that came to LD's mind on the way home the other day.

"Look Daddy, a car transporter truck.  It's a truck pulling another truck.  It's a TRUCK TRUCK!"

An Outtake

I watched some of the videos I took of Gav yesterday and this one made me laugh because of his little commentary on his progress:

Walking Outtake from Ashley Young on Vimeo.

Walking the Line

So Gav can just walk now. Yesterday he crawled, today he just walks.



Walking2 from Ashley Young on Vimeo.



Walking1 from Ashley Young on Vimeo.


I love this one because you can hear him say "Tigey" when he gets to Liam's favorite toy.



Walking for Tigey from Ashley Young on Vimeo.


I don't love that you can hear my stupid voice, but I do love his face!



Walking3 from Ashley Young on Vimeo.

This Lollipop

This Lollipop*
A poem by LD

This lollipop is a toothbrush.

This lollipop is Saturn.

This lollipop is a lollipop drumstick.

It could bang on a bass drum or a snare drum. 

Or even the cymbal. 

The End. 

* Did you know that bank drive-thrus still give dum-dums? Amazing!

Mother's Day(ish) 2013

We spent a good portion of Mother's day at brunch with friends.  But as is now becoming tradition, we spent the morning walking Lilacia Park.  The flowers were not quite at peak yet so we went back again the following weekend as well.  These pictures are from the following weekend when everything was much closer to peak.  Such a beautiful little park and the boys were rather cooperative!

Sunday Morning Cartoons

Birthdays are Exhausting