December

Andrew


Favorite person to play with: This month it was Grandmas galore!
Favorite thing to do outside: Haven't been venturing out too often, too chilly!
Favorite thing to do inside: Ride his tricyle around and around the staircase
Favorite thing to say: What are you doing Mommy?
Favorite treat: Anything Chocolate (he's my son afterall!)
Favorite Food: Peanut Butter & Jelly sandwiches and French fries
Favorite book: The Kru Book (truck book)
Favorite movie: CARS, but has recently added Shrek and 101 Dalmations to his repertoire

Drewbie Newsflash: Andrew cracks me up left and right. He is such a joy and is my little snuggle bug. He is always willing to give hugs and kisses. Lately he likes to ask how everyone and everything is doing. (For Example: hi firetruck, how are you? Hi penguin, how are you?) He also talks in third person all the time. i.e. "Andrew sad mommy." "Andrew scared Mommy." "Andrew stinky mommy"

Luke

Favorite person to play with: Mommy
Favorite thing to do outside: again, BRRRR!
Favorite thing to do inside: Stand in his little toy jumper
Favorite thing to say: bah bah bah
Favorite treat: Still formula
Favorite Food: Seems to like peas the best so far (I haven't introduced fruits yet though)

Lukie News: Luke is doing really well on solids now. He is such a smiley little guy. He LOVES to be talked to and tickled. He is such a sweet little boy!

LOVE THESE RASCALS!

Simply had a wondeful Christmas time

In a nutshell...


We went to Utah.

We partied on Christas Eve with the Newmans.

Drew got hooked up with a psychicle (tricycle) from Grandma and Grandpa and some other cute stuff. Including, Mac, Mater and Lightening McQueen from his mommy & Daddy (not sure why we are encouraging the obsession, but whatev. It's cute)


Drew helped Luke open presents (and tried to help everyone else too)

Luke got some pretty good loot

(you can see how excited he is about it)

Ral and I got quite the nice stash of gifts and gift cards as well. We ate way too much food, stayed up way too late playing "bump-off", got to go see Avatar in 3D with my family, and went to lunch with some good friends to boot.

I hope you all had a nice holiday too! Merry late Christmas!

It's beginning to (not) look a lot like Christmas...

I'm not going to lie, I really don't miss the snow for the most part. I hate the slipping on the ice, scraping of the car windows, freezing my booty off kinda weather.


BUT I do miss the look of snow this time of year. My house is all Christmas-y but it is 60 degrees outside. I guess I shouldn't complain, but I just really do love the beauty of snow on the ground and staying inside with family and friends.


The last two weekends in a row we had our parents in town. First, mine drove me and the boys home after Thanksgiving and stayed the weekend.. followed by Raleigh's parents who came the next weekend. We LOVE having visitors!


Drew had a blast with his grandparents and talks about going to Grandma's house everyday. He gets pretty ticked off when we head out somewhere and don't end up at Grandma's house.


While Grandma and Grandpa Thompson were in town we were able to go to the Ethel M Chocolate Factory to see some lights (nothings says Merry Christmas like a cactus decorated with Christmas lights) and visit Santa.

Here we are in line to see Santa. The kid is fine here because he doesn't understand what's coming.

Drew HATED Santa. He was terrified! He cried and I laughed, because I'm a good mom like that.

Note the gloves - it actually was pretty chilly that night! I'm so wussy now when it comes to cold weather!

Now Santa is a pretty touchy subject. Whenever I talk about him, Andrew says "scared Santa". Poor kid. I hope I didn't scar him for life!

Then Saturday night we had Raleigh's work Christmas Party. I was a little nervous for this fancy affair but it turned out to be fun and pretty layed-back. It was a formal attire deal so there was a lot of stress going into what to wear. But overall it was really fun to get all dressed up, since there is not often a reason to. (the only picture we got turned out a a little blurry)

We can't wait to get up to Utah next week for Christmas! Maybe then I will see my snow (but hopefully not freeze).

I hope everyone is having a great holiday season so far!

p.s. I am happy to report that Drew getting out of bed so early that morning must have been a fluke. he has been staying in bed and sleeping so good ever since. Now if I could just figure out how to get Luke to be consistent with his sleeping through the night! Thanks for your lovely advice friends!

JINX!!! I need a (diet) Coke!

It appears, that by telling the internet that everything was dandy with my boys the other day that I have totally jinxed myself.


HELP!


First of all there is this little monster:

Remember how I told you just a few posts ago that he has been great about his big boy bed and doesn't get out, etc? Well the last 2 mornings he has come into our room all by himself. It was kind of cute the first morning, but this morning at 6:45 a.m. it was not so cute. Not so cute at all.

Do I lock him in his room? Or do I just hope he won't get up that early again?

What's your big-kid bed situation?

Then there is this little monster:

Remember how I told you he was sleeping through the night for 4 or 5 nights in a row?

Yeah, not so much anymore. He has been waking up around 3 or 4 a.m. for the last few nights in a row because he has totally peed through his diaper onto his onesie! So I end up having to change everything and by then he is screaming and so I just feed the little fetcher so he will go back to sleep already.

I am using huggies brand size 2 diapers which should fit him perfectly. What's the deal? (and yes, I do point his little friend downward so that it doesn't pee up) But it is not working! Why does he keep peeing through?

What's your 6 month old sleeping situation?

Well time to crack open another diet coke so I can survive this day.

Hey maybe by sharing my bad times I can jinx myself back!

30 and Flirty and Thriving

I can definitely say that when I was 13 I did NOT share the same sentiments as Jennifer Garner's character in the movie (13 going on 30). In fact when I was that age I remember thinking that 30 was SO OLD.


And now here I am.


Freaking 30!

THE BIG 3-0.


I don't know about the flirty part (except for with my gorgeous husband, ha ha ha) but I am definitely thriving I think.


I feel good at 30. I feel like I know who I am at 30. I may not be as skinny as I would like, and I still have SO MANY FLAWS, but I am comfortable in my own skin - and feel so much more confident than I ever used to be, just about life in general I think. Life has been pretty good to me overall and I am happy. What more could I ask for at this age?

plus, did you know that 30 was the new 10? According to my 11 year old nephew it is. (thanks Caleb!)

(got together with some of my childhood friends at Red Robin in SLC on my birthday...Isn't it great that we are still friends?!.....at 30!)

I guess it's really not that scary an age after all.


Here's to a fabulous 31st year!

The Blessing of the Luke

We spent Thanksgiving this year in Utah with Raleigh's family. It was a delicious meal of course, and I forgot to take pictures. (duh!)

Friday night we blessed baby Luke at my parent's ward building with both of our families. Raleigh gave Luke such a wonderful blessing. Our families were awesome and totally took care of bringing desserts for everyone to share. I didn't have to do a thing but organize the time and place. THANK YOU SO MUCH AWESOME FAMILY!


Here are a few pictures!

Our little family

The proud dad, post-blessing

I LOVE this kid!

After the blessing we took the boys home to Raleigh's parents and got them to bed. And then Raleigh's mom, sister, along with me and my mom and sisters all went to see New Moon. It was so fun!

Thanks again to all who helped us with the blessing. We are so lucky to have such wonderful, supportive families!

November

Little Drewbie




Favorite person to play with: Nannah (Hannah Wayment)
Favorite thing to do outside: Run around the backyard and slide down the hill
Favorite thing to do inside: Watch Cars (yes, still with the Cars)
Favorite thing to say: I LOVE YOU (yells it really loud)
Favorite treat: Chocolate kisses
Favorite Food: Peanut Butter & Jelly sandwiches and French fries
Favorite book: The Schoolhouse (elmo book)
Favorite movie: CARS

News about Drew: He now sleeps in a big boy bed! I was so scared to make the switch because I was worried he would be a nightmare but he has done so well! I am so proud of him. he goes right down for his naps still and doesn't get out of it at night at all. Whew! (that is me breathing a sigh of relief about his big transition)

Sweet Luke



Favorite person to play with: Mommy
Favorite thing to do outside: Watch Drew run around
Favorite thing to do inside: Roll over
Favorite thing to say: Jibberish, jibberish, and more jibberish (freakin adorable)
Favorite treat: formula
Favorite Food: still formula
Favorite book: Whatever I am reading to Drew.

Luke's news: Luke has slept through the night for 4 or 5 nights in a row (WAHOO!) so I am hoping this is our new norm. He just started rice cereal this week and is not quite sure about it yet. He is always smiling and gets SO happy when we talk to him. He loves it.

Love my sweet boys!

Slow down

I'm talking to you, "time".




Sometimes I wish they could stay like this forever.

Dear Internet: I have so much to tell you!

Was that October? It went by so fast didn't it? I can't believe it is already November! Yikes.

Well let me just give you all an exciting recap of my last week or so of October. Hold on to your hats:

A few weeks ago we went to a petting zoo called Bonnie Springs. We went to it last year in October as well. It's a fabulous time of year for the outdoors around here so we wanted to do something fun with the boys (or rather Drew, you can see from the pictures how bored little Luke looks.) Anyway it is a GREAT little place for kids. They have a train ride (which we didn't do this time because SOME ONE was in a hurry to go watch a football game), and the animals just walk around outside of their cages so you can go right up to them and pet them. I even got my bum nibbled on by a deer! Good times. It freaked Drew out a bit to have them just walking around but he loved it overall.



In other Thompson family news, I attempted to start Luke on solids last week and he was not interested at all. Wouldn't even open his mouth! And since I don't have a full kitchen right now anyway (we are in the process of replacing the countertops and sink in our new house) I decided to give it another week and try again. I got some cute pictures of the little guy though.


You can tell in his face he was thinking "what the H mom?"

On Halloween we moved into our new house. (YAHOO!) So as you can imagine it was a very busy day and a long one at that. The move went smoothly except for that SOME ONE forgot to have the water turned on in the new house (I may or may not be referring to myself, details details) and so we were without water all weekend. Oops! Thankfully we have some good friends nearby who let us shower at their house and bathe our children, etc. (thanks Wayments!)

So Halloween night we were pretty exhausted. We went over to our friend's house (the same who allowed us a nice hot shower!) and had pizza and watched Oregon beat the crap out of USC. (WOOHOO! Only to lose this last weekend to Stanford. LAME!) Now of course I had to take my little guy trick or treating. But, Internet friends, I am embarrased to show you his costume. It was a quick throw together (obviously) and the kid loves dogs.

And the poor Lukester didn't even have a costume. (yes I suck)

Anyway we walked around the Wayment's neighborhood with the kids. It was all fun and games until some dude dressed like Jason fired up his chain saw in front of Drew and he FREAKED OUT. What kind of sick loser tries to scare a 2 year old like that? So for the rest of the night he was clinging to me and crying "scared mommy! scared!". It broke my heart. That night he wouldn't go to bed either. Kept screaming. So finally we just grabbed him and let him sleep in between us all night. Poor guy. I was worried he was going to be scarred for life!

Well this post is getting long. I will post pics of the house soon enough, but not until I feel like it looks decent! Here are a few pics of the backyard though (one of the major selling points for us):



We have GRASS (rare in Vegas)! As well as a huge planter box in the middle of the yard (what were the previous owners thinking?) That will be torn out in the spring. We love going back there to play and run around.

That's all for now!