New goals

I have made a new goal, to blog once a week. This past week was crazy. After a record Dallas snow fall at the end of the prior week, JP and I spent the week recovering from a hecktic weekend. We were scheduled to go down to 'base camp' cycling weekend down in Fredricsburg. It took us a while to get out of town on Friday due to the storm, which caused us a power outage and many major tree limbs that had fallen on cars and houses (ours and our neighbors). We did finally leave to head south around 4. I had a great weekend of riding and reconnecting with my triathlon friends, JP and the boys. We returned on Monday to find out that our power had been out until Saturday night, thank goodness we left town.
Our house went on the market on Wednesday!
http://www.ebby.com/property/6796128
Bring on the buyers!
It has been quite hectic getting the kidos out of the door every morning leaving the place in perfect show condition.
Tyler is walking now, and this morning really started to talk. He had a little toy phone and we were playing with it, he started saying ring ring! Then all morning he keep asking for the phone, 'ring, ring?'. It was so cute. I am loving seeing his little personality develop!

Fighting about food

As much as Cale loves to play in his play kitchen, every day is a battle about food with him. He just doesn't eat, no matter how hard we try. Today he told me that he wanted mac and cheese for lunch. He then proceeded to take one bit (actually JP fed one bite to him) and then did not want any more. It took him an hour to eat 4 apple slices. He had not had any other food all day. We were so mad that we put him in his room to take a nap directly from the table. He then pitched a fit for some juice, which we denied. It is now 4:30pm and he still has not eaten anything but a couple of apple slices today. Everyday is like this, such a struggle...

Cale and Tyler update

Sometimes I just don't realize how smart Cale has become. The other day he was looking at a piece of oatmeal squares cereal, he said "this is a square, or a diamond, it has four sides", I said "that is right Cale a square and a diamond both have four sides, he followed with "and a rectangle mom!" He has also been picking up addition with no issue and is working on subtraction. I guess I could start teaching him how to read. He says the darnedest things, yesterday on the way to school he said "hey mom, humina humina humina" like the line from Farris Bueller's day off!
I am just loving Tyler so much right now. He is sitting and wanting to crawl right now. He is a snuggler, I love that. He has started eating finger foods and would much rather feed himself than have me feed him with a spoon. He is an independent spirit and I think he looks more like me than Cale does. He has already had his first ear infection so he is like his brother in that respect unfortunately.
I love them both and they already obviously love each other very much. I am very blessed :)

Post by iphone??

Sweet, i think i figured out how to post using my iphone!
We will see if this helps me keep up. We have been doing
just fine, trying to adjust to having two kidos at home and working
full time. Tyler is super sweet, but does not sleep like Cale
did. Last night was our first night of crying it out. He went down
at 9 and woke up at 3, cried for 25 min then fell back to sleep.
Then up again at 4:15 and crying on and off until we fed him at
5:15. I am at a loss, but refuse to get up every hour starting at 3am
and put his paci back in his mouth. I don't mind if he gets up
after 5 to eat, but before that the plan right now is to let him cry.
We will see how it goes! Cale slept through it all last night :)

Winner of baby guess

I totally forgot that I had people guess the info on the baby when I was pregnant. Better late than never...

<http://www.expectnet.com/logingame.php?game_name=Baby_O_2>

Winner: Katie, guess: Boy, Feb 27th 11:51pm, 8lbs 14 oz, 19in

Actual: Boy, Feb 27th 4:44pm, 8lbs 0oz, 20in

Random things that make me smile

In the midst of sleep deprivation and the craziness of life here is what makes me smile:
--JP's humor
--Cale asking to 'snuggle'
--Tyler smiling at me
--Friend's that love to go to dinner
--Girlfriends that are easy to know so well
--New mom's asking me for advise (as if I know anything)
--A good run
--Cale's smile
--Tyler asleep in my arms
--Being needed
--Thinking about the miracles God does for us every day
--Cale telling me he loves Tyler
--Chocolate

There are more but these stick out from the past few days :)

Professional Pictures

I had JP's brother Chris take pictures of Cale when he was little, this time I brought in an outsider to do the honors. With Cale I have pictures of him at one week old. With Tyler I was a slacker and got the shots done one day shy of his 4 week mark. It was all worth it! I love the pictures (taken by http://www.poeticexosure.com/, thanks Steve!). Here are some favorites...