happy new year!!!!

okay ....i have nooooo idea where the camera is so i will mentally draw you a picture
sadie:
cute with a big smile
silas:
giving some sort of stink eye because he knows you are all crazy
aaron:
tired but happy
becky:
somewhere behind the camera
anyway....
happy new year!
this year we promise the following
sadie: to listen to everything mommy and daddy say and do exactly as they ask especially when it comes to safety issues like plugging things in and trying to cook on the real stove
silas: promises he will stop climbing the stairs and will only give the stink eye when it is really deserved, oh and he says he will try to sleep in past 5:00 in the morning for mommy
becky: promises she will try to be a little less excited about the fact that she is almost done with school
aaron: promises he will stop swearing at the house (right honey?)
so with that i leave you with this
sadie and silas LOVE this book
aunt heidi gave this to sadie when she was 1 year old and now we read it at least 10v times a day if not more
we sing the song morning noon and night
so enjoy
ABIYOYO

merry x-mas!!!!

okay so before you start yelling at me for being two weeks delinquent on the blog postings let me just say happy holidays and happy new year......
we the sick house i think have gotten every odd strain of illness that is available on the mass market of illness
yes....that is the reason you have not heard from me...i was out for about 4 maybe 5 days with the tummy flu and let me say YUCK!
but so far all the kiddies aaron included has seemed to avoided it
but it was bad very very bad
trip to the er to get rehydrate and let me say that i think one should be able to purchase their own personal IV drips and have the option of administering it personally from home
after my re hydration i felt good.....i actually could drink a glass of water
okay enough about me and my illness
x-mas was wonderful!!!!!
"santa" got sadie and silas a train table which of course they love
silas likes to pretend he is godzilla tearing the city down and sadie neatly organizes the trains and box cars
sadie also got a dollhouse which she loves to spend hours playing pretend
though i think sadie's favorite presents are the ones silas got and i think silas's favorite are the ones sadie got
so for next year "santa" may not label anything and just say go for it....
"santa" had a late night putting everything together..."santa's" statement is "you need three arms and zero gravity to put these things together" so next year...."santa" swears no presents that require a screw driver.....though aaron did get me a toolbox for x-mas nicely decorated with my name in very big letters so i can tackle the house with out looking on top or in the fridge for the tools i need
oddly enough i am not sure how it happens but i have found tools in the the cheese drawer
anyway.....
we had a fun time and thank everyone for all your warm thoughts and wonderful presents!!!

silas is saying maaamaaamaaa and daaaadaaadaaa lots and is becoming very vocal about his opinion which means do not take his dinosaur away EVER
sadie is doing great and loves to read
she has to fall asleep every night on top or in between the pages of her mother goose book
it takes her about an hour after we turn off the light to fall asleep
she reads mother goose or her "little" books which are actually silas's little books to her dr. lamby
it is great that she loves to read the few times i have moved the book in the middle of the night i am awaken only a few hours later to put it back...this is fight i am not willing to have a three in the morning thus i have stopped removing the book
silas is still cruising the furniture he has stood on his own now for 1 minute before crashing onto his bucket
he is rather proud of himself
he also loves babies!!!!
if he sees a picture of a baby or sees a baby he tries to kiss them
his kisses of course are still big wet and sloppy but he does loves kissing and hugging
he is very mommy focused right now so i can not leave the room with out big wet tears
he is going to "food school" with sadie and loves it...though he plays soooo much that he is usually in bed by 6 pm which only means he is usually up ready to play at 4:30 or 5.....
ah....i wish we had night owls instead of early risers
anyway better run and get this posted
enjoy the pictures and movies!

PS. rocker daddy has said goodbye to the lawton bros. he had his last show at the Grog shop last week
this weekend though they will be recording so yes you can listen to your favorite lawton bros tune in the car......request your cd now....

being two what it is all about

we have been experiencing what i would call extreme 2
being 2 extreme style
what this means is the whining is in an extreme pitch and for extreme amounts of time
what this also means on the flip side is when the hugs and kisses come they are extreme not just one kiss but a flurry of them and hugs so tight they make you melt!
we will survive i know and silas is learning A LOT by watching all the interactions
he has learned about "time outs" and the word "NO" probably way before his time but.....he has been warned
silas is up cruising the furniture crawling super super fast and yes he did stand by himself unassisted for about a minute before he fell on his bucket
sadie has two favorite stuffed animals
dr. lamby and dr. bear bear
last night she was telling me the story of how bear bear was flying through the sky to see mama bear bear and daddy bear bear, dr. bear bear was going home
and when dr. bear bear was tired of flying she would climb onto dr. lamby and dr. lamby was going to take her home
sadie loves reading and loves imaginary play
she falls asleep every night under a pile of "to much books"
currently sadie loves going to potty
the main reason why is after she goes potty she gets a chocolate.....
good thought in theory until.....she figured out that if she sits there all day sooner or later she will go potty in the potty and get a chocolate
so there have been days we have sat on the potty for about an hour ready toy magazines
yes sadie sits on the potty reading a magazine while silas jumps in his jumper that is hooked up to the bathroom door...it is a family activity sadie and the potty
cleveland has gotten some really high winds the last few days
one or two snowflakes and -8 degree (with wind chill)
so of course what happens....the roof that aaron and bumpa put up on the lean too peeled off like a scab....so aaron is up on the roof in 28 degrees reinstalling yet another roof on our poor poor garage
but......the days of not working on the house are coming to an end (i hope)
we are going to try and fast track things so yes we can move in 2 yrs
what does this mean.....
well all those little things will get done
we have curtains for the kitchen (which will hopefully get installed tomorrow) and i will finally finish making ones for sadie's room....this also means all the trim in the house is going to be painted
and yes we bought doors! so all the rooms in the house will have doors
i am a big fan of craigs list and figure we can outfit our house one door at a time
so right now i am looking for an interior glass entry door that is 36' x 80' if you have any thoughts or any laying around let me know
we are going to look at x-mas lights tonight and maybe meet santa not sure though.....i remember thinking the guy in the red suit was scary till i hit about 4 or so.....so who knows......
enjoy the days