It seems like this week has just flown by! I've been going up to my friend Angie's in the mornings to help her out with her daycare kids. I think I mentioned a few weeks ago that she fell running one morning and broke her ankle. She ended up having surgery and being stuck on crutches for a few weeks, so I told her I'd help her out when she got her daycare kids back. The boys really seem like they are enjoying spending their mornings running around with all of the other kids. I know it's been so good for Evan because he just has so much energy. He's more than ready for nap time when we get home. Andrew I think is kind of missing the "mommy" time we normally have in the mornings but he has fun playing outside with Brady too.
The boys seem to be changing and growing so dang fast right now. Evan is really stuck on how many minutes are left until ______, insert event here. If I'm making lunch and I say it'll be a few more minutes he'll ask, "Two more minutes?" So I tell him how ever many minutes until I think lunch will be ready. His response is always, "Oh, ok. ___ more minutes." And then he'll ask again about 30 seconds later. I think this is so cute because he has no idea how to tell time yet, but he's obsessed with how many more minutes until lunch, or until we go outside, or we go bye-bye. He does have his days where he'll say, "No more minutes!" And gets a little upset when I tell him that it doesn't work that way. But he's learning and it's just so gosh darn cute!
Andrew gets smarter by the day I swear. He can wave and say bye, which is adorable. He'll throw his arms out to the side and say "Gone" too, which is funny. He can also say "Nana" for banana, "Ni, ni" for Night, night, "Ba" for bath, and he can of course say "No, no." Surprisingly he's already starting to try to repeat things that he hears. This just amazes me because Evan didn't really start talking and trying to say "real" words until he was a bit older. But it's nice too because it's getting easier to understand what Andrew wants/needs. If you ask him a yes or no question, he'll answer you about 90% of the time, so that's nice too. His stubbornness is really starting to come out too, but thankfully he isn't as bad as Evan...yet :p I just like the fact that he actually listens when I tell him No or to stop doing something. That's one thing that Evan has never done well so it's nice to finally have someone listen! :) I feel so bad for Andrew right now though because we finally got rid of the ear infections but now he's got his top one-year molars cutting. They broke through a few days ago, so now I'm just hoping they don't take too long to come all the way down so that he's not too uncomfortable for too long. The kid just can't seem to catch a break!
Harvest is in full swing so Josh is almost never home. He comes home to sleep and that's about it. I actually stopped at Casey's on my way back from Nevada this morning because Josh was there taking a little break and Evan hadn't seen him since Sunday. I'm hoping to get the boys out to the fields again this weekend to go have fun riding in the Combine and Tractors with Josh, Larry, and Jerry. I took the boys out last Sunday afternoon after their naps and they were just in seventh heaven. Josh was in the combine so Evan rode with him a few rounds, and Larry was in the tractor pushing some branches and fallen trees off the edges of the field so we strapped Andrew into the little jump seat and they were off. The boys had an absolute blast riding along. Andrew wanted to drive so bad, poor guy! I think Evan was just content to sit and ride along and watch what Josh was doing. But now whenever Evan asks where daddy is I always tell him he's at work. Evan's response is, "Oh yeah, daddy bombine." He can't really say combine yet so he says daddy is in the "bombine" which always makes me smile! :-)
Other than that nothing exciting has been going on. We lead a pretty boring life ;p
Evan with his finished product! He did such a good job!!
We love our sectional and two recliners and are so glad that we decided to get them. And as you can see, the boys like it too! :D
I am so happy that tonight I will be having my very first official in-home 31 Gifts Party!! It's at my mom's, but it will still be a fun experience. And I am so excited to start spreading the word about my new business and how much fun it is. 
Can you tell that he wasn't that bothered by the shiner?!
This was taken roughly ten years ago...track meet at PCM.
