Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Costumes & Cutie Pies
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Notice the black tattoo of dots that Sully gave himself on his hand. Yeah, took days & days to wear off!.JPG)
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Here Keats is wearing a jet pack. His contraption is made from two extra-large Santa pens and a Star Wars backpack. Oh, and a lot of imagination!.JPG)
Giving us a view of the back....JPG)
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...and off he goes!!.JPG)
Keats is Iron Man and a knight above....JPG)
...and he added a Hulk mask (that lights up glowing green in the eyes, no less!) and Sully has a Buzz Lightyear costume, vampire cape, Spiderman mask, Iron Man glove....and his Baby ;o).JPG)
Born To Rock
Keats set up a very elaborate piano space the other day. He pretended that the cusions on the side were drums and I saw him try to use them as wind instruments as well. ;o)
Sully got in on the action and they both rocked out to a band called Morphine. Lots of sax and very moody music.
Sully got in on the action and they both rocked out to a band called Morphine. Lots of sax and very moody music.
Old Stuff
I'm not sure if I posted these photos on my blog. They were taken back in November and I just stumbled upon them today. The boys & Daddy were rockin' out to Devo and I caught some cute shots!
Thursday, January 7, 2010
D.I.R.T.
Last Sunday, Mike took the boys out to the backyard so they could play while he burned some old receipts in our new fire pit (which, by the way, is awesome and I can't wait to try roasting marshmallows and hotdogs!). I meant to head out right after them but was distracted by, ohhh, I dunno....maybe simply by the fact that all was quiet in the home. ;o) I finally headed out maybe 20 or 30 minutes later. Luckily, I grabbed my camera on the way out.
Now, I expected Sullivan to be dirty. Make no mistake--this child knows how to get messy!! I wasn't quite expecting the extent of the mess, however.
You may notice in the first photo that the knees on his jeans are pretty dirty...
...then scroll to the second pic and you'll see the shadow of dirt on his face...and then....
Hello dirt!!
Yep. It is always bath night around here! lol.
Keats was just being a silly boy for the camera. He can be so serious that I love it when he goofs off like this!
Sully see's climbing possibilities everywhere...even when the tree is literally years away from being big enough to climb. At least the little tree can take it this year--I usually have to shoo the boys away but it has grown quite a bit this year. My only concern is that it may be a filbert/hazelnut tree, in which case Sully's nut allergy may determine if the tree gets to grow any larger.
I'm pretty sure Keats was acting like the tree was this difficult to climb... 
Sully reminds me of, well, a little brother! Like Dennis the Menace or something. A kid who will have a slingshot in his back pocket...but is still sweet and cuddly.
Can I just say how much I love these three trees? I do. I love them. I received them as saplings three years ago. Literally, they were nothing more than small sticks with some roots. We went to an agriculture festival and people were allowed to take one sapling. I asked if I could take several since we have such a large yard; all I had to do was promise to plant them and they were mine! I planted them right away and wasn't sure if they'd survive the winter. They did. Then last winter they survived allll that snow and ice. I didn't help them out by removing the ice or anything. I figured that they needed to learn to survive on their own. And they did. I hadn't been in the far reaches of the backyard since October so I was absolutely shocked to see how big they are getting! Wow. Don't get me wrong, they are still tiny, itty bitty trees, but they really look like trees now. Keats was even very excited. The boys have been warned ad nauseum that these are MAMA'S TREES and that they cannot mess with them. Keats helps me look after them. Anyhoo, maybe I am a nerd but I LOVE these little guys!
Difficult to tell what this is, but it is proof that a creature is coming in to our backyard. Not far (maybe four feet) from the fence is Glen Creek. There are beavers, skunk, squirrels, and nutria that hang out back there. I heard that a coyote may have been spotted there last year as well. Probably racoons and possum visit the area as well. I have no idea what critter visits but I'm sure glad our kitties are inside all the time!
A year ago, Keats would have been much too scared to cross this chain bridge. He's gaining confidence with heights all the time.
Mike and I took the boys on a very chilly walk around the world (ha ha).
Now, I expected Sullivan to be dirty. Make no mistake--this child knows how to get messy!! I wasn't quite expecting the extent of the mess, however.
You may notice in the first photo that the knees on his jeans are pretty dirty...
...then scroll to the second pic and you'll see the shadow of dirt on his face...and then....
Hello dirt!!
Yep. It is always bath night around here! lol.
Keats was just being a silly boy for the camera. He can be so serious that I love it when he goofs off like this!
Sully see's climbing possibilities everywhere...even when the tree is literally years away from being big enough to climb. At least the little tree can take it this year--I usually have to shoo the boys away but it has grown quite a bit this year. My only concern is that it may be a filbert/hazelnut tree, in which case Sully's nut allergy may determine if the tree gets to grow any larger.
I'm pretty sure Keats was acting like the tree was this difficult to climb...
Sully reminds me of, well, a little brother! Like Dennis the Menace or something. A kid who will have a slingshot in his back pocket...but is still sweet and cuddly.
Can I just say how much I love these three trees? I do. I love them. I received them as saplings three years ago. Literally, they were nothing more than small sticks with some roots. We went to an agriculture festival and people were allowed to take one sapling. I asked if I could take several since we have such a large yard; all I had to do was promise to plant them and they were mine! I planted them right away and wasn't sure if they'd survive the winter. They did. Then last winter they survived allll that snow and ice. I didn't help them out by removing the ice or anything. I figured that they needed to learn to survive on their own. And they did. I hadn't been in the far reaches of the backyard since October so I was absolutely shocked to see how big they are getting! Wow. Don't get me wrong, they are still tiny, itty bitty trees, but they really look like trees now. Keats was even very excited. The boys have been warned ad nauseum that these are MAMA'S TREES and that they cannot mess with them. Keats helps me look after them. Anyhoo, maybe I am a nerd but I LOVE these little guys!
Difficult to tell what this is, but it is proof that a creature is coming in to our backyard. Not far (maybe four feet) from the fence is Glen Creek. There are beavers, skunk, squirrels, and nutria that hang out back there. I heard that a coyote may have been spotted there last year as well. Probably racoons and possum visit the area as well. I have no idea what critter visits but I'm sure glad our kitties are inside all the time!
A year ago, Keats would have been much too scared to cross this chain bridge. He's gaining confidence with heights all the time.
Mike and I took the boys on a very chilly walk around the world (ha ha).Happy New Year and Happy Birthday!
Sullivan chose the above ensemble as his New Year's Day outfit. I especially love that he's wearing Daddy's shoes...and geez does Sully look like his Aunt Lisa here!!
Just a cute pic of Sully at the birthday party later in the day (yes, I made him change his clothes before we went to the party!)
Alex turned one on New Year's Eve and we celebrated his birthday on New Year's Day.
Keats and Jamey are impossible to photograph together these days! One won't look at me, the other one hides behind the other boy's head...goofballs!
He's so damn cute! And he totally got Michelle's eyes :o)
Look how much Keaton's front teeth have grown in already!
Not sure what Keats is doing here but what a funny shot!Friday, January 1, 2010
Update Attempt #2
First off: Happy 2010!
So, now updates with the Moore Boys:
We are currently experiencing the phenomena that occurs when you have one child that is still a bit on the baby side of things and unable to communicate as well as the older child and also tends to destroy delicate creations by the older child, and then you have the older child that, aside from being SUCH a bossy older child, collects Legos and builds fancy, delicate creations....and freaks out if the baby child comes anywhere near these creations...and also the older child still see's the younger child as a baby and gets annoyed that the younger child cannot communicate as well as he, the older child, can.
Does this make any sense? Does it sound familiar?? I guess an easier way to summarize our situation is to say Keats & Sully fight a LOT about Legos, in particular, and they have a very, very, very difficult time sharing. Anything. Really. This all started with Keats--he yells at Sully for even coming near his Legos or really any other toy or item in this house--and now Sully does the same thing to Keats. It is a vicious cycle.
I am tired of telling them to find a way to get along...so I decided to make them deal with it: I put Sullivan back into Keaton's room and now they have to share everything and that.is.that. I realize that it isn't going to miraculously cure everything and that the early stages will be pure chaos but I am hoping in the end they'll learn how to get along...and take that lesson into life.
They are actually doing pretty well with the transition. Keats is on top bunk, Sully is on bottom bunk. They share a dresser and each have a half of the closet to themselves. But all toys are up for grabs, with the exception of their "baby" creatures that are their lifelines and their new Leapster2 games: they can share game cartridges but cannot share the actual Leapster2. Keaton's is Star Wars and Sully's is the regular green theme...this way they have something that is all their own but they still have to share the games.
I'll let you know how my experiment pans out. Lol.
Wtih the boys sharing a room, we now have one spare room. I want to paint Sully's room and turn it into Mike's office. Mike has always used a closet other than the one in our room (too small....and it is a walk-in!) and so his stuff is always thrown around. His work phoneline originates in Sully's room; he's always charged the handset there at night and then taken it into his office during the day. So, by giving Mike this room as an office, he can have everything of his all in one place. And the room is bigger. I have promised Mike that I will paint the room for him and give him a cinema/movie theme. Hopefully will make a pretty neato Dude Room-slash-office.
Then the old playroom/new office will become, again, the playroom. But...the boys will have to split it with me! I am going to take one side & one of the little rooms as my craft area. I cannot do ANYTHING in regards to crafts right now as I have no room of my own, so to speak. This room will be perfect in both regards (play area and craft area) as we had those shelves built a few years ago and this would be a perfect place for me to store unfinished crafts, and on the other side of the room we can store board games, which are a frequent activity around here now.
I have a lot of painting and planning to do before I can get either project rolling but hopefully within a couple of months everything will be in place.
So, now updates with the Moore Boys:
We are currently experiencing the phenomena that occurs when you have one child that is still a bit on the baby side of things and unable to communicate as well as the older child and also tends to destroy delicate creations by the older child, and then you have the older child that, aside from being SUCH a bossy older child, collects Legos and builds fancy, delicate creations....and freaks out if the baby child comes anywhere near these creations...and also the older child still see's the younger child as a baby and gets annoyed that the younger child cannot communicate as well as he, the older child, can.
Does this make any sense? Does it sound familiar?? I guess an easier way to summarize our situation is to say Keats & Sully fight a LOT about Legos, in particular, and they have a very, very, very difficult time sharing. Anything. Really. This all started with Keats--he yells at Sully for even coming near his Legos or really any other toy or item in this house--and now Sully does the same thing to Keats. It is a vicious cycle.
I am tired of telling them to find a way to get along...so I decided to make them deal with it: I put Sullivan back into Keaton's room and now they have to share everything and that.is.that. I realize that it isn't going to miraculously cure everything and that the early stages will be pure chaos but I am hoping in the end they'll learn how to get along...and take that lesson into life.
They are actually doing pretty well with the transition. Keats is on top bunk, Sully is on bottom bunk. They share a dresser and each have a half of the closet to themselves. But all toys are up for grabs, with the exception of their "baby" creatures that are their lifelines and their new Leapster2 games: they can share game cartridges but cannot share the actual Leapster2. Keaton's is Star Wars and Sully's is the regular green theme...this way they have something that is all their own but they still have to share the games.
I'll let you know how my experiment pans out. Lol.
Wtih the boys sharing a room, we now have one spare room. I want to paint Sully's room and turn it into Mike's office. Mike has always used a closet other than the one in our room (too small....and it is a walk-in!) and so his stuff is always thrown around. His work phoneline originates in Sully's room; he's always charged the handset there at night and then taken it into his office during the day. So, by giving Mike this room as an office, he can have everything of his all in one place. And the room is bigger. I have promised Mike that I will paint the room for him and give him a cinema/movie theme. Hopefully will make a pretty neato Dude Room-slash-office.
Then the old playroom/new office will become, again, the playroom. But...the boys will have to split it with me! I am going to take one side & one of the little rooms as my craft area. I cannot do ANYTHING in regards to crafts right now as I have no room of my own, so to speak. This room will be perfect in both regards (play area and craft area) as we had those shelves built a few years ago and this would be a perfect place for me to store unfinished crafts, and on the other side of the room we can store board games, which are a frequent activity around here now.
I have a lot of painting and planning to do before I can get either project rolling but hopefully within a couple of months everything will be in place.
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