Almost done!

Last night Cory and I had the capstone dinner for his Executive MBA program. I can't believe he's down to his last three months (hallelujah!!) It's been a busy two years but he's loved the program so it's made it all worth it. I'm so proud of him and all his hard work juggling the program, work, and our family, and he does it all so well! He's tried very hard, and I'd say succeeded, to still be present as much as possible so he can be around and involved with the kids and I, even with how busy he's been. We'll be glad to have all our weekends and nights back with him! ❤

Visiting Grandma Jojo

Last night we went to Jojo's house for Sunday dinner. The kids love visiting her and couldn't believe when I told them she is 79 years old. They told me she looks like she's in her sixties. I told Jojo that and I'm sure it made her night 😀. I told the kids it's all the vitamins she takes 😉. Luke is already almost as tall as her! She is really cute with the kids. She's one spunky and fun great grandma.

First scary show for Ashy guy

I showed the twins the movie Bolt today (it's a cute Disney movie cute with a dog that thinks he's a super hero and has John Travolta's voice) thinking they would like it. Luke and Halle loved it at this age. But Asher wouldn't watch it. He kept walking away and trying to tell me something. Finally I realized he was saying "eyes, eyes" over and over and pointing to his eyes and making a funny scrunched up face. Then I realized there is a bad guy in it with green eyes called "the man with the green eyes". Finally I put it together and asked Asher if the man with the green eyes is scary. He nodded with the scrunched look on his face and a scowl and said, "yeah."
Poor guy! I felt so bad, I had kept waking him back to my room to watch it. This is the first time he's really acted scared toward a show (Avery does all the time). So we'll have to put that one away for awhile. But while I felt bad, it was also cute! He has such a cute concerned face 😊.

Future chess whiz

Yesterday Asher was quiet for awhile in the basement while I was in the other room. I came out to find he had taken Luke's chess set out and stood all the prices on the board all by himself. What a smart little guy! He must have been observing Luke. Asher is very observant. A chess whiz in the making 😉



So I sent the picture around to my family (grandpa Sheldon, grandma Lori, brothers and sisters, etc) and grandpa Sheldon responded back with this picture of Avery he must have take the other day when they were at my house (the twins love to steal their glasses) and said "looks like he's getting ready to play this girl." Haha. Love this cute kiddos!

New Years!

Boo!

In the background is "Boo." He's pretty much all the twins can think or talk about lately 😂. They want to be out playing by him ALL THE TIME (Avery will only get within about 10 feet of him because he's "scarewee", but she still can't stop talking about him). He was in the front yard but that wasn't working too well with two of them and only one of me - I would end up chasing them in opposite directions, finally catching them and carrying both inside under my arms kicking and screaming to avoid runaway babies down the middle of the street 🙈. So over the weekend Cory came up with the brilliant idea to move Boo in the backyard (why didn't I think of that?). Now they can be out by Boo all they want. They get pretty upset when he has to go to "sleep" at night (aka deflate) but we make up for it with the excitement of inflating him the next morning 🤗. It's so funny the unexpected things kids become obsessed with!

"Sash!"

Asher doesn't call Avery anything yet, but Avery calls Asher "Sash". We call him Ash for short, and also call him "Smash" or "Smasher" sometimes (because he loves to throw and smash things) so for some reason it turned into Sash for her. I love hearing her running around the house yelling "Sash!" 

Sometimes when she's following me around the house and I need her to be distracted for a minute so I can do something like open a cupboard or do something I don't want her to get into ill ask her, "where's Sash?" She'll get this concerned and determined look in her eyes and then turn on her little feet and go running full speed down the hall or wherever (she runs like a little bird) yelling, "Sash! Sash!" And then she'll go get him. It's the cutest thing. 

They have gotten so cute to where they laugh at each other and will entertain each other for so long sometimes after waking up. They'll sit and babble and laugh back and forth to each other while sitting in their cribs. Some mornings it's so nice when they do that because I can hurry and fit in a shower or something before getting them out!