1st Haircut!

So I have a little catching up.  While we were in Kansas my babysitter called and said she could no longer watch the kids because they were moving to Alaska.  AWESOME.  I was a little irritated she didn't mention that her husband even applied for a job, I mean she only had the kids for 2 1/2 weeks!  Anyway, I have not found anyone new yet and the one that I liked when we were looking before is out of space.  So dad watched the kids Thursday and Friday and will continue here and there.  Thursday Liam gave Grandpa Snay his ultimate tantrum about taking a nap.  I ended up talking to him on the phone and he calmed down and then laid down for him.  When I asked Liam how his day went he told me "I cried and cried and said I want momma"  He even acted it out with a really whiny voice, Ha!  He's a funny guy.  I guess Liam told Grandpa he needed his diaper changed because he pooped.  It takes dad a minute to get down on the floor due to his bad knees.  Liam then looked up at him and said "It's okay Grandpa, you can do it." Bahaha.  Grandpa got a kick out of that one!  

Liam is really into a CD he got from a friend at bootcamp (Thanks Sandy).  He loves the one song "spooky song" and constantly wants to listen to it over and over in the car.  He knows it word for word. It is super cute.  On a side note, Liam has been expressing his feelings more and more and recognizing feeling a lot lately. It has been a big change in him and I am not sure how to full describe it.  He notices when he is scared or happy and will actually tell us how he is feeling.  He is really growing up :(

Here is a little video of Liam from a few weekends ago. We were downtown and their was a little car show going on.

Colin was having a blast with a cup the other day.

This little man is all over the house lately.  Still army crawling but it works well for him.  He was following me into the kitchen and found hair tie along the way.

Silly guy

Colin is climbing all around!  He has also been trying to pull himself up on things.  He can't quite stand up yet but he will get on his knees.

We decided to give this little one his 1st haircut!  It was getting a little long around the ears and the back was  constantly getting knotted.  Here he is with his curls!

He was not to happy when we started.

The pacifier helped :)

The next day we let him try out some watermelon and this was the face he gave us! Ha!

We've been trying to give Colin more and more different foods besides his baby food, but it is tough since he still only has two teeth!  Liam decided the other day to share his fruit snacks with him.  I quickly snatched it out of Colin's mouth and explained to Liam that he was still a little too small for fruit snacks.  It was very nice of him to share though.  Liam has enjoyed playing with his brother more and more lately.

Colin and daddy playing ball together.  Colin LOVES it!

I know this blog is all over the place but I just needed to get some stuff written down before I forgot!  Also I added a little video to the Oklahoma post, check it out :)

Oklahoma

Sunday we packed up and left Wichita around noon and headed back down to Oklahoma.  When we arrived we were pretty exhausted and it was so nice to just hang out.  We went to La Luna that evening for dinner and Paige was pretty excited to show us the buffalo on the wall.

Monday we all went to the zoo.  It was a perfect day!  We spent a lot of time at the children's zoo.

Caso and Liam

There was a stream for the kids to play in and they all loved it.  Colin had a great time and anytime I took him out of the water he would start crying, ha!

Then we checked out the monkeys and these four had fun playing on a rope.

We went and hung out with the goats

Playtime

Happy little peanut!

Neeliam going down the slide

Paige and Cason went with Jess to go on the Leapin' Lizard, some kind of bungie cord jumping thing.  Anyway Chris, Brandi, and I continued walking with the little ones. So here is some more Neeliam.

They held hands for a while.

We made spaghetti for dinner and the kiddos really enjoyed eating together at the picnic table.

Cason really enjoyed playing with Colin

After some playtime it was time for dessert! 

Tuesday we played outside. Paige and Cason played soccer with Chris.

Peanut hung out with momma on a blanket.  His hair was crazy from the wind.

Brandi was working on a quilt for a special someone and showed me how to finish a quilt!  Thanks again!

The toddlers made a muddy mess

They were pretty proud and Liam gave his daddy a thumbs up!  They both took a bath together before lunch.

I know this one is a little blurry but Neely's face is priceless from Colin tickling her.

The kiddos

Little video of the kids playing.  Liam had a crazy laugh.

We had a lovely time with everyone!  Thanks for letting us invade your house Jacobs family.  Can't wait until next time :)

Kansas

We left for our midwest trip Wednesday night.  We decided to take a late flight in hopes that the kids would sleep.  Colin slept the whole way and Liam slept about half the flight.  Here they are playing cars in the airport.

We got into OKC and to the Jacobs household about 1:15 AM.  We immediately went to bed.  The kids woke up and played until about noon when we left to go to Wichita so I could be there in time for a bachelorette party.  The next day, Friday, we had no wedding stuff in the morning, so we decided to walk across the street to the Museum of World Treasures. Liam asked us to take his picture with this replica of a dinosaur leg bone.

They had a bunch of things but the most appealing to the boys was the kids play area.  Liam put on a quick puppet show.

Colin built a castle with his momma

and cruised around a little with help from his momma.

Later that night was the rehearsal dinner.  Liam instantly became friends with Ryan, the groom, and they played cars.

The bride to be fed little peanut.

When we got back to the hotel Chris was reading to the boys and Liam was being so cute putting his arm around his baby brother.

Love these guys

Saturday was the wedding and Chris took the boys to the Children's Museum while I got ready with the gals.

Liam met Scooby Doo. 

Checking out a flight simulator, Liam strongly preferred to fly the plane straight to the ground.

Colin took a little nap

There was a little play room and Colin woke up for that

Liam playing

Chris sat with my friend Morgan and her husband.  I was bummed at first that she didn't bring her little girls so I could meet them but it worked out because they helped Chris out with the boys.  Thanks guys!! Morgan and one of my handsome little guys.

Liam and his dad took a little walk after the ceremony and before they got to eat among the flowers and gardens of the botanical gardens.

I failed to mention this above but I played volleyball with all these girls in Kansas. Last time I saw them was at Morgan's wedding five years ago!  

Morgan, me, Shari, Stephanie, and Chandra

We stayed at a neat little hotel in Old
Town Wichita and every morning for breakfast we ended up at this water fountain with the boys.  They loved it!

The wedding was beautiful and it was great seeing everyone.  I have to give a shout out to my wonderful husband for taking care of the boys and leaving the wedding early so I could hang out.  He was such a trooper all weekend and many of the other bridesmaids were very impressed with how awesome he was for helping out so much.  Next up Oklahoma!

Quick Update

We've been hanging out in the midwest so I am going to catch up a little and then I will blog about our big trip!

1. Colin started sitting up on his own as of April 21st!  It took a little bit before Chris and I actually saw him do it.  We'd see him army crawling around and then turn our heads for two seconds and he'd all the sudden be sitting up.  Silly goose was teasing his parents.

2. Liam refers to his grandpas on his fingers.  Grandpa Snay is the pointer finger and Grandpa Casson is the middle finger.  Anytime we say we are going to Grandpa's house he will point to a finger to tell us which one he wants to go to.  Ha!

3. Liam one day came up to me and told me "No more, that's enough" in a very stern voice.  I sometimes tell him that and it has clearly backfired!

4. Liam is really into pretend play lately.  The other day he was licking his arm and Chris asked him what he was doing.  He said "I'm a kitty cat"  Just today he also was pretending there was a fire and kept calling Fireman Sam on his pretend phone so that he would come help put out the fire.

5. Colin is really good at doing a downward dog pose someday I will post a picture.

6. Colin also really loves playing ball with his daddy.  Chris rolls the ball to him and he gets SO excited.  It is awesome!

These pictures are from  the weekend of  April 20th.  

The boys did a little swimming.  Colin was in awe of the water pouring on him.

My sweet boys

I just loved this one of Liam :)

Liam washing his little bro with a sponge, Ha!

Nap time Colin style

We went to the park in the afternoon and this little girl was all about Liam and called him her boyfriend.  They held hands most of the time.

Relaxing Liam style

Colin loves the blinds and is always trying to play with them!