Something I NEVER want to forget....

...the day Dane became a man. When Dane now has to use the facilities, he asks for a magazine. His hunting magazine, Cabelas. I think that definitely puts him in the MAN class.

Messy Boys

We have a very strong willed 18 month old who refuses to eat unless he feeds himself. He will cry and throw a tantrum until you give him the spoon....my annoyingly clean type A personality finally had to relent and just let him have his fun. I have cleaned up more splatters and smears everywhere around his seat at the table...he gets it up his nose...and in his hair....and on his clothes...and...and...and the list could go on and on!! Dane has gotten much better in the last couple years so I have hope for Kale too, but overall Kale is just a much messier boy than Dane ever was.  Case in point:

Dane @ 18 months eating yogurt

Dane after eating cake last week

Dane with a gatorade mustache

Kale @ 18 months eating yogurt (not too bad)

Kale @ 18 months eating yogurt (all over his shirt, in his hair, all over his face and splattered all around his chair)

Kale @ 18 months eating chocolate pudding (EVERYWHERE...straight to the bath tub)

Kale @ 18 months eating dirt...yep, even dirt goes in the mouth!

Progress

So the house is coming along and our builder is actually looking at being finished EARLY!! Does that ever happen with a build?? I have been horrible at taking pictures of the progress on the house but I did snap a few this past week. The kitchen, bathroom and laundry cabinets are in now along with some of our built in shelving. This week we will be picking out the floor stain as well as the granite for our bathroom, the boys bathroom, the laundry room and the kitchen. It is actually starting to look like a home! We are so excited to move in...anytime Dane can't find something he asks if it's in storage and whenever I say we're going "home" he wants to know if the new house is finished because he doesn't consider the rental "home." Soon, very soon my dear boy! It really is coming together beautifully and the more I see of it being completed, the more I cannot wait to get in there and decorate!

fireplace (behind the cabinets) built in shelving will be under each window

kitchen and butlers pantry to the right, door to mud room in the middle

kitchen

master bathroom vanity

walking into master shower

master shower

Monkey See, Monkey Do!

I cannot believe it's been almost 2 weeks since my last post...that has to be a record for me! We were back in Indiana for an extended stay for Presley's birthday. I have lots to catch up on but until I can sit down and make that happen, here are a few pictures that wonderful Aunt Christy snapped of 2 cute monkeys! Three weeks apart and afraid of the trouble that is to come from these 2! A huge thank you to the Zehrings for putting us up for a few days and to the Polks for hosting a few dinners even in the midst of getting ready for their big Labor day sale!

Anniversary Extravaganza Weekend

Last weekend 25 of us stormed Las Vegas to try to prove we are still young...Vegas won that round without question. Half of the group got in on Thursday night and we stayed up all night, thinking that we were reliving our glory days. All we ended up doing was putting ourselves to bed the next night at midnight. It was a great weekend to kick back with no responsibility what-so-ever and cut loose a little with people who mean so much to us. A HUGE thank you to everyone who came to join in on the fun! We especially missed the Polks but they had literally just returned from Mexico! I do not think we will be repeating a weekend like this for a very long time (if ever) but it was so worth it to do it once. It's been an amazing 10 years and last weekend we celebrated that!

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More Dane-isms

Dane's understanding of things is hilarious right now so I wanted to do a post of the funny things that he has said recently so I don't forget. The other day Dane and I were reading his children's bible. We were reading about Adam and Eve and in the picture, they were naked. So he kept asking if they were "nudeys"...I said they are nudeys and that was because they didn't have time to make clothes yet. Then he asked if the bad guys were coming to get them. I explained to him that there were no bad guys yet and that only Adam and Eve lived in the world then. I explained that they had to have lots of babies to make more people....and of course the only question he had was if they were going to have nudey babies.

Then he turned to the Easter story. There was a picture of Jesus with an angel behind Him. Dane asked what it was and I explained about angels, but he kept calling it the tooth fairy.

We went to the bank and Dane was talking to my mom on the phone. She asked him what we were doing and he explained to her that we were at the bank because "mommy & daddy don't have any money."

Dane was watching Curious George the other day and in the episode, the man in the yellow hat tripped and fell into a patch of poison ivy. On the show, they kept reminding Curious George to stay away from poison ivy by stating "leaves of 3, let it be." Dane put his own spin on the saying..."3 (free) leaves, let it be."

The other day Dane said "look mommy, it's a nickel." My reply was "there is nothing in your hand." He kept repeating something about a nickel. So I finally asked him to show me and he pointed to the freckle on his wrist.

And if there is dirt...our boys will find it!