Boys will be boys

I swear we've reached this time in Isaac's life where he has something interesting or funny to be told each week. Last Monday I picked the boys up from daycare. It was a rainy day and had rained quite a bit the day before so going outside did not happen that day. Anyway, I picked Isaac up and his jeans were soaking wet. Well come to find out Isaac and his friend decided to go outside by themselves and slide down the slide which included a big puddle at the end of the slide. Yep that's my boy!

Grandma K gave the boys haircuts and they sure are cute. Caleb really looks grown up now with his haircut. We've been spending more time outside after work/daycare so that's always nice. However, I usually do have to put up with a few meltdowns because they want to go for a tractor ride. I guess Mommy's wagon rides just don't cut it some days. Its times like these I wish we had one of those buggy's to put behind the bike. Right now we only have the little carrier behind or bikes so I can only take one at a time.

It's hard to believe that Caleb will be 2 in 2 short months. Isaac is 2 1/2 and really growing up. All this time he's been uninterested in potty training but he's beginning to show some interest. He's sat on the potty at home a couple times and one time he did it without me even asking. That's a huge step for him in my book. He hasn't ever gone on the potty but he'll do it in his own time.

Friday night we took away the beloved paci or ni-ni. I was really anticipating the worst, some sort of drawn out temper tantrum for hours on end from Isaac. He really surprised me. They both surprised me. For about 3 days I told the boys that the Paci fairy would be coming to our house to take all of their paci's to the babies at daycare. I told them that the Paci Fairy would leave them a new toy for being such big boys. Well Caleb wanted the toy NOW and Isaac wanted "no paci fairy". So Friday rolled around and I told them to kiss their paci's goodbye that morning. Caleb got his at nap time at daycare but Isaac hasn't had his at naptime for 6+ months. I hid all the paci's and left their new toys on the table. When they got home they were so excited. They each got a barn with a tractor, fencing and animals. It's been a big hit. I also bought a teddy bear making kit for them and we made their teddy bears before bed. Teddy has turned into "night time bear" for each of them so I think that helped. Isaac did good and cried about 5 minutes and slept the rest of the night. Nights have gone pretty good and we don't hear much out of either of them. They've only asked for the paci or ni-ni a couple of times. Naps at home didn't happen as we were out and about all weekend. Naps didn't even exist on Saturday until about 6 pm after Caleb had a screaming fit and Isaac was exhausted. Now that they're back at daycare I am hoping they'll be back to their routine.

Here's a few pictures I took of the boys with my new camera.