Updates and a story for your reading pleasure...

Please take my lack of posts as news that all is well and that we are super busy and living and enjoying life! So here are some individual updates on each of the boys: Landon: Landon is doing great! He is keeping us so busy with school and his friend's birthday parties. The kid has a much more active social life than either Jimmy or me. He is such a character. His latest phrases include, "c'mon Mommy! It be fun! in response to me telling him that he cannot go outside or he cannot help me with the dishes among other requests. I was frustrated a few days ago and told him that it is not funny and I am not laughing. He said, "sure you're happy Mommy!" He is such a good, sweet kid but boy is he quick and witty. He doesn't miss a beat either. He remembers things and notices things that fly right by me. He is a lot like Jimmy in that way. Boy, am I in for a treat as he gets older. We went to the doctor for his 4 year check up last week, yes my baby is now 4. He is 30lbs and 38" (both in the 10th percentile). He consistently is growing and gaining weight which is the important thing. His pediatrician is thrilled with how well he is doing. He loves school and next year will go 5 days a week for 2 1/2 hours in the morning. I can't believe it! It will help prepare him for kindergarten in which he will go 5 days a week, for a full day. *gulp* I cannot believe that he will be ready for that, but I think of the progress he has made in this last year and feel confident that it will be okay. Boy, am I going to miss him though. Five days a week in the fall already feels like a lot, but I have to say that he is excited to go to school every day. He has had the same teacher for two years and he adores her, so that will be a change, but she is wonderful and I think has helped him to really trust people and to feel safe and happy when he is away from us. Oh yeah- if I haven't posted this before, he is playing pre tball this year. Let me tell you... So darn cute!!! Jimmy is an assistant coach and boy is it fun to see the two of them do this together. He follows instruction well and seems to really enjoy it. The kids are so cute and the coach's, including "Coach Jim" are super patient and great with the kids. Lastly, Landon's birthday party with his friends has finally arrived. It's on Sunday and at a farm. The kids will have lunch, either pick strawberries or pot a plant, and will take a hay ride to see the farm animals. I'm excited because he loves farm animals and I think it will be lots of fun! Jordan: Jordan is reaching all kinds of milestones. He is walking. He is still kind of unsteady and mostly crawls, but he is taking the initiative to walk more and more and is standing independently a lot. We are going on a cruise at the end of May so my hope is that he is mostly walking by then but we'll see how that goes. We are phasing out the bottle and he is actually handling it pretty well. He had his 15 month check up last week is is 25lbs (50%) and I think 31" (90%)... I'm actually not convinced that he is going be a very big kid. I would be surprised if he stays at 90% but who knows. We call Jordan the "wrecking ball" and "Jordan Monster" if that gives you any idea as to what he is like. He is mischievous and is constantly into something but he is also super sweet and affectionate. Landon was much more laid back and still is pretty laid back. Jordan, not so much... He has some words now "dada, mama, ball, hi, yeah, no..." He can open the refrigerator and cupboards which makes life interesting and he is quick to get up the steps and wants to go up and down over and over again. He is so funny, has such a great laugh and a face that makes you want to squeeze him. Jordan and I will be doing the First Experience class at the preschool that Landon goes to, in the fall. I loved doing it with Landon and I'm excited to do it with Jordan. These boys are getting so big, so fast. It's fun to see and hear the boys play together. They are so silly, so noisy and so funny together! They fight and agitate each other already! Jimmy warns me about what is to come. He tells me that they are loud and that they are going to fight and will be physical. I'm getting better at letting them wrestle around as long as both want to do it. I know that this is only the beginning of me yelling for them to knock it off and to lower their voices. Oh, I have to share one story. Landon got a fish tank and fish as a birthday present. We put the tank on his dresser high enough that he could not take the lid off or get into trouble, so we thought.. Landon was in his room for quiet time one day and I went in to tell him that he could come out. I found the lid of his fish tank off the top and next to the tank of the dresser. I looked in to find 7-8 trains from his train table in the tank. I panicked for a minute but quickly rescued the trains from the tank and prayed that he didn't kill the fish. He didn't and we decided to move the tank into the kitchen where it would be better supervised. We noticed the tank was looking a little dirty and as days went on it looked even more so we decided to clean it. Jimmy cleaned it as I finished coloring Easter eggs with Landon and got him ready for bed. Jimmy kept saying how bad it smelled and I agreed that that it did but didn't think much of it. As Jimmy was cleaning it, he found a surprise. It was, well, poop. Yes, fish poop, but this was not fish poop. It was human poop- from a certain little boy. We were stunned! I asked Landon if he put poop in his fish tank and he said that he did. I asked him what happened and his response was, "I poop in my bed. I pick it up, and I throoooowwwwww it in the fish tank as he demonstrated how he threw it." Of course I told him that it's not okay to do that... that he needs to tell us if he has to poop and if he does poop.. that he could have really hurt the fishies... blah, blah, blah... So, there it is folks... Yep, he did.. Now you can close your mouth and stop laughing.