My Terrific Twosome

How can you not love this cute face?!

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:39:00 +0000

Sometimes we can overlook the naughty things she's done....

Teeth!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:31:00 +0000

Hunter has a really small mouth and is going to need some serious dental work in the future (my wallet is already cringing!). We started the process last week by having half of his lower teeth removed. I was concerned about how his 1 and only grown up tooth was growing in crooked and behind one of his baby teeth. I took him in to see the awesome Dr. Kelly and she said that he will need to have 5 (FIVE!) teeth removed to make room for his grown up teeth.

He went in 2 days later and had from canine to canine removed. He did so amazingly awesome during the procedure. You can see from the picture his souvenirs.

The 2 on the left are his canines that usually don't fall out until you're 9. Do you see how long those roots are?! Holy smokes!! The next 2 are his incisors. And that little bitty tooth was his loose tooth that he could have pulled out by himself but the punk chickened out. Taking that tooth out cost us $15!

Here he is about a week later (he told me that he didn't like his smile is this picture). You can thank me for waiting to take this picture to let his gums heal a little. Let me tell you it wasn't a pretty sight last week. He can eat pretty much anything as long as he can break it into bite size pieces. Hunter has said that he misses his old teeth. I think that he just missing being able to bite into things.

That is SO not a game!

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:17:00 +0000

Let's file this one under, "things I never thought I'd have to say." The other night the boys were in the shower and I over heard Hunter talking to Jacob.

H: Let's play a game called milk the cow!
J: O.K.!!
H: First you take the water bottle and then your....
Me: NO!!! We are NOT playing milk the cow!!

Seriously I am amazed at what those 2 boys can come up with sometimes.

Meet Buddha

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:53:00 +0000

About 5 weeks ago, we adopted a puppy (!). I think we must have been slipped some sort of drug in our coffee that morning, because seriously what were we thinking?! She looked so calm amongst all of the other dogs going ape shit outside of Petsmart that day. Buddha is about 15 weeks old now. She is supposed to be a lab/retriever mix and I'm sure is going to be a big dog.

Ok so she is really cute and that is pretty much the only reason she is still has a home right now. She overall is a good puppy. She's is smart and can now sit, lay down, and sometimes stay. She also is a biter and I have so far lost a pair of flip flops and have holes in a pair of shorts thanks to her razor sharp teeth.

She loves to play and *cross our fingers* is housebroken except for the occasional accident when we're not paying attention. Jacob is terrified of her and sadly I don't' think that is going to change. Whenever she charges at him he freaks out and nothing you can say will get him to get over his fear.

Hunter loves her and is good with her, even when she bites him. Buddha has this knack for turning her head at just the right moment and chomping down on your ankle, calf, shoulder, whatever is in her reach.

Let's hope she moves out of her biting phase quickly or she might not look so cute to me anymore!

A lost tooth!

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:36:00 +0000

Hunter lost his first tooth yesterday!! It has been ridiculously wiggly for a few weeks now but he said it hurt when he tried to pull it out. Yesterday while I was in the shower (yup, same shower when Jacob was bugging me) it "fell" out.

Jacob said that he was stuffing a ball in Hunter's mouth (don't ask, I don't!) and his tooth popped out. Hunter was cracking up and he said that his tooth fell on the couch but he picked it up.

He was so excited for the tooth fairy to come last night but sadly she was a no-show. This morning he asked it if was because he was bad, and after a split second thought I told him that I didn't know but he better be on his best behavior today. I have a feeling the tooth fairy was really busy last night and just couldn't make it out to the west valley. I totally get it, we live far. Hopefully tonight she's on our side of town.

Spelling Lesson

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:24:00 +0000

The back story: We have a gate up at our bedroom door so our new puppy, Buddha, doesn't go in and terrorize the cats or eat their poop (I know!). So now the boys have to be lifted over every time they want to come in to play video games.

The setting: I'm in the shower and the boys are watching TV/playing out in the family room.

Jacob: MOM! How sodifdskhkjreui?

Me: WHAT? I can't hear you!

Jacob: MOM! How lskjfaslkjghio (and then something that sounded like clothes)?

Me: Jacob! I CANNOT hear you! Can this wait until I'm out of the shower??

*This goes on back and forth a few more times with me even suggesting he jump the gate to come talk to me. I figure it's got to be important so I turn the water off to be able to hear him.

Me (freezing in the shower): Ok Jacob what do you need?

Jacob: How do you spell the word close?

Me (OMG are you serious?!): *sigh* Umm, like the clothes you wear or when you close a door?

Jacob: When you like slam a door.

Me: Ok, "c"

Jacob: Oh I had a k!

Me: "l"

Jacob: Upper or lower case?

Me: All lower case dude.

Jacob: So like a straight line down or a line down and across?

Me (still freezing in the shower): straight line down.

*continue this conversation for the rest of the spelling of the word. I'm so glad that this couldn't have waited until I was out of the shower. And I never saw what he wrote down so I have NO clue why he needed to know how to spell that word.

Idle threats? Not here!

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:52:00 +0000

I was working really hard the other day cleaning the outside of the patio windows. I have pictures to prove this too! I will wait while you stop laughing.

Well the 2 monkeys decided that they'd be funny and splash water on my nice clean windows. I told them if they did it again I'd throw them in the pool, clothes and all. Punks didn't believe me and sure enough they both ended up in the pool.

It wasn't very warm yet either...even better!

Swimming Fun!

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Mon, 31 May 2010 05:04:00 +0000

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Originally uploaded by my terrific twosome

We went swimming at Grandma and Grandpa Funk's house today and the boys had a great time. Their favorite thing to do is jump off the side and do crazy moves.

So close...

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Sun, 23 May 2010 21:42:00 +0000

We Ryan has been working with Jacob to get him to ride his bike without training wheels. He is so stinkin' close but just isn't tall enough to be comfortable falling. I think by the fall he'll have grown tall enough and be ready to go. I can't wait to go on family bike rides!

Graduations!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Thu, 20 May 2010 21:32:00 +0000

This was a big year in school for both Hunter and Jacob. Hunter graduated from kindergarten and Jacob graduated from pre-school!

The whole kindergarten gathered together and sang songs in front of all the parents.

We then went home and celebrated with root bear floats!

Jacob had his play where he was a llama in pajamas. Afterwards they ran around Miss Addies house and consumed way too much junk food.

Jacob and Miss Addie

Water Day!!

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:23:00 +0000

At the end of the year in pre-school they have a water day. Jacob was so excited to play and go down the big water slide. They had games, yummy snacks, and of course the much awaited water slide.

The new time-out spot

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 03:06:00 +0000

We moved the boys' room around so now these shelves are in plain playtime view. They love playing on them and tonight they had me put pillows in front so they were blocked in. I wonder if I could fashion doors there to lock them in....

A day with G.G.

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:41:00 +0000

We drove out to see G.G. today to have lunch with her. The boys love going over to her house. G.G. has a great backyard with beautiful flowers and a bird area. The boys get a kick out of all of the birds and love to help feed them. Grandma put them on pigeon watch and so every 2 minutes they had to go see if there were pigeons.
Checking out the birds from inside.

Some of G.G.'s beautiful flowers in her garden.
Jacob said this one looks like a mint! I think he eats way too many of these from Sonic.

Petting Zoo at School!

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:15:00 +0000

Hunter and his class have been working hard on a farm unit for the past couple of weeks. To conclude the unit, the teachers got a petting zoo to come for the Kindergartners. There were piglets, baby goats, chickens, rabbits, a duck, a goose (and a partridge and a pear tree!). The kids loved getting right in the cage to get up close and personal with the cute animals. Sadly the chickens and duck didn't get too much attention.

Wildlife World Zoo with Jacob

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000

Jacob's preschool went on a field trip to the Wildlife World Zoo last week. Despite the fact that it was freezing we had a good time. He's been there so much that he just breezes by the animals, instead of really checking them out.

Being the little leader with BreElle

February Recap!

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:08:00 +0000

In an effort to catch up on my blogging, we're going to do a quick recap of the past couple of months!
Jacob got to go on a field trip to the firestation and then had a picnic/Valentine's Day party afterwards with preschool

with his 2 favorite girls: Tegan and Sophia

weed picking with friends (always a good bonding experience)

sidewalk drawing

playing in their tree house after we butchered the backyard tree

Sunday Fun

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:56:00 +0000

Which is better? Looking at how much our house has gone down in value in the 3 years we've lived here OR Looking at how much house we could buy for so little.
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January Recap!

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:16:00 +0000

Wow we were super busy this month!

It started with our annual trip to the Fiesta Day Bowl Parade with the Silly Grandma.

A ride on the light rail

to the Children's Museum

making gingerbread cookies...a month late

watching Daddy play his video games

Jacob trying his hand at no-training wheels...he needs to be a tad taller

and a crap-load of rain, which continued into February

I'm crawling out from under my rock

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:23:00 +0000

Hi...remember me? Yup I am still alive and kicking. My poor little blog has gone by the wayside these last few months but it's time to get back to blogging! So be ready to be bogged down with old posts just so I can catch up and my children will know that we did celebrate Halloween, Hunter's birthday, Thanksgiving, and Christmas during 2009.

November fun

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:53:00 +0000

November came and went very quickly with Hunter's birthday, everyone being sick, and Thanksgiving. Here are some highlights from the month...

Jacob had his Thanksgiving play at preschool. He was an Indian Man this year and his line, "big and brave!" was easily memorized. He did want to be a Pilgrim Man so bad only because they got to have guns.

Our ancient DVD player finally kicked the bucket and Ryan thought it would be fun to take it apart and do manly things. Thankfully I was at work while all of this excitement took place. The boys did love the electronic stuff and had tons of questions for Ryan.

Hunter had his first field trip in Kindergarten and got to ride on a school bus for the first time. I think he was more excited about that then the actual trip to the zoo. His teacher had so many parents that it was just Hunter and I traipsing around the zoo. We had a great time just the two of us, which doesn't happen very often.

New puppies! No not ours, but my dad got 2 of my brother's new puppies. They are so stinking cute and fun. Gabi is on the left and Nico is on the right. Hunter loved playing with them and Jacob was scared outta his mind. Ignore the fact that we have a dog twice these puppies' size who is a freak and he's fine with her, but he was scared of these cute little guys.

Happy 6th Birthday Hunter!!

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:51:00 +0000

Can you believe that my baby is 6?! That is one year closer to 10...omg. In true fashion Hunter started his day bright and early...5:45 early! He opened some presents, had his birthday pancake and was off to school. (side note--I am not a fan of having to go to school on your birthday.)

After school Hunter got to go to Build-A-Bear and pick out his very first BAB. He chose a dog and dressed him up like a Storm Trooper. In true Star Wars fashion, the dog's name is Rex.

For his party we had the obligatory bounce house and yummy food. This year, I must have been drunk when I suggested it, he got to have a sleepover. The original idea was a camping sleepover with our tent and everything. But then it was too cold and I was too lazy to drag it out. I think the kids had fun anyways. We had 5 kids plus Hunter and Jacob sleep over. It was insane but everyone had a great time.

Trick or Treat!

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:40:00 +0000

We had a great Halloween this year. After the many costume changes throughout the month, Hunter decided on a ghost (I love that boy!) and Jacob was going to be Spiderman. Being the procrastinator that I am, I didn't get Hunter's ~~cheap white sheet~~ costume until a few days before the big day. That boy bugged me for DAYS to get it and I finally obliged. I did some hideous cutting and voila! a ghost is born.

On Halloween those little dudes were ready to go at 1 but sadly we had to wait for Daddy to get home and for the Smiths to show up. The boys got to trick or treat at one house to get it out of their system before everyone got there. Hunter quickly realized that the ghost costume just wasn't good for running around like a crazy person. After a quick costume change to Batman he was good to go. His reasoning...he couldn't move his arms with the ghost costume....whatever dude.

Once the Smiths got there we were off. I love how the kids are getting older and we can walk farther. This year we remembered to bring extra ~~beer~~ soda so the adults were happy throughout the walking. The kids pooped out way before the adults and just wanted to hang out and eat candy.

We can call this year a big success!

Who knew these counted as toys?!

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:19:00 +0000

The latest favorite toy in our house right now are playing cards. Yup, those 2 just love them! They gone from sorting, to playing War, pretending they're Bakugan cards and making up their own rules (in which I NEVER win...wth?!), and to building houses with Ryan.

This activity took great teamwork and some patience on Hunter's part. That poor boy really wanted to knock it down, but Jacob and Ryan kept telling him to slow down and to be careful.

Jacob was in charge of the walls and Hunter's job was the roof. Amazingly that little house lasted for a good 2 hours!! Then Hunter couldn't contain himself any longer and "accidentally" knocked it over.
This is what Indy thought of the whole project...

Super Hero Sunday

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:58:00 +0000

It's too soon!

noreply@blogger.com (Carrie) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:56:00 +0000

I just overheard this conversation between the munchkins:

The setting: The boys' room looking at Maxim with the door closed! (Let's all remember that they are 4 and 5 years old!)

H: Jacob kiss the girls!

J: *making kissing noises on the magazine*

H: Go get another magazine with hot girls!

*Jacob runs to get another magazine, like the good little helper monkey that he is*

J: I got another magazine with hot girls Hunter!!

(And for the record he brings back Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue)

H: Kiss the girls Jacob!!

Ugh I'm SO not ready for this...shouldn't they be like 12 or 13 before this starts?! We've had to put up other magazines that are not suitable for them after an incident yesterday....