Lawson

Lawson's favorite place to be: In Lincoln's room playing. He can spend the whole day in there!! I noticed that most of my pics of the boys they are half naked. I have to explain that is what we do in the summer's in Texas!! As soon as we get home, they strip down and spend the rest of the day in diaper/underpants! They even sleep like this....


Lawson just loves playing with the Elmo's: He likes
to dance and clap along.... So, now we are getting
ours (and yours) money's worth out of all our toys. He pretty much wants to skip the baby toys and has gone directly to playing with Lincoln toys.

Baby News

Catherine and Greg found out today that they are having a baby BOY!!! They already have 2 girls, so this was great news for them!!! Due date is January 26th!! Congrats Catherine, Greg, Jessica, and Kaley!!

Terrible Two's???

1. Yesterday when I thought Lincoln was taking a nap, he was actually in Lawson's room rubbing a whole large jar of Vaseline on the wall and himself.
2. Last night, Lawson had already gone down for the night and had been sleeping for about an hour. Where is Lincoln? Ron found him in Lawson's crib, jumping up and down making Lawson laugh......
3. Got into the pantry and dumped out the pepper. This made him sneeze for awhile, so we think he learned his lesson.

Way Back Wednesday

Ron and I in upstate New York. 5 months pregnant with Lincoln.

Ron and I, just engaged, at a friend's wedding.
Ron and I when we were just dating!! (and I don't have a scanner or I could really make you laugh!)

Way Back Wednesday:
This is as far back as my digital pics go!!

Nap

OK, it is 6pm right now and this is where Lincoln is...... He didn't want to take a nap today, and was just playing around in his room for 1 1/2 hours, so I decided to just not let him nap and maybe he will go to bed early tonight. The plan backfired, he was reading books and fell asleep, and so now he is going to be up late again tonight. He is on this weird cycle. He has been staying awake until 10:30-11:00PM and then taking these LATE naps and doing it again......

Mother Goose Time

After the library took a summer break for thier reading program, the children's programs resumed today. Lawson LOVED Mother Goose time, for ages newborn to 18 months. There was 15 moms and 15 babies today, which is the max. You have to call and make a reservation. No older sibling are allowed (distraction), so Lincoln had to go to Adventure Kids (which he loves).... Today, Lawson really enjoyed himself. He clapped to the songs, and actually sat on my lap while I read him the books. He also crawled right up to the teacher and sat on her lap....
He loved looking and smiling at the other babies. At the beginning, they sing a song to all the babies, and when everyone was singing to him, he got shy and burried his face in me... We think he may be the shy one!!

To My Friends and Family

Though time and miles may separate us,
I have built a bridge of lovely memories to span the distance.
Virginia Tubbs

Labor Day Fun

Well, today for Labor Day it rained the whole day. Which is a GREAT thing, we really enjoyed it. But, it also meant that we didn't do to much for the holiday. Good thing we celebrated yesterday.... This picture is of Ron putting up the final board on the ceiling/roof and he stained it today. It's coming along, but there is a lot of tedious work ahead...

We decided to put up our bounce house so mommy and the boys could play while Daddy was building.......
Instead of jumping, Lincoln wanted to bring in his books and read!! He loves books!!
Lawson was pretty serious in the bounce house.... Love those eyes!!!!

Lucky

We have made it this far with two boys and never having to make a run to the ER. Today, we thought we had to go. Long story, but Lawson got his finger smashed in the back door. We thought it was broken, so we were rushing out the door to take him in. But then when we looked at it again, it didn't look so bad so we stayed home and kept an eye on it. Fortunately, it just looked better and better so we think we are safe. We'll see what it looks like tomorrow. But, he wasn't even fussy tonight so I'm thinking it's not hurting him. We talked about how lucky we have been so far to not have had any emergencies with the boys....

On another note, remember the neighbors that Lincoln brought cookies to but they were gone?? Well, Lincoln has been scouting out their house waiting for them to return. They finally returned, they were in Europe for 3 weeks!! So, of course Lincoln insisted that we needed to make/bring them cowboy cookies. So, tonight after I put Lawson down for bed, Lincoln and I made a double batch of cookies. We will bring some to three of our neighbors tomorrow. Lincoln loves that kind of thing......

New Poll

Let's take a poll to put in the boy's baby book. Click on "comment" below this entry to add your answer.
Ron and I are always wondering? Will Lawson's hair be:
A. Curly
B. Straight

Grandma Joan

Hello Grandma Joan!!
I just gave Grandma Joan (Ron's maternal grandma, Lincoln and Lawsons Great Grandma) the info on the blog. She lives in upstate New York. So I wanted to say HI from all of us. We look forward to you coming to visit us here in Texas in January!!

For Your Information

I'm going back and editing the posts to print off for a "journal" to give to the boys someday. When I print them off, the comments are included. So, if you want to write anything directly to the boys, they will get it!!

Hall

The hall from the entry way to the living room has two insets (one on each side). You can see the study on the left with the glass french doors.

Sunday Six

Sunday Six answers brought to you by Lincoln age 2 3/4.
Theme: Labor Day

1. Why do we celebrate Labor Day?
We Have To

2. What does Labor mean?
It's summer.

3. How do we celebrate Labor Day?
I don't know. ABCD

4. Do you do any labor?
Yes
Mommy: what?
Eat candy

5. How long do we celebrate Labor Day?
Until it's nite nite time....

6. Who labors - Mommy or Daddy?
Mommy!! (well, I did go through 2 labors!!)

Hugslieland

I love Huglieland!! At our local Kroger Grocery Store, they have a program called Huggslieland. This is FREE childcare while you shop!! WOW!! You have to be 3 years old OR potty trained. So, now that Lincoln is potty trained, he is able to go!! We tried it out for the 1st time today, and we LOVED it. Lincoln was the only child in there with his own personal teacher. He did arts and crafts, played games, etc.... The teacher said he told her that he had a birthday in December, but that his mommy's birthday was next. Apparently he was quite the chatterbox in there. They can stay in there for up to 2 hours (can you imagine shopping for 2 hours??). Much more fun for a toddler than shopping!! Much more fun for a mommy, too!! So, we'll use this quite frequently I'm sure. Lawson stayed home because he was napping, and Ron is working on his outdoor project. It's actually COOL outside, yeah!!! It's 73 degree's, which is a whole 30 degree's cooler than we have been used to. We plan on grilling up fajita's this afternoon, then heading to the mall, where there is a nice children's play area and a merry go round (Stonebriar Mall in Frisco). HAPPY LABOR DAY!!!
PS: While Lincoln was in Huggslieland, Mommy saved $42.86 with the grocery coupon game!!

Wags the Dog

Reaah wanted to know where the dog was... This is Wags the Dog. There also was Dorothy the Dinosaur, Henry the Octopus, and Captain Feathersword.
Lincoln and Emily gave Wags the Dog bones. I did not know this, but all the kids who go see the Wiggle's are supposed to bring Wags a dog bone, and Dorothy a rose (she eats roses). They send out people to the audience to gather these up from all the kids. I'm glad that my friend Darla knew about this, and brought Lincoln a rose and a bone......

The Boys Rooms

Part of Lawson's room. The boys rooms are across the hall from each other, exactly like our Katy house. They are quite small!! Yes, that is Lawson in there taking a nap!!


Lincoln's "barn" fun room.
It looks a little cluttered in this picture, but since then I've put a lot of the clutter/toys into his closet....

Dining and Kitchen

The kitchen: I don't like this picture, but it's so hard to get a picture of how it really looks. The stovetop is in the island.


This is the breakfast area in the kitchen. This is where we eat every day. We like to open the blinds and see all the grenery outside, but right now I didn't want to open the blinds for the picture because everything is brown and dying: we are in a drought and need rain!!

Living Room

This is the view from the living room looking at the front entry way. Jen always says that we have a BIG door. Looking at the door from here, the dining room is on the right and the study is on the left.



Mom, you will be here in two weeks to see for yourself, but I'm still working on posting rooms. Here is the living room. Small, but cozy to us. There is more space to the right where we have our piano. This is the view from the kitchen. I like it because when I'm doing dishes, this is what I see, I can see the boys playing....

Songs by Lincoln

We have quite the musician on our hands. Lincoln loves to sing songs, and you can often find him on the piano singing and playing. He likes to ask "what do you want me to sing now", and we go through each song he knows. I need to teach him some more!!
Songs he knows all the words to are:
Old McDonald
Happy Birthday
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Eency Weency Spider
Mary had a little lamb
Londen Bridge is Falling Down
Row Row Row Your Boat
ABCD's
Where is Thumbkin
Deep and Wide
Oh The Lord is Good to Me
Jesus Built his House upon a Rock (taught by Nanny Robinson)

PS: I caught Lawson dancing to music today, that's the 1st time I've seen him do that....
PPS: Ron took Lincoln to his work again today (Saturday), Lawson and I are going to run some errands when he wakes up from his nap.

FLower Mound Award

Article on Flower Mound:

Flower Mound Honored as Top Five Community

Flower Mound was recently recognized for what residents already know: the Town is one of the top communities in the country. Flower Mound ranked No. 5 among the best in the new book "Best Places to Raise Your Family: The Top 100 Affordable Communities in the US." The book grades communities based on demographics, standard of living, education, lifestyle, health, and safety. This is not the first such accolade for the Town. In 2003, Money Magazine named Flower Mound as the No. 1 Best Place to live in Texas.

Wave

Can you see that they are both waving to you???

Hungry Lawson

I was gettting something out of the fridge, I turned my back for just a second and Lawson was literally climbing into the fridge!!

Pumpkins

Upon arriving home today from playgroup, there at the door was the box we were waiting for: the personalized Holloween Pumkin baskets!! Boy, were they excited!! Lawson was in the basket and Lincoln was wearing it on his head, it was pretty funny!!

Dining Room

OK Mom, I haven't forgotten about your request to
post the rooms, it's just that it's hard to take a picture that captures the feel of the room. This is our dining room. When you first walk in the door there is a wood entry way that you can see a little bit of, then the dining room is immediately on the left. Ron textures the walls which you can't really see on the picture. We plan on pulling out the rug and putting in a wood floor, and of course replacing that ugly light. We still have several little projects like this throughout the house...

Ronnie

You can usually find Ron here in our living room catching up on work reports. In fact, he may be there right now!! I thought I'd make him one of my famouse cappucino's to help him along....

Swing....

Boy, we have had a busy week. Yesterday we went to Cara's so Lincoln and the twins could play.

We went to the "spray park" for them to run around in the water, then we played there on the playground: this is a pic of both boys on the swings. Do you know how hard it is to get a good picture of 2 kids swinging???

Last night, Ron and I dropped the boys off at my friend, Darla's, then we went to The Stockyards in Fort Worth and ate at H3 which is a good steak house. This was a dinner with all the corportate and owners of Ron's company. We had a great steak dinner. The Stockyards were neat: an area that looks like an old fashioned "wild west" texas town... Great place to take you all when you visit!! Everyone in the company sure had wonderful things to say about Ron's performance....

Lawson loves to sit in the rocking chair. This rocking chair was my mom's while she was growing up. Lincoln and Lawson both love to sit in it!!

Sweet Potatoe's

OK Ron, how did he get sweet potatoe's ALL over his face??? I think this is the messiest he has been during dinner, so far....

Dresser

Lincoln on top of his dresser going through his CD's trying to decide which one to play next. The red car is his new radio....

ZZZZZZZZZZ

My little brother, and his little girl, Bristol taking a nap. She's three months..... He is such a good Daddy!!

Welcome Back

Welcome Back Ron!! We missed you.
Ron was in Corpus Christie for a work coference. He had a very long day, and just returned home tonight at 10:45pm. Of course, Lincoln was up in his room waiting for him..... Ron brought him home a toy airplane and Lincoln cuddled up to it and fell asleep. Ron got to eat at the original Waterstreet Oyster Bar while he was there. That sounded so good to me when he said that, I had Cheerio's for dinner!!!
Anyway, we are glad Daddy is home safe...
It actually RAINED today. The one day Ron wasn't here, so he didn't see it. I don't think he believes me, but it really did rain. It was so nice!!! Lawson didn't know what to think about it, it was his 1st time to see rain......
Off to bed.....

What's up??

What's up?? Get it??

Lawson

One of Lawson's favorite places to be is right here pulled up to Lincoln's bed.

His vibrating teether has been a big hit lately, he is amazed at how when he bites down it starts to vibrate. I'm sure it feels good on those gums!!

Books

Lincoln just loves, loves, loves books. He always has. We have to regularly go the library to get more books
So far, Lawson has not been interested whatsoever in books except to bang together or chew on. At that age, Lincoln already would sit forever and listen to stories. Maybe Lawson just isn't ready yet, he has other things he would rather do, he's not much of a "lap" baby. He likes to get down and explore.
While I was at the library I checked out this book. Healthy and Quick? I'll give it a try....

Work

Lincoln was able to ride in Ron's new car today, and go to work with him for a little while. Of course, Lincoln thought that this was the coolest thing in the world to do. On the way home, they went to "Wendy's House" for lunch (Wendy's). And so of course tonights prayer was:
Thank You Jesus for Mommy, Daddy, Mommy, Daddy, Mommy, Daddy, and Wendy's house.

Somehow today I threw my back out. If it's worse in the morning, I may go see a chiropractor. I've never done that before, but I don't know how I can do much with this backache.... I'll keep you updated.

reaah

Reaah, Ron responded to some of your comments, so go back and read them.....

Mommy G

Mommy G with two of her favorite three boys.

BTW, Lincoln is asking for a baby sister...

Random Information

1. Ron tremendously enjoyed his experience at the mens retreat. He is already looking forward to the Mens Winter Retreat!! When we went to church today, he ran into some of the friends he made so that was nice. We will be joining a "small group" at the church and I think we may join one with someone Ron knows. We made it to the 9:00 service this morning, so that gave us a longer day than when we don't go until 10:30...
2. Ron will be getting his complete physical/follow-up for the issue's he had in NY. The appointment is on Wednesday.
3. I saved 71.00 today with the grocery game!! Yeah!! (Of course I did spend 155.00).
4. Hi LA-LA, one of my regular readers: Lincoln has been enjoying talking to you on the phone.
5. Ron may be going to China in October. His company is looking at doing some buisness in Beijing. (We better not move to China now!!). His major is in International Business, so he is looking forward to utilizing those skills if he goes.
6. Ron will be at work conference tomorrow, Monday, in Corpus Christie at the Omni.
7. On Wednesday night, Ron and I will be going to a dinner with his corporate people. It will be my 1st time to meet any of them..... The boys will stay with my friend, Darla, Lincoln can't stop talking about it.
8. MOPS leadership meeting for me tomorrow.
9. Hope everyone has a GREAT week...

Cute

Cute things the boys did today
1. Lawson has been making this really cute squeaking sound, I love it.
2. Lawson crawled over to me (I was lying on the floor) and put his pacifier in my mouth. He giggled, and kept doing it. Later when I was giving him his bottle, he tried to put his bottle in my mouth.
3. When Lincoln asks Ron "why" about something, sometimes Rons says "I said so". So, for the past few days, every time you ask Lincoln "why" about something he says "I said so". Like for example, "why aren't you going to bed", "because I said so".
4. Sometimes when Lincoln asks Ron to help him or to have something, like a dog, Ron replies "when you are a little older". So now that is his response when you ask him things like "can you help mommy clean up", "when I'm a little older'.
5. We went to dinner tonight at an Italian restaurant. Lincoln kept saying he didn't want to be there, he wanted to be at chuck e cheese. He practically begged us to go, so after dinner we were able to go and play some games. He got into a conga line with Chuck E Cheese, and was doing a train with a bunch of other (older) kids throughout the restaurant, it was pretty amuzing. Chuck E is right up there on Lincoln's list with the Wiggles and Elmo!!

Tonights Prayer from Lincoln

Thank You Jesus for Daddy safe, Mommy, Lawsy, chuck e cheese, and marshmallows. Amen.

More Wiggles Shots

More Wiggle's shots. See the small mylar balloons behind me and Lincoln? Can you believe they were selling those for 10.00 a piece!! That is so wrong, you know all the kids wanted one....I just couldn't bring myself to pay 10.00!!
Click on the other pic to get a larger view. You will see Lincoln and Emily all the way up to the VERY front. We had really, really good seats.
I enjoyed myself as well, It was nice to spend time with Lincoln alone. He probably need's that every once in awhile!!

Sunday Six

By Lincoln, age 2.5
Lawson is already sleeping

1. What does it mean to forget?
Sounds good.

2. What does it mean to be late?
When it's late, it's night night time.

3. Why do people forget things?
Lollipops

4. Why are people late sometimes?
Late because they go night night.

5. Who is usually late, Mommy or Daddy?
Mommy, she takes a nap (I am NEVER late!!)

6. Did you forget something?
Ron thinks he said "french fries"
To me it sounded like "dead flies"

Tonights Prayer

Tonights Prayer from Lincoln (I had to laugh)
Thank You Jesus for daddy, mommy, and please help me to not bite Lawson so mommy doesn't take my radio away again....

Old Friends

Fortunitely, I have several old friends who live in the Dallas area. These are friends from college, and we were in AOII together. Recently, we had a little "dallas aoii" reunion while Shana was in for a visit. We had a swim party at Darla's, and here are all the kids. From left that is Ashley (darla's 13 yr old), holding Lawson, in back Madison (Shana's daughter), then left front Lincoln, Emily (Darla's 3 yr old), Hannah and Ben (Debbie Tucker's (Taylor)), then Madie in Ryan in back (Cara's twins). Anyway, it has been so nice to have old friends here. These are friends I have had since around 1990.... So, we go way back!!

Friday

TGIF!! Sorry about not having a post for you upon your return home, but Blogger has been down all day. It's been a great day. We started out bright and early at 7:30am to hit a multifamily garage sale through my MOMS club. Got the boys lots of new toys, puszszles, CD's, etc... Probably a couple of hundred dollars worth for 19.00. I love to find great deals!! Then mommy was able to take an hour break for a lunch with friend, Darla, while the kids played next door at Adventure Kids. Meanwhile, Ron was out purchasing yet another new car!! He got a very nice white Volvo with a sunroof, leather interior, etc... He is going to enjoy it a lot more, he never really liked his previous car. Tonight, Ron is at Men's Retreat for our church. It is at Del Tosoro Resort, in Fort Worth. He will spend the night, and return tomorrow. I'm hoping he really gets to "retreat" and relax for awhile. He needs it!! Will let you know it goes.....

The Clay Bowl

Here is an action shot, Sue. Lincoln (Emily) making the clay bowl shown in the past. This was an art booth set up at the end of the summer pool party at our gym. You can see he was really concentrating on his project....

Wiggles!!

OK Sue, This is definitely action for you. This is Lincoln dancing with buddy, Emily, at The Wiggles concert. So. Much. Fun.

Action Shots

OK, Sue wanted some action shots!! Tried to take some at gymnastics today. They turned out horrible because I took them from the other side of the glass window, and zoomed: I'll get better ones next time!! But, here are a few of the bad shots!!