Symbling Tour

This past week we had our symbling tour at CMC. I think Pierce gets it this time but not so sure Holt does. He did enjoy seeing the babies but the snack at the end was definately his highlight. It was a cute tour and definately got us excited about this baby and its arrival. When I asked Holt what we saw at the hospital he said 'monkeys'. Hopefully this is not what he is expecting to come out of my tummy. Pierce is getting excited and a few days a week he'll ask me when the baby is coming and tell me how he is going to help. Holt tells me the nursery is the baby's room now and that he's going to hold the baby so I think he's coming along too. Enjoy the pics of them in their scrubs...

Fires, Volcanos, and Fighting

Here is a picture of the boys last weekend by the fire pit. We had some friends over for dinner and Jason made a fire. The boys loved it and were roasting sticks over it and gathering wood the whole time it was going.

Volcanoes..Pierce loves volcanoes. About a month ago I found a show on the science channel for him to watch and ever since he is mesmerized by them. That show accidentally got deleted but I found another one this week and it is his favorite thing to watch. Its a documentary on Hawaii that tells how the islands were formed, etc. Things like this make me see Jason in him all the more, Jason loves weather and any show that could be found on the science channel and Pierce follows right in his footsteps. So when you hear him explaining about lava..you will know why. Only my Pierce.

So I must say I have been really blessed by these two boys and how much they love each other. And up until the past two weeks they really did get along. Amazingly well, I now realize. However, as Holt has started to get really verbal the fighting is on. What good timing with the baby so close. Today they fought for an hour over the hose while Jason washed the car, this morning over who had the Lighting McQueen plate, and I could go on and on. I guess I should be thankful for the peace while we had it and pray they will learn to love each other well and share again soon.

April 15th

Well..its actually April 16th now but I officially finished working tax season yesterday. Now I can start on my 'to do list before the baby.' I can already feel the nesting kicking in with just over 3 weeks to go. Thanks so much to my amazing coworkers who added one more pregnant girl to the mix (there were 4 of us pregnant!). I love working with you guys, using my brain, and even getting out of the house some. I do love being a stay at home mom and feel blessed to have the priviledge but I also really value my time at work each season and it gives me a whole new respect and perspective for my friends who do such an great job balancing the work and home life all year round. My hats go off to you! And a huge thank you to my parents who take care of the boys so well and adjust their life to allow me to work for tax season. I think the boys are actually sad that I'm done because it means less time at gran and pops.

Happy Easter!

On our way to the Easter egg hunt

I don't think Holt's too sure about this bunny.

One more attempt to get a picture of them both looking at the camera with a happy face...

We had a great Easter and enjoyed the gorgeous day God gave us! Here are some pictures from today and some from our neighborhood Easter egg hunt last weekend.

Moving In...

I took this when they finally passed out for the night...

We finally did it last night and made the transition to put Holt in a big boy bed and in his brother's room. They have been so excited to sleep in the same room and Pierce talked about it all day long. Overall it went really well. We set up the video camera b/c we were so curious what they would do but it was pretty uneventful. We put them down at 8 and they were both out by 9:15 which wasn't too bad for the first night. I did try to convince Holt all day long that we would leave the paci and his blanket in the crib for the baby but I did give in with the paci when he wouldn't stay in the bed the first half hour. But I'm still happy to say we are done with the blanket, one down, one to go. They had some interesting conversation and sweet giggles but stayed in bed until 7:15 this morning so we were thankful! Holt took a nap at my parents after lunch today so we will see how the nap in the big boy bed goes tomorrow. I just put them down tonight and they didn't even talk for 5 minutes, guess we wore them out today!