Just for fun

We like to read books... children's books that is. At night before bed, we pound out as many childrens' library books as we can stand and usually Cael enjoys too. Brecon... well, we're working on him. He usually can only take about 1/2 of a book before he has had enough, which is OK for now. But if he is going to last very long in this family, he needs to learn to love books or he just might not make it (only kidding :) So... After we took this picture, Cael insisted that Brecon sleep in his bed for the night. But it didn't happen. Like I said, Brecon can only do 1/2 a book, or stand to be so close to his brother for so long. I know his loves Cael, but he also knows that Cael = rough love. Cael loves Brecon, only sometimes a KICK to the head or a squeeze TOO TIGHT doesn't always go over well with a baby. Life can be hard when you're a baby and your brother's name is Cael. Anywho... you gotta love it.

BROTHERS... NO MATTER WHAT ( check out the blond widows peak on Brecon. You can see it, right?)


Ben reading to his boys... how precious is that

Now I just threw this one in for fun. I thought some might get a kick out of Caels' shorts hiked up to TIBUKTU. I know I'm laughin'

and now he sleeps...

After our sweet baby was born, this lady didn't receive the luxury of going to bed at night without any A.M. interruptions. And NOW can I get a Hallelujah?!!?! Brecon is going for 7 hour stretches at NIGHT!!! This is a little smile from the man saying "you're welcome mom". He's been allowing me to play a little catch up for about a week now. Let's just hope he keeps it up.

SQUISHY

Ben and Cael love to go on "BUG HUNTS". There must be something about digging in the dirt and catching rollee-pollee's, ants, and crickets, sticking them into a jar and looking at them. I don't know, I just don't get it. I must be a girl or something. Anywho, on one of their fabulous hunts, they discovered this (see photo below)l. We'll just say that this creature was something to behold and Cael was very excited about it. We asked Cael what we should name this new friend and said "SQUISHY" with no hesitation. It was pretty cute that he came up with the name all by himself, so the name has stuck to every hopping friend we see.
After playing in the dirt, we just had to stick the boys in the tub. RUB A DUB DUB...

OH NO.... close your eyes if you are afraid of a little bum

Family at Work

Just recently we got new countertops installed, and therefore we also needed to install a new sink and faucet and garbage disposal. As you can see my boys are hard at work making sure it gets done right! Ben and Cael working on installing the new faucet. It was just one of those cute moments where Cael just had to be right there with Dad.

Our cute little bug and a borrowed puppy from Cael. We will see how small the puppy "shrinks" next to Brecon this year.


HE SMILES!!! The first month or so with Brecon was pretty rough. He was just a crying baby and I thought he was "broken" because Cael was so easy... anywho... he is doing better and even smiles for us. GOTTA LOVE IT!
ohh, I look tired here but that is just how it is with a new baby. I wanted to put this one up of me and Brecon to show that I do exsist ( you know what I mean?)

OH and here we are at the pool. I still can't believe I have two boys.. so this picture really proves to me that there they are. We were just enjoying the summer heat while we had it. It has been raining so much (even this labor day weekend) that we almost forgot what Texas summer was like. Cael really is swimming so well. He puts on his goggles (which are his favorite color) and dives under the water. If you look to the right you can see an "island" which Cael swims to all by himself from the edge where we are. He also learned to float and swim on his back, he sure looks cute paddling his little arms and kicking his legs!
So there it is... what we have been up to lately.