Spring Break is for relaxing....

Spring break so far...

Friday night, they were so loving and excited to see each other. We'll see how they are by the end of the week.

Saturday morning Hollister asked for green eggs. Seriously, green eggs. Guess he wanted some energy for his soccer game. He played the best he ever has. he kicked and ran and came so close to scoring. Guess we'll try green eggs next week too. He is #3, in the middle about to kick off.

After soccer, Hollister and I made peanut butter play dough by his request again. I will do a separate post on this soon.

Trevor and I were playing scrabble the other night, we looked over and these two were "playing". They had their toys and their snacks. You know, its cute now, but in ten years its going to be scary!

Trevor had to repair our table and of course, he had helpers!

Trevor has made cupcakes and burgers. We eat well, that is for sure!

This is what most of his time is preoccupied with. See the scowl? That's for me. The next words out of his mouth are, "You'd better not put that on your blog, Mother." Ha ha, silly boy... Of course this is going on my blog!

Batting practice. The three behind him are watching him in awe. (LOL)


Some bike fun? Uh, fun? Maybe not, but funny, YEP!

Trevor had to show him how its done!

Hamilton is not so sure about this.

I bet he is thinking, am I part of a circus family? Yes son, you are!

My Hot Rod & How cute are they?

My daredevil and the daredevil in training!

This is what they do when they think they are too big to be outside with us.

Trevor is working across the street this week. We started the actually week off as a family, working! The picture of the boys is proof for me that the boys were working. The picture of me was Trevor's proof that I was working. Very funny honey :)

The Lost Month

Mr. Personality is 15 months old today!
Disclaimer: I wrote that yesterday when I thought he was 15 months old, then last night I realized that he is 16 MONTHS OLD!!!!! How does that happen? How do I lose a whole month?

Another reason why I will never get mother of the year.

Someone recently told me we named Hamilton correctly, because he is quite a "ham"! Get it?

Yep, she was right. Hamilton can really work the charm. He waves and smiles to total strangers. Last week at Wal-Mart, he played peek-a-boo with a lady in a wheelchair shopping cart and made her day.

He is so playful loving. He follows his big brother Hollister around everywhere. He loves to play "chase" with him. They truly are comical to watch.

He is in love with his big brother Kendrick. Last night he played peek-a-boo with him behind the couch. Whenever he sees him he lifts his hands because he knows Kendrick will pick him up. He loves to lay his head on his shoulders.

When I pick up CJ and then go get the boys from day care, CJ will hide in the car until I bring them out. Hamilton just lights up when he sees him. That truly makes CJ's day. He'll say, "Oh, he does remember me!"

In the morning he is absolutely the happiest baby to get from his bed. He will smile so big and sometimes even try and hide from you when you go to get him. He hasn't quite figured out that we can see him even when he can't see us.

He loves to give kisses, but only on his time. When he does though, he is quite generous. Trevor will ask him for a kiss and he'll give him one. Then give me one, then back to Daddy, then to me and sometimes it continues for a while. So loving! He will also trick us. He'll go to give you a kiss and at the last minute turn his head and psych you out! Then he just laughs!

He follows directions very well. He will throw things away in the trash cans if you ask. He will also throw stuff he isn't supposed to throw away, so we have to watch the trash can carefully. IF we tell him to get his shoes, he'll go get them and then try and put them on his feet. Last night he even brought me my shoes so we could go to soccer practice.

This was at soccer practice. I normally make him stay in his umbrella stroller, but he was antsy yesterday. so I let him play. He loved the orange cones (see picture above). Then he grabbed a ball and was throwing it and kicking it. So cute!I was trying to get him kicking it, but I'd catch the shot right after he kicked it. He was good at following directions though. When I said kick, he kicked!
He loves being outside to play, but I still think his favorite thing to do is eat! If he is at home, he is in his chair eating. He wakes up and the first thing he does is point down stairs to go eat. This kid is serious.

All around he is just so happy and playful and its hard to even fathom life before him. The past 15, I mean 16 months feel like forever and I think that is a good thing.

Sunday Fun

On Sunday Trevor had some work to complete outside. I told Hollister we could go outside and play while he worked. It was also close to lunch so I thought we could just eat a sandwich on the porch as well. I used the word "picnic" though and Hollister took me literally.

Check him out!

We were also treated with some great picnic dancing.
Check out those jazz hands!This boy can eat some grapes!

We even had some bubble fun during our picnic.

Trevor did have to get some work completed.

Like always, Hamilton wasn't finished eating,

so we just moved the picnic so Daddy could work!
When Kendrick got home he joined in the sidewalk chalk fun!
We ended our day with a trip to the neighborhood park!

Swings!
SLIDES!
Mommy and Daddy had some fun at the park too!

Green Goblins

Saturday marked the opening of soccer season for Hollister. Trevor is coaching again. We are fortunate to have 5/7 players from last season.

First game went well.

7-4 Green Goblins in the WIN column.

Hollister is doing much better at the beginning of this season than he did last season. He is aggresive during practice, not so much in the game yet. Mom is chalking that up to he was FREEZING!!!

The weather was sunny, cold and extremely WINDY!

He did have an awesome throw in which led to a tap by his teammate and a score by the Goblins! Great assist son!He's standing that way, because he is freezing!

Running

Kicking off

Running after theball (I think)
Sitting the bench in the first quarter. It is really windy and cold... Poor guy....

Half time means snack time! All the goblins!

New shoes!

Hamilton got some new shoes Friday night. He has outgrown the "baby" shoes and now has "boy" shoes. He was not happy at first. They are much heavier and he was not at all thrilled by this.

But, a Popsicle can make it all better!

Then we found a nice pair of sandals for him that aren't as heavy. He likes these a lot. And, not to be out done by his little brother, Hollister got new shoes too. They light up, don't tie (which he HATES) and they are "shark" shoes. Look closely, you'll see the teeth.