Merry Christmas

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!! I have more pics, but my boys have inherited my eyes, which means that I must red eye every single picture, so I'm still working on editing them :)

Fun on the plasma car

The plasma car has had some serious miles put on it by Ambrose, and it looks like Bram will only be adding to mileage!

I love this video of the boys! I am so blessed that Ambrose never went through that jealous phase when Bram arrived. He, for the most part, has been a sweet and kind brother, and the older and more interactive Bram gets I can see their relationship growing. Ambrose is very gentle with Bram, and Bram is always completely enthralled with Ambrose. I love it!

Bullets

you're no stranger to the bulleted catch up, so here we go

*This little guy turned 7 months ( well, back when I started this post he did, but as of today, he's 8 months).

* He's also crawling, which, Hallelujah! I've never understood those people who say "watch out, life is busier/harder when they start moving." I think those people must have been parents to children who sat quietly and played with their toys...aka, NOT my kids. The quality of life all around gets better when my kids are mobile. When they're stuck in one spot all they do is fuss, and whine about the toys that are just out of their reach. Now, rather than whine, he goes and gets the toy.

*Ambrose had his first Christmas program, and it was adorable. he didn't do a whole lot of singing, but he sure did look cute up there. We have a video, but it's too long to upload on here (John knows how to shorten it, but good grief, like he has time for that right now)

Ambrose is in the stage where he does a weird "cheese" face for every picture, and they always look completely ridiculous. So, sorry, it's either sullen teenager or crazy half smiling half yelling face.

*Which brings me to another point, IPUG might as well be some sort of weird TDY, because while he sleeps in our house, we don't actually ever SEE John right now. The work hours are like nothing else (to all of you who understood that sentence, you can totally relate).

*Getting ready for Christmas with this one has been a blast! Christmas day is going to be so much fun this year, I can't wait!

*NM weather is doing its part to get us in the Christmas spirit, and has dumped some snow on us recently. NM winters are my kind of winters. It's snows occasionally, just enough to snap some pictures, dust the mountains out my back door and play in for a little bit, but then the sun comes out, warms everything up and we put away our winter jackets and head out to the park to play the next day in sweatshirts.

Going to bed instead

When it comes to the blog, lately, this is how I've felt. I know I have so much to catchup on, it's totally overwhelming. I'm working on a post, don't give up on me yet!

SD

Life back home with loved ones is great! I'm soaking up the help, and Ambrose and Bram are enjoying the never ending list of people willing to play with them!

Brothers

Bram has been a little slow to gain weight (which is a whole other post...) so his "little brother" shirt has been way too big..until now! Yay. So I took the chance to put both boys in their shirts and snap a few pics :)

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Happy Halloween

apparently, the rule of picture taking with two kids is only child can look cute at a time. As you'll see, that rule applied to us....

We started out our trick or treating experience with a trip to our local zoo for the Zoo Boo. John was hunting on Saturday, so I thought it would be a great way to pass the time. I talked it up to Ambrose for the entire day on Friday, which resulted in him waking up on Saturday completely stoked to go. We get dressed up, take a few pictures of my adorable fire man and trusty Dalmatian fire dog.

We pile in the car and head to the zoo nice and early. I had planned to be there right when it opened so that we could get in and out in 40ish minutes (things never go as planned) . We don't even arrive at the zoo but I know that it's insanely crowded by the amount of cars parked in completely random spots on the way there. We get to the zoo and I'm pretty sure that my mouth was gaping open because the line to the zoo was unreal. The line began inside the zoo, wound around through part of the zoo, all the way through the parking lot and along side the street. At the point I am cursing myself for talking this up to Ambrose. Had I kept my big mouth shut we'd be able to turn around and go home, but since he's so excited mom guilt gets the best of me and we stick around.

After 45 minutes in line with a cranky/sleepy infant, a TON of people smoking IN THE LINE and 5 people cutting in front of us (because how dare I pause in line to unbuckling my infant and pick him up), we make it inside. We make it to three booths, before Ambrose throws down his fireman hat and candy basket and announces that he wants to go home. I sigh, because OF COURSE that's how it would go, and then I make Ambrose get it together because there was no way we were leaving yet. He rallies and we stay for about another 30 minutes.




The next few pics are of Halloween night. Ambrose had practiced all week saying Trick or Treat so that he'd be prepared for Monday night. The phrase served him well because he came home with a load of candy. I didn't get near as many pics as I'd like because John was gone still and as it turns out keeping Ambrose from darting out to every house with a porch light on took most of my time, the other part was divided evenly between carrying all of Ambrose's stuff and trying to keep Bram from diving out of my arms (the stroller lasted 5 minutes before he was ticked).