my big boys...

are freaking hilarious. not that peanut won't be, but right now his hilarity gene isn't really shining though (yet?).

regardless, i had to get a photo of this...bubba makes this face all the time. for like 3 days i couldn't figure out what the hell he was doing. then one night he pointed to pooks' new 'Mater' lamp and then made the face--i figured that out pretty easily! this is bubba making his ''tow mater'' face (don't mind the twizzler in his mouth):
and for those that don't know, this is 'Mater:
i think its the mouth/lips that makes him look like Mater. that and the general droopiness that bubba is trying to pull off. he needs to learn to stick his teeth out while doing it too!

on another big boy note...guess who is FINALLY talking?? and i mean talking not sounds??

BUBBA!

its like one day he woke up deciding to talk and he hasn't shut up since! when i drive he tells me ''mama drive slllllooooowww" or "mama drive fast-fast-fast". yesterday he told me it was raining and USED THE WORD ''RAIN''. okay it sounds like ''wane'' but still its a vast improvement over making the sound of rain. he can say both of his brothers [real] names, and does. he said auntie Michelle's name on friday. we went through the mcdonalds drive thru last week he told me that he wanted ''french fries, sauce, and nuggets". when it was nap time yesterday i was at the top of the stairs telling him to hurry up and he said ''ma, i'm coming'' plain as day. so besides the fact that he has some serious attitude, i love it. he's such a big boy now!
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okay and i'm posting the following, knowing that i'm going to get flamed.

i cut pooks hair. and i don't mean a little trim like last time. i was going for a trim, he was sitting so good in the bathroom sink letting me trim all the sides and back. (you see where this is going, right?) just as i go to trim the top, he turns his head...causing me to make a cut that was way shorter then all the rest. had this been on the side, it would have been fine..ya know? leave the top longer, shorten up the sides and we'd be good to go. well when you overly shorten the top you have to shorten the rest. the curls are gone.

i.cut.off.all.of.his.hair.

surprisingly enough, i love it! it is still wavy and slightly messy but he looks like such a big boy! its like you notice him and all his expressions instead of just his hair. yes he looks older. and i can fully admit this: had some bimbo at a salon cut his hair this short, i would have freaked.

but i guess since i was the bimbo and i just went with it, i'm okay with it :)

naturally Nanaw flipped a lid, smacked me and said ''what the hell did you do?" when she saw him and B keeps telling me that he looks like a 5 year old getting ready to go to kindergarten (exaggeration much?) but regardless, i like it. uncle matt likes it...papa hasn't seen it. bubba thought it was fun to watch, he even asked me to cut his but i didn't dare!

this background...

is just temporary. once i get some new pics of the boys, i'll redo it :)

Christmas (Part 2)

after opening gifts Christmas morning at our house, we made the hour drive to nanaw phew phew's house. there the boys opened their gifts from the grandmas, we all watched "Cars" and visited and we had Christmas dinner...probably the coolest thing was getting a 5 generation picture with all 3 boys. enjoy :)

we did handprints/footprints for the nanaws too!

nanaw making the mashed potatoes

(oddly enough, we take a pic of her making the mashed potatoes every year!)
pooks enjoying licking the beaters
bubba did too!
great great grandma, nanaw phew phew, myself and peanut
bubba and nanaw smooching

5 Generations!
(great great grandmas is 97 years young!)

and finally a typical pooks moment...
(he reached up and grabbed red velvet cake off of the table, and began eating--so we put him in his chair and let him go to town!)

My lil' peanut

the number one thing that anyone (and everyone) comments on when they see peanut is how big he is. yes, he was born almost 4 weeks early and weighed 6lbs 13oz but you sure as hell can't tell that now! he is getting chunky. super chunky. as in " hi, i'm six weeks old and am wearing 3 month clothing already" chunky. Here is a comparison pic that shows it best:

1 week old with Great Great Grandma

5 weeks old with Great Great Grandma (on Christmas Day)

at his one month appointment he weighed 9lbs 4oz...that was almost 3 lbs more than his discharge weight when we left the hospital. add two more weeks and i'm sure he's close to 11lbs today--if not over. and oddly enough the reason we had to move up the 3 month sleepers was because he was too long for the newborn ones! he couldn't straighten his little legs in the newborn size anymore.

so without further ado, meet my little chunk-a-monk:

6 weeks old on New Years Eve

cars, cars and oh yeah, more cars....

is what the boys wanted and received for christmas. "Cars" bedding, toys, crayons, stickers, tattoos, lamps, sippy cups, floor rug--i'm sure that i'm missing something but that's besides the point. their obsession has been filled...a 4 year old pixar movie is what my toddlers love, so we went with it.

their room is decked out. they got new lamps and a floor rug from nanaw and papa (and even "Cars" shelf liner?!) and then Santa brought them new bedding. so their room is "Cars" everything!

the floor rug that they play with all their cars on

pooks' bed complete with poster
(i forgot to get a pic of his new "Mater" lamp)

bubba with his bed, complete with Lighting McQueen lamp