House Full of Boys!

Lately Eli has been very curious about using the toilet. He watches when the big boys go to the potty during the day and when they are done he will come to me, trying to get his pants/diaper off and point at the bathroom door. Whenever the boys get in to the tub they go potty first. He too has been wanting to use the potty. He will often point and grunt at the toilet. So we sit him on the toilet for a few minutes, he smiles then wants to get off. While in the tub he points, grabs, and is totally intrigued by his boy parts and the other boys parts. Well this morning I guess he didn't want to wait until bath time again. Here is a picture of how I found Eli in his crib this morning. I opened the door and had found him with his PJ's unzipped, one arm out, one leg out and his diaper undone. He had found his boy parts again. My first thought was 'please, please let it only be a wet diaper,' thankfully it was. I had to take 2 pictures, the first was a little more expo...

So I have not been the best blogger lately. We have been a little busy but not much. The kids are doing well. Aidan is loving school. We went to the schools open house a few weeks ago. Aidan's teacher said that he is doing great. He is already reading on a 1st grade level and is very good at math. However I think the 7hr days, 5 days a week might be getting to him. We were told to expect an occasional melt down here and there while the kids are getting used to school and we had 3 days of them last week, Friday's was horrible. We were driving home from Target and Aidan went crazy, crying over everything and nothing. Jared and I wished that our van was equipped with a privacy glass to drown out the noise. He is doing better this week. It doesn't help that he is probably a little bit sleep deprived thanks to Adley who for the past several months wakes up at 6am on the dot. This morning it was 5am. Ugh! I went in and found him whispering to a sleeping Aidan that it ...

So lately Jared has been addicted to a show called "Good eats". It is hosted by Alton Brown. He has it set to record all new episodes. Now Jared does not watch much TV at all, but he has really taken to this show. He watches all new episodes and then tells me all about them. I have tried to watch the show a couple of times but I can't stand Alton Brown. I think he is obnoxious. Jared likes his scientific approach to cooking. Jared watched an episode on fish and chips the other day and has been wanting to make it. We finally made it tonight. It was fantastic. We used talapia for the fish. It wasn't a huge hit with the boys and we ended up feeding them something else, but us adults enjoyed it. I haven't seen Jared so interested in anything this much recently. I keep telling him he needs to go to culinary school. Lately when he has had to make dinner, he has used some of the techniques or seasonings, etc that he has learned on the show. Our dinners are...