recap

No blogging for a few days. It's been busy around here. I started taking a kickboxing class at the hospital that started on Tues. I thought it was a beginner's class 2 days a week for 45 min. Well, it's not a beginners class, it's an hour instead of 45 min., but it does meet twice a week. I'm a little scared for tomorrow's class as I've heard it's harder than Tues. class (which kicked my ass, by the way). Oh well, she said I can handle it so we'll see how it goes (plus she said I have good form). Ha! Who knew?

I signed Alex and I up for a Parent-Tot swim class on Tues. mornings. It's the same class I've taken Jack to so I hope Alex will enjoy it just as much. We will start next week, so we'll see.

Jack just started his pre-level swimming lessons yesterday. He's in the pool with his teachers--no parents. I was so excited to see how he would do, but I was a little under the weather yesterday, so Chad stayed home and took him. He said he was the shortest kid in his class and probably the youngest. He said that he didn't listen as good as the others, which didn't surprise me. He did dunk his head, do his kicks, floated on his noodle, ect. Jack said he had fun, which is the main thing for me so he'll go back and want to learn more. I can't wait to take him tonight. Hopefully I can take some picts. and keep Alex out of the water!

what 'ya call a guy with no arms, no legs hanging on the wall?

I thought it would be fun for the boys to do some art today and not the typical crayons and coloring book, so we got out the glue, scissors, paint, ect. and Jack went to town. He had so much fun that when it was time for lunch he cried so hard he didn't want to stop.

See if you can spot the similarities in these pictures:

You guessed it--the I-can't-concentrate-unless-I-have-my-tongue-sticking-out-phase. I don't know if you can really call it a phase, since I find myself still doing it from time to time:) It's pretty cute! Art is fun, but messy. It'd be nice if we had a certain spot for it so if they made a mess, it wouldn't be a big deal.

I tried to give Alex some paper and these fun crayons that his Aunt and Uncle gave him, but all he wanted to do was rip the paper off his tray and eat the crayon. To be fair, he was in his high chair! That boy will totally eat anything that isn't nailed down! Even then, he might gnaw on it a little :)

pistol pete

This boy is driving me insane! He is 100% all boy, all the time. Check this out:

He's doing summer salts (OK, totally don't know if I spelled that right) off the couch onto the video rocker onto the floor. He has taken so many shots to the head I'm 95% sure he's riding the shorty bus to school.

And yes, that is a kitchen in the background and yes, boys can play with it too. Both our boys love it.

Here's to a better tomorrow!

Ok, here we go..

I think I figured out how to do my web album thing. Here is the link to view my 365 days of pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/littlefarmerboys/365. I don't know how else to get there so bookmark it or whatever!

Having a very stressfull day with or number one son. I think I'm going to 'borrow' another idea from Lori and have a 'word of the year' thing. I think I will take her last years word, calm. I really need it, need to be it, need to display it, and need it around me. This is a very trying time with Jack and I see it beginning with Alex. I just keep thinking of the word and what it means and hope it gets me through the day. Whoever said raising boys is easier, was smoking crack!

ahhhh!

OK, so I'm starting to get pissed. I've been sitting here for over an hour to get all this photo s@%$ to work and IT'S NOT WORKING!
So here are the picts that didn't come through the first time. Enjoy.

every day

Just another day here in the Hoyum house. Everyone is feeling much better now. I hope that's it for 2008. These are a couple of shots of the boys tonight being pretty darn cute.




These boys are pretty darn silly. Alex has a facination for sour foods such as pickles (and the juice) and lemon juice. So he decided he had to have some and so did his brother and these are the faces they made:






Jack had a few drops and was over it. Alex kept wanting more. He's a wierd one.

I have started a little project for the year. I 'borrowed' the idea from my cousin who's blog I frequent and the blogs of others. I will be taking a photo a day for a year. Well, I'll be taking more than one, I will post one a day for the whole year. One photo that sums up the day or something special that happened. It's kind of exciting in the beginning, but as with everything else I do, once the novelty wears off, it'll be harder to keep it up. But I'm gonna try!!

It would be nice to scrap these and to start scrapping in the first place, but I don't know where to begin. I get so overwhelmed with it all and I just say forget it. Maybe some day when I have more time and money to spend on it, but for now I'll just be bloggin'.

I'm going to try to get my 365 album up on the web, just can't seem to get it to work just now. Will let you know when it's up and running.

Oh, and something else... Jack likes to go through my drawer in the kitchen that has all the odd utinsels in it like turkey baster, apple correr, pizza cutter, ect. Tonight he found the egg slicer thing and wanted to play with it. Later while I was getting Alex ready for bed, Jack was sitting on the floor strumming the slicer singing 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'. I used to do the same thing when I was a kid. Not the 'Twinkle, Twinkle' part but playing the egg slicer. Too funny! Don't know if every kid does that, or just us. That took me back :)

sick part 2

OK, so both my kids got sick Sunday. That was fun. It wasn't that bad 'cause each kid only got sick once. Weird, but I'll take it. The mystery puke in the hallway we later found out came from the dog, who later puked twice more outside. He is the smartest dog on the planet. Who's dog actually goes outside to puke(except for the one in the hallway)?!?

Anyway, I was so excited because Jack actually made it to the bathroom when he got sick! That means I didn't have to spent the night cleaning Tator Tot casserole and strawberry cough drop out of my carpet!!! How great for me?!?

However, this AM Chad got sick, too. He's doing better. Mostly achy muscles and a little dizzy now. Only if I can dodge this bug then we'll be set.

Kind of a crappy start to the New Year. Hope it's not a glimpse of things to come.