New Words!

E said mama yesterday! We were sitting at chik fila and he looked right at me and said mamammama!It only took him 9 months and a few days to work that one up! Of course i am following Dada and Yay... (O said mama first, followed by elmo and rob (the cat)). I am baffled as to how he is suddenly 9 months old. It is unbelivable that planning his first birthday party has already moved into my subconcious thinking...They sure do grow up fast.

Oh New Year

I don't usually make new year's resolutions. Not real ones anyway. This year is different...just in case that is the reason I never get anything done, I am making a few.
-One is to keep up with this blog. With Anna's assistance, I plan to keep this one!
-Another is to move to Atlanta.
-Getting O accepted into a part time preschool is a huge goal that looms before us. Open houses at these schools begin at the end of this month.
Those are my resolutions in a nutshell.
Now I must go to bed b/c it is very late and my little E wakes very early so he and I can watch the sun come up then he loves to go right back to bed when O wakes up.

more things to not forget

*O calls fuzz or anything he finds on the floor "bumbles." We have no idea where bumbles originated but we've picked it up as well. His brother, the little vaccuum cleaner, LOVES to find and eat bumbles.
*E is starting to babble a lot. He has been saying da da for quite some time but nothing else of substance but we think a language explosion is just around the corner. When we read to him, he talks up a storm! He's not walking yet but is starting to play around with his balance and stand alone for longer periods.

Welcome 2009

We rang in the new year in Anniston, with "unlce" jeremy. We woke up on New Year's Day and headed to Atlanta. We have plans to move to Atlanta as soon as our house sells or if we decide to rent our house out, whichever comes first. This was just a short trip to refamiliarize us with the areas we like, and to drive by pote

ntial preschools for O to see where they were located in relation to certain neighborhoods. This week was also spent working...a lot. We are trying to create a bigger online business presence and things are working well but that is creating lots of package stuffing to mail things out.O & E spent most of their week playing with their new Christmas toys. We need a larger house to house them all! O's current favorites are his bicycle, new and more exciting train tracks for his train table, and his plasma car! E's favorites are his sing along stage, his moving red train, and his stacking bugs!

O has also started wearing hats alllllllllll the time. He keeps finding funny hats and each one creates a different job for him. He has his conductor hat, his engineer hat (can you tell he's a train fan?), his pilot hat, his fireman hat, and his ambulance driver hat.That's about it for this week!

things i don't want to forget!

*Owen can't say the "f" sound so we get to hear about how he wants some WATTLES for breakfast. Soap is called Toamy (instead of foamy, which is what Uncle taught him soap was called)

*He calls his nose "nariz" which is spanish for nose and anything that is inside his nose is also called a nariz. He also wears pantalones instead of pants. 

*Evan's teethers are known as "no teeth" to Owen. He hands him a no teeth to help him grow his teeth. He started calling them that when his daddy told him evan has no teeth. 

* He says EEEEEBBBBAAAAAANNNN when he catches evan playing with his favorite toys. (he can't say v either, it comes out as b) I need to get a video of this one, it's hilarious. 

life's a beach

Hello from Panama City Beach! We are just finishing up a really wonderful and relaxing fall vacation. This was Evan's first time to see the ocean and he seemed to be very impressed. He really loved the sand, it was so tasty! Owen had such a great time we are thinking he may have some beach bum in his blood. He drove his cars through the sand, made tunnels, and overcame his fear of seashells. yes, fear of seashells! For some reason when we first arrived, he wanted nothing to do with them. The best he could do is try to bury them by sprinkling sand on them from afar. By tonight though, he was a pro. once he braved picking up one, he was a shell picking machine. He loved to find them and toss them out into the sea.

A few weeks ago, we took a trip to Houston for our nephew Garett's first birthday. this was Evan's first plane ride and Owen's first one since he turned two! We had a nice visit and got to go to the zoo. Owen got his pockets stuffed full of nickels from his grandpa and he had fun jingling when he walked.

Well, i need to sign off, the dryer buzzer just went off! Yes, doing laundry at the beach! What fun. :)

quick update- we found a tiny front tooth on evan 2 days ago! 

owen is now in big boy underwear!  he picked it out himself, thomas train of course. :)