Baby Cutler is here!!!

Camden & Cohen have a new baby brother!!!

Cutler Douglas was born on June 16th at 4:31 am. He weighed 7 lbs. 5 oz and was 19" long. Here are the highlights:

Wrestling with Daddy

Playing in the Snow

We woke up on Saturday morning to a light layer of snow on the ground. The boys were so excited! There was just enough to make some snowballs and have a snowball fight! Here are the highlights:

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!!!

Camden was Darth Vader and Cohen was Venon, the black spiderman. We went to the local church run "Trunk or Treat" where they line up cars, decorate the trunks and hand out candy from the trunk of the car. The boys love it! I really enjoy it because we can get all our trick or treating done in one stop! No walking around for miles getting in and out of the car, this is perfect!
I asked Lou to take a picture of us but Camden did NOT want to oblige. He wouldn't smile with any amout of threatening! ;-)
Afterwards we went to a friends house so the boys could play together, and play together they did! They were incredibly rowdy from all that sugar!
Poor Cohen just couldn't handle all the fun. He passed out on the way over there and stayed asleep the whole time! I couldn't belive he could sleep through the noise of the boys running, screaming and sword fighting just a few feet away from him!
All in all it was a great Halloween! Hope yours was too!

Passed Out

Camden and Cohen are up every morning by 7am and then Camden is at School from 8:13 am until 3:00 pm everyday. Cohen goes with me to the gym to work until 11:30, then home to watch Karcher until 1:15 pm. Then he gets to run errands with me, help clean, play toys, or just watch TV. Then we pick up Camden and come home and play outside. I try to keep them away until bedtime at 8:30 but often it just doesn't work. They are just too tired!


Camden was dressed as Batman, in costume as usual! Sorry for the quality of the pictures, they were taken with my camera phone.

Chips & Dip

Camden was begging me for some Scoops chips and cheese dip. He likes the cheese con queso, it's a little spicy but he doesn't mind. So while the boys were getting dressed up in costumes in the living room I set the snacks out and called them in. They were loving it!

They are so silly!!!

Clifford the Big Red Dog

When I picked Camden up from Kindergarten today Cohen and I peeked through the window and saw his whole class with headbands that had big red ears stapled to them. They were singing and dancing and having a great time! Then when class was dismissed and he walked through the door we saw this:

How adorable! They all had their noses painted like puppy dogs! Cohen thought it was great, so Camden convinced his teacher to paint Cohen's nose too. They didn't have time to make him a set of ears but he wasn't too upset. So here is Cohen saying "Cheese" (he really wasn't in any pain, the way the picture look...lol!)

My Guys

Kitchen fun

The boys were getting bored and pretty rowdy so it was time to get creative. I first layed out 2 beach towels in the floor to keep it as dry as possible. Then I took my 2 largest pots and filled thim half full of water. I sat out 2 smaller pots for each boy and gave them measuring cups, spoons, ladles, etc. Then I filled each of the large pots with some dry red kidney beans and let them have at it! They really enjoyed it! For a little extra fun, I gave them the sprinkles shaker (for cupcakes) and they loved that. Cohen quickly noticed that the color from the sprinkles was diluted in the water. He was upset that he pretty colored sprinkles were all white and his water was mucky, and then the fun was over as quickly as it began.

Wrestling with Nanu

The boys hadn't seen Nanu for a while (well, they had SEEN her but they hadn't had time to PLAY with her) and they went crazy. You have to see it, it's so funny!

Saint Louis Zoo

Lou was off this week on vacation so we decided to take the boys to the zoo. They had a great time!

Water Bouncing

We recently bought a trampoline for the boys to have fun on this summer. They LOVE it. It's mid-June and we are hot! My mom's swimming pool wasn't quite ready and the boys are already bored with the sprinklers. So our solution...combine the trampoline and the sprinkler! They loved it! We just placed our old garden sprinkler under the trampoline and let them have at it! Check it out. (talk about being frugal, I love this! FREE)

Bubble Blast!

I recently bought 2 battery powered bubble wands from Big Lots for $3.00 each! I brought them home, put in the (not included) batteries and set them loose. The boys had so much fun, I should have bought these LONG ago.

Whoa! He's so pleased!

Isn't that cool! It blows bubbles inside of bubbles!

Oh, it popped!