My Two Men

V's very much like his daddy. It doesn't matter if it's a toy tractor, a block, or even a shoe...If it can be pushed while making Brrrrr sounds, it's a truck or tractor. Blocks become hay bales. His toy schoolhouse becomes a second barn. L is like that too. He can often picture 'what could be' while looking at 'what it is' (something that has helped while we are drawing up house plans).

Another way V is like his dad is they both share a love of climbing and the steeper the surface, hey all the better, right? The exception is L sticks to climbing rocks while V climbs all available surfaces in the house. My couch, chairs, book shelf, his crib, our bed, the kitchen table, his high chair, the cabinets, the toilet, etc...Anything he can find a way up onto, he will. I'm just waiting to find him on top the fridge...

Reading is another love they share. L reads books like The Non-Toxic Farmers Handbook, The Untold Story of Milk, and westerns. V reads Tootle, Berenstein Bears, and, his favorite, Ten Little Babies. (He even knows which page has the little boy hollering QUIET.)

And I can't forget tractors and farm equipment. Both of my men have several tractors at their disposal, most of them are green, and both boys spend quite a bit of their days working with them. The only difference is L plows the fields with his tractors and equipment while V plows the living room floor. They also spend several hours peering at the latest Tractor House magazines.

V absolutely adores his Daddy. Heaven forbid he have to ride with Mom to the barn in the van...No, he's got to go with Dad in the Be-bup (V speak for Pickup). The last time Daddy took him in the tractor V was waving Bye to me while heading for the door wearing only a diaper and shirt with no boots. He wasn't going to chance Dad leaving without him. No sirree. He saw the guys plowing and discing the pasture yesterday and spent part of the afternoon trying to rig up a plow of his own. It didn't work so he went back to loading 'bales' (blocks) into his wagon.

I can only wonder if my little girl will be just as enthusiastic as her brother about all things Farm.

Strange Diagnosis

I went to the chiro yesterday for an adjustment. After hearing me mention I was feeling a bit tired, he poked and prodded along my collarbone til I jumped. A Hmmm, a I've got to get something from the other room, and a Look at the flashlight later, I didn't hurt anymore. His diagnosis-I'm sunlight deficient.

Really? SUNLIGHT?

Weirdly enough, it's true. Apparently there's a gland that needs direct sunlight to function and it can affect everything from moods to muscles to your middle. My prescription for the next two weeks is to sit under a full-spectrum light for at least 15 minutes every day. Finally, a treatment I am actually enjoying. :)

Where's the Mousey?

V got a cute book for Christmas and in each scene you need to lift flaps to find hidden animals. There is also a mouse hidden in each picture and V absolutely LOVES to find the 'squeak, squeak mousey'. He's quite good at it.

Well, a couple weeks ago, we were visiting at my in-laws and V came wandering out of the toy room. He was oh-so-proudly showing his great-grandmother and grandmother the mousey he found while playing. Unfortunately, he didn't know the mouse he was holding was not a fake one but a real (dead) one caught in a trap! After hearing a few SHRIEKS, V thought he was being scolded and threw the trap on the floor. To make him feel better, Grandma T had him 'help' bring the dead mouse outside.

Poor kid didn't know what to think. He was only showing off his mouse! :)

Long Time No See

So it's been a while since I last posted on here...Oops, that's my mistake. I can't make excuses because there really aren't any. Well, I guess having two kids in various stages of growth, teething, and sinus/respiratory illnesses (aka the common cold) can count for some of the missed time but not all of it. So I apologize and will try to do better from here on out. Here's a little of what's been going on in the last few months at our house...

-V turned 2 just a few weeks ago. He certainly enjoyed his party, most especially the two toy cows he got for presents. Just hope he doesn't start expecting a cow for every year. :) He's turning into quite the mimic now. He and his daddy have a stretching contest every time L stretches. We are having to watch our words as he tries to say everything we do but the results can be hilarious, embarrassing, or simply horrifying since he can't pronounce all the sounds quite right.

-A is nearly four months and, like her brother, she's getting bigger by the day it seems. She can 'talk', giggle, roll from front to back and almost all the way back, and loves to sit up. She recently discovered the joys of applesauce but turned her nose up at the rice cereal. Picky eater already...

-We finally decided on a location for our house and plans are slowly moving along in that direction. I'm spending quite a bit of time dreaming of house plans and trying to fit everything we want into the size we have. It's like a big jigsaw puzzle. Some plans sound awesome but once drawn out, you see that something doesn't work. Others don't sound so promising but look pretty good once they are on paper. I can't wait to see what we come up with in the end.

-We've been having a very mild winter thus far with very few days in the 'frigid' range. It's been wonderful to take the kids for a walk in January but I wish we had a bit more snow. There's a dusting but it's iffy as to whether or not it would be good skiing yet so maybe tomorrow I'll take my skis out for a spin to see. I'm getting cabin fever so it would be lovely to get outdoors for some exercise if the weather is nice.

Well, I'm sure there's been plenty more happening in our little corner of the world but I can't think of anything of major importance at the moment. Maybe tomorrow... If I find the energy that is...