My Cute Boys

I'm sorry, but I have the two cutest boys ever, three if you count Aaron, which of course, I do! :) I love them all so much. This picture was taken a couple weeks ago. It was freezing outside, but Aaron and I were desperate to get out of the house, so be bundled all of us up and went for a walk. They love going for walks in their wagon. And it was Aaron and I who wimped out first and decided to come in. Those two crazy boys would have stayed out all afternoon in the freezing cold. I can't believe how big they are getting either. It wasn't too long ago that we were balancing Ivan's little bucket car seat on the sides of the wagon so he could ride too, and now he practically sits in there by himself.

Ivan is a few days shy of 11 months. This year has gone at warp speed. Recently Ivan's personality has been peeking out for all to see. He's a pretty goofty kid, which means he'll fit right in with this family. He loves to pretend he's just as big as Lincoln, and tries to follow Linc around and do all the things that he does. We have a regular comedy routine going between the two of them...Linc is the ham and the joker and Ivan is guy you can count on to laugh his head off at whatever Lincoln does. Ivan also does not like to be left out. Tonight Aaron took Lincoln out of the bath and was going to go set him down in his room and come right back for Ivan, but he only got half way down the hall, when he turned around and saw that Ivan had climbed out of the bath tub and was crawling after him butt naked and sopping wet. If Ivan chooses to leave the room without you, everything is fine and dandy, but if you choose to leave one without him you are in big trouble! He's still having trouble sleeping through the night, which I largely attribute to the fact that I haven't really attempted to sleep train him at all, because I don't want to hear about it from my upstairs neighbor whose room is right above Ivan's. So we're still working on that one.

Lincoln is two and a half these days. He still talks up a storm, but we're noticing more and more that the stuff he comes up with is more original and less parroted, and it's awesome! The other day I said, "Lincoln, Daddy's a dork!" and he said, "Daddy's not dork! Daddy's......a boat!" His other new favorite thing is to list off a whole string of things he likes. We were walking on BYU's campus the other day and Lincoln ran over to a patch of grass and said, "I like grass! I like mud! I like trees! I like birds! Birds go cheap cheap cheap!" It was so funny. So my new favorite game to play with him is to ask him what he likes. Then he just goes off on the most random things. Mud comes up in his lists alot. :) He's figured out that if he pushes a chair up to the kitchen sink he can get himself a drink of water or wash his hands. I have to admit I'm half excited and half dreading this new skill. We also started potty training him this afternoon. I'm not really sure I'm ready for it, but I really don't want three kids in diapers if I can help it, and now seemed as good of a time as any. So we'll be doing that adventure for the next few weeks. Wish us luck.