Always Playing

These boys have an activity level that I will never be able to keep up with or understand. They constantly have to be moving and playing and making messes!! I can never keep up. I need a duplicate of myself!! However at the end of the day, I do love the sweet smiles on their cute little faces that make my heart melt. I adore my 3 crazy, busy, dirty, adorable little boys!!

This was the face that Kyler made when we pulled up to our house because we were not going to Nana & Papa's house or Oma & Papa Dude's house.  He was so sad we came home.  He sure loves his extended family!!

The boys loved their field trip to Home Depot, especially 'riding' the lawn mowers.

These boys all love to get dirty, and I hate it!!  It is so frustrating and gross, but I really try and not hold them back.  However, it is extremely difficult.  Needless to say, they took a bath as soon as we went back inside!!

He loved craw.ling around outside.  He of course refused to walk because that would not make as big of a mess!

They really liked the bubbles they got in their packages.

I told you he liked getting dirty!!

Damon had to dump all the bubbles and then splash in them.  Here he is jumping in the bubbles.

Apparently bubbles taste a lot better than I realized.  He did not seem to mind the taste whatsoever!!

They had fun making footprints out of bubbles.

This little boy is destruction on two feet!  He makes more messes than either of the other boys combined!! I am always amazed at how much he can destroy in such a short period of time!  Kyler and Damon always tell me, "Mom, Radley's making a mess again."

He was laughing every time Kyler blew the bubbles.  I was trying so hard to get a video while he was laughing, but between Damon and him trying to spill the bubbles, I didn't get one.

 This is the boys swinging at the park. It's a lot of fun when I am alone at the park to try and push both the boys and hold Radley. They are always telling me, "Push me super duper really high!"

Radley is walking everywhere now, but this video was after he first started to really walk everywhere. He had been taking steps for a while, but this is the first time at the park he really got down and played. He loved it!!

Easter

We didn't do a whole lot for Easter this year.  We thought about going back to Childress, but all of us got sick and were throwing up so we decided to keep the germs to ourselves and not get any one else sick.  Luckily the boys were able to do an Easter egg hunt with our playgroup the day before we all got sick, so they were able to enjoy a few festivities!  I was a lame mom this year and didn't even get out stuff to dye Easter eggs.  (I took a lot longer to recover than the boys.  Between being sick, taking care of them and trying to keep up with the three of them, I didn't get around to it.)  I think they stilled enjoyed Easter this year.  We made several attempts to teach the boys about Christ and the true meaning of Easter through conversations and video clips online, but I think it is a work in progress because we didn't get very far!  Thanks to some amazing grandparents, the Easter Bunny brought some amazing Easter baskets, which the boys thoroughly enjoyed!  Trying to take pictures of the boys dressed in their Easter clothes was a joke.  They hate church clothes (all 3 of them) so Radley was the only one that cooperated!  Then we had Easter dinner with a few friends and enjoyed some time together with our family.  It's not the Easter we expected, but it was still fun!!

On the hunt for some eggs!  Kyler of course had no problem getting eggs this year.  Damon was surprisingly pretty slow at it.  He was very methodical about which eggs to pick up, but they both had a blast!

When Damon opened his eggs he said, "I got chocolate and chocolate and chocolate and chocolate!"  I think he was pretty excited about the chocolate!

Kyler running away and hiding before opening his eggs!

The best picture I could get after the feasting began!

So excited about Easter!

The fast "Cheese" face before returning to check out his loot!

This is how Damon felt about pictures and his getting dressed.

Radley on his first Easter.  Cute as ever!!

Kyler trying to show just how grumpy he felt.

The best picture of all 3.  Pathetic right?!?

Radley Walking, The Penguins & More

This is just some random pictures of the boys. I am still amazed there are 3 of them!! Radley is walking.  All on his own I might add.  We really have not done very much to encourage it.  He started taking steps without any help or pushing from us.  He just takes off!  I guess it's good he is walking.  I'm not quite sure yet, but like it or not he's doing it! 

Just chillin on the bed with Daddy!

Occasionally Kyler lets Damon touch him.  This is one of those rare times, and Damon actually fell asleep.  They can be really sweet to one another sometimes.

Kyler actually climbing the monkey bars without getting a huge blister!  I can't believe he is getting so big!!

Damon seeing how he measures up to some penguins at the Science Spectrum.

Almost the same height!

"Look Mom I'm almost as big as this one too!"

I love Damon in this picture!

The beginning of many "Keys Line-ups" to determine who is the tallest!

Silly Penguins!

Just a random shot of Damon doing what he does pretty much every time I make dinner, stealing something from off the counter.  This time he is continuing a tradition from my family and eating frozen corn!

I can't believe I have 3 walking now!

This is Damon singing the song Summer from the movie Frozen.  I have been trying and trying to get this on video, and it's not his best version, but I think you can see a little of his personality shining through.  It's pretty funny when he really gets into it!

Everyday Life

I don't feel like we lead a very exciting life, but anything with 3 little boys is much more of an adventure than it should be, including what should be easy! Everyday tasks take much more time, patience, and effort than it should. However, it amazes me that simple everyday things I often overlook amaze them. For example, the other day it actually rained (quite an anomaly around here in the last few years), so the boys were excited! Kyler looked at Kenney and said, "I heard thunder in my two ears!" It was really cute, and I often forget how fun things like a thunderstorm can be, even to me! On the flip side, we went to a park today (which took at least 20 minutes to get to since we had to load the bikes in the car, buckle everyone up and drive there) and we stayed no longer than 5 minutes! Seriously less than 5 minutes after being there Kyler and Damon had both gotten hurt and were screaming uncontrollably. Why do I still try to do these things?!? I tell myself it is worth it, but I often wonder if it really is worth it!!

It wouldn't be a picture of Damon without at least one large knot on the top of his head!  He also hit his nose twice somehow and ended up with a bloody nose by the end of the day!

I cannot tell you how hard it is to get a picture of this kid with his eyes open!  The picture above is nothing short of a miracle!

This little guy is getting SO SO big!

Kyler and Damon thought he looked like a dinosaur!

Well, he sure can roar like a dinosaur!!

I just absolutely LOVE that cute face!!

So Radley has decided this week that he needs to start walking!

Today he took 5 steps because he was so excited to see Daddy!

Damon trying really hard to keep his eyes open.  Notice he is not looking at the camera.  Apparently that is the trick to keeping them open!

Kyler said, "Look Mom! I can keep my eyes open!"  Yep they are definitely open!!

Earlier on the same day we left the park after they boys getting hurt, I also made the effort to walk the boys to a different park to let them throw rocks in the water.  (I am trying to keep us all entertained and busy by doing things other than watching movies and playing on the iPad.)  They threw rocks for about 8 minutes and then decided it was time to go home.  What??  I even pushed them in the stroller to get there, and I only got 8 minutes of entertainment???  How is that fair?!?

I literally took a short video of them throwing the rocks and a few pictures, and they were ready to go.  I was shocked.  I usually have to drag them home.  The one time I was ready and excited to be there, they have no interest!  Go figure!

This is how we ride these days!  That is over 80lbs of weight.  I am grateful my kids aren't heavy!!

This is Damon screaming at the park about his leg.  I was getting the camera out to take a picture of Kyler doing the monkey bars, because he can do it all by himself now, and I turned around to see Damon hurt and Kyler running up right behind him with a huge blister on his palm from doing the monkey bars!!  I said to Kenney, "Why did we come?"  He looked at me in the car on the way home and said, "I bet you have this feeling a lot don't you?"  I responded, "At LEAST once a day!"