Pictures of the boys...

Playing with each other
Andrew loves the bus too!
I think I hear the choo-choo!
SMILE
Someone loves when his brother is sleeping so he has all the toys to himself!
Playing some music with his Sesame Street music player:)
Getting ready to head out on a walk
Just hanging around the house
Hello, Hello, Is anybody there?
Going for a ride in the dump truck:)

My Little Fashion Man...

It has been quite a whirlwind in this household the past few weeks. Someone is really interested in clothes, clothes, and clothes:) Aiden has decided that getting dressed is one of his favorite things to do...and chooses to do it at least five times a day:) Let's just say that I find Aiden's clothes all around the house throughout the day. I am trying to embrace the independence and let my patience take over when I end up picking up a shirt for the tenth time before 10 am. The other day when he wanted to change again for the second time at 8 am after walking the dogs, I discussed how we could have one outfit for the morning and one for the afternoon. He looks at me straight in the eyes and says, "But Mommy this is my walking shirt. Now I need my play shirt on." How could I argue with that logical reasoning?

I am proud of our boy as at least 80 percent of the time, he can get himself completely dressed with his underwear on in the right direction, shorts/pants on correctly, and the shirt is got the design on the front. He often likes to accessorize with shoes, socks, and hats! He wears a diaper for naps and night time and even will put that on correctly by himself. I guess it's time to phase those out soon!

Sometimes, when he goes in his room for nap, I hear him rumbling through his closet. When I walk in to get him at the end of nap, he is wearing layers of shirts and sweaters are piled at the end of his bed! Again, patience, patience, patience for this very organized mommy:)

Here are a few pictures of the many outfits of the week:

Surfer shirt, shorts with puppies on them, and his Santa slippers!

Thomas hat, blue polo shirt on backwards, jeans, socks, and his Crocs! (I know...a fashion no-no at two years old!)

Striped polo shirt, overalls, and Santa slippers!

I can tell you that some of his favorite things to wear right now are pants/shorts with pockets (his absolute favorites are his jean shorts), polo shirts with buttons, his baseball Life Is Good shirt and his soccer shirt, his Santa slippers, baseball hats, his moose shirt, train socks, and his flip-flops (that are too big hand-me-downs which can make for some long walks when they keep popping off).

Now, I'm off to go wake him up and get him dressed again for a BBQ tonight. I wonder what he wants to wear?!?!?

Loving Daddy!

Two Little Quacks...

Just a video of our crazy, little quackers: Aiden and Clemmers! Enjoy:)

Cousin Craziness...

First piece of news, we have survived Hurricane Irene! We are really, really lucky that we just had minimal flooding of the basement...nothing major that we can't take care of ourselves. The wind and rains were unbelievable. I think that we had close to 10 inches of rain during the storm. Somehow, the boys slept through the major part of the hurricane while I anxiously woke up several times to peer out the window and check the news station. I was all ready to head down towards the basement, if Chris didn't convince me that waking the kids is the last thing we want to do. Sadly, most of our town didn't make it through the storm as well. Much of the town has had terrible flooding and much damage has occurred.

In other news, recently, we had a wonderful visit from my sister, Jen, and her two kiddos: Clem and Tal! We LOVED seeing them and are VERY, VERY sad that they have decided to move to Indiana from the Bronx to pursue a new teaching job. We were so lucky that they stopped to see us for a few days before they took a new step. We enjoyed some shopping, a few attempts at making quilts, and lots and lots of craziness!!!!!

Aiden and Clemmers-not the best picture, but it's no easy feat to get these two to stand still together!

Playing in the sandbox...
Tal and Andrew, our little baby boys...
Slide fun...
Swinging together...
Getting ready to head on a walk...
And I'm so excited that we actually got a decent picture of the crew!!!!!

We miss you all SO much!!!!!

Hunkering down for the hurricane...

So we are waiting for this big storm to arrive around here, not really sure what to expect. We stocked up on water, turned our refrigerator down, packed up our outdoor toys and deck items, and pulled out the candles. We are ready for the BIG hurricane to arrive tonight. I'm just nervous about losing power because I know that it could take days to get it back. So let's just hope for the best!

We were supposed to head down to York, PA to visit my sister, Jill, and family this weekend. We had an awesome outing planned to go to Dutch Wonderland amusement park with the boys, but due to the terrible weather, we will be hunkered down in our house ALL weekend. Right now as the rain is just starting to pour, Chris and the boys are all taking naps and I'm catching up on some Project Runway!

Today, I'm going to just share some candids of the boys from the past week. Enjoy!

How can you say no to this face?!?!