Excitment

For Christmas my parents gave us, Nick and I, a weekend away. They would watch the kids for a weekend and we could do what ever we wanted! The only stipulation was that it had to be cashed in before baseball season because my dad is a coach. So we packed the van on Friday night and headed to the opposite side of the state to cash in our gift.

We got the kids settled into my parents house on Friday night, then on Saturday morning headed out to get our weekend started. After swimming, snowshoeing and watching a movie I received a call from my Dad late in the afternoon. He told me that Geremu had some exciting news, then he put Geremu on the phone. While they were out at a basketball game Geremu lost his tooth! Geremu was excited to tell me but NO ONE was more excited then Cullen!

Prior to the tooth falling out Cullen and Geremu had spilled their popcorn. The boys were wrestling thus crushing the popcorn and then Geremu ended up playfully biting Cullen on the butt. Geremu's tooth got caught on Cullen's pants and it fell out (we were told at Geremu's last dentist apt. that he had 4 loose teeth). Cullen thinks it's hysterical that "Geremu lost his tooth on my pants!" I guess Geremu was just a mess, bloody mouth, he was crying (he has never seen anyone loose a tooth before), etc. My dad was frantically searching through the crushed popcorn on the bleachers because that's where the tooth fell, I guess he had a heck of a time finding the tooth. Once my Dad found the tooth Geremu never got off of his lap, it certainly scared him a little. Cullen was in HEAVEN because loosing a tooth= "a tooth party!" I'm sure it was a site to see- LOL.

Cullen, in true Cullen fashion, went right back to my parents house after the game and made signs for the party (one of them read: Hey Tooth Fairy, Geremu is sleeping HERE!) and decorated with toilet paper in the heating vents (my mom made him move that to the furniture). My mom made brownies and they celebrated.

Bert and Ernie

When we were swimming today Cullen looks at Geremu and said "Geremu, you know, brown really looks good on you." Geremu looks at Cullen and says "Thanks Cullen." Then they continued swimming...

Tonight on the way to bed Cullen took his scholastic reader on Martin Luther King from this past week and he sat on the steps "reading" it to Geremu. I accidental stumbled upon the two of them, Cullen wasn't completely accurate (some explaining had to be done after) but it was pretty darn cute.

These two boys I have are two peas in a pod. Bert and Ernie I tell ya:)

I'd also like to put out a GO PACK GO, it seems so surreal that they are headed to the Super Bowl!

A Life Update

I haven't been good at updating the blog since 2011 arrived. I'm going to try and get back in a groove starting tomorrow with my life, we'll see how that goes. It has been COLD the last few days. My boys are outside boys, they usually spend a good portion of their free time outside...

Since the weather has been so cold I have made a point to make sure they are run everyday indoors. Thankfully we have a lot of options in our area; YMCA's, Library, Children's Museum, inflatable jump areas, etc. Today before heading out Geremu could be seen "shaking his tail feathers" (yep that's the feather-duster down his pants).

Immediately after eating dinner Cullen said, "I ate but I'm still hungry. What went wrong?" Um I'm not sure, but I can find lots of things that went wrong with the below get-up he wore to bed tonight...

I spy 3 different pj sets.

This past weekend Nick took Cullen up to the North Woods to spend some time with Nick's Dad and his brothers. Cullen enjoyed his time playing in the snow and with Mac the dog.

Here Cullen is with his Grandpa John.

King of...

The Neighborhood Watch Committee

Fun with Family

This past weekend the cousins came to celebrate the holiday weekend. The kids had a great time together (I wish I had more good pictures). Cullen and Campbell were two peas in a pod.

The Dad's all stayed up WAY too late the first night together, the result of that was...
Here the cousins are during their "pj party".
One of these cousins is not as happy as the others:)
All the kids slept in one room except the little guy, Jace. At one point I walked into the room to hear Cullen yelling, "Let's get this party started," when they were suppose to be going to sleep. I never left the room again after that until all of them were asleep (it only took about 20 minutes).

Cullen's Camera

Cullen made himself a camera about a month ago, it consists of a long magnet (from one of his toys) and a large nut. He pulls his camera out often to "take pictures." The most entertaining thing about the camera is when Cullen says, "say cheese" everyone poses for the picture. It really doesn't even matter that people know it's fake.

Yesterday during lunch Nick was flexing for his "pictures." When Cullen set the camera down I picked it up and continued talking with Nick, we really were not paying any attention to the boys. I looked at Cullen because he was saying "cheese", he had taken his shirt off and was posing so I could take a pictures of him. I snapped a few pictures with Cullen's camera before grabbing my own...

I'd say like father, like son only Nick had his shirt on and Cullen appears to have moves of his own.