Take me out to the BallGAME!

Wow!!  We joined forces with Van and company for our first baseball game experience! 

The boys were ecstatic!  Ate EVERY ballpark item that was - hotdogs, pretzels, cotton candy, popcorn!

While out stretching his legs, Austin got a personal meet and greet (read: High Five) with the super team mascot!  Of course, that was the one second Mommy put the camera down!

Both boys made it through the whole game and got to (GASP!) RUn the BASES!!! 

And of course, true to their inner selves, just had to "perform" on the "stage" before we left.

Truly, nothing tires these two out!  They (once again) did NOT fall asleep on the way home.  But went to bed fairly quickly.  Only to have Austin awaken with a haste (and a scream) about 2 hours later as all of the contents of his stomache preferred to be OUT.  ;-(  Poor baby! 

(That last little part will not be shown in the below video!)

Edited to add:
When Logan watched this video with me, we got to the part where Austin and Logan are rounding third to home plate and they "pass" a kid....Logan starts giggling and says "Momma, Austin told that boy, 'See ya tomorrow!"  

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PreSchool songs!

(Pre)school'z out for the summer!  

And lately the twins have been doing some pretty funky looking smiles - that kind where their cheesy -"Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeese" looks more like a wide distorted frown? 

So.....I don't have a lot (decent) of pictures. 

For the ice cream one in the previous post I made them "model" their ice cream - I showed them how to hold on up their "item" and showcase it with a mouth open look to it.

I think it worked.

But, back to this post.

In lieu of pictures for my FFF,

here's a video of them singing some of their songs
 from their PreSchool Mu-zee-cal!

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When you have nothing good to say....

...say nothing at all.  Right?   

Was that a whole week that just went by without me posting?

Take "funk" put "me" in it and that's where I've been. 

Too much going on? 

Evan graduating? 

Twins a mile a minute? 

Work? 

Money woes? 

blah blah blah

I have been missing my brother like CRAZY! 

Isn't grief random like that? 

Ok - see?

Better to say nothing at all..

...funk...

And I'm missing God.

Which is probably why I'm in a funk.

However, these guys are not in a funk

That's cuz they just got $14 ice cream bars off of the Extortion...I mean, Ice Cream Truck.

;-) 

And if you'll notice on the sidebar, my posts from 2006 have grown. 

I went back and updated the beginning of our adoption. 

There's some cute stuff back there.

;-)

I'm going to try and go get out of my funk.

Love ya all!

Re-potty training!

Yep.  You read it right. 

We're truly blessed with our two in most areas.  Despite coming home at 14 months, they have never had speech issues.  In fact, at their 21/2 year old check-up, they were speaking at a 4 year olds vocabulary level.  They've memorized the Lord's Prayer.  The EAT any and everything.  They excel at sports.  They self taught themselves to ride bikes without training wheels at 3 years old. 

We are very spoiled parents.  And very blessed. In most areas.

Because.

Neither one of our little ones are successfully navigating the World on No Diapers.

Nighttime.  Not a problem.

Daytime.  LOTS of problems.

They went into undies last year (around three).  Austin had some relapse last summer and then again when school started up.  All centered around "change."  I was told not to worry.

Fall. Winter.  Most weeks had at least one or two accidents.

But then, this spring.  When the weather turned warm.  It seems both boys FORGOT all about using the White Porcelin Throne.  At all. 

The straw that broke the camels back was a few weeks ago.  Several days in a row.  I found pants in their closet that should have gone into the laundry.  Seems that "pee, change, play" were the modis operadus.  Not to mention all the clothes that we did catch.  Gary was up to his eyeballs in laundry!  ;-)

Last weekend, the boys and I went to the Wholesale club and bought a GIGANTIC box of pull-ups.

Now, each morning, with a permanent marker, I write a number on the diaper.  At the end of the day they have to turn that same diaper back into me "accident-free" to claim a sticker.  That was 7 days ago.  Austin has earned THREE stickers.  Logan TWO.

They have to get 14 stickers to earn a prize.  It was going to be a new Spiderman bike - one with a KICKSTAND.  and HANDBREAKS.  But I've told them they can earn WHATEVER they WANT!  A new Batman costume.  A soccer uniform.

ANYTHING!

sigh

I don't know why they can't master this.  I try, I really try not to fuss and yell.  It is so frustrating.

And yet, I have to remind myself, this too shall pass.  EVENTUALLY, they'll get it. 

I can beat myself up wondering WHY.  Trying to CONTROL it.  Getting FRUSTRATED with it all.

Or I can just suck it up and DEAL with it. 

~ ~ ~ ~
Here they are, racing like speed demons down a hill.  On their bikes.

After wrestling knee pads onto them, I was feeling confident that I had outsmarted them with extra safety measure.  Accept, like most things with them, my PLAN backfired.  Once they realized they could fall withOUT getting hurt....they fell MORE.  On Purpose.

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(The song was auto picked, and I thought the "head-bobbin'" part was cute, so I kept it!)

Shy?

While not something I would typically refer to either of my boys.

I have to admit, talent aside,

They can lean to the shy side during a "performace."

Do they look like they are singing to you?  ;-)