In The News

Well, actually, you could consider it a slow news day at the Dials. But here is the news all the same!

News to Me:


I didn't know how much love I could feel for two little boys. Especially when I see how much they love each other. Makes my heart flip in circles.


News to the major league baseball recruiters:

Get ready! That boy can SMACK a ball. Left handed or right handed. It's a new favorite past time of his. Each and every day.


News to Caleb and Carson:


I actually do like and support child slave labor. Just so you know.


News to Chris:

Caleb really needs a haircut. Seriously. :)


News to the grass:

You're going to be oh so green this year...whether you like it or not. Those two boys are sure to water it each and every day.


News to Carson's future girlfriends:

Carson already drives with one hand on the steering wheel and one arm around his imaginary chica. Watch out!


News to anyone visiting our house:

Um, there was a lot of stuff "out of order" at our house recently. The kitchen sink even had a nice reminder. But thanks to my handy-man husband...things are all good. As always.


News to the same people visiting our house:


Don't eat the whipped cream. The top may or may not have germs. (I love how he grabs it like it is a bottle or something! :)


News to the carpet

Let's hope that Carson's new found love of making himself dizzy and throwing himself on the floor doesn't result in any vomiting. :)

News to the world:



I have the cutest, most adorable, loving three boys ever. Love those guys.

Circus Comes to Town

What? You didn't hear the circus was in town? Oh man. You missed out. We had great seats.

That's because it only came to our house! For two weeks straight!!!

It started when I had this bright idea to play musical rooms. Move everybody around. Caleb one room over. Carson one room over. Home office to a different room. Furniture out of our room. Furniture into our room. Toys to a different room. We started moving stuff. And more stuff. And even more. If only the paint on the walls would move too.

But we had to stop in the middle.

Life got busy.

And then the boys got sick. Again. Of the double ear infection (again!) plus bronchiolitis variety.




Hence the circus.

No pictures. I don't want to remember this circus. :)

Death defying trapeze act down the crowded hallway.

Stunning displays of dexterity as we bounce, flip, and twirl our way out of our bedroom.

The wondrous ability of the strong man as he maneuvers furniture and books all around the house. (And in some cases back again! Hehe!)

The awesome thrills continue as you watch the two young boys blast around inside the wooden globe at 65 miles per hour with only inches to spare between them and the globe.

The circus is mostly gone now. Mostly. (Such a relative term. :) I think I mostly like the changes. Mostly. I think even if I don't like the changes, Chris will not change it back. :)

Perhaps next time we can sell tickets and get rich. (Anyone else notice I have lots of schemes to get rich on this blog? I should start marketing this as a get rich quick idea blog. Maybe I'll strike it rich.) Buy your tickets now for the best show on earth! Date to be determined.

St Patrick's Day

Hmmm...I can't remember. Have I mentioned that I love holidays? Well, I do. :)

Soon after Valentine's Day, the boys woke up to a scavenger hunt that led them to their fancy St. Patrick's Day pajamas.



It also led them to a kit to grow some fun clovers

Caleb has been giddily watching those clovers each and every day. Most days are complete with hourly growth updates. :)

We did several crafts during the weeks leading up to the holiday and also made our traditional four leaf clover yummy sugar cookies. But sorry. No pics. I know you're bummed. We'll try to do better next time.

Joy school was at our house that week. We had a little fun mini St Patrick's Day party even though it wasn't in the lesson plans. :) Only Caleb and one other kid took me up on coloring their drinks green though. The rest thought it was a little gross. Speaking of gross

I was going to make something different for dinner this time, but Caleb begged and begged for green eggs and green pancakes. So we obliged.

On St Patrick's Day the boys woke up to their doors decorated. They also woke to another scavenger hunt that led them to a few little fun things to help them celebrate




Seriously...is there anything better then seeing your kids so very excited about things?!? I can't get enough of it!!!

And now we move on to Easter!!

Stages

Ah yes...the old dumpster diving stage. Love it.



Eating a muffin from said dumpster diving stage:

Gross. Not too gross to take a picture first though. :) Haha. I love that guilty look!

Ah yes...and then there's the good old move-the-stool-wherever-you-need-it stage:

But at least he's not climbing as high when using the stool, right?!?

Grabbing what you want from the counter from said stool stage:

Including the always favorite--brother's toothbrush and the box that he put up high so "no one" can reach it. :)

Next we have the borrowing other people's clothes stage:

Carson loves to wear Caleb's slippers and walk all over the house. It's hilarious!

My poor freezing Texas boy...freezing in 60 degree weather. Needed my sweatshirt.



I found Caleb like this one day:

Awe. An aspiring scout. His eagle earning uncles would be so proud! :)


Next stage: everything road sign stage

Caleb loves road signs lately. He asks about each and every one everywhere we go. And makes sure I follow the signs. "Mom...did you see that yield sign? Did you yield?" "Mom that sign said 30. Are you going 30?" He will definitely keep us honest!

And who doesn't love that the-Tuesday-after-the-superbowl-free-grand-slam-for-everybody-at-Denny's Stage. Right?

"All this?!? For me?!?! For free?!?"



"Caleb...hook a brother up!"

Then there's that blasted sick stage. Bleh. You know they're sick when...

...they want to take a nap.

...and when they will just lay on the kitchen floor by you while you cook dinner.

Saddest little picture ever. :(


Next we have the crazy animal petting zoo stage:

Um...yes...yes...that is a llama.



Those animals were a little too crazy for me. I had a slight nudging and shoving act on my hand just to get the dang food out of the machine. Those animals mouths were right under it and pushing my hand out of the way. What I won't do for those kids of mine.... :)

Carson--he loves animals too. From afar. As long as we were holding him, he was all excited.

When we put him down--not so excited. Aubrey was nice enough to oblige. I think we need to spend more time around animals--I was surprised to see he was a little nervous of them. But I thought about it--he really hasn't spent much time around animals ever. Lexi? Are you available to train our kid #2 to love animals? :)

The snow in Texas stage:

That's right friends. We actually had a tiny bit of snow here in San Antonio. Who would have thought?!? Caleb HAD to call Grandpa and let him know that his snow had made it's way all the way to our house! The boys kept opening up the back door, grabbing some ice/snow from the deck and putting in in a bowl to watch it melt. Hours of entertainment right there.


And now the imitate everything stage:

I was very surprised to see Carson pick up the paint brush, pretend to dip it in the water jug like brother does, and start "painting." So cute! The other day, he picked up a wet diaper from downstairs, carried it upstairs and brought it to the diaper genie in his room. He also loves to lead the music anytime he hears it and.... He's picking up on so much right now! So fun!

But then there's that fun best of pals stage. The best stage of all. That stage where the boys will just pal around and giggle with each other. It's my favorite stage, really.

"Will you please just take the picture so we can go down the slide now?"



If Chris is home, he usually has these two appendages crawling all over him. Starting the minute he wakes up!



Kind of a dark picture, but Caleb showed Carson how to fly his first kite! Carson was walking all over the empty parking lot flying it by himself. So cute!!!



"Ok...here's the plan. We head to the next aisle and we'll ask for a new movie.... When we get to that aisle over there--we'll go for some candy. Got it?"



"You fly the plane. I'll supervise."



See Kip D! Older siblings start very young making the younger ones do all the work!! It's the natural order of things. Don't fight it.



The mom of these kids should really teach her kids not to walk and jump on the couch. When they go to other people's houses--they'll probably think it's ok. Some people's moms.