Chocolate Water

So just a quick one to remind me both how cute Porter can be, but also how much he is picking up on!! It is still amazing to me all of the little phrases that he comes up with. He talks like a little adult! So anyway, tonight with dinner he got to have some chocolate milk made with Nesquick. He loves to put the spoon of chocolate in himself. He had already had enough milk today, so when he asked for more we told him that he couldn't have anymore chocolate milk. He knows that he usually can get in a little bit of water before bed once we've hit the "no more milk" for the day so he started in on it. He suggested that he could just have some chocolate water instead. We laughed and went back and forth with him for several hours that he could have some water, but putting chocolate in it probably wouldn't be a great idea. We told him that he probably wouldn't like it, and it would taste funny. But as our ever persistent child threw out "come on Mom, it's WORTH A TRY at least!!" How optimistic:) I guess I've said that one one to many occasion to him for things he didn't want to do! But hey, at least now he seems to know that lots of things are at least "worth a try!" He took a swig, grinned and told me it was GOOD! ( he has not however, taken any more drinks:) He said he's done. I love my little guy, such sweet simple things make his world go round.

Let them be little...

So that is the main lyric in a fabulous country song that I love, and I was thinking lately about all the little moments in life that we need to remember, and just enjoy. My boys are growing up so quickly, and I want to remember all the silly fun times that I can enjoy watching them with sheer happiness at just being little. So ya, maybe it shows that I'm not the perfect mom as Porter has a dirty face while also sleeping in mom and dad's bed, and Ronan is reading books upside down, eating cereal out of the box on the kitchen floor as he has just emptied the kitchen tools drawer ; but they are loving it. And my favorite, of making it absolutely impossible to get a good picture with two cute smiles right at the camera... these are the moments that just completely capture childhood. I love it.

sleepover

Now, these pics are from a while ago, but I didn't get them up until now! We had the cousins over to spend the night when Karin and Ryan went away for their anniversary. They all had a blast and got to have a sleep over in the living room in their sleeping bags. Now the funny part was that Porter loves to sleep right next to people, whether it be in bed with us, or apparently on the floor with his cousins. It was so cute, we had to get pictures! Now they each started out sleeping in their own normal spaces, and within an hour here they were...

Valentine's Breakfast

I typically do something fun for the boys every year for Valentine's day, but it has never been consistent. So this year we have changed that, and am now going to do our specific tradition of having a fun big family breakfast. When taking into consideration all of the growing up factors, I figure it will be the one time of day every year when we won't have anything else going on yet, (even if we have to get up really early some years!) and then they will always be able to start their day out knowing we love them! So anyway, it was so fun to do a big spread, and I hand made their valentines, and they each got some little treats from each of us. How fun!! It was a great morning, and we loved being together!

Our little Valentines

We had a fantastic Valentine's weekend, and I'll post more pics from our family breakfast soon, but I did want to make sure and get these up. I wasn't as efficient as I had hoped to be about getting Valentine cards out, but I did get on the ball the make sure we got the pics taken. I have taken pics every year, so I wanted to post the cute ones from this year. Hope you like them:) Happy Valentine's Day, we love you all!!!

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