The beginning of September has been so nice. The weather's been cooler, the days have been beautiful, and I've loved light breezes. So with all the greatness, I started opening my windows to keep the house cool, and let refreshing outsid
e in. Little did I know, but the boys thought having the windows open was even better than I did. I started cleaning up dinner and the boys were running around in the house playing. After a little while, I noticed it had gotten really quiet. So I immediately go to see what mischief they had gotten into. They weren't in their room, or the family room, which left the only room in the house that I hate them playing in. The computer room/front room. Well, they weren't in there eith
er. They weren't in the house at all. The two little rascals pushed out the screen from one of the windows in the front room and crawled out. Kelly and I headed out to find them. We found the cat stuck on the post of the porch, and our two little boys playing in the sandbox, still with their bibs on from dinner. They are getting so smar
t and I am definitely going to have to stay on my toes with them. I can't believe some of the things they are starting to do. It's so much fun to watch them grow, and learn. Even when it's mischievous things like this. At least it makes me smile and laugh. Sometimes, I can't wait to see what they'll do next... or can I?!?!?!? 
every time he poops, and then chucks it. Disgusting, to say the least. Well because of this, we thought they might be ready to start potty training. So I went and bought 70 pairs of underwear. Everyone that I talked to about it told me to buy enough underwear to last each of the boys one week. So at 5 accidents per day, per boy for 7 days in a week, I came up with the 70. 
Shocking I know! I usually do all my laundry one day a week though, so it does make sense to me. Anyway, the next day (August 28th) I got the boys out of bed and took them into the bathroom and had them sit on the potty. Neither of them went after sitting there for about 10 minutes, so I decided I'd go get their underwear and put them on them, and try again in 10 minutes. Well, I didn't even get back to the bathroom with the underwear before Carter
had walked out into the hallway and peed on my floor. Ugh!! So I cleaned that up and put their underwear on. They thought it was fun, and they looked so cute and grown up in them. I set my timer for 15 minutes and took them back in when it went off. Carter dribbled a little and still nothing from Landon. So I re-set the timer and minutes later Landon came to me wet. After this one accident, it was all 
down hill. From the time they got out of bed around 8 in the morning, until 1 in the afternoon, we'd had a total of 13 accidents. Two of which were dirty ones... eewwww... grossss... sick! At that point I was done. I put them back in diapers, and pulled out the masking tape, and taped Carter's and Landon's diapers so they couldn't get to the tabs. We haven't tried potty training again, and I have no intentions until they are closer to age 3. And thankfully the tape has worked thus far. No more poo flinging in my house! Hooray! For those of you who have successfully potty trained your kids, my hat goes off to you. I don't even want to think about it again, though I know at some point I'll have to.
I don't know what it is about tormenting Kelly... but I LOVE IT! Isn't that awful. He absolutely hates it of course, and gets unbelievably mad a me most of the time. Yet I still do it, all the time. I do all things to him, trickling is the worst. 
He hates to be tickled more than anything in the world. He's so ticklish that if you even pretend to start tickling him he'll be having fits acting like you already are. It's hysterical! To me anyway!! He hates having people whisper in his ear, like you see here. This is a common face you'd see him have whether it's tickling or whispering. Do any of you do this to your husbands, or am I just mean? 
Either way, I don't know that I'll ever stop doing it. It's too much fun and way to funny to stop. Sorry Kelly! I still love you more than anything in this world.
boys with friends and family for five days and headed to the big apple. It was the first time for me, and I loved every bit of it. We of course did all the normal sight seeing. Ground Zero, the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Central Park, Rockefeller Center, Grand Central Station, China Town, and so much more. We stayed in an apartment we rented out just a couple blocks away from the heart of Times Square. The apartment wasn't so great, but the location couldn't have been better.
The highlights of the trip for Kelly all involved the Yankees. He was able to walk through Monument Park and see the plaques of all the Yankee greats. He loved it! The new stadium is under construction, and almost complete, so this was the last year of the fabled stadium. We all went to a Friday night game and then the guys went to a Saturday afternoon game. It was a dream come true for Kelly to be able to see the Yankees play in the stadium before the switch. I too enjoyed the game, except for the hour rain delay. It was miserable! 
We decided to try this for Wicked. When we got to the theater there were so many people there waiting already, but we waited and put our names in the hat. When it came time to draw the names, the guy came out and said that there were about 200 names, and they would be drawing 13 names. I was ready to leave thinking of how small our chances were. I'm sure glad we didn't. Kelly's name was the second to last one drawn. We ended up getting to see Wicked at the Gershwin Theatre on the front row. It was AMAZING!! I absolutely loved it! It was one of the best plays I've seen, and I can't wait to see it again. Kerry Ellis played Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, and was unbelievable. I was teary eyed by her performance. I never imagined that I would have been moved like I was. It just goes to show how good it really is.
I was also able to go and see Legally Blonde on Broadway with my Mom, Morgan and Shantelle. We had so much fun. We all went and saw it while the guys went to the second Yankees game. The play was hysterical, and so well done. I loved the music and the cast. It was even more fun for me, because I'd watched the casting of Elle Woods on MTV, and getting to see Bailey Hanks (the winner) was so much fun. I loved her! 
and had been pulled into a little secret room to view them when one of the little shop owners rushed in and started speaking really fast. They started pushing us out of the room and ripping things out of our hands. We couldn't figure out what was going on. They were furiously pulling things in from outside and closing up as fast as could be. It was so insane! We shortly found out that undercover cops had started raiding the shops looking for illegal merchandise. It was unreal. I seriously think that half of China town shut down in five minutes or less. People passing by were telling us to wait and come back tomorrow. We wouldn't find anything we wanted. I couldn't believe it! 
their families, so we got together and had dinner up Spanish Fork Canyon. It was a lot of fun. Kelly and Daniel played horseshoes, and the boys ran around explorin
g everything. The picnic site we were at had a little trail that went down to a small river/stream, and so we took the boys down there to play in the water. Carter was ok with the water, but hated the fact that he got "sandbox" in his shoes. He's started to be a little afraid of water lately
, so putting his feet in and touching it was good enough for him. Landon on the other hand loved it. He took his shoes off and walked around in the water, and even sat dow
n and played in it. It was really shallow and perfect for them. It didn't even make me nervous. The dinner was great too! Sharee cooked BBQ chicken, potatoes, and cobbler in dutch ovens. The cobbler was like heaven, I loved it the most. We had a great time and the boys were exhausted from all the fun they had.
Thanks everyone! 
We'd never been there and Jill mentioned how much fun it was, so we decided to load up and go. It wa
s so much fun! The boys loved running around and playing on and with everything. There was this truck that I couldn't keep Carter away from. He loved climbing into it and driving. Landon loved all the thing you could pick up and turn and play with. There's a place in there with a life size horse the kids can climb up on. They were a little freaked out about
getting onto it, especially Carter. He really didn't like it, but they did it. One of the coolest things there is a real Life Flight helicopter. It was donated to the museum and they have it set up outside. Kids can climb into it and pretend to fly it.
It even makes the sounds like it's really running. Landon and Carter were terrified of it, but me being the mean mom that I am, made them get into it anyway. 
They both cried. Oops!! The very last thing they played with was this huge ball pit. There are clear tubes that the kids put the balls into. Some of them are like the tubes they have at the drive-up's at banks, and they suck them up and drop them back down into a pit where all the kids fill up little trays. Needless to say, Landon and Carter loved it! 
We had such a great time and I can't wait to go back. I think that Kelly would have just as much fun there as the boys did... if not more. Afterwards we met up with Grandpa Drummond for lunch at Wendy's, where he bought us all lunch. Landon and Carter both said, "tanks gapa" when he brought over their food, and loved showing him their toys in their kids meals. Thanks Jill, Bailey, Aubrey, and Grandma & Grandpa Drummond for a fun day! We love spending time with you!
