I love the way Logan calls animals and things “cute” with the sweetest accent. I love how he says “hi” and “bye” in a very high pitched voice.

I love how Forest dances around all the time…always prancing around on his tip toes dancing. And how he’s started singing.

I love how the boys want to do the hokie pokie and other silly songs with body movements. How they actually try and say/sing the words and do the hand/body motions.

I love that Logan wants to climb and crawl all over Brad but understands that he can’t play that way with Mommy. I love how he calls out for daddy at night and mommy won’t do.

I love that Forest always calls for me in the morning. That he gets in bed with me for cuddles and sometimes even goes back to sleep for a bit in my arms.

I love how Logan still can’t get enough of being outside no matter how bad the weather or how cold it is. The kid could live outside.

I love how Forest props up his bunny and pacifier to “watch” him play outside or eat a meal.

I love that the boys help each other and bring each other things. That even though they spend their days complaining about touching each other (the grocery cart has become a nightmare!) they cuddle up together before bed or naps.

I love that the boys learn new words daily and I can’t even begin to keep up with their vocabulary. That they are able to use words like “wow”, “cute” and “fun” appropriately without ever having them explained to them.

I love hearing the boys try to count things. Now that they know the words for various numbers, they are always trying to count but get the numbers in the wrong order. They even seem to have favorite numbers, Forest’s is “five”.

From this:

From Birth

To this:

From 1 year photos

To this:

From Record Cover

In all three of those pictures, Forest is on the right and Logan on the left. I didn’t do that on purpose, it just happened that way. I love synchronicity.

They were flirting with a grandmother in the grocery store today and she said to me “you are so blessed.” She has no idea.

At dinner time the day after we got back Logan did not want to get into his chair to eat.  He was just saying “no” over and over and would throw a fit if I tried to pick him up or anything, so instead of telling him to get in his chair to eat, I asked him “Do you want to get in your chair with a spoon or do you want to get in your chair with a fork?”  He looked at me and said “Spoon!”  So then I asked “Do you want a red spoon or do you want a blue spoon?”  By the time he answered “Blue!” he had climbed up into his chair and was ready to eat.

First, ever since the Childrens’ Retreat out at Earthsprings Forest has been obsessed with M&Ms.  Dawn had made some trail-mix snacks for all the children to take on nature walks and they had M&Ms in them.  Now, Forest will just randomly ask me for “Ms?” with a sly grin on his face…  He did this a number of times during our trip and I had to tell him “No, I don’t have any Ms!”  He would then try and negotiate with me and hold up one finger and say “Ms?”  When I said no he’d hold up four fingers and say “Ms?”  I think once he understands quantity he’ll be a much more adept negotiator, but what he really needs to understand is when there really are no Ms to negotiate for in the first place. (:

Also, while packing up a box of toys to take with us I told the boys to put toys they wanted to take into the box.  Both boys started putting things in and then one of them ponited at the ball-pit I’ve made for them out of a portable crib and said “balls?”  I told them that we couldn’t take all of them (there are 300) but that they could take one of each color.  The boys climbed into the ball pit and started handing me balls.  I put one of each color into the box and handed them back the ones that we already had in the box saying “No, we already have that color!”  Once all of the colors were in the box, Forest looks at me for a few seconds (I could almost see the gears cranking), and then picks up two green balls and looks at me and says “Green?”

Really…  now how can I say no to that? (:

Eight or nine green balls in the box later he decided to try and sneak some other colors in but I wasn’t having it…

I think it needs at LEAST 200 more balls though…

I only have one Wii wheel so the boys have to take turns playing the Mario Kart racing game, which Forest is really good at, so after a few races of Mario Kart I grabbed two more Wiimotes and put in the Smash Bros. Brawl fighting game so that we could all three play at the same time.  It turns out that Logan is really good at Smash Bros. (he’s not so good at Mario Kart) and actually won three battles!

I recently bought a couple of green rubber-gripped battery covers for two of my Wiimotes, and somehow when grabbing the three Wiimotes for us to play with I grabbed one green and two gray, and Logan ended up with the green one.  After a couple of battles of Smash Bros. he noticed his was green and had to inspect mine and Forest’s to see what color they were and I taught him the word ‘gray’, at which point he looked at me, pointed at the green one, said “Geen!!!”, and handed it to me to use and took my gray one for himself.

I teared up with joy.

Here are some photos I managed to snap while we were playing in the water sprinkler and a few from around the house:

I’m incredibly lucky to have such loving, smart, and all-around wonderful sons in my life, and I look forward to them growing and learning between now and next Father’s Day.