Bunk Beds!

We got bunk beds! We’re so excited!

Today, we didn’t go to daycare, but stayed at home with Mommy. She let us watch Toy Story while she cut our hair. Then we got ready to go see Daddy at work. We picked him up and he took us to a restaurant with really yummy food.

Then we went to Daddy’s office and saw a bunch of his coworkers who saw us when we were little babies. When we got home, Daddy came home and started to put together our bunk beds. YEAH! Mommy helped him put them up against the wall by the window, move our dressers and put our mattresses up. They’re HUGE!! We both agreed on where we wanted to sleep with no fights. Hannah wanted to be on the bottom and Noah wanted to be on the top.

After we ate and took our baths, we were so excited to get into our bunk beds, we didn’t even ask to play the cow game. We crawled into our beds before Mommy even read our story.

Of course, we normally don’t fall asleep right away when we go to bed, but tonight we talked and played even longer because we were so excited because of our new beds.

We weren’t able to blog last week because there was something wrong with our blog site. We had a good weekend!

Friday after daycare, we got ready and went to a surprise party for some of Dad & Mom’s volleyball friends. We were a little scared that we didn’t know anyone at first, but when the “guests of honor’s” children showed up, we loosened right up and had fun playing and eating delicious food. Too bad we couldn’t stay very late because we had to go home and go to bed.

Saturday, Daddy left in the morning and came home in a black truck. He dropped off some things on the deck, and the next time we saw him, he had his red truck again. We didn’t get a chance to play outside because it started to rain after Dad got home in his red truck.

We ran some errands with Mommy & Daddy after dinner, played in our room for an hour then we got in the truck and went to another Barbeque party at one of Daddy’s coworkers’ homes. We kinda fell asleep on the way there, but it was worth waking up for! They had cool stuff! We met lots of other kids and got to play with Thomas on a big train table, Barbies in a big Barbie castle, Littlest Pet Shop and Sesame Street doll houses, PLUS they had a trampoline in their basement! We need one of those. That was so cool!

We were very bummed to have to go home, but we were very tired once we got home. (We told Mom & Dad we were tired, but we were up talking & playing for over an hour past bedtime.)

Hannah had been asking to go to church for weeks. (Actually, she wanted to “hang out” and go to church over the weekend.) We finally were home on a Sunday, so we went to church as a family. After we had lunch at home, we went to Menards to buy paint. When we got home, we played in our bedroom while Mom & Dad worked.

We were playing on a cushion in the hallway when Noah fell down and smacked his head on the door frame to the upstairs. He started to bleed and cry, but stopped after about 2 minutes of ice packs and hugs from Mom. When he realized he had blood on his Mickey Mouse shirt, he had to IMMEDIATELY go change his clothes! Mom & Dad decided to take him to the bandaid store (which turned out to look a LOT like the doctor’s office!) The doctor said he didn’t need stitches, but gave him a very tiny bandaid that didn’t quite cover the cut.

Noah was very good for the doctor, just playing with his cars while the doctor looked at his cut.

Since we were out, Mom & Dad decided to go shopping for new beds!

We went into one store, but Daddy & Mommy yelled at us for jumping on the beds and we left right away. We drove to Sams Club and goofed around in the cart while Mom & Dad shopped, and when we checked out, Dad came around the corner with new mattresses! When we got home, he took our mattresses away and put down these new big mattresses in our room! YEAH!
Dad said we’re going to get bunk beds this week for our new mattresses. We got new sheets that we’ve never seen then after our baths, we got new pajamas, too. New big kid beds, new pajamas! Despite the hole in Noah’s head, we had a really fun weekend!

N&H

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Kids say the funniest things.

Noah really has been excited to spell things. This week, Dad was looking for Noah, so he shouted “N-O-A-H ! Where are you?”
From upstairs, we heard a voice say “I’m upstairs, D-A-D!”

At a Barbeque on Saturday, the kids had eaten and went back to playing. We told them it was time to go, and Hannah decided she wanted cake. She told Dad “I’m so hungry!” Dad asked her how she could still be hungry, and she replied, matter-of-factly “Because I didn’t have cake!”

Since Noah cut his head, he has walked around telling everyone “I got a hole in my head!” Today he had a Goofy Bandaid covering it, and he told all of Daddy’s coworkers “I got a hole in my head and Goofy covered it up!”

Mom went into Subway on Sunday to pick up 2 sandwiches. As Mom was in the store ordering, Hannah called to tell her “no onions” on her sandwich. Of course, the minute mom got in the car, Hannah made sure Mom did NOT put onions on her sandwich. Mom joked that she got onions and olives on her sandwich and Hannah replied in a serious tone “Mom! I don’t LIKE onions and olives!” Of course, Mom was joking. She knew that ham & cheese was exactly what Noah & Hannah wanted.

This evening, at the supper table, Hannah asked how to spell “brain”, so Mom spelled “B-R-A-I-N” for her. She picked up a cheeto and went “whoah. That’s a long word.”

happy memorial day

Apparently, all Noah & Hannah could talk about at daycare Monday was how they made popsicles (despite the fact that we got to see fireworks, big trucks at the Vehicle Fair and their Aunt Angie over the weekend). So, they were very excited to get to EAT those popsicles on Monday!
Wednesday was an eventful night for the kids. Tuesday, Dad had tried to cook pizza for them, but the oven would not heat up and smelled like gas, so they got to be treated to McDonalds. Wednesday, Dad called a repairman, who told them to get out of the house immediately (since there was a gas odor the night before). So, Dad piled Noah & Hannah into the truck, bought Mac & Cheese at Burger King and brought it home to have a picnic in the bed of the truck while the gas company checked our house for leaks. We came out with no leaks, but Noah really enjoyed the picnic in the truck!
Saturday, they were very excited to put on their swimsuits and swim in our little pool! Noah immediately drug the slide over to the pool and put it in, while Hannah got the hose and started replacing the 4" of water that they splashed out of the pool in the first 3 minutes.
After swimming, they enjoyed just getting to play with each other and with their toys outside and inside. It's nice to just let them play and not have things scheduled for them every minute of the day! Hannah played paper dolls (for the first time!) and Noah really wanted to play Crayola BINGO, so he took the Bingo game and went downstairs. I came down to find he had set up the kids' size folding table and chairs, laid out the game and was ready for Hannah and me to play BINGO with him!
About 5 o'clock, the kids wanted to take a walk in the stroller (which had not been used for about a year!), so we walked to the grocery store to buy some chicken & mashed potatoes, then convinced Dad to take a break from laying deck boards and come to Fleet Farm to buy tomatoes with us.
As Hannah went to sleep Saturday night, she told us that she wanted to go to Target on Sunday...
She got her way - after we all got up, we decided to go to Target for some groceries. And, since Hannah's crib (which has been converted to her toddler bed) was recalled by the government a few weeks ago, we decided today was a good day to take the crib apart and take it back to Target.
Hannah and Noah helped Daddy take down the crib. Noah & Hannah were very confused as to why Hannah's bed had to go away. We told them her bed broke or could break, so we had to take it back to the store so she didn't get hurt. When we got to Target, we were very impressed that they gave us a gift card for more than we paid for the crib (we had a receipt to prove what we'd paid for it when it was on sale). We were very happy to have a "free" grocery shopping spree!
We have twin beds that can bunk (thanks to my uncle & aunt!) but don't have twin mattresses, so Hannah's crib mattress is currently laying on the floor where her bed used to be...Of course, Noah wanted to sleep on the mattress on the floor, so we had to take his mattress off his bed, too. Hannah diligently made each bed, covering them with every blanket she could reach. They seem to be having fun with the mattresses on the floor, so it's nice that we don't have to rush to get into a new bed right away.
It's been a fun weekend, and we're looking forward to one more day away from work & daycare to hang out as a family. (That's the phrase Hannah is using - when you ask what she wants to do, she says "Let's just hang out.")
Happy Memorial Day!
Mom (Shari)

Noah

Noah is such a sweet boy.
Yesterday morning, I was upstairs making something to eat and Noah was downstairs playing with Hannah. I heard him say "Mommy! I found your blanket!"
I asked "Which blanket did you find?"
He replied "Your Angel blanket!"
Soon, I saw him emerge up the stairs with my blue angel blanket (that normally is on our bed) trailing behind him, two washcloths hanging off the back of that blanket. It had been in the dryer with a load of blues, and he decided I needed my blanket.
Later, I went downstairs and found a trail of clothes from the dryer, through the laundry room and up the stairs. I just had to laugh because it was such a sweet gesture for him to bring my blanket to me.
-Mom

Fireworks are cool!

We had a fun week - we got to play outside almost every day! Then, we come home, eat, play outside, sometimes see our neighbor Griffin, get ready for bed and we finally agree on which book we want to read when we go to bed around 8. (Usually, we have different opinions on which book we get to read before bed so whoever wins the Cow game on Wii gets to choose the book of the night.) Our favorite book is Dr Suess' My Many Colored Days. It's such a cool book. If we decide not to read that, we can sometimes talk Mommy & Daddy into reading books from our Disney storybook collection - those stories are long and we sometimes get to stay up later because they take so long to read...
Soon enough, we might be reading our own books! We are starting to spell words - "Mom" & "Dad" are our favorites but we're learning new ones like "mop", "dog" "yes" and "no." We (especially Noah) constantly ask"how do you spell ...?" whether the words are big words (like "towel" or "curtains") or small words (like "we".)
Friday night, Mommy & Daddy told us we were going to go to Menards to buy a new hammer for Daddy, then we were going to a fun surprise. We put our pajamas in a bag and set off in the truck. We helped Daddy pick out a new hammer, burned off some energy in the lumber section, then drove around a short time before we parked in a shopping mall and put on our pajamas. Daddy told us we were going to see fireworks - pretty lights, but they were very loud. They are not dangerous, but if we were scared, we could watch from inside the truck. We sat in the back of the truck in our chairs and waited...
WOW! It was so cool! Hannah watched with her fingers in her ears (she has to put her fingers in her ears when toilets flush, so she was very scared this would hurt her ears.) Noah watched for a minute before deciding he wanted to watch from inside the truck. Though he was scared the fireworks could hurt him, he kept shouting "more! more!" from the truck. We talked about it all the way home, and all day Saturday!
Saturday morning, Mom & Dad said they had a surprise for us. We went up to the community center to see the Vehicle Fair - we had a fun time last year, but this year it started to rain on us. :-(
We got to sit in a NASCAR racecar (the seat is so much lower than Mommy's car!), a police car, a police truck, Army truck, a tractor and a school bus. We saw only a few things before the people in charge decided the thunderstorm was too bad and we had to go. We got to see a few things, but were bummed we didn't see more. We did, however, get to use our umbrellas! We LOVE playing with our umbrellas, but it wasn't as cool to hold them all the time when it really was pouring rain. It's more fun to pretend it's raining in our house and open them.
Today, Mommy took us to a restaurant while Dad stayed home to work. We drove for a while, but she didn't tell us that we were going to meet Angie! We were so happy to see her when we drove up and saw her standing by her truck! Yeah! We had brunch with her, then headed home. We hoped Angie would come to our house, but Mommy said she had to go to her house. We wanted to go to our cousins' house after we saw Angie, but we just went home. Mom said we get to see Lauren & Ben in three weeks. I hope three weeks is soon!
This afternoon, Mommy hooked up our new Pooh sprinkler and we played in the back yard with our swimsuits. It was so hot that it felt good to get wet. Mommy & Daddy said we can go to the big pool when it opens this summer, so we can't wait for it to open! Yeah!
It's been a long weekend - we're tired & crabby and ready for a new week to start with our regular routine. Mom & Dad say they're looking forward to next weekend when they have an extra day to hang out with us. Maybe we'll get to see fireworks somewhere again?!
N0ah & Hannah

Happy Birthday to Daddy!

We were so happy to see the sun on Friday. It was a gloomy week. We had fun at daycare, and were very good kids all week, but were very happy to get to play outside at daycare Friday. And, we were so excited that Ian came back Thursday! He got very sick in January, and wasn't able to come back until this week. Noah was so excited to find out that Ian was at daycare Thursday morning, that he ran to the basement to play with Ian and forgot to eat his breakfast first!
Friday was Daddy's birthday. On our way home from daycare, we stopped at the grocery store to pick up ingredients to bake him a cake! We went to our favorite grocery store - we get to push our own little carts. We came home, made cupcakes for Daddy, brought our regular kitchen table back to the kitchen (it was taken away last week when Daddy, Grandpa & Jason put in the new door), and made dinner just in time for daddy to come home and eat dinner with us. We made him cupcakes with sprinkles AND penguin cupcakes, then he opened his presents. We love Daddy!
Saturday, we got up and GRANDPA WAS AT OUR HOUSE! We were so excited though we were kind of confused that he showed up without Grandma. Mom said she had to stay home for a baby shower, and Angie was coming home to be with Grandma. Grandpa spent a lot of time helping Daddy work outside. They were making a lot of noise, but put up a bunch of wooden boards for a new deck. Dad said we missed the cool part when they dug really big holes and poured cement in them. Mom had taken us to a park to play Saturday morning. We were very good when she told us it was time to go, we got right in the car to go home.
We were very good helpers most of the weekend. We helped to bring things to Daddy & Grandpa when they needed stuff and we played nicely without getting into trouble or fighting with each other. We got to play with Grandpa today, and he showed us how to hammer a nail and take it out of the wood. He also showed us how to walk on boards on top of sawhorses - they were really high in the air! When we came in the house to eat, Hannah found a bug in her hair. It was a really little one, but she screamed and cried. She didn't like that little green worm in her hair!
We had fun playing on the deck boards that are up now - it will be really fun when Dad gets all the pieces up! We can't wait.
Noah & Hannah

Big weekend

We had quite a fun weekend.
Friday, Mom picked us up and we went home. She told us our uncle Jason came and put a big hole in our kitchen. When we got home, we noticed the window was gone and SO WAS OUR KITCHEN TABLE! That was the first thing we said: "Mom! Our table is gone!"
She showed us that she put it in the living room, so we were cool, then we helped Mom order pizza just in time for Grandma, Grandpa, Dani, Ben & Lauren to show up...Daddy & Uncle Jason brought the pizza home and we had a big picnic in our living room.
Daddy put plastic up in the doorway - he said it was to keep the dust in the kitchen, but we thought it was to keep the COLD AIR in the kitchen since there was no window. AND we had so much fun running from one room to the other and going through the plastic door. Ben & Noah did it so much that Grandma & Mom put up plastic on a different door for them to play with.
Hannah & Lauren had a fabulous time playing together - they played dress up, house and dolls. Hannah really enjoyed having a girl to play with. Noah had a harder time sharing his toys with Ben. They played with cars, trains and musical instruments but nothing lasted as long as the girls' role-play-games. At one point, all four of us were dressed up in costumes: Lauren in one of Mommy's dresses, Hannah in her Minnie Mouse dress, Ben as Lightning McQueen and Noah as Elmo. It got to be a tiring night - Daddy, Grandpa and Jason made lots of noise in the kitchen WAY past our bedtime, so we got to stay up and watch Sesame Street and SuperWhy in the basement with our cousins. We were exhausted by 10 o'clock when we finally got to bed.
We slept in until 7 on Saturday. It finally quit raining, but it was still too wet to play outside. We played Crayola Bingo and Wii games and got to see Daddy Grandpa & Jason put a big glass door in the hole they made in our house!
Unfortunately, Jason & Dani took Ben & Lauren home right after we ate dinner, but Grandma & Grandpa stayed with us for another day. We were still tired, so we took a long nap Saturday afternoon. Grandpa helped Daddy with the door and we went to Target with Grandma. We were very good for her and Mommy at Target!(Hannah LOVES Target!)
We made sure to tell Grandma and Mommy "Happy Mother's Day" right away this morning. We gave Grandma her gift that we made for her, and Mom the gift that Daddy bought for her AND the gifts we made at daycare. We even got out our hammers and helped Grandpa & Daddy work. It's cool to have a new door to the outside!
We're getting very good at spelling, too. We are learning more words every day - mom, dad, mad, mop, red...And Hannah still loves to draw!
It was a very cold and exhausting weekend. But, we had a blast! Grandma talked about riding a train, so hopefully the next time they come see us we get to go see a train! Yeah!
Happy Mother's Day!
Noah & Hannah

Noah made it through the night with no diaper last night!

We are VERY proud of him!!

Today our house is going to get a bit of a face lift. Uncle Jason, Grandpa Mark, Grandma Diane, Aunt Dani, and cousins Lauren and Ben are coming to help us install a sliding glass door in the dinning room. Once that is done then Dad can start on putting together the deck that was dropped off in our yard yesterday.

On the way home from day care I asked Hannah and Noah who should help me build the deck. They both raised their hands and said "ME!!"

What a help they will be,
Stephen