You know you need a facebook intervention when...

I was video taping Cole the other day showing off his standing tricks and at the end of the video I caught something that Ellie said that caught me off guard and got the thinking that maybe I need to have a facebook intervention. Watch and listen closely at the end...yeah...pretty bad!

Coles new tricks!

Cole, over the past few days, has been so close to taking his first steps. He will just stand there and look at me like he does not know what to do with himself. I actually caught some of it on video!!

From Mullet-Man to Military-Man!! My Cole-Man's first hair cut

If you know us well, or hang out with is often, you know that our sweet little Cole-Man rocked a great mullet for a long time. After going back and forth about it...I decided I was just going to cut his hair - even though I have heard it is bad luck to cut a child's hair before they are a year old. For some reason, Cole's hair only would grow at the bottom 3 inches of his head. Therefore, leaving him with a business in the front, party in the back type hair do. It was really cute and funny for a long time...but then it got old. So, I sat Cole up on the bathroom counter today and just starting trimming his poor mullet right across the bottom. Well...I got done and turned him around to look and he looked even WORSE...he looked his he was wearing a toupee. It was so thick at the bottom when I cut it straight across it looked really bad. I was for sure going to have to be at Pigtails and Crewcuts in the morning! Then, I was talking to Jill, my younger sis, and she said just shave it...so...I did. I put on the longest guard and went at it! It actually looks GREAT! The bottom is now the same length at the top - and I did not even touch the top of his head...that was how bad the mullet was! So...he is very clean cut now and looking extra handsome!

Here is the best pic I could find of the Mullet! It will be missed!

Here is my sweet clean cut boy!

Stop the MADNESS!!

In recent days, my two lovely, kind, sweet children have turned against each other!! Cole is now VERY mobile...crusing, climbing, crawling, standing...and it is driving Ellie NUTS! I spend most of my days now wiping Ellies tears, putting her in timeout, kissing boo-boos, and saying "don't hit your sister, or don't hit, push, pick-up, or pull your brothers arms out of the socket! Here is a quick dialog of my day...

Setting: Ellie and Cole playing nicely in the playroom while I work of school stuff or doing chores at the house.

Ellie: MMMOOOMMMYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH.....
Me: What Ellie
Ellie: Cole hit me in the head with the pink castle.
Me: Cole-Man, we cannot hit people with the pink castle (even though he looks at me like I am crazy). Ellie, he is sorry...he does not really know better right now.

Few minutes of nice playing...

Cole: WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.........
Me: Ellie...what happened
Ellie: I pushed him
Me: Why?
Ellie: Cole was chewing on my shoe
Me: Ellie you cannot push your brother over, you have three minutes in time-out.
Ellie: cried and pleaded with me for 2 of the 3 minutes.

Ok, few minutes of peaceful playing...

Cole: whimper, whimper, whimper
I look over and Ellie is dragging him out of the playroom by his arms...
Me: ELLIE KATE WOODSON...you CANNOT drag your brother around by his arms.
Ellie: why not?
Me: because you will hurt him, if you do it again...you get another time out

About 20 minutes later...

Ellie: WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.....COLE-MAN...you RUINED IT!
Me: What happened?
Ellie: Cole knocked over my building (of blocks)
Me: picked up Cole...said no Cole...you cannot knock over Ellie's building.

Do you get my drift here??

I knew this was going to be an issue (it is in every family) but I thought it would be atleast once Cole was over a year!! It is SO IRRITATING!! :)

For Mom...

I know this is a day late...but I could not figure out how to put my playlist on here...but I finally did. My friends Lauren introduced me to this song and I LOVE it! I know I can play it for my mom and be true, and I hope in the future Ellie will agree with the song for me. HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY MOM! Play the song that I have posted...

Happy Birthday Sweet Lukey!!

Today is Luke's first birthday! I cannot believe he is a year old! I remember last year not getting much sleep b/c Jill and I got up at 5 am (which is REALLY REALLY EARLY for me!) to go watch Katie be induced into labor. Well...she was having certain issues with dilation and ended up having a C-Section...but it was nice b/c he came so quick. He was born at 9:29 am! I was 7 weeks away from giving birth myself so you can imagine what jealousy I had!!

Tonight we had the infamous "birthday dinner" with my family. Luke showed off his new skills...WALKING!! BIG BOY~

Happy Birthday sweet Wukey!

Ellie's School Program

Ellie had her end of school program today at school. They were all SO cute! It is so funny how kids think singing is more like screaming...mom and I laughed through the whole program. Here is a clip from Ellie's program...and some pics too!