I must admit, I'm not as good at blogging now that I've gotten into the whole facebook thing. My dear friend Becky and I were talking the other day and she was getting on my case about it so I'm posting for her mostly. I'm not really sure that anyone else really reads this anyway. Love you Bec. So I think the last time I posted was back in October and I hadn't really shared much about what we've been up to. They boys are growing bigger and bigger. We recently had my Brother in law, his wife and my niece, Emma, in town. We took pictures of the babies for my mother in laws birthday. She doesn't have any pictures of them all together so we felt it was a good opportunity to take pictures of them all together. Now we're no photographers but I think they came out cute. Other than that, we try to stay busy. Joaquin is taking a class for work. It will give him a 5% raise when he passes which will be awesome. We're hoping with the raise he can start working a little more normal schedule. (He works late hours because it pays more.) I've learn how to crochet from my very good friend Heidi. She's really gotten into it and I've just learned how to edge baby blankets which is good enough for me. Everett is finally growing a little hair but oddly enough, only in the back part of his head. I swear, it really does look like we sprinkled some fertilizer right there. He's being a little stubborn with his crawling. He knows how but chooses not to. If I place him on the floor, on his bum, he scoots every where. It's like he's afraid to go from the sitting position to the laying down position, so instead, he scoots. It's really funny, he looks like a rabbit. He hops all over the place. He can pull himself up on things but only if he doesn't think I'm in the room. As soon as he sees me, he thinks I'll just do it for him. When I do stand him up on furniture, he will stand there all day until I put him back on his bum. I'm afraid to say that I think he's a big fradie cat. He says Mama and Dada. Unfortunately his first real word was Dada. Little stinker. (Just kidding Joaquin.) He loves to copy us when ever we make noises. I've noticed lately when he doesn't get his way and he starts to cry, he starts to shake a little. Almost like he just can't believe I've taken a toy away from him or something. I'm thinking he might be a little dramatic when he gets older when he doesn't get what he wants. He also loves to scrunch up his nose and make a sniffing nose. It's so funny to me. I love it. My little Brock, or Big Brock, I should say, is getting ever so big. He is very strong and doesn't like to be held back. He's crawling all over the place and walking while holding onto the walls, furniture, chairs, my pants, anything. I'm pretty sure he'll be walking soon. He also says Mama and Dada. His first word was Mama. Thank goodness, although now all he wants to say is Dada. (What is it with these kids? I'm with them all day and all they want is their Dad. Geez.) Brock doesn't pay much attention to us unless we're doing something really extreme. For example, the boys were eating lunch today and if I call his name, I get ZERO response, but a lot of the time, I sing to them and I just discovered the song "Happy" by Leona Lewis and I had it on the computer and I was singing it so loud and I was being very flamboyant and crazy and fun and both of the boys couldn't stop staring at me. Who needs T.V. when you have a crazy mother. It was so fun. Brock loves everything he shouldn't. Like the computer, the bathroom, the vacuum and the plunger. Ewh sick. He loves loves loves to be tickled. I'll gently tickle his face and he zones out. It is so cute, he could be upset and crying and then I do that and he stops. He also just loves to be rubbed and kissed. He's very cuddly too. (When he wants to be.) They are both such good babies. I love them both so so so much. They will be a year old in two weeks and I can't believe that the little sweet angels I had a year ago have turned into almost 30 pound toddlers. WOW! When people say time really flies by, they weren't kidding. We have a lot of fun things to look forward to with the holidays approaching. I have family coming into town for Thanksgiving and I can't wait. I will be meeting my Niece, Jorja, for the first time. I saw her on Skype this afternoon and it was awesome. She's so beautiful! I can't wait for her to play with her cousins. I'll be sure to post pictures.I think I've decided that I might go to a private blog too. As I mentioned earlier in this post, that Becky and I were talking about blogging and she uses her blog almost as a journal and I think I want to do that. I think this will be nice for the boys when they get old to look at. So, I haven't figured out how to do it yet but I think I'll be doing it soon....maybe. We'll see if I actually get around to it. So when I do I'll be sure to ask everyone to send me their emails so that, if you want to, you can still read our blog.
