Oh dear what can the matter be...

Julie's taken 3 months to blog!

Wow, where do I even start? There are a few stories I would like to catch you up on and a few that I would've shared, but have forgotten. My life is a whirl wind it seems. The boys are great. Brandon is growing so fast as you can see in the picture. I can no longer lay him down and expect him to be there when I get back. He's already creeping and I'm sure will soon be crawling. Wish me luck with having stairs this go round. With Zach we were in a small apartment and it was easy to see him from almost every room this time it's a little different. Oh well life is an adventure right? Brandon also has his bottom two teeth Zach started Tae Kwan Do in October. He cried the first time I took him, but made it through the class and now he loves it. One day when I picked him up from pre-school he asked me if he had Panda School that day. I had no idea what he was talking about at first then I realized he was referring to Tae Kwan Do because of Kung Fu Panda. I like calling it Panda School now. We also just got our family pictures taken. As seen from the new picture at top. I thought that would be a good indication that I had finally posted again. I did consider just changing the picture, but thought that would be too mean! Here are our pictures. The family picture I actually bought is not the one below, I thought I would let you see it for the first time in your Christmas card!

We liked this last one a lot because you can actually read their shirts (the point of taking their picture in them), but it was the best one and Zach's lifting his shirt up. He's entering into the difficult to photograph stage. Oh well, as long as we get one good shot. I can't afford to buy all of them anyways. And from Tyler's perspective we will be getting their picture taken again in 6 months anyways. And Brandon had even more cute ones than those, but I just left it at those. He looks the same in all of them

And here are two of Zach's stories that just came to mind...

The other morning Zach asked me if it was a stay at home day (as opposed to going to school) and I told him yes. He then responded with "good, they are always trying to make me learn stuff." You think? The poor kid is in pre-K and he hates school already...we've got a long road ahead of us!

I think he doesn't enjoy having to practice writing his letters. At the store recently I signed the machine thing and I don't put much effort into it because generally I'm ready to get out since Brandon makes me hold him most of the time. Zach saw my signature and asked me why I was doing scribble scrabble on the pad. I told him I was signing my name. He responded in a question you were signing your name? (I'm sure he was thinking that didn't look like letters to me.) I told him it was in cursive. He then excitedly said, "I want to learn cursive!" I think he'd rather just scribble on the page than print out his name. I thought it was funny at least!

Hopefully I will post Halloween and Fall pictures soon. Thank you for being patient!!