Trains and Nuggets

My sister is wondering why I haven't posted in a few days and I really don't have an original excuse. Yes I've been busy. But these guys do the cutest things everyday and I would love to document all of it. Lazy, don't have the camera or a combination of the two limits my enthusiasm for the project.





Today, I purposely took out the camera and shot the current goings ons in our house. Joe "babysat" the boys the other evening and that is when the huge Thomas the Train project got underway. The only place for it is on our kitchen floor so we will see how long Joe and I can stand tripping over it. The boys, of course, LOVE IT. The trains blow smoke and light up red so we often enjoy it in the dark. :)





I made the boys nuggets for lunch. They always want it with Ranch dressing but today when Mason saw the Ranch dressing he whined that he wanted Ketchup. Oh my lord. These guys are very challenging to please. So they got both just to s*** them up. They also both got strawberry milk. Mason asked me if I put the secret ingredient into his milk and I admitted I had not. Consequently, me insisted he needed it or else "it will taste terrible". Well, the secret ingredient is liquid vitamins and it tastes terrible which is why I only add it to strawberry milk which is sweet enough to mask the terrible vitamin flavoring. So, really, Mason had it reversed. But, I added the secret ingredient and he drank it all. Really shows you how you can use psychology to work in your favor. ;)





We went to a really fun birthday party for our friend Lily yesterday. She turned 3 and the theme was Unicorns. So precious. The boys had a blast and so did I. It is nice seeing our regular Mom's group. Hopefully someone will share their photos with me as I didn't bring my camera.





Joe and I have been pretty focused on renting out our new property. Looks like we have quite a bit of interest so we may have our pick of tenants. Cool! The bad news is our tenant in Brunswick is leaving at the end of the month so now Joey is flying out to FL early so that he can drive up there, fix it up (paint) and rent it out. Not too fun but we are very fortunate that the timing occurred while he was heading that way for work. Ups and downs. That is what being a landlord is all about.

Talan continues to blossom with his sign language skills. He now signs "daddy" all the time to Joe's total amusement. He also signs "mason" and he does "drink" and "milk" frequently too. The boys are really sweet to each other (and antagonize each other too). We are enjoying each other a lot these days which is really fun.