Bye for now

This is a sad, but exciting time for us; we're saying goodbye to the home we've lived in for 7 years, but we're moving into the home we've been building for what seems like 7 years! Our U-Haul is ordered and we're almost completely packed, living with minimal clothing, blankets and eating on paper plates with plastic silverware...can you say spork! When we get settled I'll have some pictures of the house for everyone to see. Till then here's some clips of my boys:

Here's Dane feeding T-Bone the Cheerios he insisted he have (a new way he's learned to post-pone bedtime when I say, "Lets clean up our toys and brush our teeth.") I left the room and came back to him putting little toys inside the recorder (orange thing in his left hand) and feeding T-Bone. I knew something was up when I heard him giggling hysterically. Unfortunatley I couldn't get to the camera quick enough to get the belly laughs. Sleepy, slap-happy kids are the best!

Here's Drake in his exer-saucer. Sorry about the jerkiness; I was trying to improve the lighting. Here he was squealing and jumping, but after taking 4 videos I just settled for getting a couple little squeals and enjoying the real loud laughter when I wasn't taping.

And this is just cute. I have more bath time videos, but they aren't PG version.

Bubble fun

Hre's a PG version of my little guys taking a bath together. Drake is now at the stage where he loves to kick and Dane loves taking a bath with him. Take note of the crayon on the bathtub walls...Dane is an artist in the tub and a singer at the dinner table. Right now he likes to sing "Baa Baa Black Sheep", but sings it like this: "Baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa baa" over and over and....*smile* Atleast he sings it to the right tune.

And here's a picture of Dane and our nanny, Heidi, packing up his books in his room to take to our new house. Andy's been working at our new house so much that Dane calls it "Daddy's house" and when we take him dinner at night and leave to take baths and go to bed Dane will say, "Come home Daddy." Only 5 more days and we're in the new house (For those of you following our home-building saga).

And of course little Drake in his bouncie chair...gotta love the double chin & drool!

On the Move

Look who's up and ready to go...backwards! Drake is a pro at getting up in the crawl position, but the most he does is smile, giggle and then plop back down and giggle some more. Soon he'll be on the move and rocking my world.



Here's a cute picture of Daddy and Dane having some fun with little birthday/party toys I brought home from work. It was perfect timing on my part. I came home from work in time to tuck Dane into bed and I showed him the toys. He and Andy started to play and got all excited. Dane would almost fall down laughing everytime Andy hit his little forehead. The excitement and super exhaustion was too much for him; bedtime was pushed back about 1/2 hour after that. *smile*

A day at the park

Finally today it was nice enough to go outside and play for a little bit. Afer breakfast and entertaining Dane during Drake's 1st nap we headed to the park. It's only about 1 1/2 miles away, but for little Dane it's a long hike. So with our picnic lunch packed and both boys bundled up we made it there. On the way back Dane decided he wanted a ride. You'll notice they are pretty comfortable in their cadillac ride. Also I just realized this is T-bone and Zeke's debut on "d" boys' blog. Zeke is the great dane mix with brendal(sp) markings and T-Bone is brown with white paws and chest. Notice Dane is walking T-Bone. Notice also, that he has 2 leashes, that way I can have one just slightly shorter than the one Dane is holding in case T-Bone sees a squirrel.
p.s. That's not our house in the background...just a random place I decided to stop for a picture *smile*



We (Dane, Drake and I, Daddy stayed home and worked on the house we're building) spent Friday through Sunday in Jefferson City in a hotel visiting my dad at the hospital after his surgery. He had an aneurism and they removed it last week. All is well and he's expected to go home today. Here's the view from our room. And since my goal was to take pictures of the moon over the capital building you don't get to see the river and the bridge down below...Side note: there was an eclipse after I took this picture and I intended on taking the pictures throughout the evening, but forgot about it because we went swimming in the pool. And even that's not entirely true...we went "swimming" in the hot-tub because this mom is too much of a wuss to get into the real pool...it's way to cold for me. Dane didn't know the difference and the hot-tub wasn't turned on so it was the perfect temperature.