Busy Days... Sleepy Nights

I don't know how much busier our family can get.... oh wait we start tee-ball in a few months! :) I have been so busy, this blog has been put to the side. On a happy note, I will finish my internship in 1 week and my house may actually get clean again. Something I have learned while being a "working mom" is that our family HAS to get organized. There is no way we are going to be able to keep everything up whenever I really start a job unless we have routines and organization. The past 4 years my schedule has been so crazy with classes at different times everyday that I haven't been able to get on a daily routine. I am actually looking forward to some normalcy, we just have to find that happy balance. 

We took some family Christmas pictures with my new background set the other day. Aren't the boys precious!?

 

We made a trip down to Nashville (where Zach and I graduated from) for a reveal baby shower. My sister (my brother's girlfriend when he had his wreck) is having a baby with her sweet hubby (the boys uncle "Co-Co") They found out they are having a boy (my new nephew) and we could not be happier for them! While we were there we took Will and JT to my brother's grave. They have both been there before, but Will was only a couple weeks old and it has been a while since we took JT. It is still hard for them to understand exactly what happened. But I am happy they know their Uncle Mike through us. :)

It was really nice the other day, so I took the boys out for a VERY long time. They had a blast on their swing set. JT pushed Will for a long time and had him laughing so hard he could barely breath. They are already great buddies! I hope it stays that way!

 Will is growing like a weed on miracle grow! He is already wearing size 24 month clothes and he just turned 6 months old. He is so happy! He will laugh at anything, especially anything JT does. He is still waking up at night which makes mommy very sleepy, but I know one day I will miss those cries in the middle of the night. So I am enjoying it while I can.

"Good Family"

We got to take they boys' fall pictures. They turned out precious. I can't believe how big both of them are getting. Will is doing something new everyday. He is rolling like crazy and is holding himself up on his hands and knees really well. He is starting to lunge like he wants to crawl but can't quite get it. He also just started saying "Dada". It was the funniest thing at dinner last night I was trying to get him to say "mama" and he kept saying "dada" instead, just like big brother. Finally the last time I tried he paused a second and I just knew he was about to say it, then he grunted and pooted so loud. Zach about died laughing and told him "that's my boy." I don't care if they both say dada first, as long as they say mama the most! :)

Last night JT said, "Mommy I think God made you and Daddy meet just so you could have me and Will because we are a good family!" Is that not the sweetest thing ever!? :) I am so proud of JT, I can't say that enough. He is such a good kid and so sweet to us. We are hard on him a lot, but it is only because we expect so much out of him. I hope it pays off when he gets older. 

You can argue all you want, but I have to say I have the best mom ever. :) She has been such a big help with the boys during this internship. I don't know what we would do without her. She is just absolutely amazing! Thanks for everything mom! 

My sweet boys

Zach has officially decided to go back to school and get a bachelor's degree in Information Technology. I am so excited for him. He will hopefully start in January if we can get all of the paperwork together. If not, it will be next summer or fall.

It's Been A While...

I have gone so long without posting and I feel guilty because I do want the boys to read this when they get older. I think they will be more proud of the fact that I completed 2 degrees and got a good job where I can spend more time with them though, so it's ok. ;) 

The boys got their Batman and Robin Halloween Costumes!

My perfect Dynamic Duo!

JT and his cousin Madison, they had fun together.

So we have been pretty busy the past few weeks. My big boy (JT) is thriving at school. He has become a little ladies man! Apparently all of the little girls are going home talking about him to their parents. They all just love him, which makes me feel good as a mom. I want my boys to ALWAYS respect and be nice to girls. I think he is a lot like Zach. Zach and I met in the 6th grade and just about all of my friends were crazy about him. Not only was he the "new" kid, but he was also very laid back and didn't give us the attention we got from the other boys, so we all wanted him to like us. It's fun to talk about now that we are older and married. JT has also started reading pretty well. He is asking how everything is spelled. We used to be able to hide things from him by spelling it out to each other, not anymore. He can sound words out! We will have to figure out a new technique!

Will has been doing great also. For a while he was not sleeping at all at night. Come to find out he was just not eating at school and was starving all night long. So this momma was exhausted getting 3 hours of sleep and working all day without help from Zach. I really wish he could get a day job! 

Will and cousin Issac... They are going to be buddies growing up. :)

Now that we have figured out what was wrong with Will he is waking up only 1-2 times at night to eat. My poor baby just thinks wearing 18 month clothes at 4 months old is not good enough. He wants to get bigger! His teacher told me she used to go to the gym, until she started working there and now he works her out enough she doesn't have to! HAHA... He is also very lazy at school, to hear his teachers tell it. He won't roll over for them, but he will wait on other babies to crawl past him and grab their toes to chew on. Yes, I have yet another strange child. I think it is just because he is too fat to grab his own toes. 

Tomorrow we are going to Springdale to watch "Papa's" football team and spend the night with them. I am also going to try to take some pictures of the boys, I will be sure to post them.

Fair 2011

Our little family at the Pope County Fair

We went to the fair tonight! We had a blast with the boys, but Will got too tired so Zach took him home while I stayed with JT and Mema and Poppy. JT loved the bouncy maze. He found a glow in the dark bracelet in it so I told him to ask if it was one of the little girls' that were still in there. Apparently he bounced his way around and asked every girl in there and reported back that they all said it wasn't theirs. So I told him to ask the boys and as he was asking a kid about 8 years old he got knocked down. As I was yelling for him to make sure he was ok (I was locked behind a fence and couldn't see down in the maze) he pops up and says, "Well I sure guess it wasn't his" :) I love how he has such a good attitude. 

Then, once we finally got on the helicopter rides he raced to the green one, but a little boy beat him to it. He had to settle for the pink one and wasn't happy, so when I took his picture he made a mean face at me because "pink is not his favorite color". The little boy who beat him to the green one ended up getting off because he was scared, but JT got over it really fast. His went the highest so it was ok that it was pink. :)

JT's mean face because he got the pink helicopter

Will had a great time also, he loved looking at the animals and watching Bubba (JT) ride all of the big boy rides. Every time we showed him a chicken he would smack his lips and say "Mum" HAHA! Just like JT did when he was little. This is the reason we have not bought a pet fish, JT always asks if he can make it grow really big so we can eat it. :/ I don't know whether to laugh or worry about this.

Will's mum mum face he made at the chickens. :)

Lots to catch up on!

I haven't posted in a while, I started my Internship on Monday! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE TEACHING! :) I am so excited I actually found something I enjoy. I am even in Junior High (which I hear is the hardest to teach) and I love it. I guess that is a good sign! 

So Will had his 4 month check-up today and I couldn't go. :( Zach took him for me though. His doctor said he is perfect (of course!) and he weights 19lbs 8 ozs, and is 27.5 inches long. He is a huge baby for his age! He also had to get his shots, he didn't even flinch until the end of the second one and he just pouted a little, but didn't cry. He then took an oral vaccine and gulped it down. Pretty sad he cried harder and louder over wanting a bottle than he does over 2 shots! He is also met every milestone for a 4 month old and even most of them for a 6 month old.

JT has been doing so good in school. He has come out of his shell quite a bit and is already starting to read. I am so proud of him. He is on a big angry birds kick right now. He got the "Angry Birds Knock on Wood" game for his birthday and he plays it every second we are at home. It is pretty funny to watch. 

We are huge football fans in the Taylor house. We are going tomorrow night to watch Har-Ber (my father-in-laws) team play for the first time this season. JT is so excited to get to play on the field and we are excited to take will to his first Har-Ber game. The boys have both already been to a couple Atkins games this season and loved it. JT even got a new girlfriend (my friend's daughter, Kylie). They are so cute together!

Will Sleeping at the Atkins Game

JT and his girlfriend Kylie

We are also going to the fair tonight. I'm excited for JT to ride everything, but dreading all the smokers out there. Yuck!

Poopy Pants..... and back... and shirt.... and legs....

Will eating squash for the first time!

I was sitting in class today and I got a phone call from one of the teachers at the boys' school. When I was able to I checked my voice mail and she asked if they could throw away Will's outfit, then she began to laugh and say he had an explosion in his diaper. At first I thought, oh he has had a couple of those before it can't be that bad. Then I thought, man if they are wanting to throw is away it must be all over! So I called her back and told her to go ahead (I send the boys in "not so new" clothes to daycare because I know JT has a tendency to get messy if he can and I figure Will is going to be the same way). So when I get to their school to pick them up I get JT first so that I can just carry Will straight to the car since he is a 20 lb dead weight. Then we go to Will's classroom and he is laughing at his teacher while she is making faces at him and her eyes got huge when she seen me. She couldn't wait to tell him all about it! They had a trash bag waiting for me with everything he exploded on, and one of the teachers even had to go to Wal-Mart and get new pants because he managed to get it all over her. I do have his outfit and I can't decided whether or not to wash it, and keep it for the memory so I can tell him when he gets older what he did, or just throw it away?

JT right after we get home from school, he strips down to his undies everyday

JT has been doing great at school. He comes home everyday singing about Jesus and God. :) He is still saying everything was his favorite at school, and nothing is his least favorite, so I guess we are on a good track! He has also started playing good with the other kids. I get to spy on him a little when I pick him up because they are in the gym. In less than 2 weeks I won't get to take the boys to school, or pick them up because I will have to be at the school I am interning at on a different schedule. So I am going to miss those special moments like crazy! :(

Excited & Nervous

So I start my teacher internship 2 weeks from today. I have been in the classroom as a teacher very little and I am a little nervous about how it is going to go. On the other hand, every time I have been I have loved it. I am looking forward to getting to teach everyday, and I also hear the teacher I was placed with is pretty amazing. I will be teaching Junior High business classes at a local school. I think after the first week I will be ready to jump in with both feet! :)

Will has been mimicking noises I make for a couple weeks now, but the past couple of days he has been saying "Hi" whenever I say it to him. It's still in that long drawn out cooing sound, but he is getting it pretty quick! JT was saying "dada", "mama", "bobo", and "bye bye" between 5 and 6 months old and was saying several words by 9-12 months. It doesn't really matter when Will says his first real word, as long as it is mama! :)))

P.S. I think I finally got my youtube videos to show up at the bottom of my blog! Yay!