I'm One!!!!

This is Will right after he woke up on his birthday, I thought it was so cute how he was sitting with his legs crossed on the couch=)

precious little baby hands

later in the day playing with the barn

getting crazy with noah

drama

had fun playing with kitchen utensils the other morning!

here's noah whacking will a little too hard on the back with a spatula=) he was really getting into it, look at that fist!

...and then will screaming and noah looking pretty satisfied in the background=)

entertaining nonetheless!

taunting the dog

we had sam shut in the bedroom and will thought it was hilarious to try and get him under the door=)

will's world

Jake fulfilling his duty as the Uncle by exposing my children to new music=) William is quite the little groover.

visit from u. jake over the 4th

bonding with will

4th of July fun

The 4th in Manhattan is so much fun! It was a gorgeous day this year and we started it out in Wamgeo at an antique tractor show since Noah is still in love with tractors of all kinds. (When we ask him what he wants to be when he grows up he always says "a worker guy")

We played at the awesome park there, a tractor to play on!

And Noah got to ride his first carnival rides, cars and airplanes, so much fun to watch him on these, what a big boy!

venting...

Yes, he looks innocent enough sitting here at the table stringing homemade beads onto a pipe cleaner, but...this little man's behavior at the zoo this morning was enough to make a saint swear! I tell you what! We just got back from a really hot trip to the Manhattan zoo with our neighbors and I am still fuming...I need to send some questions out to my fellow bloggers. I am completely at a loss as to how to deal with this child when he runs away from me, especially in public! It is just the most ridiculous thing when I am chasing him around and he is laughing. He has never done this before and I guess just recently discovered that it is much more fun to not listen to mom as she is screaming and running after him like a crazy woman! As we were leaving and heading up the zig-zag sidewalk he decides to just take off and no amount of yelling "stop" would convince him to stop. It's not just about "the control", I knew that eventually he would run out of sidewalk and be in the parking lot and that is scary! But I just could not catch up to him while trying to push that honking double stroller up the hill!!!!! Finally I tricked him into stopping, I'm not proud of my tactics, but it worked, and then promptly gave him a spanking. I proceeded to try and put him in the stroller, because he had obviously lost walking privileges, but he would not bend him legs and sit down, just stood screaming in the seat! I'm embarrased now thinking how we must have appeared to onlookers, I think my neighbor may have actually been embarrased to be with us. Does anyone have any advice about this (preferably someone who is now or has recently been in the parenting stage )? Is this just a phase? How do I get him to understand that I mean business when I say "come here"!!! ugh...parenting is humbling.

silly boys

so I was vaccuming (sp?) the other day and turned around and saw this little face peeking out from between the couches=)

he had crawled in between the end table and couch and thought it was so funny

and then noah had to do it too of course=)