Cheese Glorious Cheese

The picture above is the look we get most when we sternly call Luke's name. He usually makes this face and say "huh" at the same time. Yesterday and today I saw this look a few too many times than I wanted to.
Saturday, March 8th- I had just finished getting dressed after my morning shower and walked out of my room only to be assaulted with a most horrible smell. My first thought was that one of the boys had gotten sick to their stomach somewhere. But as I made it to the family room I soon saw the source of the smell. Our recliner was covered in Kraft Parmesan cheese. Luke quickly confessed to this and I quickly cleaned it up and scrubbed down the chair hoping to get rid of the smell.
Saturday, March 8th- Lunchtime. I was busy getting lunch for Luke when he sneaked into the fridge and got a hold of a package of shredded cheddar cheese. Luckily I caught him before he made a huge mess. But there was a mess, none the less, in the living room.
Sunday, March 9th- The boys had been up for about 30 minutes before I got out of bed. They are usually pretty good about just playing on the computer before I come out. Well, I walked into the family room and found one section of the couch sprinkled with lotion. There was also lotion in Luke's hair. I cleaned up the gooey mess and got the boys breakfast. After breakfast we headed upstairs for baths and much to my surprise discovered that the lotion mess had actually started upstairs. The top landing was a mess and toys were covered. Again Luke let me know, rather proudly, that he was the culprit.

AHHHH! What is a mother to do? Especially when his new thing is asking for a hug every time he is in trouble and saying "I just yuv (love) you." He is really something else.

A New Kind of Diet

So I think I've discovered the next big thing in dieting. Last night as I was trying to eat my dinner Luke climbed up in my lap and proclaimed "I want to eat your dinner for you, Mommy." He didn't want to eat my food he wanted to eat for me. So what do you think? Getting someone else to eat for you would definitely do the trick.
By the way, he does eat MY dinner with me more often than not. No wonder I am always hungry an hour after dinner.

Duck, Duck, Goose.

The other night Matthew and Luke were playing with their diecast nascar cars and I was on the computer. After a few races across the room I hear a rousing game of Duck, Duck, Goose going on. I look over to my right and see the cars in a circle with Matthew and Luke making them play the game. It was so cute and such a great moment for Matthew, who along with Jonathan, has a problem with pretend play. It really made me smile and I had to laugh when I heard them saying "Okay Jimmie Johnson it's your turn." "Duck, Duck, Duck, Duck, Goose. Get him Jeff Gordon."

I had to take picture of the cars in their circle and new I needed to post this. So Cute.

A Little of This and That

Sorry it has been a few weeks since my last post. Life has again been busy with illness and other things. I went on a little vacation for 4 days in the middle of February. Just me, no kids and no husband. I went to visit my dear friend, Amy in Oklahoma. But before that we had another round or ear infections and I came down with bronchitis and pink eye. Not a fun way to leave for a vacation but I survived.
The twins also had their 6 year reevaluation for autism. In Arizona, in order to keep your state assistance for therapy programs, kids have to have another diagnosis at the age of 6. I guess they think it just in case the child get better with early intervention.
Not much has changed. They are still autistic. However, they are now officially considered underweight. Jonathan is underweight and Matthew is on the border. They do eat, just not a lot of variety and they are very active. Jonathan, however, has stopped eating some things at home, namely his chicken nuggets. This has been a staple for him since he was able to eat table food and he usually has this for dinner at least twice a week. So for him to stop eating it is not a good thing. I could understand if he was sick of it but he eats chicken nuggets at school and he also eats them at Grandma's and at Grandma's house they are the same chicken nuggets that I buy. I have been in tears pleading with him to eat some nights and other nights I just have to leave the room and let Eric deal with it. I have been told that Jonathan might be doing this because he knows how much it means to me and in a way it is his way of having power over me. His eating has been foremost in my mind lately and will even cry myself to sleep thinking about it. Matthew is skinny but Jonathan looks like an anorexic, he just looks so frail and that if I grabbed his arm the wrong way it would snap. It is so very scary to me.
All this to say, could you please keep both boys in your prayers, especially Jonathan. Thank you.

Making Plans For the Future

In case you didn't know my boys have a new love for NASCAR. It started with the Disney/Pixar movie cars and one day back in October I was flipping through the channels and we caught the beginning of a NASCAR race. We watched the WHOLE thing that night. I so did not want to be a NASCAR family. Matthew and Luke like it the best, especially Matthew.
Well, tonight we were watching the season opener Shoot Out. I really liked this race because there weren't as many cars racing and they only race 70 laps. I can handle 70 laps. So anyway, about halfway through the race Matthew says "Mommy I want to race NASCARS." I asked him if he meant his toy cars or if he really wanted to drive the cars when he got older. He informed me that he wanted to drive them when he got older. I asked him what number he was going to be and he told me number 4 and that his car would be blue. I don't know who his sponsors are going to be but I will keep you all posted on that one.
This was so endearing to me because the future is very uncertain for the twins and it was so nice to hear Matthew tell me that he wanted to be something when he grows up. Neither of the twins has told me that before.

Something's Missing

Well, everyone, today my first born son (Matthew) lost his first tooth. He came home from school minus a tooth in his mouth. The teacher was nice enough to enclose it in a little plastic tooth holder necklace. I called to see how he did when it came out and was happy to hear he did just fine. I have been worried how the boys would do when they started losing teeth. I could just hear them telling me to "put it back in" or to "fix it". I am not sure if I will do the tooth fairy thing, not because I don't believe in doing it, but because I don't think he would care one way or the other. I will have to discuss it with Daddy.
I tried to get a picure of him showing off his new smile but wasn't very successful.

That's my hand holding his lip down so you can see the missing tooth.

I was trying to get him to stick his lower teeth out and this was the result.

Playing with the open space.

NY Giants Win!!!

So this post isn't about the boys but it is for my big boy.
I just want to say how happy I am that my husbands favorite football team won the Super Bowl. A Super Bowl played right here in AZ. Eric has been a lifelong NY Giants fan and it is so great to see him so happy for his team. We all had on Giants clothes for the big day. I put on Eric's sweatshirt after church and he loved it. What a great day watching the game at home.