Sledding up a Storm

I decided since this might just well be the last snow of the season that we should take advantage and go sledding.  In typical Utah fashion, most of the snow was gone by mid afternoon when school, preschool, and gymnastics was over but that didn't stop us from going...uh...slushing.  Even better, we had Isaac's friend Tiki come along for the ride. :)

At first Zekie was convinced that this sledding trip was incredibly lame and that he couldn't get his sled to work.  After a lecture about not giving up which had approximately zero affect on him, it was the "I'll give you 50 cents if you can sled down the hill one time." that did the trick. After that he was a master sledder the rest of the afternoon!

I remember when I tried to take Caleb sledding a couple years ago to this same hill and he was tired, scared, cold and miserable. BUT now that he's a vewee gwown up thwee year old he had the time of his life!  He kept me laughing the whole time at his crazy tricks, stunts, flops and rolls...all in attempts to get himself and the sled down the hill.  This kid's hilarwious.

Isaac also had a fabulous time. He's all about becoming one with nature and refreshed himself with snow snacks between runs.  He and Tiki were having a hard time taking turns until I convinced him to be a "reindeer".  Then the strong Squeaks was more than happy to take his friend and brothers on some wild rides!

Here's a picture of our incredible hill.  Just the ride size for 4 small boys and we had it all to ourselves.  It even came complete with a drain at the bottom that clearly had alligators living in it.  It all added to the thrill of the ride.

Tan Tiki and three whitey winter Bachman boys cheezin' it up and having a blast! 

Happy Valentine's Day

We have had a very happy Valentine's Day thus far. Zeke and his friend Kortnie had a lot of fun at their kindergarten class room party making these HUGE valentines for all their candy to go into! Caleb and I got to help with the party too and saw all the festivities...bean bag toss, bird house painting, starburst game "don't eat Pete", story and cupcakes and of course Valentine card making. Zeke loves his friend Kortnie and has been dying to have her come play so it only seemed appropriate on this day of love that she should come over for their first playdate.

Caleb's getting in on the love. He's lucky to have older brothers with cute girl friends that let him tag along.

Last night Zekie lost his 6th tooth! It seems fitting since he is 6 and all. He cut the tooth fairy a break and said that she didn't have to get him the lemon cookies he requested until later the next day...perhaps during his gymnastics class she'd have time.

Isaac usually give me a hard time about going to preschool but not today! He put in some long strenuous...minutes, the day before writing out each and every member of his class's name on his Valentines for them. He also got to be the *star student* big helper in his class today and for his show and tell bucket items he brought the rocket ship clock and a race car. In his Valentine bag he received a plethora of suckers and pencils.

Our fantastic neighbor and babysitter made these beautiful cards with our boys a week before Vday hit. They've been sitting on the mantle and Zeke made us promise to wait to read them on Valentine's day. They had reasons why they loved Mama and Dada.
Mama's Card: Caleb - Loves you because you sleep with him and kiss him good night. Love you Mama. Isaac - Loves you because you play with me and kiss my tummy. Zekie loves Everything about me.
Dada's Card: Caleb - Loves you because you watch sports with me and sleep with me and your hugs are awesome. Love you Dada. Isaac - I love wrestling with you and when you put me to bed. Love Isaac. Zekie - Loves you about taclen (tackling).
We LOVE our boys!!
My dearest Valentine Rob gave me this incredible bouquet of flowers from Costco. He wanted to make an extra big bouquet out of combing a bouquet of long lasting flowers and a bouquet if red roses. Lucky for him no one questioned him about if the bouquets were for two different women or one ;). And lucky for me to have such an incredible husband and father by my side. Love you Rob!

Random Acts of Kidness

Here is a picture Zekie drew of himself as Hulk and a few items he and any other super techy 5 year would like. An iPad, Xbox, Ipod, bowl of candy ... and a pig!

People keep telling me I'm going to miss the days of small fingerprints around our home. I'm not convinced.

In an attempt to teach our boys some responsibilty we've been working on chores and allowance..complete with banks with dividers for "fun money" aka ice cream truck money, mission fund, and tithing. As you can see here, laundry is the clear favorite in the chore department.

Behold the side of our refridgerator, complete with super hero and candy chore charts, preschool calendars and the ever important Box Tops envelope. It's a boy, boy, boy, boy world!

Twins

 

My favorite story involving the twins lately goes a little something like this. Caleb wanted to know if he could go across the street to our neighbor "Sammy's" house. I said sure, but to make sure he looked BOTH ways before he crossed the street and that Isaac and I would be watching through the window to make sure he did. He said OK! and set off. Sure enough he approached the street and very deliberately looked left...then right...and then DOWN...and did his usual fist punching to the sky dance the rest of the way across the street. That kid's hilarious, but the best part of the story is that Isaac starting busting a gut saying "Did you see that?! Caleb looked DOWN. Like a car was going to come up through the road and hit him! Hahahahaha!" I love that Isaac thinks Caleb is as funny as I do :) Ahh, twins.

Caleb's first day of preschool!

 

Caleb is in preschool!!! He has been waiting his whole life for this moment. Literally. I had him on the waiting list for Ms. Holly when he was still in the womb. He has been watching and waiting anxiously as his older brother have gone and has been sooo excited to go!

 

This morning I was in the shower and Caleb surprised me when he threw back the curtain and shouted TODAY I GET TO GO TO PRESCHOOL! It was the first thing on his mind. Then of course we go to drop him off and the nervousness set in. He was not about to get out of the car. Only the promise that I would take him to his favorite place in the world (Maverick gas station) got him out.

 

One of the reasons Caleb was shy was because he saw this cute black boy and said he was nervous about his "fuzzy" hair. At the end of the day however I asked him who his favorite friend was and he said "I love the brown guy!" Glad he's decided diversity is awesome afterall :)

 

I love my funny Bebopalicious! Such a grown up boy who was sooo excited to have his very own glue and scissors. Score!

Isaac first day of Butterfly class

Isaac has been counting down the days to go back to Ms. Holly's preschool! Only this year he has graduated from the Catapillar class and has become a butterfly!

All of Isaac's best buds are in his class but Paigey (the cute girl on the far right) is his favorite! Isaac also adores his teacher Ms. Holly and we just had to go visit her on Labor day because he missed her too much.

Isaac had got his "camera smile" down...which means I need to tickle him during photoshoots to get his real Squeaks smile to come out. Such a handsome and smart boy.

Part of the reason Isaac's been counting down the days to preschool is because Zekie's been coming home from preschool with lots of treats. Unfortunately Zekie's not very generous and Isaac's been dying for treats of his own. I promised him that as soon as he got to preschool he would have a treat that Zekie wanted and would be able to have it alll to himself. When we went to go pick Isaac up from his first day back he came waltzing out with a great big cookie. Zekie saw it and said "Seriously? Can I have some?" There was a dramatic pause, Isaac held up his pointer finger, wagged it back and forth and proclaimed with a HUGE smile. "NO WAY." Sweet justice.

Mix it up!

 

Another incredible picture by Zekie! We have here Isaac's most approved food item of late...THE SMOOTHIE. The smoothie is really a magical thing. If you tried to give Isaac a handful of spinach...or even a bowl of watermelon for that matter, he literally may run to the garbage or sink to actually puke. He is picky with a capitol P. BUT do not lose hope. Isaac will eat almost any fruit or vegetable you can come up with IF it is blended into a purple smoothie. Color is important. If it's green...he won't touch it. However, if you throw some berries into a green smoothie, thus turning it purple...Game on!

 

Isaac found a frowny face in the smoothie that was about to be blended to his death.

Because Isaac is such a smoothie lover, we make them at our house pretty much daily. Unfortunately we have not been please with our blenders of the past. They have jammed up and leaked under the daily abuse. Sooo, we broke down and spent some of Rob's bonus money on The illustriou BLENDTEC. For some reason we can justify large sums of money if it is going to Costco. We have fallen under their spell with the rest of America. Oh well. Isaac's health is at stake here and it will definitely get all sorts of use so here we go.

 

For our very first Blendtec smoothie we decided to all out on the ingredients. This smoothie had the following: Milk, yogurt, a slice of tomato, cherries, spinach, carrots, berries, honey and a banana...and they drank every single drop!  Sweet Smoothie Success!

My friend Anne posted this on her blog and it's hilarious! I thought it went well with my smoothie blog so here you go. Enjoy!