Cooper's First Haircut

Well, technically not, but who's going to argue with us? We did try once (with little success) to trim it at home, but this was his first professional cut, so it counts! And let's just say, Cooper HATED having his haircut. There was a great deal of screaming, crying, and trying to fling himself from the little car he got to sit in. Not even the Elmo video helped. Of course, the lollipop and train table afterwards made him quickly forget the trauma he endured, and he is so precious with his little boy hair!

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Elf Yourself

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Christmas in Chicago

We took a nice weekend trip up to Chicago with my parents to see the lights and enjoy the Christmas in the City atmosphere. We had a great time, despite the extreme cold (think 11 degrees!!). We got treats at the Hershey's Store, played at FAO Schwarz (with $750 life-size dinosaurs), and ate dinner under the big tree at The Walnut Room, where a fairy used her magic dust to help the boys make their Christmas wishes. Chad and the boys, along with my dad, went to the Field Museum the next day, while my mom and I did some more shopping. All in all, a great time!

Halloween 2008

How cute are my bumblebee and dinosaur?

Just Because

I have thousands of pictures on my computer right now. And as any proud mother will tell you, I think every picture of my boys is beautiful. Since I don't have anything earth-shattering to share today, I think I'll just put some recent pics I like on here today. Enjoy!

They are the apples of my eye!

So we made our annual trip to The Apple Works on Monday morning. Looking back we were asking for a not-so-fun trip, as Griffin had a cold, Cooper is just now giving up the morning nap, and I was desperately on a mission to get awesome pictures. Pretty much a recipe for disaster, right?

We tried for pumpkin patch pictures (say that 10 times fast), but Cooper seems to have some kind of deep-seated fear of them, so he cried if we sat him down for even a second. Griffin insisted on picking every apple in a two-mile radius off the trees and eating them, though we were pretty sure they frowned upon that. I broke my (already crappy) camera lens. But, alas, we did get a couple of good shots, so I guess we'll just pretend the smiles in these pictures lasted all morning!!

I'm in love with vampires!!

I know I have not updated recently, and there is a really good reason. Well, good reason might be pushing it, and according to Chad, it's a ridiculous reason...

I am completely, totally, 100% percent addicted to the Twilight series of books by Stephenie Meyer. They sounded so completely the opposite of my kind of thing, but enough "normal" people recommended them that I decided to give them a try. I have now read three and one quarter of the four books in the series. I have read well over 1500 pages in the last 7 days. I can't sleep, I can't clean my house, my children are watching a lot of TV. And I don't even feel bad. If you have not read these books, you need to. Today.