What's Up?

Does your family's Sunday activities include "family nap time?"  Because ours does.  Except no one really naps.  Isaac spends all his time running up and down the stairs bringing down blankets and pillows and animals for everyone.  Then he'll lie down for 2 seconds and jump up to start giving out toys.  Who doesn't nap with a train set after all?

It's pretty great.



Isaac's imagination has been taking off lately.  He is into "cooking" with my pots and pans.  He made cupcakes, soup, and cookies.

Ben's just cute.  He still only rolls occasionally and only from stomach to back.  I think it's funny that most of the time he's on his stomach it ends in face plants into the blanket and tears even though he is fully capable of rolling.  Well, he also really likes grabbing things so he spends a good portion of tummy time pulling his blankets into his face.

This picture is awesome.  Isaac has total crazy eyes.  It's funny to me.
But these are his walrus teeth.  I didn't even know he knew a walrus well enough to imitate the teeth.

Ben's new favorite place is the exersaucer.  It's also Isaac's new favorite place so it's still not a safe zone to put the babe without some close supervision.
And really, Ben's favorite place is still in someones arms.

 

Isaac was really cute the other day though.  I put Ben in the exersaucer and showed Isaac how we could teach Ben how each toy worked.  I showed Isaac how to show Ben to spin that little spinner part you can see in the pictures.  I then praised Isaac for being kind and teaching his brother.  I told him that was an important job of a big brother.  So Isaac then ran and got Jacob's scriptures and sat on the floor to teach Ben "music."  He sang him a few songs while pointing at some of the words in the scriptures.  It was so cute.

Ben's cute little 1st Easter outfit.  It has bunny feet and a bunny tail on the bum.  Ben rocks that little bunny tail.

This picture is horrible quality but still captures some Isaac awesomeness.  The other thing he loves to do with all my pots and pans is make drums, violins, and cellos.  He is playing the cello in this picture and his drum set is on the floor around him.  And yes, he is pant-less on a Sunday afternoon.  That's just how we roll.  And, he's back in diapers.  The potty training went south after 2 really good weeks.  It got pretty ugly with me getting angry and Isaac crying.  It just wasn't a battle I wanted to continue to fight.  So, we are taking a break.

Ben found his toes.  It was hard to get a picture of him actually grabbing them because he lets go so quickly...

 

And that is what's up in our neck of the woods.

Moments of Motherhood Goodness

I've been having kind of a hard week.  Just feeling a little blah in general and more specifically feeling pretty less successful at this whole mom gig.  I'm sure many of you can relate to that.  Some days, or weeks, are just like that.

But there are moments of goodness even through the feelings of failure.

Today I have been more on the lookout for those moments, or maybe I'm getting out of my funk in general and can just appreciate these little ones for who they are.  And just so I can always remember I'm going to share a couple of my moments.

The new church magazines arrived yesterday.  While Ben was playing happily in his exersaucer I called Isaac over to me to check out his new magazine.  We sat for several minutes looking at the pictures of the Temples and talking about them.  It was one of those times when Isaac wanted my arm around him and I love that.  It was good.

And just now I was able to enjoy some time with just Ben and I while Isaac and Jacob were running a little errand.  I went to his room to feed him a bottle and rock him.  I cracked the curtains so I could watch the snow fall.  It was a moment of peaceful bliss.  Ben fell asleep while eating and I just got to rock him and snuggle him and enjoy his cute little head resting on my shoulder.  Love that!

A Day at the Park

We had Lovely weather last week and made good use of it at our neighborhood park.  On Friday, my friend Lori brought along her nice camera.


Though it was sunny it has been a little windy still.

 

Isaac loves his red socks.  Anytime he picks his own it's those ones.

 

An Oreo break.

 

Snow Day

A couple Saturdays ago we were supposed to get the "snow storm of the year."  Well, it did snow but it certainly didn't pan out to be as big as it was said to be.  But, we had declared it a snow day the night before and had planned some fun indoor activities.

We started the morning making crepes.  Yum.  And Isaac thought it was really awesome to drink milk straight from the container.  He was fast at getting it to his mouth so I didn't even have time to stop him.  That became his personal container of milk.  It was mostly empty anyway and the 2%, so no harm done.


Ben looked cute while we made breakfast.  And he waited patiently for a bottle.  He's good like that.

 

 

And then, after "quiet time," we set up a family room movie theater.  We watched the first part of Ratatouille and ate chocolate chip cookies and cheerio snack (Jacob's grandfather's treat).  It was fun.

Ben didn't really watch the movie.  He mostly slept.  At least for a little bit.  His naps have been a little sketchy lately.  And it's funny to see him with the pacifier because a few days ago he mostly gave it up.  I'm not sure what to do with him now that he won't take it...guess we'll adapt.  There's been a lot more crying the past few days though, I'll tell you that much.

Happy Snow Day to us!

 

Blokus and Brothers

Isaac and Ben had to stay home from church last Sunday due to colds.  (Can I just say again how ready I am for Spring and cold season to be done!)  While he was home with Dad he learned to play Blokus.  Well, sort of any way.  It's more of a puzzle than a game when you play with a 2 year old but it was surprisingly still fun.  We played the next day for Family Home Evening too.  He calls it Blockie.  It's cute.

A few weeks ago he wanted to wear my jacket.  It looked better all zipped up but I wasn't fast enough with the camera.

I did, however, snag a few pictures of me and my cute boys.  Ben is getting so big...it's ridiculous how quickly the time goes.

 

Updated Family Blog

You all should check out our family blog here to see some fun things about our boys including videos of Ben rolling over and a photo of Isaac "shaving."  Cute Brunson boys!

Schroeder

Isaac has been really interested in musical instruments for the past little while.  Jacob started showing him youtube videos of The Piano Guys and ever since then he always wants to make pianos out of his blocks and legos.  Notice the foot on the foot pedals.  He totally reminded me of Schroeder from Peanuts in the top photo.  He's singing "Give Said the Little Stream" as he plays.

 

Jacob and I are debating buying him a little keyboard since the organ is a little loud and requires too much supervision to be played often.  We are also debating a mini/toy violin because he often holds things under his chin like he's playing a violin too.  Maybe he'll be a musical kid.  He certainly wouldn't get that talent from me!  But I'd love it if he had some talent musically.

Two Big Boys

As I mentioned, our little Ben is getting bigger by the day and is officially 3 months old.  He's so cute!  And mostly he is the perfect little addition to our family.


He has started laughing a little bit and it's adorable.

He rolled from tummy to back yesterday for the first time.  I can't get him to repeat it for Jacob though.

He is sleeping really well at night still, though his naps have gotten a little iffy as of a few days ago.  Something is upsetting him but I don't know what.  He does have a little bit of a cold so maybe that's it.  Or, it could be the beginning of teething I guess.  Who knows with these little ones?

He is mostly happy and smiley and good natured, though is a little more fussy these past couple days.  Can't really complain over all though.  He's pretty much awesome.

And I think I have the two cutest boys in the world!

 

Ben also likes his toys more and more lately.  He likes to hold them and put them straight into his mouth.

 

Isaac wore this outfit for two days.  He complained he was cold all day but wouldn't change.  He keeps saying it's summer and I assure him it is not.  But mostly I don't fight with him about it.

Ben started sleeping in his crib for all his naps.  He's still in our room at night but as soon as this period of fussy passes, or the cold he has, he's going to find himself in the crib full time.  

Plus he looks really cute there.  It's all blue because his curtains were drawn and they are blue.  Well, the walls are a very light blue too...

And check out this big boy!  He is (mostly) potty trained.  He does really well and has gone full days without accident.  And then not so much on other days.  I still am too nervous to venture too far from home.  We'll keep at it.

 

3 Month Preview

He certainly keeps growing!
I'll post more of his pictures and the rest of the pictures from today later.
Here are the three month comparisons though.

Man he's cute!