Me and my 3 "lil" Men.

Over the past couple weeks we have been laying low and enjoying a visit from Mimi and Poppy. There was an entire week we did not leave the house except to go to the dr. and the pharmacy. It made for a VERY long week.
My parents drove over and visited for the long weekend break. The boys had a blast! They love playing games and putting together puzzles with them! We also went down to Old Salem and walked around just to get out of the house.
This past week we kept busy with school...well only one day and swim lessons. They had a makeup lesson on Fri. so Jackson went to swimming 3xs this week and  we took them back to the pool on Sat. for some fun after naps. I took the boys to the Children's Museum early in the week and we did some finger painting..which was interesting for Bennett. We also went to Chuck E Cheese with our friends and I must say the Chuck E Cheese here is soo nice and set up great for toddlers!!
So that has been the excitement for us over the past couple of weeks. I can not wait for warmer weather and sunshine!!!

A great start to the weekend...cinnamon rolls!!

I am SO SO SO thankful the boys play together so well. most of the time.

Helping Mimi

Ugh. that paci.

Jackson and Mimi

He was quite offended that mud was stuck in his shoe. I do not know where he gets that from.

So sweet!

We spent a lot of time in our pjs lately!!

My little Picassos.

 So the newest adventure/lesson in the Stanton household has been swimming lessons. Adventure becuase we get to go do something fun...B goes to the kid watch (I won't say he loves it), J- gets to go to swimming lessons (he loves it), I get to watch a lil bit and then go work out when daddy (aka their hero) gets there. All around a win win! So the lesson comes in that the first day when the instructor lines all the kiddos up sitting on the edge who do you think has to stick first a big toe in? Yeah... then one toe isn't enough....all the piggies need to test it. And like slow motion over the little fella falls. Now it wasn't like there was not a life gaurd behind him who told him to skoot back and the instructor in the water told him to wait. He being the boy he is had to check it out. So he fell in. I of course panic and go to run over there. But another mom has pulled him up from the instructor who had quickly grabbed him. I try not to be the on top of the kid parent ALL the time! Fastforward to today's lesson. I watch him trot behind the instructor over to the same side and he asks them all to sit on the side. Does J go for the edge again?? Nope! He learned his lesson he took a couple steps back and sat down criss cross apple sauce like a good little student! AHHH~ Proud mommy moment for sure!!!  I was so glad he learned a lil lesson about water safety already!

When we got home from our TN Christmas we discovered it had snowed A LOT!! I'd say there was still a good 5 inches in the yard(in the shade, where no one had walked) We were excited to get out and play a little bit in it on Wednesday and thanks to Mimi's Christmas gift Jackson was all decked out in new snow gear!!

Ready to hit the slopes!!

Yes, he threw a snow ball at his little brother.

Daddy and Bennett

Can we say daredevil??

 So NYE was typical for us. At least for the past 5 years. We stayed in, watched the ball drop and called it a night! To make it a lil bit special we broke out the fondue pot. We bought a "real" fondue pot for ourselves as our anniversary present because we normally go to the Melting Pot but this year it just wasn't in the cards. BTW it is pretty dang good when you make it yourself!! So we ended 2010 with a huge pot of cheese and rang in 2011 with black eyed peas, spinach and cornbread!! Here's to a healthy and happy 2011!!

The chef.

Cooking it up...

ALL gone!!

This was actually before Christmas but too funny not to share. Jackson thinks he is just like daddy now that he can "shave" too. He got another set for Christmas..Toy Story- so its even better..and has been saying that he NEEDS to shave again!!

Look what I got!!

Hmmm



Talk about some concentration.



So serious!!

He was soo proud of himself!!

Here let me show you...

Get me outta here!!