Hurricane Gustav

Well, we have finally made our decision to evacuate for this storm. We have never evacuated before, but this system seems to be the one that may hit us hard. Many of our family and friends have decided to ride it out, but we decided against it. Sorry if it takes me a while to update again. those of you staying, be careful and you are in our thoughts and prayers!

Drunk in the Hospital

When Alex went in the hospital Friday morning, he had to take medicine to help settle him down to fall asleep. Well, it had the opposite effect on him. He was "drunk." He was loud and waving and flirting with all the nurses. Unfortunately, his procedure was cancelled becasue he had a little infection we did not know about beforehand. But here are some of his cute pictures.

This video is a little long, but it gives you a glimps of what Alex was like for the hour before they took him to the back. He is actually calmer here which is why I was able to take the video/pictures at this point. It took at least 2 of us to keep him in the bed. At the end, you can see him trying to climb up the bed. He enjoyed using the bed as a slide to climb and then slide down. Of course, when he started this again, I had to stop the video to help. He definitely won the hearts of some of the nurses.

Best Buds

The boys are really starting to play like brothers - they are so sweet to each other one minute that it makes your heart melt, but the next minute brings yelling and fighting over a toy.

Wesley's First Day of School

Wes started preK at Gramercy Elementary with me. He loves his teacher and his new friends. I love that he is able to be so close to me all day. I will also be there for every party or ceremony that he has.


Compare with Wesley's picture from his first day of pre-school last year http://templetbaby.blogspot.com/2007/08/wesleys-first-day-of-preschool.html.

Weekend Wordiness

The twins have been saying so many words the past couple of weeks. For their birthday they each had a vocabulary of 20-30 words. Now I would have to say it is well over 50. Alex is starting to combine 2 words such as PawPaw's truck and PawPaw's shoes (I know everything is abou PawPaw with both, no all 3 of the boys, these days).

Here are some of their words as of 2 years 3 1/2 weeks:

Both: mamma, dadda, granny, pawpaw, wesley, alex, aiden, glenn (for the baby), more, juice, milk, cracker, rain, elmo, barney, hot, pool, bubbles, truck, please, thank you, TV, I love you, eat, round and round (from wheels on the bus), outside, shoe, dog, ball, yes, no, eat, sit, all done.

Alex: two, wet, where's ___

Aiden: boat, bed

I am a little stuck on a few, but they are definitely coming up with new ones daily. They are repeating a lot also.

As far as the diapers coming off, they are much better. I put a short with a belt on them Tuesday night and had no problem. Since then, they are back in PJs. Last night, Alex did take it off one more time, but we changed him into a dry one and he went to sleep. We will start potty training soon. We will begin in about 2 weeks because Alex has a little surgery scheduled Friday. I don't want to start then have to restart after that. I am not sure if they are totally ready, and it will be hard with me not home all day, but it will save us lots of headache (and money!)

Sticky, Sticky, Sticky

As you can tell we have been so busy. I have been finishing up my 2 college classes (2 A's - yeah)and starting school. The year has started very well!

As far the boys, they are doing wonderful. Wes had pre-k testing this week and is excited about starting school. He goes Wed, then Monday of next week. They all start on Thursday of next week.

Alex and Aiden are talking more and more. They are also feeding off of one another way too much. This week it is all about taking off diapers. I guess we will have to start potty training soon. I was hoping to wait a one more month only so things slow down with me slightly. We'll see.

Other than that, everything is normal here - as normal as can be that is.

The boys are enjoying their suckers Nanna and family gave them from Disney as we watch the Olympics. Wes is loving the swimming.