Tidbits today

Mealtime. The place where if you happen to be sitting at the table with these two sillies- you'd be likely to find this ;) a squealing baby laughing and a toddler acting silly for little brother. Mealtime brings out the best. The importance of this family time together is not lost on me. And we get a double dose because dave comes home for lunch everyday! what a great thing that is, for all of us. I hope this mealtime tradition of gathering around the table continues with many more laughs and shared time together. Especially as the boys grow and enter those teenager years, it'll be just as important then as it is now, more so even. Dave and I both grew up with this simple gathering at the table for meals and in the hustle and bustle of today's world, I am glad we have this, maybe to say, despite all the high tech gadgets of this crazy society, we have this. and nothing can take this time together. away from us.  i so enjoy this time together and from the pics below you can see- these two definitely enjoy it too!

lucas is finally starting open his mouth for us when we use a spoon, but really, he loves his cheerios and finger feeding more! that's why i need to branch out and give him more finger food. he gets so happy when he gets though. if he's nursing he'll pull off and just start cooing and smiling at me, so easily distracted at this age! (don't even get me started if caleb happens to be in the room) and i need to get the finger feeding on video because he just shoves those cheerios in his mouth like a toothless little old man, cute as can be though! hmmming his way through.

caleb blowing lucas kisses.

on our walk today. lucas loves holding the stroller strap while he watches the world go back, and for some reason i find it so endearing. he grips it so hard and just stares and stares as we go about our walk.

right before lucas went 'plop' ouch on the hardwood floor. he didn't really cry but caleb kept saying 'i'm sorry lucas! i'm sorry lucas!" which was sweet. they were sitting there playing and then caleb pushed lucas down (i can't even understand how the toddler brain went working on that one)- so lesson learned (while i wipe up the crumbs from the floor a mere two inches away, for two seconds, place lucas on a soft surface....) hello.



and lastly, here are two songs i'm loving right now.(below) i've been wonder of all wonders. waking up (hold your breath!) before the babes! and the last time i woke up this early- was in college! so wow, i'm impressed with myself, especially since lucas is still waking me up about once or twice a night. But anyhooo. I've been waking up with my sweet hubby at 6:40/6:45 cuddling for a few moments and then going out in the beautiful morning and either running/walking/or biking. and it has done wonders for my day! 30 minutes of quiet solitude with the birds and sweet smelling flowers, the quiet that wraps around me before starting my day instead of rolling out of bed still tired and not always ready to take on my morning lark- the prayers of gratitude i pray freely in my own quiet moments. there really is something to it! which i knew back in my college days before i had two cuties keeping me up at night or waking me up in the morning- still- i've found that the thirty minutes of exercise is better than the 30 minutes of sleep....since becoming a mama i never thought i'd say that! i treasure my sleep. so when i walked in the door today after a walk, i felt ready to take on the world- caleb had a majorly off morning- but you know what? that 30 minutes of 'me' time outside of the house- before the boys were up- it brought me through it. sometimes i listen to the birds, and sometimes i listen to music....so here are my latest favs...

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Happy Tuesday!

lunch time video :)

and...nap time for the boys going on two hours (at the same time) love it when this happens!