Monkeying Around ~ December 14, 2010

It's quite chilly down here in St. Louis. I am sure most of you are laughing at me right now, thinking "well, it's darn cold up here!" Hee hee. Well us Southerners are not used to this cold, this early. Did you know they close schools around here for an inch of snow?Mostly to keep the kids safe from the crazy drivers down here! Anyway, I digress. You came here to see pictures of the boys, not listen to me ramble. :)

We picked up the monkey hats a few months ago, mommy couldn't pass them up in the store. Ryan hates wearing it, as soon as we are in the van, the hat comes off and is thrown on the floor. We'll see if he keeps it on when we get to play out in the snow, when it warms up a little that is!

And this is what happens when I try and get a picture of the two of them now that they are completely mobile. My camera is not fast enough for the two of them!

Have a wonderful day! Love from the Smith family!

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Happy Song ~ December 6, 2010

The boys doing the Happy Song. Enjoy!

Happy and you know it

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Matthew's first words? ~ October 17, 2010

Sorry, yet again I haven't made time to post any new pictures or videos of the boys. We have been busy remodeling our living room, and with life in general. I have to admit, I have been a little worried about the boys because they will be 18 months soon, and we were not hearing any specific words from them. They both will babble, Matthew more than Ryan, and can say "dada" and "mama," but neither of them would say it when they saw us. I picked up a few word books, since the boys love to read, and surprise, surprise... Matthew started repeating some words, in his own little way. Here are a few videos of Matthew:

"Tiger"

"Chicken"

Animal noises

Ryan still does not talk much... he may say "tickle" when he babbles, but still nothing that I can distinguish. We will see at his next ped check up if we will need to see a specialist to help Ryan out.

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City Park ~ August 15, 2010

I hope you are keeping cool on these HOT days. The boys found the best way to stay cool, was to play in the splah fountains at City Park in downtown St. Louis. We had visited the park once before, when the boys were first learning how to walk, but they really had fun today when they were set loose to run about. Matthew took to the fountains pretty fast, while Ryan still prefered to keep his distance for a while.

Video from the fountain

After getting soaked in the fountains the boys decided to check out the rest of the park. They had a lot of fun meeting other little friends, and running away from mom and dad. 

When it came time to leave, both boys were extremely upset that we had to go... I think they would have been happy to give up their lunch and nap to stay at the park all day. Unfortunately mommy and daddy won that battle.

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The Cheerio Dance ~ July 23, 2010

I don't know what is going through Matthew's head while he is eating his cheerios, but I thought this was so cute. He doesn't do it all the time, just a few times. Luckily I caught it on video. I never knew these tasted so good!

Cheerio dance

I am including some older pictures of the boys, since they are related. These are from January, it's funny to see how different they look, especially Matthew! He's lost a lot of his chubby cheeks!

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We All Scream for Ice Cream ~ July 7, 2010

So tonight we decided to go out for ice cream. It has been hot an humid down here, and a Dairy Cream dipped cone sounded wonderful. The cone ended up being shared between the entire family, Matthew couldn't get enough... Ryan... wasn't interested.

Matthew, puppy and an ice cream cone

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Keeping Daddy Busy ~ June 24, 2010

We officially have two walkers. Yay! And with that comes more things the boys can get into, and they know this too. We are keeping ourselves busy here, chasing after our twosome. They really like to climb onto things right now, and mommy and daddy are great ladders to get onto the coffee table and couch, both of which are off-limits when mommy is home by herself with them. But when we are both around to keep a close eye on them, we let them get away with more.

Both boys finally have all four of their 15 month molars completely in, thankfully! We are back to sleeping good during the night, and one decent nap during the day.

We have tried out the inflatable pool we got for the boys' birthday already, it's been so hot down lately. Matthew loves the water, after he gets over the initial shock of the cold. Ryan doesn't like it at all. I tried to bring them to the local pool once during the day, by myself... never again. I had one boy who didn't want to get out, and one boy that didn't want to get in... :)

I hope you all had a wonderful Father's Day. Jason was sent up to our attic to evict a nest of birds that had built between the attic floor and our bedroom ceiling. That was not fun on a 95 degree day! :)

Here is a movie of the boys:

Keeping dad busy

And some pictures from the last month.

Playing with the squishy ball

Matthew's teddy bear

Playing in the toybox

Silly boy

Playing on the rocking zebra

HE DOES SMILE!

Our silly twosome

Hope you are all doing well!

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Walking Tall ~ May 22, 2010

First of all, thank you everyone who came to the boys' first birthday party. I am sorry the weather was not as perfect as a mom could hope, but we made due with a few blankets and the boys definitely had a great time. Unfortunately birthday pictures are on another card at the moment, so I don't have any of those to post. But I will try and get those up as soon as I can.

So we made it a year. WOW, I know! The boys are almost walking now... they each can take about three steps on their own before they fall, or squat back down and crawl. Here's a video of Matthew:

Matthew's first steps

Soon the days will get that much more hectic for me, with them running in opposite directions. I can't wait! Here are a few more videos from the past few weeks:

Lunchtime shenanigons

Chasing puppy

Here are some pictures of the boys enjoying their new toys from their birthday.

More pictures to come once I find that other card from my camera!!

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One more week ~ April 28, 2010

I know, I have to start posting more than once a month. Sorry about that! Things are busy here, but I will try and drop a picture or post a little more often. It should be easier now that the boys are sleeping all night consistantly now. (YAY!) But I find other things to do with my free time at night.

Anyway, can you believe the boys will be one year old in a WEEK?! No, neither can I. Time has just flown by! I have a few quick pictures and videos to share, it's late here and I need to get to bed... just in case it is a rough night (you never know when teeth will bother Ryan).

Matthew standing... yikes! (notice he's unsupported at the beginning of this video, we'll be walking soon!)
Daddy gymnastics

Helping with dishes

He took my toy!!

Eleven months old!

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Silly Boys ~ March 9, 2010

Just wanted to share some silly videos we have of the boys.

Dancing

Silly Faces

More Silly Faces

They certainly keep us entertained!

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Odds and Ends ~ February 18, 2010

A bonus post since it has been so long! Here are some of my favorite pictures and movies from the last month.


Noisy boys

I'm gonna eat ya!

Matthew dancing

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Haircuts ~ February 18, 2010

My it has been a while since I have posted. The boys continue to grow... everyday they seem to do something different. Matthew is finally crawling, one day he just decided to go and ever since he hasn't stopped! So now we really have our hands full, as one seems to go in one direction while the other is off the opposite way.

Ryan is really smart. We have a gate up in the living room between the couch and the kitchen, keeping the boys out of the kitchen and out the dog bowls and computer wires. Well, Ryan has learned how to pull the gate open at the couch and every once and a while I will hear his excited noises and I turn around and off he goes into the kitchen. He gets really mad when I hold the gate shut too... I can't wait until he starts to move faster! He will be keeping me on my toes.

Matthew, on the other hand, started pulling himself up on everything. As soon as he learned he could crawl, it seemed like the next day he was off and trying to walk already! He is a little stinker too. He pulls himself up on the coffee table, and when I tell him "no" he will look over and laugh at me. Off course, I can't help but laugh too, he's too cute... so that doesn't help matters!

But anyway, back to my post. A few weeks ago I decided that we were going to need an electric hair trimmer, since I will have to cut the boys' hair often, can you believe Ryan has had his hair cut three times already? So the other day we tried the trimmer out on the boys. Here are pictures from that adventure.

And the after pictures:

Ryan could have used a little more cut off, but we were still learning on his haircut. He'll need another one soon enough!

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Peek-a-boo ~ January 27, 2010

Just wanted to post a quick video of Ryan and myself playing peek-a-boo in the car trip up to Chicago a few weeks back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9ePyO3OIvA

I have some more pictures and videos to get up soon, hopefully I will get some time this afternoon to post more.

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Laundry Time ~ January 15, 2010

Happy New Year and belated Merry Christmas everyone! Things here have been about the same, busy! Ryan is still keeping us on our toes, getting into everything when we are not watching. He really enjoys the dog's bowls and the knobs on the coffee table. Matthew still isn't moving, but he might be getting close. He likes to bounce on his bottom, scooting just a little when he does. But I think he will be crawling in no time, especially since he sees how much fun his brother has. But Matthew still seems to get into things, even though he doesn't move yet... as you can see in the pictures below. We had just stepped out of the room to get the bottles ready and not even a minute later Matthew decided he wanted to help me out with the clean diapers. ☺

I can't wait until they are big enough to start unloading their dresser drawers!

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