Some Random Cute Little Boys Pictures

Right now our little Tan-Man is going through a shoe-fettish stage (wonder where he gets that ???). He LOVES wearing other's shoes, from Daddy's church shoes or tennis shoes, to Mommy's heels, to Andrew's slippers. Even when we go over to friend's houses, if he finds their shoes lying around, he'll put them on and traipse around. If you can't tell from this pic, he's wearing a heel. :)
Our little Andrew is Mr. Fix-It. The other day we walked into his room and found him busy at work sawing, screwing, hammering, and using his air compressor to "fix" his bed.

Both the boys are obsessed with the vacuum - seriously. Whenever we get it out to vacuum, we have riders, helpers, gigglers, and little boys to chase around with the hose! A few mornings ago, I heard some "strange" noises coming from our bedroom and went in to find that Andrew had gotten the vacuum out, plugged it in, moved the necessary floor clutter, and was vacuuming our floor - ALL BY HIMSELF! (And was pretty proud!)

Andrew is quite the budding little artist. He loves coloring, painting, and drawing on the white board. His most recent accomplishment is drawing people, like the one shown here. If you look closely, you should be able to see a body, legs, arms, a belly button, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, forehead, and hair. Wow, what detail. This was his first ever person, now he's refined them quite a bit. He's also been into writing his letters lately. Though he doesn't write them all, he's can write all the letters in his name and the other day he told me he wrote "Daddy" on the board. It was spelled something like TDAAW or something along those lines. Smarty-pants!

Tanner LOVES to read books. He loves to plop himself right in my lap (sometimes that causes a fight because that's Andrew's favorite spot, too) and read, read, read. Lately, though, he's also been into reading to himself. Currently his favorite book is "Wheels on the School Bus." Tonight I found him lying on the couch, partially holding up the book with his feet, and singing to himself. Sometimes I thought I even caught some the the "Wheels on the Bus" tune. I guess you must know that I do sing it everytime I read it. :)

Jesse and I are constantly amazed by our boys. They are just so cute, so smart, so wonderful, so challenging, so 3 and 18 months, so perfect. We love being parents. It's not always easy and we don't always know how to deal with the different challenges we face, but it's still great and we can't imagine our lives without these two precious little guys! What blessings they are. We're grateful to know we can be an eternal family!