Bad Haircut, Ode to Blue, and Someone Turned Two

I will start with my being an over productive mother and the fact that I chopped up Sam's hair in about a 5 min span of time. Damage that will take weeks to repair.
He has needed a haircut since we got back from Disney and I haven't been able to work out a time to take him. He has to go when Scott can join us and that is sometimes hard to coordinate. Sunday afternoon, about 5 min. before we left for church, I couldn't stand it any longer and knew it would again be the end of the week before we were able to meet and get it cut. I sat him on the counter and chopped one good chop that just so happened to be on the side where his cowlick (don't think I spelled that right) I can not describe how bad it looks, so I will include a picture.
The worst part is that I know they will have to cut it short to make it look decent and that breaks my HEART. I am just now recovering from the curl incident with Davis.

Another quick note about Blue. You know the boys both have their blankets that are SO loved and called Blue.
Well, until we went to Disney I can not remember one night that Sam has slept without his blue. While we were down there, he slept most nights without it or even asking for it. I felt a little twinge in my stomach, b/c I know that he is growing up. Last night we couldn't find either of his two blues. He did fine going to bed without them, b/c he knew that he was the one who had lost them.
I told Scott that night "Well, I think he is giving them up a little bit at a time."

This morning I heard a VERY excited little boy running toward me with BOTH blues in his hands. He was so worried about them after not having them last night that he got up this morning and searched until he found BOTH of them.
He has been carrying them around the house all day and I heard him squeezing them and kissing them when it was time for nap :)
Guess we will have a few more trips around the house to find the beloved blue, and that is fine with me :) I love to see his eyes light up when he is holding his friend, blue. I also love that he lays it on my cheek when he finds me lying down on the couch or in the mornings when he comes in my room and finds me still sleeping.

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Little boys and curiousity. It only took them about 2 min. to pull the Armymen's pants down and let them toot :)




On Feb. 19th Davis turned 2!!!! We had a very simple party here at home this year. We thought the trip to Disney a pretty good exchange for a big party.
Mrs. Bene't at church made his yummy cupcakes for him and we added a few toys. The toy that turned out to be his favorite was Army man that Scott picked up for him. I love looking through the pictures b/c it is like he is studying Army man's face in about half of them. It's like he thought he was going to talk to him or something.
Maybe he was talking to him, I don't know :)

In the pictures Sam is wearing his FAVORITE pj's at the moment. He will wear them for 2-3 days before I tear them from his body to wash them. I say all of this to say that he did get dressed that day in real clothes. He just changed into to pj's as soon as we got home again.

I have to add a note about "deeego" Granny and Grandaddy got Davis a Diego with a cool truck and Davis calls for him and wants to sleep with both the truck and the little "Deeego"
That reminds me I need to add a note about Davis's entourage. This is what we call the massive amount of things that has to follow Davis to bed and then back out again in the mornings. I will post a picture. As he gets out of bed he looks over my shoulder and says in a desperate voice "friends!" If I ever try to leave them in the bed. And each time he is ready to go to sleep, we have to hunt them ALL down, b/c he doesn't forget ANY of them. It is cute and a little annoying :)




As I looked through my pictures I found this one and had to throw it in. If you know Davis very well, you know that he likes his space and claims his territory. Sometimes Sam wants to jump into that space and Davis almost always ends up crying. This is an example, both boys had just gotten up from nap, Sam was excited to see Davis and wanted to give him a kiss, Davis got mad and started crying and ran toward me to get away from Sam. He is an all or none kind of guy. Most of the time he will be all over you hugging and kissing, and the other times he don't want anything to do with you. We need a happy medium some plave :)

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Hope everyone is doing well! I am almost caught up from our trip, FINALLY! Miss you guys!

Love-
Magan

A Few of My Favorites

There will be waay more pictures than writing, but pictures are worth a thousand words right :)


I have been reading Scott's posts and have realized how hard it is to be the planner for a group of 9 people. He remembers the things that went wrong, but there were 5 things that went right for every one thing that went wrong. Thank you for all of your work, we love you dad!
We had a WONDERFUL trip and I am so thankful that we got to go with Marcia and her family. The memories we made will be so special to us always. It is rare that we get to see any of our family for long periods of time like that. When the kids were laughing and hugging each other, I wanted to cry. And when Davis cackled at and called for Marc in his little scruffy voice, I had to laugh with him. I loved having those sleepy eyed kids hug me and cuddle up to me on the couch. I hope to be able to do things like that with all of my family.


We stayed in this cute little Villa that reminded me of our house back at Grove Park. It was perfect for all of us to stretch out and enjoy being with each other. The little kids all loved the 2 steps at the bottom of the stairs. They played and jumped of them. Eli and Davis sat on them and talked their little language to each other.


Marcia and James had the loudest mattress you have ever heard,but since they keep all kinds of noise makers on in their room Eli wasn't bothered by it. But it was fun to joke about it and we also had to pick on Marcia for picking out a pink backpack for James to carry around the park. We laughed so much about it the first night we saw it that she didn't even take it into the park :)




Scott laughing at the backpack
We were absolutely freezing the first day and a little bit miserable at times. But the kids were loving the castle and all of the characters.
I think Davis thought that they were just one of his stuffed animals. He walked right up to them and hugged them and gave them 5. He would tell them "Bye, Bye" when it was time to go. By the end of the trip he skipped he hug and just backed up to them and sat down on their laps. That was one of my favorite things! He was so adorably cute being so short and not scared at all.

While he loved the animals, he hated any ride that was dark and any time he got cold.
Another favorite thing about this trip for me was that Scott and I got to ride some rides together and so did Marcia and I. Scott and I also got to ride Sam's favorite ride with him when normally we wouldn't have been able to. The Fast Choo Choo! He looked up at us with that little face and told us that we needed to do that again!




Marcia was quite hilarious on the Tower of Terror. By the time we got to the bottom the last time, she was telling the ride that "That is ENOUGH" Like it was listening to her or something.

Marcia and I also got to take Adeline for an all girls lunch with the princesses and we got to shop a little after that in the countries. It was sooo much fun and Ade wore her little princess dress. All of those pictures are on Marcia's camera so I will have to add them later.



Adeline was the funniest going to the back of Morocco and seeing Princess Jazmine. She was dancing around and wanted to go back in to tell her bye, but giggled and squirmed her way to the doorway and couldn't go any farther. Scott of course was prodding her along which made it even funnier.






I loved it when Davis started falling asleep at the Rainforest Cafe. He was sitting straight up in his seat and he kept nodding off. We got a great video of it, but it is REALLY long and is too hard to upload.







notice that he made them hold hands. He kept switching their heads and arms and stuff and laughing at how they looked.


I think that the kids had the most fun when we went back the magic kingdom on Monday. I will always remember a little bouncing Sam who made up the plan for us to go and ride the "doofy airplane" again.









The boys' favorite toys were for Sam the Mickey pirates and for Davis Snow White, the dwarfs, and "that guy" as he refers to the prince :)



Sylas LOVED Splash Mountain!


Nanny as Davis refers tp the fairy god mother.