Growing up...

Where o where has the time gone... It makes me want to cry! My little baby is 1.5 years old! He is so BIG-- he is a heavy tall monster!! He wants to GO-GO-GO! He definitly keeps up with his brother! They are so cute together-- well I would say about 50% of the time-- Jackson likes to hit, push, or sit on him.. but they are starting to "play" together... sometimes..
Life continues to bring us many joys with them! I can't even imagine life without them now!
I'm enjoying my new job as a school nurse- definitly more than I thought it was going to be!!! But I LOVE being home by 5! I think our family life is better now too!
What else-- we are down to just the 2 cats... The dogs found new homes-- Gracie went to Madison-- with a former co-worker-- she is doing well-- has a boyfriend in the house ;) and Briggs stayed local and is getting loved to pieces by 2 boys and their mom! He was over a few weekends ago for dog sitting -- we definitly got used to not having dogs around... the floor was wet and dirty!
The house is still on the market.. things are really SLOW... :( but we are still hopeful that the right person will come along..

Peace and Quiet....for now..

Why don't I just blog... while the satellite is out (storm just quickly passed though); hubby is snoring in his chair-- well breathing deeply... and the boys are both still napping-- Jake woke up for a bit when a guy down the road felt he needed to rev his engine a few dozen times... really we get it...

Well what have we been up to the last month... We have been feverishly getting the house ready for sale- well for people to come and look at it now-- We had a showing scheduled for yesterday but apparently forgot to check the storm door of the front door to be sure it wasn't locked so the agent could get at the lock box. Yup the door was locked- while we were cleaning in the am- I had locked it because Jackson can now "let himself out". So we lock it and clearly I didn't undo it when I shut the door before we ran out of the house. It was strange that when I came home I walked in and had a weird feeling/thought that no one came- whether they didn't show up or-- the door was locked and they couldn't get in.. needless to say apparently they found a different house :( Oh well on to the next... should be having some open houses coming up so fingers crossed for more lookers!!

Baby Rylee joined the family- she is adjusting well to the Brinkman house-- so far ;) She is TINY! Came out over 6#'s...not like my 8#ers! it is amazing what a difference 2#'s is!!

Updates on the boys---
Jackson got his first "real" haircut last weekend- it is still on the longer side but cut :) He did a great job!
He is a talking maniac... and a PARROT! he is starting to repeat words and phrases that he really shouldn't be! We really need to watch it!-- he has had a run of -shut- up (which comes out- shhuu eup) and darn/damn it...
He is becoming such a lil man it is crazy! he can be quite helpful.. when he wants to be!

Jacob-- he is a cruising machine-- he know has the one legged crawl- with the leg up for that extra giddy up-- he is standing for a bit and walking along anything and everything. he is also daring and letting go and lunging for the next object- won't be long now!!!
He just turned 10 months old yesterday!

They are finally starting to play with each other-- it is quite cute :)

So little time...

Man life is quite busy... 2 lil boys sure do keep you running!! And then on top of it we decided that we are going to sell our house and up grade! We have been working super hard on getting our house ready for the market as soon as we can! We found a great house down the road-- we are going to look at a few more soon- so many decisions!! Had a really hard time trying to figure out what, when and where... I was definitly stressing for a bit when we decided.. but things seem to be a little better right now...

The boys... Jackson is a talking machine!!! He is a PARROT! we have gotten lucky that he hasn't picked up swear words yet! He is also a little terror at times-- will look right in your face and do the opposite of what you just asked him to do!!! He is growing like crazy still! he is over 30#'s now! growing into his 3 T clothes quite nicely.
Jacob-- what a lil munckin! he is crawling up a storm- he is pulling up and standing-- he is starting to let go and lunge for whatever is in front of him! He is also a beast-- shocker!! he is 21#!!! I am almost certain that he is close to 30 inches! which means that we really need to get him out of his infant seat-- which I am not opposed to! with him weighing in at 21 and the seat is 10-- that is carrying around 30#!!