Man am I ready for Thanksgiving!  Not to complain (well, it’s my website so I can do what I want) but I have been working a lot the past few months and have not taken even a weekend without putting in some hours.  I am looking forward to a nice long 4-day weekend and can’t wait to kick it all off with some good quality family time and lots of yummy food.  And I must admit, seeing that they’re calling for some snow tonight (ok, yeah, it’s only .01″, not even a dusting) I’m excited to get the holiday season started.  I think it’d be awesome if somehow we could get a few inches of snow before Monday.

The Christmas tree farm down the road kicks off their season Thursday and I’m actually pretty psyched to get a tree this year.  Jen and I are both pretty excited to see how much fun Alex and Avery will have this Christmas.  I think they’re at an age now where they’ll enjoy the tree, the decorations and Santa. They’ll also get excited about seeing family.  Another nice thing lately has been using the “Santa is watching” line to get them to behave.  It doesn’t work much, but sometimes if you throw enough out there something works.  It’s nice to have another one to add to the arsenal, even if it’s just for another month or so.

Jen has finished all of the Christmas shopping for the kids already, which is very cool.  It seems like we’re always running around at the last minute.  Thank god for the Internet, it really does make things so much easier and with free shipping available most of the time, it’s really a no-brainer.  I need to get my butt in gear and get some of my Christmas shopping done.  Luckily Jen handles most of it so I really just need to focus on her

I also plan on catching up on some of the pictures and videos that we’ve taken lately here on the site over the next few days.  We’ve got a few good videos of Adam and his new tricks to share too.  He somehow has developed dancing skills in tht past day or two and yesterday started to cruise around a little bit on the couch and transitioned himself from the coffee table over to the couch.  Man, he’s going to be walking soon!  It’s so cool to see how much he loves Alex and Avery and how he wants to be right in the middle of whatever they’re doing.  It’s really cute to see them run down the hall with him following closely behind doing his “turbo army crawl”.  They’re in trouble once he can keep up with them at full speed.

So if I don’t get anything up before Thursday have a good Thanksgiving and be sure to spend some good quality time with YOUR family!

The twins are VERY into telling us “No” these days.

Please go and get me a bib for Adam…No!
Do you want to take a bath now?…No!
You need to try and go potty before we leave the house…No!
Let’s go, we need to get in the van…No!
You need to pick up your milk from the floor so Adam can’t get it… No!
Pick up all the coins you dumped out all over the floor…No!

So when it’s an inappropriate time for saying no, I’ve been telling them it’s disrespectful and that they are not to tell mommy and daddy no.

A few minutes ago, Alex said he wanted to go outside. I told him no, not until he needed to clean up all the money he dumped out all over our bedroom floor. His reply? “You don’t say no to me mommy. Dat’s disdapeckful.”

*shaking head*

Last weekend Alex, Avery and Adam all spent the night at Aunt Jimmie’s house while Jen and I went to a Halloween party that evening and had another night away from the kids.  This was the first time we attempted to put Adam in a pack and play and the first time Alex and Avery got to sleep on their new kid aerobeds.  Luckily all three did great and everything was a success.  Alex and Avery kept each other up for a few hours before falling asleep, but that’s something they do every so often at home anyway.

Adam has slept through for the past two nights now I believe.  While he still wakes up fairly early, and sometimes thinks it’s time to be up for the day at 5:30 or so, I know Jen is happy to log a few nights of solid sleep.

Avery has also been dry in the mornings for the past few days.  She really has done so well with the potty training, it’s amazing!  I can’t wait for the day when we don’t have another single diaper in the house!