Going Back

I promised myself that I would keep up on this so that you guys would have this beautiful record of your childhood and what your parents were like and my thoughts and feelings and all that gushy mommy stuff...but alas, it is two months or more later and I will fill you in on Easter, Disney, and all that has happened since then. Here we go...I can not find any pictures from Easter! How is that for a good Mom! We had Easter, it was fun. I promise to try to better in the future ;) Disney - Now that I have some pictures of, but not too many. I think that we were having too much fun to photograph! This is from the museum in Gaitlinburg, TN. Believe it or not this is not the first picture I have of you Oskar in an astronaut suit! The museum was called Wonder Works and it was very fun! Lots of interactive stuff. We also went to Ripley's Aquarium. I LOVED IT!!! You could touch rays and horseshoe crabs and there was a huge walk through tunnel with fish and sharks and turtles.

riding the cars at Disney! 

I am pretty sure that this was your favorite part! I know that looking at these pictures there are more - I think that they are on Dad's computer so I will have to load those to Walgreens too.

Here is the three of us at Sea World - Say Hi Shamu!

life gets away....

well you both know that I have not forgot about you since I am woken up evey morning with a "mamamamama" and a "MAMA", but we have been busy. Still need to post about Hank's BIG BIRTHDAY and Disney, oh yeah and Easter - tell that Dad o' yours to download pictures to my computer - Hank is still working on those first steps and you are standing longer and longer on your own - shouldn't be long now! I promise that during this next week I will update the blog with at least one of our big events! It is hard to keep a memory blog if I don;t keep up on the memories - including Hank's first haircut!
I am so proud of both of you and proud to be your mom. I can't ever imagine life without you guys. I want and hope the best for both of you and for you both to realize how important you MUST be to each other, love each other and count on each other. That was the gift that your father and I gave you - each other!

bad momma

well guys I am trying to find the time to do an Easter post for you guys and a birthday post for you Hank but...you guys keep us busy. Maybe tonight if you can BOTH GO TO BED ON TIME!!!!! I had a real nice talk with some of the ladies at your preschool on Monday Oskar and you sure make me proud. They told me that you were an exceptionally special kid, of course we knew that! and that you are the only kid that they ever had that always seeks them out to say goodbye. Was very proud but I still think we need to work on your manners little man. Last night when I got home neither one of you were in bed and Hank you were ready and raring to go. So I put you both in Oskar's bed and we had some fun reading Rainbow Rob! Oskar, your Dad and I were beaming when you told us how much you love your family! I am so looking forward to going to Disney and seeing your reactions! You guys are growing up so fast that this trip means more than you guys know. My favorite Oskar quote from the week: You were talking to your Grandma on the phone and I guess that you had enough talking and said to her, "Now you'll have to excuse me I have to watch my show now." Love you boys more everyday and more than you will ever know!

finding the time

I am hoping to get upstairs tonight to add some pictures from Easter - I think the holiday was a great success. Let's see we had Oskar getting up too early before I could hide the eggs, Truman then getting the eggs once I had them hid, Mike telling me that I was taking the magic out of Easter since I did not have the eggs hid and needed to lie to Oskar in order to hide them, Truman getting out of the backyard and once massive breakdown when I told Oskar he could not have the hose any longer. Yep...think that about covers it. Mom  and Dad got me a beautiful plant stand and two planters for my birthday so that was great Oskar loves his human body model and I think likes the microscope and Hanky loves the push toy. Easter candy has been working well as a disciplinary tool and now on to Hank's 1st birthday... Show be a  fun and interesting week!

No baby book for you Hank!

I know that a lot of parents feel guilty about this, so where as I feel guilty, I won't feel too bad. I never kept up on your baby book Oskar and Hank, I never even found one for you. So let this stand as your baby book and I can get this post-it off my desk. See I love you enough to keep track of the dates, just not enough to buy a book. ;)
Birth - April 30, 2010
Weight - I am not sure any more - you were bigger than Oskar - I'll check with Dad he will know.
Length - 21 inches - that I remember!
June 2, 2010 - rolled over
June 13, 2010- smiled
October 23, 2010 - sat up
October 29, 2010 - food
November 12, 2010- 1st tooth
November 28, 2010 - stood holding on
January 7, 2011 - crawled
January 11, 2011 - Mamama
Februrary 13, 2011- solid food
March 11, 2011 - kisses
April 20, 2011- walked holding Daddy's hands
May 18, 2011 - hugs
June 21, 2011 - walked all by yourself
I still can't believe that you guys are growing up so fast!

walking? school? cheese...

Hank, you finally started taking some steps today holding on to Dad's hands! Yeah for you!
Oskar we found out that you got accepted to school. We are so excited but I have to admit and your dad may not like me saying this but we both cried. It is so hard to explain how proud and how sad you can be at the same time. So you are gonna be a big boy in your first year of Kindergarten in September at Gretchko Elementary! Very excited for you!!!
Last night you both were a pain to put down. After Grandma finally got you down Hank, I needed to go back into Oskar's room. and of course Oskar, you wanted a Suh knack (snack). You wanted something with cheese. But not a cheese tortilla (shaking your jazz hands back and forth) and not cheese crackers but...cheese...cheese...cheese sandwich! Yeah! Cheese sandwich. You and your jazz hands crack me up and you always cock your head to the side when you are making someone wait to hear what you are thinking.

As always I adore you both! You both make me laugh up a storm!

Birthday Preparations

Well Hanky - I pretty much finished your amigurumi cupcake last night that I am gonna give you for your birthday. Your brother loved it when I showed it to him, you...not so much! Ah well, maybe you guys will appreciate the homemade stuff when your older!

So we are doing a lion theme for your birthday since you seem to like them. It is always fun to go back and remember what you guys were into. I am gonna give a go to making your cake - at least your too little to care but for reference it is supposed to be a lion if it doesn't come out right!

This morning when I got you out of your crib and I changed you I started tickling your butt with the diaper - you were laughing up a storm! It was great - I sure hated leaving you both this morning.

Oskar, you and I went upstairs to my room and we were playing with legos - you made a "sculpture" which was two sets of wheels connected with another lego - sculpture indeed. You crack me up kiddos!

Hanging with the ladies and Brent!

So yesterday we had a play date with Michelle and her three kids - two twin girls, Aubrey and Annabelle who are Hank's age and a Brent who is Oskar's age. We had so much fun. Hank and the girls chewed their way through most of our toys and Oskar and Brent hung out is Oskar's room. After we went to ToysRUs to pick up the last of Hank's gifts for his birthday. I still can't believe that he is gonna be one on the 30th! Seems like I was just in the hospital having him. May I also remind you that it was the day that Oskar decided that he would pee in the potty from now on. All in all a great day for the Narlocks! Hank is loving patty cake so much right now that we were playing patty cake all the way home and Oskar counted with me 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49 and 40 ten. Cracks me up. I can't seem to get Oskar to understand that it goes 49, 50.
Oskar and I were talking about things that live in the deep sea and I mentioned octopuses and he said they spray ink so I told him why they spray ink and he said, Hey, that's pretty smart  and I thought so are you kid! Oskar is so much fun to have conversations with. On the way home from preschool, I asked him about a bruise on his face. He said that he got it becuase he keeps getting bigger and I said, I know and that makes Momma sad. He asked me why and I told him that it means one day you will grow up and move away and have your own family. He told me that he would move right next door to us and his kids would be named Chip and Dale, Micky, Minnie, Goofy, Donald and oh yeah, Daffy. Do you sense a theme here?

For Rabbit and Hankenstein

This is my attempt to give the two most wonderfullest boys in the whole wide world a record of what it our life was like when you guys were young. I would love to have a record of what your grandparents thought of me or your dad while we were growing up, what our lives were like, funny things we said, things they were interested in, that kind of thing so....now you know.  I also wanted to keep a record of our everyday life, I guess mostly my thoughts and feeling since I am the one writing this.  Many things have changed in the past 5 years and it will be great to look back on all of the things that make our life what it is, which I think is pretty darn good! This has been inspired by a change that I would like to make in myself and I hope carries on to you both. I would like all of us to be more mindful and really start to appreciate and cherish the small things -