First Night Home

All is well in the Spence household. All 3 boys are sound asleep, well at least for the time being. The big brothers seemed to handle baby Trenton's arrival well. Nathan was a little mad at me for being gone and was throwing some attitude. He seemed to come around when we baked some blueberry muffins together.:) Jacob is 2 and well although easily distracted by things like toys or games, he still had a few 2 year old tantrums today testing me from being gone for the last few days.

All in all they are adjusting well and tonight before bed both boys asked to hold Trenton. I wish I had gotten some better shots with Nathan, however the camera acted up and I only got one. Nathan is so reserve and needs time to process the baby a bit more, but did come around by the end of the night. He acts like he wants nothing to do w/ his little brother but if Jacob gets to close to him he protects Trenton like any BIG brother would.

Daddy getting some snuggle time

Poots!

We were eating dinner tonight at dickeys. Right in the middle of dinner Nathan who is sitting next to me looks up and says "Hey Mom, I just pooted". Brian and I bust out laughing. I was just glad he said it quietly. I replied "You pooted on me while I am eating? YUCK". He looks at me and replies "No I pooted that way" while pointing behind his back.

Boys!!

Mom I think I wanna go camping!

So the last few days Nathan has talked about going on a camping trip. He has a list of items we need (like guns to kill the bears!).  So today we got him to list out all the things a boy needs for a camping trip. Here is the list they came up with:
- tent
- smores (smart boys!)
- fire ( we did use a lighter and let them blow the fire out! too hot for a fire tonight)
-backpacks
- poptarts (jacobs idea of course!)
-map (so we know where we are!)
- flashlights
- Guns (to kill the bears!)
-Blankets/pillows
-camping chairs
-a tunnel (???? no clue on this one)

So Dad set out early this afternoon collecting things to take them camping. With the heat and me being 9.5 months pregnant we decided to camp "inside" (I know I know what your thinking but its hot and there are A LOT of frogs in our yard! If i ran into one in the dark this child WOULD be born tonight!) So we set up a 10*11 foot tent in our entry hall. Did it fit yes... and no. But we worked it out. You cant use the gameroom or front door, but hey we are camping!!

Here is our "tunnel entrance"

yes it was dark dad was guiding them through!

One little piggy is hiding... but the two wolves are growling!

More scary stories!

dads scary story!

Me and the boys reading books w/ flashlights!

Nathans long drawn out scary story where animal after animal eats animal.

Time for smores!

Someone shares so sweetly!

AND loves his mama like a good boy should!

more stories and tent time!!! 

Just trying to have some special family time before the family dynamics change. The boys are looking forward to doing this outside w/ smores off the fire pit as soon as the weather changes a little bit! I have the map all ready for a treasure hunt for the BIG day! We also shot our guns, Jacob ate a poptart and blew out fire off the hand held lighter (hey I wasnt about to start a fire in the fireplace! Too hot already for this fat girl!

Waiting on Baby Boy #3 arrival any day! Should just add to the craziness that is "The Spence Family".

Inappropraite Parental Jokes

       So the weather has been so nice outside this week. We have been playing outside in the evenings to tire the boys out. Jacob runs in the house, opens the freezer. He gets out an ice pack and runs back outside. So now I am curious, and follow him out. Brian and I are watching the boys from the comfy chairs on the back porch. They start a funny game of tossing the cold pack (which is a HARD cold pack) up into the playhouse. Then a fun game of tossing it up the slide to one another. Nathan who can control his throw was fun to watch. THEN it was Jacobs turn to throw it to Nathan. After the 5th wild toss I tell Brian "yeah that's prob not the best idea to let Jacob throw a cold pack at Nathan." Brian reply's "well it is a cold pack it, it is self soothing." We both snicker and sit back and continue to watch.

Now that's great parenting! (Note: this is ok because we are BOY parents!) LOLOL

Little Piggies!

From time to time I do the the little piggy rhyme w/ the boys toes. I make up funnies from our day and add it in. For example: This little piggy ate chick-fil-a, this little piggy got put in time out, this little piggy tee teed in the grass... you get the point. They think Its sooooo funny and make me do all 10 of their toes.

We were are the Bowers house last week celebrating the end of an awesome softball season when right before we left Jacob steped on a sharp toy that cut his toe pretty bad. He was crying pretty hard, which for Jacob is odd, he is tough boy.

After the tears subsided in the car, Brian asked him how his little piggy was. His reply was "My little piggy is dead." Then he busted out laughing, which made us all laugh. Quite the imagination~

Its NOT NICE!

Brandie and Clint were in town this last week from Hawaii. I was so excited to meet my little nephew JD! He is such a chunk and is soooo stinking sweet (much sweeter of a baby than I had wished on her! LOL)

We were putting the kids to bed one night when they were there. We have had quite an issue lastly of getting them to go down w/o a fight. Brian had to go in and spank Jacob for the 20 time out of his bed. When you hear Jacob yell over the monitor "Its NOT NICE TO SPANK JACOB"

Meanwhile Brandie and Clint are rolling around laughing on our couch. Brian and I can only say...."YOU JUST WAIT, YOU JUST WAIT TILL ITS YOUR TURN AND WE ARE LAUGHING."

But I AM A BIG BOY!

For the first time in over 4 years, everyone in the Spence family home is potty trained! Jacob just decided that he was ready. He asked for underwear and has had only one small tee tee accident in the last almost week. So small it barely needed a change.

He has however had 2 "questionable" potty breaks that need mentioning.

First one was last Sunday when we attended a wedding in New Braunsfels.  J wanted to go poo poo on his "little potty". Try as I may to explain to a 2 year old that mommy doesnt travel w/ the little potty, he would not go, but sit on the big potty and complain about wanting a little one. On the way home he yelled at Brian to pull over. As we have many times (because the boy doesn't lie when he needs to go!) Brian gets out with him, pulls his pants down and he says he needs to go poop. Brian held him over the grass and I was astonished he would poop in the grass on the side of the road but no in the big potty which I took him too 4 times at the wedding. KIDS!

So I think it was tues we were getting ready to go to the store when Nathan yells from the garage... "MOM...JACOB IS POOPING IN THE GRASS." There I find my little bear cub, naked from the waist down standing on the concrete and pooping in the grass. I started laughing so hard. I mean it wasn't an accident he didn't go in his pants. But it wasn't quite the goal I was headed for. I do not want to be the mom of the  kid that poops in the sandbox on the playground and with school getting close again the thought crossed my mind!

I brought him inside to finish and he threw a fit about his poo poo being together. He went right back outside and finished and topped it off w/ some tee tee in the grass.

As we saw Daddy that evening Jacob proudly announced "I poo pooed and tee teed in the grass.. I AM A BIG BOY~:"

The following morning I woke up to these two monkeys on my bed wrestling over a box of lightening mcqueen big boy wipes. Nathan is yelling "These are MY big boy wipes" and Jacob is yelling "I poo pooed in the grass I AM A BIG BOY"

These are the days of MY life!

So I will eagerly enjoy a 3-4 week period of diaper-less days until Spence boy number 3 arrives and sends us right back into diaper hell~!! LOL