His future is so bright...

Yep - he's got to wear shades! Linc had his eyes dilated yesterday at his eye appointment and he is 100% perfect per the doc!! The shades only lasted for a few seconds with this one year old!

Silence...

There really is silence in my house right now, except for my fingers there is no noise - it is amazing! It has been a long while since both boys were asleep at the same time - yippee. Although, I think the finger noise has increased with the most recent keyboard - the I'm not going to have my keys ripped off keyboard after 2 damaged ones!

In other Hogan household news, it is official that I am my mother, in fact Sean called me "Karen" this morning when I called him. Let me explain - I don't ever remember my mom being a weather freak but the last few years she frets whenever the weather isn't ideal - mostly thunderstorms which I don't remember being all that violent in Iowa but I also slept in the most quiet and peaceful basement ever created (thanks to Graf Construction and all). Anyway, we had storms last night that had been predicted for a few days now, in fact I almost couldn't sleep on Sunday night because I was already worried about them and then last night it was just too loud to sleep well. So I went to Carter's room to sleep so I'd be closer to the boys should a tornado happen, well about 2 or 3 this morning, I found myself jumping out of bed and taking Carter to the bathroom to wait out the storm & on my way back for Linc, Sean stopped me to inform me that it wasn't a tornado it was only a thunderstorm. Ah, spring in the Midwest and my crazy over-night behaviors sometimes don't mix! This will probably not be the last post about tornadic activity if I were to guess. Carter asked me yesterday morning "are we going to have to hide in the bathroom today" and when my mom called he gave her the full weather report (maybe more than once) so a family of weather freaks we are!

I've decided that Lincoln is going to be a product tester. He loves to get his little hands on any product in our bathroom - we have door locks of all varieties but he still manages to get them in his hands. Last week he took a little bite out of my deodorant - I don't think Secret is probably looking to see if it tastes appealing but his face said that it did not. He has also been having some time outs which is me taking him to his rocking chair and leaving him there, sometimes he stays, sometimes he follows me out but usually Carter gives him a verbal thrashing if he doesn't stay. I think he actually kind of gets it, though because he's seen Carter in time out many, many, many times.

Linc is also a little shower loving baby right now, every time I go to get in the shower he follows me and tries to take off his clothes, luckily he doesn't know how to get them off unlike his nudist-wanna-be brother. There are no more stories of him derobing in public but he likes to strip whenever he can at home and as I type is napping in his undies because he can't sleep with clothes on.

I worked on weeding in the yard this weekend with my black thumb. Maybe this year it can be a different shade, I'm going to try to be like Lindsey and beautify my house but I don't know if I'll be so successful the fear of snakes just does me in, I think the combo of the flower bed hiding snake at our house in TX & "Chuck" the snake in the garage from 2 summers ago might have scared me beyond repair.

And before I can even hit post - the silence is over!

A successful day at the zoo!

This is at noon - no fight naps - we may go to the zoo everyday!

It's gonna be a Starbucks kind of day...

The boys were both up before 6:30 which is just not so good for me. Lincoln has a very hard time not waking Carter up when he is up in the morning so they are both up and ready to go - lucky me!!

Carter and I had a funny conversation already this morning, I was laying in his bed trying to get him to go back to sleep (he hasn't napped in a few days and really could use some more sleep) and Linc was playing and talking to himself and said something like "sh*t" and Carter giggled and said "mom, did you hear Lincoln say sh*t" I'm so in trouble with my little potty mouths.

I think I can hear the Espresso Truffle calling my name from 15th & Boulevard!

On of my favorite parts of Oklahoma the Bradford Pear trees

Having a front yard - snack picnic

Cute little sharing cousins

Linc needs a bit of help to ride the scooter

Little boys playing

We had a great weekend with the other branch of the Hogan family, the boys enjoyed their time with Cael and Michael and Lindsey. Unfortunately they missed the great weather that came as they left town. We've been busy this week with a couple of trips to the park and a tour of the animal hospital today - it is spring break here and it is busy - we stay at home moms are spoiled to be able to avoid chaos and crowds usually but this week there are kids everywhere!

Linc is working on his vocabulary each day - so far we say "hot", "hat", "head" (yes he likes the H's) "shoes" and "ba" for many things including blanket and ball. He's getting more interested in reading each day which is good and his mommy needs to be a better reader!

We took a walk last night around the neighborhood and Carter rode his bike the whole way - it was a decent walk too - he is improving all the time on the bike and looks like such a big boy on it (even though it does have training wheels). Lincoln refused to ride in the stroller (big surprise) and instead jogged behind Carter - I wish I'd had my camera, it was pretty cute, he got his little arm swinging trying to keep up. We are going to have ourselves a really fun spring with these boys!

Cousin Cael is here! The boys are so excited, they stayed up past their bed time running and playing. Carter has been talking of his arrival for days - yesterday he announced that he and Lincoln were going to be best friends with Cael, it was pretty cute. Especially since the best friend honor so far has only been given to his brother, or his "little buddy" as he calls him from time to time. Carter also takes away best friend status when he is mad at Lincoln or mad at me sometimes too - "you guys aren't going to be my best friend(s) anymore" but I don't think he'll be giving this attitude to Cael, yet.

Lincoln used the word Hat yesterday - yep we've gone from "hot" to "hat" - he was pretty proud of himself as he requested his hat that matches Carter's.

We are back into winter weather much to my displeasure but maybe it will be our last cold snap as I think it is to warm up next week.

Bouncin' Boys

Hallelujah Carter learned to bounce! We went to Bouncin' Craze this week and the boys loved it. This is a huge, ginormous deal since Carter has yet to bounce, we've gone from time to time and he stood and watched but today he got into it, now we can go on bounce dates! I'll have to say I had a pretty good time on the slides as well. Here are some pictures, not the best but the best I could do to catch the moving targets.