Chitter Chatter

Jace is definitely my VOCAL child. You can hear him from ANY room in the house. If you can't, then he's up to something or else he's pooping. (That boy is at LEAST three times a day). He's been such a chatter box lately. They learned boy and girl at school and he's starting saying "bye-bye gurl" all the time. He's already got a southern drawl..... He is attempting to say SO many words. Red is "wed" and thank you is "than thu". They are both so polite because they say thank you after you give them ANYthing. I'm glad they're learning manners already.

Cade attempts more words lately, but he's definitely my musical kid. He can "sing" Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and also "Mr. Sun" (from Barney). Granted there aren't any official words, but he gets every single note down.

I'm really enjoying getting to hear their little voices come out now. They point to color and insist that we say what they are. AND you can NOT make fun of them. Jace gets very upset if you make jibber jabber back to him. He wants you to talk to him normally.

We've been brave enough to put up all of the Christmas decorations. The boys are doing SO good. They just point to their ornaments and they know not to tear them down. You should have seen and heard them the morning when they woke up after we had decorated. Jace came out and said "WHOA!!!". They are both fascinated with the nutcracker that is the same size as they are. We'll see how it goes.

Swinging Fun!!!!

Nana bought the boys some new swings for the backyard. They are long enough for them to sit down and "swing" all by themselves. They both think they are just the biggest boys EVER! It's too cute!


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Happy Thanksgiving!

I like short work weeks like this week. Of course on Monday morning I will be swamped, but I'm going to enjoy it while I'm off.

I took off early yesterday and took Brittney and her friend, Kaylee, ice skating. It was a lot of fun and NONE of us fell. It was Kaylee's first time to ice skate too! I was impressed with all of us!

We had a jam packed day for Thanksgiving. We started out at my mom's house for lunch. All of our "normal" family members were there. I made sure to take pictures of everyone as they were leaving so we could satisfy my mom's favorite line...."we never get together and we never take pictures".

Well, we ALL got together and we ALL took pictures whether you wanted to or not!

Nana with her "babies".

Justin and MY baby
"Little" Regina, as we call her, and her husband Tim.

The Kearley Crew

My brother and his crew.............

After the boys took a short nap, we headed over to Steve's mom. Unfortunately my father-in-law was in a minor car accident yesterday and wasn't up for cooking his masterful dressing and turkey. But we stopped by to bring them some leftovers...........

We're going to celebrate Thanksgiving with his side of the family in a couple of weeks when everyone is up to par.

All in all, it was a VERY good Thanksgiving. Our lives are truly blessed. We have SOOO much to be thankful for.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!!!!!!

Exercising........at least SOMEONE is using it

Besides being a great clothes hanger........it's entertainment too!

In the 3 years that I've had this elliptical machine, I've probably used it a total of 20 times. Take into consideration that I got pregnant almost 2 months after we purchased it. Then take into consideration that I was crazy out of mind with twin newborns who then grew into active toddlers. Then take into consideration that I'm just lazy after a long day and would rather blog or even clean toilets than actually do it "in my spare time". (I have a lot of excuses, don't I?)

Anyway, my kids ALL love it. Brittney gets a good workout on it and Jace likes to "ride" on it.

Maybe I should sell it on ebay..........

2 year check up!

I can still remember that even though the boys were born at "healthy" weights, Jace 6.6 and Cade 5.13, our doctor wanted to see them every week from the time we left the hospital to make sure they would gain weight. I think he realized after the 3rd week that the boys had a lot of MY genes and were not going to have any problems gaining weight!

Jace has always outweighed his brother by a few ounces. Yesterday Cade finally broke the cycle and officially outweighs his brother. Jace is 29.5 pounds and Cade is an even 30. That boy can EAT! He's always the last one at the table and he's always asking for "mo..mo" which is "more, more". Jace is half an inch taller than Cade (35" versus 34 1/2") but that's always been the story.

I decided to look further back into Brittney's baby book to see what she weighed at their age because she was a porker growing up. I was apparently a bad mom b/c I stopped recording her age in her book at 18 months of age (surprising b/c she was my only child back then). But she weighed 30.9 pounds at 18 MONTHS!!!!!!! Go girl.

Anyway, the doctor was very pleased with their development and wasn't worried about their lack of speech. They understand everything we tell them, they just have their own language to communicate with each other and feel that "normal" speech isn't necessary right now. However, Jace has been a chatter box lately and loves to tell EVERYthing bye-bye. It's bye-bye bubba...bye-bye sissy...bye-bye bubbles...bye-bye dude...and sometimes he throws stuff in that we can't recognize.

And now let the terrible two's begin............

Silly Gooses....or is it Geese?

All 3 of our kids are now official photo HAMS. I used to have a hard time trying to "pose" everyone together. But NOW all I have to say is "say cheese and let momma take a picture" and there they go. Here are a few snapshots of the pictures we got today!

They played SO hard today. It was a gorgeous day and we just HAD to get out in it. When the boys went down tonight there wasn't a PEEP to be heard. You know that's the official test to determine how tired they are.

Yard of the Month

We've had such a hectic week. Work, work and more work, cheer, school, Steve's school, Brittney coming home from school yesterday with a fever and a headache, Brittney staying home again today b/c she's achy....etc. etc. etc.

So, it's kind of hard to believe that our neighborhood representative for Yard of The Month knocked on our door yesterday. She presented the sign for the yard and a $50 gift certificate to Outback Steakhouse.

I must say that I don't cut our yard anymore. I used to do ALL of the yard work before the boys came along. And we're not rookies at this Yard of the Month thing either.....when I was doing all of the yard work at our old house, we also received it one month. Now, I just don't have the time to do much of anything except maintain the flower beds and trim the unruly bushes. So congratulations to Gomez Landscaping too.

Just thought I'd share. Not too much going on this week to post about.

Cheer, Cheer and more Cheer

Today was very exciting for the females in the Kearley household. Brittney had her first cheerleading competition of the year!! It's always exciting for her when she gets to dress up in her uniform AND put on tons of hideous makeup AND get her hair done with crazy hairbows. She's SUCH a girly girl!!!

On the downside is the fact that we had to be totally dressed and ready at 8 a.m. this morning. (and the convention center we competed at was about 45 minutes away!) So, I got up at 5 a.m. this morning because it was literally going to take me an hour to get her ready. I don't even get up that early during the week, but for my daughter...I'll do it with no hesitation.

Thankfully I didn't have to drag the boys out to the sea of glitter and loud music....they wouldn't have made it all day. (Thanks Nana for watching them...........)

I'm happy to say that their team did SOOO good, especially for their first showing of the year. They are, however, in the most competitive and the most popular division....small Jr. Prep team. So, the teams are usually REALLY good. They ended up placing 4th out of 5 teams. But they were really excited about it...there weren't any tears or any drama about that. They just know they need to work harder now. If there was a division for "cutest uniform", they would have won HANDS DOWN!!! Our girls looked GREAT out there.

Here's Ms. Brittney with one of her BFF......... Lexi.

The parents were all there to support the girls but not looking forward to OUR upcoming practice this week. Steve couldn't make it b/c of other obligations but will attend the other TWO we have for the month .... when it rains it pours!!!

Halloween Love

Love is being stuck going trick or treating with your 2 year old brothers, but still making the best of it. That's my sweet girl..................Jace and Cade don't know how lucky they are to have such a great big sister, but I do!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween this year was much different than it was last year! Last year a cold front was in the middle of coming through. It was rainy and cold and not ANY fun to take the kids out in. I think the boys went to our neighbor's house just so we could say they officially went "trick or treating". My dad took Brittney to a couple of other houses just so she could get some candy and then she was DONE.

This year, it was warm and humid and the mosquitos were SWARMING everywhere! I'm surprised you can't see them in my pictures because we just couldn't get away from them.

Our day started with Nana........who's birthday was also on Halloween (HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!).... coming down with some sort of stomach bug. I wasn't feeling 100%, nothing like what nana had, but my stomach still wasn't quite right. So, I decided to not go into work. The boys were going to have costume day at school and I thought it would be cute to snap a few pictures since I would actually get to take them.

Here's before we left for school .... the boys are starting to "pose" for me now. I just have to say hold your brother's hand and say cheese........ This is the face I'm starting to get from Jace.

I think I've mentioned before that my kids are creatures of habit and if you do ANYthing out of the ordinary, they usually don't adapt very quickly. Well, Jace was apparently tagged as "it" because he was the emotional one when I dropped them off.

This picture is priceless....I love it that "Batman" can't even stand up he's so emotional and "Robin" is over there trying to be such a big boy but he can't control that lip from sticking out. Call me a bad mom, but I think it's funny. I only think that b/c I know for a FACT that he was just fine when I officially left the building.

Our evening concluded with trick or treating on 2 streets....our cul-de-sac and the one behind us. I'd say we went to 10 houses between the 2 small streets and it took us ONE HOUR!! We had a few stops b/c neighbors insisted that we come in to show off the kiddos. BUT we walked instead of taking a stroller or wagon. Batman took the lead the entire night while Robin just strolled along and took his own sweet time.

I don't know what they enjoyed more....the candy or just being able to walk in the street and carry a flashlight! (which by the way is great entertainment for ANY day)


Brittney was a 50's girl and was a HUGE help...as usual. I think she would've had more fun going with a friend to trick or treat, but she's never been a big fan of the holiday. She's my extremely skiddish little girl and always will be (I guess she takes after her mother).

For example, here's a skeleton pirate that my neighbor had out. It was REALLY cool. It played cool music and the skeleton just stood there jamming out. It wasn't scary....although its eyes were red when the music came on.....it just shook its booty and danced away. I think Jace and Cade could have stayed there all night and watched that thing. They were cracking up at it and dancing along. If I would have had Brittney in front of that thing at the age of 2, there would have been LOTS of screaming.


We had a great time. I think next year I would like to attend a church festival or something. Our neighborhood doesn't have a lot of participation during Halloween. I was dissappointed that there weren't more trick-or-treaters. Now I'm left with a crap load of candy. Steve's students will be happy at school tomorrow!!!!!!!!