Where or Where did Summer Go?

I can't believe it is already the middle of September! Geez. Although summer is still around here in Southern California. We have spent the majority of this month with temperatures well over 100 degrees! It has really been miserable. Make me want to move NOW!

The kids are doing so good and it's just so wonderful to see. They both have about 4 words that they can say. They both say mama, dada, hi and baby. If you listen they are really trying to mimic everything we say. Unfortunately, I said a bad word the other night and if the words had come out, Brooke would have said it. Luckily it was just the EXACT sound of the word. Nice! Guess I'll have to get her a tattoo to go along with the potty mouth! They understand a lot of what you say to them they just can't say much back. What makes me really happy is that Kyle now gets "kisses." I'll tell him to give me a kiss and he leans over and does it with a little sound to it as well. Brooke understand when we tell her to say sorry to her brother. We tell her to go over and say sorry and give him "a love." she'll go over, put her head on his shoulder and give him a love. It's sort of cute. She'll still whack him with something 20 minutes later though.

They are both now walking really well. Brooke is almost running. It gets a little harder for them though now that we have them in shoes. Kyle wears a size 3 and Brooke just jumped into a size 4. I can't believe how fast they are growing. It just seems like yesterday that they were babies. They are toddlers now. Won't be long now before they start telling me NO.

Our newest addition is a web cam. I never knew anything about these things and they are the coolest!! It is a great way for the kids to see daddy when he is away at work. Our computer screen has goobers all over it from the kids kissing daddy goodnight. It is actually really cute to see. Even the dog got into one night. He could hear Steve's voice but didn't quite get to look at the screen. The kids are quite a handful when they are in my lap. They just want to crawl all over the computer desk and mugger all over the screen. Now whenever Kyle hears the computer phone ring with the web cam, he starts to say, "hi dada." He'll so it when the house phone rings too.

We are in the process right now of gathering all of our stuff together and heading up north to Seattle for my sister's wedding. Steve is driving the motorhome up and leaving today. I am going to fly with the kids and leave on Wednesday night. Apparently I must be a complete idiot to fly with 2 16 month old children by myself. I guess I keep thinking it can't be that hard. Guess we'll see if the plane has any booze left when we land. i just called the airline today and the flight is wide open. This means that i can get an extra seat for free. Right now Brooke and I have booked seats. I was going to carry Kyle is the front carrier. Looks like he is going to have a seat. Hopefully they will sleep all the way up since it will be past their bedtime. One can only hope. Guess if you see a madwoman on the news who was flying with 2 children, you'll know it's me. Please feel free to write to me in jail. Care packages would be nice too!

Well, I hope everyone is doing well. I have been super absent lately with some of my friends. Being a mom and working a full time job is tough. I am still trying to balance the 2. There are times when I would really kill to sleep in late and relax and do nothing all day but I wouldn't change a thing. Steve and I have the most adorable kids in the world and they make me laugh with the things that they do. Perhaps the sleeping in thing will come later. For now, I'll just drink A LOT of coffee in the morning and diet cokes during the day. Caffeine is my friend!

Of course I am at work right now as I post this. I will have to post some recent pictures of the kids. I am working on a video of them as well. It's going really slow as the program likes to freeze up on me. Bye for now. Hope everyone had a great summer!