Our past week - and a birthday wish!

I am still trying to figure out how to make time to update the blog more often, so it kind of seems like I do weekly updates instead. Anyways, here goes --

Last Sunday, Grandma and Grandpa Bush came by one last time before heading out of town for the next couple years. They have been spending their winters RV-ing as work campers in California for the past couple years, and have now decided to not only head out their for winter, but next summer they plan on going to Alaska instead of heading back this way. Then they'll go back to California for the following winter, so it will be a while before we see them again. Thank goodness for Google chat so they can see the boys every so often! Safe travels to Grandma and Grandpa Bush (and take LOTS of pictures!)

Another visitor we had, today actually, was Kelly. She was in town for the weekend and we were lucky to catch up with her. She was able to meet the boys for the first time too. I always say I wish we lived closer, and days like today remind me even more of why I wish that. Unfortunately I wasn't thinking fast enough to get a group picture, but hopefully we'll be able to see each other again soon...

The latest news with the boys -

• They are currently refusing to nap -- NOT cool! Last Friday my mom mentioned that they didn't take their normal morning nap and took a rather short afternoon nap. Well, yesterday, I spent the day scrapbooking with my mom and Nicole, and Troy said they napped for maybe 1.5 hours all day long. Today, same thing. They took about a 2 hour nap today and that was all. They haven't been extremely fussy or anything, but dang! I told them that I would take their nap for them, but I'm not sure they would stay out of trouble for me to do that! =)
• Logan has mastered the army crawl. His favorite place to crawl to is the fireplace. Whenever we are in the living room, regardless of the toys we have out for him to play with, he is just drawn to the fireplace. Looks like we'll have to find a way to deter him from that, especially when we start to actually have fires in the winter. Ellis is pretty good with scooting around, but hasn't actually mastered it like Logan has. I will try to put a video up of this soon -- whenever Logan sees me filming him, he stops and stares at the camera..
• Speaking of which, Logan and Ellis are completely mesmerized with technology. Whenever I have my iPad around, Logan especially (since he has conquered the army crawl) is very good at crawling to it and grabbing it. They both will grab for the remote control or any other accessory nearby -- phones, cameras, etc. You name it, they want it. Looks like they got their dad's desire to play with the latest and greatest technology!
• Today I made them a new recipe for dinner. Usually they had been getting rice cereal with some sort of vegetable, but thanks to Nicole and a book she is letting me borrow, I found an actual "dinner" for them. It consists of pureed chicken, sweet potatoes, and apple. YUMMY! They seemed to enjoy it quite a bit, so it looks like it was a hit!
• Tonight, we finally got to try out their little "Twilight Turtle". We got it at our shower (thanks to Grandpa Frahm!), but since it had been so light in the summer when we put them to bed, there was not much use for it. Well, tonight, Ellis didn't appear interested in going to bed and was fussing quite a bit, so I turned the bedroom lights off, and the turtle on, and he immediately quieted down. It was crazy, in a good way! We laid him in his crib and he was completely content. Looks like the turtle was a hit!

And last but not least, HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA FRAHM (okay, so I'm about 3 hours early, but I couldn't risk not having time tomorrow to post this!) Have a great birthday!!! We love you!