What I Don't Want to Forget

• Asher's little songs! He sings to me over and over each day, cute little songs he makes up. My personal favorite: "I love you, I love you, You should have a smile on your face right now! You should have a smile on your face right now! 'Cause I love you, I love you." 
• How Asher points to me and says, "Best." It's just a simple statement of fact: Mom is the best. Love it!
• The way Max puts two little words together, like, "Nice Mom" when I do something for him that he really appreciates, like building a tower out of blocks. He rubs my back and says, "Nice Mom," and I melt into a puddle of Mom on the floor.
• Whenever I say, "ow," Max says, "Sorry, Mom," even if it wasn't him lol
• How Joshua says, "I love my mom!" at completely random times, with no provocation whatsoever.
• Max's adorable "surprised" face - when he knows something should be surprising. He's faking it, with a big giant open mouth and round eyes, to humor me. :)
• The absolutely irresistible way Max says, "Eat! Cereal! Mom, up!" (while doing the sign for "eat" and "cereal") when he wakes me up in the morning. 

• How Max will sing to himself, "Baby, baby, baby sign!" while he's playing or eating lunch, doing the sign for baby. He's completely obsessed with Rachel from Baby Signing Time. I'm pretty sure if faced with the choice of Rachel Coleman or his mom (in person), he would choose Rachel in a heartbeat. 
• The way Max says, "Ash-ER!" now that he can say the whole word.
• The Dragon Dance: the cutest little stomp-stomp-stomp thing Max does when he watches How to Train Your Dragon (his current favorite show). 
• Max's little scowl when he doesn't get what he wants - although, if he's anything like me, we'll be seeing it for the rest of his life! 

I don't want to forget...

Before...

Steve always cuts my boys' hair. He started doing it in Kansas when we didn't have any money/anyone we could trust to cut it... and he's gotten progressively better ever since! He does a great job!

AFTER!

My cute boys are growing up. They suddenly don't look at all like little boys, and they are acting so much older. It's breaking my heart, but I love to see them learning and getting more mature at the same time. (Motherhood is so confusing.) Josh and Asher (and Suki, my mom's dog, lol) got haircuts this week, and I think they look so handsome!

Last night I walked into my boys' room and said, "What ya doin, boys?" and Asher said, "All these guys are just getting in the depths of the sea!" (gesturing to his many toys surrounding him on the floor) Josh said, "Yeah! And even lava!" Asher said, "And fire!" I asked Joshua why they were getting in the depths of the sea, and he said, "Because someone got mad."

Two days ago, my mother-in-law Michele was at our house, and I was showing her some baby pictures of Josh. Joshua was watching, and after a few pictures of fun things we did, he said, "Yeah. Those were good times!" with the most nostalgic look on his face! hahahahaha I laughed so hard. He was about 9 months old in the pictures - no way he remembers what we were doing. He's so cute!