The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

They just love Elmo. I seriously think Elmo is toddler-crack. I think Elmo could take over the world if he could figure out how to get the toddlers to speak intelligently back to him. I'm not even joking. When he says jump, they jump. When he says dance, they dance. When he says count, they count. I wish they obeyed us as well as they obey him!

The boys unnatural love of Elmo has never been encouraged by Creighton nor I, but when Creighton ran across a movie (in HD, of course) called The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland he recorded it and saved it for the boys. Today, I let them watch it for about twenty minutes. They were absolutely INFATUATED!

I'm not kidding.............I really think Elmo could take over if he just had some strategery.

And when I turned around this is what I saw......

I put the boys in the living room and went back out to the car to clean up the Cheerios they had dumped in their seats and when I turned around this is what I saw...

Eighteen Months Old!

Well yesterday (September 21st) was the boys 1/2 birthday. Hehehe! They are officially 18 months old. They had their first day in nursery at church. It went very well since Aunt Rosalind is the nursery leader. They even made bunny rabbit pictures w/ a cotton tail glued on it. It was so cute. Here are a few pictures of them on their first day.

Ben found a "puppy" to play with right off the bat.

Alex wasn't sure where to begin. He took it all in at first.

Then he crawled around and found a few toys.

Then Ben played with the "kitchen" and put some stuff in the microwave.

Hey Y'all!

"Y'all" was a fictional character when I was in college. My roommate and I were both from SC and the boys in our group of dorms always asked us if "Y'all" was coming to dinner with us. I never really got the joke. I mean it's a contraction, right? You and All? And you can conjugate the heck out of it. Y'all - singular, All Y'all - plural, Y'all's - posessive, All Y'all's - plural posessive. What's so hard to understand?

So this is a warm welcome to ALL Y'ALL! We have started our very own blog. We've been piggybacking on the Bright Bits blog for a few years now and thought we'd start our own. We'll be posting pics and what not here. It's easier to do it here than to send a million emails......

So here are a few pics from our trip to the zoo on Monday (October 15th). We went with three other MOMs and thier twins. We always have fun at the zoo the boys love the elephants and the lions. But it was so hot that day we were glad to get home and be in the AC for a while.

From L to R - Ciara and Gavin, Ally and Ashton, Zachary and Avery, Alex and Ben

Ciara and Gavin close up....with Ally being flirty.

Ally (still being flirty) and Ashton.

Zachary (or as we like to call him Khaki) and Avery.

And finally Alex and Ben....with Alex flirting with Avery. What a ladies man!