The first photo is Josiah when he was 6 months old. There is an even funnier shot of him from this Christmas with the bow on his head, but this one reminded me of Caleb in the next picture below minus the mouth expression anyway.
My parents came over the other day and were reminiscing about how I used to love my "Johnny Jump-Up" and wanted to see the baby boys have a go at it. We have this lovely Tigger version of the Johnny Jump-Up. It has a tail in the back too! Caleb was a little tired I think when we put him in it, but he was smiling when my mom bounced him up and down in it. He stiffened up his legs and didn't really do much jumping himself, but that may change as he tries it again in future days.
Daniel seemed to enjoy it too, but he was more amused with Josiah jumping up and down! He was laughing so hard every time Josiah started jumping. As a side note: when Josiah was little, his older friend Sean used to jump up and down around him and he too had the biggest laugh about that. Josiah and Daniel seem like two peas in a pod as far as their development and temperament are concerned! We have noted though that Josiah had a bit more of a will than Daniel did. Daniel is very soft-spoken and very rarely gets upset about anything. 
I would like to also add this picture of Josiah when he was almost 5 months old in the same Tigger jumper. You can see that he was a bit more of a chunk! And considering in the above pictures that Caleb and Daniel are almost 8 months you can see how much of a chunk Josiah really was!
To use the cliche when it rains it pours would describe last Sunday at our home. We had made plans have Jee and Craig over for lunch(David works with Jee) a while back, but also had a friend from Spokane come to town stop by (she told me she was coming, but I didn't know which day of the week) and then my brother and his friend also came over as well. As a side note, we went to church on Sunday and Josiah was in the nursery from 10:00am to around 12:30pm and he didn't have an accident!! Yeah for that! We were prepared though, we had 3 changes of clothes and a number of pull ups in his bag just in case. It is that one time that you DON'T have the bag that you have the accident, right moms out there?
When he had a successful go at making it to the toilet (and not peeing through his underwear as he did a couple of times), we gave him some M & M's to enjoy. Here you see him eating his M & M's after one of the first successful attempts. I discovered early on that we had to do "practice" sessions every 15-20 minutes or so in order to not have accidents. Many of these practice sessions were also successes, so that was great. When he didn't want to practice, we just took away the toys he was playing with and that worked great to motivate him. Some methods advocate for not having any toys around all day, so as not to distract the child from potty training. My question for that is, "Then what in the world do you do with them all day without some form of toys?" As one of my twin mom friends pointed out, many of the "experts" that write about these things don't necessarily have kids.
After his nap we had two more accidents, one was that he peed in his bed as a wake up call (no fun I am sure) and then we had a "poop on the kitchen floor incident." Josiah was really shocked and worriedly yelled, "Poop on floor!" He was concerned we would be mad, but we told him it was an accident and where the poop should go next time. Anyway, that was pretty funny. I asked Josiah if he had a good day and he said, "Yes" and I asked him if he liked potty training and he said, "Sometimes." When I questioned him as to why it was "sometimes" he tried to tell me in his own way that he didn't like the messes he made. It was cute, but hard to remember exactly what he said though.
And now to explain the funny post title. This morning I kept saying to him, "If you want to go to VBS, you need to come back and get dressed." Later on he was saying weird stuff like, "I want C R O T W," or some variation of letters thereabouts. At first, I did what many of you are probably doing and was thinking he was trying to spell something to me. Then he said, "I want to go to R T S B," and I realized he was trying to say "VBS" and was just putting letters in there thinking they were random or something. At night, when we asked him about his day he said, "I went P B S R today."
Yesterday, I needed to make a quick trip to Costco for some things and as usual I prepared the boys for the trip, and when it was time to go I opened the front door and loaded everybody and everything into the car (quite a venture really). Usually our dog Echo stays put in the house and we rarely have problems with her jetting out the door, so I don't even really worry about that too much. 
Above I included two of the beginning pages of the calendar that show how you might use it. The page you see pictured there is the more extended daily version of the calendar, but there are a few other versions of it for easier viewing (typical monthly, 4-month list version as well). The extended calendar section is big enough for mom’s activities and has room for four kids and their activity schedules as well. If you don’t have 4 kids, you can use any extra spaces for lists, errands, etc. Click on the picture to get a bigger view of the pages and you can read the little suggestions that they gave in the book as an example.
Here are some other neat features of this desktop calendar:
Different Sections:
Removable Address Book: Along with the normal tiered address/phonenumber section in front it also has pages for family member’s information, important phone numbers (with lots of different categories to fill out for ideas of what to record), web sites and passwords, adult’s medical information, children’s medical information, & birthdays and anniversaries at-a-glance.
The cover I have is pink and is this water-proof like material (good for mom’s with toddlers), but there are lots of other colors and styles as well.
I reviewed the desktop version, but I also noted they have this “Kitchen Folio Planner” http://www.momagenda.com/products.cfm?cID=10&pID=29 that has pages that you can download online and type in your information and print out for your book (I like this since my handwriting is crummy). Some of the downloadable lists include: all the important information pages from the desktop version, plus grocery lists (pre-made lists that you can type in what you need or add additional items) Click this link to view the lists they have available for download. http://www.momagenda.com/blog/downloads.htm
Today we went to meet some MOPS (Mother's of Preschoolers) moms from my group, but it turned out that I was the only one that showed up. They set up a bunch of park times for the summer, and either I missed out on where they were meeting in the park or I was the only one that came. 
I made the best of it though. I actually fed both babies while Josiah played on the toy equipment (much to my amazement) and then afterward we went on a walk around the lake. When we entered the area where it was forested, Josiah said, "Look it's a jungle!" He does these cheesey smiles now when I ask him to smile for a picture. I tried to get a more normal smile, but it is still kinda cheesey here.
There were numerous places to get near the water and Josiah took advantage of this to throw rocks in the water. 
We also saw a bunch of geese that weren't all that afraid of people. And by the way, this isn't my zoom, we were actually this close to the geese. 
Caleb wouldn't be outdone in the cuteness competition and so he donned the hat as well. 
Our 4th of July boys: Daniel on the left and Caleb on the right. For the 4th, we went down to Eatonville (where my parents live) for their annual parade. My Dad's church had a float in the parade to evangelize to the public, and so he and mom were on the float while we sat on the side lines watching. Josiah loved all the vehicles in the parade of course! 
This sums up what the babies thought of the parade...no likey! Daniel pretty much lost it at the first loud sound and got progressively more annoyed as more loud noises kept scaring him half to death. Caleb didn't like the noises much either and they both had to go inside my Dad's church (thankfully it was right behind us and was open) to get away from the noise. Great Grandma is here holding Daniel's ears, but as you can see it didn't do much good.
Here is Great Grandpa holding Caleb for the first time. He was thrilled to see the baby boys! 
My cousin Jordan lives in Seattle and at the last minute decided to drive down and watch the parade with us and he was just delighted to hold the babies. He even fed Caleb a little later also. We have lots more pictures, but I just put a few here on the blog.
Our sweet Caleb giving a huge grin!! His shirt says "Little Slow Poke Driver's Academy" with the appropriate turtle pictured on the front.
Our sweet Daniel giving a huge grin too! Daniel's shirt has a froggie on it with the appropriate title "Prince Charming." 
Look at our number one son! I love this picture of him as it accentuates his beautiful blue eyes! We have three fruit trees in the backyard (cherry, apple, & plum) and he enjoys picking up the non-ripe fruit off the ground and playing with it. Now that he is older he doesn't take bites of the fruit he finds on the ground, of which I am thankful! 
Josiah proudly displaying his cherries! 
Josiah and his fruit!
And of course the post wouldn't be complete without some cute twin boy pictures to add to the mix. Caleb is looking up into the sky and Daniel is worried he is going to get bonked in the head by a falling Caleb or something.
This was the closest I could get to them both giving me a big grin. It is so hard to capture a good shot of both of them at once! I still try though!
I was attempting to get some pictures with big smiles and wasn't able to keep the camera at a good enough distance away to not chop their heads off. Whoops! This was too cute of a Daniel smile though to delete off the camera, so here you go!
This was as much of a Caleb smile as he was willing to give at this time. He has a lovely smile though and shows it off quite a bit! He was a little tired though when I took these photos. 
Last, but certainly not least, is Josiah in the front window. I was out taking pictures of the roses and he said, "Take picture of me too!" and so I did. Another funny Josiahism of note is that the other day I came into his room in the morning and said, "Come over here so I can change your diaper." He said, "Not, yet...I am feeding blankie bear," (as he puts his blankie bear up his shirt to "feed" him). Speaking of diapers, we are getting to a point where we are going to attempt the potty training thing officially soon. Hopefully, we can schedule a weekend to start working with him, as I really can't devote all my time to working with him with the twins to care for also during the day, so I will need David's assistance as we will tag team the potty training weekend with Josiah. Wish us luck! We have been preparing him all along and he is definitely ready, but sometimes he isn't always willing to do new things. This is where your prayers for his willingness will come in handy! Thanks in advance.
On the day of Josiah's party, my Mom at some point snuck out in the front and weeded the rose garden for us. To my surprise, I went out the next day and wondered if a garden gnome happened by and weeded our garden in the night or something. It was a nice surprise as it really needed to be done. Thanks Mom! Here are some more close-up shots of the various roses below for you to enjoy.
As pictured in order are the red, orange, white (or are those light pink?) and hot pink roses. I don't know the "actual" names of the roses, so maybe one of you green thumb type people out there can "edumacate" me on the roses actual names. I just think they are pretty and am glad they grow without much help from me because I do not have a green thumb at all. David pruned the roses a while back, so we do take care of them in that way, but notice I said that David pruned them and not me. He is a better with the outdoor stuff then I am.
