Gabe is so sweet!

So yesterday Gabe woke up insanely early, at about 5:30 am. That is absolutely unacceptable! I got up with him and brought him downstairs. At about 9:30, after he'd tormented Julian to the brink of all out war!, he'd followed Julian upstairs. Julian retreated back downstairs, and Gabe. Gabe remained upstairs. After a few minutes, I went upstairs to check on him, and found this.



He'd climbed up on Julian's bed, found his bink, stole Julian's Sigg bottle, and leapster, and snuggled up and fell asleep.



He makes me swoon.

Oh what a night & morning.

So Julian is officially three and Gabriel is one, doesn't that mean that they should sleep through the night? I think I need to clean out their inbox or something, because they are definitely NOT getting that memo. Last night, I woke to Gabe crying at 3:30 am. Generally speaking he's not a crier, and a good sleeper. So I got up, went into his room, to see if perhaps, his binky had jumped ship. It had. So, I quickly laid him back down, and turned on his mobile and crib music thing, and his eyes became droopy, so I hastily escaped. As soon as I closed the door, he was up and crying again, SO not like him. So I scooped him out of his crib, and what do you know, he's WIDE AWAKE. I brought him downstairs, and made him a 4 oz. bottle, yeah I know, he's one, he doesn't need a bottle in the middle of the night. I didn't think to change his diaper, and fed him and put him back in bed. Just as I was about to fall asleep, I have trouble doing that, I hear him cry again! This time it woke Barry, and he went in to assess the situation. He determined that a diaper change could remedy the problem, and ran downstairs grabbed a new diaper, and changed him, put him back in his crib with a binky, his eyes got droopy & then, Julian bounded into our room!!!

Julian is like me, once he's awake, he as trouble falling back to sleep. I tried to put Julian back into his bed, but it didn't work. He was up. He said, "Mommy I want you." which is his way of saying I'm tired but don't know what to do, so I bit the bullet and went to lay in their room. Gabe had heard all of Julian's antics, as well as Barry and I taking turns putting Julian back to sleep, and wasn't happy. He was crying again! So I get the bright idea to put them in the same bed! Right! Gabe will be happy because he's not alone, and Julian will be happy because he's not alone. Uhm, no. Not my smartest move ever. They decided it was time to PLAY, at 4:30 in the morning! I finally got Gabe to sleep, in his crib, and Julian to agree to stay in his bed, with promises of capturing bugs today, for sharing time.

Fast forward to 8:54 am. Julian runs into my room, freezing, because he won't sleep in any clothes but undies, they all make him too 'sweaty' ! I look at the clock and freak out! We leave for preschool at 9:12 at the latest! So I manage to get both boys dressed, me with some decently matching clothes on, and gather Julian's snack and sharing time stuff, (not bugs) and get him to the school at 9:31! Pfew! What a morning! Please boys, sleep tonight.

Excuse my family...

...we're sick! Yuuuuck. So yesterday I felt totally fine, and so did my boys. Apparently sometime between naptime, and bedtime, Gabriel got sick! (Ok obviously I know it was before then, but he started feeling crummy then.) SO he slept with us, poor pumpkin. This morning, I woke up, feeling like something that had been runover, and Gabriel was super grumpy and snotty. So yeah. Hopefully this is a short bug, and we'll kick it quickly.

Barry has an anatomy test tomorrow! Please pray that he does well on it!

Also in other news, we got Boo'd last night! In Clarks Creek Ward, in Washington, we didn't get boo'd so I was SUPER excited that it happened here :) The Boo-ers gave us some sugar cookie dough, and a pumpkin cookie cutter, SO cute! And we, Julian and I, made cookies this morning. I made a makeshift rolling pin, because apparently we don't have one, and the cookies have been eaten by the cookie monster, AKA Julian :) Thanks Boo-ers whoever you are! :)

We went to a friend's little boy's birthday party last night. I have pictures on my camera from that. After the party, in Ankeny, we went to a pumpkin patch out there. It was really cute, and Julian's glow in the dark, candy corn hat, actually came in handy! I have knit 3 candy corn hats now. HA! The first one I made is slightly big for Julian, it would fit me. I made another one 'for Gabe' that miraculously fits Julian PERFECTLY. And I made one for a surprise gift :) I made it the same size as Julian's so it hopefully will fit the intende wearer! (crossing my fingers)

I will blog about the birthday party and Pumpkin Patch tomorrow, when I have the energy to upload pictures. For now, the candy corn cap that was supposed to be Gabe's, but is now Julian's


Oh I just found this in my photobucket! This is from the Halloween Party that some of the girls here put on! SO MUCH FUN


Mini McDreamy