Salt n Pepa Shoop!

Does it show our age when we're trying to find dance songs for the kids, and we come up with Salt n Pepa??? Oh well, it's fun to watch... Hope you enjoy it!!!

Sweet Dreams...

Nothing much to say about this, but awwwww.... However, when I took this I was unaware that at 3AM, Dillon would come crying into our room saying Buddy bit his head, and now he wanted breakfast... Oh well, the picture is cute...

Special Message for Annie...

Snuck Up on Me!

Yikes! It's almost Spring!!! Time to change the background - I was getting a bit tired of snowflakes....

Bedtime Prayers, by Dillon Gilkerson (age 3-1/2)...

I'm so glad I was able to get this on video - it's just too precious... (And notice the irony of the "temptation" part - he just can't stand keeping his hands to himself and not grabbing at things!)

Owen's starting to get the hang of it, too, I'll have to record him tomorrow night...

Prizes

Continuing on with our ongoing potty training saga, we told Dillon that if he stayed dry all night, or through naps, for 5 days, he could pick out a motorcycle toy from the Honda Powersports dealership here. He did it, though not consistently. Unfortunately I had to follow through with my promise. So off we went, and he ended up with a quad and a dirtbike. Owen picked out a CBR400 - a really fast streetbike. Anyhow, they love them, and play with them constantly.

Big Boy Bed!

After 4 days of letting the boys sleep in Dillon's room, I decided we needed to do something about it. Once asleep, they were fine, it was just getting to that point that was the problem. Dillon would talk and talk and talk and talk and Owen just couldn't fall asleep. It would be 9:30, sometimes later, before they actually conked out. Then when D got up at 6:45, he would wake Owen up in the process (because he's just not a quiet kid by any stretch of the imagination).

Ultimately, there were two problems we needed to overcome. First, we had fostered this necessity in Owen to be rocked before bedtime. I did enjoy it, as did Joe, but not so much when O started waking up at 3AM and wouldn't go back to sleep without being rocked. Second, his crib was not the same cool big boy bed that D has. Owen is SO trying to be a big boy in everything he does lately. (Except his blankies - he's still very much attached to these guys!)

So, Joe pointed out that in order to get rid of the rocking before bed, we should make one big transition, so it wasn't so harsh. That's what we did - I went out yesterday with the boys and let Owen pick out his own bedding. What do you know - he picked out Cars! Anyhow, he loves his new bed now, and last night was a success. Two boys, in two separate bedrooms. They were both asleep by 8:30. Phew!

Girlfriends Already?

I would have thought 2 years and 3-1/2 years old was too young to have a girlfriend, but apparently not! Dillon was enamored with a little girl named Katie in his preschool class for the longest time. Then about a month ago, he informed us that his new girlfriend was Gigi. They're both darling girls, too...

As if that wasn't bad enough, one Sunday after church, we picked up Owen from the nursery and the ladies working there said that he and another little girl (Elizabeth) were making eyes at each other the whole morning. Before we left, he and Elizabeth exchanged hugs, and it's been love ever since. I just love to hear Owen say "Elizabeth" with that two year old lisp, it's just precious. Now whenever we go to church, he'll ask if Elizabeth is going to be there. Young love...