Goo & Jo-Jo

After 2 long years, the Spankys finally met our good friends Drew & Johanna (aka Goo and Jo-Jo) from San Diego. They came in for OU/TX. I'm sure the actual accommodations didn't live up to the brochure.

The boys were very good, but quite honestly it is overwhelming for anyone (much less people that don't have kids) to relax and enjoy themselves with 3 little monkeys running around. Also, the day of the game, our downstairs air conditioner broke...nothing like sleeping in a sauna after an emotional OU loss.

Anyway, Kyle and I had a great time seeing them, and we hope we can convince them to come again soon :)



BTW Drew, the AC guy came on Monday and all of the kids were calling him "Goo"...I guess because he had dark hair. Unfortunately, he was also wearing a longhorn hat!

More Time Outs...Pweeze!

The Spankys are doing their fair share of "time outs" these days. It is usual 2 year old stuff: hitting, pushing, throwing toys, pushing TV buttons, etc. Carter often get's put in time out for throwing sand.

Today we were all outside and sure enough Carter starts chucking sand out the sand box. I got up and told him he needs to go to Time Out. He calmly walked to the door with me, and then I decided to just bring everyone inside. It took me another minute to round up the other 2. When I came in Carter came over and said "time up, pweeze" and walked to the time out area.

Obviously I am doing something wrong! What kid reminds you to put them in time out?
Anyway, I appreciated the "pweeze". BTW he always calls it time up for some reason :)

Despite his temper and stubborn ways, Carter also has a knack for making us laugh. Here is one of his latest tricks...

We're Off to See the Weezard!

The Spankys had somewhat of a "suburban safari" with their new hats this week. First we spotted a WEEzard on the fence...


Davis asks, "where da weezard??"


Then, Carter tried to nab the elusive dingo...


The dingo was too quick for the explorers though...

Stoop's Littlest Troops

This was the other birthday gift from Mimi and Papa...their first jerseys! You can't get this stuff in Austin for some reason :)

Davis and Evan sat nicely for what was supposed to be a group picture...



Carter, not so much. That boy is stubborn, and I just have no idea where he gets it ;)


The boys were so proud. Davis likes to point to his and say "Dadda". I just hope Daddy doesn't teach them to throw down the horns. Tacky.

Suburban Sombreros

Mimi & Papa sent The Spankys some great birthday presents! Carter and Davis woke up from their nap to find the wrapped gifts. They were unwilling to wait for Evan.


It was love at first sight with these hats. They really want to wear them to school, but I wouldn't want to risk losing them :)

Evan finally did wake up about 30 minutes later...he was equally as pleased.


I'll debut their other gift from Mimi & Papa here on Saturday.

The Longest Party Ever

*** NOTE: I just got a new camera that I love, so there are lots of pix in this post :)



Unfortunately, with Ike churning off the Texas coast, Kyle's parents weren't able to join us in the festivities. In the end, it was good we didn't have many party-goers, because let me tell you, this was one slow movin' party.

First, we got in our new birthday outfits (except) Davis refused to put on his shirt.




As the boys came down they were greeted by their new best friend, Liberty, a gift from Gigi and Papa.

Everyone got a turn, but then they noticed the balloons on their chairs, and decided that was more fun :)


Then we really got things rockin' with a birthday lunch. Nuggets for the kids (of course) and enchiladas for the rest of us.


The Spanky's then opened presents from their Aunt Keli, Uncle Joe, and cousins Emily and Austin.
They had so much fun with those that they could only handle one more ride on Liberty, and it was off to dreamland. Nothing in this world will come between me, the Spanky's and naptime. :)

So, Gigi and Papa left and we postponed the cake eating, present opening until the boys woke up. In the meantime, I went to Target to buy more storage bins. I am an organization junkie.

The party resumed at snack time for a little bit of cake...I wish I could say I made this, but I left this one to the professionals.


I let them play with the fondant frogs, but Evan ate practically all of his before I could get them away. Carter used his as a stamper.


They seemed to enjoy the actual cake though!




In fact, they liked it so much, that we had to postpone the party, yet again, to take a bath.
Then we slipped into our new "Hear no Evil, See no Evil, Speak no Evil" pajamas...how perfect are those??!!

Is there anything cuter than a squeaky clean kiddo?


Carter is still more interested in the balloons...


Future doctor??
Future...uh...warden??

The rest of the presents had to wait until the next day...I don't think Gigi and Papa were interested in returning for day 2 of the party :)

Happy Birthday Spankys!!!

Well we made it another year! The Spanky's turned 2. I can't believe the are little boys now and not babies.

We are officially celebrating on Saturday (although there will be scant attendance due to the impending hurricane!!). In the meantime, we kicked off the festivities with Birthday Cookies at their school today.

Their little class is so cute...they all sit so nicely to eat. I am not sure what happened to that one kid's shirt...I swear he had one on under those overalls when I dropped the boys off.



Later Gigi and Papa came over with some new birthday books!




And yes, Carter is always in some state of undress. This time it was because he dumped Maisie's water bowl and then proceeded to do a cartoon-style slippidy slide flat on his back, fully soaking his shirt and shorts.