Success!

We've been discussing the need to get rid of Mark's pacifier for the past few months. He had chewed a nice sized hole in it so we used it to our advantage. About two weeks ago it 'broke'; well, half-way. Last night it 'broke' again and is now no more than a stub. He's still not sure how he feels about it, although he did throw it at me tonight. Then again, that may be because we refused to let him take Mack (the big Cars trailer) to bed with him. Regardless, we're on the home stretch to being paci-free.

I've been on quite the blogging hiatus, but I promise to post soon, especially Mark's 2nd birthday. Yes, it was back in February, but the important thing is we did celebrate it.

Don't You Hate It When Your Kids Get Sick?

Best Buddies

Although Mark has a lot of little friends out here that he loves to play with, Caleb has always been his favorite. It's probably because they are both boys and close in age, but it could also be that Amy and I get along so we have forced them to play together. Whatever the reason, they just love to be around each other. When ever I ask Mark if he wants to go see Caleb, he practically drags me out the door. Since the Blooms are moving this summer (the downside of having so many students around here), we decided to take the boys out for some fall pictures....back in October. It was wet and cold, but the leaves were beautiful and the boys had fun.

Throwing leaves

Looking for 'fish' (or so we told them)

Knuckles

Cute faces

They didn't like our artistic vision in this one.

And, this is typical- Caleb fully participating in the song Amy's singing while Mark is more interested in a rock, leaf, or anything else other than the activity in front of him.