Diesel's Mind

I explained to Diesel that we were gonna make him another brother/sister. He said he wanted another Diesel. Then he said he had a Diesel in his tummy too. So the other day im driving home and diesels gasps and says, mom did you hear that..i say, hear what, what did you hear, he says...i heard the baby cry, he wants to come out and say hi, did you hear him. Then I explained to him that its gonna be a while and i was gonna get bigger first. Then he told me that he was gonna have his Diesel come out and say hi tomorrow. So i dont know if he quite gets it. im excited to see what he does when my belly starts stickin out, and i really wanna see how he is with it when it comes out to say hi. If its a girl, i wonder if he'll be disappointed?! i wonder what detroit will do too, as of now i dont know if he'll pay any attention to it, but we've got a ways to go! hopefull i can get detroit potty trained before then, thad be awesome.



I started telling Diesel about Santa Claus at bedtime a couple days ago. We put some decorations up and he's getting all excited about when Christmas is gonna open. We were at the mall saturday and i took him thru Pennys to use the bathroom, it took us 20 minutes cuz he had to analyze all the christmas decorations they had on display to and from the bathroom. Anyway, back to santa. I told him that we have to set him out cookies and milk the night before christmas so that he will come in and snack on em and then deliver the presents. I told him about how santa is fat cuz he eats all those cookies and junkfood around christmas.....so the next day he grabed a back of chips out of the pantry and asked, mom, if i eat these am i gonna get fat? Now he asks me before everything he eats.. these strawberries wont make me fat, these make my tummy feel good. these fruit roll ups junkfood? yeah.. they wont make me fat though, they make my tummy feel good, they make detroit fat. is detroit fat?.. anyway, he makes me laugh with all the stuff he says!

-TANYA

Happy Halloween

Diesel was a transformer and Detroit was a skeleton for halloween. I let them pick out there own costumes. I thought they did a pretty good job. We went to Astroboy the day before halloween though and diesel wanted to switch to astroboy so he could fly! He's catching onto things now, its pretty funny. Oh and diesel picked out the pumkin goblin on the right and helped carve it, sort of!

Summer

Its not hot enough to go to the pool anymore, but I wanted to put this move on here that Detroit got pretty good at this summer, he did that all the way across then he would come back, had bruises on his legs all summer, still has em, wonder when they will go away! Maybe they are from diesel and not the pool?!!

Seattle/Spokane trip

We went up to Seattle and Spokane in august to visit my family and go to Matthews wedding...

I would like to know what zya and diesel are talking about hereand what diesel and brezlyn are doing here
We shared a hotel room with thomas and kelli after the wedding and the kids had a lot of fun together...

detroit and brezlyn got some good air on the bedswe spent a lot of time in airports on this trip... this was coming back from spokane to seattle, detroit found himself a nice little place on the floor to get some coloring donei thought this picture was funny, if you look at detroit and josh...they are in the same position, donny and curtis are carrying them the same way...curtis is bigger with detroit and donny is smaller with josh...they are a year and a half apart....curtis and donny are, lets see... 4 1/2 years apartthis ones funny too, 2 kids hangin in the air on both sides! im glad i got that picture, thats all the grandkidsgrandpa don was spraying everyone with the hose, they had a blastmom wanted a picture while we both were in boots...i sprained my ankle 2 weeks before this trip playing basketball, my mom had surgery on her foot to fix some bones 2 weeks 2 days before this trip...so we both had some pretty nice pain killers

-TANYA

Detroit 2

These pictures were taken a second apart, i click back and forth cuz i think its funny... this was his little dance i think since it was about to be his turn to jump to curtis in the pool! He's a funny kid, he has a little mean side that is coming out just recently that i dont know about! Diesel has always been a pretty nice kid, so im in new territory. He may just be lashing out at Diesel. He just figured out he can make Diesel cry now and he got a little taste and likes it i think!

-TANYA

Detroit

Football

Curtis is sooo excited for football. when we moved here he made sure we got hooked up to direct tv just so that we could get nba and nfl passes to see all the games. so now football season has come and he got to see all the games that were going on last sunday, as he explains it his head was spinning, he didnt know what to do with himself. he tried to watch em all but it was hard cuz there were so many on at once. so he is in heaven on the weekends.. our friend ryan got us some box seat tickets from his friend to the byu vs osu game that was here at the dallas cowboys stadium... i had to take a picture to show the much talked about big screen, i mainly watched it the whole game cuz its hard not to.
-TANYA

Visit to Seattle

My camera loads pictures that are huge, I could shrink em or i could just wait for them to load, either way it takes forever, its faster to use the pix from my phone! anyway, i just wanted to get this picture on here cuz i think its halarious of Hannah, she has the cuttest little legs, look at em, there buff... so there is a lot more where this came from that i will load tomorrow for the fam to see!

Something...

I have been slacking lately. i got on and started reading some older posts...things that i have already forgotten about so i am really glad that i wrote them down! so i need to keep doing that or i will forget all these cute things my kids did growing up, and fun trips we took as a family thru the years! i really like this blog cuz there is no way i would write this stuff down in a journal, it takes way to long to write, typing is so much faster! plus i know my dad likes reading these! he hasnt bugged me lately though to update, so maybe he doesnt check anymore, ill have to remind him, and then get on here more! i guess i feel like i cant get on unless i have a picture to go with it, funner for other people to look at, but i wanna read what i had to say in the future!

anyway, diesel has a pretty full vocabulary now, hes almost 3 1/2 and detroit will be 2 next week, holy cow! what are we gonna get him. detroit is trying to talk a lot now, he jabbers away and i just agree with him. it is probably my favorite stage, when they think they are saying stuff, stories even, and they arent making any since, it is soo cute! still need to get rid of his scream though, detroit is pretty stubborn right now, he is in that stage where he knows what he wants but he doesnt know how to say it... so he makes you get up and follow him to it. then you say no when you realize what he wants (more candy usually) and he freaks out. and you say dont freak out detroit and you ve got diesel right by you saying...hey dont say that, dont say that word. you see diesel will not let us curse, i cant even say freak, i try to explain that freak out is not bad to say but he just puts it in the category with fu$# and freakin and so you cant say it around our house. so he knows all the curse words and corrects us when we try to use them. its funny, and detroit likes to mimic me, so when he gets real mad and wants to tell me off, he puts his hand in a fist and puts his pointer finger out, puts it right by his cheek and puckers his lips with a scowl on his face and starts jabberin real demanding like! i dont know where he came up with a couple details to the move cuz i dont put my hand by my face when i tell him off?! detroit also love playing pass and catch with balls, he is in the obbsessive ball stage that diesel went through, and they are both really into planes right now...point out everyone in the sky. when they wake up in the morning the first thing they want to do is go outside and look at planes together. but back to balls, detroit will just walk up to you and you dont even know hes there and boom, he drills you in the head with a ball, wanting you to catch it, and throw it back...curtis has woken up multiple mornings with a ball hitting him in the nose! they wake eachother up in the morning, diesel and detroit that is, which is kind of annoying, this is how they do it. whoever wakes up, slams their door as they are leaving the room, and if the other one hasnt woken up to the sound of the door slamming by the time they get to the top of the stairs, they go slam it again, until the other wakes up... this way they can claim it was accident i guess, cuz they have gotten in trouble for hovering over eachothers beds trying to get them to wake up... little punks. mornings start way too early for us here, especially considering that we usually are waking up once thru the night by one of them. i need to get detroit a night light i guess, curtis says he'll go up to his room cuz hes crying and he'll go in and detroit is crying in the corner or up against a wall cuz he cant find the door to come get us! its pitch black in his room cuz we blacked out their windows thinking it would help them sleep in a little longer (it helped, we probably get another hour now). anyway, kinda sad but kinda funny too! curtis feels bad for him and gets mad at me that i wont go buy him one.. i just keep forgetting, i dont know if it would do any good anyway, he ruined both of diesels so diesel just sleeps with his closet light on...hes pretty afraid of the dark, he thinks the monsters are gonna get him if no lights are on. anyway, detroit just woke up, here he comes

Lake

Curtis and Detroit went surfing together the other day, it was pretty cute...when they let go of the rope they went under for a second, i guess detroit started saying mommy when they came up, kind of confused and stunned!

Buddies

Nikkie Billy Ryder and Easton came down last week to visit plus do some work, we had a lot of fun with them, Diesel and Ryder especially! They get a long pretty well and Detroit and Easton I think are just happy to have a lot of kids running around them. Easton got huge and is a mini Ryder which is another mini Billy, it was really good to see them, we were missing them! I putting some pictures on here tomorrow of em!

Already!!!!

The boys both got written up at the gym last week. Its their first warning, i guess if they rack up 2 more then they cant come to the gym for 2 weeks, a probation. Is it bad that I felt a sense of pride when i found out why they got in trouble.. you tell me?.... They both teamed up on two other kids, a brother and sister... apparently Diesel and Detroit were wrestling and were told to stop...and then two other kids came in the mix and Diesel took down a 6 year old girl and Detroit was on top of a 4 year old boy. They said they were beating them up... Im sure they were just play wrestling with them but it sure sounded funny! Diesel and Detroit in the gym beatin up older boys and girls... they are little monsters! I think Curtis is proud of em too...they didnt hurt anyone, dont worry, just made em cry i think...
-TANYA

New Dew.. jordan jumpman

We did this a couple weeks ago...I dont know what was harder, getting them to sit still for the pictures or shaving their heads detroits looks more like a kid jumpman, which is fitting i guess, i learned on his and did way better on diesels... plus diesel sits a lot more still

when he leans his head back it looks like the little dude is doing the splits

when i was all done, i put em in their jordan gear (that curtis cant help himself from buying whenever he goes to nike online)... they wouldnt take a picture together from the back, this was the only way to get them together! letting them climb the pantry shelves, little punks, what did i expect though i guess, right?!

-TANYA

Take me out to the Ball Game

The boys have been to a few baseball games in the last month... this is at the Rangers game and this is the minor league team that plays a few minutes from us.. they are the Rough Riders and their mascots are a guy and girl sloth...wierd but the kids were obsessed, we chased them around the stadium the last 10 minutes! diesel just wanted to keep touching his tail and detroit would get all excited about getting close and then the thing would try to come up to him to say hi and he would woos out and run back to me kind of stunned and scared, its was cute

virginia continued..

also went to see a natural bridgeand past that maybe a half a mile the trail ends and that walls circles back around. at the end is a pretty tall drop off to the river and it leads to a beautiful waterfall...it looks more like three slides though!

so jordan and i figured if we could climb down the wall into the river and make it up there we could slide on down the thing! the only thing holding us back was we didnt wanna get caught cuz i dont think your supposed to go over the wall they built to keep you out of the water? so curtis went on up with us too, and we made it to the top and slid down all three bumpy slides,..jordan went first and told me it didnt hurt at all, cuz it looked like it would. well he had on long shorts which protected his skin...i ended up coming out with scrapes on both butt cheeks
we brave

we ended up driving over to virginia beach the last day.. curtis is body surfing this wave, looks like jordan is waiting for the next one, and i think curtis must have ended up running over that lady?.. aww
deep thought?
oh and i forgot about these toads that were in the pond at the wedding...they were everywhere! and there was a certain corner of the pond that was exclusively for humping, look at all those litte horny toads, some of em have stacks of 3, little perverts!

-TANYA

Virginia..(wedding/vacation)

My nice little mother came all the way down to Texas and watched the 2 monsters while Curtis and I and his bro Jordan went out to Virginia where their parents already were to go to their brother/son Jason's wedding! It was a beautiful wedding, really cool place to have a wedding! and it was a nice change for us for a minute to be back around mountains and big trees!

we also went to some tourist spots while we were there, these are some cave pics.... curtis snuck in thru the back entrancejordan and i jumped in thru hole above ground, i didnt realize how far down it was, i diedjordan landed on his feet, he livedi came back to life as a spyand i found this guyand his brother and dad

to be continued..

-TANYA