Nursery Two!

I am finally getting around to posting pictures of the boys' room all redone. Last August Ryan and I decided to switch rooms with the boys which meant a few tweaks to my original plan. Our house has an odd layout. The largest room (which is all of 9x12 feet) is actually not the master bedroom with a bathroom attached. We had always used the biggest room as our room and when the babies were born I had planned their nursery in the master bedroom. When they were started to outgrow sharing a crib we ran out of room and had to switch to fit a second crib.

The orange wall is one of my favorite things in our house now.

One of the last things on my list to buy someday is a soft long furry rug to put on the floor in front of the bookshelf. I think it would be fun to lay on while reading books.

 We had to put the cribs together because it was one of the few arrangements that fit both cribs. I love it now and am so glad my little boys are right next to each other.

 It's hard to see but this is my curtain fabric and I love it!

Love my woodland party fabric!

 Ryan and I sometimes joke about the time he took a nap and I randomly recovered our ottoman. 

First Haircut!

I have been needing to cut the boys' hair for a while now but part of me was a little sad to do it because I thought their little baby mullets were kind of cute. Today I decided It was probably getting a little too long. For some reason this brought the mommy emotions out in me. I can't get over these boys growing up.

Before:

 Haha ok Reece's mullet was pretty bad.

After:

 I was debating on keeping a lock of it but it's really not that cute...

Easter!

For Easter a friend of ours invited us to a party where they had good food, an egg hunt and even a very fancy easter bunny. 

Reece was very excited about the one egg Ryan helped him find.

They were pretty much happy each having their own egg.

Both boys really liked the bunny. Reece tried to crawl after him and Liam was very fond of petting him. I think we may need to work on stranger danger because the boys have no fear of new people or creatures.

Ten to Twelve months!

Ten to twelve months has been rough. It's winter and cold season, and it feels like Liam and Reece have been sick since Christmas, but now it's finally starting to warm up! You will notice the boys are wearing pajamas in most of these pictures, but that's our uniform when we are sick. I have a hard time accepting that they are one now. It has been the shortest and longest year ever.

Liam

Liam is cuddly, sweet, pensive, jealous, cute, quirky, and serious.

When Liam is excited he huffs and puffs and does this flopping thing. It a variation of the jumping jacks he used to lay on his back and do. He rocks and kicks at the same time. If you hold him up in the air he does it and opens his mouth up wide like a flying fish. Liam makes the best disgusted faces when eating cold or bitter things. Liam also loves to shake his head "nooo". It's one of his only tricks, and if I try to get him to do another one like clap or say words, he just shakes his head "nooo". I am pretty sure he knows I am trying to get him to do a trick, he just thinks he should get to choose which one. Liam learned to pull himself up at 11 1/2 months. Liam was a little behind in learning to pull himself up. The only reason he finally learned is because he wanted to climb into my lap. I was the only thing he would pull himself up on at first. He is a total momma's boy and I love it.

Now he is all over the house pulling himself up. He loves to look out the front window and see everything going on outside. Liam hasn't learned to crawl yet but he is a speed army crawler. He is pretty good at keeping up with Reece. It is cute to see them follow each other around all day. They may not be playing together, but they almost never leave each others' side.

It's funny how much they disregard personal space with each other. I had to separate their highchairs because they would always distract each other and put their hands all over each others arms and trays.

Reece

Reece is active, personable, happy, loud, bold, hungry, and everywhere. He is very strong socially. He laughs when I laugh, and Liam laughs when Reece laughs. When Reece is around other kids he crawls very proudly. It's more of a march with his head held high and a big smile on his face. He loves other kids and being the center of attention. Reece crawls all over. He mastered crawling at about 10 months. He also started dancing sometime after 11 months. Whenever he hears music he starts to bob and sway.



The Pabst family has a trait where we like to stand on our toes, and Reece definitely has it. It's actually not great in the long run, but right now with Reece's chubby legs and feet it's very cute!

Reece loves to snack. He likes to hang out underneath his high chair in search of leftover food, usually right after mealtime. I don't think its because he's hungry, I think it's because he found that food all by himself, like a mountain man.

He likes to steal the other kids' sandwiches at the church playgroup we go too. He is a scavanger.

We are still working on sharing. Reece has no boundaries and Liam gets jealous easily. Liam doesn't get jealous about attention, mostly just bottles and toys. They are both big copy cats. Wherever one goes the other one follows and if one yells then the other yells.

The boys have been taking two naps a day and I am pretty good at keeping them on the same schedule. It's fun to listen to them fall asleep because most of the time they make sounds back and forth until they fall asleep. Then, when they wake up they do the same thing. I almost always find them playing with each other in the middle of both of their cribs like this.

The boys love taking baths together, but both Ryan and I end up drenched by the end. It's all worth it for the cuteness factor!

The boys love trucks, balls, and furry animals. We still love to read books. They love to turn the pages, and will flip very quickly through any pages that bore them. Their favorite books are the ones with photographs or things you can touch like fur. It's so cute to see Liam stick out one pointer finger and gently pet the soft animal fur in the book. Liam also uses that finger so swipe things on the ipad and iPhone. He figured that part out out on his own and very quickly.

The boys spend a lot of their day looking outside our windows, and luckily most of them are just the right height.

Babies love when daddy comes home!

The boys also love to play the piano.

Ten months was when the boys started to show their own sense of humor. This is also when they started to be more opinionated.