Rhett turned 18 Months and then 19 Months....HA!

Well, the last couple months just slipped by! Whoops! This never happened with Brooks...poor second child syndrome! Ya feel me?!

Little man is still a mama's boy through and through. He also LOVES being held! Whoever said, "once they walk they will never want to be held" never knew Rhett. He loves his mama and he loves being in my arms ALL.THE.TIME!
We have a couple more words under our belt. Mama, Dada, Papa, Bubu, Doggie, Banana, Frog (doesn't really sound like frog, but I know what he's saying), Tractor, Cat, hi, bye-bye. I'm still a bit worried about his speech but I know it's not his hearing. We had his hearing checked and it's perfect, so on to the next step.
We all had a stomach bug this past month and it was AWFUL! Rhett had it for 8 days, Brooks had it for 5, I had it for 2, Trevor escaped it but we did pass it to everyone else in our families. It was a solid week of vomit, diarrhea and complete grossness! So thankful that is over and done with and I will never wish that upon anyone's family! Trevor was actually out of town for the bulk of it...lucky guy!

Onto our life in pictures...

Don't worry...we were just driving to get the mail or through a pasture! 

He's the cutest! 

Wheelbarrow Rides! 

He loves to help and be a part of whatever we are doing! 

I ate ice cream SO MUCH when I was pregnant, I think it is this kids love language! 

Zoo date with friends! 

Trampoline fun!

I love our outdoor lunch dates! 

We saw these two beautiful swans on our land recently. They were only there a couple days, but the boys loved going to check out the pond to see if they were there. 

Lots of wagon rides for these two!

We had so much fun visiting my Grandma and Grandpa at the end of March. The boys had so much fun making cookies, helping cook, sitting in a tractor tire and playing on their newly built jungle gym.

We finally got our 2nd tree swing hung up closer to our house. 

More dates to the zoo!!

You know we spent 10 minutes with the meerkats! For some reason they both LOVE the meerkats!

This little man is LOVING books these days! When he wakes up from his nap he always wants a snack...oh, that is another word he is saying. And then he gets really upset when the snack ends (ha) and the only thing that makes his stop crying is to read a book together! I can do that!

This guy has always been my bookworm! And this one is one of his favorites right now! He is getting pretty good at his ABC's and matching it to words that start with that letter.

helping mom mow the side yard. 

EASTER! The boys had so much fun hunting Easter eggs, dying Easter eggs and celebrating the resurrection of Jesus.

What an ornery face!

I love our church home!

This next photo might have been my FAVORITE moment from the past couple months. Trevor and I were really preoccupied with laying our new floors (aren't they beautiful?) and the boys just sat down with books scattered all around them. Brooks picked up that little book and started asking Rhett to point to different things. I got a video and it was so sweet...Brooks would say "Bubby, can you find the mouse?" He would encourage him and help him until he successfully pointed to the mouse. Then he would say "good job, Bubby!" SO SWEET!!!

The day after Easter Rhett got a stomach bug...Monday was only the beginning! It lasted until the following Wednesday and passed to everyone in the family and everyone we came in contact with! YUCK! 

They might be laughing here, but they were just hanging on! 

So sweet! I'm sure lots of memories will be made on this pond.

He always wakes up from a nap earlier than Brooks, so we get lots of one-on-one snuggles!

Ridin along in my automobile...

I love when they bring all their books in the kitchen, spread them out and go to town! It's the cutest! Brooks has been loving showing Rhett all the new things he is learning. 

Books also make good tunnels for your cars to drive through! 

And just like that...we are 19 months old!

So late! HA! Rhett is 17 Months

This month has been a little rough with Rhett. Maybe that's why I'm so late on blogging! HA! Before this month Rhett only had 8 teeth and last I counted, he was in the process of getting 9 more! And 4 of them are his molars, soooooo we have been a bit cranky, clingy and not sleeping as well as normal! Nighttime has been totally fine, although even after the time change he was still getting up super early. But, naps would only be 40 minutes to maybe an hour and a half. Thankfully, we are back to our 3 hour naps! YAY! He is also crazy clingy to ME! If I'm in the room and I'm not holding him, he is crying and throwing some major tantrum. This makes prepping breakfast, lunch or dinner extremely challenging! The only thing that *sometimes* works is to play hide-and-seek/peek-a-boo with him while trying to get small things accomplished as I'm running around our island like a crazy person. Ha! Or I just wait until Trevor gets home. 

He is really only saying mama, dada and banana. Most people I have talked to said not to worry because second kids are sometimes a little later in the talking department because the older sibling is always talking for them (which is TOTALLY true in our case). It's still something I plan to talk to our pediatrician about. Did anyone else experience this where the second kiddos talked later than their first?

Here is a glimpse of our mainly FREEZING February with a couple nice days sprinkled in...

This picture was taken really late, but it'll do! 

These boys love to read and I'm totally okay with it! <3 Rhett has gotten more and more into books this month and I'm loving it! 

B LOVES helping me cook or bake. He always wants to pull the chair over or go and get our large stool. It's always a total mess when he helps (because he has to do everything himself) but I sure do love when he helps! 

Finally a pretty day! 

They love pushing these cars everywhere. Rarely do they actually sit and them and "drive."

For Valentine's Day I wrote out 14 reasons why I love these two. It was a pretty fun day talking about all of them together.

No month is complete without a zoo visit and a train ride! 

Valentine's Day goodies from Grandma! 

He is so handsome!

We love birthday parties!!!

The boys love helping dad check the deer cameras. Here are a few fun shots...

I went to a fun little get together with all the Tulsa girls from my Usborne Books and More team and they had Nibbles cookies! I had to save one for Brooks! He talked about it for DAYS!!! And if you haven't heard of Nibbles and you have kiddos, tell me and we will make sure you get a copy! They are so fun!

I'm not sure anything could be more precious! Brooks loves his bear, Grizzly. He reads to him, he invites him to eat with us at every meal, he includes him in building with Legos...it is just precious!  

It was so nice out one day we ate outside! 

And then the next day was freezing, so we were pulling out all the stops on fun things to do inside! 

This picture makes me smile for so many reasons! I can't wait to see their brotherly bond!

We even built a fort inside and then played with our Shine-A-Light books! That's another one that if you have kids and don't have a shine-a-light book, you are missing out!! Let me know and I'll find the perfect one for you!

I love his hair! HA

FREEZING!

I work from my phone a lot, so one day we were trying to get the boys ready for bed and Brooks declared that he had to work. He ran and grabbed his play phone and then came and sat by me. HA! 

Another meal with Grizzly.

I had some fun rearranging the boys's book shelves and I really like how they turned out!

I'm celebrating my family of 4 this month! I love these boys so much and before too long, my youngest will be a year and a half! So crazy!