FINALLY!!!

I know that I have been terrible about updating! I will definitely get back on a more routine posting for those of you who still check. The boys have been keeping us busy but thankfully the weather has started to cooperate.
Reed and Braden enjoyed their first lawnmower ride with PaPa yesterday. I have a feeling they might follow in their Uncle Kyle and Craig's footsteps and be mowing by the time they are 5!
Too cute!

Today we went to my parents so that my mom and I could get started making Kylie's bedding. Needless to say, not much progress was made on my part. I went outside to throw garbage out and the boys both lost it at the door. They love to be outside!

This doesn't capture their first response when I walked out. This was after I had come back from getting my camera. You better not even say the word outside unless you want to take them right then. We are working on not throwing little fits when we don't get our way:-)

My dad had his eyes worked on this morning and PaPa thought he would let Braden try out his old people sunglasses!

The strainer was much more fun to "try on"

Don't they look like such big boys in these outfits. Thanks Mandi and Josh for their shirts..the pants they came with are still too big!

Braden went to the barn and came out with this. I guess he thought that the mower might need more gas. Don't you love his hair in this picture

Braden is one happy little boy. I think that he would stay outside all day if we would let him. I have never seen a kid who loves to look at books as much as he does. He HAS to have a book in the car and if he walks outside with one, he won't let it go! Maybe he'll be our little scholar:-)

Sweet little brothers

Reed decided that he was going to play in the dirt a little bit. Of course, he still has a bruise or two on his head. He is getting around much better but still has an occasional fall on the hardwood floors. Part of me thinks that his heart medicines cause him to bruise easier than Braden because Braden will fall as hard if not harder sometimes and it will not even bruise. Or maybe Reed is like me as just bruises really easily.

"This dirt is not so bad!"

Reed loves to watch what Braden is doing. He is a little imitator of his "big" brother!

Such a little boy!

Too much stuff to look at and play with at Nana and PaPa's

I forgot to post that Reed had his first heart catheterization this past month. This is a chance for the doctor to go in through his groin up to his heart and take some samples of his heart tissue to be biopsied and also shoot dye through his coronary arteries to get some pictures of his heart.
Thankfully, the biopsy came back great and he had no cells that indicated heart rejection. His heart function was great and he doesn't have to go back till his 3 to do it again. Praise God!

"Are rocks ok to eat?"

Braden and Reed are such a joy in our lives. Ryan and I love them so much and each stage seems to get more fun. It is going to be interesting to see how they or should I say we adjust to little Kylie Reese when she joins our family in about 5-6 weeks. Please pray for us and a healthy baby girl. After the, can I say traumatic, delivery of the boys, it sure would be nice to have a "normal" delivery with no complications what so ever. At least I won't be in labor for 27 hours this time since she will be C-section! We cannot wait to meet our new addition and we are so thankful that God has blessed us with another child. I'm sure my posts will get funnier with raising two 17 month old boys and a newborn!!!!