Hello friends!

It has been nice enough for strolls around the neighborhood, Dom isn't a fan of ice!
 

a couple months old, but this was a Daddy play day
 

Autumn and Grammie made a snowman the other day on their solo day.

Finally got back on a board and it was wonderful!

Autumn decided today without a doubt that she was not tired and that she told herself she would not sleep. She has been asleep for about an hour now. I have had time to blog but kept telling myself that nothing is really that interesting that someone would care to read about it. I forget that not everyone is on facebook and that a lot of you we don't get to see very often.
Dominic is a riot!!! He has taken 2 by storm and has excelled in everything. He is running faster, jumping higher (thankfully not off the couch yet) going up and down stairs with out any problems, talking a mile a minute and curious, so so curious. "What's this? What does this say? What does that say? Do you see this? Do you see that? I don't want to because...I want to because...I won't go to bed. I need to go to bed. You lay wif me Mom or Dad? Monster Trucks!" The boy loves trucks. Especially a really terrible monster truck movie on NetFlix. I think it was made in the 80's and watching it makes me embarassed for the actors.
His sister, ever ready to help...or show that she can one up him, knows how to pick movies on NetFlix, play multiple games on her KindleFire, and can reach lights on both levels so she leads the play days. They yell to each other when one leaves a room. It is important that they keep each other informed of their activities. Autumn will come running up from the basement "MOM, DAD, I have to pee! Dominic! I have to pee, you stay there!" She is usually done with her business and on her way back before he has even started to come up the stairs. She tells us when she poops. "I dropped a big bomb." Or sometimes, "I dropped to big bombs, you need the fan on and you need to spray my poop." Today she told me, "back up Mom, turn the fan on and don't watch me." Yes, dear. She is slowly starting to stand up for herself with Dominic. We tell her to push, bite or hit back. Whichever he chooses we encourage her to do it right back. She rarely does and sometimes we step in to help out. I think Dom is slowly learning that you don't bite...ever. His biggest lesson on that came one day when he latched onto Autumn's back and she couldn't get away. I came out of the woodwork that scared him in itself and I bit his arm. Yes, I bit a two year old. He went to his room sobbing and my heart hurt and my guts were turning. I hate disciplining our kids. I wish they just somehow came installed with a program of what is acceptable and what is not and when they broke a rule that simply said "rule 123 broken, I will be in my room in a time out for 10mins". Wouldn't that be something. So, we checked Autumn out to make sure the skin wasn't broken and then I went in to check on Dom. We rubbed lavender on them both and after he said sorry I carried him to our bed and the three of us watched a movie and cuddled. It is probably a terrible habit but tough lessons are usually followed by a day of doing whatever we want and lots of cuddles.
To see these two together in public is quite amazing. You would not guess that they tussle like they do at home. They watch out for each other and one always knows where the other is. When one spends the day at Grammies, near 5 o'clock the homebound one starts to get restless and ask when their sibling will be home. After the initial walk in circles around each other and test the waters, clothes are off and they are running from room to room laughing and playing. I love watching them. They amaze me. I am loving the extra time to work on the doTerra business and the quiet time I get when they play downstairs but honestly I miss them needing me all the time. I never thought I would feel that way.
I did an oil class in GreatFalls last Saturday and we met at a Montessori school. I asked a family friend about the little set ups they have there and she gave me a couple blogs and some ideas to start little lessons here. I have a few things put together that Autumn picked up on right away but I have to watch Dom as he eats the beans instead of moving them from glass to glass;)
Dana and I are going to Salt Lake next month for a training for doTerra and it will be the first time that both of us will be away from the little ones. I'm very nervous. I know that Grammie,Lala and the Papas will have it all under control but I will miss the babes. I will miss the feeling of a little person crawling up my leg in the middle of the night and the most horrendous breath on my face whispering in my face "Mom, you are my favorite Mom. Can I sleep with you?" Who can say no to that!? Not this Mom!
So, we plug away at daily life. We laugh a lot, we cry sometimes and we love each other at every chance we get. We ask each other "what was your favorite part of the day", when we sit down to eat. We say, "Angels on your pillows" at night before we sleep and we always always kiss, hug eskimo, nice to meet you, before we leave the house. We have a great ol time! Cheers friends and family!