Derrick can walk!!

This is going to be a pretty short post, its mostly so that I will be able to look back and remember the exact day it happened. ANYWAY, Derrick is now walking!!! Today he just kind of took off! He has been standing forever! and even doing little squats to pick up toys and standing back up. But he has only really taken one or two steps at a time before he sits down or grabs onto something. Today he was just standing there and decided to walk! We are so excited and happy!

Derricks 1st Birthday

Yay! Our little D is now one year old! We are so excited! He is a very happy boy still, and always has been. He is still working on walking, but can stand and squat, and crawl like an expert. I think he just doesn't quite trust his feet yet:) He says mama and dada, probably indiscriminately, but its still SO cute! He loves to play with his big brother! After family started to leave from his little birthday gathering, we found the two of them playing in Brents room.....in the dark with the door closed! We tried to open the door and let some light in (we don't have a light in there yet) but they were not having it! They were having the best time in there!


I had fun decorating Derricks cake!

Derrick and his aunt Julie!

Brent seemed a little unhappy, but he liked wearing the birthday hat for a little while:)



Brent was more than willing to help Derrick open his presents ;)

Valentines Day!

Valentines day was lots of fun! Josh got me some beautiful red and white roses. I love getting flowers!
Brent got a little piece of chocolate on his way out of nursery and he made sure that it was promptly eaten! Afterward he came and gave Derrick a kiss on the head with his chocolaty lips! Derrick didn't seem to mind too much :) in fact I think he rather enjoyed the attention from his older brother.

Brent playing the guitar, just like daddy!

For dinner we made little heart shaped pizzas! I got the idea from my mom, and it was tons of fun! Brent enjoyed putting toppings on. Although no one was allowed to put anything on his little pizza. He only wanted cheese on it.

He helped us taste the cheese a few times ;)

Brent liked putting the olives on his fingers, but I couldn't get him to eat them off of his fingers. Or eat them at all really. He would smash them or they would end up on the floor for Derrick and Pummy to play with.

Some pictures

This is a picture of the boys fighting over a toy phone while daddy is watching the dunk contest.

Brent likes to sit with his mommy too! :)

Valentines day fun!

Today Grandma Turley came over and brought Valentines Day goodies! The boys both got little lunch boxes with crayons and a piece of chocolate inside and Josh and I got red glasses with chocolates in them! (we are so spoiled) As soon as Brent opened the little box and saw the chocolate he ate it. I didn't have a chance to stop him, and not only did I not stop him, but he also got to Derricks somehow (not that I would have let Derrick eat it, but I didn't want Brent to have so much sugar)!





I thought it might be fun to make some valentines day cookies (yep, even after the chocolate incident). Brent had a ton of fun rolling out the dough and cutting the cookies. He had even more fun snitching all the cookie dough! Derrick had fun eating goldfish crackers in his highchair, and trying to figure out what we were doing.

Later we frosted the cookies and I caught Brent sucking frosting out of one of the bags! He's so sneaky.

This is Brent showing me the cookie that he decorated.

The little spatula that Brent used to frost some cookies somehow ended up on the floor. Derrick found it and decided it tasted good:) He crawled around with it in his mouth for a good 20 minutes!

Later, when I put the babies down for a nap, my mom and I played with the cricut and made some very cute valentines day cards! It was a VERY fun day. Although I'm thinking Brent had way too much sugar.

Boys are so much fun

Brent loves to climb inside things. He likes to find a cupboard that he thinks he will be able to fit inside, take everything out (it doesn't matter what is in it) and then climb inside! The other day he wanted to climb inside this bottom part of our china cabinet, and I told him that he wouldn't fit. That he was too big. I came back to find that he and Derrick had taken out all the packages of wipes and tissue boxes and he had proved me wrong! He actually did fit inside!

Another cupboard that they like to get into is the one with all the pots and pans! They make quite the team now days!