Problem Solving

Brennan to his dad: "Can I have a cookie?"

Dad: "Sure. You can have one cookie."

Brennan: "Can I have two cookies?"

Dad" "No. You can have one cookie."

Brennan: "But I have two hands!"

4 years already?!?!

It's really hard to believe that four years have gone by since Brennan's birth. We are SO happy to have him in our family. We worked, and worked at his conception, "failed" to conceive by the standard method so had to resort to getting assistance. I never forget that, even in the darkest moments of being his mother (and they're not really that dark....or that frequent).

In keeping with his "Lightming Aqueen" obsession, Brennan asked for a red birthday cake, which you see here:



The icing looks like blood dripping down the sides to me, but he liked it.

Here's the inside of the cake:




I know.....pretty scary. I searched and searched on line for some non-chemical way of making a cake red, and actually found some options, but they required lots of work and even more time. And, being the thoroughly modern mother that I am, I waited until the last minute to take care of his cake. So, I broke down and bought a package of red velvet cake mix. I figured with the amount of red dye #2 in the cake mix and that icing, we'd just take Brennan over to the hospital and ask them to hook him up to a line of chemotherapy -- a preventative measure, so to speak.

Mommy and Daddy love you, Brennan! From the moment you were born.....actually, long before that.


A few days old

1 year old

2 years old

My funny Valentines

Mommy loves you!

BIG Snow

While ONO worked on the basement this morning, the mini-muffins and I ventured out into the wintry whiteness.  It was very, very cold and windy, and yet.....kind of fun!  That's how I always feel after the first big snow.  Check with me again in the middle of February.

So I shoveled, and shoveled (and shoveled) and the mini-muffins "helped" me.  Brennan seems to love the cold and snow but Logan 

isn't a fan.  He was done in about 45 minutes, and that was pushing it!  Brennan stayed out twice as long, happy as a clam...or maybe a snowman.  

It's always fascinating to me how two kids from the same parents can be so different.

Ready for the weather

We got our first "real" snow last night.  The good kind.  The kind you can make snowmen and snowballs out of.  Brennan is very excited about the snow and got dressed for it right after waking up so he could go out and play.

I hope he doesn't want to go to school naked.

Learning is fun

Like most preschoolers, Brennan is very interested in the difference between the sexes. We use the correct anatomical language for body parts so he knows that he has a penis. Lately he's asked us to draw pictures of everyone in his family and/or those important to him.

After I drew all six of us, Michael, "Soft Puppy," Cookie Monster and Elmo, he asked that we draw penises on all the boys. There was some question about Cookie Monster and Elmo but all the others males got something like a penis drawn on them. (I know....sounds weird but a parent's gotta do what a parent's gotta do.) Then he asked about bottoms and stated "Mommy doesn't have a penis but she has a bottom." I confirmed that information. He then said "Mommy doesn't have a penis. Mommy has a pajama."

Gonna have to work on that terminology.