My sweet Boys

My sweet 2 year old.  We have been working on going potty in the toilet.  I decided to try using the sticker chart method.  He gets a fun Dora, Thomas the Train or Cars sticker if he goes potty and a TOY STORY sticker if he goes poop..... so far no toy story stickers have been given out.  Last night in the bathtub he started yelling "OH NO, help help" When Nate looked over James had left him a very special present in the tub.... At least we have  good supply of bleach in our home :)

Getting BIG!  He was 12lb on Sunday when I weighed him (almost a pound bigger than his brother at the same age.  He is so sweet, and I just love his baby chub.  

No James, open your eyes not your mouth :)

My Boys 

My Sweet Sam

Doesn't he look BIG in this one!  I can't believe  he is 2 months old this week!  He is changing so fast

I haven't talked on here about Sam's hearing loss.  He failed his infant hearing screen that they did in the hospital after he was born.  I wasn't really worried at the time because a good portion of kids fail.  We went in to do a follow-up a week later and he failed again.  The next day he had his 2 week well-baby visit and Dr. Holland suggested we try and test it again one more time.  So a couple weeks later we re-tested it again, and again he failed.  The audiologists suggested we do what's called an ABR to determine what was going on with his hearing, so on February 8th we went in for this test.  They stuck little electrodes on his head and measured his brain waves as they played sound in his ears.   After the test (which took about 2 hours) they determined that he has moderate hearing loss.  What this means, is that without any type of hearing intervention, he would have a hard time understanding a lot of what is said in basic conversation.  So, our next step was to get Sam fitted for hearing aids.  We did that last week, and he will get them on Friday.  We are just taking everything one step at a time right now and trying to just love and enjoy our little baby.  The good news is because we caught his hearing loss so early, his speech and language development should hopefully stay on track.

Same Age

Same Age (7 weeks) Same Outfit

James Peter 09-11-10

Samuel Steven 02-22-13

hey hey, it's thursday

Sam and I on Valentines Day

Me and My boys

Nate and I before going out to eat on Valentines Day

It's hard to be 2 

Me and James 

SMILES

Sam was busy looking at his brother

Last Batch of iphone pictures!

Go VIKINGS! 

James giving me a foot massage

Aaron and I

Last October I traveled to Fargo to visit Livia for her baby shower.  Layla and Sam are 7 weeks apart :) 

Sam's Room (I have since re-arranged it, but this is basically it)

Nate on the couch with his boys

I Made James Green Pancakes

Nate and James playing while Sam looks on.  The other day James walked up to Nate who was sitting on the couch and yelled "Lets Fight" as he pulled Nate off the couch onto the floor.  Oh how I love boys :)

James taking a shower after swimming.  He kept turning the water to cold

James smiling for the camera

Sam all bundled up to go outside (it was -20 with the windchill) 

Me and my Samuel

Sam came out to eat with us on Valentines Day, and as you can tell he was really impressed with the holiday :)

All Tuckered out

Iphone Photos Day 3

I Promise I am almost to the end of my phone pics.  My camera card is full so hopefully amazon will be shipping me my new one soon so I can take some more pictures of my sweeties.  Happy Monday!

James and his Thomas the train set from Grandpa Peter and Julie

James in his sweatshirt from Auntie Sara and Cousin Tyler

James talking on his phone (aka our baby monitor) I dug up a very old cell phone for him to play with.  He likes to call me on it and tell me it's time for me to go to bed

Playing with his toys he got from Amy

Just chillin' in Sam's chair :) 

James Peter

Someday I will get a picture of him smiling without him cheesing it up so much

My Samuel Steven

No more pictures mom!