No more goldilocks!

BEFORE

Sitting so well. He even let Barb put the neck paper and cape on him!

The first few snips! (then I had to help distract him and keep him in his seat)

No more curls!

Handsome guy!

We took Jake to get his first haircut from our friend Barbara at Sports Clips. Jake and Tyler loved the surroundings. They had ESPN on the TV, team pennents around, fun decorations, and suckers!

Jake sat so well being distracted by his (hair covered) sucker.

So sad to see my little boy gone- but what a handsome little guy he is!

Sunday morning

Squish face!

Darling brothers- Tyler teaching Jake the fine art of playing.

Just some more of our cute boys. These guys are such a riot. Church is always a challenge- I'm usually walking the halls with Jake and Tyler is trying his best to sit still in between begging for potty trips with daddy. It's times like these that I pray we get those points in heaven just for showing up!

I have been teaching nursery for almost 6 months now and we have exciting times in there. We are blessed to have a pretty mellow class usually. This last Sunday was interesting with so many people out of town we thought it would be good to combine classes. We started off with 8 and ended up with 17! It was insane- but good insane. Full, noisy, some fits here and there, but the kids were mostly well-behaved still.

We officially switched Tyler into my class because that is where he ends up anyway. He still struggles with separation and I'd like for Tyler to have a positive experience on Sunday and learn something about Jesus instead of freaking out and complaining from the moment he wakes up :)

Life is pretty good right now and although hectic, we are enjoying it, one day at a time!

Our Big Boy!

Jake has a typical boy fascination with hats. He loves to put them on and off...and on and off....

...and on and off....

Showing off his new big boy underwear. He has been 100% so far! Way to go kiddo!

This is usually where I find the boys hanging out. Either timeout for Tyler or Jake trying to go upstairs for books and bed.

We had a very exciting night to celebrate Tyler's first night wearing his BIG BOY Underwear! He was so excited. The boys enjoyed wearing their matching jammies from Great-Grandma Anita too.

Just some of the fun times with these boys lately. Love them!

The Hecht's Big Move!

We were lucky to get to spend one more day with Aunt Sarah, Uncle Ryan, and Baby Alexis. Last Saturday we went out to their place to help move. I actually had the fun job and got to play with the kids while everyone else worked hard packing, moving, and cleaning.

Super Kids!

Part of our California fun was these amazing capes that Grandma made for the kids. We've been searching for some good dress-up clothes for the boys- and these did the trick. The boys got their two-sided Superman/Batman capes and Maddy has her sparkly purple cape and skirt. If you look closely too you can see Ben's cowboy vest that grandma made too!

The day has come!

Tyler is officially, completely, 100% potty-trained. We're talking day and night, home and away, no more "night-time underwear" (aka pull-ups).

We are so proud of Tyler! He has essentially potty trained himself beginning to end.

We finally ran out of pull ups so that he can just wear big-boy underwear. Tyler has already kept his pull-ups dry for over a month. He gets up in the middle of the night to go potty if he needs to and goes back to sleep.

We love our big boy! Can't believe he'll be three in a few short weeks.

We caught the stomach bug

We made it through the ER...then Jacob ended up puking all night :(

It was so sad. Poor little guy was soo sick that he needed a 12:30am bath (just imagine puke EVERYWHERE, matted in his hair, etc.)

We almost went back to the ER because all the phone nurses were worried it was a concussion or something bad.

I have never been relieved to feel sick to my stomach, but once I got sick too at least we knew it was just a stomach flu or something of that sort.

Little guy couldn't keep down anything so we doped him up with some Zofran (anti-nausea medication) so he wouldn't get dehydrated and end up back in the ER.

Luckily, by about noon Jacob and I were done with the yuckies and on the road to recovery. Hopefully by tomorrow we'll both be enjoying more than gatorade and apple sauce.