A hard day of Play!

This is how I usually find Wyatt at the end of the day after a hard day of Play!

Cousin Devyn's Birthday Party

On April 2nd we celebrated Morgan and Wyatt's cousin Devyn's 6th birthday! The party was at the Bounce Center in Loveland. The boys loved it. Morgan went down the big slide about a thousand times and played in all the bouncy houses. Wyatt even enjoyed the "baby" bounce section. Morgan enjoyed a big peice of cake after all the bouncing....we made sure he ate it after he bounced!

Can someone remind me why we buy toys for our children??

My two boys have thousands and thousands of toys and here is what they always want to play with.......my pots, pans and Tupperware!

Morgan used to do the same thing! Here he is getting into our food cabinet when he was about 15 months old.

And here he is rearranging our DVD collection!

And sampling the chips to make sure they taste alright!

WWE Smackdown at the Manes House!

The minute we found out we were having another boy I was thinking to myself, "oh great, they are going to be roudy and wrestle all the time"! And so it begins...

Whenever Morgan is on the floor Wyatt likes to come up and clobber him!

Looks like Wyatt won this match!

Look at Me - I am Walking!

We are so excited, Wyatt has started walking this month! He is 13 months old, but if you take into account his preemie age he is actually 11 months. He beat his big brother who didn't start walking until he was around 14 months or so. Wyatt was doing really well with walking while holding onto furniture and then one day he just let go and started to walk on his own. Now we really have to keep an eye on him because he goes all over the place!

Denver Aquarium

Last Saturday we decided to take the boys to the Denver Aquarium. Now, this aquarium is nothing like the amazing one in Oregon I used to go to when I was younger....but for Denver and being miles away from the ocean, it is actually a pretty fun place.

Morgan was so excited to see all the fish! He would run up to the glass and just stare in amazement.

We saw all types of fish....big ones, little ones, fat ones, sharks, eels, turtles, bright colorred ones, seahorses, ones that looked like Nemo and Dori and they even have a tiger at the aquarium.

Wyatt doesn't look too enthused in this picture. Probably because I have him posing next to the "Diving with Sharks" tank!

It is kind of hard to see here, but there is a duck in this tank that would swim right up to people and let the kids touch it! It was a really fun day.

Morgan's first day of Preschool

Since Morgan turned three in November I decided to enroll him in preschool. I researched it and since his birthday was after the cut off date he is actually in the 2's class. I thought about waiting until next fall to enroll him so that he would start in the 3's class....but I figured I would give it a try the 2nd semester of the 2's class to see if he likes it.
Well, to my surprise Morgan was soooo excited to start school! When I would pick him up from day care he would say "Mommy, I am ready for school!". His first day was Thursday, January 13th!

Here he is running towards the door, he is that excited! I am glad I am taking pictures of this now....because I am sure this will be a whole different story when he gets to High School! Morgan's first day went very well. His teacher is Mrs. Abbott. Morgan said they read stories, sang songs, painted, played outside and had fishy crackers and water for snack. I asked him if he is excited to go back next week and he said "Yes!"....so far so good!