Power again!

Well, after 5 days we finally got our power back! We lost it Sunday around 1:00 in the afternoon and we got it back today, Friday around 10:00 am. What a yucky week! No schools, so no work.... and entertaining kids without power. No fun! Andrew could not understand why the TV would not work and why he could not watch Dora! So, we are thankful that everything will get back to normal now and thankful to have food in the fridge again!!!! Here are a few random pictures from the last few weeks.

Here I am doing dishes by candlelight-- how fun!

Even though there was a wind storm, that didn't stop us from playing outside. Here are the boys outside enjoying the windy day!

The boys with their daddy. How come I can never get a picture like this with the boys? I tell ya, moms always get left out of the pictures!

We spent a lot of time outside with the other kids. This was the best picture I could get of the boys with their best buddies.

This is what it is normally like trying to get a picture of them!

So, Matthew has always been wild, but this week he has been a freakin' hoot!!! He is climbing on everything, getting into everything, trying to jump off the couch..... you name it, he is doing it. Since we did not have power, we had to spend a few mornings at my parent's house. While I was down doing laundry, Matthew climbed up on the kitchen table to get a bag of cheetos. He dumped them on the floor, and when I came upstairs he was sitting on the floor eating them. At our house, there is no more locking him in baby gates. I am so happy that we invested in $50 gates only to have my one year old bust out of them. He used to stand there and cry to get out, but he doesn't do that anymore, he just comes and goes as he pleases!!!! I got it on tape of him busting out-- sometimes it only takes a few jumps, other times, he jumps up and down for quite awhile until they pop open. I laugh every time he does it!!!!! When Andrew goes pee in the potty, Matthew is right behind him trying to pee in the potty too. When Andrew takes his shirt off, Matthew lifts his up because he wants it off. And, twice in one day I caught Matthew mid air trying to jump off the couch!!!! And this one is the best-- this week we went to visit Rick's sister. She has a 2 story deck with a bench around it. While I was checking my email, Matthew wanders outside and Colleen finds him up on the bench and hanging over the deck. Give me a heart attack! Each day brings a new surprise for what Matthew will do. He has definitely kept us laughing and on our toes this week!!!!!