Closet Pride

As many of you know, Truston went to the University of Utah. (A minor flaw I was willing to overlook). He was the first member of his family to attend college out of high school and attended on a full scholarship for 4 years. He likes the U, but he's not dyed in the wool. I guess you could call him a fair-weather fan. Unfortunately for him, he married into a dyed in the wool through and through, BLUE family.
My siblings surprised us with some football tickets this last weekend and we went to the game. Lucky for Truston, they had this extra BYU t-shirt lying around. This was the best picture I could get of him...he kept darting around and covering up the 'cougar'. He is slowly turning sides. He even remarked during the game, "Our teams defense..." Baby steps, my friends, baby steps. Thanks, Tanner, Grace and Andrew for a great afternoon.
I tried to take a picture of the boys together...Talmage is totally disinterested and Logan is totally unaware. Still cute.

Happy Birthday Tanman!

This guy had a birthday:
We are so glad he's home from his mission in California and back at BYU...more fun for all of us.
And we celebrated all week long.
Thursday: dinner at Famous Daves..courtesy of the parentals
Saturday: BYU football game and a funnel cake/dance party
Sunday: dinner at the grandparents, and carrot cake
More people should have birthdays more often... it's fun to celebrate

Watch Out

Today I caught somebody making fun of my baby. Lucky for him, he looked at me before I chucked the shoe I had in my hand. Word to the wise, if you want to make fun of my children, don't be surprised if a hard wooden shoe comes flying straight for your head.
P.S. I have good aim and I throw hard.

Some Firsts

Today we celebrated some firsts:
1.)I put my tennis shoes on for he first time in...ahh....6 months. We went on a little walk.
2.) I gave Talmage his first plum and he loved it, in fact he ate 3.
3.) I put Logan in a big boy outfit. I shouldn't have done it, now he looks so big. I can't believe how fast 3 weeks have flown by. Here is a picture of him.
Today when I was feeding him, I looked down at his hands and toes and noticed that they are bigger. They may not look big to you, but they are chubbier then they were 3 weeks ago, or even a week ago. Babies grow so fast.
I also noticed that his feet seem to be developing into the characteristic "Bodine feet". His toes are already looking a little 'swollen'. (Somebody told us once that we should get Talmage's toes checked out because they looked swollen. I laughed out loud. Sorry buddy, they're just that fat.)

a surprise and some potty humor

There are many things that are different when you add another child to the mix. I though, for example, that one child crying would affect the other child. Not so. Talmage could care less when Logan is crying and Logan doesn't even flinch when Talmage is bawling. I thought they might wake each other up, sympathy cry or be annoyed, but as far as I can tell there is no change. a nice surprise.

On a more scatological note, if you have ever had a newborn, I'm sure you can remember being shocked at how loud and proud their bodily functions are. What is coming out of this little ten pound body would be more appropriate for a 300-lb burrito-contest-eating man. It's almost like they could shot themselves into space with the amount of gas released. This afternoon, I was sitting at the table with Talmage, holding Logan when he let one rip. Talmage started giggling and said, "woooow". He laughed for about a minute. I'm so glad the potty jokes have started.

Life in the slow lane

Logan is two weeks old and we are still hanging on. I think that we're doing really well and then I'll catch Talmage spreading breadcrumbs all over our apartment from the back of his fisher-price bus or making watermelon juice and painting it onto the sofa.
As far as i can tell, the biggest downside to two children under two is that one will be unsupervised part of the time, and it is probably the child that knows how to dig through the trash can or take pictures with the camera. For instance, I found you-know-who with the camera this morning and he had taken about 20 pictures. Here are the first couple...after that he expresses his artistic talent (or not) in a variety of shaky, fuzzy landscape shots. (Oh yeah, that is after he got into the bathtub after I had taken a shower and 'swam' around in the residual water...soaking wet from head to toe, not to mention gross.)



Yesterday, I lost my phone. I looked everywhere and couldn't find it. I finally remembered the last place I saw it was in the hands of this kid. I was sure it was in his room and I tore it apart looking for my phone. It wasn't ringing, so I assumed it must be dead. I all but gave up when I remembered one last hiding spot. Talmage likes to take the end off my exercise bike stand and slip his cars into the tube. Sure enough, there was my phone, tightly wedged into a metal tube. It was pushed so far back I had to pull it out with some kitchen tongs. That is the last time I will let him walk away with my phone. Just for kicks, here is a picture of the culprit.
One last thing, I've been trying to take some cute pictures of Logan for a baby announcement. Here is what happened this morning:



We will try again tomorrow

Big News!!!

Logan Samuel Bodine was born on September 1.
He weighed 8 lbs 13 ounces and was 20 inches long. He was born with some healthy sized cheeks, as you can see. We are so grateful and happy to have our little friend here with us.

Sorry, I can't fix this picture, but it is so cute with his little smile. I know that newborns don't 'smile' but I've caught quite a few.