Best Buddies, Best Enemies...Best Brothers

Thatcher and Tagg have gotten to the point where they have a serious love/hate relationship. They are either fighting, wrestling, stealing toys from one another or on the other hand hugging, giggling, and now are in cahoots teaming up against me and getting into mischief. I will break up a fight, where both boys are SCREAMING at the top of their lungs, send Thatcher to his room for hitting Tagg and immediately after he stops crying, Taggy will run back into the room to find Thatcher. It is frustrating and very adorable at the same time.


This morning while I was getting ready I heard both of them run into the back room giggling and whispering. When I went in, I found that Thatcher had stolen the camera and was taking a photo shoot. From that time on whenever my back was turned one would try to steal the camera, and when I would turn around or grab the camera from one of them, the other would giggle. Enough to drive me insane. Thank heavens I don't have twins.

After discovering that Tagg didn't like the bubbles pointed at him, Thatcher chased him around with the bubble machine laughing.
Poor Tagg, don't worry, he can hold his own with Thatcher.

Last night when I checked on the boys they were sleeping like this...

Taggy can now climb out of his crib (the dreaded day for parents with toddlers) and all he wants to do it climb into bed with Thatcher. At nap time yesterday I 'caught' Thatcher laying next to Tagg in bed reading to him. When I walked in they covered their heads with the blanket laughing. I love these boys!

Summer Time Fun!

On Saturday Todd hosted a BBQ for some of his classmates in the LFM program. It was a good turn out, and Todd did a good job of cooking all the burgers, and playing host. I bought this kiddie pool for our boys and the other kids to have a blast with at the BBQ. While it was a big hit, I must say that our kids are OBSESSED with water. Sometimes to the point where it becomes a wee problem. I guess that is in there genes though, since both Todd and I were swimmers. I can't wait to enroll them in some swimming classes next month!

Thatcher's favorite part was covering the sprinkler with his mouth and choking himself. He is a nut case.

Notice the little girl in the back, she wasn't dressed for the kiddie pool, but obviously didn't care.

Boston Children's Museum

Yesterday we went to the children's museum. It is probably the best children's museum I have been to. Thatcher and Tagg LOVED it. We took the T and the boys loved going on the subway probably just as much as going to the museum! It was 90 degrees yesterday with probably 100 % humidity. It was hot. After living in Tucson, Todd didn't believe me that Boston could get very hot, but yesterday made him a believer! We had a great day together as a family before Todd starts his vigorous schedule on Monday.

All of us infront of the Boston Skyline

The boys painting.

Playing with the boats and the water.

Thatcher didn't want to stop running from exhibit to exhibit long enough to take this picture!

Playing in Arthur's kitchen.

Daddy living his glory days with the boys.

It was really cute to see how fascinated they boys were by a lot of the exhibits.

Eating ice cream and watching the Seagulls.

We Made It!

It has been 1 week since we have been living in Cambridge, and we survived! :) We moved in to our temporary apartment last Saturday and have been adjusting to city life this week.

We went to church in our new ward, which meets in an old building that has been remodeled. It seems to be a good ward with lots of young families. Thatcher and Taggart are in separate nurseries, divided according to age. There are lots of little boys Thatchers age in this ward, which will be nice for him. Taggy looks like he will have lots of little girl friends, which is okay cause he has his big brother to rough him up enough at home.

We are living in this apartment until next week when we move into our assigned apartment by MIT. We are living in Westgate Family Housing, and it is wonderful to have a HUGE playground steps away from our front door. It seems to have a great family community feel, and ever Friday night everyone grabs their own meat and there is a huge BBQ. There are four other LDS families living here for the summer that we know of, there might be more, we don't know yet. I think we will really enjoy it here. I cannot wait to get our stuff out of storage and make our apartment our home.

I ordered grocery's this week from an online grocery delivery service they have here called Peapod. This will be a LIFE saver here!!! I ordered them one day, the next day there were delivered right to my kitchen table. No hauling two screaming kids to the store, no climbing the stairs with bags of grocery's, what a great idea! I also found another life savor this week, it is called Super Suppers. You really need to check out the website. I went and in two hours made enough dinners to last us the whole month. We don't have a dishwasher (well we do, it is me!) and so this wonderful! I just take the food out of the freezer at lunch to defrost, then cook it, and throw everything away. We don't have a washer or dyer in the apartment so every Wednesday I plan on going down to my parents house and doing laundry there. It is also nice because my Mom watches the boys while I attend my Wilton Cake class, which I love. It is a fun hobby, and it gives me some time out by myself.

Todd is loving school and just finished the first week. He hasn't had any real work yet, just a bunch of leadership activities. The real load comes this up coming Monday. He is really liking his class of 48 students, and after this week he feels like he has gotten to know quite a few pretty well. He is in a team of four for the summer, and from what I hear life is about to get very busy for him.

I have been busy planning activities and outings for my two active little monkeys. I am going to put up flyer's and see if anyone wants to start doing Joy School with me in the Fall cause Preschool here cost about 700 bucks a month! I am starting a playgroup/lunch date with other moms from Todd's LFM program on Tuesday and we are going to the Library on Thursday's for story and music time. For those days that we do just hang out, Thatcher and Tagg are LOVING teasing, wrestling, fighting, and playing with each other. Brothers. It is a fun stage they are going through.