Jackson Alexander Spillman Dan

So Jack is currently obsessed with dinosaurs. Now, I know what you are going to say. All 4 year old little boys like dinosaurs. True. But I dare to bet that not many 4 year olds walk around with their 3 dinosaur encyclopedias and talk about Deinonychus or Ornithmimus. Seriously, he is obsessed. He knows probably 25 different dinosaurs and how to pronounce them correctly (He gets a kick out of correcting Mommy and Daddy's mispronounciations). He can tell you what period they lived in (Cretaceous, Jurassic, etc). He knows if they are carnivores, herbivores, omnivores or insectivores (yep, I didn't even know there was such a thing). I've never seen him so interested in anything like this before. He informed us yesterday that he wants to be a palientologist when he grows up :)

Jack watches Dinosaur Train on PBSkids everyday and he also watches Dino Dan on NickJr. In fact, he has officially changed his name to Jackson Alexander Spillman Dan. (Don't ask me why the "Dan" comes at the end!).

I found a dinosaur fossil kit on Amazon and Jack loved it. It had a glow in the dark bone set that he put together and also a block of sand with dinosaur bones for him to chisel out. He was in heaven :)

Gum! Can You Believe It? Gum!

Somehow Jack got gum in his hair! Ugh, so gross!! Luckily I had JUST read that one should put peanut butter on the gum to get it out. Turns out, it actually works! However, Jack was none too happy about it!

Bumper Cars!

Seriously, these boys have so much fun together. Put Radio Flyer bumper cars into the mix and they can hardly contain themselves!

Obsessed

Its a good thing we have two tumbler cups with straws because the twins are OBSESSED!

Little Leprechaun

One of the things we love most about Jack is his love for holidays. The kid seriously wants to celebrate every holiday and if we let him (or if he knew about them) he would insist on celebrating National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day (its today!) or Rubber Eraser Day (seriously, it exists!). Luckily he is only aware of the big ones so celebrate we do!

For school this year Jack had to make a leprechaun trap. What a fun project! Jack was so proud of it and even more proud when the leprechaun left him Hershey Kisses :) We took a toilet paper roll and covered it in rainbow ribbon and stuck it in a hole in the box in hopes that the leprechaun would come to the rainbow looking for gold and get stuck in the box. Of course we put gold in the box to entice him!

Practice Makes Perfect

Will and Henry have been practicing with their utensils and are actually quite good at it. In fact, Henry can not only get the fork or spoon in his mouth but he can pick up food with them too!

This post may not be all that interesting but the pictures of Henry with his favorite tool sure are cute!

Trouble Makers

Dear Lord,

Please watch over these boys and protect them because we most certainly can't be in 2 places at once. These boys are crazy! They are mischievous and fast and adventurous and most importantly there are 2 of them. They feed off each other, watching the other's every move and taking it all in. On a daily basis they find a new and higher place to climb. We've stripped down the kitchen and living room to the bare bones and babyproofed our brains out, and yet they still find new ways of raising our blood pressure. Will is balls-to-the-wall adventurous and Henry is manipulative and crazy smart. Put them together and its a recipe for disaster. Just ask Will about when Henry almost set him on fire or the incident with the butcher knife! Yep, fun times. Yet, despite the gray hair inducing shenanigans, these boys are amazing. They are truly such a blessing and we'll keep reminding ourselves of that the next time we have a mild heart attack.

Amen.

Henry's new found passion is climbing onto the bar stools and then onto the high counters.
He even takes time to help Daddy with the taxes ;) Notice the trash cans on the counter? Yep. That was the temporary solution to garbage obsessed twins. We've fixed it now.
What is this, you may ask? Only twins with super human strength who ripped off a bar from the gate and made a mad dash up the stairs. Yes, that's right. With one hard yank, they were free.