The other day during nap time I could hear Adam playing in his room. I don’t mind if he has some books and toys on his bed and plays for a little bit, because I know he’ll eventually fall asleep. But I could tell that he was on the floor playing with his legos, which is not allowed.

So I opened the door to check and he immediately hopped on the bed and tried to act like he’d been there the whole time. I reminded him that he needed to stay on the bed and he said, “I have an idea Mommy. How about if I play on the floor, but I will jump in bed if I hear you coming.”

Yeah, nice try buddy.

Yesterday morning Adam decided he wanted to be a detective. So he got out his magnifying glass and put on his detective hat and pants.

I mistakenly called it his explorer hat and he was quick to correct me. “It’s only my explorer hat when I’m exploring Mommy. I’m being a detective, so it my detective hat now.”

This kid is pretty darn fantastic. He was so proud last night, after he put on Adam’s boots all by himself.

Last night, Luke was was getting in trouble for biting me and Adam ran up with his toy camera. He pretended to take a picture and then said, “You need to put this on the website mommy”.

I’m thinking that maybe recording all their naughty antics might be be sending the wrong message (but don’t worry, I’m not going to stop).

At the end of my appointment on Wednesday, the ultrasound technician asked me if I was sure I didn’t want to know the baby’s gender. She told me that she knew (further proving I have no idea what I am looking at during a sonogram, because I was looking at the screen the whole time). I told her we wanted to be surprised (and we do), but it’s killing me now that someone else knows. Hopefully we can make it through the next 3 months without one of my doctors telling us accidentally, now that it’s in my chart.

Tuesday morning I had planned on taking the boys to the indoor playground. Adam was especially excited about the trip. He spent the entire time we were getting ready telling me which toys he was going to play with and how much fun he was going to have. So we were both disappointed to see a “closed” sign on the door when we got there.

When Dave got home from work we decided to drive to the next town over and take them to a different indoor play place and then go out to dinner. They have a small area geared specifically toward younger kids and Luke had a blast in there.

He spent the most time playing with this toy – which is almost identical to one he got for Christmas. The main difference being that this toy was partially broken. Luke got so frustrated when he couldn’t get it to work like the one at home.

Of course Adam had to check it out and make sure Luke wasn’t having too much fun without him.

Luke really liked this slide as well. It was just his size and he was able to climb up the ladder and go down it all on his own (which he did over, and over, and over again). I had to lead him to something different when some older, bigger kids started taking turns and not paying attention to whether or not Luke was off the slide before they slid down it.

Luke loved the big slide too (once Dave pushed helped him down it). 

 Both boys had a blast and Adam is already asking when we can go back.

The boys weren’t really that in to the game last night.

Though Luke did wear a pair of football jammies in honor of the event.

Adam was most interested in fixing things and playing with his Little People.

He even upgraded Noah from that cumbersome old ark to something a little faster (I think the animals must be flying coach).

A couple of mornings ago I came out of the laundry room to discover the boys had taken the cushion off of a chair and were jumping from the chair, to the cushion, to the ottoman, and then to a pillow.

I asked Adam what was going on and he told me, “It’s okay mommy. Me and Luke are pretending to be grown-ups, so we can jump on the furniture. Kids aren’t supposed to jump on the furniture, but we pretending to be grown-ups. So it’s okay.”

I am totally not prepared to argue with logic like that.