Busy, Busy, Me...

I should start by saying my brother, Tommy would have been 40 on April 28th.  We celebrated his birthday in New York with my family.  It was tough...  I miss him more and more each day... I sat in NY Sunday afternoon watching my son and his cousin play in my mom's backyard... the same backyard with the tree my brother climbed to make a tire swing for me when I was ten years old... the same backyard we grew up playing in... I watched the boys play and I thought of how much he would have loved to see them.  How unfair it felt that he wasn't there.  His presence is so greatly absent from our family and nothing will fill the void.  But as I tell my mom, in the darkness of death, we were blessed with Wesley.  Life being death's total antithesis... I remain mindful of this blessing no matter how dark our days get and remember to honor his life.  People have asked me if the recent murder of Osama Bin Laden made it any better.  It is still under investigation so I will say very little, but our family has strong reason to believe Tommy had a pre-existing condition caused by his time at ground zero on 9/11 and the days following.  Anyway, the short answer, no.  He is still gone and now another family mourns. 

Well....

About my blog - my older cousin once said, "I have no idea how you find the time to write, be a Mom and work full time."  She is a newly single working mom of two...  My response, "I guess you find time for what you love."  With Wessie on the move (As I write, I have had to get up about four times to stop Wessie from pulling things down on himself), Isaiah getting more vocal as he moves closer to four (boy, can my baby talk!), work pressures getting more demanding and us FINALLY going under contract with a house, I am losing ways to find to time for what I love.... I mean, Tiara, outside of devoting time to my boys.  I'm still committed to thirty by thirty - although, dieting unexpectedly impacted my milk production so I've had to start eating more again... *sniffle, sniffle... I ate that cupcake for you, baby! lol.  I have a bunch of other goals that I have been equally committed to... I've just been too busy to document it.   I even left facebook for a couple of weeks... This begs the question, if a tree falls in the middle of the forest and no one in the family picnicking nearby has their cell phones to blog about it or put it in their status update, did it really happen?

haha.

Here is a little bit of whats been going on with us...

 Being the cutest brothers... ever!

 Making lots of noise in the kitchen... boys are LOUD.

Pulling up and getting ready to walk...

 Spreading the cuteness all around the mid-Atlantic...

Taking our first bus ride for our first class trip! (Mommy was there to chaperon, of course - the bus was hands down the best part for all the munchkins)

 Totally dominating the conversation at dinner!

 Taking walks with Daddy and Mommy at the park!

 Being old enough to help feed our baby brother!

Getting two teeth!!!

But some of us have all of our teeth...



And... that's all folks...