Christmas lights

Tonight we took the boys to a house nearby that goes all out for Christmas...the man uses four of his neighbors yards and pays their electric bill so he can put up all kinds of Christmas lights and other such things. They have popcorn and hot chocolate and music and a path you walk through to see everything. We had a great time and afterwards took a few pics of the boys. I tell ya, Evan turning two has been a great thing. I feel like I can *sort of* breathe now. There are now moments where they play together well instead of fighting constantly. Don't worry, there is still plenty of fighting (they are brothers), but there are times where there isn't. There are times where they get along and entertain each other! This is huge. I feel like we are coming out of the crazy-no concept of boundaries-have to follow them everywhere and can't ever leave them alone for even a second-one year old stage. Except it really starts before one for us because they started walking at 10 and 9 months. As soon as Emmory turned two and started to come out of that stage, Evan was crawling. And then walking (running) a few short months after that. So I feel like I have been in that stage for a very long time and I am very thankful to be coming out of it. And even though when they play together, it always involves a huge mess or something dare devil-ish...they are playing together!!! So I'll take it. They will always be boys, they will always be noisy, yelling, crashing things, banging things, wrestling, climbing and jumping off things, making messes, getting dirty, high-energy...but at least they can be that together now. And hopefully as Evan gets even older...those moments will turn into hours! (I can hope, right?).

Here is a good pic of them we got at the lights tonight. They started off sitting about five feet away from each other, so I told them to scoot closer and put their arms around each other, which Emmory took very seriously, and he tried to force Evans arm around him because Evan wouldn't do it himself.