On September 29, 2013 I wrote on Facebook: "Today
[AH] and I met and fell in love with three adorable little tornadoes! Our
lives are forever changed. The adventure begins....!!!!" Ha! Little did we
know! The nickname "The Three Tornadoes" stuck, and
from the word go we were running to keep up! On our second visit with them I fractured
a bone in my foot while chasing the three year old in the park (and
re-fractured it twice in the months following). There were numerous meltdowns
and it felt like we would need a small army to keep it together! But we forged
ahead and the rewards have far exceeded the stress.
There have been so many cute, sweet, funny, loving moments
that all of the work is far exceeded by the rewards we get in return. From the
very beginning the boys have come up with stuff that made us want to laugh,
sometimes even as we tried to discipline them. During a pillow fight one
Saturday morning, Brandon started wailing and Andrew says "I hit him
too hard because I'm too strong because I eat all my vegetables." Uh huh. Another day I was heating up some chicken nuggets for Brandon and he
says he wants french fries. I told him we didn't have any and he ran to the 20
pound bag of potatoes and said "here they are!" The downside of AH's
fresh cooking!
Morning music videos became a big hit early on (and motivation to
have them ready for school on time) and the first one to catch their fancy
was "What
Does the Fox Say?"What Does the Fox Say? We were "Ding ding ding da ding ding
dinging" for months, and the boys were just adorable dancing and singing
together! Then came Boogie
Shoes after I misunderstood Andrew to say "Boogie Shoes" when we were talking about shoes and
later had to prove to him that there was such a song. Singing in the car is
another experience, with Brandon grunting "Ooooo" very loudly at the
appropriate moments while Bruno Mars' "Locked Out
of Heaven" is playing, or me belting out "O
Sole Mio" (albeit not as beautifully as Il Volo) instead of turning on
the radio when the boys ask for "songs," causing a chorus of
"no, not THAT song" from the back seat. Fine! LOL
There is so much more ahead of us and I sometimes can't believe that these three little creatures are ours! I'll be sharing more adventures in future blogs, and may even copy
& paste my past kid-related facebook posts onto another page just to have it
for posterity. The funnies continue to keep us entertained almost daily as
more of their personalities have emerged, and every day it feels like I couldn't
love them more.