No pictures, please!

While I'm usually "way behind" in posting because I have a TON of pictures I've captured and I want to share. Right now, my camera is being so finicky the only pictures we manage are few and far between. Not to mention, they aren't the best quality with Austin's IPOD (or catching my camera in a good mood). It's really sad and I'm trying not to think of it's implications when I go to make a scrapbook for 2012... a new camera just can't be on the "to buy" list yet... *sigh*

Still, even without pictures, I thought I'd catch up.

Reasons I feel "behind":
 We've been sick. Over Easter weekend we were all really sick (nasty cough, fever, etc.). I was up to 4 a.m. one morning (with Cadence) and we're still catching up... that alone means I'll see you next week. Right now I'm blocked by the mound of laundry. It still managed to be a FABULOUS Easter (thanks to Maria)! Our 12 days of easter egg symbols were slammed into three I think, but we made it work. I think we'll be eating Easter dinner the rest of the week (yay - less cooking for me and more time to "catch up")!

SPEAKING OF LAUNDRY - Cadence is doing well potty training. So well that if he gets his clothes a TAD wet (even if it's from washing his hands), he HAS to change his clothes. *sigh* I do so much laundry for him it's ridiculous. HELP!

Kory is walking! Yes and getting into EVERYTHING (trash, toliet, toliet paper, etc.)! He's already learning to climb to grab at that stuff we carefully put up higher so we don't have to clean up messes. I'm glad we have a baby gate now, but it just means a lot of crying.

Our house seems to be smaller and smaller with two boys. I'm grateful we have a trampoline. They jump, I feed chickens and work in the garden. I jump with them too :-) In it's smallness, one challenge is rotating off season and not-fitting clothing to the crawl space. It always is a project that happens all to often with growing little ones. With more and more regular maintenance projects, I feel like I never get to what I really want to be doing...

Which is reading, and recording history, and that list of projects which never goes away. Still, I'm grateful because I'm not sure what the projects would look like with a bigger house. NEVER ENDING CLEANING - yikes! I need more helpers before I get there.

What have you been up too?