will and jake

One hard thing about having twins is that you end up lumping them together on so many things, even though they couldn't be more different than each other.  So, I'm going to take just a minute to write about each of them as individuals, since they just turned seven, starting with Will, because he is the oldest of the two, even if it was just by a minute.  

The boys were filling out their annual "favorites" papers the other night, 

and here are a few of the things Will wrote:

FAVORITE THING TO DO:  build Legos  

FAVORITE FOOD:  pizza (he's not just a kidding--he eats it for breakfast all the time)

FAVORITE TV SHOW:  Megamind: Button of Doom  (and Sponge Bob)

FAVORITE MOVIE:  Polar Express and Flushed Away...and Ghostbusters I and II...and BTTF...

FAVORITE BOOK:  Calvin and Hobbes, Polar Express and The Boxcar Children

FAVORITE GAME:  Little Big Planet 2

Will is just a little spitball of fire!  From the youngest times he has loved dressing up as his favorite movie characters, and now he's made it a little more simple by creating his favorite movie characters with the Lego minifigures.  You wouldn't believe how many we have, and how creative he gets with them.  I'll post his latest creation, The Polar Express, in the next few days.  He LOVES to read, and loves to just look at pictures in books.  He wants to be a captain of a ship someday, and he just might do it.  He loves Legos, and playing them with his brothers.  Will loves animals and is so kind to them (he would really love a dog if I wasn't so allergic to them...).   Will can quote any movie line from any movie he has seen, and loves music from movies.  Will's favorite website is You Tube--first he looks for a lego rendition of whatever movie he is into at that time, and then asks Ben to build it for him.  Will has a great connection with Jake, but he has a very special connection with Ben, who "gets" Will like hardly anyone else does.  He likes to hang out with me, but in reality he is a daddy's boy, and he is thrilled to be hanging out with "daddy" this weekend on their 4-wheeling trip.  

 Indiana Jones

 Ghostbuster

Mr. Staypuft Marshmallow Man

and a lover of Legos (and camouflage) 

 Jake's favorites:

THING TO DO:  build Legos (ok, one thing in common)

FOODS:  ice cream

TV SHOWS: Sponge Bob and Scooby Doo

MOVIE:  Star Wars

BOOK:  The Monster at the End of This Book, The Boxcar Children series, The Magic Treehouse series, Calvin and Hobbes, and My Weird School series

GAME: Lego Star Wars on the PS3

If I listed Jake's best friends, his list would go on and on...and on some more.  This is one boy who LIVES and breathes for friends.  Someone to play with.  Someone to keep him entertained.  Thus, he's the hardest one to have at home alone because he wants constant attention.  Jake is a very loving boy and shows it constantly with lots of hugs and kisses.  Even when he's been so mad at me (usually at bedtime at night) he will still yell to me as I'm closing his door, "You're the best mom in the whole world!!"  Jake is an amazing helper around the house too, with whatever needs to be done.  He is as stubborn as you get, though, when he doesn't want to do something.  He can be loud and obnoxious, just ask his bus driver and anyone who rides the bus with him, but he also loves to sit next to me as quiet as a mouse while we are reading a book.  Jake loves to wear shorts and flip flops year round, and he might be our little sports guy. 

When looking at this first picture of Jake, you would think that he is mild-mannered and so loving.  He did love holding Nan's puppies, but don't let him fool you.  This is also the kid of a thousand crazy faces.  I can't get him to give me a descent smile for the life of me, so I thought I'd throw a few of his crazier ones in here.

 This last picture makes me laugh out loud every single time I see it, and it has to be my favorite.  Oh how they wanted that gargantuan Hershey bar.  All 5 pounds of it.  For $40.  Dream on, bruthers!

And that might help explain why I am so darned tired all the time!!  

And every once in a while, they go to sleep too.   I love you guys!