With the weather being as cold as it has been, I haven't gotten the boys out of the house for much of anything.  Actually we've stayed in all week.  I took them to Grandma's last weekend for a sleep over, which went really well, and we've stayed in since then.
We decided, since Milo gets off work early on Fridays, we would take the boys out to view the Christmas lights in the surrounding neighborhoods in the evening.  That way we'd be out early enough for it to just be getting dark and not stay out too late for the boys to get too tired.  It worked out really well.  Milo got home, ran some errands and was got home just as the boys were finishing dinner.  We scurried out of the house and started driving.  We wondered if they'd be interested or if they'd even be able to see much from their carseats.  They could see and we're very interested.
It was actually one of the few times that Liam hasn't fallen asleep in the car.  He can fall asleep in the car at any time.  Right after he gets up from a nap even!  He's like his daddy... car = sleep.  However he stayed awake the entire time, pointing and 'talking' about the lights.  Coen did more observing, than commenting but seemed to really enjoy it too.

We went last year, when they were just little guys.  They probably slept in the car.. I can't remember.  (Mommy brain has taken hold of me and isn't letting go!) 
I'm hoping to make it a yearly tradition.  Especially when you visit the same houses year after year and see how much things have changed.  One house in particular is just amazing.  If we venture out again, I'll take my camera and snap a pic.  I've never seen a house so well decorated with lights.  It makes me want to see the inside and how wonderful it must look!

The boys have been sick the past 2 weeks with the same cold from Thanksgiving.  It was almost completely gone about a week ago and it came back again and now appears to almost be gone again.  Let's hope this is the end of this icky cold.  In the past 2 weeks time I've gone through 2 full kleenex boxes, 2 partial boxes and half a pack of boogie wipes.  I thought diapers were bad, but I've gone through tons of tissues in such a short time!  Enough about boogies.

They're still finding new things to climb on.  One day, I will find Liam in his crib.  Yes, in his crib.  He's closer to climbing in than climbing out, however we have moved the mattresses to the lowest position as a precaution.
Liam is learning to run now so they like to chase each other through the house. 
They're also starting to learn to listen a little better.  Sometime situations are better than others, but I'm glad they're finally listening on a more consistent basis.

Liam's tooth finally poked through although it's not fully in yet.  It appears that the teething game is in full swing though.  He is non-stop drooling and non-stop fussing. 
The past few days he will actually come when you call him.  He still likes to try and make it a game, but we've been working on coming when we call him which is nice.
No more new words really.  Just the same sounds for everything.  Iss, at, dat, das, dut, da.. and what sounds like 'yes'.  It's really cute, I can ask him a question and he'll say 'yes'.  Whether or not he's really saying yes or he understands what I'm saying is disputable, but it's still super cute.  Occasionally he would sound out 'mo' for 'more', but those days are done apparently.


Coen doesn't appear to be teething again, but he's picked up on some of the fussiness that Liam is oozing so the past few days have been interesting to say the least. 
He's combined his words for yogurt and cookie to gukguk.  So I now understand gukguk to be a snack.  He hasn't really picked up on any new words, just like Liam, he'll use the same sounds for everything.  He has picked back up on saying 'da' for done.

Since Milo's work schedule changed, so has their bedtime routine.  Mondays and Tuesdays I do the bedtime routine by myself (bath, dressed, milk, story, then bed).  Milo typically gets home either after they're in bed or just in time to put them down to bed.  On those days Uncle Oliver will help put them to bed, but I still do the story time and milk by myself.  So on those days, we sit on the floor and both boys will sit with me.  Well, now they fight over sitting with me on all days, even when Milo is home.  Sometimes one will go sit with daddy, but they generally will both end up with me.  Cute, but I know daddy still likes his cuddle story time especially since he's not with them every night anymore.  I'm hoping they get over 'me' and want to sit with daddy again, like before.

This brings me to my next topic... jealousy!  I wasn't expecting it this soon.  They've always been together, they've always had to share toys, mama, dada.. everything, but here recently they don't like to share us.  Toys have almost always been an issue with sharing, but now they've learned to 'fight' over mama and dada.  :( 
I always thought the jealousy monster would pop up if we had any more children or if we were cuddling other kiddos, but I never thought they'd be jealous of each other since they've always been together.  I'm not sure why I honestly thought that, but I was wrong.. way wrong.

Well, one last parting note... we have a biter!  Liam.  Liam is our biter.  Way back when, Liam bit Rogan.  I can't remember if it was out of frustration or if he got too close or what, but he didn't start biting then.  Here recently he's been curious about biting.  He will bite his own arm or Coen's.  A few weeks ago, he bit Coen 4 times on his arm!  Coen being the tough one that he is didn't complain or anything until the last bite, which is when we discovered what was going on.  Since then, Liam has been doing his experimenting with biting.  Mostly random, but never out of anger or frustration... until today.  They were playing in the kitchen with some pots and pans and I hear them both start fussing over something.  I glance over and they're fighting over a pan.  I head that direction and about that time Liam screams and bites down on Coen's shoulder.  :(  I was so disappointed in Liam and he could tell.  He gave me the quivering lip and looked genuinely sorry.  Poor Coen, even as tough as he is, lost it!  He immediately went into hysterics.  I finally got a look at his shoulder and confirmed it was indeed a bite, and Liam broke the skin!  No bleeding, but his skin is definitely cut.  Poor guy.  Now I have to make sure I hurry over to break up 'fights' before they get out of hand and I definitely don't want Coen picking up on the biting if I can help it.  (He's the one with the temper and I don't want two biters.)

Up next.. potty training.  I think Coen may be getting close to wanting to try, so maybe after the first of the year we can start practicing again!

I sat down to write their 16 month update and realized I hadn't even written about Thanksgiving yet.

Not a lot happened.  The boys got sick the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, I got sick the next day and Milo just a few days later.  We still managed to host a dinner at our house.  We had Oma and Opa over.  Uncle Oliver and family stayed in AR this year because of having to work. 
It was probably due to their sickness, but they took a super long nap which allowed Milo and me to get everything cooked and prepared for the dinner.  (Which was a huge blessing since I was incredibly stressed last year trying to take care of them and do the cooking.)  The dinner was great, thanks to my helpers and we've decided to host Christmas this year too.  Wish us luck!

The Friday after Thanksgiving we went to my Dad's, as usual.  And again, as usual, the food was fantastic.  My dad is such a great cook!  I always enjoy his turkey the best.  No one... I mean no one's turkey has ever compared to my Dad's.. doesn't even come close.
At Grandpa's, we finally met little Maddi!  The first, and most likely ONLY, girl on my side of the family.  We have 9 boys and finally 1 little girl, thanks to my bro.  He always said he wanted the first girl and he got her... only thing is I think she'll be the last of all the grandkids, but hey, at least we got 1 girl! 
It had been a long time since we've seen my brother, BJ's, family and my sister, Sheri's, family, so it was nice to see everyone again.

I think that about wraps up our Thanksgiving this year.  Nice and usual.  I like!