Battle of the Best Weezer Song

My boys have taken after my own heart. They both love music. Not kid music, but my music. They both always have. It's so weird, but they both have the same two favorite bands. They both love Weezer and Green Day. Which is strange because they are not necessarily my two favorite bands or the ones I play the most.

I try not to let them listen to too much Green Day, since most of it is completely inappropriate for their young ears, but they love it. If a Green Day song happens to come on the radio, Dom cranks up the radio all the way and then looks at me like what mom, what'd you expect me to do?

The first songs that each of the boys danced to and we were able to tell that the loved were Weezer songs. When Ashton was just a baby, Beverly Hills was a popular song. Everywhere we went it was playing and he would just shake his little shoulders and bounce. It was sooooo cute.

Weezer will always hold a special place in my heart. They were the first cd I ever purchased. They were the first concert I went to-for my twelfth birthday. Rivers Cuomo (the lead singer) was my first crush. I was soooo not a New Kids on the Block kind of girl. It makes a mom proud to have her boys following in her steps.

Today, the boys have been having a down and out fight over their favorite Weezer song. Dominic loves Troublemaker. Big surprise there. Like the title doesn't describe every aspect of his being. Anytime the song comes on, he MUST dance. If I don't dance with him, he screams like someone is stabbing him with a sharp knife, repeatedly. He even had his arms up in the air, waving to the beat. It is hilarious.

Ashton, however, lays claim to Pork and Beans. I know the reason why isn't so much the song as the video. It is filled with many of the youtube phenoms from the past year. Now I don't think the kid youtubes, but you never know what he's up to when he says he is on the Hotwheels website. His favorite part is any scene with diet Coke and Mentos. He studies it like he is devising a plan of his own. I am so glad he can't make it to the store on his own yet!

So for now, the battle wages on and I still listen to Weezer. I still buy cds from both bands. Not that it makes me feel old or anything. Especially when I hear things like I never even heard that song until Rock Band or I found this cd of my dad's and it's actually cool.

Halloween Going Ons

Halloween has been a month long holiday in our house. It started with us picking out pumpkins. Then the boys made a gingerbread haunted house.

I'm suprised that is lasted as long as it did. It took the boys a whole week before they figured out they could take candy off of it to eat.

Then we had Halloween parties, carving pumpkins, and trick or treating. The kids have so much candy they aren't even that interested in it. Infact, on Halloween night we went trick or treating with the Madsens. When we were finished, I told the boys they could each have one piece of candy and then we were heading home. Ashton could have cared less about the candy. This is all he cared about:

Throwing balloons, crazy kid!

Here are snaps of the happy skeleton and Batman.

Ashton picked out his own costume and loved it!

Dom didn't even know he was in a costume!

The kiddos had lots of fun and I'm sure they can't wait until next year.

Paul is Officially a Phd Candidate

We have been really busy the past month. Paul was preparing for his prelim and the kids have been the same crazy monsters as usual. I am happy to announce that Paul passed! We are so proud of him. He is now officially a Phd candidate - whatever that means. I just hope we are outta here in another 2 1/2 years!

Even though it's been crazy around here, we have still managed to get a bit of family time. Fall back home was always beautiful, and we were missing it, so we took the kids to Celery Bog yet once again. It is the closest thing we have to a Metroparks around here.

Ashton loved picking up all the leaves. He was very proud he mangaed to keep the same one the entire time we were there.

Dominic had a ball plowing through the deepest recesses of leaves. No fear. That kid has no fear. It doesn't matter if he was trying to plow through a pile as tall as him. No fear.

The boys were trying to count frogs, even though I kept telling them there weren't any out. They just didn't believe me. I'm only Mommy, what would I know.