Crib hang-out

I love these pictures of them! They are both getting so big! I can't believe it. S loves spending time in K's crib just before bed. In fact, he would spend LOTS of time in there if it weren't for that awesome crib tent (that is one of my new favorite baby items of all time). At first S could unzip the crib tent and crawl in, but one night when a good friend put our kids to bed and baby-sat so we could have a date night, the next day I noticed she tucked the zipper all the way down in the pocket which guarentees no brotherly visits when we are not around. Its the best! So...sometimes they play with toys, but most times they like to wrestle (with adult supervision of course). I've never seen either of them laugh so much as when they play together. It is the best sound ever!

Anniversary and Summer Fun

So the big sad news is....we have NOT moved yet. We have not even closed yet. I don't want to go into details about how many times the dates have been moved or changed...so I will just post pictures of our new house when we are there.

On a happier note...Happy Anniversary to me and A this past Saturday! Six years! Wow! I can't believe it has been that long. We had a fabulous day! We went to an aquarium and had a delicious lobster dinner. It was great to spend the day with our little boys and some of A's family that has been visiting.

Here we are six years ago....







Here we are today. We are still so happy but with a bit more poundage. Anyways, I am so grateful to have met and married my husband. He is a wonderful man and a great father to our two boys. He is usually always smiley just like me (one of the reasons I was instantly attracted to him). He truly is my best friend and he understands me the best too. I know I made the right decision 6 years ago to get us to this point in our lives. I look forward to many more years of smiles and adventures ahead. (I really don't feel like doing another house adventure for awhile though :0)


So since we haven't moved or been busy unpacking, painting, ect. we have had some time to do some fun things with A's family. We have gone camping, blueberry picking, swimming, eating out, and shopping. It has been really great! Here is a little picture re-cap...(there are lots more pictures but I will save them and space them out a little bit)






















Okay...I guess that was a lot of pictures anyway. Hopefully we will close on the house soon, right?

BIG 9 month stats and moving!

Okay, so I am realizing that July is almost over and I will have no posts. That is sad because there is so much going on, but I have not gotten the courage to blog about it yet for fear that it won't really happen.

The biggest news is...we are moving into our very own house in about 2 weeks! I still don't feel like it is going to happen, although I have a good portion of our things in boxes and bins. I think it won't feel final until after the closing.

I really pictured the experience of buying our first home to be a joyous and exciting adventure, but it has been sooooooooooooooo stressful that I can see why "buying a home" is listed on the top life stressor list. I am usually a very upbeat and positive person and I hate how down I have felt these last two and half months since we started the looking process. I don't like not smiling as much as I normally do and I am hoping to come out of my funk soon!

In other BIG news...we had K's 9 month apt. and he is in the 100th percentile for both height and weight. He weighs 25.2 lbs and is 30 3/4 inches long. What a chunker! He sure is busy these days with crawling, pulling himself up, and trying to do everything S does without fear. The safety issues with both of them is getting harder to handle. They are both getting more bruises and bumps these days. I think they are more cranky lately too, as they watch me slowly pack up all of our things. Well that is our life for now! We are excited for the big move to happen! Oh and if you have any spare boxes...they would be greatly appreciated!

More on the Climbing...

S has been driving me crazy with the crib climbing! Last night we found him sleeping on the floor because we didn't hear him climb out that last time (after the 10 other times!) He usually comes out and sees us or we hear K laughing or crying because he is in K's crib. So after almost a week and a half of the climbing and putting back circus with time-outs for almost 2 hours every night for bed and about half an hour for nap time...we have decided and I guess S has really decided(especially since he seems to prefer the floor to his crib) that he is ready for a bed. So today I took the crib down and just put his mattress on the floor for now in the space where his crib was and S was so happy! He kept laughing and jumping around on his new "bed." Today for his nap, he didn't come out once! WOW! Bedtime was a different story with more of the circus and a couple LONG time outs. Hopefully the novelty will wear off sooner than later.

I am amazed at how sometimes children are more ready for big growing up steps than their parents are. I am not ready for my little baby to be big enough for a bed, but he is. (We still want the crib tent, but to protect K from S's invasions.)

Here are some cute pictures from a few weeks ago. They have nothing to do with the post, but I love posting pictures with each post!

Climbing and Crawling

I have been slacking off with my blog due to being busy with other things...mainly we are actively searching for a house. The process has been very exciting, but I find it almost all-thought consuming if that makes sense. I am anxious for the day when we can own the place we live in. It will also be nice to have our own driveway and yard. More updates to follow...hopefully sooner than later.

In some S and K news....there have been major advances in the areas of climbing and crawling. K is the crawler and it did not take him long to get super fast either. The funny thing is, he still doesn't sit up very well (today he showed some more progress). I thought babies usually sit before they are on the move, but I guess he is alright because he seems to be working on the sitting up more and more. In bigger more sad news for me...S climbed out of his crib last night for the first time! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I was so nervous because A was at cub scouts and I kept hearing the jiggling of a door handle and I finally figured out where it was coming from. I opened the door to the boys' bedroom and S was standing there so proud of himself and he just said "Hi". I could not believe he got out so carefully that I didn't even hear a thump. Luckily, I just put him back in the crib and he went to sleep.

Today was a different story. He stayed in his crib for all of his nap and when I heard that he woke up, I waited a little bit to get him since I was preparing dinner. I then heard his door open and out he came! Yikes! Guess I was too slow! Tonight when we were getting them ready for bed, A and I got to watch S climb out of his crib (it was interesting for us to just see how he did it) and then (here is a problem I didn't even think of) climb up and over into K's crib! Ummm....yikes! He then snuggled right down in a corner of K's crib and said "Bye" to us like they were all set. So we had to take him out and have him climb out two more times (at least no more K crib attempts) before he seems to have gone to sleep. I really want to get one of those cool tent covers for the cribs because I am not ready to move S into a bed yet! I really didn't think this was going to happen to me because S loves his crib so much. Oh well I guess he is just growing up. Here are some fun photos! (Yes, S is holding a fan cord in one of them, but I told him to keep it away from K as he was crawling towards it)

Red, White, and Blue

Happy Memorial day! I love this long weekend! It is so much fun to spend it with family and friends and eat good picnic food. What is not so fun is trying to take care of two kids in parks or homes that are not childproof. On Saturday we were at my dad's house for a family party. My dad has a pool and it was really scary and stressful having S around. Some of my dad's friends were pretty clueless about 2 year olds and pools and could not understand why we were trying to hold his hand or hold him the entire time he was outside. S wanted to go in the pool and had no fear. He was fine and we had a good time overall, but we were very happy to be safe in our car and heading home at the end of the day! I did get to do some awesome karaoke numbers with my sisters (Dancing Queen, and My Boyfriend's Back were some of the highlights)

Monday we watched the parade right outside of our apartment and then we went to our church picnic at a park which was fun, but again a little stressful with S and his lack of boundaries. I watched a lot of my friend's toddlers and a lot of them keep to a home base (near their parents) How come we didn't get so lucky? Maybe next year will be better. S is just so happy and wants to be free and run far, far, far away wherever we go. I also can hope that K will be different too. K is turning into such a sweet 8 month old baby. He really only gets sad if he's hungry or tired, which I think is fairly reasonable. Well again, overall, it was another fun picnic and we are happy to celebrate this wonderful country that we live in!

Baseball is fun!

Happy be-lated Mother's Day! I had such a wonderful day! It was so nice to get a nap and be pampered a little bit. I got a really cute card from all three of my boys (A is included) and some great Munson's chocolates. Yummy! So in biggest loser news...we are slowly shedding the pounds, then take a few weeks off, shed a few more, take another week off ect. but the important part is the numbers are going down in the right direction. A is now down 17 lbs total and I am almost down 14 lbs total. At least I have been good about working out three times a week...so at least I should be losing inches along with the pounds I have lost.

We have some other news in our family...we now own a 1997 Suburban! My mom and step-father were super generous in just giving it to us because they got a newer one. We are excited to go camping and for when A's family comes out to visit, we will all be able to travel in one car. We just got it on Friday and I know that it will take some getting used to on my part in terms of driving it. Yesterday we took it to the mall. S had a great time riding the carousel that was there. We then went to the park for one of S's friends little birthday party from our library playgroup. It was fun, but cold and kind of rainy. We all really like our new big car...thanks Mom and Scott!

Tonight after dinner, S really got into playing a little indoor baseball. I think he has pretty good form and focus. K just had fun watching and chewing on a toy. Gotta love that drooling teething phase! Here are some photos to catch some of the action. The second one you can see the ball in the air after he hits it.