Well it was a Tuesday!

We had to run some errands early this morning and that was a challenge. I had to wake H up, dress him, grab milk and run out the door. I sort of forgot breakfast...Thank goodness for Chick-fil-a! The boys fought over the chicken minis and I resisted the urge to eat them!


Jack is still battling an awful cough, but thankfully after a small bit of rudeness from me to the Walgreens pharmacy, we finally made it home by lunch time with cough syrup and nap time!

Jack has not slept the last two nights and I finally gave up last night and went and got in his bed and left him to crawl all over J instead of me! He so wants to go to school tomorrow and keeps saying "but I feel better" then 5 minutes later when he wants something he'll say "But mommy, I am sick" (wonder who he gets that from?)

Both boys napped today thanks to Em's pink tommy and and some cough syrup! Jack will watch videos on Em's ipod until he gets so sleepy and then he will put the ipod outside the door to his room its the funniest thing!

That is a rare treat and I got lots of work done! YEA!!! Em and I also hit a HUGE milestone and goal we had for this year today. Tootlebugs has 3,000 fans on Facebook.

Best Laid Plans

We had our weekend all planned out, even down to amount of shirts I was going to have completed. Well, guess what??? Instead I woke up Saturday with a migraine and now Jack as an awful bug. As in 104 temps and throwing up bug! YUCK!!! I can say that now that he can talk and tell you what's wrong and that he is about to get sick makes life much easier!


I did get half of my 30 shirts done since Jack and Henry got to have a playdate and lunch with Pop and Nana on Saturday and now I am hoping to finish up some tonight when J gets home! Its the end of the month and Jack can not go to school today, so we will see how it goes!

Wordless Wednesday

Kid's night at our favorite restaurant...Chick-fil-a!

Sleepy Head

Henry was playing trains while I was working yesterday. Jack was at school, so it was much quieter than normal, but when it got really quiet I looked down from my chair and saw this. I just had to step away and get a quick picture!

I so love that boy!

Weekend

I really debated about posting this picture, but since its so blurry I figured it would be okay. Both boys LOVE LOVE LOVE playing with glow sticks in the bath tub. Thank you Aunt Em for the idea and the glow sticks. Jack made J buy him two more packs tonight at Target.

Saturday it rained hard, but luckily cleared up just in time for Charlie's 1st birthday party. It was a perfectly themed monkey party. I got to make his cute outfit and the kids had lots of fun! H loved these sensory balls...I think the Easter bunny needs to find some!

J and I had date night Saturday night and our favorite Ms. Anna came to play. Henry who cries the ENTIRE time in the church nursery was like okay Anna's here...BYE! Jack had someone to eat pizza, watch movies, and snuggle with him and she even did baths and had both boys sound asleep when we got home! We went to the movies and to dinner. It was so nice to enjoy a dinner without having to scarf down my food or either not even eat my food! HA!


Sunday the boys slept in so we stayed in our pjs and skipped church. We managed to get dressed for a quick trip to the grocery and the best part was it was finally a weekend with an entire day and no where we had to be! LOVE!

Our Day

Today we were up before 7am watching Octonauts, playing on mommy's phone, and being boys!


Jack went to school and complained that he did not get to stay for aftercare since his best friend Slade did! HA! He told me Alynn cried and he colored a snowman. He also reminded me not to put cheese on his sandwich again!


We ate our favorite marble baby bites and shared them with our sweet friends.


We skipped naps and played with Emily Kathryn instead. Mrs. Carrie got a good taste of what little boys are like!

I actually passed on the Chick-fil-a dinner the boys ate and opted to wait on J and eat salads instead! And yes the new grilled nuggets are yummy!

Were you bored?

You know since we have not been around? HA!

Not to worry it is definitely not due to lack of things to talk about, but mostly to lack to time! I mean I never dreamed how my world would change when Henry started walking! Oh my it came way to fast! The child is into EVERYTHING! And the stairs are the worst! I know I could solve that issue with a gate (and we have one at the top) but we leave the bottom open on propose. Jack learned to navigate the stairs really early and it has made life so much easier on us. We have stairs and they are not going anywhere anytime soon, so Henry needs to learn too! He has mastered the climb, now we just have to tackle the coming back down!



J got his feel for it this weekend, and you know he sure has been really sweet to me and VERY helpful at night lately :) Emily and I went to market for Tootlebugs over the weekend and while it is work (okay mostly fun with alot of walking) it was a nice break for me. They managed, but he was not ready for Henry being all over the place..and my house was even pretty clean when I got home!

Henry is also having MAJOR separation anxiety from me. Like so bad that he is totally fine at home with J if he can not see me, but if he sees me or even hears my voice it is over! He cried the entire time he was in the nursery on Sunday. Those poor ladies hate to see us coming. I make J take him in because I can not stand it! Of course Jack loves Sunday school and would go everyday, so I know it will pass with Henry too!


Both boys are officially enrolled in MDO for the fall. I am really excited. I will get to work 12 whole hours a week...ALONE!! Its been hard to work since Henry has gotten so mobile and I end up working at night or weekends and missing out on other things, so I have slowed down some until he goes to school in the fall. Jack LOVES MDO and I think Henry will too.


Jack is a motor mouth. I guess I did not realize that he has started talking so much, but he never stops and repeats anything and everything he hears. He is so into the incredibles and the muppets right now. He makes us act out the movie with him. He loves angry birds on the phone, the game Aunt Shan got him for Christmas and his stuffed one that J surprised him with tonight. He talks about Disney all the time and we have all of our reservations for character dinners made, we have mapped the halfway point of our drive..I just need to finish the boys outfits (okay start the boys outfits) and continue the countdown. One of the teachers at Jack's school is a travel agent for Disney and she did the best job helping us plan since we have no clue what we are doing! Only 47 days to go!!!

Rain Rain Go Away

IT has been so rainy and yuck here the last few days and I am ready to see it go! Its hard to get out and do things with two littles and a rain storm!


Henry and I did do some running around Monday while Jack was at school and then apparently there was some BIG football game on Monday night! HA! Henry went to bed, Jack stayed up and played dress up and watched football with J and I took advantage of the quiet time and got lots and lots of monogramming done!

Obviously you can tell we are not bama fans or tiger (well, LSU tigers anyway) fans, but he still rooted for Bama, after all one of my children will probably go to school there! Yesterday we opted to stay home minus two errands that did not involve getting out of the car and stayed in pjs! J had a late work meeting/dinner so we did the FREE kids night at of course Chick-fil-a and played choo-choos until J got home!

Random Lately

We had a busy, but fun weekend! Saturday my sweet friend Randall, who was my roommate in college had her baby shower! We have been waiting a praying for a very long time for a sweet baby for them and guess what??? Baby Carter surprised them early last night! He is almost 4 weeks early, but doing great! So glad we had the baby shower in time and now he has lots and lots of cute stuff! HA!

It was so much fun to visit with old high school friends who are very dear to me. We laughed and the two hours flew by! I can not wait to see them again and love on baby Carter! It was a quick trip and J got to babysit. And sidenote, I was glad because he had not gotten to babysit for a whole day since Henry is on the move! Now he knows why I fall into bed at midnight so tired! HA!

Sunday was rainy and yuck, but it was 70 degrees. Not weather for celebrating our last Christmas with my dad's family, but we had fun. The boys got WAYYY to many new toys and Jack got another gun which is the loudest thing I have ever heard! I called my dad last night and told him if he woke up this morning to a gun blast it would be Jack, the gun, and his suitcase on the front porch.

We had too much yummy food and played a quick game of dirty santa (nobody wanted to steal) I complained of how jealous I am of their new sunroom that would be the perfect play room and even better is its the perfect location for a playroom too! I guess I will add that to my new house wishlist!

Jack has all of a sudden decided he is ready for Disney World. Did not care a thing about it on Christmas and now its all he talks about. We I picked him up from school yesterday he said...Where are we going mom? To Disney World? And try explaining to a 3 year old that he still has to wait 55 days to go to Disney World! Its a pointless argument!

1 Year check up

This morning we rushed to get ready, had a minor melt down by the 3 year old that resulted in a cut on the finger, some kisses to fix the finger and a promise to get more Cars 2 band-aids! And all of that was just in a effort to get everyone dressed and out the door so I could get Jack to school on time, stop by my friend/seamstresses house, and get Henry to the doctor for his 1 year check up all within an hour! We made it on time and sweet boy was so good. He managed to not cry during the finger prick, cry for the 1st time ever while getting shots, and drive me crazy wanting to get down! He kept saying down, down, down, down. Naked baby plus dirty doc's office floor...means NO down, down, down!

He weighed 25lbs (75%) and was 30 inches (50%) long. And considering that he weighed over 17lbs at his 2 month appointment, I would say that walking has really slowed my chunky monkey down!

It's hard to believe that I have a healthy happy 13 month that is all over the place! He is my laid back baby, but boy is he quickly becoming just as strong willed as Jack!

Dress up Day

Today was the 1st stay at home in our pjs day we have had in FOREVER...like over a year forever! It was so wonderful! I did not even shower until the boys were in bed tonight, but I got lots done! Its been hard to get back in the swing of work. We even made it to the PO before they closed (pjs and all) and I bribed Jack to hurry quick with a trip to TCBY for Strawberry and Kiwi sorbet and it was so yummy!!!

We did take time to play lots of dress up! Jack is obsessed with dressing up and since Santa brought a dress up box with spiderman, caption america, and iron man we have been dressing up lots!

He thought the hot pink hat made him look like a cowboy! HA! Not the bathing beauty that I thought he did!

Coffee and Head Stands

This what two silly boys are up to today at our house!

We're BACK!!!

I know you just could hardly stand it right? HA! We took a much needed and fun relaxing time off. I got to enjoy just being a mom again full time for 2 whole weeks! We played hard, shopped a lot, spent time in TN with family, ate WAYYY to much food, but LOVED everyday of it!

Today is back to normal and back to work for me and J. I am a tad nervous, as I work on a new plan to balance a full time job and two little boys. One who has outgrown his nap and the other who is on the move now and down to one nap! Time will tell and it will all work out!


We did so much while we were gone I am not sure I even know where to start. I really want to work hard this year on blogging each afternoon/night about that day. This is my scrapbook and I want to remember every day like it was. Life is not always peachy and roses, and those days make us who we are too! We have a wonderful life and much to b thankful for and I don't want to forget that either! But now that I have said it out loud maybe I will stick to it!


Here are some of my favorite pictures from Christmas. Jack and Henry both LOVED Christmas and everything about it. And we were most excited about the trip to Disney World coming very soon! However both boys were much more into the toys and as much as Jack had been telling everyone all he wanted was a boom boom gun, and a cat piano from Target for Henry. (and thanks to Gigi and Geepers for providing the beloved cat piano that "santa" was not going to provide! HA!) we are not a bit surprised!




This year was Christmas with J's family, and since J's sister just had a baby and we stay home on Christmas Day we spent Friday night with Aunt Em and Uncle Pookie before they left town on Saturday, a little time with J's parents on Christmas Eve, Pop and Nana came over for a yummy lunch J cooked on Christmas Day, and we had planned for dessert at some friends on Christmas night until Jack decided to nap right through dinner until 11pm and then stay up until 3am! But that's a another story for another day! HA!


We spent New Year's weekend in TN visiting with J's grandparents, aunts and uncles, and of course we got lots of play time at the Aunt Shan's since we stayed there! THey also won the top gift award with Jack. He is OBSESSED with his angry birds game. I think so much that they might have topped Santa!



J's grandparents always go over and above for Christmas and my new camera bag and earrings just might make me giddy!! But my most favorite gift this year were the picture frames that J's dad made me. I LOVE them. And for me the saddest thing about Christmas is that Jack wore the last longall or jon-jon that he will ever wear! Sad I know!!! He was ready even though I was not, but it was time. Growing up too fast!



I think that sums it up and I am shocked if you are still reading! Happy Tuesday!!