Easter memories..
We woke up. Found our bunny loot. Went to a beautiful early church service. Hunted for "lucky charms and Trix" filled eggs. and enjoyed the spoils of the day.
Heaven on Earth. xoxoxo
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Quote of the week
Olivia: " Mom, can you please put new batteries in my toy?"
Me: " yes, ..."
Olivia: " But don't do it yet, I don't want you to stop making lunch. "
sigh...
xoxox
Me: " yes, ..."
Olivia: " But don't do it yet, I don't want you to stop making lunch. "
sigh...
xoxox
Friday, April 13, 2012
Built in...
...best friends.
Having a cousin who is only 3 weeks younger and lives only 8 miles away...well, that creates a recipe for double trouble!! hahaha!!
xoxoxo
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Today you are One.
Today you are one year old.
You can do so many things. Some of your favorite things are : pushing cars and trucks around the house and yard, chewing and loving on your blankie, pointing at airplanes and birds, eating cinamonn swirl toast, nursing, and doing ANYTHING outside.
Some things that are NOT your favorite are : coming inside after we have been outside, eating chunky fruit, when your brother takes things away from you, when the water is too cold in the bathtub, and changing your diaper.
You say many things: "mama" , "dada", "buh"= anything you like, "ba" = ball, "ga"= dog, up, "fra"=frog, and you growl when you see your stuffed tiger or any kind of dinosaur.
You are cuddly and love to give big open mouthed kisses to me and dada. You love it when your brother blows raspberries at you and you are exuberant when Olivia and Finn play hide and seek or peek-a-boo with you.
You are independent and love to play with any kind of truck, car, or construction vehicle. :-)
You are a climber and love to give your mama a heart attack on a daily basis with the things you attempt to do.
Most of all, you are sweet and and have an amazing and contagious smile. Your laughter is infectious and you are the light of our lives.
Happy Birthday my darling son...you are a blessing and a joy.
xoxoxo
You can do so many things. Some of your favorite things are : pushing cars and trucks around the house and yard, chewing and loving on your blankie, pointing at airplanes and birds, eating cinamonn swirl toast, nursing, and doing ANYTHING outside.
Some things that are NOT your favorite are : coming inside after we have been outside, eating chunky fruit, when your brother takes things away from you, when the water is too cold in the bathtub, and changing your diaper.
You say many things: "mama" , "dada", "buh"= anything you like, "ba" = ball, "ga"= dog, up, "fra"=frog, and you growl when you see your stuffed tiger or any kind of dinosaur.
You are cuddly and love to give big open mouthed kisses to me and dada. You love it when your brother blows raspberries at you and you are exuberant when Olivia and Finn play hide and seek or peek-a-boo with you.
You are independent and love to play with any kind of truck, car, or construction vehicle. :-)
You are a climber and love to give your mama a heart attack on a daily basis with the things you attempt to do.
Most of all, you are sweet and and have an amazing and contagious smile. Your laughter is infectious and you are the light of our lives.
Happy Birthday my darling son...you are a blessing and a joy.
xoxoxo
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Christmas in March??
Yup..that's right. I just finally downloaded some pics I had taken on my *ahem* old camera...
Doesn't Christmas seem like yesterday?
Well, it does to me..maybe because I just looked at all those pictures. hmmmmm...
Anyway, here's an oldie but a goodie...."old" as in 3 months ago...
xoxoxo
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Nuthin' gonna stop me now!!
Wyatt is almost one...sigh.
Wyatt can say 5 five words
Here they are in order of when he said them:
1. mama ( 7 1/2 months)
2. dada ( 9 months)
3. ca (car = 11 1/2 months)
4. fra ( frog= 11 1/2 months)
5. up ( 11 1/2 months)
He also says "buh" for anything he really likes and Chad is quite certain he says "muh" for milk but I haven't heard it yet. If you ask him what sound a tiger makes, he growls with gusto!! ( I will get it on tape soon!)
It just reaffirms to me how amazing the human brain is...and how quickly children grow...
I can't wait to hear what he says next!
Wyatt can say 5 five words
Here they are in order of when he said them:
1. mama ( 7 1/2 months)
2. dada ( 9 months)
3. ca (car = 11 1/2 months)
4. fra ( frog= 11 1/2 months)
5. up ( 11 1/2 months)
He also says "buh" for anything he really likes and Chad is quite certain he says "muh" for milk but I haven't heard it yet. If you ask him what sound a tiger makes, he growls with gusto!! ( I will get it on tape soon!)
It just reaffirms to me how amazing the human brain is...and how quickly children grow...
I can't wait to hear what he says next!
xoxoxoxoxo
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
An athlete in the making...maybe?
Last fall Olivia played AYSO for the first time. She loved it...well, let me paraphrase, she LOVED the social aspect which I guess is the idea behind getting a 5 year old into sports, right? Towards the end of the season the actual "sport" part of soccer started to catch on so that ended up being money well spent.
Now it is softball season.
Why does that sentence deserve its' own paragraph you ask? Well, we live in baseball and softball crazy town. People are NUTS for little league around here and apparently softball is no different. Now, I played softball growing up...well, let me re-phrase that....I wore the uniform, tried to do what my coaches asked me, and picked at the grass a lot. BUT...at least the social aspect got me involved. Anyway, in those days all softball involved was a glove, some play clothes, and practice, and maybe a game now and then.
AND NOW?????
Here is the list of stuff you need to play softball as a 5 year old.
1. face mask ( for fielding)
2. glove
3. cleats
4. batting helmet ( yup, they have to have their own batting helmets due to the "lice" factor...eww)
5. a bat ( optional: which means we have NOT bought her one)
6. sliding pants ( also optional: are you kidding me? She's five. )
7. a bag to carry all of this in ( luckily we had an old gym bag that was big enough)
I wish Chad had taken a picture of my face when he gave me the list of stuff to buy. I seriously couldn't speak for like 2 minutes. haha.
She has 1-2 practices a week AND 2 games a week. Remember...she's 5. It's a little mind boggling.
BUT, she loves it. This is the one sport that she has been begging us to let her play since she saw her first Dodgers game on TV at the age of 2. And , you know what , she's pretty good. Definitely not a grass picker like her mother was.
And I have to admit...she looks pretty darn cute in her uniform...:-)
Now it is softball season.
Why does that sentence deserve its' own paragraph you ask? Well, we live in baseball and softball crazy town. People are NUTS for little league around here and apparently softball is no different. Now, I played softball growing up...well, let me re-phrase that....I wore the uniform, tried to do what my coaches asked me, and picked at the grass a lot. BUT...at least the social aspect got me involved. Anyway, in those days all softball involved was a glove, some play clothes, and practice, and maybe a game now and then.
AND NOW?????
Here is the list of stuff you need to play softball as a 5 year old.
1. face mask ( for fielding)
2. glove
3. cleats
4. batting helmet ( yup, they have to have their own batting helmets due to the "lice" factor...eww)
5. a bat ( optional: which means we have NOT bought her one)
6. sliding pants ( also optional: are you kidding me? She's five. )
7. a bag to carry all of this in ( luckily we had an old gym bag that was big enough)
I wish Chad had taken a picture of my face when he gave me the list of stuff to buy. I seriously couldn't speak for like 2 minutes. haha.
She has 1-2 practices a week AND 2 games a week. Remember...she's 5. It's a little mind boggling.
BUT, she loves it. This is the one sport that she has been begging us to let her play since she saw her first Dodgers game on TV at the age of 2. And , you know what , she's pretty good. Definitely not a grass picker like her mother was.
And I have to admit...she looks pretty darn cute in her uniform...:-)
xoxoxoxox
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
don't bother me, i'm just doing my boy thing...
Wyatt is leaving behind his "baby-dom". At 9 1/2 months he started pushing a car around the house...now at 11 months when he sees a dinosaur or tiger he growls, and when his brother (or anyone else for that matter) lays down on the floor , he immediately pounces and wrestles. Most days he can be found pushing a car or truck around the house...sometimes he will do this for 1/2 hour at a time...no joke. He prefers to be outside...doing what else? Climbing on anything he can....playing in the dirt...and exploring. Anyway, to make a long story short usually I just sit back and marvel and how he is developing and right before my eyes is becoming a little boy.
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Weary and happy
So, I made the decision a couple of weeks ago to finally try and "officially" sleep train Wyatt. When did I decide to do this? Why, when my sweet husband decided to go up north for a conference. I figured that while he was up north getting some much needed beauty sleep I could try and sleep train our almost 11 month old.
Now, don't get me wrong, all of ya'll who know me know that I love to co-sleep with my babies. I have done it with all of them and it is always extremely bittersweet when I finally make the decision to get them to sleep in their own beds. BUT, Wyatt was ready. He would start out the night in his own bed from about 7:30-11 or so and then I would nurse him , put him back in his bed, and then usually about an hour later he would wake again and then I would just be too tired to get up so he would just come to bed with us. It worked for our family, but lately, the interrupted sleep was catching up with me. soooooo....
Last week I worked 2 nights, getting up and down, listening to my baby cry, crying myself, etc..etc...then Chad came home from his trip and helped me ...and I am proud to say that ..
for the last three nights, Wyatt has slept from 730- 5 am without needing to nurse or wake up. :-)
How do I feel? Strangely tired...I feel like I should be more rested but I think honestly that my body is adjusting to Wyatt not nursing all night and I think that my shoulders are tense because they are missing hugging a baby all night. BUT...this will change. I already feel more mentally alert and that helps so, so much.
Sigh....I know that he is my last baby...I guess I just wanted to snuggle a little longer than I did with the others...but it was time and now we are all sleeping better. It's so hard to believe that he is 11 months old...when just "yesterday" he was that little guy...
:-)
Now, don't get me wrong, all of ya'll who know me know that I love to co-sleep with my babies. I have done it with all of them and it is always extremely bittersweet when I finally make the decision to get them to sleep in their own beds. BUT, Wyatt was ready. He would start out the night in his own bed from about 7:30-11 or so and then I would nurse him , put him back in his bed, and then usually about an hour later he would wake again and then I would just be too tired to get up so he would just come to bed with us. It worked for our family, but lately, the interrupted sleep was catching up with me. soooooo....
for the last three nights, Wyatt has slept from 730- 5 am without needing to nurse or wake up. :-)
How do I feel? Strangely tired...I feel like I should be more rested but I think honestly that my body is adjusting to Wyatt not nursing all night and I think that my shoulders are tense because they are missing hugging a baby all night. BUT...this will change. I already feel more mentally alert and that helps so, so much.
:-)
Friday, March 02, 2012
Brothers
Finn has discovered that he can now "play" with Wyatt. How much can a 3 year old and an almost 11 month old "play" together? A lot actually....they wrestle, play hide and seek, crawl around after each other, play with their trucks and cars together...it is really adorable. Wyatt absolutely adores Finn and also enjoys tormenting him by grabbing things of his he is not supposed to. It is going to be really fun watching the two of them grow up together...
xoxoxoxox
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Ugh...How could I forget?
Chad reminded me the other day that I hadn't posted about Disneyland!! Yup, we ventured to see the Big Rat a couple of weeks ago. We used to have passes and would go all the time, but since Olivia entered elementary school there really is no reason to have them anymore...sooooo....Disneyland is now a once a year type of deal. Also it was Wyatt's first visit! Oh, and of course cousins came too!!! Whoo-hoo!!!!
It was an amazing day. Very short lines and beautiful weather made weathering a few tantrums no problem. :-) Although...I don't know that Olivia will ever forgive me for making her ride Space Mountain...she has declared that she will NEVER do it again. Sheesh...way to make mom look bad! hahahaha!
Here are some pics..in no specific order...just a great day all around. :-)
xoxo
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