I asked miss Peanut today Trick? or Treat? She said trick. I wasn't expecting that and didn't have anything witty or funny planned, maybe tomorrow we'll try again. Tonight was our annual Trunk or Treat at the church. Since having kids, Officer has worked 3 of 4 Halloweens, so its often a challenge for me to get the kids all ready and out the door. We made it though, and it was really fun - the primary even had a "Monster Mash" dance party for the kids and I'd say that was the highlight of the night for Handsome. Miss Peanut was not interested in much other than the Trick or treating part and Little miss cupcake wanted nothing to do with her costume, so I have no picture of her in it yet - Monday, she will wear it long enough to get a picture! Mwahahaha! The low point - was when I caught an extension cord on the stroller and knocked an entire crock pot of soup onto the church carpet - I'm just that talented. I'll shoot for better pictures on Halloween, but this was all I got today.
My Pirate :)
My Princess (so glad she wanted to be Belle again.)
Our Friends
Our Pirate was smitten by cute Miss Rapunzel. At our Monster Mash check out this video.
Handsome is such a ladies man/gentleman already. :) You can see Rapunzel's cute dancing feet in the upper right corner or the video. He totally heads straight for Rapunzel and offers his hand to dance with her, you'll see it if you watch close in the video. My visiting teacher will kill me cause she is the mom in the foreground, but you have to watch my little pirate.
Officer had been working all weekend (he works nights you see); I saw him for about 10 minutes as he headed out to go hunting at midnight Sunday night for a few days. I had a baby who had been up every 1-2 hours each night all weekend and wouldn't go back to sleep without nursing (she's been sleeping 8-10 hours for a while now, so I had been a little spoiled :). So needless to say this weekend was entirely exhausting. By Tuesday morning I was fried. After being up all night once again the other morning went a little something like this:
6:30am Cupcake is finally back asleep.
6:59 am Handsome wakes up
7:03 Handsome in front of PBS with some cocoa (carnation breakfast); mom crawls back in bed hoping PBS will keep him occupied long enough for me to catch a few more minutes of sleep before I tackle the day.
7:08 Miss Peanut woke up and was now occupied by PBS as well
7:10 Handsome comes down the hall to find me followed by the aroma of his hind side.
7:12 I drag myself out of bed to change him before his newly discovered skill of taking off his clothes creates a bigger problem
7:13 Miss Peanut races to the potty
7:14 Handsome back to PBS; Miss Peanut apologizing for peeing in her pants.
7:15 Mom tells Miss Peanut that she is upset as she slips on chocolate milk barf in the hallway.
7:16 Mom crying while scrubbing barf from feet and the floor; Miss Peanut whaling that she is so so sorry.
7:17 Cupcake wakes up screaming due to Miss Peanut's whaling. Handsome crying for me to hold him.
7:18 Mommy and 3 babies crying.
7:19 Mommy calls her mommy crying.
7:25 Deep breath, Try starting the day again.
9:30 Cupcake asleep again, Two kids dressed, fed, content with some PBS. 2nd attempt at a few minutes nap.
9:35 Handsome so thoughtfully brings me a tall glass of cold water from the fridge, another recent new talent. He tries to hand it to me and in the process spills the entire contents into my bed.
9:36 So much for nap.
With the exception of the crying while scrubbing barf and phone call to my mommy in my sleepless delirium, I was then able to laugh my way through it. I'm grateful that we didn't have anywhere we needed to be that day. We spent most of it in our Jammies. It was not a picture perfect day by any means and I was incredibly exhausted, but I feel really blessed to able to be home with my little ones.
My little superman, after turning two just last week, has suddenly started to be interested in doing his business big-boy style. I really had no intention of actually potty training him this early and I don't think I will really take the plunge for a while yet, but when he has asked me to, we have let him try. Sure enough, we have had at least one positive potty moment everyday this week, #1 and #2 because he has said he wanted to use the potty. There is hope on the horizon that one day we will only have one in diapers...
Knowing that colder weather is approaching all too fast we've been spending the afternoons in the sandbox, on the swings, and in the garden. We were able to have a couple fun playdates this week, but tonight it was just me and the kids.
I can't believe she is big enough to hang out in the swing!? How did that happen? Handsome is trying to get the hang of the big swing now that "bister" (he has combined baby and sister into bister) has taken the little swing. His acrobatics were quite comical and he ended up on the ground a lot, but he loved it! Miss Peanut was busy picking the few flowers that are left this year and building a "world" in the sandbox so I didn't get her pictured while I had the camera outside.
I'm hoping these beautiful fall days stick around a few more weeks, we're just not ready to hibernate for the winter yet.
Today I was shopping second hand at a thrift store near my house. Even with my amazing lasik vision, I bent down to pick up an item off a low shelf and failed to notice a peg sticking out right in front of me. WHACK - it got me. On the bright side, maybe I could pass for a Harriet Potter, for Halloween?
Our plans to go to the Farmstead for Handsome's Birthday had to be postponed because of rain, but only for a week. The highlight of the affair for Miss Peanut was, of course, the pony ride. She really surprised me, actually. This was a first for her and she didn't even hesitate. Her sweet pony's name was Cody.
Handsome on the other hand was terrified even just to sit on his pony Spice, he was perfectly content just to wave to big sister with dad from the fence. He did love the bumpy PVC pipe; we watched him take off a couple times without a second thought for that slide and it wasn't until after he went down and looked up to find a crowd of strangers at the bottom of the slide that he got a little nervous and started looking for mom or dad. Cupcake didn't get to participate too much in the activities, but was pretty darn cute hanging out in the stroller as long as she didn't have to have her hat on.
For a few months I've been struggling to keep up with the blog among other things. Nothing too serious, it's just the normal after baby adjustment period and trying to get the hang of things adding another little set of hands to take care of. I get overwhelmed sometimes if I think too much about the responsibility I have as a mother. This summer I was insistent that I could help with something super important I'm sure, but one of my sister-in-laws said "It's just not your season." Of course I was capable of doing it, but my hands were busy tending to little hands. I heard that again today actually, "It's just not your season," from another sister-in-law. I love being a mother; I'm just learning that even though I'm capable of doing a lot of things, it isn't really needful to (I'm kind of a perfectionist, and kind of stubborn like that; it takes me a while to figure some simple things like that out.). Especially not right now while my little ones are little. So for now, this is my season; to focus on my little family because that is what matters most and all too soon seasons change.
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This handsome sweet boy turned 2. To celebrate we were going to go to the Farmstead, but we got rained out. Instead we had all of our family over for warm yummy soup and dump truck cupcakes. It was a fabulous affair! This little boy was in heaven with all the cars, trucks, police cars, planes he got.
