Cute Video Friday

This absolutely cracks me up. You can’t really hear it, but playing in the background is his favorite show, The Fresh Beat Band. He LOVES dancing to it. This particular night after dinner, I left him have some chocolate cake, which he tends to enjoy :) Well, a song came on the show and he started to dance, and sing a little. I think I’ve watched this at least 20 times and laughed every single time.

Enjoy my little booger!

 

Reasons Why I Smile

Went into my purse and pulled out my gum. This is a stick of Big Red that obviously made it into his mouth. He’s telling me “CHEESE!”

 

 

I love when he sits in his chair, especially when he eating a snack. I think it’s just too cute.

 

He LOVE to go to the park. He’s started pulling me to the door and saying “Part part,” which we can see from our house.

 

I’m so glad I caught this with my phone. Such a precious innocence.

 

I started making him a smoothie in the late morning or afternoon. This particular day I made it a little think, it took him about forty-five minutes to drink half that cup full. He sat and watched a movie the entire time.

 

A Boy and His Dog. These two love each other. (Most of the time)

 

I was laying on the couch recently while he played in the living room. For no apparent reason at all, he climbed up on the couch and gave me the biggest hug while saying “awe.”

 

      

And this morning. He had already eaten breakfast and was playing in the living room. I was cleaning the kitchen and took the garbage to the garage. When I walked back in, I found this booger standing on the chair eating the Renna’s we had for lunch yesterday afternoon. He opened the box and took the pizza out on his own. He proceeded to sit on the couch and eat the entire slice while watching Mickey Mouse.

 

 

With events like this in my life, I don’t know how I could be anything but happy. Yes I get stressed and have my meltdowns. Especially when he’s not being quite so cute. But when he stops his meltdown because I’m the one crying and gives me a 5 minute hug and says “OK Mama”… nothing else seems to matter for that time.

And I get two more :)

Mothers Day Version 2.0

Last year for my first Mother’s Day we moved into our new house. I really cannot believe it’s been a year that we’ve been here (and I have yet to post pictures!) This year my second, we, ok maybe I, decided that I wanted to actually DO something to celebrate and spend some time with Devin and Collin, since Devin has been traveling and next year we will have two more kids added into the mix.

Collin got me (us) a zoo pass :) I’m very excited about it (and just hope that we can really take advantage of it before the twins come). Friday Devin had the day off (HALLELUJAH!) so we planned to go, but the weather didn’t allow it. But we spend the day together. It sounds boring, but we ran errand and had Five Guys for lunch.

Saturday we got up and headed to the zoo. I swear I will never be arriving at the zoo past 10 AM. The weather was really nice. We started at the back because we never start there and are always too tired to enjoy it later. So we skipped the Africa loop this time (knowing I’d be back later this week). We packed a lunch, shared a shave ice and was in the car on our way home by noon. We all took naps then Devin and Collin headed to have dinner with his family at Ted’s for Mother’s Day and I met my brother and we took Mom to the Melting Pot. We had a great time, it was nice to be just the three of us again. After dinner I stopped at the mall with mom to try and help her find shoes for my cousins wedding in a couple weeks, but after walking the zoo in the morning, I wasn’t much fun and headed home after just an hour.

Sunday Devin completely spoiled me and let me do whatever I wanted :) We went to church, of course, and then stopped by Steak ‘n Shake for lunch. I really wasn’t wanting to go out for lunch, but since we were  driving by I thought, ok why not? We went home, Collin and I took naps while my wonderful husband worked in the yard. Then for dinner we went to Applebee’s. We even bought two cribs and a dresser that were on sale at Babies ‘R Us before heading home for the night. This is my beautimus bracelet Devin got me! I’ve been lusting after it for months! Collin and Devin both did REALLY good on gifts this year! Although, gifts aren’t really needed, I LOVED spending the whole weekend with them. It was long overdue.

The plan for the nursery, right now, is dark furniture. Espresso. I found that I like the Lauren collection by Graco. I want teal walls and white bedding. I put together a visual for Devin, because, well, he’s a boy. The only thing he doesn’t like is the wall color, he thinks it’s too dark. We’ll see how that discussion goes ;)

Throughout the course of the weekend we talked names for the twins. There is a possibility that we may have settled on something. I have wanted to keep the names a secret until they are born. Devin, however, thinks that’s annoying and wants to tell. We’ll see how that goes too. I’m betting that when we finally DO settle on names I’ll end up caving and he’ll get to tell the names. Oh well.