Randomness

I know, I know...3 posts in 24 hours is unheard of...but I couldn't get all of my pics to load correctly last night so I thought I would try again...so, here are just some random pics from the last week or so...




I just threw this one because it (kind of) made me laugh...once again, things got a little too quiet so I went looking for Nate and found him standing in my bathtub filling his toys up with my bath salts. His toys smell really nice now...

Happy Father's Day

We had a busy but still relaxing Father's Day weekend...it started on Friday morning when Daddy took Nate to school where they "Donuts for Dads". It was really cute...the kids had decorated paper ties for their dads and made them sweet cards (none of which I have a picture of!). It was nice for Michael to be able to sit in his classroom with him and share a donut! Even Matthew made daddy a card with his hand print on it!

Daddy got to do his favorite thing on Saturday morning (play tennis) and me and the boys had plans to meet my cousin and her family to see Toy Story 3 (or as Nate still insists on calling it - Play Story)....but logistics and timing weren't working in our favor so our plans fell through. However, it isn't wise to mention something like this to a 3 yr old and expect them to forget about it...so we ended up taking him to see it Saturday evening instead. We bought the tix online and as soon as we did we both said "are we crazy?"...but we went for it...I wish I had a picture of Nate sitting on the edge of his seat wearing his 3D glasses with a giant bucket of popcorn in his lap (and him shoveling it in). It was absolutely adorable. He loved the movie and kept his "sunglasses" on the whole time. (Yes, we brought Matthew too and he was perfect...not sure that I would do it again but I kept him in his sling, fed him a bottle mid-movie, and he slept pretty much the rest of the time. I was nervous but the good thing about going to see a kid's movie is that he wouldn't have been the only kid crying if he had!) I thought the movie was great (a little sad)...not sure it was worth paying the 3D price, as there really wasn't much 3D about it, but it was a fun family outing and Nate loved it.

Father's Day was spent lounging by the pool...Michael got to play tennis again during nap time (did I mention he loves to play tennis?)...and we went to Alie's for a delicious steak dinner. I hope Michael had a nice day and feels as appreciated as he is.

(I was forbidden from posting the pictures I took at the pool of Michael and Nate playing - despite the fact my husband looks better in a bathing suit than most 25 yr olds, in my opinion - so you get pics of Matthew lounging on his beach chair instead...enjoy)

To Michael... Thank you for being my partner in this crazy job of parenthood. Thank you for sharing in the bathing, diapering, pottying, feeding, disciplining and soothing duties. Thank you for being a great teacher and role model. Thank you for being such a great daddy to our boys. They love you and so do I.


And to our Dads - Grandpa Dale & Papa Steve - we love you!

Back to Reality...

My Matthew...he is the sweetest little thing and I just love him to pieces. I feel like I already know his little personality (and it is a good one) and have a language with him. He smiles so easily and is the sweetest little cuddle monkey...he just makes me gush (if you can't tell).

Going to School

So, that is what has made the past few days so hard. Last week we got our feet wet with our new routine...he went to daycare for a few days last week (2 partial days, one full day) and I went back to work. I thought it would be easier, given that I had already gone through this with Nate and I knew that we figured things out and he turned out well...but that hasn't really been the case. Well, actually the first day wasn't so bad considering that I realized I left his bottles at home as soon as I got him in the infant room (it's a good thing we live close by)...so my morning turned more frazzled than sad (maybe it was a good thing). But, today was our first real Monday and it has sunk in. I think the hardest part is not only being away from him during the day, but also knowing that his routine that we had established and he was used to has now been distrupted.

But I am somewhat comforted by the fact that this is short-term and I know we can get through 15 weeks of this routine (hard to believe that is all that is left of the office/job that I have been going to for almost 11 years?!). And despite the fact that his daytime napping has bordered on non-existent while he is at daycare, he has started sleeping through the night!! So, he may not be on his perfect 3 hour schedule with an 1.5 hr nap in between each feeding but at least I can't complain about the nighttime routine being sporadic any more.

Here were his stats at his 2 month check up:

Weight - 12 lbs

Height - 23.5 in

And look who found their thumb...