Planes

It's Friday and I guess dada and I were both in the mood to shake up our evening because we did something new and went to the movies for the first time as a family.  O and P your first movie was monsters university in Carlsbad but this movie I consider a big milestone for us.  We had as much fun as you can with two two-year-olds, with all the seat/lap jumping and Paige's six trips to the potty, but it was full of perfect little moments that made me laugh and smile.  Highlights for mama were Owen sitting on dada's lap making plane noises during the big race scene, Paige telling mama that she loved me more than ice cream during one of the many potty breaks, and you little stinkers having a little dance party in the isle to the groovy music playing while the credits rolled. 

Stop and Go Right Away!

Paigey you did it! You are potty trained baby girl! It was a long summer of trial and error but you really got the hang of it right before we started back to school in August. With the help of gummies (for pee) and "lilypops" (for poop) you made it happen. With this new developmental milestone concurred you moved up to the next room at daycare leaving behind your bubba and several older friends that are still learning.  Way to go sis, you make me one proud mama!

What a week!

Babies, last week was a bit of a doozey!  It included: 2.5 sick days from work..  Two visits to the Dr. office. Two visits to Sams club to pick up drugs. My first real projectile vomit experience, thank you baby girl.  Over a week of diarrhea for both of you.  Very "ouchie booties".  Lots of help from our Nana (bonus sleep over included). A birthday party.  Visits with Uncle Nathan. A play date with Lily.  Dinner at our pal Emersons. Contract work on the side yard.  AND all done while our dada was off on a trip with his buddies.  Mama couldn't have done it with a smile on her face without our Nana and the friends who took pity on us and kept us feed and busy.  Mama is now ready for a healthy house and our dada's return tonight.  He cannot get here soon enough!

Summer 2013!

Oh summer, why must you go?!  And why in the heck has mama not recorded all of your fantastic beauty along the way?  Gonna do my darndest to re-cap the "best of summer 2013" adventures.. 

1.  Disneyland!!  This magical trip kicked off our summer and you both are still talking about it.  We left on a Monday and came back on a Friday.  This trip (fingers crossed) will get it's own post soon.

2.  Carlsbad!!  If memory is right, we made two trips to Cbad.  One to celebrate fathers day with our pa, and another just hang out.  On our last trip we took a ride in Aunt Julie's razor.  We drove from the house to the river.  Being at the river reminded me a lot of being a teenager hanging out at the river with friends.  We have some river tubing trips in our future for sure..

3.  Playdates!!  I'm not even gonna attempt to count up the playdates, with who, when and where, but we had lots of them.  We played at our house, parks, the bounce house, and our friends houses.  It's fun to watch you build relationships with other little people and learn to work things out on your own. Owen you are my little in door kid who likes to do your own thing most of the time.  Paige you are a little social butterfly and are always in the thick-of-it...

4.  Mountain vacation with our friends Lily and Kathy!!  We were invited to spend a few days in Ruidoso and take advantage of their time share.  We hiked, went on our first pony ride, ate ice cream, went to a 4th of july celebration (reminded momma of the movie dirty dancing), went swimming, and romped all around the condo. Paige, you a Lily are the best of frienimes!!  One minute you are playing together and laughing and the next you are smacking each other in the face, yanking toys out of each others hands.  The two of you together are both cute and exhausting.  Owen, you were a model child. Or so it seemed since the other 2 years olds on this trip were a handful. 

5.  Swimming!!  Every chance we got, we hit the pool.  We went to swimming class almost every monday, swimming at several friends houses, swimming on vacations, friday family swim at the gym and set up our little pool in the backyard.  You are both very comfortable in the water and love to "swim" on your own. 

6.  Mornings!!  Mama LOVES summer mornings.  We take our time, make breakfast, watch cartoons and play in the backyard.  There is no rush and it's wonderful. 

7.  Visitors!!  We had many visitors over the summer.  We had a nice long visit from our Papaw, one from our friend Traci, a few from our friend Nathan, and a few from our friends Isaac and Jenni.  It's hard to get to see our friends these days so these visits are sweet and cherished. 

8.  Late nights!!  We have allowed ourselves to go off schedule and just enjoy.  Babies one night while in cbad you almost stayed up until mid-night!  There have been many nights while friends were visiting that you have stayed up way past bed time running around the backyard while we sat on the patio.  I loved everything about those nights.  Our friends, the weather, our patio, and your (at times) naked little hiney's. 

9.  Mommy co-op!!  With our friends Erika and Kathy, we took turns each week running a little daycare so us momma's could have some time to relex, run errands, and do chores.  It was just a few hours each week but helped and was fun. 

10.  After nap times!!  Momma is SO gonna miss sharing after nap time everyday with you babies.  It's such a sweet time.  We snuggle and scrounge for snacks.  I love the smell or your slobbery little faces and your sweaty little bodies after you wake up.  I breath you in and just can't get enough. 

I know I'm missing so much but will do my best to look through pics and post more and this fantastic summer. 

Forever!

Paige, yesterday you brought me this petal and said "keep it forever".. So here, in this blog, I will keep it forever my sweet girl.

Happy 7!

Yesterday dada and I celebrated our 7 year anniversary! Being a weekend day we both spent the day at work but after we did something that made us both smile. We went to swimming lessons, picked up dinner and played in the backyard with our two favorite little people. Life is good! Especially with your dada:)

SPRING BREAK!!!

Owen and Paige, spring break was OUR week.  OUR week to travel to Carlsbad and back.  OUR week to have multiple play dates.  OUR week to sleep in.  OUR week to do what we WANT to do. MY week to be a stay-at-home mom and just be with you.  It was, in one word, FANTASTIC! 

It started on Saturday, March 25th.  Dada helped us pack up, kissed us goodbye and we headed to C-bad to be with family.  The drive was a little icky with all the wind and dust.  We arrived to a surprise Easter party, ate a yummy ham dinner, hunted eggs inside (again, icky wind) and visited with friends a family.  It wasn't too long into the day before I figured out that I forgot our bag with EVERYTHING in it! Was first a little bummed but quickly realized that this meant we would get to go shopping.  And that is what we did.  Once everyone left, we got back in the van with Aunt Julie, Ross, Jaile, and Granny and headed to Roswell.  We picked up diapers, wipes, clothes (maybe more that we really needed:) and tooth brushes.  On Sunday, we feed the ducks and spent the day playing at the house.  Monday we headed back early since it wasn't their spring break.  It was an excellent start to OUR week!!