8 Months

Happy 8 months to my sweet, sweet, baby boy. Where did 8 months go?! In four months we will be throwing a 1st birthday bash for this toothless wonder. In love is an understatement for what I feel for Austin. I could literally kiss his roly-poly thighs all day long. Hearing him say "mama" melts my heart. He is almost crawling, lots of rocking and scooting. He is the best scheduled baby ever. Austin wakes up at 7:30 for breakfast, then playtime before getting dressed for the day and then more playtime. He naps at 10 until 11:30. Lunch, playtime and again another nap at 2 until 4. He eats lots in between and goes to bed at 8. I swear this happens each day. He sleeps in his own crib with his paci and blankie. When I go to get him up he is peeking out of his crib and gets sooo excited! Oh how I love him. He is the type of baby, that makes it easy to have another. He adores his big brother Logan (whom I also adore:) Austin loves his dada also and puts his arms up for Brian to pick him up. Happy 8th month little bit, we LOVE you!

1,000

I just so happened to scroll down my page to check out my friend counter and to my pleasant surprise, my blog has had 1,000 visitors since I put in on my blog in March (I think I need to look it up)! I love it! Maybe a year from now it will be 10,000 - we'll see!

Mama Needs a Vacay!

Austin said Mama yesterday at dinner for the first time! I had to put it in my blog so one of these days when I sit down to transfer all the milestones to his baby book I will remember when it was! It was so sweet, I was feeding him and he just started saying "amamamama." Then tonight I was in the kitchen and Brian had the kids in the living room and I was saying mama is coming and Brian said he was looking for me because he could here my voice! I just love that baby!

Austin 71/2 months


Logan 24&1/2 months



I also love my older baby who is seriously testing me every minute of the day.
We all woke up on the wrong side of the bed, after serious meltdowns by all three of us (yep even I had a meltdown) it was back to bed until almost 11 for all of us! We woke up much happier the second time around. However my patients were very thin today for some reason. I really need some quality mommy alone time I think. I hate to say that out loud or write it out loud, but I am waaaaay over due for a vacation! Maybe I can talk Brian into a long weekend somewhere HOT without the babies. Cheapcarribean.com has GREAT deals, check it out if you are looking for a little get away! So tomorrow is another day, another day to take care of my babies with a lot more FUN and a lot less tears!

Clean Up Song

To get Logan to clean up we HAVE to sing the Clean Up song. He sings along and if you son't sing it he says "pick up pick up" until you start the melody! Here are the words to the song (thanks Barney the dinosaur for reteaching me catchy songs to get my toddler to do things)!
Clean up, clean up, everybody everywhere, clean up, everybody do your share...
We sing it over and over until all of our toys are put away!

Misspellings

In my previous posts (the slide shows) I spelled several words incorrectly. Yes I have a degree, yes I taught six year old children to spell, but YES I was a VERY tired mommy when I did those posts (at midnight). I know dessert (the yummy foods) has two s's. So we had a dessert table not, a desert table (the kind with sand)! I also left out letters in a few words. This post is to make up for my misspellings. I am going to let it go (whoa big for me) and not go back and redo the slide shows! I am not perfect, although I spend too much time trying to be or at least seem like I am - more on that later.

Beginning of June

We started June BUSY! We have been to a baby shower, Malachi's 7th birthday party, Brian went to Vegas and played in the World Series of Poker (something he wanted to do before turning 30 in July), celebrated Amy's birthday, Bailey's birthday, went shopping, cleaned, played, took walks, played in the sprinkler, went to the pool, ate almost all meals outside on the picnic table, photo shoot, and more! Tomorrow, Friday, we are having breakfast with a friend, a playdate with other friends, and dinner with Stacey and her baby at the pub! Then on Saturday a quick visit with the Mottlau family and then we are driving to Peachtree City to celebrate Tony's 30th birthday! So excited to see friends we haven't see in FOREVER! Next week I will do better with posting more. I LOVE summertime!

Slide Show # 2 From the 2nd Bday Party!

I didn't add captions to these slides, a lot of them are repeats from the previous slide show. These were pics from my parent's camera.

Finally - Logan's 2nd Birthday

Logan turned 2 on May 15th. We spent the day as a family doing all the things Logan loves - which means we were outside all day! We took him to Suwanee Town Center to go through the fountain and then had dinner with my family at Ippilitos and of course cupcakes! Logan opened a few gifts from my parents and a few from Brian and I, we wanted to save the others for his birthday party.
Saturday, Aunt JuJu and Mimi came over to help me decorate and set up the house for the party. We also finished the kids goodie bags and the adult goodie bags. Yes I went all out and LOVED doing it all! Sunday was the party. It was crazy 10 kids, 40adults, tons of food, deserts, balloons, and gifts! Logan ran from one thing to the next he had a great time. He fell asleep at 5pm from exhaustion. It was a party to remember. Thank you Mom for all you did! You are my party planner assistant for sure!
Here is a slide show, not all the pictures and it is backwards, I just wanted to get this post done and move on!

Quick Update

Logan's bday and his party was AWESOME! I have a ton of pictures I am going through and will post about his party later this week or this weekend. I have been busy this week packing up my classroom. Finally closure - when I left in October to have Austin I didn't know my teaching career would come to a close for the time being. It is weird to be in my classroom where someone else has been teaching and using my things. Trying to decide what to keep, to give away, to throw away is very time consuming and a little emotional. I LOVE teaching and this time away and going back to pack things up really confirms it. However I feel guilty for missing something that I was really good at. I never needed to hear that I was a good teacher from my co-workers, parents of students or administrators - I really knew it in my heart. I was made to be a mommy and a teacher. Packing things up today reminded me of that.
On another note, Austin is saying da da and ba ba and beginning to crawl! He started those things last week, just been busy but don't want to forget to add it to this and to his baby book. Oh the infamous baby books. I did such a good job with Logans and honestly I just have a huge pile of things to go remind me of things so when I have a minute I can BEGIN Austin's book. Hopefully before he is a year old. Swimming lessons end tomorrow. What a great time Logan and I had! Now it is time for the boys and I to go to the pool daily and get into a summer time routine! SO check back in a few days for a recap from the Barney Bash!

Mother's Day 2009

I had a great second Mother's Day. Brian got up with the kids so I could sleep in, but I wanted to get up and open my gifts (I got up in the middle of the night with Austin and saw this on the counter)!







Brian and the boys got me pink Nike Shocks, bath and body works stuff, and an outfit! Oh and of course balloons and great cards! Thank you babe and my little loves!


We then headed outside to work in the yard to get it looking pretty for this weekend. I played with the boys and Brian mowed the grass (with Logan on his shoulders, laid new mulch, planted more flowers and did some weeding. He is a hard worker even outside!





We have a double jogger so I put Austin in it and Logan hopped right in, for the first time ever. He never wants to be in the jogger, I guess all the yard work was making him tired, so he kicked back in the stroller while I blew bubbles (for 30 mins)!









We changed our clothes and headed to the lake with my family. It was great to be out on the boat. Oh, before going to the boat we stopped at the boat store and bought two little life jackets (an infant one and a toddler one). The boys were not and will not be going out on the lake without a life jacket on!


















We ate lunch out on the lake, Logan was exhausted and ended up falling asleep!
The weather was getting bad, so we got off the water. We changed our clothes and headed over to my parent's house. We exchanged gifts. My mom and dad gave me new Bobbie Brown makeup - YAHOO! My brothers and sis-in-law gave me a Willow Tree figure - a mom holding her two boys (I LOVE it)! We gave my mom a candle, a book about moms, and the best thing a wall frame that says "there are few things more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap"! It is from a favorite store of hers, Grassroots Girls - she loved it!


We played board games and ordered in Chinese food. It was so much fun! Then around 9 we packed up and headed home. The boys were exhausted and went right to bed. Brian and I watched some TV and then went to bed as well. Thank you Brian, Logan, Austin, and my family for making mother's day such a special day!