monday fun

I had an appointment scheduled between 8-12 to have a chip in my windshield fixed. After the appointment, I was planning on running a few errands. According to the company, I would get a call when the tech was 30 minutes away from the house...so when my phone rang at 8:10 this morning, I was doing cartwheels thinking I would be the first appointment of the day. Wrong. He was calling to ask if he could come between noon and 1:00. Well, there went our day.

The tech arrived at 12:20, but Love Bug was finishing her lunch and getting ready for a much needed nap (she is still recovering from this weekend. Wow. You know it is going to be a tough morning when she wakes up cranky and tired). So needless to say, we didn't leave the house until after 4:00 this afternoon. One quick errand and then we were back for dinner, playtime and now the kids are asleep.

This momma is about to clean up from the day and then enjoy a quiet night at home. D is out of town for a meeting and will be home tomorrow. Too bad there is nothing good on TV tonight :(

he loves putting puzzles together

and she loves helping

happy father's day

If you are regular follower of the blog, you will notice this picture isn't from today but from Love Bug's first birthday party in March. Would you believe, I didn't get the camera out once today? Shameful! I do have more recent pictures of the 3 of them together, but I just love this picture.

D, Love Bug and The Mayor all slept in today. Good thing since the kids didn't get to bed until 9:30 last night. We met D's family in Macon yesterday afternoon for Father's Day and got home way past bedtime. But it was worth it...it was fun seeing Big Daddy, MeMe, Aunt Nat, Uncle Tom, Trey and Luke yesterday. Just wish we got to spend more than a few hours together.

After my 3 loves woke up, we went out for breakfast and ran a few errands. We had a pretty lazy afternoon at home then went to dinner and over to PopPop and Mamie's house for dessert. Uncle J, Meega and Bennett were there too so we had a great weekend with family. Can't believe it is already Sunday night and the weekend is almost over.

I hope my children realize how blessed they are to have D as their dad. I am so blessed to be married to a man who loves his family the way he does and says his favorite place to be is home. D is far from perfect (we all are) but he does love his family...especially those kiddos...and you really can't ask for more than that. So Happy Father's Day D. We love you more than you will ever know.

pool day

Our trip to my friend's pool on Monday with Tara must have given me some serious confidence about taking my two kids to the pool by myself because when I agreed to meet some of our friends up there today, I wasn't the least bit anxious. I was actually looking forward to it. Love Bug is becoming quite the water baby...when I sat her down at the beach entry of the baby pool, Miss Priss kept scooting herself deeper and deeper into the pool. She wasn't happy until she was sitting neck deep in the water...and she would just squeal and laugh. I would panic, pull her up to the shallower water and she would scoot herself back down.

When we ventured over to the big pool, Love Bug would lounge in her shaded float while The Mayor went up and down the water slide. He is becoming so big and independent. I would catch him at the end of the slide and help him "swim" to the stairs, but he would climb the hill to the top of the slide by himself and come back down...over and over. It was a great day with our friends playing, eating lunch together and catching up. After a few hours, I took two very tired children home. Love Bug napped for 3 hours while The Mayor and I just enjoyed the quiet afternoon. Both kids have been bathed and are asleep. Looking forward to many more days like this.

not too long ago he couldn't walk around in this pool without toppling over...now he can run through the water like he owns the joint

Busted! Attempting to scoot deeper into the water

midweek weekend recap and 15 month stats

Is it seriously Wednesday already? My dear friend Tara was staying with us from Sunday night through this morning so the blog was neglected.

We had an amazing weekend. It was the first weekend in several weeks where we didn't have house guests and we were in town with no plans.

We went to Target and bought a little blowup pool for the kids to play in. They stood at the door with such anticipation while they watched D blow it up and fill the pool with water. They squealed with delight when they saw the pool squirted water too. They both took turns drinking from it as if it was a water fountain (well, I guess it was a water fountain...)

We also turned on the sprinklers and let the kids run through the mist. I love this age...entertaining the kids is so simple...and cheap.

On Monday, Tara and I took the kids to one of our friend's house to enjoy their pool. It was nice being at a house with a pool because my friend set up a pack-n-play in her room so Love Bug could nap. It allowed us to hang out at her pool for 5 hours. Something we never get to do with a napping baby.

The Mayor has no fear. I asked if he wanted to jump off the diving board, and he looked at the diving board and back at me and said "yes!". He went to that diving board, walked right to the edge and jumped. No fear. He jumped at least 2 dozen times that day. Now I just need to get him to learn how to swim.

Today has been a blissfully boring day. Love Bug had her 15 month well visit and Meega watched The Mayor so I didn't have to tackle both kids while at the doctor. Love Bug is 50th percentile for length (30 1/8 inch) and back up to 60th percentile for weight (23 lbs 6 oz.) She had lost weight at her 1 year visit so it is good that she packed on some pounds the last 3 months. She got an excellent report. We just need to keep working on the walking and talking. Who knew my daughter would be slow to talk?

had a blast...but so happy to be home

Meega and I pulled out of Aunt Jenny's driveway at 6:41 AM with three somehow oddly energetic children. Given that all three of them were woken from a deep slumber to get out the door at that hour, we just knew they would all take great naps in the car. Love Bug and Bennett maybe slept 20 minutes during the entire 8 hour trip while The Mayor slept for an hour an a half. The three of them kind of got the nap schedule reversed.

About 5 minutes from pulling into our driveway, The Mayor asked me if we could go back to Aunt Jenny's house. He had so much fun.

Luckily we hit no traffic and the drive went by pretty quickly. But I am so exhausted. I slept horribly while in Ohio. I have got some crazy allergy/cough thing going on that makes me so congested I snore like a man and when I finally do sleep, I end up waking up coughing like a smoker. Bedtime can not come quickly enough for me tonight.

No one was happier for us to get home than D. He couldn't wait to get his hands on his babies...thankfully tomorrow starts a weekend so we will have some great family time.

Here are a few pictures from our trip:

getting ready to pull out of Georgia...Ohio bound

Aunt Jenny and The Mayor throwing tennis balls with the dogs

running free

Aunt Jenny and Love Bug perfecting her walking skills

The Mayor cheering on Bennett mastering the stairs

The Mayor and me at lunch

messy Love Bug after our spaghetti dinner

messy Bennett

we've got a walker

Love Bug is walking! 2 days before she is 15 months old, Love Bug is walking. I wish I could say it was all me...but it was all Meega. Meega decided to tempt Love Bug with food and it worked. Meega would hold a goldfish out in front of Love Bug, and Love Bug would walk...every time. Love Bug walked about half a dozen times. So proud of my sweet little girl!! Sadly, we are over 500 miles away from home so D won't be able to see his baby girl walk in person until Friday. But I did take a lot of video of her walking and sent them all to D.

After a lazy morning at the house, we put the little ones down for naps and then went into Cincinnati and did some shopping. Oh, I wish I could have said it was all good, but it wasn't. My patience level was in the toilet and The Mayor was just being a 3 year old boy. And this afternoon, those two things did not mix well together. I hate it when I have bad mommy days but tomorrow is always a new day...for both of us.

We will just be hanging around town tomorrow and enjoying our last day with Aunt Jenny. Friday we are homeward bound...and D is ready to see his babies.

hi from o-hi-o

Meega, the 3 kids and I left Atlanta yesterday and came to visit Aunt Jenny in Ohio. With an hour long lunch break, one stop to change a nasty blowout from Love Bug and a stop at a Walmart in Kentucky (yikes) we made it here in 9 hours. The kids hit their limit at hour 7. They were tired of being strapped into a car seat and were ready to be free. And so were Meega and I.

But now that we are here, we are having a blast. We hit a local park this morning and are getting ready to walk around the cute downtown area of this college town for lunch. Tomorrow we are going into Cincinnati to go to the zoo and for some shopping. Going to be a great week.

Unfortunately, I didn't bring my big camera; I brought my point-and-shoot camera and I don't have a way to download the photos until I get home. So no pictures until we get back this weekend.

The kids are doing so well, especially given the 9 hour car ride and sleeping in a new place. The weather is hot but sunny and Aunt Jenny is being the hostess with the mostess. Can't ask for better than that.