Last Warm Days

 We had some beautiful fall days in October and the boys loved being outside. The especially enjoyed eating outside!

Growing...

Wheatgrass

The 3 of Us

Now that we are back to our regular scheduled programming it's just the 3 of us again. The older 2 are at school, Den is at work and now it's me and the 2 boys in blue. Before B was moving around it just felt like I was spending my day's with V, but now that B is scooting around he's definitely part of the show. It's been really fun to see V interact with his baby brother. I can honestly say that I have not once seen any tinge of jealousy displayed in a negative way. He loves him and is super sweet to him by singing to him, sharing his toys (although sometimes I must intercept what he's sharing) and even yesterday he tried to share some cheerios. I'm loving my little boys.

story of the morning:

Me: V...what do you want for your birthday?
V:..um...birthday...(giggling)...um....cake!
Me: okay, what kind of cake?
V: um....chocket!
Me: okay...what color do you want your cake to be?
V: (still giggling) um...color...ice cream!

that's my boy.

Now that soccer has finished I feel like we are slowly entering a more balanced pace of life. I know there are people who have all four+ kids in 2 sports each, plus music lessons, and weekly play dates, 3 pets and all the while being team mom for each sport, class helper and in charge of the church bake sale, not to mention their part time job. Kudos to them. I'm come to accept my limits and I'm okay with it. The city of comparison is a dangerous place and I 'm never satisfied when I visit there.



So while the kids are at school, it's me and the two youngest boys. I'm relearning the stages of toddler hood with V. I forgot about the "I'll do it myself" stage or as V puts it, "my turn." I remember now. He is such a fun guy though. Such mix of the other two. He's a goof and a joker, loves to get crazy, but has the ability to sit and focus on something and play by himself. This is what I caught him doing yesterday.




He was so proud and kept saying "I did it!"



This little man is still happy 90% of the time. His two bottom teeth have both broken through and they can get in the way of his race for the title of "Perfect Baby". Yet usually if he's fussing it's about food or it's bedtime.



He loves when the kids read to him.

The girl is there....

but this post only features photos of the boys.


For breakfast we made this...


from J's Star Wars cookbook. (though it was really a single sun toast as we have giant farm fresh eggs)


And this is what was left on J's plate. He did end up eating it w/ more toast.




It was our first library day of the summer! I love how V saw everyone reading and after many attempts of trying to get his siblings to wrestle, he decided that he would join in w/ Goodnight Gorilla.




Den took this last night....so glad he did!



Baby B fix.

For those of you that are wondering we have survived a whole day and a half w/o my mom and I think we are going to make it! I really think the summer is going to fly by and for the time being I'm loving having the kids home all together until school starts.