Nanny

I feel snobby saying Nanny but in home care person sounds weird too so I guess we have a Nanny or babysitter or whatever, but she is A-Mazing! She not only comes to my house and watches my kids and loves them she also does crafts with them and drum roll....leaves my house cleaner than it was. She has also been known to make us dinner and her biggest extra roll is she makes cute crafty things for my house. See by the pictures how neat the stuff is that Mother Hen is making my me and the boys?
Love you!

 The flags were her idea

 The jar with stuff and ribbon she did

Ornaments

This year the whole Christmas Season is AMAZING seeing it from a 3 year olds eyes. The lights, the ornaments the nativitiy everything to him is "so cool". He was on a "Christmas High" decorating the tree.

Busy November

I NEVER have to go back and read previous blog posts but we have been so busy I actually had to hop on the blog before logging in and see what we have been upto and where I left off.
We took the boys to the Cincinnati Festival of Lights (found out from the Mom who knows all aka Stef that it was opening night and for members only). We thought it would be like one set of lights and really just going to the zoo at night. In reality it is a million people and ten million lights and zero animals. We all loved it and big boy Connor even went pee in the potty at the zoo. If you live in Cincinnati I 100% say you have to go see these lights.

So long story version of the potty story:
Right before we walked out of the Zoo Connor said "I have to go potty". Ray walked him into the mens bathroom. There were three urinals and 1 occupied stall. So he walked back out and we continued walking to the car (duh we are new to this but DUH) Hello Parents your newly potty trained boy told you he had to go potty. So we get to the car, I go to put him in his car seat and he says "Mommy I have to go potty" ohhhh yea, shoot. I pull his pants down and say, "Connor pee on the car tire" (Mom of the year). He laughed and said "no". So I picked him up ran like I has running a 5k, yelled as I ran for people to let me cut in line as I had a little boy who had to go potty. Got let back into the Zoo got to the womens bathroom andddddd.....A LINE. (Duh, there is always a line to the womens bathroom). So as I sweat and pant Connor stays cool and just kind of stands there. Nobody let's us cut which really irked me, I was thinking great this poor kid just held it for all this time and now he is totally going to pee his pants here in line.
We made it to our turn, I pulled his pants down threw him on the potty and...he went! I look down only to see he had dropped his little gingerbread man onto the bathroom floor. I didn't want a scene so I (mother of the year) handed it back to him. Then he tried to wiggle off the potty and dropped it again. This time I couldn't ignore the cooking hitting the bathroom stale floor twice and it went into the trash can. Then I didn't wash his hands or mine because they didn't have papertowels and it was like 30 degree's out. Don't jude, I purelled in the car.
So he did it, even with these dumb dumb parents who don't ask or listen to our kid about having to go potty. Way to go Con-man!

Turkey Lurkey

Thanksgiving is a close second to Christmas for me. A game my side of the family has always played is called "turkey-lurkey". What my Grandma does is hides presents (usually little things like our yearly ornaments) and wraps them in adorable turkey paper. Then she gives us rhyming clues to help you find your gift. With us not being with GLo this year she mailed them. In the begining of the video Connor was really excitted because he thought the phone on the box was a transformer, then I told him it was a phone. You can watch the video from here...Enjoy!

Crazy weekend. Why do we make the bed, Connor just makes pillow piles.

Sunny Days

Why don't we live in San Diego where it is 70 and sunny everyday? Today it was 60 and all this weekend it is going to be the same. Have I mentioned that I love having a "Hanny"? (A Heather-Nanny). I get to come home two days a week and eat lunch with my boys. Today in my 60 minutes we took the four kids to the park.
Here are pictures from today. The cousins in-law Isabella 2.5 and Greyson 6 months.

Halloween 2012

It was 35 degrees out, raining and windy but I actually thought it was AWESOME! Back in September I decided that Ryan could re-wear Connor's "Woody" cowboy from Toy Story costume from last year and I bought Connor a "Buzz Light Year" from the movie Toy Story costume for this year. How cute right? I even had a "Jessie" costume for me!
Well for over a month now every time Ray or I would talk about Buzz Light Year Connor would say, "No I'm Woody". So my guess was he was not going to wear the costume. Telling THE WORLDEST BESTEST NEIGHBOR EVER about my dilemma, what did Stef do? Sewed Connor a Knight Costume, with a dragon on the front and everything. It was super cold out so many layers could easily fit on under it and out the door we went. I let Ryan wear Connors costume from two years ago because it was essentially a full body suit of warmth (skeleton) .....hoping next year the boys will want to be Toy Story. (and yes, yes I did still wear my Jessie costume).
Points of amusement to take away from Halloween

• At the first house Connor gave the lady the one and only piece of candy out of his bag and put it in her bucket
• The two "scary" mask guys he saw his only comment was "Hey Mom look at that Silly Billy"
• He also kept up to 5 yr old pal Abby no-problemo
• At some houses he would "pass" on the candy which actually was kind of awkward for me