two

I keep thinking in my head; "Since when did I become a Mom of a ONE AND TWO year old? Crazyness!
I can't really ever get them (Ryan) to sit still long enough to take a picture of them both. I caught them Wednesday both on the stairs and grabbed my phone.

On Wednesday Ryan heard me open up the dishwasher (one of his favorite things to play on) and came running. He ran a little too fast and fell right into the corner of the dishwasher with his eye. He probably just wanted to look like his big brother. Ray said he was getting stares from the furniture delivery guys with two little boys with black eye's LOL.

switch-a-roo

Originally I got the "shark sheets" & gingham bedding for when Ryan got a big boy bed but after a recent trip to Lake Lorali for the Reubusch's and Connor slept in bunk beds and loved it I had a change of heart.

Also Ryan's bed converts into a full and the sheets I got were for a twin.
Today the delivery truck brought Connor's new bunk bed, and two dressers. I painted his green room to brown and hung the new shark art work.

I still have to put his name letters back up and buy another twin mattress but we are about 70% there.

B-I-N-G-O

Connor

Connor's open house for Pre-school is this week and next week 2-3 yr old preschool starts. Here are some things he has said recently that crack me up;

today I tried to go to a store that wasn't open yet. On the car ride home;
C: "Mom you don't have your keys" M: "huh, I'm driving the car with the keys" C: "No Mom, the key to unlock the store" ohhhhh, so smart

(at daycare during Chinese class) Teacher: "kids to say hello you say, Ohio" C: "Noooo, Ohio is our State!"

C: "Mom, Ryan is crying but I didn't push him" he actually didn't which is unusual because usually he does and that is why he is normally crying

He got this brusier while at Daycare on Friday...

Good Mom vs Crazy

There is such a fine line between being a good Mom and being a crazy Mom and I find it harder than I thought to stay on the good side. I find that I never eat, shop for myself or have hobbies that are non-child related. Where did I go? I wake when I hear a child restle awake and I fall asleep planning their clothes for the next day and organizing play dates in my head. It is hard to explain to a non Mom but we are currently living in Crazytown population 4.

The mornings at our house are more than hectic.
6:45 to 7:20 entails the following;
Ryan wakes and diaper is changed
Ryan is taken down stairs and fed
Boji is let out and teeth brushing and bill paying is usually going on

7:00 must wake up Connor, he doesn't want up
7:10 wake up Connor round 2. Get Connor to sit on the potty then change pull-up.
Connor fights whatever I have picked out for him to wear to school, sweating begins

Clean breakfast out of Ryans hair get Ryan dressed.
Search for two pairs of socks and shoes.
Prepare a snack/breakfast for Connor becuase we are running late and he will have to eat in the car.
Get kids out to the car, buckeled in only to find out that Connor needs a sippy cup or I can't find Ryan's pacifier. More sweating.
10 minutes later get them both out of the car, (usually caring both) grab Ryan's shoes and socks out of the car that he has taken off on the car ride there grab the breakfast and walk into daycare.
Why am I tired all the time...hmmmm.
The part that is really hard to understand until after you have had a child is this: I would do it all over again tomorrow. I love my kids and even when rotten they pull on my heart strings and I drive myself boarderline crazy for them because I am totally 100% in love with them!

Friday Ryan was happy and Connor was still sleeping so I snuck in a before daycare/work picture.

Bike Helmet

This Wednesday I took the boys to Target for Connor to pick out a bike helmet....he loves his new Yellow Transformer helmet. Can you tell by these smiles?

Sharks

I'm not really a theme person...as far as bedrooms go. With that being said Ryan's big boy bed sheets do have Sharks on them (pottery barn kids) so neighbor Stef had this amazing idea for wall art. I bought cute frames from Michaels with a coupon and then used Stef's scrap book paper. We used google images of Sharks cut them out and 10 minutes later; done. LOVE THEM!

Abby & Connor couldn't tell they were sharks but I don't care I can tell and they were made with love with means more than some art work I could have over paid for at the store.

1 year ago

We were outside enjoying the final nice days of summer in the front yard with neighbors. Same as now.

I remember Connor wearing this shirt, one of my favorites. Will we ever get rid of these paci's? Everyday we say we aren't going to let Ryan have it and as soon as he makes one sad face we cave.

Candy Land

If you "follow" this blog I'd love for you to be a follower...not really sure how to explain how to tell you to do that but I'm always curious as to who exactly reads this. If the only reading it is my mom then I can probably go ahead and just start exclusivly instagraming and stop blogging.

Any who....Ray was in New York this week and when he returned home Friday we vowed to take it easy Saturday and stay in pj's until noon! Well by 11 we had vacuummed, cleaned, been to the grocery store, ran a baby clothing errand for dear Ayers & Spicher babies and gone to the post office. Yea...some could say we don't know how to sit still.

During the vacuming Connor thought a game of Candyland was nessecary. Whatever keeps you occupied Con-man. On the Connor front I must say he is at crazy age. He picks up on so much. I've taught him his state, street, birthday month...and at school he has learned; abc's, twinkle twinkle, old mcdonald, the itsy bitsy spider, london bridge, ring around the rosie, and now BINGO. Very proud of our smart cookie. Ryan is not budging on the speech thing, still only saying dada and that.

Have I mentioned almost everyone I know is pregnant? Danielle & Nicki had their babies this week (Greyson & Kennedy) and that leaves still pregnant, Erica, Bridget, Katie & Jill R. Crazyness!

Pleasant surprise

Today I had two great surprises, Cynthia came over to play with the boys and this cute little Halloween bag came for Ryan as a 1st birthday present from The Sweet Nickel's family!!