weekend happenings

We are coming off of another perfect summer weekend over here. Sunshine, heat, playgrounds, beaches - you name it, we covered it.

 

Saturday

We decided early Saturday morning that it would be worth our while to head to a nearby town to run a few errands and spend most of the morning at the playground.  The boys were so perfect the whole time.  Normally our days consists of some tantrums, but we cruised through the morning and even lunch without any tears.  Big win. BIG.

 

 

 

We made it home for naps and for our pest control guy to come through and spray our house from carpenter ants.  (FYI, we now add carpenter ants to the list of things gone awry on this house siding project of ours.)

 

Post naps, we chowed down our supper and loaded the boys back up for another perfect outing to the beach and ice cream.

 

I love these two boys!!

 

 

Sunday

Sunday morning was so dang hard on us.  Linden has developed some separation anxiety over the last couple days and it's spilled over into nighttime sleep.  He spend the majority of the night crying so hard until I came in and held him.  He'd cry non-stop.  I'd hold him until he'd calm down and lay him back down.  Then we would do that same dance over and over and over.

 

So after Linden and I recovered from our no-sleep hangover, we marched ourselves out the door to get some fresh air to help wake us up.  We didn't have any set plans, we just drove into town and went from there. 

 

Lucky for us, it landed us at the playground for the first half and, no surprise, at the beach for the second half.  And believe it or not, the boys were little gems once again.

 

 

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toddler life | thirty three

THIRTY THREE MONTHS

 

Here we are folks.  One more month down to total thirty three months.  We watched Conner accomplish one very big milestone in his little life - potty training!!

I was really leary about starting this little adventure because Conner had ZERO interest in the potty.  But we are so glad that we made that leap to big boy underwear.  It took a better part of the week to be confident in our potty abilities, but as I write this, we are 6 days without any accidents.  (Knock on wood!!)

I'm so proud of this little boy.  Taking one step away from toddlerhood and one step closer to boyhood.
 

Toddler Talks

I love having conversations with this little bird.  Although I definitely figured out that we have to be extra careful about what we say around him because he's really good at repeating things now! ;)

Gone are the days where if he got hurt or had a tummy ache and we were left to do our detective work to figure out what just happened.  Here are the days that I can simply ask him what happened and he can tell me what's wrong.  Makes parenting about 172% easier.

 

 

Toddler Play

Planes, trains and automobiles.  And anything to do with running.  Joe's actually been teaching him how to build forts and hide inside of them, so naturally that's what he wants to do as soon as he gets home from daycare.

With summer in full swing, we've been hitting up the beach whenever possible and occasionally a stop for ice cream afterwards.  It's amazing watching this little kid in the water.  He's never been kosher with wearing arm floaties or a life jacket so we've been extra diligent about making sure he stays safe in the water.  I mean, he's practically a pro at this swimming thing.

 

Toddler Eats

Thank goodness for summer produce! We pull out the veggies and fruits as much as possible.  I've learned that whatever he sees sitting on the counter is what he wants, so I just place fresh fruits or veggies out, and that's what he wants.  That, and chocolate milk.

The kid could live off chocolate milk!  I use a couple teaspoons of Ovaltine mixed in with almond milk to cut down on the unnecessary sugars.  (The kid's got plenty of energy as is.)

 

Toddler Sleep
I've been extra proud of my little bear this past week with bedtime and naps.  Like I said earlier, he's gone 6 nights without any accidents!  He's still going to bed around 9pm each night and we're usually waking him up around 6:15am to get ready for daycare.  His naps are still pretty long on the weekends from 1:30-4:30ish.  (I'm gonna miss it when he weans from naps.  It's such a nice break in the day.)

PHOTO DUMP:

 

10 on 10 | july 2016

10 Photos | 10th of July

 



4th of july | 2016

Happy Tuesday everyone!! I hope everyone had a blast celebrating their 4th of July with family and friends.  I know we made the most of it.

 

We spent our three day weekend potty training. [Insert overwhelmed face here.]

 

Since Joe was on call and we had three days off work we decided now would be the best time to get the ball rolling.  And in all reality, there's never a good time to start training, but everyone dreads it.

 

We started Saturday morning, and I can say we've come a long way since.  It started pretty tragic with a boy who didn't care if he peed on the floor, peed in his underwear, or peed in his bed, but he absolutely cared about sitting on his potty (and not in a good way either).  Sitting on the potty is like the worst form of punishment to him.

 

 

But we really have made strides in potty training department.  He now screams and gives me a distressed look to let me know that he's gotta go and runs off to his little Mickey potty.

 

Since we were do the potty-training dance this weekend, we turned down any of the fun plans that were extended our way.  It was sad not to go hang out and enjoy the holiday weekend with everyone, but this will pay off in the end.

 

We even got brave on Monday and ventured off to a nearby park without any accidents! Woohoo!  And since we were on a roll and halfway to the river property anyway, we decided to head over and see papa.

 

 

Of course that led to some spontaneous swimming in the river that was we were completely unprepared for.

 

 

We rounded out the night with dinner on the deck. :)

Thanks to all those that gave us (and continue to protect) our freedom!!

 

 

 



thursday night

Sometimes Joe comes home with fantastic ideas.  Last night his idea was to hit up the beach and ice cream.

 

Two words:

I'm in!