Nursery Time

When we got home from church today I asked Liam what he did in nursery.
Liam: "I played cars"
Me: "Oh what did you learn?"
Liam: "Jesus."
Me: "Does Jesus love you?"
Liam: "Yeah. I follow Jesus. See!" (He proceeds to walk very carefully in a straight line.)
Love that little boy.

Maybe I'll start with once a week.

Telling myself to post every day was a little too much. I did think about it every day this week though. We have had a busy week as usual with plenty of things going on and lots of time with friends and family. The weather has taken a turn for the worst. (rain) So we have been hibernating at home. Liam has taken his love for cars and geared it to his matchbox/hotwheels collection. All he wants to do is play with his cars or watch Word World or Chuggington. There have been plenty of tears shed over all 3 of those things. We are letting Liam wear his big boy underwear and I've heard "uh oh. Mom pee!" a few times and we've celebrated for pee in the potty a few times as well. I think we have a long road ahead. Henry has had a good week. Still no teeth for the little guy. Liam had at least one tooth by now. Henry doesn't seem to have any coming anytime soon. He started pulling himself up to things this week though. I am not ready for him to grow up. I forgot how fast the 1st year goes.

As for me. I'm getting to the gym more frequently and smiling more. It works. Try it.

"We'll look back and be happy we did this."

Baby Briggs at 2 weeks

We went to the Tri-Cities last weekend for Briggs' baby blessing and decided to have a friend of ours take family photos. Matt was not the most excited about it and I reminded him that "We will look back and be happy that we did this." His reply was, "That's what I keep telling myself." And while we were taking the photos I had to keep reminding myself that too! Liam was being such a stinker. We did a 30 minute mini photo session and I wanted to get as many shots in as possible. Liam on the other hand wanted to climb on the bricks, try to yank out my earrings, jump off things,  point at things in the sky and every other annoying thing I could have thought of.  We brought treats for him (which I think made things worse) and eventually made it through with a few shots where we were all looking. Haley was awesome and so patient with us. And while I am being honest the last thing that I wanted was to document the post baby body that I am not willing to admit is mine. Henry is nearing the 7 month mark and my body has not got the memo that it can shed the weight. I wish I was one of "those" women who can breast feed and have their bodies shrink at a ridiculous rate.  Mom told me that I am in the baby making years and to enjoy it. I would enjoy it more if I was a little bit thinner :)
Photo evidence that I have the cutest family in the world :) And evidence that it was all worth it.

 

Has is been that long?!?

Keeping this blog updated has obviously not been a priority for a while and that drives me crazy. I have so many memories that i don't want to forget and so many pictures of my two adorable boys.
Henry is now almost 7 months old and so happy and so so so adorable. It breaks my heart that he is getting so big so fast. Liam will be 3 in less than 2 short months and is everything that comes with the age. Sweet, spicy and stubborn. Don't know where he gets that ;) We have been busy with work, church, school, family and all the other things life throws our way. We have had a few opportunities the passed few months to spend some quality time with our families, friends and with our own little family. And I have lots of pictures to prove it.  Kate and I were talking about journaling and keeping our blogs updated not just so people know what we have been up to but so we can look back and see what we were doing with all of our time. She mentioned a friend who blogs every day. I want to do that. Doesn't have to be fancy I just want things to be documented. I have this fear that I am going to look back and wonder where my kids childhoods went and not be able to remember enough of it. I know if I keep this blog up and be as consistent with it as I am with other things I won't have to worry about not remembering. I want to remember the good, the bad and the ugly. I am in no way a writer or good with my words and I think that is partially why I don't journal or blog as much as I would like to. I am afraid I will say something stupid or something that doesn't quite make sense when written. I am putting my worries to the side and just going to journal my life as a mom, wife, daughter, sister, friend. It may be boring some days but this is my life.