Playdate Fun

My friend Kristin came over with her cute son Carter today to play with Randy and me. I really enjoyed having a fellow mommy around to talk with. I mean it's hard, I do not have a lot of friends let alone ones that have children. Needless to say, it was a nice temporary break from the gibberish I have grown so accustom to hearing. It is just nice to know I am not the only one with questions about how this whole mommy thing and wife thing and life thing all work while following God's plan. I so appreciated just talking about life and having two babies (one on the way in Kristin's case)and the craziness that is apartment living while having a budding family. God is funny, just when I feel like I might just go crazy and pull my hair out trying to make life work just the way I think it should He reminds me that I am not alone trying to be a good mother and wife and Christfollower. There are other women out there that I can converse with, bounce ideas off of and learn from and just feel at ease with. Thank you God for giving me everything you have and showing me that I am not the only mom out there looking for you in everything!
Also I think my baby Randy enjoyed his new found friend Carter, despite the fact that they had a slight disagreement on who got Kristin. Carter felt like she was his, since after all Kristin is his mom. And Randy thought since she was in his house her lap and book reading services were at his disposal. All and all though I was very pleased with the way the 2 one year old's interacted and played together. Randy does not always have very many opportunities to play with other children and as a result I am always worrying about his social development. He did good though and so did Carter. I think it would be fun to do this to further Randy's development and learning, if only it were a little cheaper, oh well :( maybe we will still do it! Play/learning is so important as well as social interactions...we will see!

The trial of being a Mommy: Poop happens!

Two nights ago I wake up at about 2 in the morning to feed my son Robert per the usual. I make him ten ounces of formula and change his diaper. I go to use the bathroom and I hear Robert farting really loud. I go check to see if he pooped, he hadn't but he did pee a ton again. So I grabbed another diaper and a wipe and start to pull off the soaked diaper; at that moment he started pooping, like a river! I grabbed the diaper and it filled completely up and I grabbed the next diaper, he filled that too! He finally stopped pooping and I waited to make sure he had really finished and then I went to start the diaper changing process all over again. Only, to have him start pooping everywhere again. I had to hold my hands under his butt to catch the over flow! It ended up on my pants and the couch, up my arms, on my shirt, all over him, on the floor(you get the picture). I mean it was everywhere and I was screaming for my husband to come help me. It was utter chaos. I mean I really had no idea what to do with that much poop! That situation was truly about the trials of being a mommy! I seriously had to take deep breathes and remind myself how cute Robert is just to stop feeling angry at him for the massive amounts of disgusting green poo! The whole thing was definitely a test of patience ! I had to wake my poor husband out of a dead slumber to have him help, and thank God for him because I was felt so overwhelmed by the event! But even just two days later I find it a little funny (still overwhelmingly disgusting, but humorous) and I kinda wish that in the craziness I would have taken a photo to black mail Robert later in life with. Of course not of the the poop exactly but a photo of the entire situation because I am sure that my facial expressions were absolutely priceless!
I know that there are going to be plenty of trying moments on this crazy road of Mommyhood, so I am so so so grateful that I have a God that joins me in the messiness and helps calm me when I just want to scream (which of course sometimes I still do).That huge mess was just a reminder to me that I am not doing life by myself and that God isn't afraid of a little "poop", He will help me clean it up!

Mommy and Me:1

I-phone pic of me trying to feed robert

Mommy and Me (and maybe a few with daddy)

I saw this on my friend Kristin Eldridge's blog so I clicked the link: ^ And I loved the idea. I am always complaining to my husband that I do not have enough photos of me with our babies for various reasons. Needless to say it makes me sad. For example my first Mother's Day I have one photo with my son Randy but I have plenty of photos of him with his Grandma's and everyone else that hung out that day but 1 with me :( Another example is when Randy was born the photographers come and take infant photos but I refused to take part because I felt like crap. I hadn't taken a shower after having been in labor for 22 hours and ending in an emergency c-section. So, I have beautiful photo's of my husband Jason with our beautiful baby Randy (even though he looked a little scruffy) the photos were amazing and I wish so desperately that even though I hadn't felt beautiful that I would have joined in! I so regret not being in that photo shoot especially since just one year later I got in photo's with our second son Robert and although I don't look perfect I absolutely love the photos! So those past regrets have inspired me to participate in the photo challenge! Check back in for the imperfect but necessary photos!!!

Bubble Party

I needed to accomplish some cleaning today so I looked up some activities for toddlers on BabyCenter and this is what I came up with Bubble Time. I filled the sink with tons of bubbles and then scooped out the bubbles and tossed them on my kitchen floor. Then gave Randy a couple of spatulas and Tupperware containers and let him roll around in the bubbles and splash around in them! He had a ton of fun and then helped me clean up when he was done playing, which got the floors cleaned up! I love when you can turn playtime into "clean time". There where alot more activity ideas that I am going to have to try in the future!

Oh, oh It's Magic

Friday night I took the boys to the Magic House. Seriously toddler Heaven! Randy was able to run a muck without me having to say NO every five minutes! He enjoyed the over sized legos, the baby kitchen area and ball pit, as well as being able to play in their water works area! The even better thing was that they had a little area for children under one as well, where Robert was able to sit in front of a mirror and play with his reflection and some of the balls from the ball pit! Both of my boys slept so hard after playing there! It was wonderful, to top of all the fun we had, it was absolutely free! It does not get any better then free family fun. I am always looking for cheap, fun things to do with the boys to get us all out of the house. The Magic house is free every 3rd Friday of the month, which of course means its crazy busy, but it was seriously worth the busyness!!!! It was a safe exploratory environment designed to help children learn and learn to interact with each other! I would highly recommend it if you have children that need to burn some pent up energy!

The Park on St. Patty's Day

Jason and I took the boys to Love park today, it's a great park because hardly anyone goes there and Randy can pretty much have free reign of the place! It has great places to "adventure". Randy found plenty of acorns, bottle caps and sticks to collect. He and Robert were both able to enjoy the playground as well. It gives me such joy to watch my babies play and enjoy the great outdoors. I am really looking forward to more warm spring days, so I can play outside with the kiddos. Today was truly a blessing to go to the park and have the boys get to play with their daddy.
Check out all the fun we had today!

The Park on St. Patty

Spring cleaning

I am so excited I get my carpets steam cleaned today! We have been in this apartment for two years and I have never been able to get them cleaned. This year when we renewed our lease they offered free carpet cleaning but at that time we were about to have Robert and I had to have a c-section so there was NO way I was moving stuff around and Jason was devoting his energy to taking care of me and our two boys. Luckily my husband was able to get the apartment complex to agree to do it have the new year and at the beginning of spring! And that day is finally here, my carpets are disgusting and since Robert will be crawling soon I really love that we are able to get them clean. I find it is the little things in life that give me pleasure now, like, getting my carpets cleaned. A few years ago if you would have offered me a new pair of jeans or clean carpets, well the carpets would still be dirty. Now I just love trying to have everything clean and organized and having my boys in cute stuff. I have definitely changed my priorities. It's so funny to me how God changes your perspective on life. With me it happened in two phases, 1-a MAJOR over turn, and 2- a much more subtle gentle change. The major was obvious things like no more partying and returning to church and God and family. The subtle, is things like prioritizing others before my self, the way I speak, the way I view the world and God. I look back now at my life and I realize that God did some major spring cleaning in my heart and mind and spirit. Some times I do not even recognize myself. I am now a much more beautiful me, and I also realize though that there a few more cob webs to deal with and it is a process to get them out, just like its a process to actual get my carpets cleaned. The end result though is oh so worth it!

Tornado Randy, Hurricane Robert

Yesterday my house was spic and span; today it has been hit with tornado Randy and Hurricane Robert. Randy has already managed to pull all his toys out and scatter them about the house. Robert has had waterfalls of spit up landing on my carpet, and couch. On a more positive note though we have been enjoying wonderful classical renditions of different children's songs like The Wheels on the Bus, and This way and That, and If your Happy and You Know It. I love Baby Einstein music, it entertains both of my boys for long periods of time because they love to boogy!
Today Robert ate another large bowl of his oatmeal and wanted more! He also downed a 6oz bottle; looks like he is really over the hump with his RSV. He didn't sleep through the whole night last night but it wasn't because of his cough it was because he was a very hungry boy! I would definitely rather be getting up because he is hungry then not feeling good. Robert so far this morning has been enjoying bouncing around in his jumper to the music, it really cute he is actually doing a pretty good job keeping beat!
Randy has also really been enjoy the toons, he likes to grab Roberts hand and swing it back and forth with the rhythm. He loves to dance with brother. He also likes grabbing his stuffed toys and spinning around the play room with them. His other favorite thing today is racing his toy wined up cars against each other. Racing cars is a more regular occurrence...he seriously loves toy cars. Typical boy!
I unfortunately have to work this evening. I only work twice a week but every time I dread leaving my boys; I am afraid I'll miss something. I love too "party" with my boys, I mean we seriously have so much fun goofing around and even though its daddy that has them while I am working I get a little jealous :) Oh well Daddy needs so good quality time with his boys too I suppose!
PS my son Randy keeps giving me kisses! Could life get any better? I love my boys!!!!

Attempting to blog

I have never really blogged before, I have journal-ed a little but that is it. I want to start documenting everything, or at least the most memorable moments. I have two little boys so life goes by fast and I don't want to forget anything.

Today my five month old Robert ate organic oatmeal and bananas and for the first time he liked it! I mean I have been trying to feed him since he was four months and we got the ok from the doc. He hasn't wanted anything to do with eating; that is until today, Robert devoured the oatmeal, I mean he was grabbing the spoon from my hand and shoving it in his mouth! Finally a success, I am so excited but a little reminisce at the same time because eating solids is a sign of growing up. I just want to freeze time and keep both of my boys babies, at least for a little longer!

Also my family has all had RSV for the past couple of weeks and I have pretty much been out of commission until the past couple of days. So my mother came over and took my 17 month old Randy with he to run errands so I could deep clean my house! I have never been so happy to clean. I went crazy, everything is clean now and I love it! I thought I was going to go mad because it was so overwhelmingly messy, all I can say is thank God for Grandmas who can entertain grandsons!