Hummus

This kid is in love with hummus. LOVE. It's ridiculous. It's all his too because after he dunks slobbery carrots in for the 3728th time you want no part of it so he's a little sneaky about keeping it to himself.....



Look how happy it makes him :)



On another note, by 12:30 today he had eaten a massive bowl of frosted mini wheats for breakfast, came over to sit in my lap and finish off my cereal then proceeded to go sit on Paul's lap and finish his oatmeal. Then he had a whole banana. Then basically the entire grocery store trip he ate grapes....so 30 mins straight he ate grapes. Then we came home and he had a pre-lunch snack of carrots and hummus. Then for his actual meal he had a ham/cheese/spinach sandwich. Unreal. I have to believe he's going thru a growth spurt because the amount of food this child has been consuming the past few days scares me. What is gonna happen when he is 15???????? OMG.


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Date night

With my main man, Declan Brady. We went to old navy to try on some winter clothes for little buddy then played........









ate dinner..........and then little little buddy wanted ice cream so obviously I had to give him some :) and decky enjoyed it as well!

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Foam pit!

We went back to the gym today and had fun in the foam pit............. It took me about 25 minutes to get out of there but that's besides the point :)


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A few things about the boy right now......

-He kisses EVERYTHING. seriously. tonight he kissed the water in the shower. when he says "bye bye" (which we have to do in order to avoid a serious meltdown) to something he wants to kiss and give it a hug so tonight, in the shower, when we were done, he said "bye bye wawa" and leaned in for a hug and a kiss. hilarious and beyond cute to watch.
-He is full on in the terrible 2's. i'm scared for what's ahead, truly. he has a really bad temper and is more than willing to show it to you. very stubborn and VERY into asserting himself and what he wants/feels like he needs :) we have so so so many talks per day about not screaming, not throwing things, not hitting our heads against the sofa etc that it is really exhausting.
-along these lines - i am learning just how important it is to be CONSISTENT. again, with all the talks we have a day it would be so easy to skip one or just give up for a little bit (which i want to do a lot, trust...) but i do see tiny bit by tiny bit him improving............so that means hopefully by the time he's 16 he won't be throwing himself against the wall when I say "no buddy, we already watched the elmo song today".
-along THOSE lines - he LOVES elmo. love love love. he doesn't watch tv, he just doesn't sit still long enough but on youtube there's an elmo alphabet song that's about 2 mins long and he looooooooves. he asks for "melmo" a minimum of 15 times per day.
-he knows his colors and the best way to test him is to ask about..................trucks! he can tell you all the colors on all his trucks which is very cool. "wewwo (yellow), booooo (blue), raaaa (red), geeen (green)"
-he also loves to draw circles. well he loves to draw, period, but he likes circles and anything with a circle he will trace with his finger
-he has a crazy weird memory and i don't know if most kids or like this or what BUT my dad has a photographic memory and i'm kind of thinking decky does too.
-super into horsies ("neighs") right now
-humongous mama's boy. and i do love it, really i do, but sometimes mama needs a break!!!! yesterday morning paul got up with decky and let me sleep.........for about 2 minutes until i heard declan crying "mama.....mama........MAMA". paul also was going to put him to bed last night and decky looked at me and stuck his lip out and started his fake crying. haha. oh my gosh i mean it was so cute but a) he was faking and b) he was fine the second he was out of the room. good try, buddy.
-such a big boy. doesn't even sit in his booster anymore, he sits in a real chair, uses real utensils, doesn't let me feed him a thing. i also haven't fixed him a kiddie version of our dinner in weeks like sometimes i would do in the past, he's just eating whatever it is mommy felt like cooking for that night!
-still the light of our lives. as hard as somedays are right now, and as ornery as he can be, inevitably by bath time he is a little gem and watching him run around naked, cuddling with him with his teddy bears and reading, singing right before bed, its like you forget what the day held.............no matter how frustrating :) he has a charm about him that will dangerous as he gets older. love my boy. love love love love looooove.

24.5 weeks

That's a large little man in there. I'll update soon but everything looked/sounded good at my appt last week. I've been having really horrible round ligament pain down in "that" region for about a week now and my guess is it's because this little one is so so much lower than Declan was. Which in one way is great BC I've had minimal heartburn, but this pain and soreness is making me waddle already. I didn't have this with Declan until the last week when I was overdue. So thats cool.......

Sure the move and stress isn't helping matters but hopefully this goes away soon! The good news is that we did this now and not when I was REALLY huge!! Phew!

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Stripper

The other morning my mom brought Declan into our room to show me what my little stripper woke up like.









He is getting mighty close to taking off his shirts by himself but hasn't figured out pants yet. Yet. :)


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Halloween!!

I have so much catching up to do on here and hopefully over the next week or so I'll get to it but for now: Halloween!!

We went over to our friend's house, Emily, Ben and little Carl, and had a blast. Emily made a delicious dinner that fortified us for the trick or treating ahead! Decky and Carl rode in the wagon around the neighborhood and loaded up on candy for mommy and daddy! Declan was good for about 45 mins and then started getting realllllllly pissed off at Paul and I for not letting him eat the candy so he threw one last delightful little fit and we decided to call it good for the night. We went back to the house where he and Carl played for about two hours and gave the grown ups time to actually chat and hang out. Completely foreign concept to me. I had forgotten what that was like...........but it was so so nice. All around it was a really wonderful night and I feel so lucky that we are finally starting to make some friends here.....................been a very long time coming!

This would have been a great pic but Paul the arteeeeeest had the camera on some funky setting. awesome.

1st house! Superman and the giraffe with their daddies!

Both signing "thank you" to the nice gentleman. Pretty cute.

Big boy coming back from his first trip up by himself

Big hugs from Carl to end the night