The Fernbank Museum has this huge bubble table with these rings of different sizes and the boys love playing in it. Things have always amazingly gone well in this area….until today….
Look mom, I’m making bubbles!
Wait, I can’t stick my face in the bubbles and then try to rub the bubble soap out with my soapy bubbly little hands without making MORE bubbles ON MY FACE??? Its BUUUUUUUUUURNING!!!!!
Not cool mom, not happy. My eyes are burning and I look like I’m from the Jersey Shore.
This started when Finn brought in one large piece of styrofoam into the kitchen asking if he could break it…..next thing I know, Todd is breaking styrofoam over the boys heads and they are laughing uncontrollably. They do this breaking the pieces into smaller and smaller pieces until there aren’t any pieces big enough to break….until….Finn finds more large pieces….I don’t think I’ve ever heard them laugh so hard in my/their lives! (FYI – Styrofoam is a beast to clean up!)
well, to be honest, I don’t feel all that pretty, but I had my beautiful, talented, and new mommy herself, friend come and take some pictures of me that do make me feel pretty now!
31 weeks….I cannot wait to meet this baby! I can’t wait to find out if it is a boy or a girl, especially now that we have finally chosen names and I’ve started working on the bedding. This baby’s room is cheery and that is exactly how I feel about this baby! I love you already baby!
And thank you Miss Robin for taking the time to schlep all the way to my house, educate Finn, laugh at my awkwardness and most importantly, these beautiful photos!
I’m afraid that PETA will come after me if I post a picture of where grandma “warms up” after her bath.
We have a date set for “Tripp”! Baby #3 is coming March 23rd!
We have 10 weeks to prepare for mayhem!
People keep laughing at me when I tell them I have 10 weeks left. I can’t help but laugh with them. This belly is ginormous. I can’t even begin to imagine how large it is going to be in 10 weeks! ha!
Hell Atlanta has frozen over. Some have been calling it Snowmageddon, some have been calling it Snowpocalypse. Both are hilarious. Basically, Atlanta had a winter storm. It started with a fast and heavy snow on Sunday night. Todd woke up at 5am because he was bound and determined to make his flight to NYC that day. I was sure that no flights were going to leave Atlanta and that he was risking his life even bothering to try to make it to the airport. So when he left at 530am, I turned on the TV and sat and watched the news, which was a really bad idea when I was already worried about him. He made it to the airport in one piece. First flight was cancelled and he was put on another. An hour or so later he called to tell me he was on the plane. And an hour and a half later, no word from him, but I knew no flights had left the airport per weather goddess Jess. Until suddenly I get a text from Jess saying his flight just took off. Amazing. He actually made it.
Meanwhile….the boys and I bundled up and headed out to play in the snow!
The boys insisted on taking these toys with them, which they promptly threw down on the ground and ignored.
And Finn wanted to make a “Grandma Bear Snowman!” This really meant that I rolled around on the ground trying to scoop up as much snow as I could while they threw some snow around.
Riley was only OK for about 20 minutes, and then he started wailing. So inside we went….how happy they are to be warm again!
And, of course my snow pants don’t fit! ha! But I pulled on a belly band to try to hold them together/up and a super stretchy shirt. It worked OK, pants kept falling down, but it had to have been better than without. This is the 29 week belly!
After our clothes dried in the dryer and Sesame Street was over, we headed back outside to give Grandma Bear Snowman her nose, scarf, hat and we tried to give her eyes too, but while we were inside the freezing rain had started and so now she (and everything) was covered in a thin (for the time being) layer of ice.
So then we went sledding! I was too nervous to let the boys go by themselves, so all 3.5 of us fit in one sled and headed down the street. Yes, the street. ha!
Slave labor
We went up and down the street a bunch of times. Our neighbors came out and we lent them a sled. Eventually we went back inside, warmed up, had lunch and naps! After naps we headed back out for more sledding with our friends The Brimmers. By then much more ice had come down and things were pretty slippery, which made for very fast sledding, but tough to walk. Riley couldn’t walk in it at all, but I just put him in the sled and pulled him everywhere. The day definitely wore the boys out, and me too!
Overnight the temps dropped way low, more freezing rain came and went and I was too nervous of the ice and all of us falling to go out in the morning. So we all went very stir crazy playing in the house all morning. Finnally in the afternoon we busted out and walked down the street to the Brimmers! We built a snow castle wall (and ate it) and played inside after we all got cold.
Wednesday morning we got in the car! We drove! We were free!!! We drove over to Alec and Aerin’s house to play with them! Aerin was born the day before Riley, in the same hospital, just a floor apart! More sledding with them and some lunch and everyone had some nice long naps!
Wednesday afternoon we celebrated our friend Davis’s 4th birthday! And that night, daddy actually made it home! And we had a surprise visit from my dad! All schools were still closed through Friday. The roads were still really spotty (ridiculous!) but the temps started to warm up.
Looking back we were really only trapped for two days, but getting word on Tuesday morning that we would most likely be trapped until Saturday was enough to have me climbing the walls. But getting outside and playing with friends helped all of us stay alive! Ha! We are all looking forward to returning to normal life again next week!
As I mentioned earlier, we signed Finn up for some swim lessons. Last summer Finn had basically started swimming on his own in the pool, so we figured he needed some proper lessons this winter. I had the best of intentions of taking the boys to the indoor pool at the Y once the temps dropped, but I’ve been a wuss and hadn’t taken them once. But we signed him up and off we went. He did great on his first lesson, which was all really basic stuff, jumping in, swimming with a noodle and a paddle board.
We spent New Years Eve with Uncle Buzz this year! The weather that day was gorgeous! I’m talking 70 degrees! So after naps we headed over to Uncle Buzz’s house and hit the play ground! And we also busted out our new camera finally!
Todd took a million pictures of the boys on the swings, all action shots, none of them are good. Ha! Both boys on the big boy swings!
And I just have to share this video. Uncle Buzz and a complete under dog FAIL. Evidently Uncle Buzz needs some under dog practice. This was a total fluke that I got this on video, as I mentioned we were just playing around with the new camera. I almost peed my pants.
And then we went back to Uncle Buzz’s house and made pizzas!
And while we were making pizzas, where was Riley? Standing right in front of the giant TV eating chips.
We washed up the kids and put them to bed, watched some football, watched a movie, watched some basketball and more football and then watched the ball drop on times square! I actually stayed up until midnight for the first time in years. I actually stayed up much later than that, let me explain…..
Five minutes before the ball dropped, right after we poured our champagne, I notice my phone has a missed call from a 1-800 number….uh oh….our alarm company, and remember that Todd’s phone had rang hours earlier but he didn’t even look at it or answer it. So of course there is a message saying our house alarm had gone off, about 3.5 hours earlier. Uh oh. So as soon as the ball dropped, we cheersed and Todd and Buzz took off to our house to find we had left the back door unlocked and the wind had blown it open.
They came back and then I headed home, alone. Todd was going to stay over at Buzz’s with the boys so I could sleep in in the morning. Except 10 minutes after I got home, my phone rings and I answer it and head Riley WAILING in the background. Riley had woken up and was completely inconsolable. So, I went back to uncle buzz’s and picked up my family, drove them home and put them all to bed….at 1am. Woke up with the entire family at 6am. SO.TIRED.
Happy New Year!! 2010 was a great year and we are very excited to see what 2011 has in store for us!
I’ve shared this story with a few people who laughed so hard I figured I should document this story.
I needed to get Finn signed up for swim lessons at the Y and this could only be done in person. So I got us all ready, grabbed snack traps and water for the boys, squeezed into my gym clothes, grabbed my ipod and headed off to the gym. Dropped the boys off in the daycare and headed over to membership to get Finn signed up for swim. It didn’t take nearly as long as I thought it would so I was left with no other option than to actually attempt exercise.
I made my way over to the treadmill where I started walking….very slowly. After 10 minutes I felt very light headed and like I couldn’t catch my breath. Yeah, I’m in really awesome shape. So I got down and decided I would go stretch for a minute and then maybe walk the track instead. But as I’m stretching, I realize it is now 11am and I have had only a small bowl of cereal for breakfast (because breakfast does not sit well). No follow up snack (aka mini-meal). Hold up, I’m so going to pass out. I need food. Need food fast. How am I going to carry the boys back out to the car? The boys! The boys have snacks!
I make my way down to the daycare, walk in, Riley runs up to see me, SO happy!! “MOMMA!!!!” I grab his snack trap, rip off the lid and pour his goldfish into my mouth. Riley loses his ever loving mind. MY SNACK, MY SNACK, MY GOLDFISH, MY SNACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I stole my sons snack.
Our little Roo went pee pee on the potty tonight!!! YAYAYAYAY! We threw a party. It was awesome!
We realized recently that Finn had started to show interest in the potty right before his second birthday when kids in his class at daycare were starting potty training. And with Riley quickly approaching his second birthday we decided we should at least do what we did with Finn….put him on the potty every night before getting in the tub/shower. Every now and then Riley would ask about the potty when he saw one of us on it but nothing ever happened.
After a couple of nights of putting him on the potty and having him lose his ever loving mind, tonight all of a sudden he went potty! He looked as shocked as I did, he looked down and said “potty???” and I tried to keep my cool and now start shouting in his face while he was still going. But as soon as he was done, we threw a celebration.
So proud of our little Roo!
