Beach Videos

It has taken me forever to upload videos to youtube in order to post them here to the blog…..obviously as we took this trip over a month ago!  But, here they finally are!

Swimming

Todd taught Finn this “trick” of walking off the edge of the pool.

And Riley tried the trick out himself.

Birds

Riley was completely un-phased by the thousands of birds swarming around him….but evidently I can’t say the same…..

Riley running around with his water shoe in his mouth.  He was running and back and forth down the hallway and back into the living room with the shoe in his mouth for so long before I finally decided to get the camera out and then of course he stopped, but it is still hilarious.  Such a silly kid!

And the toddler version of mini-golfing!

Pamperpalooza

As I mentioned in the teeny tiny diaper post, some friends of mine had a Pamperpalooza for me, a “stock the bar” but with diapers and wipes!  The invite was hilarious, I thought:

Will she need pink?  Will she need blue?
No one is certain, but this much is true:
She's gonna need a lot of diapers
For all of the poo!

Ha!

Anyway, it was a great afternoon, beautiful flowers, delicious brunch, champagne and fabulous conversation with great friends!

Genius

Every Wednesday the boys help me take out the recycling.  We usually leave the milk cartons out since they’re so big, so the boys usually grab those and carry them to the front porch where our big recycling container is waiting for them.  Today I was on the front porch break down a box, Riley came out with the milk cartons and then I went inside to grab the big can from the kitchen and I found Finn with this!

 

He did this all by himself!  I might have told him he was a genius, a phrase that he now keeps repeating, oops!  But seriously, I’m still amazed!  (and yes, those pajamas are way too small for him, but they are his favorites and he wants to wear them every.single.night!)

Teeny Tiny

My girlfriends hosted a “Pamperpalooza” for me this past weekend where they stocked me up with diapers and wipes!  And OhMyGoooooooodness, look how teeny!!!!!

I remember posting something similar when pregnant with Riley, which I went back to find and that post kills me too!

Amazing how tiny they are, how easily you forget and how quickly they grow!  I cannot wait to hold that tiny little tush in my hands!

Zoo with the Beck boys!

The weather here has been GORGEOUS since we got back from the beach so we’ve been spending a lot of time outside!  We hit up the zoo with some of our friends and with four boys, the day was spent climbing on everything!

           

Boys Day Out

To be honest, the boys have been having a lot of weekend “boys day out” with daddy since mommy is VERY pregnant and tired!  Todd took the camera with him on one of their recent hiking days and I thought these were cute!

NatureQuest!

The Fernbank Museum (or dinosaur museum as it is called in our house) finally opened their much anticipated new children’s area called NatureQuest.  As members we were able to check it out early this week before it opens to the public….and it did NOT disappoint!  It was SO cool, super interactive and just awesome.  The boys just went crazy playing.  I only took a few crappy pictures that really do not do justice to the space.  But here they are!  Go check it out!

 

False Alarm

We had quite an exciting weekend!  Friday night we had a scheduled date night to go to Finn’s school silent auction.  We’ve been hearing about this event and how much fun it is, etc for so long.  I purchased our tickets about a month ago and was really excited to go.  Until last week, when finally I just realized that standing on my feet all night long was SO NOT what I wanted to do.  And I knew Todd wasn’t all that excited about going.  But we had a sitter already lined up, so instead, I put on my yoga pants and comfy shoes and we went to a movie!  And then as a special bonus, we went to the Krispy Kreme store afterwards for desert!  Neither of us had been before and I had been wanting to check it out.  It was SO cool!  (expect to see another post on that soon because I will be taking the boys very soon!)  On the way home I started having some bad back cramps.  When we got home we hung out for a bit looking online for a table for the nursery making a plan to go pick it up the next day.  And then we went to bed.  Except those back cramps got really bad and I started having really awful, painful contractions.  And then all of a sudden it was so painful I started getting sick.  I kept trying to find a comfortable position that would make everything feel better and stop but it just kept getting worse.  So we called the doctor and headed to the hospital. 

Don’t I look happy?

So they hooked me up to monitors and an IV and just watched things for a while.  The contractions continued through the night and the nurse kept coming in periodically to check on me and kept saying she was sure we would be having the baby in the morning.  I was in a total panic.  Even though I had been miserable for a while and thinking it would be great if baby decided to come early, I suddenly was freaking out that another doctor besides Dr Dawson would be doing the c-section!  Todd on the other hand was excited and ready for baby to come.  But finally around 6:30am, the contractions started slowing down and tapering off and they were mostly over by the time the doctor came in at 11:15.  By 11:30 we were walking out of the hospital on our way to grab lunch (because I was STARVING since I wasn’t allowed to eat in case of surgery!).

I was happy about it at the time, just wasn’t ready yet.  The nursery wasn’t done, I felt like we still had a million things on our to-do list before baby came and we’ve got a few things planned between now and the 23rd that I just didn’t want to miss.  But, grandma and papa were on our way to our house, driving from Florida back to Indiana, so it would have been good timing.

So now we just wait and see.  The doctor said that if it happens again they will just automatically do the c-section.  Stay tuned….

The Nursery

When we returned from Thanksgiving we switched the boys into the same room, Riley’s room, making Finn’s room the new nursery.  But since the focus was the boys room at the time, this left the nursery looking like this….

Our first purchase!  This sign is made by a local company that I have been stalking seen at every local festival.  I just knew I had to have one for the nursery.

After a lot of back and forth, many purchased and returned fabrics, I finally found the right match!  The cheeriest fabric in the world!  Every time I see this fabric I get happy!

So the room will be very colorful!  Aqua, red, yellow, lime and brown!

Two bumpers done….4 to go…

1/23/11:  Today we attempted to reconfigure the room….we had 5 configurations and neither of us are happy with any of them.  Le sigh.  For now this is the way we’re leaving it, even Riley says “all done!”

1/30/11:  And the crib bedding is all done!

And I finally made some slip covers for the pillows on the guest bed…..

3/7/11:  ALL DONE!!!!  YAY!!!  Eventually we will put the glider back in the room too, but for now, here’s how everything looks!  This is the third time we’ve hung the lanterns above the crib.  The first two times they came crashing down into the crib.  We’re pretty sure they are completely secure now but we’re glad we’ve got a little bit of time before baby will be sleeping in there to test that out!  The boys made the artwork above the changing table, which I posted about here.  One of the other challenges we had was that we would need a small table to put a lamp on and the sound machine and monitor….but it had to be REALLY small because we are completely out of space!  But we found one at Ikea that works perfectly!  The glider will go next to it in that area.

  

Hide and Seek

Finn and Riley LOVE to play hide and seek!  And its thanks to hide and seek that Riley can count to 10!  Over the last year, Finn’s hiding skills have gotten really good!  Today I almost couldn’t find him!  At first he used to hide in the exact same spot every single time.  Which is what Riley does now.  Usually Riley will follow Finn around and give him away by laughing so hard.  But a lot of the time he just likes to hide in Finn’s bed.  And today was an extra special treat….wonder where Riley is?  Gotta love hide and seek with a 2 yr old!

Bird

so the boys and I ate lunch out on the back deck and kept the door open and we come inside and I put my stuff down on my desk but then I hear this weird noise over by the window, look over and the stuff that is usually on the window sill is on the bed below and there is still this weird noise.....behind the blinds…..completely terrified to look to see what creature is back there, I pull back the blinds to see a BIRD!!!  PANIC.   So I pull open the blinds hoping it would fly out and then magically find its way outside but it just kept slamming into the window trying to get out.  So I try to open the window except then it got stuck between the two window panes....so then I ran to the back yard, grabbed the boys bug net, captured the bird (after like 5 minutes of trying) in the net and then run to the front door and released it.  how does a bird get trapped in my bedroom?  seriously?  the boys were jumping up and down going crazy, seriously funniest.thing.ever.  I mean how random is that????????

I was quick enough to think to take a picture and a video since the picture did it no justice….