St Patrick’s Day!

When I asked Finn’s teacher about a St Patrick’s Day party, he mentioned that they typically don’t have a St Patrick’s Day party at school because they have such a big Mardi Gras party, but that if anyone wanted to do something for the day, he would more than welcome it!  So of course, what else am I going to do the week before I have a baby, but put together something!  I just couldn’t let it pass me by.  Just.could.not.

Finn has been DYING to wear his “rock sham” (as he calls it) shirt lately AND his leprechaun hat AND his shamrock sunglasses AND his beads.  DYING.

So we set it up that they went to the playground first thing in the morning so I could go upstairs and set things up.  I started by messing up the room and blaming that sneaky little Leprechaun on it!  Oh what a mess!

Here the kids come into the room and are shocked by all the mess!

But wait, we’ve got to stop for the Potty Train!

 

Now back to cleaning up and searching for that sneaky leprechaun!  He’s got to be in here somewhere!

No leprechaun, but look!  He left his little hat behind!!!  Ohhh, we will get you next year little leprechaun!

 

Next up, make a mess of our own time, I mean craft time!  We made little paper collage rainbows and glittered shamrocks!  I loved this idea, though I did spend alot of time cutting up all of those thousands of pieces of colored paper.  And the glitter?  WHAT A MESS! 

And lastly, snack time.  I found this recipe back during valentine’s day to make whoopie pies.  For some reason, even though I fail in the kitchen and have never made or eaten a whoopie pie in my life, I thought this was such a cute idea.  Finn was more than happy to help, and Riley, well see the kitchen post.  Well, it turns out that my idea of “ice cream scoop” size is much larger than the recipes.  These things were HUGE!

And here they are on the plates!  Yes, they are almost as big as the plates.  And, brilliant that I am, decided to bring along some pretzels too, which you know, totally offsets the crack, I mean sugar, in the giant whoopie pies!  The kids loved them!  Except mine (silent SCORE!).  :)

 

Is that not the largest leprechaun you’ve ever seen at the end of the table?

Happy St Patrick’s Day!!!!

And one picture of Riley!  I love that he loves hats!

Sweet Dreams and Rude Awakenings

Monday night went as it usually does….dinner, bath, stories, put Riley to bed, read more stories to Finn and then put him to bed.  Except that when we went to put Finn to bed, he made a crazy amount of noise that got Riley all riled up.  Todd left to go to the gym, and I spent the next hour and a half repeatedly putting Riley back into his crib.  Little monkey kept climbing out and climbing into Finn’s bed.  After trying everything in the “trick book” to get him to stay in his bed, we finally just left the boys in the room by themselves and eventually it was quiet.  I of course had to sneak in and take a picture…..

So precious!

At about 630am Riley comes and crawls into bed with me.  5 minutes later Finn comes in, is all sad and says “I want Riley to come back to bed with me!”.  :::swoon:::  So I was nervous, but I put them both back to bed in Finn’s bed and didn’t hear a peep out of them until “Mr Sun” came up at 7!

Riley had climbed out a few times before, but this was pretty crazy, so we decided it was time to take the front off of his crib so he doesn’t break another leg.  So at naptime on Monday, he got to test out his new “big boy bed”.  He took a super long nap, and after 2.5 hours I heard a big thump and then a wail.  Poor guy was SO confused when I went in there.  He’s on the floor, he’s all tangled in his blankets and he’s still half asleep and crying.

I hadn’t posted any pics of the boys room yet because I had a few things I wanted to finish first.  But here they finally are.

 

Roo reluctantly posing in his big boy bed for me.

The pregnant lady goes to the park

We have been having the most gorgeous weather here.  After Aunt Tay Tay left on Sunday, we headed out to Piedmont Park after naptime to have a picnic dinner and let the boys run around.

Once we made it to the park, this is what I did….

  

While the boys did this…..

Aunt Tay Tay Comes to Town!!!

Oh how we love Aunt Tay Tay!  Taylor is momma’s best friend and while I’ve seen her twice in the last year, the boys hadn’t seen her since a year ago.  Finn kept getting confused all weekend and would just stop and say “what is your name again?” which was both weird and hilarious.

Friday night we went to dinner at Taco Mac to cheer on the Boilermakers in the Big Ten Tournament!

And Saturday morning I took them all on a surprise adventure….to Krispy Kreme!

 

Could you not just kiss this face all day long?

Riley actually would not eat the donut, but Finn was more than happy to help him!

We spent the rest of the weekend at the playground, CFA and met up some friends at another playground and out to dinner and momma and Aunt Tay Tay enjoyed a nice brunch together on Sunday before she headed back to DC.  We had perfect weather all weekend and it was so fabulous to get time in with my bestie!

We love you and miss you already Aunt Tay Tay!

Big Man in a Little Kitchen

While making some treats for Finn’s class for St Patrick’s Day with Finn in the kitchen, Riley was busying himself, playing in his kitchen…..or so I thought, until I turned around and found this.

It took me a minute (after I got my camera to take a picture that is) to figure out how to get him out.  I wasn’t sure if he had gone in from below sticking his head/body up through the hole or if he had climbed in from the top.  But the funny little man that he is, once I did finally free him from the kitchen and turned my back, I turned back around to find him climbing back in again….from the top.

(Finn just had to get in the picture too!)

Boobs and Bumps

The day before Finn was born, a tradition was started….my girlfriends and me went to lunch at Hooters to celebrate.  Since then we have done the same thing for every baby our little group has had, well, almost.  For some reason we didn’t make it for Riley, but shhh, don’t tell him.

Hooters 2007

Hooters 2011, special guest appearance by Dick Vitale!  ha!

The Countdown

10

9

8

7

6 (Beach Style!)

5

4

3

2

1

and by special request, the jammies!