Thursday, June 23, 2011

Into the Wild

A few days ago I was in the living room and heard Drew bounding down the stairs. He had previously been in the bathroom so I looked up the stairs to make sure he had his pants pulled up and wasn't going to fall. (Yes, pulling our pants up is a constant issue at our house!!) When I saw him he was completely naked and had the biggest smile on his face. Then he shouted out that he was ready to go live in the wild. Poor kid wants so badly to live outside with the animals.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Bedroom Mix Up

We had to move Cade out of his room to get ready for the baby. The plan has always been for Drew & Cade to share a room, but as the date approached it became a somewhat scary idea for us. Cade has always been an awesome sleeper. He goes to bed every night without any noise at all and sleeps all night through. It has been this way since he was about 6 weeks old. Drew on the other hand seems to get worse at sleeping every month. Bedtime has been an ordeal every night and has been very frustrating for us no matter what we try. So, thinking about putting Cade in with Drew has made us slightly panicked that our good little sleeper would be ruined.

Realizing that we had six weeks until the baby would be joining us, we made the leap over the weekend and moved Cade. It has been nothing but shocking really. The first night, Drew told Mitch how happy that he was to have Cade in his room because he likes to have people around him. We've known that he's always wanted us to stay in his room at night or sit where he could see us but didn't want to fall into that trap so we've left him on his own which has caused the long bedtime battles. Now with Cade in his room, we hardly hear a peep out of him and he only comes out if he has to go potty most nights. We do sometimes hear lots of giggling and jabbering and Cade can't even talk yet. I can't imagine what it will be like when they get older and can fully communicate with each other. Hopefully this is a sign that we will actually get some down time soon. I can't imagine having time to relax or accomplish something before I have to go to bed. Just in time I guess for another baby to join the mix and start keeping me up.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Vacation

We just got back from a week of relaxing on the beach in Florida. It was such a great time. We flew which was a first for both boys and they did awesome. We were a little nervous about it but everyone around us on both flights commented upon landing how well they had done.

We spent all but one day enjoying the beach. Drew loved jumping into the water and acting like a crazy three year old boy. I think he probably could have stayed out in the water for hours every day if we could have. Poor Cade wasn't as fond of the beach. He would fall or get pushed and end up with his face covered in sand. He would also get mad at the water when it would come up too far and disturb his play area.

We took a day and went to a nearby zoo. It was so hot there but we still had fun. The boys seemed to enjoy getting to look at the different animals and luckily they had lots of shaded areas to help you avoid the heat. The zoo definitely wasn't as good as the Omaha zoo but it was still a good time.

Mitch was also able to talk me into going to Disney for a day. I really had not planned at all to do that since our kids are so small and it was 90 degrees. I didn't cave until 11 that morning when we were leaving the beach. We ended up being there from 3:30 until 12:30 which made it nice to miss a lot of the heat and crowds. The boys had a really good time even with staying up until after midnight. It'll be fun to go back when Cade is older.

You can follow this link to see pictures of our fun week.