This was Tatum today on her phone with her new purse that Papa and Barbara sent her.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Miss Priss
"Oh My Goodness!" One of Tatum's favorite sayings these days, especially when opening any present.
This was Tatum today on her phone with her new purse that Papa and Barbara sent her.
This was Tatum today on her phone with her new purse that Papa and Barbara sent her.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
When it rains, it pours
The house is still on the market.
When I was feeding the dogs this morning I felt something wet drip on my arm. At first I seriously thought Tatum had spit on me, which she has NEVER done, but then I realized she was WAY too far away to do that.
I look up and see that the CEILING IS DRIPPING!
I called the insurance company at 9am. Then left for the gym. They finally called me back at 12! I left the gym shortly after and scheduled a plumber to come fix whatever the problem was. Ummm, what was I thinking by leaving a leaking ceiling?!?!? I get home and the leak is 10x worse! I climb up in the attic, which had to be about 130 degrees, no exaggeration and see the drip plate under the water heater is over flowing. I called Dad in a panic. Dylan was working late and wouldn't be home until 8ish and I didn't know what else to do!
We hadn't had a showing for about a week and I received 2 showing requests for tomorrow morning!
The plumber finally arrived at 7pm and fixed the problem. Now our ceiling needs a little work to repair the water stains, etc.
My mom came to the rescue once again and came over to help me with the kids so I could clean the house for the 9:30 showings, get dinner ready, and deal with the plumber.
When I was feeding the dogs this morning I felt something wet drip on my arm. At first I seriously thought Tatum had spit on me, which she has NEVER done, but then I realized she was WAY too far away to do that.
I look up and see that the CEILING IS DRIPPING!
I called the insurance company at 9am. Then left for the gym. They finally called me back at 12! I left the gym shortly after and scheduled a plumber to come fix whatever the problem was. Ummm, what was I thinking by leaving a leaking ceiling?!?!? I get home and the leak is 10x worse! I climb up in the attic, which had to be about 130 degrees, no exaggeration and see the drip plate under the water heater is over flowing. I called Dad in a panic. Dylan was working late and wouldn't be home until 8ish and I didn't know what else to do!
We hadn't had a showing for about a week and I received 2 showing requests for tomorrow morning!
The plumber finally arrived at 7pm and fixed the problem. Now our ceiling needs a little work to repair the water stains, etc.
My mom came to the rescue once again and came over to help me with the kids so I could clean the house for the 9:30 showings, get dinner ready, and deal with the plumber.
Monday, August 29, 2011
Overwhelmed!
***Disclaimer...if you don't want to join in on my pity party then please skip this post. ;o)
I try to post the good things in life. One day when I look back at my blog as our family's scrapbook, I want to remember the good times, not the crappy days when I just want to go back to bed and wake up again and hope that my day goes differently.
Obviously life isn't always perfect so, this is just to remind myself to be grateful for all the perfectly imperfect days and know that tomorrow we will face new challenges, some fun some exhausting, some expected and some unexpected. But ultimately it's in God's hands so just grin and bear it because eventually...this too shall pass, right???
Sometimes I take things day by day and other times its minute by minute. These last couple weeks have been more like millisecond by millisecond.
Having two kids is starting to be more of a daily challenge and balancing act. I'm trying to do all the same things I did before and then some and I'm realizing that it's just not going to be as easy or the same as before. Working out, hanging out with friends, play dates, naps, church, dates with my husband, cleaning the house, cooking, laundry, swim lessons, gymnastics, junior league...the list goes on.
I remember when I had Tatum everyone told me to kiss my sleep goodbye. After I had her I thought, "What on earth were those people talking about???" My little precious baby girl was sleeping through the night by 6-8 weeks. I think I finally realize what they meant. Druz Druz Druz...as much as I love this kid...his sweet smiles and cuddly coos and laughs...he has decided to stop sleeping at night. In the last 2 weeks I've been lucky to get 4 hours at a time and its mostly been 2 or 3. Then Tatum got some kind of virus last week and was running a 102 fever for 3 days AND decided to stop napping for a few days as well. Up all night and sick, crying, cranky babies during the day makes for a very overwhelmed mommy. I can't even nap during the day because they aren't napping at the same time. One is up while the other is sleeping and vice versa. And I dream of coffee and do drink it most mornings but know that the result is spit-up all over me so its a catch-22. Do I want to function or be covered in spit up?
Tatum's school has been out for the last two weeks as well so I haven't had that to fall back on.
I have seriously considered going back to work numerous times in the last week but then realize that that won't solve anything, I'd be even more tired, having to get up early and get the kids and myself ready for the day ahead.
I know things will get better but sometimes its hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel when you are sleep walking most of your day.
I LOVE being a Mom, even with all the ups and downs...I've just had a few more downs this week so I'm hoping that means next week will be lots of ups to make up for it!
Ahhhhhh...kind of feels good to get that out. Now, I can move forward.
I try to post the good things in life. One day when I look back at my blog as our family's scrapbook, I want to remember the good times, not the crappy days when I just want to go back to bed and wake up again and hope that my day goes differently.
Obviously life isn't always perfect so, this is just to remind myself to be grateful for all the perfectly imperfect days and know that tomorrow we will face new challenges, some fun some exhausting, some expected and some unexpected. But ultimately it's in God's hands so just grin and bear it because eventually...this too shall pass, right???
Sometimes I take things day by day and other times its minute by minute. These last couple weeks have been more like millisecond by millisecond.
Having two kids is starting to be more of a daily challenge and balancing act. I'm trying to do all the same things I did before and then some and I'm realizing that it's just not going to be as easy or the same as before. Working out, hanging out with friends, play dates, naps, church, dates with my husband, cleaning the house, cooking, laundry, swim lessons, gymnastics, junior league...the list goes on.
I remember when I had Tatum everyone told me to kiss my sleep goodbye. After I had her I thought, "What on earth were those people talking about???" My little precious baby girl was sleeping through the night by 6-8 weeks. I think I finally realize what they meant. Druz Druz Druz...as much as I love this kid...his sweet smiles and cuddly coos and laughs...he has decided to stop sleeping at night. In the last 2 weeks I've been lucky to get 4 hours at a time and its mostly been 2 or 3. Then Tatum got some kind of virus last week and was running a 102 fever for 3 days AND decided to stop napping for a few days as well. Up all night and sick, crying, cranky babies during the day makes for a very overwhelmed mommy. I can't even nap during the day because they aren't napping at the same time. One is up while the other is sleeping and vice versa. And I dream of coffee and do drink it most mornings but know that the result is spit-up all over me so its a catch-22. Do I want to function or be covered in spit up?
Tatum's school has been out for the last two weeks as well so I haven't had that to fall back on.
I have seriously considered going back to work numerous times in the last week but then realize that that won't solve anything, I'd be even more tired, having to get up early and get the kids and myself ready for the day ahead.
I know things will get better but sometimes its hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel when you are sleep walking most of your day.
I LOVE being a Mom, even with all the ups and downs...I've just had a few more downs this week so I'm hoping that means next week will be lots of ups to make up for it!
Ahhhhhh...kind of feels good to get that out. Now, I can move forward.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Sunday Dinner
We celebrated Tatum's birthday at Mom's tonight. She sure loves getting attention! She is our little ham.
Singing along to Happy Birthday
Excitement Dancing
Presents! Oh My Goodness! She LOVED her dinosaur chair from Aunt Vicki!
Tatum in her first fur coat from Grandma...she was walking around roaring as she wore it. Dylan too this picture from his phone...she looks so beautiful, love her big brown eyes!
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Tatum's 2!!!
Where do I even begin???
My baby girl is 2!
Where has the time gone? Our lives have changed in so many ways in the last 2 years. It's hard to imagine what life was like before her.
-Her newest achievement is spelling her name. It used to be T-A-T-A, then T-A-T-A-U-M, now she's got it down...T-A-T-U-M.
-She knows most of her colors...green, blue, purple, pink, orange, yellow, black, and white. She struggles with red sometimes but I'll let it slide for now. ;o)
-She recognizes some letters, especially T.
-LOVES the Adele 21 CD and knows the words to just about every song. I LOVE LOVE LOVE hearing her sing in the back seat and if I turn down the music she says, "hear music mommy, please" How can I NOT?
-When you ask her how old she is she will tell you 2 and hold up her peace sign. It took a week or so for her to get the coordination of the 2 fingers but she got it and loves telling everyone when they ask. She will also tell you she is 2 when you ask, "How are you" but hey its better than nothing.
-Still in her crib and hasn't yet tried to climb out...thank you Lord!
-Still sleeps from 8pm-8am with a 2 hour nap every day
-Not eating as great as she once did, not a HUGE fan of breakfast, eats a good lunch, and dinner is a little bit of a struggle these days.
-She is still our little dancing queen
-Wants to watch Tangled EVERY day
-Reads books to herself, even though I know she isn't REALLY reading them, she will tell you almost exactly what the page says, she has a GREAT memory for that kind of stuff...just like her Daddy.
-Goes to bed like a champ! We used to have to rock and rock and rock and then she would cry when we put her down but now we read a book, rock for a minute and she tells us to either leave or that she wants to go lay in her bed. Makes life so much easier when there isn't a fight every night.
-Unfortunately she has started to get night terrors. I read about them and heard from friends. It breaks my little heart to hear her screaming inconsolably from my room. Dylan or I will go in and rock her for a little while then she goes back to bed
-She can be very challenging at times, not listening, screaming, yelling, throwing fits, and refusing to do things. It's not often but she is a smart little cookie, she usually does this stuff when I'm carrying Druz in his car seat and we are coming or going somewhere, so she knows I can't come after her quickly, if at all.
-She calls me Mama a lot now. Not sure where she got that?
-When she doesn't know the answer to something, she makes up words and then giggles, thinking she is so clever.
She LOVES playing with Daddy, but is a Momma's girl for just about everything else (and I love it, I know one day she will want nothing to do with me so I'm just taking in every minute while I can!).
I'll take the good with the bad any day and love every second of it...or at least ALMOST every second. ;o)
My baby girl is 2!
Where has the time gone? Our lives have changed in so many ways in the last 2 years. It's hard to imagine what life was like before her.
GOOOOD MORNING!
We woke Tatum up with balloons in her room. She was a little confused at first but quickly got VERY excited!
She didn't want to go anywhere without them!
After our big birthday wake-up call...it was time to get ready for her party at the Children's Museum. This was the little birthday girl in her outfit, ready to go!
Tatum and Myla playing at her party...picture was taken by Dylan, I will post more pictures of the party once I get them from the photographer next week.
Tatum and Daddy opening her presents after the party.
Tatum playing with all her toys...She got a drum and doesn't want to put it down. She will bang the drum sticks together and say, "1,2,3,4" then bang on the drum. It's cute for now...we'll see how long it lasts. ;o)
-Tatum can count to 10 and say her ABC's.-Her newest achievement is spelling her name. It used to be T-A-T-A, then T-A-T-A-U-M, now she's got it down...T-A-T-U-M.
-She knows most of her colors...green, blue, purple, pink, orange, yellow, black, and white. She struggles with red sometimes but I'll let it slide for now. ;o)
-She recognizes some letters, especially T.
-LOVES the Adele 21 CD and knows the words to just about every song. I LOVE LOVE LOVE hearing her sing in the back seat and if I turn down the music she says, "hear music mommy, please" How can I NOT?
-When you ask her how old she is she will tell you 2 and hold up her peace sign. It took a week or so for her to get the coordination of the 2 fingers but she got it and loves telling everyone when they ask. She will also tell you she is 2 when you ask, "How are you" but hey its better than nothing.
-Still in her crib and hasn't yet tried to climb out...thank you Lord!
-Still sleeps from 8pm-8am with a 2 hour nap every day
-Not eating as great as she once did, not a HUGE fan of breakfast, eats a good lunch, and dinner is a little bit of a struggle these days.
-She is still our little dancing queen
-Wants to watch Tangled EVERY day
-Reads books to herself, even though I know she isn't REALLY reading them, she will tell you almost exactly what the page says, she has a GREAT memory for that kind of stuff...just like her Daddy.
-Goes to bed like a champ! We used to have to rock and rock and rock and then she would cry when we put her down but now we read a book, rock for a minute and she tells us to either leave or that she wants to go lay in her bed. Makes life so much easier when there isn't a fight every night.
-Unfortunately she has started to get night terrors. I read about them and heard from friends. It breaks my little heart to hear her screaming inconsolably from my room. Dylan or I will go in and rock her for a little while then she goes back to bed
-She can be very challenging at times, not listening, screaming, yelling, throwing fits, and refusing to do things. It's not often but she is a smart little cookie, she usually does this stuff when I'm carrying Druz in his car seat and we are coming or going somewhere, so she knows I can't come after her quickly, if at all.
-She calls me Mama a lot now. Not sure where she got that?
-When she doesn't know the answer to something, she makes up words and then giggles, thinking she is so clever.
She LOVES playing with Daddy, but is a Momma's girl for just about everything else (and I love it, I know one day she will want nothing to do with me so I'm just taking in every minute while I can!).
I'll take the good with the bad any day and love every second of it...or at least ALMOST every second. ;o)
Friday, August 26, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Sea Life Aquarium
They opened a new aquarium last month at Grapevine Mills called Sea Life Aquarium. It's a pretty cool place. We will definetly be going back in the near future.
G-Pop and Tatum in a bubble tank
G-Pop was telling Tatum all about the fish and telling her the names of each one. She loved it!
Tunnel Tank, she was a little hesitant to walk through this one. G-Pop had to hold her. Even I felt like we were in the water!
Sharks swimming overhead in the tunnel
The jellyfish tank was really cool.
Even Druz got in on the action
Tatum and G-Pop playing in the touch tank
Druz and I in another bubble tank.
Taking a little break from the excitement
G-Pop's Visit
G-Pop came for a visit over the weekend. Tatum loved hanging out with him. He read her books and played with her and Druz for 3 days.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
3 months
My little baby is 3 months.
The last few days have been challenging, to say the least. He isn't sleeping at night and wants to eat about every 2 hours. I'm writing this all off to him going through a growth spurt. If it doesn't change soon, we will be doing some serious baby bootcamp next week.
Coffee is my new best friend.
On the bright side, he is becoming human. He is rolling front to back and VERY close to rolling back to front, he will get up on his side and just balance there but doesn't get the little push to fall over.
He laughs all the time and I love hearing his little giggle and seeing his smiling face.
We are struggling with the bottle so we will feed him a bottle everyday until he gets better at it.
He is getting better with the pacifier but still isn't a huge fan. That's good and bad so I won't complain about it.
Him being 3 months also means my life can start to resume as normal (whatever that is now!?!?!) I can take him to the gym and to Mother's Day Out.
He had his first gym experience today. Didn't go so well, the child center had to call me out of class but I'm just telling myself the more we go the better he will get, right???
Tomorrow we are going to give Mother's Day Out a try, hopefully that will have a better result.
The last few days have been challenging, to say the least. He isn't sleeping at night and wants to eat about every 2 hours. I'm writing this all off to him going through a growth spurt. If it doesn't change soon, we will be doing some serious baby bootcamp next week.
Coffee is my new best friend.
On the bright side, he is becoming human. He is rolling front to back and VERY close to rolling back to front, he will get up on his side and just balance there but doesn't get the little push to fall over.
He laughs all the time and I love hearing his little giggle and seeing his smiling face.
We are struggling with the bottle so we will feed him a bottle everyday until he gets better at it.
He is getting better with the pacifier but still isn't a huge fan. That's good and bad so I won't complain about it.
Him being 3 months also means my life can start to resume as normal (whatever that is now!?!?!) I can take him to the gym and to Mother's Day Out.
He had his first gym experience today. Didn't go so well, the child center had to call me out of class but I'm just telling myself the more we go the better he will get, right???
Tomorrow we are going to give Mother's Day Out a try, hopefully that will have a better result.
Monday, August 15, 2011
I am ADDICTED to Pinterest...someone please HELP!!!
I could sit and play for hours...you should really check it out.
It's to the point where I want and iPhone for the sole purpose of getting the Pinterest app. There isn't one on the Droid. Although that's probably a good thing.
Now, I just need to find the time to do all the fun crafty stuff I'm "pinning".
I could sit and play for hours...you should really check it out.
It's to the point where I want and iPhone for the sole purpose of getting the Pinterest app. There isn't one on the Droid. Although that's probably a good thing.
Now, I just need to find the time to do all the fun crafty stuff I'm "pinning".
Sunday, August 14, 2011
THE CIRCUS IS COMING! THE CIRCUS IS COMING!
Tatum had her first experience at the Circus today. She loved it!
Olivia, Gab, Pablo, Zoe, Beth, and Keith all joined in on the fun as well!
Olivia and Pablo with Dylan and Tatum...waiting for the fun to begin!
Tatum watching all the action
There was constantly so much going on, you weren't sure where to look!
There were like 6 motorcycles in this ball...one of the scariest parts of the show.
I'm not sure if this was really the case but I felt like the tigers weren't cooperating and I was really nervous and it seemed like the trainers were to...but maybe it was just me?
My little circus queen
The elephants was one of her favorite parts, of course
There was so much action she fell asleep about 5 minutes before it was over.
Olivia, Gab, Pablo, Zoe, Beth, and Keith all joined in on the fun as well!
You can't go to the circus without coming home with something obnoxious
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Druz
My little buddy helping me pay the bills. He seems MUCH happier than I was at the time. ;o)
And he is also liking the Bumbo for short periods of time. He is growing up so fast!
Before... (he enjoys tummy time way more than Tatum ever did)
After... He is rolling from front to back...Yay!
Would have had the camera rolling if I knew he was going to do it but I will have to get it on camera soon!
He is giggling too. Mom had him giggling last week and Dylan and I both had him going this week. I LOVE hearing his little laugh. He really is a very happy little boy. I hope he stays that way FOREVER!
Friday, August 12, 2011
Precious Babies
Tatum was kissing him on her own, I gave no direction, except asking her to lay down with him. I hope she loves him this much when they get older! It just tugs at my heart to see them laugh and love each other so much already! *tear*
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Monday, August 08, 2011
Play Date
Tatum, Druz, and I went over to Liz's today to have a little play date. I feel like Tatum gets bored since we are trapped in doors lately. We hadn't seen Myla or Joey in a while so we all met up to play for the day.
Saturday, August 06, 2011
He did it!!!
If we are being honest here, which I always try to do, I was a bit VERY concerned about Dylan and the kids today.
I had somewhere to be from about 8:30am until 2pm, which meant Dylan was on his own with the kids. He's been left with them for a few minutes here and there but I think an hour was the most and that didn't include feedings or putting them down for naps. Not that I didn't have faith that he could do it. The first time is always a little challenging, no matter who you are.
To make matters worse, as I was leaving we got a showing notification for 3pm. I told him I would try to get home as soon as possible but if he could just make the bed and pick up our bathroom, I could probably do the rest when I got home.
I walked in the door at 2 and he was sleeping on the couch with the baby sleeping on his chest.
Insert sigh of relief here...
Everyone was still alive! I was so proud of him. Nothing else was done, but as long as I came home to 3 happy rested and alive people, the rest isn't important!
I had somewhere to be from about 8:30am until 2pm, which meant Dylan was on his own with the kids. He's been left with them for a few minutes here and there but I think an hour was the most and that didn't include feedings or putting them down for naps. Not that I didn't have faith that he could do it. The first time is always a little challenging, no matter who you are.
To make matters worse, as I was leaving we got a showing notification for 3pm. I told him I would try to get home as soon as possible but if he could just make the bed and pick up our bathroom, I could probably do the rest when I got home.
I walked in the door at 2 and he was sleeping on the couch with the baby sleeping on his chest.
Insert sigh of relief here...
Everyone was still alive! I was so proud of him. Nothing else was done, but as long as I came home to 3 happy rested and alive people, the rest isn't important!
Friday, August 05, 2011
Zoo Party
Although its been too hot to take Tatum, we made a special visit this evening. There was a "party" for zoo members. One of the exhibit areas was celebrating there 10 year anniversary so we decided to go.
They had dinner and dessert and unlimited rides on the carasoul and train. Tatum had fun playing with her friends and seeing all the animals.
They had dinner and dessert and unlimited rides on the carasoul and train. Tatum had fun playing with her friends and seeing all the animals.
Tatum with "Deenie" and Zoe
On the train, heading to the party
Checking out the bears
I was surprised that she put her hand in the touch tank but I don't think she realized they were really real.
Zoe, Tatum, and Elle on the big gator
Touch tank, again.
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