Lately I’ve been feeling like I’m treading water and getting nowhere. I think it’s just the newborn phase in general, added to taking care of an almost three year old, working part time and trying to maintain the house. I was having a pity party the other day and feeling like I was going to be wiping noses and butts f.o.r.e.v.e.r (exaggerate much?)
Then this happened.
I wish the pictures were a little better but they still make me smile. He ‘read’ her a story and then showed her Bear and Moose (who also wanted to give her kisses).
<3
We headed to my mom and Paul’s cottage this weekend.
Ben was SO helpful with setting up the tent.
There was a lot of Cassidy loving.
She smiles now :)
My mom saved our old Little People and Ben was so excited to play with “the peoples.”
Andy discovered some blackberry bushes growing under the deck.
The coolest piece of driftwood had washed up to the cottage.
He still needs a name though.
We also had the maiden flight of Andy’s quadcopter.
Always tinkering with something!
Andy also got a jet ski lesson from Paul.
That night we enjoyed s’mores around the fire. If you were Andy, you enjoyed leftover chicken wings.
The boys had the great idea to hang a sparkler from the chinese lanterns they were sending off.
They did look pretty cool, and nothing caught on fire :)
It was a beautiful evening.
I headed to Lockport with the kids (that still sounds weird, plural) to do a ride on train event. Mud Creek Railroad is a 1 1/2″ scale railroad club. We have 6000′ of main line track with sidings, engine house, turn table, bridges, tunnel, and a trestle. The plan is to have around 5 miles of track in the upcoming years. Andy’s parents heard about an open house they were having for the community and asked if we’d like to go.
It was SO cute and very well done, you could tell members of the club really took pride in their hobby and enjoyed showing everything off. Ben loved every minute :)
My mom and Paul took Ben for a few days last week. He had some good big boy time with Nonna and Poppy and we got some one on one time with Cassidy.
They of course had to visit with Cassidy for a bit before they left.
So big!
I put a tank top on Ben and he called it a “muscle shirt” — have no idea where he learned what those are.
We heard the ice cream truck music outside and Ben said “Mommy watch out! Ice cream truck coming!”
I told Ben we were going to Goodwill to look for a pair of swim trunks. He asked “Good Marcus?” He has two little friends named Will and Marcus at the Y :)
We were playing with Playdoh one afternoon and Ben was rolling up little balls. I asked him what they were and he said “Dinosaur eggs.” Then I asked what kind of dinosaur would hatch from them and he looked at me very seriously and said “A baby dinosaur.”
We were looking at one of Ben’s dinosaur books. I told him the name of one of the dinosaurs was “Anklyosaurus” and he asked “Stinkysaurus?”
Ben sneezed and said “Bless you me.”
We were eating lunch together and he held up his cup of milk and said “Chairs mommy.” It took me a minute to realize he’d meant “cheers” :)
He has a cute way of expressing time. Anything in the past is “last week” even if it happened the day before or months before. Anything that is going to happen in the future (like we’re going to go to a friend’s birthday party tomorrow or to grandma and grandpa’s house this weekend) is “in a couple of weeks.”
Anytime we finish a toilet paper or paper towel roll Ben gets super excited and claims it as his “telephonescope” (telescope).
He puts an extra syllable on the word bulldozer…so we have a “bulldozerozer”
The best way to say goodbye to daddy before work.
