A Good Laugh-Arrgh Matey

Will's bedtime routine consists of bathtime, brush teeth, playing with Walker (usually jumping on or from the beds with a cape made out of hooded towels), books, prayers and then we tell him goodnight and leave the room so he goes to sleep on his own (unless we're feeling really sweet or tired and lay down with him). I went in to check on him last night and this is what I saw. I had to hold my mouth so I wouldn't laugh out loud. We had been to a pirate birthday party that afternoon and I guess he felt the need to go to sleep as a pirate. I wonder what he was thinking as he was going to sleep. He gets really hot when he sleeps and he wants to be like daddy sometimes so he sleeps with his shirt off. ;) I just love how my boys want to be like their daddy.

 

 

After the boys were in bed, Len looked out the window and saw three deer in our backyard. We've seen them before, but for some reason I'm always in awe that there are deer behind our house. We don't live in the country and there is a small section of woods behind our house so I'm not sure if they live in there or just come over sometimes. I tried taking a picture through the window so that's why it's blurry, but there were three and they stared up at me everytime the flash went off.

 

First Spend the Night Party and the Flood

My poor friend Heather was one of the not so fortunate who was affected by the Nashville Flood of 2010. They were out of town and Matthew came home to find that their basement was under 7 feet of water. Their basement was used as an attic of sorts and everything was stored down there from wedding gifts, memorabilia, children's toys and tubs of clothes, a fridge, hot water heater and all of the wiring to their power, heat and air. Everything was completely submerged and it took tons of work to get everything cleaned. They lost priceless memory books and pictures. We wanted to do our part to help, yet it's hard to do physical labor when you have small kids. We had our first friend sleepover and had SO much fun. These are the only pictures I took, but the boys got along great and had a fun time. I will say that I don't know how people with multiples do it ALL. Whew, I was exhausted and they were only here for around 20 hours. Heather is one of my best friends, who would do ANYTHING for me and knows my deep dark secrets and still loves me through the good and bad. It's so comforting to have a friend like that. The type of friend who cares about you and your family, would keep your kids in a heartbeat without complaining, and is loyal. It's hard to find and keep a friend like that and I'm so thankful for her, so I wanted to help her out. If you think about it, please say a little prayer for Heather and Matthew. They have been through a stressful year and she always has such a positive outlook on life. She has a broken back and you would never even know it! She is the one with the etsy shop and her clothes are SO cute. It would help her out so much if you could support her shop. She can make anything you have in mind and is currently making a cute outfit for Will's 5th birthday and a coordinating one for Will and Walker for the 4th of July. Do you have a Heather in your life?? I'm glad I do :-)

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How Can You not Love a Little Boy Like This??

He WEARS me out I tell ya! In the past two weeks, this boy has tried to show me who is boss! Guess what, I finally won!!!!!!!!!! He is ON THE GO~all. day. long.......If you want to know where I've been the last two weeks, why I've forgotten parties and doctors appointments and why I haven't answered your phone calls or forgotten to call you back then keep on reading. :-) To top all of that off, Will had a high fever from Tuesday to Sunday, a maybe diagnosis of strep throat, wouldn't eat anything for four days and was actually very loving and snuggly which I love, but holding Will all day gives Walker lots of time to get into all kinds of mischief. I know it's alot to read and kudos to you if you get through it all, but can a mom get a little sympathy around here??? :-) Do you have a Walker in your household? What do you do? Do they grow out of it??

 

 

 

 

In the past two weeks, Walker has fallen off Will's dresser and slammed his head on an iron bead, dumped out all of Dorothy's fish food while trying to feed her by climbing up on a laundry basket to get to her, dumped out an entire bottle of water on my carpet (but this is an almost daily occurence and I don't just hand him the water, he finds it), pushed a chair on his big toe (big bruise under the toenail), pushed a chair up to the toaster oven and put a paci in it, turned it on and baked it a little, dumped out my make-up while I was in the shower, climbed out of his crib after many rigged up childproof gates, figured out how to dispose of a childproof door locker, figured out how to unlock his bedroom door, got a new big boy bed~only to climb out of it at least 15 times during bedtime for FIVE NIGHTS IN A ROW, gone to bed at 9:30 every night as opposed to his normal 7 o'clock bedtime, woken up at 6 a.m. as opposed to 7, pee peed in the potty~YEAH!, loves telling me "NO WAY" or "I don't want to" when I ask him to do something or not to do something, or "cause" when I ask him WHY he did what he did, gotten a sack of flour out of the pantry and dumped it on his train table (much to his delight) so that he could have something to race his cars through, repeated the same thing with a bag of sugar two days later, had a fever, and to top it all off~dropped a brick on his toe tonight and it was gruesome. I don't do blood very well (and there was LOTS of it) and his toenail is just hanging on. He hardly even cried, well just a little, but I would have cried a lot more! I'm sure I'm missing a ton of other things this boy has done to keep me on my toes. I feel very victorious tonight because I/WE have finally won the bedtime battle. I took apart his doorknob today and reversed it so he can't get out. He now knows that I. HAVE. WON!!!!!!!!! I know I shouldn't brag yet, because I'm sure he's already thinking of his next move. And where might you ask am I when all of this is happening?? Usually, just switching over the laundry, or making up a bed, or something for a split second. But I love this boy with all my heart and I wouldn't trade him for any other child on this earth!!!

Walker, You have rocked our world, but you make us laugh more than we ever thought we possibly could, you surprise us when we don't think there can be anymore surprises, and your sweet little heart brings tears to our eyes.