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Thursday, May 31, 2012

End of School Party

I’m really enjoying being the Mom of 2 and have found it much easier this time around, because I know what to expect of Reese but also because I know what to expect of me.

This time I know where my strengths as a mother are, and where they’re not, and this time I’m not beating myself up because I don’t love the newborn stage, or because he’s going to Mother’s Day Out or for a million other perceived shortcomings I have.

What I do know, is I excel at things like art projects, Halloween costumes, imagination games and party planning. Our family “hosted” Vin’s end of school party last week and I had a ball creating a fun time for those kids. I bought each of them a Happy Face balloon, made them “popsicle” rice crispy treats, coordinated the teacher gift and made them an awesome goodie bag.

This recipe can be "iced" with frosting, but I found it hard to do without melting the entire thing. I pressed sprinkles into them but in the future will mix the sprinkles in before forming the bar.

"Thanks for making us Sharpies & Smarties" - gift card enclosed.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Reese's favorite evening activity

Baby Reese loves the porch swing. These pictures are from the past two evenings where he's had a cat nap just before his bedtime.
With his Mayme


With his Mommy


The grid lines of our patio pergola capture his attention until he just passes out.

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Our first science experiment

A tray of baking soda + colored vinegar = Fun

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Big Brother Observations

Vin says..."I think he needs a paci"


Monday, May 14, 2012

Vin is 4!!!

With Vin’s 4th birthday, Mother’s Day and Reese’s birth it’s all hit me lately just how fast it really goes by. I know that everyone says this, but it’s really true. Vin’s growing and changing so fast that I wanted to capture his 3rd year in a glance…

This year Vin discovered cars, all kinds of cars, and we set his room up with a car corner. Some of his favorites are, Lightening McQueen, Mater & Francesco and he got Cars sheet set for his birthday. He calls side mirrors “ear mirrors”

He’s now enjoying super heroes. One of his favorite toys this year was his Jeep, his red polka dot blanket, he still loves the Good Humor Man and playing with ice cream toys. He is also very interested in the growth of our garden and loves to monitor the progress.

This year Vin learned his ABC’s but left out H most of the time. He can now count to 20 sequentially but can go much higher but not in order. He quit saying eleventeen and twelveteen. He also loved rhyming words and phonetically spelling out words to us, making us repeat after him. He still sometimes replaces R’s with F’s, so the remote is the fermote and instead of disgusting he says pagusting.

He quit saying “Mommy pick you up” instead he now says “Mommy pick me up”. It’s kind of sad when they self correct themselves and one day he just stopped saying it the wrong way and replaced it with the right way. Other thing he’s stopped doing is using the –ED ending on words. For the longest time he’d say things like… “I forgotED” or “I drinkED”

This year Vin started taking a bath by himself, brushing his teeth by himself, getting out of bed and coming to us instead of yelling for us to come get him, he took gymnastics classes and soccer, and he learned how to swing himself on his swing.

For Vin’s 4th birthday we had two separate celebrations. This actual birthday party was held two weeks ago and we all went to the carnival across the street then came here. We had a piƱata and an ice cream sunday bar. Then we celebrated his true birthday this weekend with family and friends by going to the Magic Time Machine for dinner. These two parties totally confused him and he began saying he was now 5 because he turned 4 at the first party so now he must be 5. Hopefully Teri worked it out with him this morning by telling him that he would miss all his 4 year stuff like Christmas and going to Florida for Thanksgiving , swim lessons this summer etc.


Birthday Party












Bithday Weekend







Tuesday, May 1, 2012

The Inevitable Comparison

The Inevitable Comparison

Reese is growing so fast he's throwing off my "hand me down" clothes plan. He's wearing clothes at 5 weeks that Vin wore at 4 months.



Vin in September 2008
4 Months old
Reese in May 2012
 5 weeks