Our Week

We have been doing a whole lot of NOTHING the last few days.  Thursday we decided to just hang out and have a fun day at the house.  It has turned really cold, dark, and rainy here the past few days and our boys don't have a THING to wear.  Jordan hasn't gotten into the attic yet to get down the Rubbermaid boxes of clothes.  I have a feeling getting all the summer clothes out and getting all the new fall clothes in is going to be a huge ordeal that I will save for a Mother's Day Out day!

I don't have any pictures, but Thursday we decided to not do anything since we have a busy first-half of the week.  We ended up taking a walk to our neighborhood park with a friend down the street.  It did NOT go well.  It was SO cold and windy and I had to pull 2 random pairs of pants out for the boys that I found in the very back of the closet.  The pants came up to JM's calves.  Classy.  Then, I had to find them a sweater or jacket to take with us.  I found a reindeer sweater for Matthew and a really old random coat for JM to wear on our walk.  Noah ended up screaming the whole time and Matthew fell and hit his nose and it bled a little bit.  It was not the most successful trip to the park, but at least I had Jessica with me for back-up.  That always helps here lately!

Friday morning I woke up at the crack of dawn to put my french toast casserole in the oven.  It was my group's turn to bring breakfast to MOPS. I brought fruit, danish, and the casserole.  We had a great meeting and the boys did great in their classrooms.  We came home, had lunch, then everyone went down for a good nap because we had Parent's Night Out at church that night.

I decided to leave Noah at church this time because we were only going to be 2 blocks away downtown eating, so I fed him right before I left and he did great.  He didn't need any of the 2 bags of milk I had left for him.  I wanted to be sure he wasn't hungry ;)

So that sums up what we've done the last few days, not much of anything interesting! 

Noah has been smiling away lately!  He is just so sweet and precious.  I could eat him up!

 

He is enjoying some tummy time and holding his head WAY up!  He can even scoot just a little bit across the floor!

Jordan had to go to the Saturday morning meeting this morning, so we didn't go do anything.  It was seriously dark and cold and rainy this morning so we stayed in our PJs and had cartoon time.  I was in full blown zombie mode because I had gotten up several times during the night.  It took me hours to fully wake up!

When Jordan got home, the boys watched football with him and generally crawled all over him!

Matthew loves to give Noah tons of "hugs" (head locks) and kisses lately!  He doesn't know his own strength!

It's been a fun and very low-key weekend.  There are 3 ballgames going on in my den right now, so I know fall is here FOR SURE!

Wazzup?

So what have we been up to lately?  The boys have started back to school and we are falling into a more regular fall routine!  Bible Study has started back (yay!) and also MOPS has started back!  We've got a full schedule and I hope we can keep up and not keep our little ones too busy.  I don't want to miss out on these sweet moments while I still have them all at home with me most days!

The boys were excited for the Alabama/Penn State ballgame last weekend.  They didn't get to see too much of it because it was during naptime.  After nap we headed to a friend's house for a Sunday School function we have a few times a year.  You sign up and go to someone's house but it's a surpirse as to who all will be there!  It's a fun way to get to know other people that you don't see as much!  The boys had a blast with the other little boys there that night.  They all played SO hard out in the backyard!

A weekend or two ago we headed to a park with ice cream!  The boys ate their ice cream and played until it was dark!

Even Noah was somewhat happy, although we held him the whole time!

Matthew is getting so big!  He's saying so many words and using 2-3 word sentences.  He is starting to grow into JM's 2T shirts, just as JM is starting to grow into 3T and 4T shirts!  They are all getting so big!

Even though it was dark, we walked a block over to our little downtown square.  Sometimes it feels like smalltown America when we're there.  There were lots of people gathered playing guitars, banjos, etc. that night and it's just such a fun, relaxed atmosphere.  Our boys love to go to the square.

It doesn't hurt that they have a fountain that they love to put their feet in!

And just for fun, look who is going to be 3 months old at the end of next week?!  Isn't he just precious?!

 

Game Day!

Roll Tide to our family back in Alabama!

The boys have their Alabama Big Al shirts on.......

and they've been reading their Big Al and Alabama Game Day books all week!  They already love football season!

Friday Fun

Friday Night Fun

With Four Little Feet

In The Fountain!

Lately....

We've been laying low here lately as we slowly start winding down from a crazy and stressful summer.  Noah got a great check-up at his 2 month check-up.  He weighed in at 14 pounds 1 oz and 24 inches long.  That makes him 94%ile in weight and 91% in height....another BIG boy!  No surprise here!

Noah has been sleeping pretty good lately.  I generally get up once or twice a night with him.  Noah generally wakes up around 7 or 8.  He eats, gets changed for the day, and stays up for about another hour or two.  He feeds again and I wrap him up in his miracle swaddle and put him in his swing on level 1! 

He sleeps for a few hours and gets up around lunch and stays up for a bit before I wrap him back up again around 1 or 2 and he sleeps until 5 or 6 usually....awesome!!  He has really loved being wrapped up and put in his swing for naptime.  I'm so glad he is a good sleeper.

Noah's only issue has been the carseat.  He really, really hates his carseat.  He will only tolerate it so long and then he basically screams his head off the whole time we're in the car.  It kind of makes it hard to run errands or go just about anywhere because he's such a screaming mess by the time we get there.  I am hoping he will get better about his carseat soon because all the screaming is getting old!

Jack hasn't been on the blog lately, so here's a picture for Bop!  Jack's been a bit naughty lately stealing the boys' food and eating a few things that are too gross to even type!

We've been fortunate enough to have a visit from Uncle Judd and his girlfriend Jennie!  We've been to the pool, First Friday downtown, and watched the Alabama football game on Saturday!

The boys had fun playing with them in the pool.  I dunked Noah's little toes in and he didn't seem to mind. 

John Michael said, "Oh look, Noah's getting wet!" and then proceeded to splash him in the face.  This was the result:

The boys ate snack, swam, threw a ball and waded in the water.  We then came home and had lunch and we all took a HUGE nap!  The pool wore them out!

It's been a fun week!