Momma's Not Fun Anymore.....

Today was our first day back at the gym since Savannah was born. She has to be at least 3 months to stay in the nursery and today marks her 3 month birthday. Three months is a long time for a toddler so I thought maybe Benjamin wouldn't remember the place and not want to be there. Before Savannah was born he would sometimes throw a fit when I would leave him to work out and I was afraid that was going to happen this morning. I was so wrong. Since he's 2 now he's allowed to play with the big boys in the big jungle gym area. As soon as we walked in the door in the nursery he took off to play and didn't look back. I was stunned. An hour later when I picked him up he would literally run away from me and hide in the tunnels so I couldn't get him. He didn't want to leave. It took me 10 minutes just to get him out of the nursery. I guess I'm glad he enjoys it so much, but there's a part of me that's sad that he's so independent now. Just means he's growing up. Sniff sniff. Savannah was an absolute doll. They kept commenting on how sweet she is and she never even got upset!

Lily's Birthday

So we turn right around this morning from an eventful day yesterday and start a new one! Today was Lily's birthday party. For the first time (that I've ever seen it, apart from his ISR training classes over a year ago) Benjamin actually got in the deep part of the pool. It took A LOT of convincing but he finally did it. However, he did, yet again, spend most of the time in the shallow part where he could touch. And what did Savannah do? Slept through most of the party. No surprise there. She was up until 1:30am Saturday night. We had a hard time getting her to go to sleep. I had to get her up at 10:15 this morning because she was still sleeping. We're doing our best to not let her sleep so much this afternoon so maybe she'll go to sleep at a decent time tonight. We shall see.

Birthday girl, Lily.












Playing with some random big boys! Benjamin thought he was one of them. It was really cute.












Benjamin's friend, Christopher.












Benjamin playing with a plastic cup. Surprisingly he didn't drink the water this time!












David and Savannah












I was amazed that Benjamin would actually get in and out of the water all by himself. We're making progress!

Sherry's Shower

Saturday was so much fun. We started off with a baby shower for my friend Sherry. David took the kids over to Jason's house (Sherry's husband) for some guy time. After the shower we had dinner at Jason and Sherry's house. Benjamin had a blast playing with all the kids. Drums, driving cars, playing in the wagon, and on and on. Since they live out in Keller we were pretty late getting home. Benjamin didn't go to bed until 11pm. I think that might be the latest he has ever been up! Poor guy was so tired when we got home. We skipped his bath and just put him in his pj's and then to bed. He didn't put up a fight. He grabbed his pillow and put it over his head and was out until 9:45 the next morning. Tuckered out!


Sherry and me

















Benjamin playing the drums. He LOVED it!













Horsey time!













Sherry's little girl Hope. Savannah is looking a little scared - probably thinking "please don't drop me!"












Wagon time!

Who Loves Benjamin?

David and I have this little game we play with Benjamin almost daily. We ask him "Who loves Benjamin?" He'll respond with any combination of the following people "Momma, Dadda, Jesus, Grandma Nancy, Granddaddy, Grandmother, Grandpa, Uncle Abraham, Aunt Laura, Abby, Andrew, Savannah, Frederick". David decided to turn the game around this evening and he asked him "Who does Benjamin love?" Benjamin first responded "Benjamin loves baby seester (sister)!" David and I both melted when he said that. Then David asked him "Who else does Benjamin love?" There was a brief pause and then he shouts "Benjamin! Benjamin loves Benjamin!" Cute.

Where's Savannah?

I've noticed that most of my blogs have pictures of Benjamin and not Savannah. There's a reason for it. Savannah has 4 expressions at this point: crying, staring, smiling, or sleeping. Honestly, I could look at the smiling one all day and thank goodness she does it a lot! Benjamin has so many expressions and is so active that his pictures are never boring. I'm not saying Savannah is boring, just that she doesn't do much at this point. Therefore, instead of posting the same expressions of Savannah over and over, for now, there will be more pictures of Benjamin!


Sleeping












Staring












Her big open-mouthed smile!












Crying

My Do It!

Translation: I'll do it!

That's Benjamin favorite phrase right now. He wants to do everything himself.

1. Pouring his own milk (which you're crazy if you think I actually let him do it).

2. Climbing in and out of his high chair and crib.

3. Brushing his teeth.

4. Driving our car - we have to spend a few minutes before and after we go every where to let him sit in the driver seat to pretend he's driving. If we don't let him a MAJOR meltdown occurs.

5. Changing his diaper - again, he's pretending. He loves for me to put a diaper on his teddy bears!

6. Putting his shoes on.

7. Helping me unload the dishwasher.

8. Dusting, sweeping, and vacuuming (I love, LoVe, LOVE this about him!)

There are countless other things he likes to try and do all by himself - but those are the ones just off the top of my head. The funniest one yesterday was Savannah's Bumbo seat. Of course, the little chair used to be Benjamin's when he was a baby so now Savannah uses it. He saw her in it yesterday and says "My do it". When I walked back in the room this is what I saw. Here comes the little green monster. Yep, jealousy has started. No way around it I guess....it's obviously human nature.

Father's Day Weekend

The weekend was jam packed full but it was a lot of fun. Three big things went on this last weekend. We celebrated David's birthday on Friday; early Saturday we celebrated Father's day with David's parents and his sister and family; late Saturday afternoon/early evening we attended Calisa's beautiful wedding in Bells, Texas; and Sunday we celebrated Father's day with my dad. Whew! What a busy last few days. The kids were so tired that they both slept a straight 12 hours last night!

Out of all the Father's Day cards to choose from my dad and David picked the exact same card for each other. We got a big kick out of it.

The outside of the card:












The inside of the card:

Christopher's Swim Party

Benjamin partied at the pool today with a bunch of his friends. It was Christopher's belated 2 year birthday party. Benjamin was the only one who HATED the deep part of the pool. He preferred to stay in the shallow end where he could walk around. Since I didn't wear my bathing suit (because I'm totally not ready to be in a swim suit yet since just giving birth 11 weeks ago - yikes) Leesa tried to get him to swim with her and he totally flipped out. Poor little guy. Broke my heart. Well, unfortunately for you son, you start swimming lessons in about 2 weeks. Oh boy....should be interesting.

Birthday boy, Christopher.














Paige

















Lily and Mimi










Benjamin preferred splashing around in the shallow end.

















Pizza time!













Mimi













Savannah, being the life of the party. Sleepy head!

Benjamin a.k.a Bob Marley

Benjamin found our smaller camera and figured out how to turn it on and take pictures. I let him play with it for a while just to see what kind of pictures he'd take. They all turned out to be pictures of my feet - geez. After he looked at all the pictures he took he said "scary mon". Okay, seriously, where did he learn Jamaican talk? And wait a minute kid, my feet aren't THAT bad are they?

Here's what most of his pictures looked like. He needs some practice....