Life is NUTS!

Life continues to move at a crazy pace.  My work is very busy as we're taking on new clients which is very exciting!!  I can't believe the holidays are almost here.  September is almost over, soon it will be November and I'll be having a birthday that ends in a 0.  

My whole house has colds right now.  Rob and the kids are all coughing and stuffed up.  Henry doesn't have it that bad and Rob has it the worst.  I'm trying to healthy and also pump them full of emergen-c.  Thought I'd throw out some new pictures.  

This is what our driveway looked like for the garage sale.  Good golly I can't believe we had that much stuff!

 Here is Grammie and Paigey having lunch on the deck.  Please enjoy their table as we sold our other one at the sale.  Also I love that Paige is wearing a leotard.  Thanks Grammie for bringing it!

Just a little Grandma time before nap time

Mom and I with our much deserved beers!

Rob and I hosted a birthday party for my best friend Graham.  We had a bunch of people over to grill out and play games.  The weather was amazing!!  Rob also brought out a TV for college football.  Henry and him had some quality boy time before our guests arrived.  Rob doesn't enjoy having a boy at all if you can't tell.

Then I include these pictures of my children sleeping.  I just love both of them when they are sleeping, but every mom says that.  Paige is always sleeping in some way that makes her dad and I want to climb in and sleep with her.  Except we're not going down that road.  Henry is always spread all out now that he doesn't sleep swaddled.  For the first time EVER he slept through the night last night.  Let's hope we can get this to be a trend that continues.  I don't have high hopes for that!

Rob will be guest posting here soon.  He went on a field trip with Paigey and took a TON of pictures.

More Pictures!

Garage sale is OVER!!!  It was a very long week and a long Saturday but it was well worth it!  My mom helped me mark everything and get it organized on the tables.  I could not have done it without her.  Rob and I were so glad she was there to help!  We opened our doors at 7 AM and ended up selling until 2 PM.  Out of 15 totes of baby clothes (yes I'm aware that is NUTS, but 3-4 of them were not mine!)  We only have 4 totes left!  We sold everything big and almost had a fight in our driveway over our patio furniture that we sold.  Rob, Mom and I laughed so hard when the people left.  I'm not in the process of taking the rest of the baby clothes to consignment places before just donating it all together.  Thank you to Gail for hanging out with my kids all day so we could focus on the garage sale.  I have to get my living room cleaned up before we have friends up this weekend to celebrate Graham's birthday.

Paige is getting bigger and bigger.  The things that come out of her mouth crack me up.  My mom was laughing over the weekend because she says Paige sounds just like me.  Which I know she does as she is a constant repeat of anything I say.  That will teach you to watch what you say.  She's LOVING preschool.  Her imagination has been so much fun.  Everything is pretend.  You'll notice pictures down below of a rocket ship that Rob and her built!  She's been loving the nicer weather and has been outside quite a bit.

Henry is still growing like a weed.  I'm so ready to go to his 4 month appointment and see how many more inches this boy has grown.  If this is a sign for when he's a teenager I'm in big trouble with keeping food in the house.  He's just been moved into 9 month sleepers as his 6 month ones were getting too short.  I forgot how fast they learn to do things as they get closer to 4 months.  He's so interested in sitting up.  He's been trying to roll over and I think he's very close.  Rob and I decided to give him some tough love this week.  We have officially cold turkey took away his swaddle blanket.  He is no longer allowed to sleep anywhere but his bed.  He was building some bad habits and Mom and Dad were not getting much sleep.  To our shock he's adjusting much quick then we thought he would.  We tried cereal with him this week as well and he was NOT a fan!  We will wait until 4 months to try it again.

Enjoy the pictures of our family.  We are just trying to get through life and enjoy every moment with our kids.  So excuse the mess in the background of images as we're learning it's ok to let things get messy if that means spending time outside with Paige, or watching Henry learn something new!

Paige's rocket ship!

Daddy even cut windows!

Big boy with no swaddle

Someone liked the highchair and being able to see everyone

Holy baby clothes!!

my cuddlebug

fresh out of the bath and someone is in need of a haircut

His sleeping face is so funny sometimes

Thanks cousin Colin for the sweet outfit!

This was while I was cooking supper...there was no noise coming from the living room...I found this

Still sleeping in the bathroom during dinner

Testing out the saucer to see if we're big enough yet.  He loved the toys.

Paige and The Dentist

Paigey had her first trip to the dentist!  We went to a very special dentist, my friend Rachael was Paige's dentist today.  Rachael and I have been friends since preschool.  We went to church together and danced together for many years.  Her and her husband just moved back to Des Moines and opened their own pediatric dentistry office.  Paige did so great today!  I was proud.  There were things she wouldn't let Rach do, but she's already talking to me about doing them next time we go.  I of course took pictures!

Thanks Rachael for an amazing first dentist appointment!!

Mama, Paige and Dr. Revell

 We went out for supper to Paige's choice of restaurant, which of course is Panda Express.  Thumbs up from Paige for a great day!

Thanks Rachael for her new t-shirt!!  She's sleeping in it tonight!

Hartz Update

So I haven't blogged about us in a while.  Things have been pretty busy around our house, especially for this Mama at work.  So I will give you a little picture update of our world.  The kids are both doing great!  Paige started her 3 year old preschool curriculum today.  So the summer fun is over and now they start learning.  She's pretty excited about it.  She's been surprising us lately with how well she can write her letters.  We've been letting her write on cards, etc.  So I'm interested to see how much better they get with them focusing on a letter a week.  Henry is growing and growing.  He has started to do so many more things in the last week or so.  I rolled him on his belly yesterday and finally saw him picking his head up off the floor.  I got really excited.  He talks and smiles at us constantly.  He's starting to enjoy holding onto toys and has found a new love with his blanket.  We're still working on breaking him of the swaddle blanket.  I can't believe he's 3 months old.

We're having a garage sale this weekend.  I'm not too excited about it but hoping my stuff sells!  I spent all day yesterday with Rob and my mom marking all of the kids clothes we are selling.  So fingers crossed for a good turnout.

Paige and Henry hanging out together

Henry and I on the deck enjoying the weather.

Rob reading to the kids before we got in the car

Rob and Henry watching football

Paige fell asleep while eating in the car on the way home from my sister's house

Henry and his new favorite thing...his mouse blanket

This is only a small portion of the totes

Rob and Henry now watching baseball...Working on Henry's head control


This is my favorite picture of Henry!  I put him in the bath and he's getting so big for his seat.  He just hung one leg off and was relaxing like hey there!