Potty Frontier

David I decided to Dive head first into the wonderful world of potty training almost 3 weeks ago.  Let me tell you right now – this stuff is NO JOKE! I feel like we’re living in a full blown Zoo right now.  I have seen and cleaned up some stuff that no normal person should ever have to deal with.  I mean if you’re a zoo keeper for the Ape house – sure, it is to be expected to clean dirtiness off walls.  But in my own house? Um…No thank you! We’re only 3 weeks in and I feel like I have already met my potty disaster quota for the year but realistically I know that is far from the truth.  This potty journey is going to be a learning experience (for all involved) that will probably take some time.

With all that said – I do need to give the little guy credit! He’s made leaps and bounds since that first weekend we started.  Plus look at how cute he is running around in boxer briefs

Bed Crasher

We were in Benjamins room the other night and I needed to put Ally down for what I thought was a quick second to help Benjamin brush his teeth and when we came back Little Miss was completely passed out :)

Binder Fun

Ally's birth certificate has been sitting on our dresser ever since we got it in the mail.  Not exactly the smartest filing system :(
Instead of putting together a file for her in the filing cabinet I decided to turn the cricut on and make a binder for each of the kiddo's. 
There's a closed folder that snaps shut to store loose items, as well as a few subject dividers.  I plan to organize any sort of official documents like shot records etc in here.  Much cuter than a file cabinet - am I right? :)
The only downside to this project is that I decided to do it during the peak shopping time for back to school. I had to fight my way through the school supply section at Target.  Oh well...it's done and over with and I'm super happy with the end result. 

Did I for real just become a soccer Mom?

We signed Benjamin up for soccer this fall!!! I am beyond excited to see him run around with a bunch of other 2-3 year olds chasing after a ball.  It's going to be hilarious! It starts in a couple of weeks and goes until Mid October.  His "practice" will be Wednesday nights at a park in St. Peters. Thanks to Davids sister Briana we already have some pretty awesome soccer shoes.  How cute is he?!

He seriously seems to be a natural - he's got some mad skills already

4 months

I can't believe Ally was given the green light to start rice cereal - time is just flying by.  I feel like I was always so anxious for Benjamin to reach all of his milestones but not this time -  I want Ally to take sweet little time.  She had her 4 month check up this week and she's 12lbs 9oz and 23 3/4in long.  That's 25th percentile for weight and 40th for height.  I wonder if she'll stay on the smaller side or bulk up like her brother :)

Here's her first experience with eating something other than a bottle - her facial expressions crack me up
She's looking at that spoon and thinking - I don't know what that is coming at my face but I don't like it!

Too bad Ally's mohawk is covering up the 'A' in the background

And this pretty sums up how she felt about the whole experience

EAT

Here's the before picture of what the dining room wall looked like yesterday before we David hung up my EAT signs. 
That wall has been driving me crazy ever since we moved in.  We have vaulted ceilings so it makes that wall seem extra huge - and that buffet up against the wall just wasn't cutting it.  There was still sooooo much empty space.  I thought about hanging some sort of shelving configuration but ultimately settled on this EAT project.  I bought those metal square wall hangings at a antique mall prob. close to 2 years ago! They were a copper color until I attacked them with the bottle of white spray paint :) David glued the letters on for me and voila - instant wall transformation :)

I think it fills up the wall a little more and I like the extra texture it has.  And I'm thinking there might still be room for a 4ft shelf to go above it to display picture frames. 

Weeklys

Run Forest Run

I am still trying to get into a solid exercise routine but work and two kiddos and just life in general make it really hard to stay motivated.
Have you ever heard of runners high?  I've definitely heard of it before but never experienced it until a couple of weeks ago and now every time I put my shoes on I'm hoping I'm lucky enough to experience it again.
For me, it went a little something like this
I was running down the street minding my own business when all of a sudden I started to get these crazy goosebumps and a surge of adrenaline - kinda like that sudden rush of fear you get when you have to slam on the brakes for whatever reason when you're driving.  And don't ask me why but my eyes started to water a little too.  It was the strangest thing but at the same time it was such a great boost to keep me going.
I've ran a handful of times since then and every time I came up empty handed.  BOOO! Oh well..I guess I'll just keep at it and hope that I'm fortunate enough to experience it again and hopefully soon :)
I just looked back to my last running post picture and I can definitely tell a difference :) which I'm supa dupa excited about! If only I could remember to take a picture before running! Maybe next time:)